caution: critical article

The Kingness of Mad George

B. Rehak, _July 29, 2003

The Founding Fathers wanted this democracy to last forever because they understood that mere empires come and go.

To that end, they established an intricate system of historic checks and balances to make sure the sort of tyranny they'd just fought to defeat never rose up again. They gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to guarantee our freedoms.

Americans would never have a king, but instead a popularly elected President, and they'd always be free to openly express their opinions, especially about the government and its policies. The people would be the master of their own rulers. It was a unique experiment in liberty which evolved and endured for more than two centuries, until one day in November 2000.

The Founding Fathers never figured on the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush, and his court-appointed "Government of the neo-cons, by the neo-cons, and for the neo-cons." A self-righteous minority of ruthless profiteering ideological extremists was never supposed to dominate all three independent branches of the American Democracy. It's in your old high school civics book. Look it up.

While we were all busy with the breathless search for the elusive Iraqi A-Bomb, Mr. Bush and his handlers have apparently secretly passed the 'Freedom of Disinformation Act,' under which the Republican-controlled Senate and House have finally issued their long-delayed and heavily rewritten version of the '9/11 Report,' laying blame on EVERYONE but the White House. Imagine that.

Imagine also that 28 key pages in that report related to Saudi Arabia were blacked out. Mr. Bush's people apparently thought that redaction was the better part of valor, considering that the bin Laden and Bush families and the Saudi Oil Princes all go back so profitably for decades. The Presidency is temporary, but big oil money is eternal.

Do you like political intrigue?

Take a moment now to envision the Republican response if a DEMOCRATIC President who allowed 3,000 Americans to be murdered and never caught the man behind the plot after promising to do so, issued a softball report carefully produced by a totally Democratic Congress with key clues to the actual people responsible missing --- especially those that might impact his own long-time business and political associates.

Are you envisioning?

Now envision that back on September 12, 2001, the day after the mass murder, that Democratic President had reportedly allowed a private jet to collect the closest relatives of the key man behind the murderous attack so they could leave the country ahead of any untidy FBI questioning. Imagine that same Democratic President had then tried to block an outside independent probe of the worst U.S. terrorist event in history demanded by the attack's own victims and their families.

Are you following this so far?

Now imagine that to divert attention from his botched domestic economy and his failed quest for the killer of those 3,000 Americans that this Democratic President instead invented reasons to attack a whole different country and got us stuck in a pointless holy war there costing a billion dollars and seven dead U.S. soldiers a week.

Got the picture? Can you see it?

It's a good thing the Republicans were totally in charge when all this actually happened. If it had been Mr. Clinton, we'd have never heard the end of it. Can you imagine the bleating on neo-fascist Talk Radio across the land? Can you see Rush Limbaugh's head explode? Ann Coulter would go postal. Can you hear the calls for impeachment? Fox News would brand it treason, with good purpose. Matt Drudge would be up all night dishing online dirt about the idiot Democrats who'd foolishly allowed 9/11 to happen, covered it up, and then created Saigon on the Tigress. Bill O'Reilly would have kittens, and cable news ratings would go through the roof.

Actually, few folks seem upset. Can you really imagine the American people are so stupid they'd buy all this without question? The Republicans are banking on it.

The regents behind 'King George the 43rd' realize that voter apathy and ignorance have become increasingly critical to their neo-conservative re-election game plan. A majority of Americans polled even mistakenly think that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks. The Bush folks must figure that as national policy, stupidity works. That includes the man currently serving as President.

It's not just that the Emperor Bush has no clothes, he has no clue...

If we leave it to the enfeebled Democratic Party, Mr. Bush and his handlers will probably get away with all this, but thankfully there are good people in Washington ready to act. The Republican monolith, which had seemed invincible, is starting to show some cracks. The Cheney-Halliburton Administration is quietly running scared. This is due to a growing revolt in the single constituency that the Bush folks can't dominate: their own Republican Congress. The neo-cons apparently thought they'd bought it, but it appears now they only leased it.

On November 2, 2004 (66 weeks from today) all the members of the U.S. House and one third of the U.S. Senate have to stand for re-election, and they represent the ONE group that will dump Mr. Bush if they sense he's spoiling their chances to keep power. As a national Republican candidate in 2000, Mr. Bush had very short coat tails.

If you seek political change in this country, here's the key. The REPUBLICANS are the only people who can effectively defeat George W. Bush. The Nixon years ended with a coverup, but the Bush years began with one, and it apparently continues to this day.

When this is all sorted out, the original crimes will doubtless pale in comparison to the misdeeds of those trying now to rewrite reality into a winning patriotic saga. When it starts to go bad all the 'good' Republicans will book. The smart money never goes down with the ship. Never.

Consider the following. Over the weekend, two key conservatives went public as they calculated the diminishing electoral potential of the Cheney-Halliburton Administration.

Richard Shelby, Alabama's senior U.S. Senator and Chairman of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, is a top Republican investigating intelligence failures before 9/11. He's openly criticized White House pressure to censure the 9/11 report. Mr. Shelby said he'll dig into the financial connections between governments and terrorist groups. You can reach him at http://shelby.senate.gov/._

Even more telling were the words of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar of Indiana on NPR Saturday, who said the White House knows there's a big price tag for rebuilding Iraq, "But they do not wish to discuss that." Lugar supported the war but now admits U.S. post-war planning was inadequate, and he estimates the rebuilding alone might cost $30 billion. You can reach Senator Lugar at http://lugar.senate.gov/.

These two men are hardly lefties, and their public shift away from Mr. Bush is something of a sea change in conservative willingness to distance the President's actions from those of other Republicans. Interesting.

Meanwhile, the "father" of the stalled Iraq war, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was all over TV on Sunday defending the invasion as a prime example of how the Administration must be prepared to act on "murky intelligence" in the war on terrorism. Odd that many inside the CIA reportedly think the Bush people as a lot more 'murky' than the Intel, which was apparently extensively 'refined' until it 'made' the case for war. More than 200 American kids have thus far died for 'murky.'

Also, there's one other place the dreaded Iraqi WMD is missing, from Mr. Bush's new speeches.

Rising to Mr. Bush's defense is Ed Gillespie, the new GOP chairman who reportedly told the 165-member Republican National Committee that the Democrats are feeding Americans "a steady diet of protest and pessimism" in absence of real solutions to the economy and Iraq, according to Reuters. If you're the parents of a U.S. soldier who was killed in Iraq or one of the over 3,000,000 people who've lost their jobs in the 919 days of the Bush reign, perhaps you are getting a little pessimistic.

This brings us to Admiral John M. Poindexter, Ronald Reagan's former national security adviser, a principal in the Iran-Contra Affair, and the resurrected head of something called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is reportedly setting up an online futures trading market, where speculators could bet on forecasting terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups. In response to growing howls of laughter, the White House has since apparently altered the Web site at http://www.policyanalysismarket.org. Mr. Bush sought $8 million through 2005 for the project. This is a REAL story, although we must admit that the Admiral's adventures always sound like something written for 'The Onion,' or 'The Daily Show.'

[After a firestorm of outrage, the "Policy Analysis Market" was scrapped today.

Finally, there are press reports today that indicate Al-Qaeda, those same great folks who helped bring you 9/11, and whom Mr. Bush never quite found time to actually defeat on his way to Iraq, are openly planning more high flying mischief. Maybe THEY have the WMD.

Let's face it. It's becoming very clear that Dick Cheney and his ilk are really running the show. To be charitable, Mr. Bush, were he the son of anyone other than 'George Herbert Walker Bush', of Midland, Texas, who got him a legacy admission to Yale, would be lucky to rise to middle management at Wal-Mart.

As more of the blood of our brave, believing, faithful kids irrigates the fields of Babylon, a lot of folks are starting to ask some very untidy questions. We've sent our best young people to fight and die for oil in Iraq, while many of their young families at home subsisted on food stamps, and got screwed out of a child income tax credit that Mr. Bush gladly gave other Americans.

We now have the best Government corporate money can buy, and that's the problem. The people behind Enron and WorldCom and Halliburton are encamped along the Potomac and fully in charge. It's good the folks who fought for and set up this country are all dead. An hour watching America today as reported by Fox News would kill them anyhow.

If any of this bothers you, the solution is available 66 weeks from now. Get organized. The people who don't care and never bother to vote must be made to care and be motivated to go to the polls. If we give the neo-cons four more years, the Canadians will have to fortify the border to keep all of the impoverished refugees out.

This is no longer about liberal or conservative, or party, or ideology. If the American people want a country to come home to, they'd better take it back for themselves.

Our favorite observer of the Bush Imperial Presidency is the great Roman Historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-120 AD). He had an eye for this sort of thing and two thousand years hasn't dimmed his vision. He said, "In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue."

If you think the search for the WMD is tough, try finding virtue in any of this.

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FUCK U.S.A!

since this will doubless by followed by a dozen "too long to read"s and "give me the gist of it"s, I'd like to note I read it all. thanks for staying on top of things browner. always a good read. the doctor IS right. its comming....and we're in for some ugliness.

Originally posted by BROWNer

stupidity works. That includes the man currently serving as President.

this basically sums up the whole thing.

damn good read. important too.

<span style='color:black'>wow. Very good read, sir. I personally have never voted but I'll be damned if I go unheard this time. I just got through watching HBOs new comedy special with Bill Mahr. He makes a lot of interesting points on the state of America and what is going on with "The Man behind the curtain". If you havent seen it Look it up in the paper and see when it is coming on again and watch it. If you dont have cable, make a friend that does and have them record it.</span>

Originally posted by ese

since this will doubless by followed by a dozen "too long to read"s and "give me the gist of it"s, I'd like to note I read it all. thanks for staying on top of things browner. always a good read

amen.

id like to see the poll result numbers that say americans believe saddam was behind the attacks on 911. thats seems crazy.

Originally posted by ODS-1

FUCK U.S.A!

FUCK Y.O.U

:lol:

we as a culture/country have become so afraid of what the terrorists "might" do were not paying any attention to what the government is doing. good read

that took a while to read

good article

Thanks for posting, Browner- I don't always reply, but I always read. Keep the articles coming, they are much appreciated.

Originally posted by Don't Panic

Thanks for posting, Browner- I don't always reply, but I *usually/sometimes read. Keep the articles coming, they are much appreciated.

Good reading.

Would I be right in thinking that the majority of people in the USA are still failing to see the bigger picture here? There seems to be a lot of people on this board who are turned on to whats realy happening, but if a poll comes up with the result that people think Saddam was behind 911, I worry about the rest of your country, what the future holds for it, and the World.

very interesting read, mr browner. i have to say,i think something is in the wind--change. be it for better or worse, i don't really know, but something is going to happen soon. hopefully, enough people will clear the cob webs from their brains and and blinders from their eyes and check what's really going on.

Nice read, its colored by propaganda but the truth is here:

If any of this bothers you, the solution is available 66 weeks from now. Get organized. The people who don't care and never bother to vote must be made to care and be motivated to go to the polls. If we give the neo-cons four more years, the Canadians will have to fortify the border to keep all of the impoverished refugees out.

This is no longer about liberal or conservative, or party, or ideology. If the American people want a country to come home to, they'd better take it back for themselves.

I read the whole thing. All I have to say to all the A.D.D. kids...is relax, take deep breaths and read the whole fucking story....it won't kill you. Not doing anything about it on the other hand...just could.

Good shizzle, sums it up proper. But I agree with Tesseract on the propagandaish tip.

im too lazy to read and find out what this thresad is all about

very good read.

Thanks, Brown.

...the Canadians will have to fortify the border to keep all of the impoverished refugees out. [/b]

I wish they all could be cali-fornia giiirls.....

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Originally posted by anvillan

im too lazy to read and find out what this thresad is all about

The regents behind 'King George the 43rd' realize that voter apathy and ignorance have become increasingly critical to their neo-conservative re-election game plan. A majority of Americans polled even mistakenly think that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks. The Bush folks must figure that as national policy, stupidity works. That includes the man currently serving as President.

I don't know, to me it seems like the average American is just a fucking idiot. The vast majority of people have gone from using 3% of their brains to maybe 1 at the most. It's worrysome that people wont take 10 minutes to read a page of information regarding the state of our country and whats really going on. People have been getting beat in the head so softly over the years with electric warmers in their seats, instant access to what ever they want, fast food, fast service, no hastles service that it has simply made thevast majority lazy and i think the word im looking for is complacent. Nobody thinks for themselves anymore. They would rather some one else just give them the gist of things. The people that are giving you the gist of things are lying to you most of the time and you don't know the difference because you have become to lazy and complacent to form your own opinion on any subject matter. I think the downward spiral is in full affect.

What a sad bunch of shit.

*bljhaoindb0oi

i was going to respond to the propaganda thing, not as

a defense or whatever, just address it, but my brain is complete mush

from too much beach frolicking.

Jesus Christ...:sigh:...

Originally posted by BROWNer

i was going to respond to the propaganda thing, not as

a defense or whatever, just address it, but my brain is complete mush

from too much beach frolicking.

i envy the fool,

Since i delivered, i need to clarify...propaganda isnt the best word available so i'll use a phrase It has pre-ellections flavor all over it...I dont disagree with one single word in there and thats cause i come from the same side, if i wasnt it'd be easy for me to call it propaganda, or cheap in a nifty way.

I'm so anti-bush its ridiculous to spark up that shit.

going out on several limbs and breaking them for fun

i hear the clarification tess, and not to bust on you or mams, but rather to speak generally:

i don't give a flying fuck if it's propaganda. leftist propaganda is beautiful and refreshing.

this shit in the article is the truth, it rings so fucking true that really it's unfuckwithable. and to speak of propaganda...

the new york times prints administration propaganda, as do all media outlets, especially fox news... even though i understand why people might call articles like this "propaganda" it makes me wince because leftist (and truthful) propaganda is so rare in reality. if a thousand propaganda balls are floating down the river, 25 are colored pink and are moving upstream... these pink upstream balls (lefty)are the ones easier to see, they jump out, whereas conservative propaganda is just so fucking normalized (look at all this fucking fear everyone has) we accept it as truth.

and to further start shit, i don't buy the "truth is in the middle" argument for a second. lefties are right (meaning they are correct, heh). why do you think that most artists, intellectuals and the truth seekers of the world are like over 85% leftist? because progressive beliefs are built on facts and the benefit of all people, not half-truth myths built on fear and engineered for profit.

so there, haha, i'm starting shit. it feels good. the truth resonates, doesn't it brahs?

edit for my damn typos...

call it propaganda to expose the REAL propaganda.

the part i love about all this is how hypocritical the neo-cons are about accountability. clinton was fucking impeached because he lied about a blowjob in the whitehouse, while bush gets away with lying about iraq purchasing uranium from africa, a lie that was ultimately used as a major justification for war. when the democrats stirred the shit up over that, the republicans accused them of baseless, partisan whining..

the bush administration really went out too far on a limb though, they're scrambling now.. huge national debt + lies about iraq + no wmd = HOPEFULLY no re-election..

^^Clinton wasn't impeached.

thanks for the informative thread mr. brown. although it took awhile to read it was worth it. americans, as well as many others living under capitalism, have become complacent. its the sad truth. the majority wants more for cheaper prices, less wait time, and no effort. its a sad situation. and as for what's REALLY going on in this country as far as politics and everything else goes, it seems most people are too stupid, lazy or ignorant to care. we have an idiotic bastard running our country, fucking up the economy as well as the environment. SAD. rebel, people, revolt against the system we have all grown to know. quit your dayjobs..............