Comments on: While Bush is rattling the sabre

By: BigFella

BigFella — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:16:51 +0000

Something that we have lost with the Bushliburton administration, and with much of the currrent generation that aspire to the presidency, is experience in military service. George W. Bush, while he may have served in the National Guard, was probably AWOL or drunk more than anything else during his time of service. Dick Cheney was the master of the deferment. Neither of these individuals have seen war first hand, not experienced it, on the ground, as your friends and comrades-in-arms who you trained with, who you bonded with, who you trust with your life, are maimed or killed in front of your eyes.

The presidency of George H. Bush and the presidency of George W. Bush reflect that experience. While George H. Bush took us to war in the Gulf War, he did not command any military personnel to do anything that he had not had to do himself, a generation before. George H. Bush stopped short of deposing Sadaam and occuping Iraq, and the region was relatively stable after that and the United States was not diminished in the eyes of the rest of the world. George W. Bush has behaved as a petulant, spoiled, bratty chiled, as an arrogant fool and tool of the Disaster Capitalism Corporate Economic Complex.

Until and unless our leaders have some of their own family’s skin in the game, until and unless our leaders of the future pay attention to the wisdom and experience of our leaders of the past, we are doomed to more failed military adventures on the world’s stage.

http://indefatigable-indolence.....other-war/

By: MarkH

MarkH — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:32:24 +0000

where are the voices?

I hear ya.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:31:01 +0000

etc., etc., etc.

Powerful stuff that.

“Et cetera et cetera et cetera” — King of Siam in the broadway play The King and I

By: MarkH

MarkH — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:25:54 +0000

Why are Republics not ashamed?

Why is there no one to question the nonservice by the Bush family?

Because you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones Bushies focus on.

By: MrMurder

MrMurder — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:32:58 +0000

Kermit Roosevelt took the beaches on D-Day.

Not your average Republican…

By: pluege

pluege — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:28:00 +0000

when you turn the most destructive military in the history of man over to sadists, and when a people’s self-identity and economic viability are inseparable from, and built on the false conflation of fearsomeness with strentgh, the results are never going to be good.
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By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:42:50 +0000

LOL!!! Our ‘betters,’ of whom Miss Nancy most clearly is one (by her own admission), refer, euphemistically, to ‘that’ place, as the ‘powder-room’.

It is always visited only for appearances’sake, that one’s nose not appear over-shiny …

By: karnak12

karnak12 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:19:23 +0000

I think at this point Nancy gets a really sick feeling in her gut every time she sees George’s sneer. She probably feels sick most of the time. Spends a lot of time in the bathroom…

By: DWBartoo

DWBartoo — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:13:59 +0000

Mind/finger synapse collapse (MFSC) ‘CLINTONS’ sheesh (incoherent mumbling) or ‘early on-set’?

By: nomolos

nomolos — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:13:08 +0000

Aint that the truth !