Real Clear Politics had the following quote:
"I went through this hatred that so many of the American people are going through now, but fortunately I got over it. I had all this anger for this loss for our country, a serious eight-year loss, and now I just want to say you've got to laugh, a little bit, about this whole thing. It gets so painful that humour is the only antidote. If you didn't, you'd go bonkers. You'd become a raging lunatic on a blogosphere, writing anti-Bush screeds." - Oliver Stone, in an interview with The Guardian explaining why his new movie "W." isn't "angry."
I am not sure I can say that I have gone beyond my anger at GW. And that he cheated his way into office to do this. I personally think he will rank beside Hitler and Stalin in my list of world leaders that have done the most harm. And if you argue that he did not foster the mass murder of thousands to millions I give you the Iraq War: the illegal invasion and occupation of an independent nation. We list our dead on a daily basis but seem to ignore those we have killed. Or would that seem more like a score card?
Had anyone but a United States President invaded Iraq the United Nations would have been there with troops to expel them. And if you doubt that just look at how we reacted to Russia going into Georgia.
In the eight years GW has been in office he has totally turned off all our once allies in the world, invaded an independent nation, made us a nation that tortures, thrown out all our civil liberties and rights to privacy, and gotten us into the worst financial crisis since the great depression. Yes, I said it, the Great Depression. Notice how everyone is dancing around that with other phrases?
And every single act since the Supreme Court put him in office has been illegal in the World Court or illegal in regards to the United States Constitution. But to even act like we wanted to impeach him has invited the worlds unpatriotic or traitor and the not so subtle but unspoken threat of Gitmo detention. I was Googling some aspects of the constitution the other day (can I get a law degree through Google) and discovered that who should have decided the problem of the hanging chads in 2000 was the House of Representatives. But that legal body was controlled by the Democrats. The would have sided with Gore.
So not only am I still angry with Bush and all that have conspired with him to bring us to this place in history. I am a bit disappointed in my fellow citizens. Why didn't we riot in the streets? Call for a constitutional convention? Demand his impeachment? Only one reason - 9/11. Did he allow that to happen in order to forestall all he could see happening because of his illegal occupation of the White House?
Lot of interesting points here, Jacqui. Wouldn't quibble with your assessment of GWB's aility, or his impact on the world.
ReplyDeleteHow far he personally is the instigor of all this, or how far he is a fall-guy whose strings are pulled by Cheney and co, I'm not sure. Probably only a minnor issue anyway.
Did he know of 9/11? He knew of Al Qaeda. He knew of Al Qaeda conspiracy.... more than that I wouldn't like to guess.
The outgoing Clinton administration had intelligence of a forthcoming attack they thought was high credible. They passed it on the Bush staff and requested high level meetings to underscore what they knew. GW and his cronies rejected those meetings and after 9/ll said they were not alerted by the Clinton staff that it was any more than routine terrorist chatter.
ReplyDeleteMany people believe that GW and his people say a terrorist attack of the level of the first World Trade Center attack (a bomb in a truck in the parking garage) as something that would be handy to get them moving on their agenda of attacking Iraq (something GW expressed he wanted to do during his campaign even), suspending all civil liberties in the United States, lifting all EPA and other environmental protections on drilling and refineries, and subverting attention from global warming so a northwest passage free of ice the majority of the year would be opened up for transport and drilling.
Only history will reveal of all this is true but I have no doubt he knew of a terrorist attack in the works but thought it would be a minor event he could use to his purpose. The stunned look on his face as he was told of the events of the day was due to shock at the enormity of the attack and not surprise.