Deborah Leavy: 'The fall of the House of Bush'

[DemoTex]

The arrogance is mind-boggling. Bush has taken unprecedented powers for himself, using the war on terror to justify his imperium. The tyrant is the child of Pride, said Socrates, and we are coming much too close to tyranny.

Bush thinks he can ignore the law by keeping secrets from Congress. That he can change laws passed by Congress by issuing contrary signing statements. That he can trample the Constitution and amass detailed data on more than 200 million Americans who aren't suspected of any crime. And that he can claim he's just doing it to fight the terrorists, while he leaves the ports unguarded - and that we will believe him. Such hubris!

Bush wanted a war with Iraq more than he wanted to catch Osama bin Laden, and thought he could manipulate the American people into confusing the two and supporting a war under false pretenses. His secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, was confident he could fight the war on the cheap with not enough soldiers to secure the peace and not enough body armor to secure the soldiers. When it didn't work out, he shrugged and said too bad, "You fight with the army you have."

They fooled some of the people, but the majority are now disillusioned. People see lives and money squandered in a war that has recruited more terrorists and made America and the world less safe. (More ..)

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=26209&mode=nested&order=0

Excellent piece by Deborah Levy. Hubris, pride, arrogance: the common denominators of the Bu$h regime. Levy is spot on, here.


BartCop

[Kikosexy2]

1. Those are pics....

I'm hoping to see on every newspaper around the world real soon...or a pic with his head locked in stock awaiting the guillotine...my that's so French...

[reichstag911]

8. Mais oui! n/t

[NJ_Lib]

2. Man, a Picasso couldn't look as good...

... as those pictures look to me right now... In fact, if I had my choice at this moment, take the Picasso and leave, or see the Chimp in the above photos in the morning papers, I'm going with the jailbird Chimp... And this is coming from a broke-ass single mother... :)

[opihimoimoi]

3. Other despots, rullers, emporors, dictators, etc, all tried it....in the

end...all go down in History as LOSERS..

and the common People prevails to fix...only to be fooled once more down the years when they forget to prevent the above...

we are at the cross roads of awakening...I hope...

[yurbud]

4. that gets a rec just for the pic

[TomInTib]

5. I have often wondered if anyone on DU visited the Smirking Chimp

I believe the site is one of the very best collections of current editorial articles on the 'net.

Heck, Mac, I should have known that, if anyone was going there,.....

[tblue37]

7. I agree about that! I came here almost two years ago from

The Smirking Chimp. I no longer participate in the forums there, because they are too controlled, so that only a few extremely long threads are allowed. But I still go there every day to read the articles on the front page.

[cliss]

6. Let's hope the "Fall of the House of Bush"

includes the Bush Family house.

Now that would be worth celebrating.