Anyone Want a Scary Story?
November 28th, 2005 | by Dr. Forbush |Seymour Hersh wrote one of the scariest paragraphs in American History in the New Yorker this week:
“The President is more determined than ever to stay the course,” the former defense official said. “He doesn’t feel any pain. Bush is a believer in the adage ‘People may suffer and die, but the Church advances.’ ” He said that the President had become more detached, leaving more issues to Karl Rove and Vice-President Cheney. “They keep him in the gray world of religious idealism, where he wants to be anyway,” the former defense official said. Bush’s public appearances, for example, are generally scheduled in front of friendly audiences, most often at military bases. Four decades ago, President Lyndon Johnson, who was also confronted with an increasingly unpopular war, was limited to similar public forums. “Johnson knew he was a prisoner in the White House,” the former official said, “but Bush has no idea.”
If this is even 10% true America is doomed.
2 Responses to “Anyone Want a Scary Story?”
By Martin Friedlander on Nov 28, 2005 | Reply
My Dear Doctor:
There is a major difference between now and then. The people were on the streets protesting. We were on the verge of a revolution. Violence errupted at the Democratic Convention in 1968. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June of 1968.
Nixon, when he ran against Humphrey, promised to end the war with honor. Nixon took office on January 20, 1969, a time when we had 500,000 troops in Vietnam, and was elected on a platform of “Peace With Honor”. We did not withdraw until 1972. We lost over 50,000 American soldiers in that “Domino War” foisted on us by a lying Lyndon Baines Johnson, when he capitalized on the non existant “Tonkin Gulf” incident.
I am still waiting for some credible American politician to step forward with the “cajones” to end the war now. Now means now, not when Iraq can govern themselves. They were governing themselves when we invaded. The status quo means leaving as if we never invaded. What will happen will happen. The Iraqis will have to figure it out among themselves. If it means civil war, so be it, as long as we don’t participate as we did in Vietnam.
Martin S. Friedlander, Esq.
By The Bastard on Nov 28, 2005 | Reply
If 10% of this is true I think we need to by-pass impeachment and go right to the insanity plea and get this fucker out of office using the 25th Amendment.