Bush to Hamas: Stop Wasting Money on War in Middle East
"Since Hamas's violent takeover in the summer of 2007, living conditions have worsened for Palestinians in Gaza. By spending its resources on rocket launchers instead of roads and schools, Hamas has demonstrated that it has no intention of serving the Palestinian people."
President's Radio Address, 1/2/09
Yep. You just gotta hate a government that blows all its money on weapons while its bridges fall down. What's Hamas's problem? Are they evil or just stupid? Thank God we're fighting them there, so they can't get here.
Even with declining troop numbers in Iraq, the direct price tag of the two wars could grow as high as $1.7 trillion by 2018, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments reported last week. The defense think tank's figure does not include potentially hundreds of billions more in indirect economic and social costs, such as higher oil prices and lost wages.
The war in Iraq alone has already cost more in inflation-adjusted dollars than every other U.S. war except World War II, the CSBA found.Washington Post 12/26/08
WASHINGTON -- President Bush rebuffed appeals from the nation's governors on Monday to increase spending on roads, bridges and other public works as a way to revive the economy.
NY Times 2/26/08
And this where we start wondering about whether this retarded murderer even listens to himself when he talks. (Build roads and schools? Not rockets? Why didn't we think of that!) And whether President Bush, or anyone, could really be that unconscious; or if he really believes anything; or if when he gave up snorting coke it was also the last time he looked in a mirror; or if he says these things just to make people crazy. And then we drag in poor old Freud and the narcissism of small differences, and blah, blah, blah. I don't know about you, but I'm ready to move on.
Besides, as Bush always says, it's not up to us to judge him, it's up to history. That and the wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.
Anyway, thanks for the tip, G.
On your way out, go ahead and let the door hit you in the ass.
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"On your way out, go ahead and let the door hit you in the ass."
Love it!
If Bush didn't understand the Iraqi reporter was insulting him by throwing shoes at him, how do you expect Bush to understand the tensions between the Palestinians and Israelis?
And take your compromised father and brothers with you please. We don't want to see hide nor hair of any of you for a century.
Sounds like more talking points for Faux News, Rush, etc.....
The fatal flaw of the neocons is that they defined defense narrowly in terms of war. An argument can made made, pretty persuasively, that spending the $1.7 trillion on education or infrastructure would have strengthened the defense of the United States long-term much more than anything we could or should have done in Iraq.
Thomas Friedman, in his book "The World is Flat," tells a fantastic story about the release in 2004 of a report, "Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change." The authors of the report had begged Bush to attend their summit, he was in fact just down the hall, at the Reagan Building in Washington DC, speaking to Republican campaign donors. Their request was denied. Meanwhile, China's vice minister of science had asked to meet with the authors. He just wanted to say thanks: China had already translated the report and had it integrated into their country's 20-year strategic plan.
This may, in the end, be the final legacy of the Bush administration: fiddling as Rome burns, so to speak.
exactly...It is so sad that China will overtake us faster because of this wastral administration.....
*(snickers)*
Also a good book to read about this subject is called the "Pornography of Power" by Robert Scheer. It goes into great depth about the MIC and the neocons and their friends.
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised land:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6604775898578139565
Chris. Bush is just talking out of his @rse again and yes it drives us all cr@zy!
I would hope Obama to help your son to come home but as long as with his silence he is in lockstep with Bush on this one, I am afraid he is making it more difficult. The unwavering bipartisan support to the moral travesty ongoing in Gaza is galvanizing vast number of muslims and other opponents of the U.S. all over. It also projects moral weakness and weakness in strategic thinking which does not go unnoticed by Obama's adversaries both here at home and abroad.
Stop using my taxpayer money to send cluster bombs for out-of-control Israel to kill children with. Demand immediate stop of the U.S. aid to Israel!
Stop and think about this. Would Obama remain silent if he were in lockstep with Bush. His problem has been to avoid creating a confusion over what the US is going to do. We only have one president at a time. That isn't just a mantra and a basic truth of our government.
Chris-, 1) it is well-known, that the best policy for dealing with agents of chronic violence is to occupy their attention and continually create new fronts for them to fight. The operational objective, of course, is to purposely and continually endeavor to assist them in squandering their resources, both economic and human and thereby hold them captive to their anger. We must hold them in disunity and mistrust of their own by creating tension across ethnic and geographic lines whenever possible. Just as long as the factions express themselves with violence and anger, they are easy to control on the world stage. Sadly we must accept some marginal losses, that is part and parcel of the anger control mechanism. 2)The flying shoe of destiny, which was meant to be a parting protest by an ex-Baathist, will echo in the minds of higher minded folks in the Arab world. For not long ago, any journalist in Iraq surely would have been shot and then this family would have been robbed, raped, shot and shot and then shot again just for amusement of Saddam's family for such a display of dissent. The incredible thing is that the Bush administration to put elections in place of a killer and dictator and that there was enough of a kernel of freedom in that short time to be criticized for it by a journalist in that country in front of the world: Wow.
best, DenverJJ http://writerswheel.blogspot.com/
Well, if it's true that "the best policy for dealing with agents of chronic violence is to occupy their attention and continually create new fronts for them to fight," then one might say this is the strategy the Palestinian terrorists are using against Israel, and Al Qaeda against the US and EU.
They are occupying our attention. They are continually opening new fronts for us to fight. They are assisting us in squandering our resources. We are in disunity and mistrust of our own. Uh oh. It does work!
But on the bright side, an Iraqi journalist can throw his shoes at the American president and only be severely beaten and jailed. Progress! If that's not worth a trillion dollars, I don't know what is.
Friend ... the difference is we are not captives to anger....you see that is why they attack and we ask for peace. All the allies in the terror war sing the same tune, 'play nice or else." We are not in disunity. The Muslim factions are struggling for power over poor land. Some of it has oil, some does not. This causes that disuntiy. Have you seen the scene in Lawrance of Ariabia after they take Damascus? Nothing has changed. There was no Israeli no U.S. interests back then and they were the same as now tribal to the end. The percent we spend on our cause is a trifle, compared to percentage they spend on their cause. . You can't break them of the anger. You can only keep them in anger until they join the modern age and opt-out of violence. Contain them control them and wait for them to grow up as people. As long as they attack, we defend. You see the U.S.S. Cole, Colbert Tower, 9/11, the British and Spanish Railways, the U.S. Embassies and most recently most recently the Mumbai attack were not in defense of anything and each has an anger component that is rooted in their 15th century tribal culture. The flying shoe? That was a five hundred year leap into the future.
Believe me no one is arguing that Saddam Hussein wasn't an evil dictator. But please remember he was America's agent in the Middle East until he decided to do his own thing, that is what sealed his fate, not the desire to bring democracy to Iraq, not by a long shot. While the US controlled his strings it could have helped bring democracy to Iraq benignly with a minimum of bloodshed. Did this happen? No! I rest my case.
Bush is happy to transfer taxpayer money to buy military equipment for Israel. He's only capable of understanding and using violence.
Sorry, Nickesq, but GWB has no capability of understanding, anything. He just reacts, and don't forget that he is the Decider!!!
Maybe he should have advised congress to stop sending all the aid to Israel, that THEY spend on weapons. This man has been a total, complete, utter failure in office. What an embarrassment to the US. He surrounded himself with others with no awareness of average citizens living conditions. Please spare this country the spectacle of Jeb Bush running for office. People of Florida, PLEASE do not foist another member of this clueless family on the rest of us.
not if I can help it. even if it means supporting Bill Nelson who is a close political cousin to Harry Reid. I'm hoping he gets knocked out in the primary and we get a strong democratic candidate.
I wish I was clueless like Jeb Bush...Who will let me buy a 5 million dollar office building and then forgive 90% of the mortgage?....If the banks treated EVERYONE like that, there would be no foreclosure crisis...
January 20 is late Christmas gift for all Americans. He has done so much damage to our country it is a miracle we survived all his own atrocities.
Actually, a lot of people didn't survive Bush's atrocities. New Orleans, FEMA trailers, Iraq, ignoring pre-911 intelligence reports, Vetoing SCHIP medical insurance for our poorest children.
And don't forget the "no child shall be left behind"!!! which ensured that the poorest children and those who are minority SHALL be left behind...
And don't forget the Autism Epidemic..I in 80 families affected and we don't know why...
George W. Bush is either an incredibly talented performance artist or the most disgustingly pi$$-poor excuse for a human being spawned in the 20th century.
He is supremely talented and is laughing all the way to the banks.
Message to Bush stop wasting US taxpayer dollars on aid and arms to Israel. That money could be better used for our own citizens and infrastructure.
Ah, your advice is too intelligent to be understood by either the cretins in the Pentagon or the fanatics in the Israeli Lobby. No, I suspect that our money (and our blood) will continue to be sunk into that stinking religious cesspool between Palestine and Pakistan. I doubt if Obama will have enough courage to put an end to the madness, as he seemed quite servile as he humbled himself before AIPAC. Well, we will soon see if he has.
Tell Nan and Harry, they control the purse strings.
We may be ready to move on...but Bush has left legacy that keeps on giving and we can't return the gift.
How about we re-gift him to Israel sans the U.S. taxpayers checkbook.
I like it!
Excellent proposal!
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