Bush the Despot Warns Against Despotism

The Bush new strategy for winning votes is: Scare the bejesus out of all Americans, insult everyone who lived through WWII, and cry. This strategy is remarkable on two levels: First, the Bush administration is using a war it started to threaten the American people with “terrorists in the streets of our own cities,” if they vote for Democrats. And second, the Bush administration says that victory in Iraq will keep terrorists from our cities even though the White House has never defined how victory will be achieved in Iraq or what would be recognized as victory in order to claim that it had been achieved. Yesterday, Bush gave a speech in Salt Lake City. He said, “If we give up the fight in the streets of Baghdad, we will face the terrorists in the streets of our own cities.” He went on to quote Thomas Jefferson. He said peace in the Middle East would be “uphill and uneven” but that Thomas Jefferson had said nations cannot go “from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.” How ironic that the United States has gone from liberty to despotism not only in a featherbed but in less than six years. It’s insulting to those who lived through World War II and to the memories of those who died in WWII to hear a little dictator like George W. Bush rant that today’s terrorists are "successors to Fascists, to Nazis, to Communists and other totalitarians of the 20th century." Today’s terrorists are the result of the Bush administration’s ill-conceived and botched wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today’s terrorists have nothing in common with our enemies in WWII. In 1941, the United States entered into a foreign war because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on us all in the month of December of that year. The men who fought that war put their lives on the line because they truly had to defend the United States against enemy armies, enemy navies and enemy air forces. But the cowardly little putzes who decided to attack a weak Iraq to further their plan to control Middle East oil and who now speak so forcefully about that unnecessary war being like WWII were NEVER in the military. They know nothing about war first hand and they seem to be totally ignorant about anything having to do with the Second World War. I can’t print this often enough. The following men never served in the military: President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Political Strategist Karl Rove, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Senator Rick Santorum, former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft, former House Majority Leader Tom Delay, Majority Whip Mitch McConnell. The latest script the president is reading from says we’ll have terrorists in American streets if we leave Iraq, the war in Iraq is a carbon copy of WWII, then the script says, “Cry”. The Prez cried for war widow Hildi Halley on August 25, and he cried again yesterday. Or as the New York Times tells it, “Wiping a tear from his eye, Mr. Bush told the story of Cpl. Adam Galvez of Salt Lake City, a marine who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq and was buried Wednesday.” He may be the worst president the United States has had in 230 years, but he can produce tears like Katherine Hepburn. Word has it he can also fart and belch on cue.