Karen Kwiatkowski: Decoding Mr. Bush

[understandinglife]

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Bush finally got to the crux of the speech, and said: To those of you who did not support my decision to send troops to Iraq: I have heard your disagreement, and I know how deeply it is felt. Yet now there are only two options before our country -- victory or defeat. And the need for victory is larger than any president or political party, because the security of our people is in the balance.

What he was really saying: We are in real danger here! If the war critics, and the courts keep pointing out the falsehoods, illegalities and global ambitions that have animated my foreign policy, my people (and Dick’s) will be hung on gallows after a war crimes trial like none this nation has ever seen. Is that what you want? It’s Christmas, for gosh sakes! Where the heck is your holiday spirit?

More at the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-kwiatkowski/decoding-mr-bush_b_12570.html

I prefer Bush, Cheney and their fellow neoconster war criminals receiving life-in-prison sentences, if they are found guilty before a court of law ....


Peace.

[cloud_chaser1]

1. Life in prison?

Thats okay with me. But could we arrange for the prison to be on Devil's Island?

[understandinglife]

3. Actually, what I prefer is that the prison is located either in Iraq or ..

... the New Orleans area and they are required, every day, to toil for the benefit and service of those whom they harmed.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

2. Larry Johnson: " ... Bush is using fear to scare Americans into looking

... the other way as he tries to justify his declaration of an imperial Presidency entitled to do whatever he wants as long as he can say, "I'm protecting Americans from terrorism". If we continue to allow our fear of terrorism to be used as an excuse for torture, unconstitutional imprisonment, and domestic spying without judicial review, we are on the precipice of the totalitarian world feared by George Orwell and offered to us by the amiable George W. Bush.

Much more at the link to The Myth of the Different War:

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/12/the_myth_of_the.html

Peace.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. I love this part:

Bush finally got to the crux of the speech, and said: To those of you who did not support my decision to send troops to Iraq: I have heard your disagreement, and I know how deeply it is felt. Yet now there are only two options before our country -- victory or defeat. And the need for victory is larger than any president or political party, because the security of our people is in the balance.

What he was really saying: We are in real danger here! If the war critics, and the courts keep pointing out the falsehoods, illegalities and global ambitions that have animated my foreign policy, my people (and Dick’s) will be hung on gallows after a war crimes trial like none this nation has ever seen. Is that what you want? It’s Christmas, for gosh sakes! Where the heck is your holiday spirit?

[librechik]

5. the Manichean world-view

Everything is Black/white, good/evil/, defeat/victory.

Makes for moving campaign speeches and bullshit government.