Lawrence de Bivort wrote:
I am guessing, but I think also that President Bush wanted the approval and
praise of the advisors who had been close to his father, such as Cheney and
Rumsfeld. Some of these had turned against Bush senior for doing only 'half
the job' in expelling the Iraqis from Kuwait but not toppling Saddam Hussein
in 91. Of course, Bush senior is wiser and more experienced than junior at a
similar point in their careers, and senior knew that going on to Baghdad
would be a mistake, for many reasons, nice as it would have been to see the
end of Saddam.
Alas, America has a child king....
For the record, Sharansky is not the only one saying 'Huh? Who, me?'
Fukuyama, another neocon, has just turned out a book -- a rather pathetic
attempt at clearing himself -- saying that Bush has gone too far. There is
something unappetizing about seeing the men who smugly goaded Bush into his
deadly mistakes now heading for the hills.
Fuku-molehill [what does "Fuku" mean in
Japanese???] had a piece in a recent NYT Sunday Magazine.
Quite remarkable -- except for
having that to-me-at-least-unbearably-tedious "style" of his --, it
sounded a lot like
the epochal BBC 4 series The Power of Nightmares.
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/GO/nightmares1.html
Fuku-molehill strikes me as a good example of Nietzsche's Last Man --
perhaps
I am wrong, since I have not read any of his blockbusters (It
takes a B-29 to deliver one?). As I
wrote of a certain student under his picture in my high school yearbook:
"If a man has no character, he must have a method." (The faculty
did not like this when they finally noticed it)
\brad mccormick
Cheers,
Lawry
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From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:20 PM
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Lawrence de Bivort wrote:
Sharansky conned Bush into invading Iraq. Bush met several times with
Sharansky and called his book one of the most important. It ill
behooves Sharansky now to act the innocent.
Maybe it will wake Bush up to the perfidy with which he has been
misled, beginning with Cheney and Chalabi, and on to Sharansky.
What an intellectually sordid affair Bush-Sharansky-Cheney make.
Looks like his name is not "Dubya", but just Dupe. Although I still
believe the prodigal son was determined to receive his father's
blessing, which "helped". Nobody can be duped without
expecting to get something they want (in this case,
Saddam's head).
\brad mccormick
[snip]
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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