Rats Turning on Rats
With the publication of Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, we see yet another rat, another Bush supporter jumping off the sinking ship. After publishing 2 books on the glories of the Bush administration, Woodward suddenly does an about face and writes "President Bush emerges as a passive, impatient, sophomoric and intellectually incurious leader, presiding over a grossly dysfunctional war cabinet and given to an almost religious certainty that makes him disinclined to rethink or re-evaluate decisions he has made about the war."Anyone who ever had a crappy job can probably identify with this little nugget from Woodward's book. “It was only one example of a visitor to the Oval Office not telling the president the whole story or the truth. Likewise, in these moments where Bush had someone from the field there in the chair beside him, he did not press, did not try to open the door himself and ask what the visitor had seen and thought. The whole atmosphere too often resembled a royal court, with Cheney and Rice in attendance, some upbeat stories, exaggerated good news and a good time had by all.” Were the war in Iraq not a real war that has resulted in more than 2,700 American military casualties and more than 56,000 Iraqi civilian deaths, the picture of the Bush administration that emerges from this book might resemble a farce. It’s like something out of “The Daily Show” or a “Saturday Night Live” sketch, with Freudian Bush family dramas and high-school-like rivalries between cabinet members who refuse to look at one another at meetings being played out on the world stage."
"There’s the president, who once said, “I don’t have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy,” deciding that he’s going to remake the Middle East and alter the course of American foreign policy. There’s his father, former President George Herbert Walker Bush (who went to war against the same country a decade ago), worrying about the wisdom of another war but reluctant to offer his opinions to his son because he believes in the principle of “let him be himself.” There’s the president’s national security adviser whining to him that the defense secretary won’t return her phone calls. And there’s the president and Karl Rove, his chief political adviser, trading fart jokes.
And he suggests that President Bush chose Mr. Rumsfeld as his defense secretary, in part, because he knew his father mistrusted Mr. Rumsfeld, and the younger Bush wanted to prove his father wrong."
Woodward goes on to repeat this passage, which is bone chilling if you stop and think about it. "he quotes Mr. Armitage as telling former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell that he’s baffled by President Bush’s reluctance to make adjustments in his conduct of the war.
“Has he thought this through?” Mr. Armitage asks. “What the president says in effect is, We’ve got to press on in honor of the memory of those who have fallen. Another way to say that is we’ve got to have more men fall to honor the memories of those who have already fallen.”
I propose since Bob Woodward, one of my personal heroes since Watergate, gave us 2 books full of false information, lies and untruths about the worst administration in US history, that this time he and his publisher GIVE his new book away to the public. Random House and James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces have agreed to refund the purchase price for all those who bought Frey's book believing his fiction was fact. Why shouldn't Bob Woodward either refund the money for his 2 previous books or simply give this new book away, since only now is he giving us the real facts of the Bush administration.
I'm glad Bob Woodward has come to his senses.....but really Bob, it's a little to late to let you off the hook and if I was you, I'd feel like some of the blood of those 2710 dead US troops was on my hands. Let's give the world a great Christmas present and march every torture loving , teenage boy loving member of the Bush administration to prison by December 25th of 2006. Maybe we should issue a recall for everyone currently in office and start over.
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Well, well, it has taken Woodward a while to come around.
His last two books were probably just for money. i didn't read them so I don't know.
But I know this: DBI, you are right. Anyone who previously supported or who currently supports this corrupt, lying, cesspool of fuckups who control this country deserves no sympathy and shares the blame for murder of innocents.
Posted by: pj | September 30, 2006 10:27 PM
No more kool aid for Bob?
"..another way to say that is we've got to have more men fall to honor the memories of those who have already fallen.""Under President Gerald Ford, Cheney became Assistant to the President and then the youngest White House Chief of Staff in history. Many have pointed to this time as the point where both he and Donald Rumsfeld began consolidating political power. An article in Rolling Stone said, "Having turned Ford into their instrument, Rumsfeld and Cheney staged a palace coup. They pushed Ford to fire Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, tell Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to look for another job and remove Henry Kissinger from his post as national security adviser. Rumsfeld was named secretary of defense, and Cheney became chief of staff to the president."[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
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October 1, 2006 05:40 PM
Uh huh and let us not forget that when in doubt, which is freakin often, the White House turns to Henry Kissinger and James Baker, both old Nixon men. God I'm thankful all of Herbert Hoover's guys are long dead.
Someday some smart historian is going to show that a rightwing cabal gathered in Nixon's last days and a few years later gave us the puppet President Ronald Reagan, who worked out a whole lot better than the next puppet, George H.W. Bush, who was not the total disaster our present puppet is, George W. Bush.
The same cabal headed by Cheney, Rummy, Kissinger, James Baker, joined by Rove, Condi and others from the new team have finally reached the end of the road. It's all falling down around them, a giant stinking mess at every turn. Government by Nixon Guy Remote Control has failed. Old Cheney and Old Rummy face a very dark future, I recommend they both be waterboarded as soon as possible and make Mark Pryor watch.
Ma was right, what goes around comes around and finally after 30 years we just might see a time when we won't have old Nixon guys to kick around. They'll all be in prison where they belong and the world will be a better place as soon as the door slams behind them.
PS Could it be the weak, idea-less, frady-cat Democrats slipped around and orchestrated the timing of the Republican Party melt-down, right here 30 days from the Mid-term elections? Oh, Joe...say it ain't so......
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October 1, 2006 06:12 PM
meltdown timing?
Few of us can truly say but if they did I certainly hope they take credit for it after the elections.
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October 2, 2006 07:26 PM
It's time Stan Laurel shows he's smarter, quicker and better than Oliver Hardy.....don't you think?
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October 2, 2006 10:44 PM
DBI, I hope you are brushing up on your Morse Code, so we can talk while we're both sitting in those Gitmo shipping containers.
Posted by: dogtownius | October 3, 2006 07:50 AM
Here's some juicy stuff on Washingtonm D.C. sex-slave trade that won't go away. Old Repug issues.
Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won't Go Away
Halliburton, Dyncorp lobbyists stall law banning human trafficking and sex slavery.
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | January 1 2006
Almost a year after Representative Cynthia McKinney was told by Donald Rumsfeld that it was not the policy of the Bush administration to reward companies that engage in human trafficking with government contracts, the scandal continues to sweep up innocent children who are sold into a life of slavery at the behest of Halliburton subsidiaries , Dyncorp and other transnational corporations with close ties to the establishment elite.
On March 11th 2005, McKinney grilled Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers on the Dyncorp scandal.
"Mr. Secretary, I watched President Bush deliver a moving speech at the United Nations in September 2003, in which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very moment of that speech, DynCorp was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going on, DynCorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax vaccines, and is now working on a plague vaccine through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program. Mr. Secretary, is it [the] policy of the U.S. Government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?"
The response and McKinney's comeback was as follows.
Rumsfeld: "Thank you, Representative. First, the answer to your first question is, is, no, absolutely not, the policy of the United States Government is clear, unambiguous, and opposed to the activities that you described. The second question"
More at:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/010106sexslavescandal.htm
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October 3, 2006 04:46 PM
I've been wanting to read this, once I get my anesthesia-addled brain back, but on the other hand, I can still recall just HOW depressed, for HOW long I was after finishing "Bush's Brain." I'm not sure I'm up to the grieving.
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October 4, 2006 10:29 PM