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This Is Why People Don’t Like You

The Bush Administration has two dominant attitudes: arrogance and incompetence. Yesterday we got a heave dose of the former as Premier Bush decided to compare Democrats to Nazi and Communist appeasers. Apparently, our “inaction” will lead to terrible consequences. And Bush would know all about inaction. Remember Katrina? Judging by his last State of the Union address, Bush certainly doesn’t.

I’m surprised Bush can walk properly with the gigantic balls required to act as if he’s in any position to make demands. A guy with a 24% approval rating doesn’t get to demand that Congress confirm Michael “I-can’t-say-waterboarding-is-torture-because-then-I-won’t-get-the-job” Mukasey as Attorney General. A guy who lied us into a war (And it was a lie; they cherry-picked the intelligence that served the interest of his neo-conservative cabinet and base) does not get to ask for more money on unsuccessful wars as the blatant theft and corruption by contractors and war profiteers sink us further into debt while soldiers still lack the necessary body armor and vehicle protection. A guy who has never had to want for anything in his life does not get to tell Congress that we can’t afford the $10 billion to provide healthcare to sick kids but wants billions more to keep us in an endless war we won’t win.

That’s right, ladies and gentlemen: we can’t win in Iraq. We can’t force Democracy on a country that doesn’t want it and right now, it’s tribal warfare. They could give a shit about representative government. They want each other dead because their pea-sized brains can’t get past a centuries old religious debate. And I’m not saying that all Iraqis are either insane fundamentalist Shia or insane fundamentalist Sunni. The reasonable people have already abandoned the country. They’re now refugees because they would rather survive than risk their lives in our Middle East experiment. And why should they? Saddam Hussein was an awful dictator, but we’ve simply replaced organized horror with chaotic horror. And they never asked for our help nor did they have anything to do with the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia but that seems like the only Middle Eastern country we won’t attack.

And now these war hawks want to move into Iran? You have to earn Iran. But this is how Bush operates. He never ran a successful business, but every time he failed, his daddy just gave him a new one. There were never any consequences for past actions and there never will be. After he’s out of office (and I wouldn’t put it past him to bomb Iran on his way out), he’ll just “refill the ol’ coffers” with speaking engagements at places like The American Enterprise Institute and Regent University.

Most days, I just let Bush’s incompetence and douchebaggery wash over me like a scorching hot day. You can’t scream at the sun for being hot so you may as well just go inside, turn up the AC, and try to forget about it. But then there are times like these where he tries to bully Congress and the American people into doing things his way or else he’ll whine and cry and call them stupid doo-doo heads. At times likes these, I pass my breaking point and have to verbally spank this petulant child of a president.

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