Former U.S.-installed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi — has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush as an “utter failure” that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country… Allawi found fault with American management of Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 as well as the government of present Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki…”Yes, Bush’s policies failed utterly,” said Allawi, describing the U.S. administration that once backed him. “Utter failure. Failure of U.S. domestic and foreign policy, including fighting terrorism and economic policy. His insistence on names like ‘democracy‘ and ‘open elections,’ without giving attention to political stability, was a big mistake. It cast shadows on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Egypt, and I believe this will be remembered in history as President Bush’s policy,” he said. | Read More |
July 3, 2003 — “Anybody who wants to harm American troops will be found and brought to justice” . “There are some that feel like if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don’t understand what they are talking about if that is the case. Let me finish. There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring ‘em on.”
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10 “Rich White Male” ReTHUGlican “War-Mongering Statues” gathered again, this time in Des Moines, Iowa — to pitch their qualifications, to succeed a horribly tarnished fellow Republican, King George “Mission Accomplished” Bush.
They attacked “socialized-medicine,” yet none offered a concrete remedy, to help 45 million un-insured Americans, instead they howled in chorus — that “Market Forces” should be allowed to determine who is covered and who is not. Well, with the so-called market forces currently in place, more and more Americans are living dangerously without health insurance.
The claim that socialized-medicine will deter innovation and may deteriorate into “welfare,” has some truth in it, but is it just to have 45 million citizens without access to specialized health care?
Lack of health insurance is the reason why America, the “richest nation in the world,” lags behind 41 other countries, in terms of life-expectancy.
As other countries are providing their citizens with universal health care, America, the “fattest” and most obese nation on earth does nothing to care for 45 million of its citizens, courtesy the Republican bigots, protagonists for big pharmaceutical, insurance and health care companies, that are milking Americans to the bone, and who would care less if the 45 million dropped dead, for most of them are minorities.
Medicare, a health insurance program administered by the United States government, covering people who are either age 65 and over, or who meet other special criteria, is strong and working, and so is Medicaid, a health program for individuals and families with low incomes and resources — jointly funded by the states and US federal government.
These two should be expanded, with more stringent checks and balances to counter abuse. A delicate balance must be struck between socialized-medicine and market-force oriented health care — the relative merits of the two systems (US and Canada) should be studied closely, without the acrimonious and finger-wagging scare-tactics used by these candidates to cajole a totally “decrepitly informed” public.
I wasn’t surprised when most of these candidates stealthily defended Dick “Fat Thief” Cheney — indicating that he has valuable foreign policy experience,…..like the current superb IRAQI and MIDDLE EASTERN FOREIGN POLICY!!
Ron Paul declared that Cheney is more powerful than Bush — so what’s new? Dick Cheney has been running this government on behalf of the neo-cons, and Bush is just but a “stooge.”
Meanwhile, as master flip-flopper, Mitt Romney tried to worm his way out of his pro-abortion stance, when he was governor of Massachusetts, anti-immigrant bigot — Tom Tancredo, declared that the greatest mistake he had made in his life is: “It took me thirty years to realize that Jesus Christ is my savior.” Asked about what he changes he would bring to the White House — Tancredo mumbled a bunch of crap about western civilization — “white supremacy” by my interpretation.
Brownback vowed to overturn Roe V. Wade, while McCain threatened sustained war against Islamists.
Giuliani stressed that he would lead the United States the same way he led New York City as Mayor, meaning he would re-introduce ‘Giuliani Time‘ — a period in his administration when there were numerous accusations of police brutality against minorities — complaints of police abuse jumped 56% in the first four years of the Giuliani administration, and while the then Mayor Giuliani touted his “Quality of Life” and “Zero Tolerance policies,” the reality on the streets was extreme brutality, violations of the First Amendment and racist actions.
Perhaps the worst case of police brutality during “Giuliani Time” was the sexual assault of Haitian immigrant, Abner Louima, who was tortured by two Brooklyn police officers — Louima was severely beaten up, subjected to racial slurs and “sodomized.”
Officer Justin A. Volpe shoved a toilet plunger’s handle up Louima’s rectum, then into his mouth, while another officer, Charles Schwarz reportedly restrained Louima, while yelling racial epithets such as “nigger,” and shouting “This is Giuliani-time” during the beating.
Towards the end of his second term, and just before 9/11, Giuliani’s political capital was a big ZERO! Come 9/11, and ever since, this crook has been riding the 9/11 debacle like a prized pony, spinning his “fake heroism,” first into $100,000 speeches and “security consulting,” and now into a presidential run.
This is the same mayor who decided to locate the New York city’s emergency command center in the twin-towers, that were later destroyed by terrorists!
George Bush rode the fear-mongering gravy train to re-election, and Giuliani is trying to use 9/11 for the same selfish purpose — fear-monger his way into the presidency of the United States — and this might just happen!
Well, if American voters were stupid enough to re-elect an imbecile like Bush, I do not put it beyond them to once again, fold their tails between their legs, and elect a brutal ex-prosecutor like Giuliani. All it may take is one serious terrorist attack, and a ship-load of “RED TERROR ALERTS.”
If you think George Bush is violating your rights and turning America into a police state — “think thrice” before you cast your vote for this no-good “cross-dressing” serial divorcee.
He rules like a Mafia-Don and is as brutal as a mad pit-bull — even to his own family. This “stop and frisk,” former prosecutor and “Fake 911 Hero,” is wrong for America.
Low-tier candidate, Duncan Hunter talked about a convoluted concept for world peace — something he called an “arsenal of democracy,” …whatever that crap means.
As expected, they assaulted “Liberalism,” Clinton and Obama with the usual hypocritical fusillade of nauseating crap.
When Mitt Romney was asked about Senator Obama’s recent statements about taking military action in Pakistan against al-Qaeda, Romney said “Barack Obama is confused as to who are our friends and who are our enemies.”
Out of this group — a congregation of “viagra-tired” looking white-men, only Ron Paul, seemed to make sense to me, for example, in response to a foreign policy question, Ron Paul said: “We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.” Makes perfect sense, unless you are a neo-con bent on raping Iraq bare, and/or you belong to the Republican National Circus of The Criminally Insane.
All in all, as in the previous debates, this was a sorry “Convention of Morticians,” …. a bunch of vicious and pandering pretenders.
… and as expected in U.S. presidential elections — it is hunting-time for middle-aged rich white men — the quadrennial orgy of falsehoods, and fear-mongering is in our midst……
……One rich white guy tells one set of lies, the other rich guy tells a slightly different set of lies, and Americans get to base their vote on which set of lies they like the best. . . . “I’ll attack Pakistan!” . . . “I’ll scalp Osama Bin-Laden!” . . . .”Obama is a wimp!” . . . .”Obama Osama!” . . . . “I’ll start another war!”. . . .”I’ll give the Sunni’s more weapons!”. . . .”I’ll keep those Negroes, immigrants and Canadians in their place!”. . . . . LIES ON TOP OF LIES ….and America absorbs all of it, like one big fat “BurgerKing Hamburger.”
VERDICT: Ron Paul won this debate. He is un-orthodox and straight-faced, and the more I listen to him, the more I think that he is in the wrong party.
