Failure Accomplished: Farewell Dictator Bush

[ThisWeekInFascism]

Who needs Al Qaeda to destroy America, when we have Terrorist Bush making statements from his cave in Texas, threatening America.

10/21/10

"Dictator George W. Bush signaled on Thursday that he sees not privatizing Social Security as his greatest failure from the eight years he served in the White House, the Chicago Tribune reports."

[monicasuetannehill]

I was there during the Riot, they were beating people up, police were THERE - no arrests were made. This was the day I lost my country, the day I learned the truth. I felt so alone on 9/11, grieving for an entirely different set of circumstances than everyone around me. When the church aligned it's self with the repub party, and my pastor LIED to the congregation to persuade them, not just to VOTE republican, but to HATE & FEAR democrats, I knew it was over. It's over.

[October31st1517]

Are you suggesting that 9/11 was brought upon by the Bush administration? Did not the Clinton administration have MULTIPLE opportunities to kill Bin Laden?

[ThisWeekInFascism]

@October31st1517 1) Smart people don't kill terrorists, we arrest them. Lest we embolden their followers.

2) I'm not suggesting 9/11 was brought upon by the Bush Dictatorship. They themselves are. See below:

[ThisWeekInFascism]

“The process of military transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor.” –September 2000: Rebuilding America’s Defenses (PNAC)- Paul Wolfowitz (based upon the Defense Planning Guidance of 1992)

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[ThisWeekInFascism]

“In assessing the future utility and applicability of Rapid Dominance, it is crucial to consider the political context in which force is likely to be employed. As we enter the next century, the probability is low that an over-riding, massive, direct threat posed by a peer-competitor to the US will emerge in the near term."

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[ThisWeekInFascism]

"Without compelling reasons, public tolerance toward American sacrifice abroad will remain low and may even decrease. This reluctance on the part of Americans to tolerate pain is directly correlated to perceptions of threat to US interests. Without a clear and present danger, the definition of national interest may remain narrow.”

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[ThisWeekInFascism]

“Many challenges or crises in the future are likely to be marginal to US interests and therefore may not be resolvable before American political staying power is exhausted. In this period, political micro-management and fine tuning are likely to be even more prevalent as administrations respond to public sentiments for minimizing casualties and, without a threat or compelling reason, US involvement.”

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[ThisWeekInFascism]

“Americans prefer not to intervene, especially when the direct threat to the US is ambiguous, tenuous, or difficult to define..”

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[ThisWeekInFascism]

“Second, it is relatively clear that current US military capability will shrink. Despite the pledges of the two major American political parties to maintain or expand the current level of defense capability, both the force structure and defense infrastructure are too large to be maintained at even the present levels and within the defense budgets that are likely to be approved. ...

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...Unless a new menace materializes, defense is headed for ‘less of the same’. Such reductions may have no strategic consequences. However, that is an outcome that we believe should not be left to chance.”

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[ThisWeekInFascism]

“In both relative and absolute terms, since the end of World War II, the military strength and capability of the United States have never been greater. Yet this condition of virtual military superiority has created a paradox. Absent a massive threat or massive security challenge, it is not clear that this military advantage can always be translated into concrete political terms that advance American interests.”

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[ThisWeekInFascism]

“Beyond prudence, however, it is clear that without a major threat to generate consensus and to rally the country around defense and defense spending, the military posture of the United States will erode as the defense budget is cut.”

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[ThisWeekInFascism]

“The absence of a direct and daunting external security threat is, of course a most obvious aspect of the difficulty in defining the future defense posture of the nation. The United States has long resisted maintaining a large standing military and the Cold War years could prove an aberration to that history. Extending this historical observation of small standing forces, it is clear that there is no adversary on the horizon even remotely approaching the military power of the former USSR....

[ThisWeekInFascism]

... While we might conjure up nominal regional contingencies against Korea or Iraq as sensible planning scenarios for establishing the building blocks for force structure, it will prove difficult to sustain the current defense program over the long term without a real threat materializing to rally and coalesce public support.”

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[ThisWeekInFascism]

from- - 1996 Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance, National Defense University; Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade

dodccrp.org/files/Ullman_Shock­.pdf

[ThisWeekInFascism]

“Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski publishes a book [1997] in which he portrays the Eurasian landmass as the key to world power, and Central Asia with its vast oil reserves as the key to domination of Eurasia…’The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. ...

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...The public supported America’s engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.’, he says. Because of popular resistance to US military expansionism, his Central Asian strategy can not be implemented ‘except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.’

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From The Terror Timeline by Paul Thompson p.333

[ThisWeekInFascism]

“History is replete with instances in which warnings signs were ignored and change resisted until an external ‘improbable’ event forced resistant bureaucracies to take action. The question is whether the US will be wise enough to act responsibly and soon enough to reduce US space vulnerability....

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...Or whether, as in the past, a disabling attack against the country and its people - a space Pearl Harbor - will be the only event able to galvanize the nation and cause the US government to act.”

-The Rumsfeld Commission (assigned to assess US National Security Space Management and Organization) January 11, 2001

[ThisWeekInFascism]

“You and other Democrats in Congress have voiced fear that you simply don’t have enough money for the large increase in defense that the Pentagon is seeking, especially for missile defense, and you fear that you’ll have to dip into the Social Security funds to pay for it....

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...Does this sort of thing convince you that an emergency exists in this country to increase defense spending, to dip into Social Security, if necessary to pay for defense spending- increase defense spending?”

- Question to Senator Carl Levin  September 11, 2001

[ThisWeekInFascism]

“To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan, but for what happened on September 11.” –Tony Blair (July 2002)

[ThisWeekInFascism]

"Every official we questioned about the possibility of an invasion of Afghanistan said that it was almost unthinkable, absent a provocation such as 9/11...." - The 9/11 Commission Report, July 2004 (p 137)

[ThisWeekInFascism]

“Officials we interviewed flatly said that neither Congress nor the American public would

have supported large-scale military operations in Afghanistan before the shock of 9/11—despite repeated attacks and plots, including the embassy bombings, the Millennium plots, concerns about al Qaeda to acquire WMD, the U.S.S. Cole, and the summer 2001 threat spike....

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz warned that it would have been impossible to get Congress to support sending 10,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan to do what the Soviet Union failed to do in the 1980s. Vice Admiral Scott Fry, the former operations director for the JCS, noted that “a two-or-four division plan would require a footprint [troop level] and force that was larger than the political leadership was willing to accept.” - 9/11 Commission The Military: Staff Statement No 6, 2004 p.12

[thebentonstrangler]

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[ryno200]

Sure...the towers collapsed because of some big plot, had nothing to do with a260,000lb aircraft flying at 300knots loaded with over 150,000lbs of jet fuel. Your assertion is completely moronic, first of all if Bush was like Hitler, would he give up power?

[ThisWeekInFascism]

Did you see the big explosion when the planes hit? There went all that energy. Well, what caused the second, BIGGER explosion(s) as the tower(s) blew up while collapsing? Golly!

[ThisWeekInFascism]

If Bush WAS Hitler, he wouldn't have given up power. But Bush WAS LIKE Hitler (and VERY anti-American):

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier - just so long I'm the dictator." - December 18, 2000

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas.

-(Governing Magazine 7/98)

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " - July 30, 2001

[barbcinque]

the religious right...ha..they only care about the masses before theyre born...

you know..if our soldiers can give up their lives for their right to horde riches and their freedom to make money...how about some of these multi millionaires and billionaires give up some damn taxes to help the country that allowed them to get so filthy rich off the sweat of those they deny healthcare and living wages to...?

[barbcinque]

Sick people being denied coverage from their insurance companies,

workers being denied benefits and a living wage, children being denied social services,

dirtbags getting richer off of hidden penalties and usary instead of production of any kind, denial of open debate in our town meetings, illegal wars and torture, staged violent protests to prevent democracy from functioning properly, sex scandals and fraud and greed and corruption...that is the republican party today.

[barbcinque]

Wow...Right now we have a corporate dictatorship that cares more about greater profits than the well being of Americans. Our country is being devastated by these policies of complete free market principals...and then these unpatriotic backstabbers turn around and abandon their free market ideals for handouts when theyre corruption and greed destroys our economic system.

[wtfAmericawtf]

Thisweekinfascism.. nice of you to use this forum to prove what a moron you are

[ecwforever]

Anyone who thinks 9/11 was an inside job is a complete idiot just like anyone who would call him a dictator. Obama and the morons in Congress are the real dictators and they must be overthrown.

[ThisWeekInFascism]

If you said you wished you were a shithead, I'd call you a shithead.

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." -President-elect George W. Bush, at a photo-op with congressional leaders during his first trip to Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

[wtfAmericawtf]

ecw... thisweekinfascism, is a moron. Jesus I swear... the average IQ of the u.s. has dropped to 10

[thegunclub123]

I must insist Bush is a tyrant, but not a dictator perhaps. And no, sir/ma'am, they are not. One opinion does not make one an idiot.

[xlxfjh]

It is wrong for you to use footage of 9/11 for political purposes.

[ThisWeekInFascism]

It is wrong to use 9/11 for political purposes:

"Another [terrorist] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets, according to current and former defense officials familiar with the plan." -from The Washington Post website 4/22/06

Wolfowitz argued that the real source of all the trouble and terrorism was probably Hussein. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 created an opportunity to strike" -from Alternet website 7/15/03

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...an earthquake of the magnitude of 9/11 can shift the tectonic plates of international politics. The international system has been in flux since the collapse of Soviet power. Now it is possible - indeed, probable - that that transition is coming to an end. If that is right, if the collapse of the Soviet Union and 9/11 bookend a major shift in international politics, then this is a period not just of grave danger, but of enormous opportunity" -Condoleeza Rice -from Whitehouse website 4/29/02

[ThisWeekInFascism]

"I do agree that the tsunami was a wonderful opportunity to show not just the US government, but the heart of the American people, and I think it has paid great dividends for us" -Condoleeza Rice -from CommonDreams website 1/18/05

"Tonight I propose the creation of a Gulf Opportunity Zone, encompassing the region of the disaster in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama" - Dictator Bush -from Thinkprogress website 9/15/05

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...for more, visit story "Former Bush General Touts Privatization Of National Disaster Response" from TWIF website 10/25/07

[jennysimpson21]

Actually, I do not infer any political message from theis video. It's just a lesson in human nature. Too bad we won't learn anything from it.

[graphattic]

First what you say is baseless, second 911 was made itself for political reasons dummie!

[dougrambo]

Why it was a political act! An inside job!

[toeg1]

Hey,

Don't worry, Bush will never be tried, never go to court, never spend one second more than he wants to on his crimes. He performed his task admirably, as chief puppet of the elitists. Of course, since he was a complete idiot, Cheney was necessary as Mr. Damage Control.

Now we have a new and exciting puppet. From this point forward, anything President Obama does will be historic, and the MSM will make sure you know that. They just won't tell you what he actually did while being the "first"