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THE FAILED BUSH PRESIDENCY

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A belated discovery of patriotism is the last refuge of a political scoundrel. When all else fails, terrify naïve people by creating enemies you alone can defeat. Bush has parlayed this fear to present himself to true believers as a great wartime leader.

The religious, political and financial aristocracy believes it knows best what the commoners need. They feel their own wealth and power proves that God blesses and trusts them most. Therefore the little people should shut up and work hard for a pittance and soldier when needed and vote as they are told by their betters.

A. THE BUSH PROTO-FASCISTS WIN WIDESPREAD ACCEPTANCE BY MAKING PROMISES WE THE PEOPLE WANT ENACTED AND THEN BETRAY US BY DEALING FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE DECK WHEY WE STOP WATCHING THEIR HANDS.

The George Bush, aristocratic way to the collapse of democracy is to:

Promise to protect the American people from terrorism but betray every Constitutional guarantee that blocks a yearning for dictatorial powers to serve his wealthy class.

Promise compassionate conservative values and then betray every family, education, health, and veterans program by appointing feckless pawns like Michael Brown to gut them.

Promise to honor the servicemen who are sent in harms way and then betray veterans like John McCain, Max Cleland and John Kerry who bled for America while Bush played soldier.

Promise to be a national healer and then rule aggressively as the most divisive president since Lyndon Johnson or Richard Nixon.

Promise to be financially prudent and then turn the Clinton surplus into a ticking time bomb set by greedy aristocrats to starve all social programs except for high end tax breaks.

Promise to improve Social Security and Medicare and then betray millions of Americans without retirement and health plans in order to enrich HMO and pharmaceutical companies.

Promise to assign great American leaders to improve our crucial agencies and the Justice Department and then rely on wannabe puppets such as Scooter Libby, Michael Brown and Alberto Gonzales.


B. WE NOW HAVE MANY REASONS TO DOUBT THAT AMERICA CAN ABSORB THE PROTO-FACISTIC SCAMS AND SURVIVE AS THE GREAT AMERICAN REPUBLIC WE HAVE KNOWN, LOVED AND SERVED.

Despite all the loud denials, the disaster now boiling over in Iraq has always been about oil. The young Americans dying there are being sacrificed for the benefits of America's elite who control ninety percent of our wealth.

In his scheme to gain direct access to Middle Eastern oil for American petroleum companies through building military bases in Iraq, the inept and aggressive Bush propagandized the American people into endorsing the war to capture terrorist weapons of mass destruction. The Bush people knew that they couldn't persuade American parents to sacrifice their youngsters for the greater good of Texas oil barons. However, they could and did sell their invasion scheme by claiming Iraq was preparing a more deadly terrorist strike against America than the 9/11 attack. This claim was a deliberate misuse of intelligence information that was cherry picked and shaped to persuade the naïve of the nation to trot along on the heels of the pied piper from the Texas Oil Patch. Only after Saddam's mass weapons were revealed to exist only in the scheming minds of the Bush puppets, did the proto-fascists begin pretending that America was liberating Iraq to deliver a grateful people from Saddam's evil dictatorship. Of course, the American government had long supported Saddam financially and with intelligence and weapons during his nine years of war against Iran. It was only after he was no longer useful to the power players of Washington that he was dropped like a sick skunk. The manipulators switched gears as gracefully as possible, but can you really persuade yourself that play-boy George W. Bush, quick-draw Richard Cheney, bully-boy Donald Rumsfeld and torture specialist Alberto Gonzales ever gave one hoot in hell about bringing democracy to the unwashed and ragged Iraqi masses? These proto-fascists don't even want a republic form of government in America, unless they own the politicians body and soul. Their only interest in democratic governance is maintaining the total freedom of the financial aristocrats to profit through laissez faire capitalism. The despised and long abused peasants of Iraq quickly saw the dishonest gap between Bush's rhetoric about democracy and their own treatment by the American pro-counsel Paul Zimmer. The administration eventually set up an election in Iraq to stave off disaster and to squelch criticism at home but tried very hard to make it meet their own agenda. As they should have expected, the garlands from the masses soon became roadside bombs and fire fights with some twelve thousand American kids killed or wounded. Bush didn't even suspect when he declared "Mission Accomplished!" that the real war was just beginning.

Bush and his narcissistic power players blundered blindly into a hotbed of tribal and religious conflicts and hatreds with not a clue about the cultural traditions and religious beliefs of the Arabic people. They couldn't imagine that the masses of tribal Iraqis are as committed to Islamic beliefs as Manhattan bankers are to profits. The poor and often abused Arabic people find little relief in consumption, no release in entertainment and have no time for athletics, not on the purchasing power of a meager annual income. Their only support comes from friends and family members with whom they meet or worship at the local mosque. Blood lines really mean something important in Arabic lands. Life truly is miserable through the region for most people and only their faith in God keeps life reasonably endurable. Islam -- God's will, is a crucial important concept. And yet, when the Bush administration recently sponsored a symposium about peacemaking in Iraq, the two or three members who tried to discuss the role of Islam in the nation's recovery were repeatedly brushed aside by the moderator. The chairman was determined to hammer into place a secular Western solution whether it fit or not.

When Plan A about Saddam's mass weapons was exposed as a fraud, Plan B was hurriedly concocted and sold to naïve Americans, who after 9/11 anxiously yearned to believe that their president and his administration were competent defenders of America. Obviously, there are currently many terrorists active in Iraq, but few were there until we drew them in from other countries or created many more of their own native variety. The country went to open war with itself only after we became occupiers whom everyone on the ground suspected wanted their oil. This is where Bush's egoistic failure to recruit people brighter and better educated than himself came a cropper and caused several dangerous unintended consequences.

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