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Malicious and Stupid

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 Columnist - John Sammon
Columnist - John Sammon. Click to view larger picture.I can’t figure out if George Bush’s stupidity is malicious, or just the innocent bumblings of a genuine simpleton, a true Cro-Magnon primitive.

You can tell by looking at the shape of his head he isn’t very bright.

Bush and his African American token Lisa Rice (he picked her despite her incompetence because her color would diffuse the widely understood notion that the Republican Party is racist), signed a deal with Poland to put missiles in that country.

Of course, Russia was infuriated by this.

Bush and Rice refer to the missiles as “defensive,” indicating both their naiveté and their “moronic” inclinations.

Bush evidently thinks this move, arming Poland, will make us all safer. He doesn’t read books. He doesn’t learn. He doesn’t know any better. He doesn’t know history.

World War One resulted because the powers in Europe all had binding treaties with each other in a spider web of guarantees to come to each others’ defense (really offense) if any of their small allies were attacked.

They turned each other into armed camps.

Thus, if one small country in the Balkans attacked another small country, the big countries were automatically required to enter the fray, widening it into an uncontrollable world-wide conflict. This prevented the localizing of the war (keeping it small).

Bush and his stooge Rice are doing this. It’s a repeat of 1914.

Rice said, “Poland would be considered (defended) as if it’s US soil.”

Brilliant Rice! When you’re stupid enough to say any attack anywhere on anybody is a direct attack on me, you limit your ability (flexibility) to prevent war. Not the other way around. Learn from 1914.

Bush can’t learn. He isn’t capable of it.

Hey wait a minute! This is also a repeat of 1962.

The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In reverse. For those of you too young to remember, the Russians in 1962 tried to import missiles into Cuba 90 miles from Florida. Then-President John Kennedy told the Russians this was unacceptable. The world came to within an inch of nuclear World War Three before the Russians backed down under the threat of US military confrontation and had the missiles removed.

Now this jingo idiot (Bush) and his token stooge (Rice) are doing the same thing in reverse.

How would you feel if you were Russia and the world’s reigning superpower was arming all the little (formerly Russian) breakaway satellite countries on your borders, like Georgia? Wouldn’t you feel threatened, encircled, and paranoid? (The same dysfunctional feeling Germany and Russia felt in 1914).

For decades, presidents have been trying to disarm the world (by treaty, not war), to make war less likely. Bush is doing the opposite.

America is the most hypocritical country in the world. We arm everyone to buy their friendship like a bribe. All the while professing peace and accusing countries we don’t like of building their own weapons of mass destruction. We build weapons like mad and ship them. We then attack other countries based on false evidence they have weapons, but are angered whenever other countries follow our bad example and do what we do… attacking countries they don’t like.

We don’t lead by example.

We hold ourselves to a different set of double standards.

Bush is mad. He and his sycophant (Rice) have brought the world a step closer to Armageddon. When will we finally be rid of this man, this mediocrity who always makes the wrong choice? How much more damage can he do before his term is up?
I can’t understand why the American people (twenty percent of them, the ones with flags on their cars), turn a blind eye, and let Bush do this and get away with it.

Maybe they’re as stupid as he is.

Bush is the worst president in American history.

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Blame Bush For Putin’s Muscle Flex

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Writes: Earl Beal in Terre Haute, Indiana

In the power politics of international relations, superpower behavior is governed by the concept of geopolitical spheres of influence. When a superpower nation meddles in the internal affairs of another and attempts to exert undue political or economic influence in its perceived sphere, that’s when trouble starts.

The trouble started when President Bush pressured Poland and the Czech Republic to establish a missile-defense system in their territories. This policy was then, and continues to be, seen by some as a direct threat to Russia, not to mention Bush’s push for democratic reforms in former Soviet Republics still considered vital to Russia’s national security interests.

Also, if Russia placed ballistic missiles in Cuba and/or Venezuela, this would constitute a direct threat to the U.S. Washington’s hue and cry over such a move would be surpassed only by Bush’s hypocrisy when he and his Pentagon took the "dramatic," "brutal" and "disproportionate" measure of invading a sovereign Iraq in 2003.

As a result, what do we have?

  • The hemorrhaging of our national treasure in terms of lives lost.
  • 5 million Iraqi refugees scattered and without homes.

…..and today secretary Rice ushered in the new COLD WAR:

Rice signs missile defense deal with Poland

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.

The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American MightRice dismissed blustery comments from Russian leaders who say Warsaw’s hosting of 10 U.S. interceptor missiles just 115 miles from Russia’s westernmost frontier opens the country up to attack.

Such comments “border on the bizarre frankly,” Rice said, speaking to reporters traveling with her in Warsaw.

“When you threaten Poland, you perhaps forget that it is not 1988,” Rice said. “It’s 2008 and the United States has a … firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland’s territory as if it was the territory of the United States. So it’s probably not wise to throw these threats around.”

The deal has strained relations between Moscow and the West, ties already troubled by Russia’s invasion of its former Soviet neighbor, U.S. ally Georgia, earlier this month.

Speaking to reporters traveling with her, Rice said, “the Russians are losing their credibility.”

Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski signed the deal Wednesday morning.

“It is an agreement which will help us to respond to the threats of the 21st century,” she said afterward.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the agreement came after tough but friendly negotiations.

“We have achieved our main goals, which means that our country and the United States will be more secure,” he said.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski (R)US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski (R) exchange documents after signing a deal on basing an American missile shield in Poland, in Warsaw. The United States has ruled out the use of US military force in Georgia, but the Pentagon will almost certainly be looking for other chess pieces to move to check a more aggressive Russia, analysts say.

After Warsaw and Washington announced the agreement on the deal last week, top Russian Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn warned that Poland is risking attack, and possibly a nuclear one, by deploying the American missile defense system, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported.

Poles have been shaken by the threats, but NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop dismissed them Tuesday as “pathetic rhetoric.”

“It is unhelpful and it leads nowhere,” he told reporters at a NATO meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

Many Poles consider the agreement a form of protection at a time when Russia’s invasion of Georgia has generated alarm throughout Eastern Europe. Poland is a member of the European Union and NATO, and the deal is expected to deepen its military partnership with Washington.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski also expressed “great satisfaction” at the outcome of the long months of negotiations.

Poland and the United States spent a year and a half negotiating, and talks recently had snagged on Poland’s demands that the U.S. bolster Polish security with Patriot missiles in exchange for hosting the missile defense base.

Washington agreed to do so last week, as Poland invoked the Georgia conflict to strengthen its case.

The Patriots are meant to protect Poland from short-range missiles from neighbors — such as Russia.

The U.S. already has reached an agreement with the government in Prague to place the second component of the missile defense shield — a radar tracking system — in the Czech Republic, Poland’s southwestern neighbor and another formerly communist country.

Approval is still needed the Czech and Polish parliaments.

No date has been set for the Polish parliament to consider the agreement, but it should face no difficulties in Warsaw, where it enjoys the support of the largest opposition party as well as the government.

References:

1. The Cuban Missile Crisis — was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba during the Cold War. In Russia, it is termed the “Caribbean Crisis,” (Russian: Karibskiy krizis) while in Cuba it is called the “October Crisis.” The crisis ranks with the Berlin Blockade as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is often regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to a nuclear war….[ MORE >> ]

2. Abkhazia, Ossetia, Georgia, Russia, Europe, USA, Turkey, and the Yet Untold TruthRussia may certainly have ceaselessly tried to oppose NATO’s expansion up to the Russian borders, but this does not imply that the West has to take this Russian policy into consideration. However, the Western inconsistent and biased stance, interpreted as grave threat by Russia, only damages the chances of the West to diffuse the Western values, ideas and principles among the numerous oppressed peoples who form a sizeable – and traumatized – minority in Russia, being however the local majority either on small (like the Abkhazians) or vast (like the Yakutians) territory. …[ MORE >> ]

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America’s back in the cold war while Bush slaps bikini-clad ‘ass’ in Beijing

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Writes: Maureen Dowd

After eight years, the president’s gut remains gullible. He’ll go out as he came in — ignoring reality; failing to foresee, prevent or even prepare for disasters; misinterpreting intelligence reports; misreading people; and handling crises in ways that makes them exponentially worse.

He has spent 469 days of his presidency kicking back at his ranch, and 450 days cavorting at Camp David. And there’s still time to mountain-bike through another historic disaster.

We knew we could count on the cheerleader in chief to be jumping around like a kid in Beijing with bikini-clad beach volleyball players while the Re-Evil Empire was sending columns of tanks into its former republic.

Bush slaps a bikini-clad beach volleyballer in Beijing

President Bush and his Russian “expert” [Auntie Tom] Condi have played it completely wrong with Russia from the start….[ MORE ]

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Low-Tech McCain and The Internet | Georgia-Russia Conflict

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McCain -- Low Tech
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Last fall in the Republican YouTube debate, Senator McCain cited “information technology” as an area where he would likely need assistance from a vice president. It’s a stunning admission and one we probably wouldn’t tolerate in any other policy issue.

Even given the nearly nine months since the debate, McCain still has no technology plan.

Whereas Senator McCain devotes prominent real estate on his Web site to issues like “the sanctity of life,” the Second Amendment, and “judicial philosophy,” he has no entry on technology. Barack Obama, meanwhile, prominently features a plan to provide “technology and innovation for new agenda,” an issue he addressed not only in his announcement speech in February 2007 but also in a far-reaching speech at Google headquarters in California late last year….[ more ]

Georgia Squashed By Russia
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Almost seven years ago, when U.S. President George W. Bush first met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Slovenia, it seemed he’d found a kindred spirit when it came to democratic values.

“I was able to get a sense of his soul, a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country,” Bush declared after their 2001 visit.

Now, in 2008 after Putin attacked Georgia — We wonder what Bush saw! A DEER?.

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The Fascist Chinese Olympics

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   Columnist - John Sammon
Columnist - John Sammon. Click to view larger picture.Records are being set every day by steroid pill popping swimmers. Go ahead. Puff yourself up and feel proud. The pool is better than athletes had fifty years ago, the water treated chemically better, the swim suit designed better, the steroids are better, genetically engineered food is better.

You’re twice as big because of the steroids.

But you set a new record. Oh boy. Strut around. You’re better!

Meanwhile, the Chinese, a fascist dictatorship that is sort of also capitalist, puts on a showcase glorifying their country. Much like the 1936 Nazi Games in Berlin, the regime in Peking (I refuse to call it Beijing), has hidden away its torture victims and slaves being held without trial.

We love the Chinese. We equip them and trade with them and supply them. Bush, who yesterday warned the Russians not to attack US supplied Georgia (Gee, the US is the only country allowed to attack anyone), goes to China for a photo op and to act the big guy. This is the only thing he’s managed to do successfully, visit China. He’s only got six months left of the most disastrous presidential administration since Warren G. Harding.

Why does Bush love the Chinese?

They torture helpless people in jails.

They conquered and enslaved Tibet.

They massacred thousands during the Tiananmen Square riots.

They cut up executed prisoners and sell the body parts over the Internet.

It’s because they’re acting more like us (US). They have a McDonald’s in Peking. They don’t act crazy like Mao used to with those little red (Communist) books and Mao jackets and riding bicycles everywhere.

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Now they drive cars. We can understand that.

They’re just like us. Or maybe, it’s that we’ve become more like them.

We hold prisoners without trial.

We set up camps to hold them.

We attack other countries without warning because we’re in the right. I’ve got both a McDonald’s and a Chinese restaurant in my neighborhood.

Like the 1936 Olympic Games, when the Germans won the most Gold Medals, the Chinese are winning them left and right. Now am I naïve, or should I assume that a country that has continually demonstrated a total ruthless disregard for human rights might have an overwhelming urge to cheat to win to make their country look good?

The screams of their victims have been muffled until the Games are over.

We should limit the Games to only those countries who are honest, Switzerland and Nepal.

We won’t attack the Chinese anyway because we’re afraid of them. We only attack small impoverished countries that don’t have an air force or a navy. And like the Olympic athlete whose victory was made possible by super vitamins, we strut around after we beat the small impoverished country, proud of ourselves as being real tough.

We also depend on their (China’s) tortured prisoners to make our blue jeans. The slave Chinese prisoner makes the jean and is paid nothing and fed a bowl of maggot-infested gruel. The jean is then shipped over here and you buy it at Wal Mart for $99.95.

Sound fair?

All’s fair in geopolitics and the Olympic Games.

The Games should be disbanded because of terminal hypocrisy.

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