Hurrah for Bush's win

[Khephra]

Hurrah for Bush's win

Richard Ingrams
Sunday November 7, 2004
The Observer

There is one good reason for being in favour of a Bush victory and it is this: Bush is responsible for going to war in Iraq and for the terrible chaos that has resulted.

Had he lost the election, he could have walked away to write his memoirs, leaving the mess for Senator Kerry to try to clear up. But as things now stand, it is up to Bush, having made his bed, to jolly well lie in it. And exactly the same is true of our own dear Prime Minister who keeps telling us of his urge to move on and talk of something other than the war, when almost every day brings news of fresh atrocities.

Earlier in the year, Blair was said to be thinking of packing it all in and handing over to Gordon Brown. But then Brown would have been in the same boat as Kerry, inheriting a disaster not of his making from which there would be no easy escape.

There is some justice now in the reflection that both Bush and Blair are left to try to sort it all out, with the strong probability that things will go from bad to worse and that, like characters in a tragic play, the two of them will go down in flames, the victims of their own pride and self-righteousness. It may not be much, but I offer this comforting thought to all the many readers who may be sunk in gloom at the re-election of the appalling Mr Bush.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/backbench/comment/0,14158,1345369,00.html

[NC_Nurse]

1. "the appalling Mr. Bush"

Ha! I love that! Appalling indeed! :D

That's my big hope, that this shit he started will come back and bite him in the ass!

[TaleWgnDg]

4. Yup, indeed. Look at it this way . . .

George Walker Bush will inherit his own first-four-years-legacy:

1.) The largest, fattest federal government in the nation's history.

2.) The largest, fattest federal deficit in the nation's history.

3.) The plummeting dollar on the world money market.

4.) The increasing humongous trade deficit.

5.) Increasing environmental pollution.

6.) Increasing numbers of Americans with unaffordable healthcare or no healthcare.

7.) The most expensive and worst healthcare delivery system on the planet.

8.) The sole "developed" nation on the planet who does not regulate prescription drug costs to its citizenry, and prohibits its citizenry from purchasing cheaper foreign-based prescription drugs whether manufactured in the USA or not. Why use the prescription drug companies as a go-between? Tis they who are being subsidized by taxpayers dollars.

9.) A war against a nation that never provoked nor instigated nor was an imminent threat to America, placing into harm's way thousands of America's youth, killed, maimed, and mentally destroyed as well as that nation's people.

10.) A foreign policy and resultant war (in Iraq) that has driven others to hate, despise and villify us causing them to call to arms against us, e.g., "bring em on!"

11.) More, and more . . . shall I continue?


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[Catfight]

5. We will finally know the answer to: Do deficits really matter. n/t

[RC]

2. I don't think so.

Bu$h likes this mess. He likes it so much he would like to expand it. Also there is no way in hell the United States can withdraw from Iraq without a full scale civil war there with the bu$h criminal administration in charge.

With Kerry, we could have reach out and mended the wrongs and gotten some help from the the rest of the world. Ain't gonna happen now unless we can prove the wholesale election fraud.

[Mira]

3. "Hurrah for Bush's win"

I so agree! Found comfort in these types of thoughts in the last few days.
BUT NO
We can't have the additional slaughter, we can't have the spiraling down of absolutely all that matters to the citizenry in the US.
Health Care was not even mentioned by ** in his agenda for his next 4 years.
We can't have the further deterioration of how the world views us, and I could just go on and on until I throw up.
No, it is the last Hurrah, and one that needs to be curtailed.
Bush will wreck and ruin, we will suffer, the world will suffer, the robot Laura will continue to show us Stepford Wiffery, I think I go thro up now......

[indepat]

7. But Mira, it will go on and there is now nothing to stop it, so we'll just

have to get used to it. But one thing is a moral certainty: one side or the other will finally see the light.

[FlyByNight]

6. "Bush is responsible for going to war in Iraq...

and for the terrible chaos that has resulted."

Bush hasn't felt responsible for a damn thing he's done since he's been in office. There's no reason to think that he'll feel responsible for the deaths of 1100+ US soldiers and scores of thousands of Iraqis. The entire Halliburton War is based on false pretexts and lies and a slight majority (maybe) of Americans simply didn't give a shit. Thanks, George, for making America safe from gay marriage.

Even though the Democrats aren't in power, Bush and his surrogates will still blame them, liberals and leftists, that we haven't shown enough "resolve". The knuckle-dragging primates will, of course, believe him because they know Bush has a hotline to God and Jesus.