Bush's Trip Was Typical: All Politics, No Policy

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpcoc023567010dec02,0,3462963.column?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines

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So, perhaps the Norman Rockwell tableau of President George W. Bush hoisting a plump and glistening turkey to serve the troops Thanksgiving dinner in Iraq will become the iconic image of his presidency. The secretive and sensational trip to Baghdad was, after all, quintessentially Bush. All politics, no policy.

It calls to mind another image from the recent past: The president standing with a bullhorn amid the rubble of the World Trade Center, surrounded by the sooty but grateful faces of firefighters, pausing from their arduous and sorrowful work.

Within months, though, the administration's adamant under-funding of homeland security would send firefighters to Washington in droves. They begged Congress to provide sufficient money for protective equipment and effective counter-terrorism training. Families of the victims of the 9/11 attack would later publicly chastise the White House for trying to thwart the probe of the independent panel charged with investigating the attack. Bush still withholds key information.

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Terrorist bombs since the American occupation of Iraq have made a liberated Baghdad look less like joyful Berlin when the wall fell and more like Beirut when war raged. The tableau of twisted concrete obliterated the last big presidential photo op - Bush's landing aboard an aircraft carrier to announce the end of major hostilities. The "Mission Accomplished" banner is belied every day by the casualty count, 440 U.S. military dead since the war began; 302 lives lost since the president, costumed in his flight suit, landed on the carrier May 1.

[MarianJack]

1. I can't help but believe...

...that bushco. is very disappointed in the rather small popularity bump he got from this cynical stunt.

This morning, the "clearless channel" station was trumpeting a 5% bounce as though it was a major boost, but I'm wondering if people are starting to be aware of the bushit.

My reaction when I saw the fawning media coverage was just like Plaid Adder's. I wondered if they were trying to get him killed so that Cheyney (:puke: ) could run next year and be swept in on whistle ass' "myrterdom".

[grannylib]

2. Might be easier than keeping Raygun's death 'on ice' until October...

[teryang]

3. The persistent falsehoods have taken on a life

and higher existence of their own. They are legend. One doesn't discuss events or policies, the main subject of conversation is the latest media promoted corporate/government/media illusion. The latest illusion is a camouflage for the preceding illusion and so on. The illegimate and fraudulent war a lie to cover the illegitimate and fraudulent government. The psychological warfare of this regime against its own nation has become a joke.

It is the "who cares what you think" insult of the monopoly of power against the masses, which has hit a wall and become ridiculous and absurd and is collapsing inward upon itself. It is so so evident at this point, people are running out of adjectives to describe it. It is becoming a runaway fad to publicly recognize the falsehoods of this regime. The whores in the media mouthing the establishment cliches don't realize they have that they are an endangered species and their audience has outgrown them. Soon the layers and layers of lies one upon the other will be dense and obscure enough to provide a reason other than treason to get rid of the illegitimate unelected regime.

Does DU sell belt buckles?