Comments on: Idiots Abroad

by: The Heretik : The Day After the Earth Stood Still

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:28:36 +0000

[…] The day after the earth stood still? Poor Bush. “We think Bush is being a hypocrite, or just plain delusional, when he calls himself a man of peace, but in his own mind that’s exactly what he is.“ Bush, The Son King, sees himself at the center of things, but can the centre hold? Things fall apart . . . For all his pushing, Bush forgets simple physics. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. One man’s idea of peace may drive the world to pieces. Bush wants no further proliferation. Then he disses the Non Proliferation Treaty and gives India a pass. Bush threatens Iran and watches Pakistan. One thing is clear. It takes nations together to make treaties. Bush wants the world to live by his dictates. […]

by: The Mahablog » Destroyer of Worlds

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:36:48 +0000

[…] That’s exactly how the Bushies and neocons think, isn’t it? And after seven years it still seems stunning. We think Bush is being a hypocrite, or just plain delusional, when he calls himself a man of peace, but in his own mind that’s exactly what he is. […]

by: joanr16

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:20:31 +0000

Damn that Bard!

Some time after the invasion of Iraq, Liev Schrieber played Henry V as George W. Bush, the former drunken wastrel Prince Hal now ascended to his father’s throne, intoxicated with war and power.

Freaky how that plot still fits.

by: ken melvin

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:38:36 +0000

Bush is not real; he’s but a version of Hamlet, and, somehow, Shakespeare’s behind this.

by: c u n d gulag

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:03:09 +0000

The Boy King looked like an impotant man in a house of ill-repute: All swagger and bluster - all talk, all show, and no go.
What was especially damning was when the Saudi oil minister shot back, “We will raise production when the market justifies it.” Those were his own, and his follower’s, words thrown right back in his face.
But we can’t mock the impotant Boy King. He has other “missiles” he can, and will, use.

by: KingGeorgeTheTenth

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:52:08 +0000

I was so struck by what Mistake1 wrote that I think it should be said again:

The only reason they let him (Bush) out in public is because the real person running the show (Cheney and Haliburton) was elected vice president and Bush has to do Cheney’s talking for him.

I got a chance to watch the Frontline documentary on Dick Cheney again last Tuesday, and was struck most of all by how he really wanted to be President, but decided that it was a position with too much contact with the public. He prefers having some stooge as “President,” while he can take advantage of the dark, cigar smoke filled, alleys to really take care of business for himself and his oil buddies. The fact people in the media do not understand this and say it on a daily basis makes me pull my hair out.

by: Bonnie

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:57:44 +0000

Tom Engelhardt has a good commentary at common dreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/17/6435/

“During the years that I freelanced for that company in the early 1970s, an image of what I was doing formed in my mind — and it suddenly came back to me this week. I used to describe it this way:

The little group of us — rewriter, grade-level reducer, designer — would be summoned to the publisher’s office. There, our brave band of technicians would be ushered into a room in which there would be nothing but a gurney with a corpse on it in a state of advanced decomposition. The publisher’s representative would then issue a simple request: Make it look like it can get up and walk away.”

by: Doug Hughes

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:56:14 +0000

First, Bush does not care about his legacy. His concern for public opinion is limited to manipulating ‘The People’ so there is enough popular support (or too little opposition) so he has his way. This has not been going well lately. The CIA would not doctor the report on Iran & their nuclear status. The Republican kingmakers have decided a new war will kill any chance they have to keep the WH in November . And they took it (the Iran war) away from him. How? They let him know that he would be impeached, and Republicans senators would lead the charge.

Bush still wants the war, so he decided to try to buy, pressure or persuade the Arab states in the region to conduct his new war. And they are not interested. That’s what the trip was about. I give the little bugger credit for one thing: he’s persistent.

by: Steve M.

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:23:01 +0000

...on the subject of human rights, your administration has had the worst record of all, surpassing most Third World countries. The tension and the misery in parts of this region can very well testify to this. --editorial in the government-approved United Arab Emirates newspaper Gulf News You can read the whole editorial at Main and Central.

by: Dave

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:23:24 +0000

“…no one gives a bleep what he does…”

Careful! Let’s not tell him he’s completely irrelevant or the moron might do something dramatic to draw attention to himself, like start another war or something. Children do like to throw their attention-getting tantrums.