Biden Blasts Bush for Anti-Obama Belch
In his speech before the Israeli parliament marking the 60th anniversary of the birth of the Jewish State, Bush invoked memories of the military expansion of the Third Reich across Europe, describing those who would sit down with "terrorists" as laboring under "foolish delusion" similar to those who sought negotiations with Adolf Hitler. The remarks were met with substantial applause from the audience of lawmakers of our most subsidized ally, which has threatened to attack Iran if the United States does not do so.
Although the White House is publicly denying that the comments were aimed at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who has called for negotiations with Iran, aides to the President privately acknowledge that Bush was taking direct aim at the man who is appears likely to be the Dem nominee.
At the end of the article CNN.com published about Sen. Biden's response to President Bush's remarks, readers were invited to comment on the story. As I have done with previous articles at CNN.com, I did so, although none have ever been subsequently presented anywhere at the CNN.com Website. To diminish the importance of CNN's disinterest in publishing my response, below is the comment I submitted.
Yes, what Mr. Bush said is, indeed, bovine by-product.
It is, however, also the sign of a desperate man, one who uses incendiary, false assertions to buttress the flagging ramparts of a unitary executive for whom defiance of the rule of law offered no protection from the lessons of history. To the same extent that he has crafted from the whole cloth of delusion the claim that the economic crises now looming are somehow the fault of the Democrats, he now erects his ludicrous monument of self-exoneration for the utter collapse of our foreign policy into miserable, useless, lost wars that have debilitated our military to the point where genuine threats to our security, threats that will loom larger and larger in the coming decades, face no clear, present, and viable long-term deterrence from what was once a credible war machine in the United States. Instead, Mr. Bush has squandered our future security on a Global War on Terror that is nothing more than a staggeringly expensive exercise in chasing a handful of bearded religious maniacs around the world while imposing greater and greater degradations of personal privacy at home.
Mr. Bush will soon be at the end of the time in which his incompetence can blight the American experience. Although he will likely be replaced by one fool or another from one party or another, at the very least we shall be relieved of the tiring nonsense of a unitary executive without a clue.
The other bright note, of course, is that the likes of mainstream news media outlets like CNN, along with The New York Times, the Washington Post, and far too many others, will be able to claim to an ever-gullible public that they were not really every bit a part of the madness of these first eight years of the 21st Century in America.
The great news is thus: the more the mainstream media cry their lack of culpability, the more they will sound just like the President who disclaims his own failure.
History will be most unkind both to Mr. Bush and to his propagandists. That's what makes history so much more fun to those who read about it than to those who must live through it.
The Dark Wraith still cannot imagine why CNN did not publish this erudite reply to one of its articles about President Bush.
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Good evening Mr. Wraith,
I'm glad to see you haven't lost the edge to your sword in my absence.
I trust the key to the snack cupboard is still in the same place?
Wrote Dark Wraith:
Ah, there you are, Mr. Goat.
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Wrote My Pet Goat:
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Wrote trog69:
Good morning, all and Goat.
Damn, figgers...just as I got the last of the goat hair cleaned outta the bathtub. Here, try this spam chowder!
DW, they don't publish this sort of commentary for the same reason none of the "News" outlets have bothered even mentioning the Pentagon propaganda scheme. They're much too busy with the BIG news items.
Like the fact that our president was able to make a speech outside the US, and wasn't arrested and sent to the Hague.
Wrote Dark Wraith:
Good afternoon, trog.
I am fairly sure that Mr. Bush would be protected by diplomatic immunity to guarantee him safe passage, even if he were the subject of a World Court indictment.
In the case of a country like Iraq, it was only after an unwarranted, pre-emptive attack led to the fall of a legitimate government that the occupying nation could then proceed to hunt down what would otherwise be officials with sovereign immunity. This is because the legitimate government had been overthrown and replaced with a provisional authority operating (under the claim of legitimacy) until a puppet government of the occupation force could be installed and legitimized through "free and fair" elections, which, of course, were neither, since they were predicated on the destruction of the legitimate government in an attack by foreign nations.
By the way, whether or not the government of Saddam Hussein was in some way "brutal" is irrelevant; and, more importantly, because the foreign attacker had a demonstrated, supremely well-documented, overwhelming tendency to promote false propaganda that the mainstream news media repeated to the point that it appears to be multiple-sourced "facts," any claims of the excesses, brutality, and ugliness of Saddam Hussein's government are, and always have been, entirely worthless. Whether or not Saddam really was a tyrant, dictator, monster, or whatever is simply not within the scope of most people to determine when the prior and posterior evidence of such is, and has been, in the hands of the most prevaricating American presidency in the history of this nation.
It simply amazes me that, to this very day, even progressives and liberals concede that Saddam Hussein was a "bad man," even though the vast body of such claims is supported only by what our government (with the help of a couple of others with parochial interests) has produced or has been able to shape through disinformation that has been going on for years (and long before George W. Bush seized power in the United States).
Returning to the point, though, Mr. Bush is protected in his comings and goings, although I have no doubt that his advisers are not quite brave enough to test that presumption of immunity in a few countries, which is why we do not see Mr. Bush globe-trotting these days the way some previous Presidents have done during their last months in office.
On the other hand, a fair argument—and by that I mean a case that could be presented to a federal grand jury—can be made that Mr. Bush's open, oral attack on foreign soil of a domestic opposition movement, party, or individual is an indictable offense, especially considering that his act was committed not merely on foreign soil, but before the governing body of a foreign nation.
What he did is not "treason," an offense committable only in times of war, but it is most certainly of a clearly, openly seditious nature and rises, as have acts he has previously committed, to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors." The Logan Act comes to mind as one of several spear-points for generating a list of charges against Bush.
But, of course, Mr. Bush will not be prosecuted.
The best we can expect from the opposition party in this country is foul language and hurtful blubbering.
And that, my friend, is why I will not vote for any one of those cowards running for President.
The Dark Wraith is sick of rewarding the so-called "leaders" of this nation who think the rule of law applies only to the commoners.
Wrote rm hitchens:
In my hubris I declare Hitchens' First Law of Geopolitics: "Munich, like the poor, will always be with us."
Wrote Dusty:
Good afternoon Darkest of Wraiths,
A fine comment you left on the CNN website sir. I can't figure for the life of moi why they won't publish it.
I will continue to visit my fantasy of Bush and his minions at the Hague..it helps me to while away the hours sometimes..
Wrote trog69:
Okay, roger that. Not voting because they're all incompetent and spineless.
So, how's about just voting for the Democrat, just so you can feel like you gave McZigZag's nose a tweak? Hmmm? Purty please?
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Well said, sir. Well said, indeed.