Dishonest Dubya

[Optic Delusion]

Lately every time I see the news, the decider is being described as "delusional" This week they called him delusional on the cover of US news and World Report
I've a feeling this one might turn into a long thread.
Allow me to be the first.

Oh man, that book Al Gore just came out with really rips dubya a new one.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=3195676&page=4


Less serious links.
http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/dishonestdubya/

This one goes back years, and is quite good.
http://www.thedubyachronicles.com/

He's so idioitc I don't know where to begin, theres so many ways to make fun of him. I'll just go with his own words.
My Favorite, all time, quote.
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
--U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000

Quote #2
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator..."
--Washington, DC, Dec 18, 2000, during his first trip to Washington as President-Elect

I'd go on and on, but it's time to go, for now.

[Tropican8]

Every week someone else is calling him out for what he is: http://www.komotv.com/news/national/7592052.html

Anyway, here are some of my favorite Bush links:

Why it is virtually impossible that he won the 2004 election: http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/voter_fraud.html

Lots of Bushisms: http://www.slate.com/id/76886/

He seems to like bald people: http://www.satirium.com/pages/vol6/bushphotos.html

"There – it's – you know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/06/five_years/main1980074.shtml

Pray a "Catastrophic Emergency" doesn't happen, otherwise he becomes the Supreme Ruler of the United States: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

An interactive guide to all of the scandals: http://www.slate.com/id/2165783/

The 2nd GOP Candidate Debate in 42 Seconds, a lot of Bush 2.0s there:

oKtuXmorlSY (Really shows why the internet loves Ron Paul)

Sadly that edit didn't take much out of context. Other than McCain and Paul, all of them support "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" including waterboarding.

[L4m3r]

I'm really not sure what role Bush plays in any of it, I prefer to acknowledge the Bush administration as a whole.

There was an interesting interview with Jon Stewart at some point (NOT on the daily show) in which he discussed how Bush and his cronies have made his job so easy for the last six years. The interesting thing, though, was Stewart's speculation that the scandalous incompetence of the Bush administration might be an act. He theorized that they'd rather come off as a bunch of blithering idiots than reveal their inner workings, citing Alberto Gonzales as an example. In other words, they use stupidity, and quite possibly GWB himself, as a ruse to hide their "evil plots", as it were.

What I don't understand out of the whole thing is WHY. Does the GOP actually believe the bullshit it spews forth on a regular basis? I'd like to think that they at least believe they're trying to do something good... but with every scandal it seems less and less likely. What the hell are they trying to achieve?

[LanDing]

Ohhh no a political thread that will surely heat up

[Tropican8]

I agree with you to a certain extent L4m3r. The real evil of the Bush administration stems primarily from Cheney and Rove. The tell-tale sign is that you will never see them being the fallguys for scandals in the adminstration. It's always a lesser minion.

However, Bush is not as stupid as he seems. A republican friend of mine was telling me how he read this article where they interviewed Bush, and he explicitly stated that he tries to come off less competent than he really is -- so he surprises people because the bar is set so low.

As for WHY the GOP has been committing crimes against the American people, it's fairly simple. All of them put personal gain before their country. Where do you think the $500-700 Billion we are spending on the Iraq war is going? I'll give you a hint:

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The connections between the GOP with KBR/Halliburton are well documented. Cheney was the fucking CEO until 2000 -- and he's still a major share holder in the company.

As for the little guys, they either are blackmailed by people higher up or are in similar positions where they would stand to benefit from their revolting behavior.

[Optic Delusion]

This site does some daily analysis, looks at foreign news too.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/7691

That bald guy one was funny.

My dad was a staunch republican all his life, but Bush changed his mind, and now he gets democratic newsletters weekly. There's no better endorsement for me.
Dad turned me on to this site. http://www.newshounds.us/
Theres some local people who print daily excerpts from that site and hand them out on streetcorners. I'm watching fox now, and they think the only thing that happened in the whole world today is Rosie Odonnell quit. One sexist guy actually said "Ding Dong the witch is Dead"

I like that slate.com site a lot.

[Optic Delusion]

I just cant get enough of this fox news sucks stuff
http://www.outfoxed.org/oreillyattacks.php

[Tropican8]

"On May 26, 2007 Andrew Card faced hundreds of boos and catcalls as he was given an honorary degree during the graduate school commencement at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Before the commencement, over a hundred protesters staged a rally and press conference outside the Mullin Center on the UMass campus. Hundreds more students and faculty who opposed the honorary degree would later protest inside the hall.

Card, former Bush Administration Chief of Staff and chief salesman for the invasion of Iraq as head of the White House Iraq Group, faced signs calling him a war criminal. People are now calling on UMass to rescind the honorary degree."

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[Optic Delusion]

...I wish they'd start doing the same to dubya

This is no conspiracy theory, this is actual news. There's absolutely zero bullshit here. I think it 100 percent proves that Bush totally lied, repeatedly, to further his objective of going to war in Iraq.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_timeline_of_the_200 3_invasion_of_iraq&startpos=0

It proves he set up the Iraq war well in advance of 9/11.
I know it's a long read.. here's a few excerpts.... examples of times that they lied, and knew they were lying.

May 1, 2003
The group Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity writes an open letter to President George W. Bush, warning him that the intelligence being used to make policy decisions is being manipulated. .... They call the skewing of intelligence “a policy and intelligence fiasco of monumental proportions.”

May 27, 2003
A Pentagon-sponsored fact-finding mission concludes in a three-page field report that two trailers recently found in Iraq have nothing to do with biological weapons. In spite of the report’s conclusions, the CIA and DIA will go ahead with plans to publicly release a white paper alleging that the trailers are mobile biological weapons factories.

2:28 p.m. May 29, 2003
We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories.

June 2003
They find the Iraqi files on curveball...
Curveball’s former bosses at the engineering center tell CIA officers that they got duped, falling for “water cooler gossip” and “corridor conversations.” “The Iraqis were all laughing,” a member of the Iraq Survey Group will later recall. “They were saying, ‘This guy? You’ve got to be kidding.’”

June 1, 2003
In St. Petersburg, Russia, Bush says, in response to a US reporter’s question, “Yes, we found a biological laboratory in Iraq


(June 18, 2003)
The questioners generally wanted to know the same thing: Could the report’s conclusions be softened, to leave open a possibility that the trailers might have been intended for weapons?”

July 2003
The story of the tubes...
All the Iraqis told a consistent story: the rockets had been falling short. The problem was the propellant. But changing the propellant—the obvious solution—wasn’t an option. The propellant was produced at a facility run by a friend of one of Saddam’s sons. So to avoid interfering with the flow of business to a regime crony, the engineers devised a Rube Goldberg solution: lower the mass of the rockets and use tubes that had a higher strength than otherwise necessary, that was why the Iraqis had been using the Internet to procure tubes with unusually precise specifications.
“The tubes issue was an absolute fraud.”

July 30, 2003
.. and they still kept lying about the aluminum tubes.
Going into the war against Iraq, we had very strong intelligence. I’ve been in this business for 20 years. And some of the strongest intelligence cases that I’ve seen, key judgments by our intelligence community that Saddam Hussein… had biological and chemical weapons….”

August 18, 2003
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld directs his undersecretary of defense for intelligence, Stephen Cambone, to send Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller to Iraq to review the US military prison system in Iraq and make suggestions on how the prisons can be used to obtain “actionable intelligence” from detainees.

Woops, the aussies lied too.
August 22, 2003
Andrew Wilkie, an analyst for the Australian Office of National Assessments, tells an Australian parliamentary inquiry investigating pre-war claims about Iraq, that the Australian government manipulated intelligence in an effort to build support for the March 2003 US-led invasion.

September 7, 2003 this was on fox news, of course.
Condoleezza Rice tells Tony Snow there is “absolutely” a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda “[W]e know that there was training of al-Qaeda in chemical and perhaps biological warfare. We know that the Zarqawi was network out of there, this poisons network that was trying to spread poisons throughout…. And there was an Ansar al-Islam, which appears also to try to be operating in Iraq. So yes, the al-Qaeda link was there.”

September 14, 2003
Vice President Dick Cheney appears on Meet the Press and tells host Tim Russert that Iraq’s support for al-Qaeda was “clearly official policy.” As evidence, he cites the alleged meeting between Mohamed Atta and Iraqi diplomat Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani (see April 8, 2001). Cheney also insists that the two trailers found in Baghdad (see April 19, 2003 and May 9, 2003) were mobile biological weapon factories, even though he was told by David Kay, the head of the Iraq Survey Group, that that was probably not the case

October 2003
Robin Cook publishes portions of a diary he had kept when he was Blair’s foreign minister. The published memoirs reveal—among other things—that Tony Blair had intentionally misled the British population.
Now there's a surprise!

October 2, 2003
After Kay’s testimony, White House officials call George Tenet and John McLaughlin and ask why Kay included such a blunt statement that the Iraq Survey Group had not found any weapons of mass destruction in the beginning of his report. Couldn’t he have buried that statement elsewhere in the report they ask.

November 21, 2003
Operation Mass Appeal and Operation Rockingham —which planted stories based on dubious intelligence in the domestic and foreign media between 1991 and 2003.

December 14, 2003 (Why not have an Iraqi lie for the cause too)
Future Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi backs the validity of a document purporting to show that Palestinian militant Abu Nidal trained Mohamed Atta in Baghdad a few months before 9/11. [Daily Telegraph, 12/14/2003] Newsweek reports that the document is probably a fabrication, citing both the FBI’s detailed Atta timeline and a document expert who, amongst other things, distrusts an unrelated second “item” on the same document, which supports a discredited claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger.

Here's Cheney citing info that he knows was planted by his own people, as justification for war.
January 9, 2004
Vice President Dick Cheney tells Rocky Mountain News that a November article published in the conservative Weekly Standard represented “the best source of information” on cooperation between Iraq and al-Qaeda. The article was based on a leaked intelligence memo that had been written by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and was the product of the Office of Special Plans. Cheney also insists that the administration’s decision to invade Iraq was “perfectly justified.”

February 18, 2004
Ahmed Chalabi, “That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important. The Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat. We’re ready to fall on our swords if he wants.”

June 14, 2004 (Cheney just cant stop lying)
Hussein “had long-established ties with al-Qaeda.”

Early July 2004
The 9/11 Commission concludes that there was “no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States” and that repeated contacts between Iraq and al-Qaeda “do not appear to have resulted in a collaborative relationship.” It also says that it does not believe the alleged April 2001 Prague meeting between Mohammed Atta and Iraqi diplomat Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani (see 1999) ever took place.

July 17, 2004
President Bush forcefully disputes statements by the 9/11 Commission (see Early July 2004) that there was no evidence of collaboration between Iraq and al-Qaeda. “The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaeda, because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda,”

September 2004-September 2006 (Let's lie to the Iraqis now)
The US Department of Defense awards at least three contracts, valued at $37.3 million, to a small Washington-based firm called the Lincoln Group to plant stories in the Iraqi press.
“Here we are trying to create the principles of democracy in Iraq. Every speech we give in that country is about democracy. And we’re breaking all the first principles of democracy when we’re doing it.”

2005
The US Military’s Information Operations Task Force, headquartered in Baghdad, purchases an Iraqi newspaper and takes control of an Iraqi radio station, and uses them to disseminate pro-American messages to the Iraqi public. The Americans do not disclose that they are operating either of the outlets.

May 1, 2005
The London Sunday Times publishes the secret “Downing Secret Memo.”
“We can conclude that the memo means precisely what it says. It says that Bush had already made the decision for war even while he was insisting publicly, and for many months thereafter, that war was the last resort.”



Everything they ever said about the yellowcake uranium was a lie. They knew it was false from the beginning, but still used it as justification for war.
“It’s true, I had a hand in the dissemination of those [forged Niger] documents, but I was duped. Both Americans and Italians were involved behind the scenes. It was a disinformation operation.”
(Summer 2006)
Investigative journalist Craig Unger reports that nine US officials believe “the Niger documents were part of a covert operation to deliberately mislead the American public.”





This is a pretty interesting document issued by the whitehouse.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912.html
I find it extremely ironic that the whitehouse puts out a paper titled "A Decade of Deception and Defiance" that's all deception.

[Optic Delusion]

WOW, that's only half of it, I just found out there's a 10,000 character limit on posts.

[Tropican8]

Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five "surge" brigades to arrive in Iraq, and he was chosen to join the Independent from Connecticut for lunch at a U.S. field base in Baghdad.

The night before, 30 other soldiers crowded around him with questions for the senator.

He wrote them all down. At the top of his note card was the question he got from nearly every one of his fellow soldiers:

"When are we going to get out of here?"

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17300884.htm

[Tropican8]

This is weird:

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[Tropican8]

Comprehensive list of every single Bush scandal. (http://www.netrootsmass.net/Hugh/Bush_list.html) Wow.

We need to get this asshole impeached. There's no excuse. (http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/051107Lindorff.shtml)

[Optic Delusion]

George bush is foolish, but fox news won't tell you.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/04/fox-news-they-distort-their-own-april-fools-poll/

[Optic Delusion]

here's a good one, funny pics.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/17/14638/6423

[Tropican8]

I'm absolutely terrified of the Führer ...er, Vice President.

http://xs116.xs.to/xs116/07250/congprick5.jpg

I can't believe this. (http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/21/ovp-our-fourth-branch-of-government/)

[a temporal distraction]

I'm absolutely terrified of the Führer ...er, Vice President.

http://www.cracked.com/jp/congprick5.jpg

I can't believe this. (http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/21/ovp-our-fourth-branch-of-government/)

It seems someone is going to call his bluff. (http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Democrats_plan_to_cut_Cheney_out_0623.html)

[Optic Delusion]

Suspension of habeaus corpus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006

And what it really means.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15220450/

[Optic Delusion]

One could go on and on about the scandals and failures of the past six years; to document them all would take . . . well, it would take more than ninety-three fucking days, that's for sure. But you can boil the whole sordid mess down to a few basic concepts. Sloth. Greed. Abuse of power. Hatred of democracy. Government as a cheap backroom deal, finished in time for thirty-six holes of the world's best golf. And brains too stupid to be ashamed of any of it. If we have learned nothing else in the Bush years, it's that this Congress cannot be reformed. The only way to change it is to get rid of it.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12055360/cover_story_time_to_go_inside_the_worst_congress_e ver

[a temporal distraction]

I don't watch cable news, and I know nothing of this talking head but this guy seems to say the right thing.

Olbermann: Bush, Cheney should resign (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19588942/)

[a temporal distraction]

I think I'll see how much these will cost to make.

http://thebandarlog.com/imgs/Bumper_sticker.gif

http://thebandarlog.com/arch/arch45.html#7_4_2007_2_00_51_AM

[Tropican8]

Sorry temp, but this is the winning ticket:

http://www.reruntees.com/shirts/cheney_big.png

[Optic Delusion]

ybe Rick Santorum is right. (After all, he did find those WMDs.) Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, Santorum said...
"Between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American publics going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like were seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American publics going to have a very different view,"
Is that a threat or a promise?

This is a must read. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/?hpid=moreheadlines

[Tropican8]

The greatest Rick Santorum quotes of all time:


"We have brave men and women who are willing to step forward because they know what's at stake. They're willing to sacrifice their lives for this great country. What I'm asking all of you tonight is not to put on a uniform. Put on a bumper sticker. Is it that much to ask? Is it that much to ask to step up and serve your country?"


"Congressman Hoekstra and I are here today to say that we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons."


"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else.... It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."

...you can imagine my disappointment when he wasn't reelected.

[Optic Delusion]

OMFG SANTORUM!!!! He was from my district!
They like to tell a story around here... about when he was fresh out of college, and running for some local office... walking around with a signboard on... I gotta find that story.

One of the happiest days of my life!

http://cbg.bzflag.org/images/A-Delusion/untitled%20folder/000prw5a.jpg

[Optic Delusion]

Here's some good news for a change... Maybe things are turning a corner.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagon_kills_Rumsfeld_propaganda_unit_0713.html

[Tropican8]

George W. Bush's Legacy (http://xs317.xs.to/xs317/07305/Legacy.jpg)

[a temporal distraction]

In the same vein as the "Smart Gov. Bush" from 10 years ago - here's a surprising bit of video from Dick.
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[a temporal distraction]

Here's the first article I've seen that seems to seriously call for Bush to be "President for Life" (http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:cnnnSRimWmcJ:www.familysecuritymatt ers.org/index.php%3Fid%3D1208571+%22president+for+life+bus h%22+site:familysecuritymatters.org&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a)

[Optic Delusion]

Shit, that dude is seriously nutso!
quote:
The wisest course would have been for President Bush to use his nuclear weapons to slaughter Iraqis until they complied with his demands, or until they were all dead.

And this is just to save his popularity?!?!?!

[a temporal distraction]

Looks like they can see the end and are trying to cover their asses.

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[Tropican8]

Looks like they can see the end and are trying to cover their asses.

"If the Democrats get control of the House in November..."

This is old.