It’s becoming increasingly difficult to believe that among Bush, Cheney, Tenet, Rumsfeld, Rice, and Powell, nobody knew that Bush was using forged evidence that Iraq was trying to get uranium from Niger. So what are we going to call what may be the biggest Presidential scandal in American history?
WMDgate: isn’t that a cryptic Microsoft extension? “There has been a fatal 10E exception to WMDgate.exe”
Weaponsofmassdestructiongate: Could you say that again, Miss Poppins?
Weaponsgate: bad name for a scandal… but a rather nice name for an online fantasy RPG, actually.
Nigergate: “niggardly” makes people uncomfortable enough
Yellowcakegate: Oh, yeah, the yellowcakegate, right at the end of peppermint lane. Maybe we should appoint a special subcommitte of the Lollipop Guild?
Personally, I like “Iraqgate.” Because, you see, Bush Sr. was involved in Irangate. It’s too bad that nobody else in the family was involved in scandals that lend themselves to that kind of naming. You know, like BCCIgate, or Floridaelectiongate, or Kickyourwifeandkidoutofthehousegate.
What shall we call this scandal? I say we save time and effort, and just call it “The Bush Administration.” Or does “The Bush Regime” have a better ring?
Does it have to be [something]-gate? That whole “gate” construction’s starting to look a little threadbare. I long for the days of the “Iran-Contra Affair.” Now that was a name. Whenever the newsbots said that, I always half expected them to follow it up with “a new novel by John le Carre. In bookstores now.”
Puuuleeeaaase, not another “gate.” That word has run its course.
Whatever name is chosen should have the word shinola in it.
If the current rumblings about the Bush Administration are true, I see no reason to believe that any other Presidential scandal would come anywhere close to it. If Watergate began as a “third-rate burglary” and ended in Presidential resignation, then how might Administrative war racketeering end?
*I’m not sure I get you. Do you mean that the accusations against Bush are “bullshit,” or do you mean that the administrations actions are “bullshit?”
I certainly hope you don’t find the well-founded concern of many people here (that the US public has been mislead by the Bush administration) to be bullshit.
Hey, at lerast the Democrats didn’t waste millions of dollars on a witch hunt to harass the president over some failed land deal. The Democrasts haven’t accused Laura Bush of being a murderess, and they haven’t circulated books and videotapes accusing the president of murder and rape back in Texas. The Democrats haven’t accused the president of treason, nor have they made veiled threats that the president had better not step on a militaty base if he knew what was good for him.
The Pubbies aren’t even getting half of the heat that they would dish out if Clinton had started the war with the same premises.
Bushwar 2: The Empire Strikes Back
On a clear desert you can seek forever
Weapons of Ass Destruction (this is a real porno title, BTW)
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