Curt 1 Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 He ain't too popular http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4185205.stm Link to post Share on other sites
9frtg3xRj07ju3f5hDfeQw 0 Posted January 20, 2005 Share Posted January 20, 2005 It's hardly surprising is it. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Did you see that new animation song thing (3rd in the series). It was on all the Japanese news. Funny. Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderpants 0 Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 "Watching the inaugural ceremonies reminded me of the scenes near the end of "The Godfather" in which a solemn occasion (a baptism in the movie) is interspersed with a series of spectacularly violent murders." these words are not mine (wish they were) read the whole article here .You have to login, registration is free, and you don't get spammed for giving your email adr. NYT's editorials are a must read for me. ATB TP Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Another good opinion piece: The emperor of vulgarity By Mike Carlton January 22, 2005 George Bush's second inaugural extravaganza was every bit as repugnant as I had expected, a vulgar orgy of triumphalism probably unmatched since Napoleon crowned himself emperor of the French in Notre Dame in 1804. The little Corsican corporal had a few decent victories to his escutcheon. Lodi, Marengo, that sort of thing. Not so this strutting Texan mountebank, with his chimpanzee smirk and his born-again banalities delivered in that constipated syntax that sounds the way cold cheeseburgers look, and his grinning plastic wife, and his scheming junta of neo-con spivs, shamans, flatterers and armchair warmongers, and his sinuous evasions and his brazen lies, and his sleight of hand theft from the American poor, and his rape of the environment, and his lethal conviction that the world must submit to his Pax Americana or be bombed into charcoal. Difficult to know what was more repellent: the estimated $US40 million cost of this jamboree (most of it stumped up by Republican fat-cats buying future presidential favours), or the sheer crassness of its excess when American boys are dying in the quagmire of Bush's very own Iraq war. Other wartime presidents sought restraint. Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address in 1865 - "with malice toward none, with charity for all" - is the shortest ever. And he had pretty much won the Civil War by that time. In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt opened his fourth-term speech with the "wish that the form of this inauguration be simple and its words brief". He spoke for a couple of eloquent minutes, then went off to a light lunch, his wartime victory almost complete as well. But restraint is not a Dubya word. Learning nothing, the dumbest and nastiest president since the scandalous Warren Harding died in 1923, Bush is now intent on expanding the Iraq war to neighbouring Iran. Condoleezza Rice did admit to the US Senate this week that there had been some "not so good" decisions. But the more I see of her gleaming teeth and her fibreglass helmet of hair and her perky confidence, the more I am convinced that back in the '60s she used to be Cindy Birdsong, up there beside Diana Ross as one of the Supremes of Motown fame. I don't think it's a good idea to let her make a comeback as Secretary of State. THE war in Iran is under way already, if we believe Seymour Hersh, the distinguished investigative writer for The New Yorker magazine. Hersh reported this week that clandestine US special forces have been on the ground there, targeting nuclear facilities to be bombed whenever Bush feels the time is ripe. "The immediate goals of the attacks would be to destroy, or at least temporarily derail, Iran's ability to go nuclear," he wrote, quoting reliable intelligence sources. "But there are other, equally purposeful, motives at work. The government consultant told me that the hawks in the Pentagon, in private discussions, have been urging a limited attack on Iran because they believe it could lead to a toppling of the religious leadership." Naturally, Pentagon flacks rushed out to deny all. But then they did that when Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968, and again when he revealed the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. A tussle for the truth between Hersh and the Pentagon is no contest. What terrifies me most is the people planning this new war. The CIA professionals have been frozen out: too weak and wimpy for the Bushies. The Defence Secretary, the incompetent Donald Rumsfeld, has seized control, aided by two Pentagon under-secretaries. One is Douglas Feith, a mad-eyed Zionist largely responsible for the post-invasion collapse of order in Iraq, a civilian bureaucrat memorably described by the former Centcom commander, General Tommy Franks, as "the f---ing stupidest guy on the face of the Earth". The other is army Lieutenant General William G. (Jerry) Boykin, whose name also rings a bell. Jerry is a born-again Christian evangelical, a three-star bigot who, in his spare time, stumps the country in full uniform, preaching that America's enemy is Satan, Allah is a false idol, and that George Bush has been ordained by the Lord to rout evil. "He's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this," Jerry told a prayer meetin' in Oregon just a while back. Be very afraid. Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderpants 0 Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Hi 34 guest(s) That was an angry article! I liked parts of it, but i think it is bad to start picking on Condi's hair, the look of Laura Bush and so on. It has nothing to do with what W and his cabinet stands for. I think Mike Carlton is aiming for the same level as O'Reilly, who calls Moore names and comment on his weight. This is not the way to do it. ATB TP Link to post Share on other sites
69 5 Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Yeah just a bit ott that one. made me laugh though Link to post Share on other sites
scoobydoo 0 Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Quote: Hersh reported this week that clandestine US special forces have been on the ground there, targeting nuclear facilities to be bombed whenever Bush feels the time is ripe. Haven't heard anything on this anywhere? Where was this article from? Link to post Share on other sites
Thunderpants 0 Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/ Link to post Share on other sites
brett_jackson 0 Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 Given Seymour Hersh's accuracy over the past couple of decades, I wouldn't want to be living in Iran right now. Not with the possibility of getting the democracy bombs dropped right on my doorstep. Link to post Share on other sites
Weegeoff 0 Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 When he said {Bush} that he wanted to make the world a safer place and bring in democracy.I though he was going to resign. Link to post Share on other sites
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