I have the feeling that Bush is about to pull something big and horrible soon.

[Kablooie]

Something just doesn't feel right about his speech and his decisions.
It's not normal Bushy incompetance. It really smells fishy.

It's been commented that his speech expression is the same as his Pet Goat expression.
And oil prices are dropping again while the stock market is shooting up.
Bush is playing right into the hands of the Democrats. No trying to dance
around the issues anymore. He's setting himself up for a fall.

It doesn't feel right.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think there is a big ugly surprise
around the corner. The big one that Bush and his monsters have been planning
all along.

I hope I'm wrong but more and more, something doesn't feel right.

[illinoisprogressive]

1. I think he wants to be on a collision course with the dems. mano a mano

like when he confront his dad when he was drunk and said that. mano a mano. he wants to do that with the dems so he's defying them and sending troops ahead. It's a showdown.

[brokensymmetry]

2. I hear you.

There's a lot that doesn't feel right...all the
things you mentioned, of course...but the economy
feels strange. Global politics (China, Venezuela,
Russia) has the same feel.

I could characterize it as the hot, still feeling
in the air just before a really big thunderstorm - or
as that instant when Wiley Coyote notices he's standing
on air, far above the ground.

I think 2007 is going to be memorable. Something
is coming, and the powers that be know it. I suspect
it's going to be nasty. But I haven't got a clue
what it is, or what to do to mitigate the impact.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. It'll make Pat Robertson happy - he's predicting a major catastrophe

according to what God told him, and this time he may be right.

[file83]

4. Bush has been pulling something 'big and horrible' for the last 4 years...

...any new developments will just be an expansion of his bullshit ideas.

[AdHocSolver]

5. Your gut feeling is correct and it isn't that hard to figure out what it is if...

you consider the primary Bush/Cheney goals. Number one was to get control of the Iraqi oil fields: that was the reason for the "mission accomplished" statement. As we speak, Bush/Cheney is working to get the U.S.-controlled puppet government to sign one-sided, exclusive, long-term contracts for U.S. oil companies to control Iraqi oil. As long as the U.S. controls the oil fields, they don't care what happens in the rest of Iraq. When demand for oil is increasing, whoever controls the supply sets the price.

The second goal was to get long-term, no-bid contracts for Halliburton and similar companies to supply the troops and rebuild Iraqi infrastructure. To keep the war profiteering going, you need to keep the war going. However, most of the country wants a conclusion to the Iraq war. It is destroying our military, draining our treasury, and bringing the hostility of the world on the U.S.

So Bush/Cheney has to go to plan B. The U.S. has sent an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf and raided an Iranian consulate in northern Iraq which is a severe international provocation. Plan B achieves both goals: open a new front in the Middle East to keep those no-bid contracts going, and provoke an excuse to grab Iranian oil fields. The aim is to NOT end U.S. involvement in a Middle East war. The war-profiteering succeeds only so long as you keep the war ongoing.

The way to end the war is to eliminate the profit, namely, Congress should cut off all funds that go to Halliburton, et al, and place control of the war back in the hands of the U.S. military.

[calimary]

6. I know what you mean. My fear is that it'll be only by then that we have

enough resolve built up in Washington to get rid of him (which is what SHOULD happen, and NOW, before it's too late), but he'll preempt it by blowing us all up first before anybody gets the chance to do so. That it actually WILL get THAT bad before we reach critical mass, and then it'll be too late.

I don't know WHAT'S in store, but watching the TV here and there today (VERY busy for me, lots of running around to do so I couldn't stay home and blog and rant and post as I wanted to), what I couldn't help noticing was the references Chris Matthews and others made to what appears to be a looming war with Iran. He and Brian Williams and tim russert seemed genuinely shaken up by the thought of it. tim russert, the other night, looked as though he'd been sucker punched, and now understood how badly he'd been had. He looked as though he only now "gets" just how bad and how evil bush is, now that the scales have finally fallen from his eyes.

Something wicked this way comes. I just hope enough of Congress wakes up and realizes what has to be done before it really DOES become too late.

[OneBlueSky]

7. he had that "sitting in the classroom on 9/11" vacancy about him . . . n/t

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