Ok. Can we please finally admit that Bush is a failure? He started a war in Iraq on false pretenses, a war that has killed thousands of people and destabilized a region that we desperately need to be stable. He has destroyed the US economy by giving tax breaks to his rich buddies, leading to record unemployment and despair.
Don't give me some crap about me wanting Saddam to stay in power, I don't and didn't, but I'd rather have had the United States limited resources go toward actually finding and punishing those responsible for 9/11. If I "like" Saddam and wanted him to stay in power, then Bush likes al Qaeda and wants them to plan more attacks against us and anyone who supports Bush is also a supporter of Osama Bin Laden. See what kind of stupid logic that is? It was a question of priorities in the war on terror, and Bush's priorities are completely out of whack. He's left us vulnerable by putting our troops into the wrong country, going after the wrong person.
Look at how messed up Iraq is now. It's going to be a long time before we can take our troops out, and we never found those mythical Weapons of Mass Destruction that Bush made up out of whole cloth to justify his grab for oil. In short, the entire Iraq operation was a debacle. Poorly planned with no consideration taken for the people we were "liberating", badly managed from beginning to the current lack of organization, tainted by Saddam-like tactics on the part of some American traitors, and more concerned with war-profiteering on the part of Bush's business buddies than in actually helping the people of Iraq. For every good piece of news out of Iraq, there's two horror stories. Getting rid of Saddam is about the only good thing the illegal and immoral invasion did.
Add in Bush's incredibly poor management of the US during the time, leading to record unemployment rates, hoovervilles, and millions of people without health insurance or access to basic services. The deficit has ballooned to ridiculous amounts, making us a country of debt once again. Bush failed on the domestic front as well as on the international front, but he's done it deliberately in order to give maximum profits to his already obscenely rich supporters.
The situation in the United States is just about as bad as it has ever been. And the current "leadership" of the Republican party, represented by Bush, is responsible. I'm surprised that Republicans haven't wrested control of their party back from the extremists, and if I were still a Republican I know I couldn't vote for a man who cared so little about my country as to start an unrelated war at a time when he should have been hunting terrorists. While I wouldn't vote Democrat, I'd certainly be starting a write-in campaign to get rid of Bush.
And then there's the media. I've never seen this level of inability to follow-up on a story in the media before. I wasn't sure before, but now it's clear that the conservative media is in charge. Things that would have caused the media to spend hours of coverage under Clinton are being ignored when Bush does it. It's not a sex scandal: it's actually relevant to the governing of the country, so the media is ignoring it. It's gotten so bad that it's hard to believe anything reported in the news. They all seem to be "reporting" nothing more than whatever Rove tells them to report. I wonder if we will ever have a responsible and free media again, or if they will always be in the pocket of one party or another?
Speaking of campaigns, this is the nastiest one in a long, long time. Bush, a man who deserted during wartime after pulling strings to get a cushy assignment, is attacking the war record of a man who actually spent almost a year in Vietnam, four months of it in one of the most dangerous of duties. How ANYONE can stand to listen to war-deserter Bush attacking veterans is beyond me. But then, Bush has also sent American soldiers to their deaths for a false cause, so how anyone can stand to look at the man at all is beyond me. He's got a lot of blood on his hands.
Then the sheer gall of Bush using 9/11 imagery in his campaign after he failed to prevent 9/11 then failed to find the terrorists responsible. The sheer gall of the Republicans using Ground Zero for their own political purposes, after they wasted millions of dollars and years harrassing the former president then spent the first few months of their reign dismantling his policies which had already prevented one terrorist attack at least, out of pure spite. They are desecrating the dead.
In short, anyone who actually votes for Bush is either completely ignorant or simply doesn't care about America at all. You can't justify a vote for Bush to me. If you vote for Bush or any of his fellow nutcases who have taken over the Republican party, you are deluded, stupid, or rich enough to ignore the damage Bush has done. It's time for Republicans to take back their party. Until they do, voting Republican just isn't a moral option.
Well... I've already written too much. I've written ten or twenty rants about Bush. I've deleted most of them as being too nasty and not nearly as well-written as dozens of other rants about Bush's stupidity. This one makes it through. It isn't any better written, but I'm tired of censoring myself for the one or two people who actually read my blog that might be offended. And it'll be the last I write about politics for quite some time, I hope.
Thursday, August 12, 2004
Political Rant
