Bush Lies, America Cries
This just in: Global terrorism rates are higher than any time since
1985. Thanks, Dubya!
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Friday, April 22, 2005


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Oh my God I feel so much safer. Don't you?
I mean, don't you feel so much more secure in your all-American
gun-totin' oil-happy lifestyle now that we have wasted upward of $300
billion worth of your child's future education budget, along with 1,600
disposable young American lives and over 20,000 innocent Iraqi lives
and about 10,000 severed American limbs and untold wads of our
spiritual and moral currency, all to protect America from terrorism
that is, by every account, only getting worse? Nastier? More nebulous?
More anti-American?

Here's something funny, in a
rip-your-patriotic-heart-out-and-spit-on-it sort of way: Just last
week, BushCo's State Department decided to kill the publication of an
annual report on international terrorism. Why? Well, because the
government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more
terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985. Isn't that
hilarious? Isn't that heartwarming? Your tax dollars at work,
sweetheart.

Lest you forget, this is what they do. They trim. They edit. They
censor. BushCo kills what they do not like and fudges negative data
where they see fit and completely rewrites whatever the hell they want,
and that includes bogus WMD reports and CIA investigations and dire
environmental studies and scientific proofs about everything from
evolution to abortion and pollution and clean air, right along with
miserable unemployment data and all manner of research pointing up the
ill health of the nation, the spirit, the world.

In other words, if BushCo doesn't like what comes out of their own
hobbled agencies and their own funded studies, they do what any good
dictatorship does: They annihilate it. Now that's good gummint!

Let's be clear: The obliteration of the National Counterterrorism
Center report merely goes to prove what so many of us already know --
that BushCo's brutish and borderline traitorous actions since they
leveraged 9/11 to blatantly screw the nation have done exactly nothing
to stem the tide of terrorism -- and, in fact, have, by most every
measure, apparently increased the threat of terrorism. In other words,
the world is a more dangerous place because of George W. Bush. Is that
clear enough?

Let's put it another way: Under Bush, in the past five years, the U.S.
has made zero new friends. But we have made a huge number of new and
increasingly venomous enemies. And no, they don't hate us because of
our malls, Dubya. They don't hate us because of our freedoms. They
don't hate us because of our low-cut jeans and our moronic 8 mpg Ford
Expeditions or our corrupt Diebold voting system that snuck you into
office.

They hate us, George, because of our policies. Anti-Muslim. Pro-Israel.
Oil-uber-alles. Anti-U.N. Anti-Kyoto. Anti-planet. Pro-war.
Pro-insularity. Pseudo-swagger. Bogus staged "town hall" meetings
stocked with prescreened monosyllabic Bush sycophants. Ego. Empire.

But here's the truly sad part, the hideous and depressing and
soul-shredding part about all those young kids in the U.S. military
right now, all those mostly undereducated, lower-middle-class kids,
most of whom aren't even old enough to buy beer and many of whom have
barely had sex and many who got sucked into the military vortex in an
honest attempt to help pay for a college education so they could go out
and not find a decent job in this miserable economy. The sad part is
all those kids in the military who've been trained/brainwashed to
believe they are serving in Iraq to protect America's freedom, to
protect us from, well, something dark, and sinister, and deadly. When
in fact, they're not. Not even close.

The truth is, we were never under threat from Iraq. There were never
any WMDs, and Bush knew it. Our military is protecting nothing so much
as our access to future stores of petroleum, nothing so much as helping
set up a giant police station in Iraq to ensure surrounding nations
don't get all uppity about just who controls the rights to those oil
fields.

So let's get honest and just ask it outright: Is this a worthy use of
the massive bloated machine that is the U.S. military? Of the largest
and most advanced fighting force in the world? To protect the flow of
oil to the most gluttonous and wasteful and least accountable developed
nation on the planet? Is this worth so many young American lives?

You already know the answer. Ask any oil exec. Any government
economist. Any BushCo war hawk or auto manufacturer or the leaders of
any major manufacturing industry. Ask the president himself. They all
say the same thing: You're goddamn right it is.

Here, then, is the warped, convoluted irony: We went to war under the
lie of a Saddam-fueled terrorism threat that never existed. We are at
war, instead, to protect our oil and to establish regional control, an
act that, in turn, has destabilized the Middle East even further and is
actually inciting much of the very terrorism we were ostensibly there
to battle in the first place, thus producing a level of anti-U.S.
hatred not even a (still alive and apparently very chipper) Osama bin
Laden could have wet dreamed. Isn't democracy fun?

We are not "spreading democracy" by invading Iraq. We are not giving a
gift of a more peaceable Iraq to a grateful world. That is merely
insidious Republican PR spin. Right now, the U.S. military is, in
short, protecting your right to a $3 gallon of gas, which will soon be
$4 and then maybe $5 and $6 as we are running out of the stuff faster
than anyone thought and the fight for that which remains will only turn
uglier and more violent and so I have to ask again, do you feel safer?

Because if you say yes, you are, quite simply, lying. Or delusional. Or
you have had your brain edited by BushCo. Or those are some mighty
powerful drugs you are obviously taking and you might wish to consider
switching to aspirin and wine and Fleshbot.com.

They say that violence is the last refuge of a desperate nation. And
violence under the guise of secrecy and outright lie such as BushCo has
foisted upon the nation is the last refuge of a nation of thugs. Yes,
I'm looking at you, Rummy. I'm looking at you, Cheney. I'm not looking
at you, Karl Rove, because looking at you makes my colon clench and
looking at you makes birds die and looking at you makes small children
feel hopeless and lost, like the world is full of black venomous hate
and bilious condescension that is aimed squarely at their heads, like a
gun.

It's true. We are living in a nation run by overprivileged alcoholic
frat boys and power-mad thugs. This much we know. This much we need to
be reminded of, over and over again, until we finally wake up.

Ah, but there is good news. There is always good news. The good news
is, they are now confiscating all cigarette lighters at the airport. In
the name of safety. In the name of homeland security. In the name of
America, apple pie, babies, puppies, Jesus and guns. Lighters are now
forbidden on all air travel. I mean, thank God. I feel safer already.

Kevin,
It is good to see you back doing the only thing you are capable of doing.
Cut and pasting.



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Bush Lies, America Cries
This just in: Global terrorism rates are higher than any time since
1985. Thanks, Dubya!
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Friday, April 22, 2005


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Oh my God I feel so much safer. Don't you?
I mean, don't you feel so much more secure in your all-American
gun-totin' oil-happy lifestyle now that we have wasted upward of $300
billion worth of your child's future education budget, along with 1,600
disposable young American lives and over 20,000 innocent Iraqi lives
and about 10,000 severed American limbs and untold wads of our
spiritual and moral currency, all to protect America from terrorism
that is, by every account, only getting worse? Nastier? More nebulous?
More anti-American?

Here's something funny, in a
rip-your-patriotic-heart-out-and-spit-on-it sort of way: Just last
week, BushCo's State Department decided to kill the publication of an
annual report on international terrorism. Why? Well, because the
government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more
terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985. Isn't that
hilarious? Isn't that heartwarming? Your tax dollars at work,
sweetheart.

Lest you forget, this is what they do. They trim. They edit. They
censor. BushCo kills what they do not like and fudges negative data
where they see fit and completely rewrites whatever the hell they want,
and that includes bogus WMD reports and CIA investigations and dire
environmental studies and scientific proofs about everything from
evolution to abortion and pollution and clean air, right along with
miserable unemployment data and all manner of research pointing up the
ill health of the nation, the spirit, the world.

In other words, if BushCo doesn't like what comes out of their own
hobbled agencies and their own funded studies, they do what any good
dictatorship does: They annihilate it. Now that's good gummint!

Let's be clear: The obliteration of the National Counterterrorism
Center report merely goes to prove what so many of us already know --
that BushCo's brutish and borderline traitorous actions since they
leveraged 9/11 to blatantly screw the nation have done exactly nothing
to stem the tide of terrorism -- and, in fact, have, by most every
measure, apparently increased the threat of terrorism. In other words,
the world is a more dangerous place because of George W. Bush. Is that
clear enough?

Let's put it another way: Under Bush, in the past five years, the U.S.
has made zero new friends. But we have made a huge number of new and
increasingly venomous enemies. And no, they don't hate us because of
our malls, Dubya. They don't hate us because of our freedoms. They
don't hate us because of our low-cut jeans and our moronic 8 mpg Ford
Expeditions or our corrupt Diebold voting system that snuck you into
office.

They hate us, George, because of our policies. Anti-Muslim. Pro-Israel.
Oil-uber-alles. Anti-U.N. Anti-Kyoto. Anti-planet. Pro-war.
Pro-insularity. Pseudo-swagger. Bogus staged "town hall" meetings
stocked with prescreened monosyllabic Bush sycophants. Ego. Empire.

But here's the truly sad part, the hideous and depressing and
soul-shredding part about all those young kids in the U.S. military
right now, all those mostly undereducated, lower-middle-class kids,
most of whom aren't even old enough to buy beer and many of whom have
barely had sex and many who got sucked into the military vortex in an
honest attempt to help pay for a college education so they could go out
and not find a decent job in this miserable economy. The sad part is
all those kids in the military who've been trained/brainwashed to
believe they are serving in Iraq to protect America's freedom, to
protect us from, well, something dark, and sinister, and deadly. When
in fact, they're not. Not even close.

The truth is, we were never under threat from Iraq. There were never
any WMDs, and Bush knew it. Our military is protecting nothing so much
as our access to future stores of petroleum, nothing so much as helping
set up a giant police station in Iraq to ensure surrounding nations
don't get all uppity about just who controls the rights to those oil
fields.

So let's get honest and just ask it outright: Is this a worthy use of
the massive bloated machine that is the U.S. military? Of the largest
and most advanced fighting force in the world? To protect the flow of
oil to the most gluttonous and wasteful and least accountable developed
nation on the planet? Is this worth so many young American lives?

You already know the answer. Ask any oil exec. Any government
economist. Any BushCo war hawk or auto manufacturer or the leaders of
any major manufacturing industry. Ask the president himself. They all
say the same thing: You're goddamn right it is.

Here, then, is the warped, convoluted irony: We went to war under the
lie of a Saddam-fueled terrorism threat that never existed. We are at
war, instead, to protect our oil and to establish regional control, an
act that, in turn, has destabilized the Middle East even further and is
actually inciting much of the very terrorism we were ostensibly there
to battle in the first place, thus producing a level of anti-U.S.
hatred not even a (still alive and apparently very chipper) Osama bin
Laden could have wet dreamed. Isn't democracy fun?

We are not "spreading democracy" by invading Iraq. We are not giving a
gift of a more peaceable Iraq to a grateful world. That is merely
insidious Republican PR spin. Right now, the U.S. military is, in
short, protecting your right to a $3 gallon of gas, which will soon be
$4 and then maybe $5 and $6 as we are running out of the stuff faster
than anyone thought and the fight for that which remains will only turn
uglier and more violent and so I have to ask again, do you feel safer?

Because if you say yes, you are, quite simply, lying. Or delusional. Or
you have had your brain edited by BushCo. Or those are some mighty
powerful drugs you are obviously taking and you might wish to consider
switching to aspirin and wine and Fleshbot.com.

They say that violence is the last refuge of a desperate nation. And
violence under the guise of secrecy and outright lie such as BushCo has
foisted upon the nation is the last refuge of a nation of thugs. Yes,
I'm looking at you, Rummy. I'm looking at you, Cheney. I'm not looking
at you, Karl Rove, because looking at you makes my colon clench and
looking at you makes birds die and looking at you makes small children
feel hopeless and lost, like the world is full of black venomous hate
and bilious condescension that is aimed squarely at their heads, like a
gun.

It's true. We are living in a nation run by overprivileged alcoholic
frat boys and power-mad thugs. This much we know. This much we need to
be reminded of, over and over again, until we finally wake up.

Ah, but there is good news. There is always good news. The good news
is, they are now confiscating all cigarette lighters at the airport. In
the name of safety. In the name of homeland security. In the name of
America, apple pie, babies, puppies, Jesus and guns. Lighters are now
forbidden on all air travel. I mean, thank God. I feel safer already.

Yes, it's me wrote:
Kevin,
It is good to see you back doing the only thing you are capable of
doing.
Cut and pasting.

I'm not Kevin, and quit crying like a little baby, it's not very
flattering.

Kevin,
What would you mother say if she knew you were not using the name she gave
you?

wrote in message
oups.com...

Yes, it's me wrote:
Kevin,
It is good to see you back doing the only thing you are capable of
doing.
Cut and pasting.

I'm not Kevin, and quit crying like a little baby, it's not very
flattering.