BARBARA BUSH'S MOM

What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

                                                                                                 Barbara Bush

If they have no bread, let them eat cake.

                                                                                                   Marie Antoinette  

Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me 
in the fog.He said, "I will fix your rack, 
if you'll take Jack, my dog."I said, 
"Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a 
peaceful man." He said, "That's okay, boy, 
won't you feed him when you can."

                                                                                                   The Band

I found the following article originally taken from Progressive Democrats of America three years ago by somebody I assume as pissed off as I am:

Honest Government
"Trust, pride, and respect: we pledge to restore these qualities to the way Americans view their government."

Keeping Intelligence Free of Politics
"Nor should the intelligence community be made the scapegoat for political misjudgments. A Republican administration working with the Congress will respect the needs and quiet sacrifices of these public servants as it strengthens America's intelligence and counter-intelligence capabilities"

Diplomacy and Maintaining Allies
"The arrogance, inconsistency, and unreliability of the [Clinton] administration's diplomacy have undermined American alliances, alienated friends, and emboldened our adversaries."

Endless Military Missions, Exit Strategies and Troop Readiness
"The current administration has casually sent American armed forces on dozens of missions without clear goals, realizable objectives, favorable rules of engagement, or defined exit strategies." [Emphasis added.]

"Sending our military on vague, aimless, and endless missions rapidly saps morale. Even the highest morale is eventually undermined by back-to-back deployments, poor pay, shortages of spare parts and equipment, inadequate training, and rapidly declining readiness. When it comes to military health, the administration is not providing an adequate military health care system."

Restoring the Rule of Law and the Justice Department
The rule of law, the very foundation for a free society, has been under assault, not only by criminals from the ground up, but also from the top down. An administration that lives by evasion, coverup, stonewalling, and duplicity has given us a totally discredited Department of Justice. The credibility of those who now manage the nation's top law enforcement agency is tragically eroded. We are fortunate to have its dedicated career workforce, especially its criminal prosecutors, who have faced the unprecedented politicization of decisions regarding both personnel and investigations."

http://principledprofit.com/good-business-blog/reed-it-and-weep-bushs-2000-campaign-promises/2007/05/29/

There is lying, and there is lying and then there is lying.

January, 2001: We're goin into Iraq, find a way:

From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go," says O'Neill, who adds that going after Saddam was topic "A" 10 days after the inauguration - eight months before Sept. 11.

"From the very first instance, it was about Iraq. It was about what we can do to change this regime," says Suskind. "Day one, these things were laid and sealed."

As treasury secretary, O'Neill was a permanent member of the National Security Council. He says in the book he was surprised at the meeting that questions such as "Why Saddam?" and "Why now?" were never asked.

"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this,'" says O'Neill. "For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap."

And that came up at this first meeting, says O'Neill, who adds that the discussion of Iraq continued at the next National Security Council meeting two days later.

He got briefing materials under this cover sheet. "There are memos. One of them marked, secret, says, 'Plan for post-Saddam Iraq,'" adds Suskind, who says that they discussed an occupation of Iraq in January and February of 2001.   http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml

Well at least they had a plan for post-Saddam Iraq.

But we are to think that we had to go into Iraq so that we could fight the terrorists over there instead of here because of 9/11/01. Okay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zteunEcP5-U

The American people thought we went into Iraq because Iraq attacked us on 9/11/01. Period.

The American people thought we went into Iraq because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Period

The American people thought that Sadaam was training al Qaida. Period

Fox news and the fascist pricks who will not let these lies alone, fought and fought and fought all evidence demonstrating our President was a lying prick. Period.

Then further lies are perpetrated to cover up and spin all the truths in Ron Suskind's books. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,397701,00.html

At one time, the WH was actually going to blame Doug Feith, (the dumbest MFer on the planet according to Tommy Franks) for creating a document that never existed prior to 2004 or whatever.

Anyway this stuff goes on and on and on. But thepeoplechoose  gives us this link yesterday:

And he stood up from his chair and got angry. He told me, 'A Marshall plan! No! That's a crazy idea from the Democrats. What needs to be done here, and the best way to revitalize the economy is -- the United States has grown based on wars,' he told me. That's what he told me," Kirchner recounted.

Bush added, said Kirchner, that "all the economic growth that the U.S. had had, had been based on the different wars it had waged

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/27/bush-war-boosts-the-us-ec_n_592444.html

Now I was never surprised that W. Bush would put oil and timber people in charge of the departments of Interior and the EPA. He would put Wall Street in charge of the SEC and the Treasury and the Fed.  I knew that racist pricks would be put in charge of Civil Rights Division of the DOJ. He is and was a fascist in the true line of Mussolini and so are all the repubs. Even Ron Paul would have done that since he would wish to abolish all the departments anyway.

I knew that taxes would be lowered for the rich while normal Americans would receive enough for toaster ovens thereby destroying any opportunity to pay down the budget.

I knew that provisions would be made to destroy bankruptcy as an out for anyone but the very rich.

I knew all these aims before the election of 2000 and I knew every single thing he said was going to turn out to be a goddamnable lie. That is what repubs do every fucking time.

But I had no idea that an invasion of Iraq was being planned. I was floored when I heard about it in 2003 because it had nothing to do with 9/11/01 and we were already in Afghanistan.

Then when I discovered via Suskind that the entire invasion was planned 8 months before the attack; I went nuts. And I discovered this in 2004, well before the elections.

And then the American People reelected the sonofabitch back into office.

But this link from TPC demonstrates to me that war mongering had always been the Bush Administration's goal from the start. And Cheney signed on because he knew he could get his company half a trillion bucks.

I challenge anyone to show me one promise made by W. Bush during his 2000 campaign that he even attempted to keep.

And the Barbara Bush quote underlines an entire class consciousness. Who the fuck cares how the people are doing or what they are lacking or what they are hoping? The Bush's and the repubs are all part of that consciousness.

And if the American People wish to support the politicians who rant and rave about terrorists and who rant and rave about fighting them over there instead of here,  after all of those lies tied to communism, screw em.

THEY DESERVE ALL THE CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT COME THEIR WAY.