Bush: Do What’s Right Not What’s Popular

The full Bush quote from the joint press conference yesterday between President George W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is: “And, therefore, it's essential that we do what's right -- not necessarily what appears to be immediately popular.” George Bush just reached the age of 60. In sixty years, as the useless eldest son of George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush has never done what is right. In fact, he invariably has done what is popular within a small group of weak and avaricious criminals who masquerade as corporate and political leaders in the Republican Party. The Prez kicked off the press conference by saying, “Today, the prime minister and I talked about the ways we're working to advance freedom and human dignity across the world. “Prime Minister Blair and I discussed the crisis in the Middle East. In Lebanon, Hezbollah and its Iranian and Syrian sponsors are willing to kill and to use violence to stop the spread of peace and democracy, and they're not going to succeed.” Bush joked about his four-minute live-microphone gaffe at the recent G-8 Conference in Strelna Russia. He said, “Prime Minister Tony Blair, welcome back to the White House. As you know, we've got a close relationship. You tell me what you think. You share with me your perspective. And you let me know when the microphone is on.” You can bet your ass on that. It is certain Tony Blair made very sure his conversations with George W. Bush were overheard by no one. It’s doubtful that advancing freedom and human dignity was ever talked about except as a joke, between these two lying, neocon fascists. If Bush told Blair that he was going to publicly rebuke Hezbollah for being “willing to kill and use violence to stop the spread of peace and democracy”, they both must have fallen off their chairs giggling. Killing, using violence and spreading chaos and terror in the Middle East is exactly what the Bush/Blair cabal has been doing since they joined hands to attack Iraq. “Our top priorities in Lebanon,” Bush said, “are providing immediate humanitarian relief, achieving an end to the violence, ensuring the return of displaced persons and assisting with reconstruction.” That’s odd. We’re sending arms to Israel to help them kill Innocent civilians in Lebanon. Humanitarian relief and ending violence is not a high priority to the Israelis. Bush said, “Our goal is to achieve a lasting peace, which requires that a free, democratic and independent Lebanese government be empowered to exercise full authority over its territory.” Which, of course, is exactly the ploy being used in this country by the Bush administration when the House passed the minimum wage proposal yesterday. A rider was attached that lowered taxes for the rich. That makes the minimum wage initiative unacceptable to Democrats in the Senate. The Republicans don’t want the minimum wage to be raised. Bush and Blair do not want peace in the Middle East. To require that any steps toward peace be attached to a requirement that those steps guarantee and insure that the peace be lasting, means all peace initiatives will fail. No peace in the Middle East can be guaranteed to last. It sounds good but it’s like an unfunded mandate. It ensures failure. Blair gave a mini-history lesson, telling in brief how and why Israel attacked Lebanon. Blair said, “In defiance of the U.N. Resolution 1559, Hezbollah for almost two years has been fortifying and arming militia down in the south of Lebanon, when it is the proper and democratically elected government of Lebanon and its armed forces who should have control of that area, as they should of the whole of Lebanon. “They then, in defiance of that U.N. resolution, crossed the U.N. Blue Line. As you know, they kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. They killed eight more. “Then, of course, there was the retaliation by Israel, and there are rockets being fired from the south of Lebanon into the north of Israel the entire time. “So we know how this situation came about and how it started.” Blair forgot two points. 1) The Lebanese have allowed Hezbollah into their culture and into their lives because they want them there and they feel protected by Hezbollah. 2) Israel has become a bully just like the United States. Israel and the US have developed into countries that respond to crises like thugs and by using over-kill. And the UK is the little sniveling putz that offers to hold the bullies’ coats when they beat the shit out of the weak. Under the leadership of the Bush administration, the US has become an aggressive fascist nation that oppresses and annihilates the weak. Israel has become its own worse nightmare of what it feared and hated when the State of Israel came into being on May 14, 1948. And the United Kingdom is a tiny has-been power relegated to drooling over the prospect of mayhem and destruction. George W. Bush must be forced to resign. Whatever it takes. Truly…WHATEVER IT TAKES!