So the Deserter went off to go fund-raising and happened to stop by the American Legion convention in St. Louis, where he whored for donations with this sentiment:
President Bush defended his policy on Iraq today, declaring that the United States had struck a blow against terrorism in overthrowing the government of Saddam Hussein. And Mr. Bush said the United States might carry out other pre-emptive strikes.
Yeah, okay...more war on 1600 Crew terms...
``Having fought under the American flag and seen it folded and given to families of your friends, you are committed, as am I, to protecting the dignity of the flag and the Constitution of the United States,'' he said, to loud cheers.
Protecting the Constitution? I have four words for that...John Ashcroft Patriot Act...no more needs to be said there. Words like that coming from a man who said it would be easier to be a dictator, and then tries his hardest to make that come true...yeah, okay.
Of course, as in the Iraq debacle, no member of the Chimp Clan is in uniform, and in any future "pre-emptive" strike, I doubt we'd find too many drawing weapons and paychecks from the DoD, except as consultants...and then it would be limited to the paychecks part. Bush 1 and his daddy were aberrations I guess, all the rest have yellow streaks as wide as Constitution Avenue running down their backs...
Indeed.
posted by Jo Fish on 08.26.03 at 08:51 PM
Comments:
The News Hour on PBS had an extended segment on the speech, showing many of Bush's applause lines.
The applause of the American Legion audience to these rah-rah, by jingo lines was . . . polite but tepid.
posted by: klaatu on 08.27.03 at 11:13 AM [permalink]
Bush's rush to put troops on the ground, coincidently timed to both the wing-nuts morally bankrupt quest for power and their total ineptness in military strategy and foreign policy. The family of every soldier killed in Iraq should sue the criminals selected to the whitehouse. Even if they get nowhere Dubya and Co. will have to explain in detail how the war was necessary to defend America from the immient threat of Iraq's half-ass military.
Has anyone noticed how the press has let the "yellowcake" story/lie just die. The aluminum tubes story a big lie, what's new with Kobe is more important. What happened to investigative journalism....where's 60 Minutes laying out the facts of Bush's criminal negligence. Powell's lieing about trailers and anthrax( the anthrax ronnie reagan and dubya sr. sold saddam). let's see,good old CNN uses 3 hrs of air-time on a rock and zero on lies that cost American and British lives. liberal press my ass.
posted by: pissed off on 08.28.03 at 03:08 AM [permalink]
