Bush makes diarrhea leak from radio speakers.
Mood:  loud
Topic: Freedom marches on...
In Dubya's weekly radio address he took some time to redistribute some good, old fashioned bullshit:

(CNN)
The U.S. military victory against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq gets the credit for "inspiring democratic reformers from Beirut to Tehran," President Bush said Saturday.

"Today, women can vote in Afghanistan, Palestinians are breaking the old patterns of violence, and hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are rising up to demand their sovereignty and democratic rights," Bush said in his weekly radio address.

"These are landmark events in the history of freedom," he said.

This, of course, is all true in a real general point of view...

"women can vote in Afghanistan" -- Well, in Kabul they can vote but so what? No one there takes Karzai seriously...Most of the rest of Afghanistan thinks of him as the 'Mayor of Kabul.' The rest of the country is split up among it's warlords who are busy making money off of their heroin sales all the while helping to re-fit the Taleban and any Al Queada folks we might have missed during that war a few years back.

"Palestinians are breaking the old patterns of violence" -- If they really are, that's awesome! Are they? What about the only country in the Middle East that actually has WMD...Are they breaking their 'old patterns' too?

"hundreds of thousands of Lebanese are rising up to demand their sovereignty and democratic rights" --Oh, I hope this is true...here is the most promising statement as this is looking good. However, I haven't seen any direct evidence of the Lebanese seeking a straight up Democracy the way we like them. What then? What if the Lebanese fucking hate our American guts as much as the rest of the region? What if they want to be a theocracy? Will this 'optimism' magically dissapate as we invade Lebanon while we are destroying Syria?

"With his primary rationale for the war -- Saddam's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction -- discredited, Bush has turned to the argument that the war in Iraq was justified because it freed the Iraqi people from a brutal dictator and now gives the Middle East a model for democracy.

Bush said "the Iraqi people are taking charge of their own destiny," citing the country's first free and fair elections in its modern history, this week's first meeting of the Transitional National Assembly and the upcoming drafting of a constitution for a "free and democratic Iraq."

I still say that this war was totall fucking bullshit but if Bush is right on this...If Iraq can pull it together and we can get the fuck out of there, without a civil war, I would love to give him credit for achieving this goal. I am still loathe to give the lying motherfucker a free pass though. I beleive this result could have been achieved in a non-war way. After all, by all accounts, it appears that the sanctions were working before we ran in there and killed a bunch of their citizens and fucked everything up. It just takes time...We "defeated" the Soviet Union in the Cold War without invading and they were huge and had all sorts of WMD! It only took some 45 years but it got done.

"Against that progress, insurgents have carried on a relentless campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and beheadings while rampant crime, power outages, unemployment over 50 percent and a fuel crisis in one of the world's prime oil-exporting countries continues"

Well, if we just stop talking about that and never mention it here in our media wont all that supposed 'insurgency stuff' just go away?

"Some (who is this infamous 'some?') have questioned Bush's repeated claims that recent democratic developments in several global hotspots are due to both the Iraq war and his second-term drive to push for reforms in friend and foe.

Still, the president has pointed to democratic gains in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, as well as the relatively peaceful elections in Iraq.

"Today we're seeing hopeful signs across the broader Middle East," Bush said. "The victory of freedom in Iraq is strengthening a new ally in the war on terror, and inspiring democratic reformers from Beirut to Tehran."


This is what I feared, he is going to tell us how this fucking war made all of this happen. Just like Ronald Reagan somehow won the Cold War single-handedly...Another favorite right talking point of BS.

While there is some hope in my heart for this to work out in the end I don't think we can declare any 'victories for freedom' until the day the Iraqis have all their power and public services on line, all their government in place and chiefly no more Iraqis are getting killed on a daily basis by either us or the insurgents. Then freedom will have prevailed. Not now, not yet...Rosey outlook or not all of this can go right into the shitter of doom in an instant. It is too early to be declaring anything.

Now, here's the best part...here is where the diarrheia started pouring out of America's radios:

"I know that nothing can end the pain of the families who have lost loved ones in this struggle, but they can know that their sacrifice has added to America's security and the freedom of the world," he said. "Because of our actions, freedom is taking root in Iraq, and the American people are more secure."

Holy shit!

There was blood in that watery stool!

This war has NOTHING to do with 'America's security' god fucking dammit! There was nothing there, no WMD, no capability of striking America, no nefarious relationships with terrorists...Nothing. Naturally, Saddam was a fucking prick leader that needed something done about him but all these lives spent, was that really worth it? Some 1,500 Americans perhaps some 100,000 Iraqis dead (most of which were civillians) is worth this? This neoconservative shift in our policy...A Pre-emptive war?

Sick.