In his State Of The Union speech, George Bush said: "The terrorists have chosen the weapon of fear."
Hmm. Sounds a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. Ever since 9/11, George Bush and Dick Cheney have chosen the weapon of fear — and been trying to convince me I should be scared.
Of what?
Terrorists. Ooh, terrorists. Those scary superbaddies. Fanged demons. Mindless monsters who are about to dirty-bomb me in my bed before breakfast.
What a load of Texas moonshine.
I actually live in New York City. I was here on 9/11, a mile away from the WTC, when 'Guard Duty Dodger' Bush was sitting tongue-tied in a class of nursery school kids, and 'Five Deferments' Cheney was cowering in his bunker.
I lived through the whole thing, and I’m not scared.
Why should I be scared? With my fellow New Yorkers, I went through the worst that Al-Qaeda can do. Later, I felt a weird solidarity with the good citizens of Bali, Madrid and London, who had to do the same.
And it’s a funny thing — our lives go on. There are steaks to eat, wines to drink, and comely lasses and lads to bonk.
But Bush would have us believe the terrorists are circling out there like ghastly vultures with really badass intentions, armed with a deadly flu virus or something, or a handy portable nuclear device, which will surely cause the extinction of my precious life, or at the very least, tear a limb or two off my innocent torso.
What a load of Texas moonshine.
As far as I can see, the million-dollar “charity” chains that paid for terrorism have been totally disrupted. That big bogeyman, Bin-Laden, is sitting like a useless bare-assed yogi in some faraway mountain cave on the Afghan-Pakistan border, with not much to do except smuggle out the occasional tape to Al-Jazeera.
Meanwhile Al-Qaeda fights on in Iraq under a wingnut called al-Zarkawi.
I’ve got to be scared of them? Please. Maybe Al Qaeda was something to be scared of when it had a whole country on its side, and educated Muslims with engineering degrees from Germany in its ranks, but today? They’re nothing but a bunch of skeevy desert rats. The last big Muslim eruption — in France – caused no more damage than a grand torching of their own cars, and a well-deserved dent in Gallic smugness.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Screen Rant
Yeah, and those videos of Osama and Zarqawi were made up with actors in order to scare us. And the lunar landings were faked, too.
If you think Bush is a "sissy", holy cow... what would you call Gore or Kerry? And Hillary Clinton? I shudder at the thought.
Vic
2 - Mark Schannon
Whoa, Senor Ash, this is the first I've come upon your ranting and railing, and, I must say, as a concerned citizen of the United States of the Bush Bubble Machine, I salute you.
Not that I agree entirely with what you said, but the gist of it is absolutely accurate. As long as the Bush Bubble Machine can scare us into giving up our civil rights, sending good boys and girls (and to these old eyes, they are boys and girls) into harm's way for a useless, stupid, purpose when we should have solidified our hold on Afghanistan...we must reject the idiotic blather that spews from the administration's sewer pipe....er...rhetoric machine.
I shall check out your blog. We fellow travellers must stick together--until some dark suited federal agents take us into custody for crimes not quite spelled out in any federal registry. But fear not, I may turn you in...but I'll still respect you in the morning.
In Jamesons Veritas
3 - Dave Nalle
This is about the most childish and ill-informed thing I've ever read. Did you even watch the State of the Union address? You sure can't tell from this loony and repetitive rant.
Dave
4 - A.L Harper
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself!" Said by another prominent conservative. My how things do change.
5 - Scott
"This is about the most childish and ill-informed thing I've ever read"
So you didn't read your own article about John Kerry accepting money from Abramoff??
6 - Dave Nalle
Scott, read this article. It's a cesspool of misrepresentations, emotional garbage and repetition of blatantly false innuendo. Did you even see the SOTU address? If you did, how can you even begin to relate this article to it?
Dave
7 - phil
Bash George Bush all you want. There has only been one president more maligned, more hated than George W., who happens to be my greatest hero, in the history of this greatest country.
Only one president had to endure more anguish, (well maybe i should not say that because the second term is not over). Abraham Lincoln is sitting in heaven looking pretty sad right now, as he died for a country that did not deserve him either. The problem is that there really is no place left to move, to get away from it all. Except the ocean or the moon... Yes there should be fear, cause maybe the end really is near. I would say that planet earth has blossomed and is getting ready to wilt and die.
8 - gonzo marx
i watched the Address...
and i threw up a little bit in my mouth
nuff said?
Excelsior!
9 - Scott
Dave, you're gonna give yourself a stroke.
10 - Dave Nalle
So gonzo, what made you throw up in your mouth, the plan for alternative energy development or the bipartisan commission on social security?
Dave
11 - gonzo marx
what did?
the glee in Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarboroough's eyes when talking about the new SCOTUS and what is in store...
then hearing the "domestic surveilance" bit
then putting it all together
if the reality of it doesn't bother you, then you are not thinking cuz your dick is too hard from the greed reflex
Excelsior?
12 - Dawn
I choose to accept Dennis Miller's version of things:, Bush may be a intellectual lightweight about LOTS of things, but that has worked to his advantage.
He can't be bogged down by facts and figures, his eye is on the prize of ridding the world of goonish thugs like those who want to impose their fanatical religious views by blowing shit up. I merely wish he were MORE focused on flushing them out of their roach holes and shooting them in the fucking head.
I will rejoice with orgasmic pleasure the day we find Osama and violently disembowel him and show the scorched earth where his body once was around the world. OBL and his crew are the DEVIL. There is no doubt that we will all suffer until the OBL's of the world are wiped off the face of the earth.
I didn't vote for Bush, I am disgusted with the Alito confirmation, but dammit, if I must pay this price of freedom for the freedom from global terror then make it worth my while.
Bush isn't smart, but he's determined.
13 - Bliffle
I watched the SOTU and was impressed by the theatrical setting but not by the speech itself. I thought the speech was void of any new good ideas, or even suggestions of future paths.
No new ideas for Iraq, so we stay there until the insurgency disappears. So we are still there at the sufferance of the insurgents: a poor strategy. But then, my military credentials are poor: I dodged the draft in the ANG. But I did read some interesting books, like Giap, SunTsu, Tolstoi Churchill, MacArthur, etc.
Only Fine Words about energy, although I guess it's good that he didn't highlight hydrogen. And it's good that he denigrated oil dependency. It's a good conservative principle to bring new energy techniques to play, creating new businesses, new opportunities, but I fear GWB is in a prison of his own making with his oil industry alliances. They won't budge unless they control new energy and they see the government as their tool. But if they control new energy nothing will happen, or it will be an industrial/government hybrid fiasco like the Medicare Drug plan.
Nothing about New Orleans or FEMA. Ho hum.
14 - zingzing
dave nalle: "what made you throw up in your mouth, the plan for alternative energy development or the bipartisan commission on social security?"
what plan for alternative energy development? the plan for a plan for alternative energy development?
what bipartisan commission on social security? the mere idea of it?!
bush had no solutions, just plans to think of solutions. shit...
15 - Nancy
Adam - A fine and very funny article, right on target. At this point, BushCo has run out of merchandise, except its same old same old chicken little stuff it keeps trying to peddle to the ordinary non-thinking stupid Amurrican who might actually believe it. And if it ain't terrorists, it'll be bird flu, and if it ain't bird flu, it'll be something else; it never fails.
Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this piece.Thanks.
16 - Mark Schannon
Best prezident since Lincoln???????
There's someone doing good dope around here and not sharing. Shame, shame, I say on thee. (Just kidding, NSA. I don't do dope, never did, didn't inhale, just let the fumes waft past me.)
I admit to all who find the post a bit of rant some degree of accuracy, but amidst the ranting and ravings was deep, profound, well-thought out blather. On top of that, he said some good stuff & was funny, too.
POTUS's SOTU was as interesting as watching a scab heal. He offered nothing new--well, we're going to have groups studying things, which is good. The more they study, the less damage they can do.
The only nice thing I can think to say is that he didn't flub any of his lines.
And that's the truth.
In Jameson's Veritas
17 - Dave Nalle
Zing, this was the state of the union address, not a speech introducing a specific piece of legislation. It's bound to be fairly broad.
Dave
18 - Michael J. West
I will rejoice with orgasmic pleasure the day we find Osama and violently disembowel him and show the scorched earth where his body once was around the world.
I will rejoice when that happens too. If it ever happens.
If we ever start actually looking for Osama again.
19 - Lois Doetkott
Thank you Ibeen saying this for months or has it been years! Bush is a bully but like all bullies on punch in the mouth and the bully runs like he did on 911 instead of heading for washington he hid out in a desert bunker until the all clear sounded same as Cheney! Just to say thank you! Lois
20 - Dave Nalle
Ignorance knows no bounds. If Bush had tried to head for Washington at 9/11 the Secret Service would have frog marched him to a plane and taken him to safety whether he wanted it or not. He's president of the US, he has a responsibility not to do dumb, suicidal things and he has people whose job is to keep him alive.
Dave
21 - phil
gonzo maybe you just had the 24hr flu...or maybe its all that crow you been eating. Yes it was extremely grotesque, and proves that some one as intelligent as you can also be extremely dumb. that was gross. Its really better to read the address any way...
22 - Justin Berry
Adam, did you really refer to our soldiers "poor slobs"?
23 - M
Since GWB and his cronies had a vested interest in the successful outcome of 9/11, I'm surprised more Americans aren't more suspicious of that event. Numerous firefighters came out and said in their oral histories that they thought explosives went off just before each tower came down. The mayor's office fought so hard to prevent those oral histories from being released and most Americans just don't give a damn. They just want somebody new to hate and blame for all their problems. No wonder the rest of the world hates you.
24 - Scott Butki
We have nothing to fear but fear itself!" Said by another prominent conservative
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since when is FDR a conservative?
I cant believe how rude your refernces to murdered journalists is.
25 - Justin Berry
M, is that short for Farrakhan? or Nagin?