Bush's Team of Miscreants - Karen Kwiatkowski: Huffington Post

[applegrove]

Bush's Team of Miscreants
Karen Kwiatkowski
Huffington Post
02.03.2006

"Suzanne Nossel's post about how they are boltin' from Bolton meetings at the UN, with a link to some amusing commentary on the Mustachioed One by the UN ambassadors of the other permanent members of the Security Council reminds me of my own prediction eleven months ago. I tried to look on the bright side of a Bolton UN appointment, as with the Negroponte and Wolfowitz appointments to Intel Czar and World Bank president, respectively.

At the time, I thought, "It is sheer genius to send Bolton the Unbearable to the UN - where he will be sabotaged every moment, in a million invisible ways, even as he sleeps. More importantly, Bolton as influential neocon is done for by the very irrelevance of the UN to Bush policy development."

And this too: "Consider the coming Goss-Negroponte festival of bloody backstabbing, the immense financial catastrophe waiting like smoldering coals for the blast of hot air that is Paul Wolfowitz, and the irrelevant-by-definition United Nations serving the far higher purpose of driving an already marginally sane John Bolton into muttering madness."

I don't often get it right -- but I think perhaps I was close on the Goss/Negroponte political ruination of what was left of our intelligence community capabilities -- I mean, Condi, Goss and Negroponte had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA that Hamas would win the Palestinian election, none at all! And I may have been right on Bolton the Useless. We will have to wait for an explosion at the World Bank -- and dear readers, I mean that figuratively, not literally. Unlike Ann Coulter who recently "jokingly" advocated rat poison be placed in a certain Supreme Court Judge's creme brulee, I am not on the side of all that is holy in our empire and therefore would face severe and immediate punishment under 18 USC, Section 115.

...SNIP"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-kwiatkowski/bushs-team-of-miscreants_b_15053.html

[Sparkman]

1. we are so screwed...for another decade...in foreign relations & economy.

Wait until the Boomer's retire en masse...get used to the smell of feces 'cause it's comin baby.
We can't rule planet as the Death Star Empire...

[SpiralHawk]

2. A recommended read - lively writing

kick

[calimary]

3. Contradicta is as pathetic as her stupid-ass boyfriend is.

For all those so-called "smarts" little miss "DOCTOR" rice supposedly boasts, she's the stupidest thing on two feet. "I don't think anyone could have imagined..." "no one could have predicted that..." and to be caught flatfooted on the election success of Hamas - what was she doing? Getting her foreign policy briefings from inside some Cracker Jacks box? Reading chicken entrails maybe? What a disgrace! If she's considered one of the sharpest knives in the drawer, then we're eating with our fingers.


:grr:

[applegrove]

4. I was reading "Assassin's Gate". And they go into how the people who

run up against Rice or Feith - often thought they were so stupid. The author points out that in actual fact, some people think they are not so stupid. Trial by blood and fire is not something the neocons are against. They see violence as a means to an end.

I hear the oil industry would rather deal with 12 small arab countries than one big one. And for this reason, democracy at any cost, is the thing neocons want. They don't care, I think, that war may erupt. Or that peace may not come to Israel, or that women live under radical Islam. They just care that a generation of power-holders and people, buy into the country they live in. And push off the caliphate.

I try and remember that when I hear Rice is so stupid. That so many middle east experts, or state department types, think the neocons are so dumb. And that is old thinking. Katrina in the end will pay off well for neocon voters. And pay off badly for the culture of governance.