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Dowd: Welcome to Bushworld, where things aren't what they appear to be
Maureen Dowd
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON -- It's their reality. We just live and die in it.
In Bushworld, our troops go to war and get killed, but you never see the bodies coming home.
In Bushworld, flag-draped remains of the fallen are important to revere and show the nation, but only in political ads hawking the president's leadership against terror.
 In Bushworld, we can create an exciting Iraqi democracy as long as it doesn't control its own military, pass any laws or have any power.
In Bushworld, we can win over Fallujah by bulldozing it.
In Bushworld, it was worth going to war so Iraqis could express their feelings ("Down With America!") without having their tongues cut out, although we cannot yet allow them to express intemperate feelings in newspapers ("Down With America!") without shutting them down.
In Bushworld, it's fine to take $700 million that Congress provided for the war in Afghanistan and 9-11 recovery and divert it to the war in Iraq that you are insisting you are not planning.
In Bushworld, you don't consult your father, the expert in being president during a war with Iraq, but you do talk to your Higher Father, who can't talk back to warn you to get an exit strategy or chide you for using Him for political purposes.
In Bushworld, it's OK to run for re-election as the avenger of 9-11, even as you make secret deals with the Arab kingdom where most of the 9-11 hijackers came from.
In Bushworld, you get to strut around like a tough military guy and paint your rival as a chicken hawk, even though he's the one who won medals in combat and was praised by his superior officers for fulfilling all his obligations.
In Bushworld, it makes sense to press for transparency in Mr. and Mrs. Rival while cultivating your own opacity.
In Bushworld, you can reign as the antiterror president even after hearing an intelligence report about al-Qaida's plans to attack America and then stepping outside to clear brush.
In Bushworld, those who dissemble about the troops and money it will take to get Iraq on its feet are patriots, while those who are honest are patronizingly marginalized.
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq, even as they increasingly merge the two in America.
In Bushworld, you can claim to be the environmental president on Earth Day while being the industry president every other day.
In Bushworld, you brag about how well Afghanistan is going, even though soldiers like Pat Tillman are still dying and the Taliban are running freely around the border areas, hiding Osama and delaying elections.
In Bushworld, imperfect intelligence is good enough to knock over Iraq. But even better evidence that North Korea is building the weapons that Saddam could only dream about is hidden away.
In Bushworld, the CIA says it can't find out whether there are WMD in Iraq unless we invade on the grounds that there are WMD.
In Bushworld, there's no irony that so many who did so much to avoid the Vietnam draft have now strained the military so much that lawmakers are talking about bringing back the draft.
In Bushworld, we're making progress in the war on terror by fighting a war that creates terrorists.
In Bushworld, you don't need to bother asking your vice president and top Defense Department officials whether you should go to war in Iraq, because they've already maneuvered you into going to war.
In Bushworld, it's perfectly natural for the president and vice president to appear before the 9-11 commission like the Olsen twins.
In Bushworld, you expound on remaking the Middle East and spreading pro-American sentiments even as you expand anti-American sentiments by ineptly occupying Iraq and unstintingly backing Ariel Sharon on West Bank settlements.
In Bushworld, we went to war to give Iraq a democratic process, yet we disdain the democratic process that causes allies to pull out troops.
In Bushworld, you pride yourself on the fact that your administration does not leak to the press, while you flood the best-known journalist in Washington with inside information.
In Bushworld, you list Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack as recommended reading on your campaign Web site, even though it makes you seem divorced from reality. That is, unless you live in Bushworld.
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New York Times News Service
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Thu May 20, 2004 2:43 pm
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Here's what Historians are saying about Monkeyboy. The second most common response from historians, trailing only Nixon, was that the current presidency is the worst in American history. A few examples will serve to provide the flavor of such condemnations. “Although previous presidents have led the nation into ill-advised wars, no predecessor managed to turn America into an unprovoked aggressor. No predecessor so thoroughly managed to confirm the impressions of those who already hated America. No predecessor so effectively convinced such a wide range of world opinion that America is an imperialist threat to world peace. I don 't think that you can do much worse than that.”
“Bush is horrendous; there is no comparison with previous presidents, most of whom have been bad.”
“He is blatantly a puppet for corporate interests, who care only about their own greed and have no sense of civic responsibility or community service. He lies, constantly and often, seemingly without control, and he lied about his invasion into a sovereign country, again for corporate interests; many people have died and been maimed, and that has been lied about too. He grandstands and mugs in a shameful manner, befitting a snake oil salesman, not a statesman. He does not think, process, or speak well, and is emotionally immature due to, among other things, his lack of recovery from substance abuse. The term is "dry drunk". He is an abject embarrassment/pariah overseas; the rest of the world hates him . . . . . He is, by far, the most irresponsible, unethical, inexcusable occupant of our formerly highest office in the land that there has ever been.”
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Sat May 22, 2004 1:19 am
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That picture is really quite chilling, when one views it for any length of time. I look into the eyes and see no "soul". Only death and destruction. I really think no matter which puppet though is playing the part we are all in for some very interesting times in the near future. The cows are starting to stray again.(9-11 has been milked and the backlash has even produced a suit from a 9-11 victims family.) The electric fence is broken in many places and The Congressional Whitewash is having mixed results. People are asking questions publicly and on a higher profile level. You know what happens when the cows start to get "out". Things just "happen".
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Sat May 22, 2004 6:00 am
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A lot of politicians like to help their cronies and themselves to the great, American Taxpayer Bank Account.Most people expect to be ripped off by our elected officials ,to some extent. What makes this sick, sadistic, Satan worshipping,Facist freaks, stand out from all that preceeded them, is the pure in your face F.U. attitude. what you gonna do about it? When I witnessed the farce called the impeachment of Wm J.Clinton,the hand writing was on the wall.They ran a litheness test on the American public.Livingston resigns as soon as becoming Majority leader of the house of Israeli ooops representitives.No blackmail going on there,wink wink.The Chief Justice of the "Burrito Supreme" Court with his own 'designer' judicial robe,Gold trim, how sweet. I would rather he just flipped us all off, than go to that length.He's a disgrace to all lawyers,and thats pretty hard to do.Result of the test they ran on the American public was {1}The people are too busy too give a rats ass about this country{2} Back up the moving vans{Israeli} and lets clear out the vaults.Right KennyBoy.A good diversion that Iraq war thing,they won't worry their 'Barbra Bush 'minds over a couple thousand dead peasants.Hell they'll just get more illegal aliens to replace the slaves that they murdered in the war.Ship the jobs away ,try to genecide another generation of promising young men and women with their drugs,wars,and BS.These SOB's love to see people tortured and murdered and don't care what we think. |
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