Well, it seems that there is finally proof emerging that Bush was a complete nut job. Following close on the heels of news that Donald (the other nut job) Rumsfeld would put religious quotes on memos to Georgie about the war in Iraq, it now emerges that the same George W tried to convince the French President of the biblical proportions of the war on terror.

Alternet brings us this article.

The terrifying thing is that this nutter was in control of a nuclear arsenal while he had little control of his own brain. Maybe the US system is sound in that Bush got nowhere near the nuclear trigger – or maybe we all were just lucky and dodged a bullet over the last eight years. Whatever, thank god he’s gone. Let’s hope we never see another like him.

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This is a depressing read and the final insult to those who have remained opposed to this ridiculous war from the start. The final disgraceful twist in the Iraq saga in the final twilight of one of the most disastrous presidencies in American history. Bush’s administration has been an utter failure on so many fronts who counts any more…

Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders

Published: December 13, 2008

BAGHDAD — An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then moulded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure.

via Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders – NYTimes.com.

What is outrageous is that the lies that this mob have generated over the eight years of their administration have just gotten bigger and bigger and more and more bizarre. But through all of this none of the mainstream media in the US have seen fit to scream at the top of their voices enough. It’s been left up to internet-based progressive media to hold this administration to account.

Roll on the Obama administration. There must be some kind of prosecution of these nit wits for their appalling prosecution of what has always been a pretend war. That so many lives were wasted on both sides over this fraud makes it all the more tragic and induces blood boiling if dwelt on for too long by any sane individual.

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photo credit: Mykl Roventine

Please Kevin, can you eat a moose?

By Laurie Oakes

September 06, 2008 04:10am

Article from: The Courier-Mail

IT’S not fair. The Americans have Sarah Palin. Why can’t we have one of those?

Mooseburgers may not be everyone’s idea of the perfect feed, and some people might baulk at giving their kids names like Track or Trig or Bristol.

Also, the Alaskan Governor holds some views so far to the Right that she risks toppling off the edge.

Please Kevin, can you eat a moose? | NEWS.com.au.

Out they all come. All suckered in by the Repulican PR machine. Now Laurie Oakes is beginning a love affair with Palin. Anyone can have the positions this woman has – they are easy.

It’s so terrible that Laurie has to sit through boring press conferences with politicians. Perhaps if he did some real work and research into some of the issues facing this country he might find some really interesting things to report.

Alas he prefers to sit around waiting for someone to send him juicy gossip emails that then form the basis for his ‘scoops’. Oh it’s so much more interesting to listen to someone like Palin who is a ‘conviction’ politician who believes everything has an easy answer – gee, it sounds eerily like the present encumbent. The US needs oil in the Middle East – start a war. The economy is tanking – cut taxes for the rich. Teenagers keep getting pregnant – just stop having sex. Heavans, if it was all this simple then none of these things would be intractable problems.

Still, that doesn’t bother Laurie, he prefers people that can deal him simple answers – wow that makes for interesting interviews. If someone is poor – it’s their fault. If there is oil in Alaska you just drill for it. There’s no such thing as climate change – it’s just a bunch of old cobblers.

Yeah, that easier to report isn’t Laurie? No research required. Just some ‘good ole’ home truths from people who prefer to let those at the bottom of the pile rot. Or worse, if they live outside of the US, just blow them up with cluster bombs.

It’s time for Laurie to hang up his keyboard. It’s obviously got a little too hard for him.

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Well the sentence in the David Hicks case has been brought down. This terrible, dangerous man, who was caught consorting with terrorists, hanging with Osama, and providing material support to terrorists will serve nine months in prison in Adelaide.

Gosh, the case against him must have been compelling for this result. Hardly a case of do the crime, do the time. It doesn’t seem the crime was very serious after all.

Bush, Howard and all their cronies should hang their collective heads in shame. The serious and terrible crimes of which he was accused (that we never really got to the bottom of) were worth a measly nine months in jail? Are they serious? Seven years was pleaded down to nine months?

Can we get these fools away from the levers of government? They really don’t deserve them. [more]

Janet Albrechtsen and the rest of the Howard cheer squad were out in force late last week, misrepresenting the views of many people who were more concerned about justice than his guilt or otherwise. But all of us have apparently got ‘egg on our faces’ because Hicks pleaded guilty. Well they must be suffering a bit of egg blowback tonight! This dangerous man they have all be demonising for the last five years will be walking among us early in 2008.

How will we protect ourselves from such danger? WEE are astonished that Howard can, in the light of this result, stand with his straight, serious face on and tell us that due process has been observed and justice has run its course.

WEE mentioned that it was a sad chapter in Australian history earlier this week. Well, it’s starting to descend into farce. WEE only hope the electorate can see through this sham.

Either the man is a dangerous terrorist (the government position) who deserves to be locked up behind bars for a long time, or he was a naive adventurer (the rather extreme left view) who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and so was only guilty of misadventure… which WEE don’t think is a crime.

Gosh, when is this farce going to end? Now we have to wait until early next year (and after the election… how convenient) to really hear what Hicks is all about. And of course it will be dragged on and on in the media. Couldn’t they have put us all out of our misery and released him now? Then it could all be over in a couple of weeks, or at least the real issue in all of this could have been brought into focus, the role the Australian government played in colluding with the Americans to lock Hicks up without trial for five years.

Alas, the media will now be clamouring over each other to court Hicks for his story over the next 9-12 months. And the distraction of these media games will ensure that Howard and his government avoids any awkward questions about his disgraceful handling of the Hicks case from the day he was apprehended by the Americans.

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Today marks a very unpleasant chapter in Australian history. The fact that David Hicks has seemingly admitted his guilt in providing material assistance to terrorists (with no specific incident cited, of course) is a sad indictment on the whole process of what has happened at Guantanamo Bay.

It is reasonable to assume that Hicks was up to no particular good in his decisions to engage in some kind of action in first Kosovo, and then Afghanistan over five years ago. But nothing is reasonable about the Australian government treatment of Hicks after he was picked up by American forces.

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What this case represents is a total abandonment of an Australian citizen overseas. In his post-9/11 excitement, John Howard also abandoned the fundamentals of our judicial system. Hicks has paid the price of Howard’s political games, which include backing G W Bush to the hilt and trying to paint the opposition as being weak on terrorists. WEE have also witnessed and embarrassing and unprecedented demonisation of Hicks by senior members of our government and more importantly by our chief law officer, Phillip Ruddock.

It’s all rather sad and depressing, but at least by his admission of guilt, Hicks will not have to spend any longer in that vile camp at Guantanamo Bay. That was probably what was on his mind anyway. It was clear that there would be no fair trial in the short-term, and the prospect of serving anymore time in Cuba was probably unbearable.

So just be clear. Here was the decision he faced: plead not guilty and remain in Guantanamo Bay indefinitely while the case goes through years of agonising legal toing and froing, or plead guilty to a more minor charge of material assistance for terrorists and be on a plane home to Australia in a few weeks. Um, that isn’t a fair process. This is an outcome as a result of the tortuous conditions at Guantanamo Bay.

Make no mistake. The man has had to sleep with lights on for the last five years. I’d like to see all those people gloating at the guilty verdict today spend a few months in his shoes and then say they wouldn’t be desperate to get out of such a situation.

What has happened today is no victory for anyone. Hick’s story is a modern day tragedy and we hope there is a new leadership in the Australian government before another situation such as this one presents itself. The response by the current leadership has been completely inadequate.

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Do you remember some six long years ago there was some significant progress on relations between north and south on the Korean Peninsula. WEE seem to remember families being able to visit each other for the first time in years. Slowly, year by year, there was a thawing in relations and North Korea was slowly but surely being led toward normalisation.

Then what happened? Cowboy Bush. That’s what happened.

His ignorant, dull-headed, simpleton-like approach to international relations decided that they weren’t going to tolerate regimes like those in North Korea. He beat his chest and threatened and chided.

Then September 11 happened. And his hairy-chested, moron diplomacy became even more extreme. He included North Korea in the ‘axis of evil’ speech. Totally unnecessary, totally provocative, and totally responsible for where we are today, with North Korea testing nuclear weapons to protect themselves from potential Iraq-like situations.

If ever there was a more stupid series of actions on behalf of an American President WEE would like to know what they are. And the US has nowhere, repeat nowhere to go with this one. What are they going to do? Invade? Can’t do that. Negotiate? Can’t do that. Bomb North Korea? God forbid.

Bush has backed the US into a corner and made the world a less safe place, not only through his stupidity regarding North Korea, but with his foolishness in Iraq, and more recent chest-beating over Iran.

It’s time to call Bush and his idiot supporters on their absolutely flawed foreign policies. These people have no idea how to secure the world. They are incapable of working towards peaceful outcomes. They do not know what they are doing.

It’s time for all of us to stand up and be counted. Anyone who supports the US President, including his pathetic little lieutenants Johnny Howard and Tony Blair, does not have solutions for world security. They are part of the problem. They are playing dangerous games with our futures.

They must be stopped. They must be challenged on their record. And their record is they have made the world a much more dangerous place than it has been anytime since the cold war, perhaps ever. Kim Jong-Il didn’t start this diplomatic disaster (and yes WEE all agree his probably mad, and a terrible president) but Bush has not controlled the situation and has exacerbated things with his completely disastrous diplomatic flights of deceit and lies.

Howard, Blair and Bush. A trio of fools who have contributed to the world’s descent toward a very dangerous hotbed of fanatics and nuclear loonies. They must be condemned now, and their policies and legacy condemned to the dustbin of history.

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