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Bush
Is Not Dumb; He's Too Clever By Half
April 27, 2002
By kentuck
What was he thinking when he decided our policy should be
not to get involved in the Israeli/Palestinian issue? Did
he think the Israelis would handle the problem by simply kicking
the butts of the Palestinians? And that would be the best
solution? Surely he was not so dumb as to think there was
no problem there? So we can only presume that he knew the
seriousness of the problem but thought the best way to handle
it was by permitting Israel to handle it with violence.
What was he thinking when he sent Colin Powell to Afghanistan
with promises of aid or else? Did he think a poor backward
country like Afghanistan had no options against the superpower
of the world? And what did he think when the Twin Towers came
tumbling down? Did he think he could get a pipeline through
Afghanistan for his Big Oil friends, simply by stomping his
feet and threatening violence?
And what was he thinking when he withheld the presidential
records of Ronald Reagan and his father, George H.W. Bush
from being opened to the public as the law required? Did he
think he could change this law with impunity and never be
called for his transgression? And when he put his Governor
of Texas records off limits by moving them to his father's
presidential library, was that dumb?
When he withdrew our nation from the ABM treaty, was that
dumb or was that a strategy with ulterior motives? The same
with his denunciation of the Kyoto Treaty, why did he do that?
What was he thinking as he was pushing the Congress to pass
a Star Wars defense program, to raise the defense budget to
unparalleled heights, to cut taxes for his wealthiest friends,
and run our country back into debt and deficits? Did he do
this because he is dumb? No, he did it with a purpose.
George W. Bush is not dumb. He is preying upon the citizens
of this nation with his lack of vision and his economic and
foreign policies - but he is doing it with a viciousness and
will that more resembles evil and lack of empathy than lack
of intelligence. He is tearing our nation down to its foundations
and he is being assisted in his destruction by the partisans
in the media that have been recruited and trained for just
such an operation. And now, we are being led down a primrose
path by those that should know better but are too bound to
the right-wing partisans to actually help our citizens in
their time of need.
Where does it all end? We have a leader that is praised for
his impotence and lack of intelligence, as our nation is threatened
by foes of his own making. We have a news media that is more
concerned with beating their competition in viewership than
in reporting what is really happening to our nation. On top
of that, we have an opposition party that is either unwilling
or unable to mount a real challenge to the present danger
we now face. They must do or say nothing that will endanger
their reelections. Are we dumb or are we just refusing to
face reality?
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