I almost didn’t do it. I figured it’s almost over. A little over a month to go. No need to get all head-explody about it. It’s Bush, there’s a reason why journalists hurl shoes at his fucking head.
But when I keep it buried, it simmers. It makes me angrier and angrier and I feel I must froth a bit at the mouth in order to let go. A clip originally posted in this thread.
What a prick. A short-sighted, self-aggrandizing little prick.
There, I feel much better.
We hanged people at Nuremburg and Tokyo for essentially the same thing.
IMHO, the pitting needs to go not to Bush but to everyone else. The ones who are sitting around, not bothered at all that he broke the law. The ones who attack whistle blowers and then vote to make crimes legal retroactively once they’ve been identified.
Highest on my list are the concern trolls who fret that Obama can’t prosecute criminal behavior because it would be too partisan.
I think all the furor over the shoe incident has missed the most interesting part:
(from here)
You don’t know what his beef is? Really? You sent the most powerful military force in the world to his country, and they’ve shot people and blown stuff up. You did that, Mr. President, you. Now, maybe you think it was unavoidable, or justified, or that things have to get worse before they can get better. But can you really not see how someone who has lived in the midst of that for years might hold it against you?
Plus, the guy is a reporter. Isn’t he already on television?
I keep wondering what set off the shoecidal bomber. Was it spontaneous or planned? If it was spur of the moment, was it something specific that Bush said? Or maybe Bush did one of those inappropriate-to-the-subject-matter smirks and the guy just lost it.
Be great to see the guy interviewed, if he’s still alive.
He first gave a note to the cameraman about the glory of martyrdom. Planned.
What set Zeidi off? Here:
You wonder why an Iraqi is angry at Bush? Really?
I was wondering about specifics. Really.
Indictment pending.
Let’s get this thread back on track. The motherfucking asshole who got us into that mess, one of their rationales (after the lack of WMD etc) was “we’ll fight them over there instead of over here”. Except they weren’t there. They were (at that point) **in the other fucking country we’d invaded ** ( remember Afghanistan?). So, instead of, like fighting them where they fucking were, where we were, along w/a coalition of other world forces this fucking insane monster, decided to open yet another fucking war, pouring more resources there, pulling them away from where Al Queda was, and getting them to yet another place.
Your last? The day ain’t over yet.
Many (most?) of them weren’t in Afghanistan, they didn’t fucking exist. Bush has created them. Every time we kill an innocent civilian, that person’s family becomes a sworn enemy of the US. Every person we kill in an airstrike probably results in five more men willing to bear arms against us (fathers, sons, uncles, brothers, friends, etc…)
It’s exactly what the Russians discovered in Afghanistan in the early 80s. Every enemy they killed produced several more. I knew that because I read it in Reader’s Digest in 7th grade. (Seriously- my seventh grade teacher had shelves full of RD and I remember that article vividly.) Too bad nobody at the Pentagon subscribed to RD in the mid 80s.
Its kinda the reverse of the Xmas tree effect, when the number of unopened presents dwindles down, no more surprises: that one was a box of chocolate covered monkey 'nads, this one was the head of Alfredo Garcia, another a sweater that doesn’t fit and itches like it was knitted from poison ivy…and that’s it, all done, all surprises past, time to get drunk and contemplate genetics, how it is that yours is the weirdest fam damnily in the whole world…
Sadly, no. Much has been revealed, most of it revolting, some of it damning, and it would be nice to think that there are no brightly wrapped boxes of goat leprosy still under the tree…
But no.
That’s a hell of a metaphor.
Kansas facility to replace Plum Island
Surprise!
Now, now, don’t be a Nervous Nelly; what could possibly go wrong?
:rolleyes:
Really, it’s not as though there are a lot of cows in Kansas or anything, sheesh… :smack:
“So what if guy threw a shoe at me.”
That should go on Bush’s headstone. It captures him perfectly.
I’ll pit his sneaky unraveling of certain environmental laws. Since Obama will rollback anything he does (even if it takes 6 months), the only reason to do it is to give the new administration a hearty “Fuck You!” right before he leaves office. The man has no shame and has not learned a single thing while in office.
And he’ll probably take all the “O” keys off the White House computers before he leaves, too. The man has no shame.