On 16 Aug 2002 at 9:24, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
>
> I would rather be a good patriotic Galactic Citizen then a good
> patriotic American. I know that must sound completely sick and evil to
> all of you US vs. Them types on this list.
>
> God Bless America and Fuck Everyone Else
>
> Smile
> Archibald
>
>
> http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.12A.wrp.idiot.htm
> Bush the Idiot or Bush the Fiend
> By William Rivers Pitt
> t r u t h o u t | Opinion
> Sunday, 11 August, 2002
> This is the paradox of Bush leadership.
> As the Clinton administration departed the White House, several of its
> anti-terrorism experts repeatedly briefed Condoleeza Rice and others
> within the incoming Bush cabal of the dangerous nature of the
> terrorism threat represented by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Further,
> the Bush people were handed an effective battle plan to address that
> threat. Nothing was done about it until the Towers fell. Warnings came
> to American intelligence agencies and the Bush administration from all
> corners in the months before the attack. Egypt, Germany, Israel and
> Russia gave pointed descriptions of terrorist threats involving
> commercial airplanes and landmark buildings. Nothing was done about it
> until the Towers fell. Once the attacks came, of course, the Bush
> administration implemented the Clinton-era attack plans against
> Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, and then some. Great voice was given to
> increasing our security abilities, to the point that no public
> investigations into why 9/11 happened in the first place could be
> allowed, because they would purportedly detract from the war effort.
> Now, as has been heard time and again, we must pre-emptively attack
> Iraq to make sure they don't attack us. Virtually no proof of any
> threat to America presented by Iraq has been offered by the Bush
> administration. The war talk is based solely upon speculation and
> rhetoric about Saddam Hussein's massive stockpile of chemical,
> biological and nuclear weapons. Herein lies the paradox: As reported
> threats and warnings came in from everywhere in the months leading up
> to 9/11, threats and warnings of such a dire nature that any
> self-respecting officeholder would be kept up nights after hearing of
> them, absolutely nothing was done to address them...until the Towers
> fell. Meanwhile, virtually no evidence exists to support a cause for
> war against Iraq. It stands to reason that if Hussein had these
> terrible weapons, and we knew it, we would have gone in there months
> ago and paved Iraq like a parking lot. No warnings, no threats, no
> basis for war exists in credible form, and yet we rattle our saber and
> draw it ever farther from the scabbard. When Bush had the warnings, he
> did nothing, and America lost thousands of civilians. Now, with no
> warnings northreats, he prepares for a battle that will slaughter tens
> of thousands more civilians. This is the paradox. There are two
> possibilities. Either George W. Bush is the dumbest, most incompetent,
> most utterly harebrained human ever to sit in the Oval Office, or he
> is some dazzling breed of Uberman fiend bent upon dominion over the
> earth. Either he's a total dimwitted dunderhead who cannot understand
> a threat when it is wagged in his face, or he is an evil genius who
> allowed the 9/11 attacks to take place so as to enhance his political
> power, and now plans to attack Iraq to further entrench that power. We
> crossed that bridge to the 21st century and found a troll living
> beneath it. It is named George W. Bush, and it is either dumber than a
> bag of doorknobs, or more fiendishly clever than any comic book
> supervillain. Neither option is terribly palatable. ------- William
> Rivers Pitt is a teacher from Boston, MA. His new book, 'The Greatest
> Sedition is Silence,' will be published soon by Pluto Press.
>
The US is doing something now; they will not make the same mistake
with either Al Quaeda or Saddam Hussein twice.
>
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