Ann Coulter wasn't willing to tolerate any Bush-bashing, even from the widows themselves. Of course, Ann is out the window.
Unfortunately, millions of normal Republicans too, simply like the man. I imagine some even love and respect him to a great degree. He is something of a hero.
New Yorkers must particularly dislike Bush because of the way he took their tragedy and twisted it into a cause celebre to promote his own lust for war and conquest.
millions of normal Republicans too, simply like the man.
What is there to like??!!!!!
I know it doesn't make sense. But I've seen it with my own two eyes! My mother-in-law is too nice to actually say she likes him in front of me, but she did say that Laura is a true lady. Then Dad wondered aloud why people couldn't just put politics aside and own that they are good people?
Then Dad wondered aloud why people couldn't just put politics aside and own that they are good people?
Good people don't invade foreign countries for no reason. Just sayin', Dad!
Good People??
By what definition of "good?"
As a historian it must be said that few leaders in history have qualified as good guys. I'm a social liberal but a realist when it comes to international relations. What Bush and Cheney did in Iraq was NORMAL for all of history. Why would now be any different?
We weren't the only ones with designs on Iraq'a oil fields. Russian amd French energy companies were fast on their way to locking down the Iraqi oil fields by funding Saddam and the Ba'ath party. What we are watching happen internationally is a resource war between contending great powers: The US, EU, Russia, India, Japan, China, and then the second-tier powers. Until the oil economy dies or evolves, the resource war will continue and get worse.
Watch for a potential for war in the Arctic as it thaws. The thawed portions are testing rich in many resources and nations are lining up to push claims both new and old. Our closest ally, Canada, is perfectly placed for such expansion and has already established a shared Arctic military supply depot with the US.
We have also established a new Regional Command in Sao Tome, a tiny island with new oil reserves off the coast of West Africa. I suspect that we will use it the same way it's Portuguese masters used to: as a base for invading West Africa to secure the oil in Nigeria; 25% our daily oil supply comes from there.
I wouldn't expect for such moves to stop with a Democrat in office. The United States has always used it's military to ensure future economic growth why would that suddenly change?
It seems to me that the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations have kicked off a new era of global imperialism which will see occupation of dozens of failed states by the world's great military powers, us included.
Until the oil economy dies or evolves, the resource war will continue and get worse.
Which is why I've always maintained that the only way to fight "terrorism" is to kill off the oil economy once and for all, and start replacing it with something else. It's not going to happen over night but it has to happen eventuallym and it will be a lot less painful if we plan for it and invest in it. Drilling in the Arctic (or Nigeria for that matter) only postpones the inevitable.
Oil is dead, people. God isn't making any more dinosaurs. Get off the oil tit.
Oh, and a bunch of oil men in Washington wouldn't be my first choice on who will lead this transition away from the oil economy.
By the way, I agree totally. In fact, I'm worried that the rest of the world will abandon the oil economy and leave us the last luddite. It is, in fact, a national defense issue. Getting off oil will make the U.S. safer and allow us to leave the Middle East.
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