A warning from abroad: " Be very afraid"....

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Published on Friday, January 21, 2005 by the Sydney Morning Herald
Australia)
The Empire of Vulgarity by Mike Carlton

George Bush's second inaugural extravaganza was every bit as
repugnant as I had expected, a vulgar orgy of triumphalism probably
unmatched since Napoleon crowned himself emperor of the French in
Notre Dame in 1804. The little Corsican corporal had a few decent victories to hisescutcheon. Lodi, Marengo, that sort of thing. Not so this strutting Texan mountebank, with his chimpanzee smirk and his born-again banalities delivered in that constipated syntax that sounds the way cold cheeseburgers look, and his grinning plastic wife, and his scheming junta of neo-con spivs, shamans, flatterers and armchair warmongers, and his sinuous evasions and his brazen lies, and his sleight of hand theft from the American poor, and his rape of the >environment, and his lethal conviction that the world must submit to his Pax Americana or be bombed into charcoal.

Difficult to know what was more repellent: the estimated $US40
million cost of this jamboree (most of it stumped up by Republican
fat-cats buying future presidential favours), or the sheer crassness
of its excess when American are dying in the quagmire of Bush's
very own Iraq war.

Other wartime presidents sought restraint. Abraham Lincoln's second
inaugural address in 1865 - "with malice toward none, with charity
for all" - is the shortest ever. And he had pretty much won the Civil
War by that time.

In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt opened his fourth-term speech
with the "wish that the form of this inauguration be simple and its
words brief". He spoke for a couple of eloquent minutes, then went
off to a light lunch, his wartime victory almost complete as well. But restraint is not a Dubya word. Learning nothing, the dumbest and
nastiest president since the scandalous Warren Harding died in 1923,
Bush is now intent on expanding the Iraq war to neighbouring Iran.
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<link> http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0121-28.htm

[okieinpain]

1. Wow. the last paragraphs says it all.

What terrifies me most is the people planning this new war. The CIA professionals have been frozen out: too weak and wimpy for the Bushies.

The Defence Secretary, the incompetent Donald Rumsfeld, has seized control, aided by two Pentagon under-secretaries. One is Douglas Feith, a mad-eyed Zionist largely responsible for the post-invasion collapse of order in Iraq, a civilian bureaucrat memorably described by the former Centcom commander, General Tommy Franks, as "the f---ing stupidest guy on the face of the Earth".

The other is army Lieutenant General William G. (Jerry) Boykin, whose name also rings a bell. Jerry is a born-again Christian evangelical, a three-star bigot who, in his spare time, stumps the country in full uniform, preaching that America's enemy is Satan, Allah is a false idol, and that George Bush has been ordained by the Lord to rout evil.

"He's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this," Jerry told a prayer meetin' in Oregon just a while back.

Be very afraid.

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2. Yes, very clear what the war is about and why it is still going...

...on!

[notadmblnd]

3. As a matter of fact

it was said on CNN today that pickles and the little chimp are planning on doing more entertaining these next four years. I hope they choke on it is all I can say.

[okieinpain]

4. well we know the chimp will.....

[Sequoia]

5. And when them there terroristiz storm the Bastille they will jump in their

Air Force One Coach and flee the country, but they'll be stopped at the border and it's off to Razor Day! Let them eat YELLOW cake!