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"Harry Hope" |
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23 Jul 2007 12:16:11 PM |
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Georgie Bush talks like a cowboy, but he rides a rocking horse. |
From The Star Tribune, 7/23/07:
http://www.startribune.com/562/story/1315494.html
Bush talks like a cowboy, but he rides a rocking horse
Meanwhile, Al-Qaida regroups in a place that's 'wilder than the Wild
West.'
By Maureen Dowd
WASHINGTON --
Oh, as it turns out, they're not on the run.
And, oh yeah, they can fight us here even if we fight them there.
And oh, one more thing, after spending hundreds of billions and losing
all those lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, we're more vulnerable to
terrorists than ever.
And, um, you know that Dead-or-Alive stuff?
We may be the ones who end up dead.
Squirming White House officials had to confront the fact last week
that everything President Bush has been spouting the last six years
about Al-Qaida being on the run, disrupted and weakened was just guff.
Last year, W. called his "personal friend" Gen. Pervez Musharraf "a
strong defender of freedom."
Unfortunately, it turned out to be Al-Qaida's freedom.
The White House is pinning the blame on Pervez.
While the administration lavishes billions on Pakistan, including $750
million in a risible attempt to win "hearts and minds" in the tribal
areas where Al-Qaida leaders are hiding and training, President
Musharraf has helped create a quiet mountain retreat, a veritable
terrorism spa, for Osama and Ayman al-Zawahri to refresh themselves
and get back in shape.
The administration's most-thorough intelligence assessment since 9/11
is stark and dark.
Two pages add up to one message:
The Bushies blew it.
Al-Qaida has exploded into a worldwide state of mind.
Because of what's going on with Iraq and Iran, Hezbollah may now "be
more likely to consider" attacking us.
Al-Qaida will try to "put operatives here" -- (some news reports say a
cell from Pakistan is en route or already arrived) -- and "acquire and
employ chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear material in
attacks."
After 9/11, W. stopped mentioning Osama's name, calling him "just a
person who's now been marginalized," and adding, "I just don't spend
that much time on him."
This week, as counterterrorism officials gathered at the White House
to frantically brainstorm on covert and overt plans to capture Osama,
the president may have regretted his perverse attempt to demote
America's most-determined enemy.
W. began to mention Osama and Al-Qaida more recently, but only to
assert:
"The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones
who attacked us in America on September the 11th."
His conflation is contradicted by the fact that Al-Qaida in
Mesopotamia, as the Sunni terrorist group in Iraq is known, did not
exist before 9/11.
Fran Townsend, the president's homeland security adviser, did her best
to put a gloss on the dross but failed.
She had to admit that the hands-off approach used by Musharraf with
the tribal leaders in North Waziristan, which always looked like a
nutty way to give Al-Qaida room to regroup, was a nutty way to give
Al-Qaida room to regroup.
"It hasn't worked for Pakistan," she conceded.
"It hasn't worked for the United States."
Just as we outsourced capturing Osama at Tora Bora to Afghans who had
no motive to do it, we outsourced capturing Osama in Pakistan to
Musharraf, who had no motive to do it.
Pressed by reporters on why we haven't captured Osama, especially if
he's climbing around with a dialysis machine, Townsend sniffed that
she wished "it were that easy."
It's not easy to launch a trumped-up war to reshape the Middle East
into a utopian string of democracies, but that didn't stop W. from
making that audacious gambit.
The Bushies, who once mocked Bill Clinton for doing only "pinprick"
bombings on Al-Qaida, now say they can do nothing about Osama because
they can't "pinpoint" him, as Townsend put it.
She assured reporters that they were "harassing" Al-Qaida, making it
sound more like a tugging-on-pigtails strategy than a
take-no-prisoners strategy.
We've had it up the wazir with Waziristan.
Surely there are Army Rangers and Navy Seals who can make the trek,
even if it's a no-man's land.
If it were a movie, we'd trace the saline in Osama's dialysis machine,
target it with a laser and blow up the mountain.
W. swaggers about with his cowboy boots and gunslinger stance.
But when talking about Waziristan last February, he explained that it
was hard to round up the Taliban and Al-Qaida leaders there because:
"This is wild country; this is wilder than the Wild West."
Yes, they shoot with real bullets up there, and they fly into
buildings with real planes.
If W. were a real cowboy, instead of somebody who just plays one on
TV, he would have cleaned up Dodge by now.
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Now go to your room, Georgie.
Harry
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| User: "Citizen Jimserac" |
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| Title: Re: Georgie Bush talks like a cowboy, but he rides a rocking horse. |
23 Jul 2007 03:41:02 PM |
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On Jul 23, 1:16 pm, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Star Tribune, 7/23/07:http://www.startribune.com/562/story/1315494.html
Bush talks like a cowboy, but he rides a rocking horse
Bush's practiced casualness and unintentional
ineptitude are no act, nor is his purposeful
mispronunciation of the word "nuclear".
But we knew long ago that we were not dealing
with a mental giant, ever since the entire
nation watched that clip of him reading nursery
stories to school children, then be called
aside and told of the 9-11 attack and then,
astoundingly, he turned back to finish reading
the story (!!!?)
The bad news is that the enemies of this country
know this all too well and exploit his weaknesses
at every opportunity - his inability to admit
error and attempts to keep a failed secretary
of defense, a forgetful attorney general
and and incompetent secretary of state.
Well, he was more or less forced
to replace the defense secretary
but the other two are still there.
While they are not beating us militarily,
our country's enemies
are exploiting Bushian strategic and economic blunders that will
leave us weakened for decades to come.
The next president's (AND the next congress'
which will have MANY new members) job will
not be an easy one.
Citizen Jimserac
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