Reply #89: Point by point.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

The arms dealers, weapons makers, bush cronies, oil companies are getting rich beyond their wildest dreams...isn't that reason enough?...

To destroy your Presidential legacy and political party, to ruin a political coalition that took thirty years to build and controlled all three branches of the federal government entirely? No. There were plenty of easier ways they could have enriched their allies without doing this.


In the last day or so, I have read about his most recent speeches in the ME....disparaging to the point that even the Arabs said his trip was disappointing and accomplished nothing..but he can't have the war in Iraq turn out to have been the wrong thing to do, because invading WAS his decision and if it was wrong, that most likely qualifies him to become the worst presisnot to hold office...that DOES matter to him...where most of us would just as soon admit the mistake and leave...

I've got no argument with that, but I don't really see how it's relevant to the point I was trying to make, or the point you're trying to make.


The deaths that have happened are nothing but numbers to Bush....waging this war, isn't costing him a damned thing, personally or otherwise...We cannot justify or understand Bush's reality, because we do NOT live there....and unfortunately, his group also had control of the other branches of the gov't...which meant that there were no checks or balances in place...and you have to CARE....THEY DON'T....

I doubt they're even numbers to him. I doubt he could even name the number of coalition casualties from the war on any given day.

Actually... that'd be an interesting question for somebody in the WH press corps to ask.

"Mr. President, how many American troops have been killed in Iraq as of today?"

But I'm getting off subject. You're right, they don't care. And they never will. Ever.


He's already making plans to escape and let us deal with the aftermath of the disaster this country's going to be, once he leaves...I just hope we're up for it...

I fear we aren't up to it. Anyway, back to your thesis regarding the war being an excuse for profiteering, I think it's wrong, because it ignores the critical factors of neoconservative ideology (which has nothing to do with enriching arms merchants) and oil (in which case it makes no sense to foment a civil war on top of the resource you're trying to control.)

I think people just need to stop with the wild speculation and own up to the fact that yes, our government is actually that stupid.