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10-02-2004, 10:23 PM
9/29/04 Case Against George W. Bush
by Tim Crlenjak
www.eurekareporter.com
Greetings, fans of invective hyperbole. I'll wrap up the case against George W. Bush and move on.
I am agnostic on a good day, and as such I am amazed at the human obsession with religion. As a cradle Catholic, many good people did their best, but I just never got it. Yes, I fear suffering and death and send prayers and wishes out all day, but to whom or what, I don't know. A favorite quote from a forgotten scientist: "Human beings exude
meaning like bees exude wax." The price of frontal lobes is the question: What does it all mean?
What it means to the president is important. In Bob Woodward's "Plan of Attack," George W. Bush was asked if he ever consulted with his father, George H. W. Bush, concerning a possible second war with Iraq. The answer: "He's the wrong father to appeal to for advice. The wrong father to go to, to appeal to in terms of strength. There's a higher father that I appeal to."
Oh, really? Is this inadequate father the same father who has carried your feckless butt through most of your vapid life. The same weak father who, as a World War II combat aviator, had his plane shot out of the sky and rode his hemp-roped parachute into the sea. UN Ambassador. CIA
director. Vice president.
The same weak president who stood up to his party faithful (flip-flop) and raised taxes to help retire the massive Reagan deficits? The same father who put together a coalition that included even Syria for a military action that was as successful as wars can be and was 90 percent paid for by our allies? Our blood, our equipment, their money. The same father who wrote a book on what not to do in Iraq?
Is it dawning on you yet, fellow patriots? Your president, in his rush to war failed to talk about it with the only other president to invade Iraq! A president who just happens to be his father.
Is that what this tragedy boils down to? The fabled and proverbial: father-son nightmare. The cocky punk, who couldn't be bothered in the Guard, has to show Daddy up. Has to show Daddy how to do it.
There you have it, folks. A father-son debacle and religious miasma. Another one from the Woodward collection: "'History,' (Bush) said, shrugging, taking his hands out of his pockets, extending his arms and suggesting with his body language that it was so far off. 'We won't know. We'll all be dead.'"
Yeah, eventually, but don't you want your daughters to live? Grandchildren? You'll be in Judeo-Christian paradise and your Muslim nutcase counterparts will be in Islamic paradise. Those of us left behind will have to pick up the pieces.
Is that all this is? Five thousand years of Abrahamic tradition (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), centuries of hatred and suffering, all comes down to yet another blood-soaked century? The Bible and Koran hijacked by the war-mongering minority.
And the rest of us, including the rational religious majority, are supposed to just say nothing? That rational majority had better get off their butts because it is not looking good. God vs. Allah? Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, atheists, agnostics, pagans, all just have to sit back while the "Abrahamics" have their little Armageddon?
by Tim Crlenjak
www.eurekareporter.com
Greetings, fans of invective hyperbole. I'll wrap up the case against George W. Bush and move on.
I am agnostic on a good day, and as such I am amazed at the human obsession with religion. As a cradle Catholic, many good people did their best, but I just never got it. Yes, I fear suffering and death and send prayers and wishes out all day, but to whom or what, I don't know. A favorite quote from a forgotten scientist: "Human beings exude
meaning like bees exude wax." The price of frontal lobes is the question: What does it all mean?
What it means to the president is important. In Bob Woodward's "Plan of Attack," George W. Bush was asked if he ever consulted with his father, George H. W. Bush, concerning a possible second war with Iraq. The answer: "He's the wrong father to appeal to for advice. The wrong father to go to, to appeal to in terms of strength. There's a higher father that I appeal to."
Oh, really? Is this inadequate father the same father who has carried your feckless butt through most of your vapid life. The same weak father who, as a World War II combat aviator, had his plane shot out of the sky and rode his hemp-roped parachute into the sea. UN Ambassador. CIA
director. Vice president.
The same weak president who stood up to his party faithful (flip-flop) and raised taxes to help retire the massive Reagan deficits? The same father who put together a coalition that included even Syria for a military action that was as successful as wars can be and was 90 percent paid for by our allies? Our blood, our equipment, their money. The same father who wrote a book on what not to do in Iraq?
Is it dawning on you yet, fellow patriots? Your president, in his rush to war failed to talk about it with the only other president to invade Iraq! A president who just happens to be his father.
Is that what this tragedy boils down to? The fabled and proverbial: father-son nightmare. The cocky punk, who couldn't be bothered in the Guard, has to show Daddy up. Has to show Daddy how to do it.
There you have it, folks. A father-son debacle and religious miasma. Another one from the Woodward collection: "'History,' (Bush) said, shrugging, taking his hands out of his pockets, extending his arms and suggesting with his body language that it was so far off. 'We won't know. We'll all be dead.'"
Yeah, eventually, but don't you want your daughters to live? Grandchildren? You'll be in Judeo-Christian paradise and your Muslim nutcase counterparts will be in Islamic paradise. Those of us left behind will have to pick up the pieces.
Is that all this is? Five thousand years of Abrahamic tradition (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), centuries of hatred and suffering, all comes down to yet another blood-soaked century? The Bible and Koran hijacked by the war-mongering minority.
And the rest of us, including the rational religious majority, are supposed to just say nothing? That rational majority had better get off their butts because it is not looking good. God vs. Allah? Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, atheists, agnostics, pagans, all just have to sit back while the "Abrahamics" have their little Armageddon?