skippy the bush kangaroo: a date that will live in dumbery

Monday, August 06, 2007

a date that will live in dumbery

zen cabin wants a blog swarm today for this date: august 6, 2001...

it’s a date that should cause the republican party’s cheeks to burn. a date that, perhaps even more than 9/11/01, should have caused george w. bush to break down in tears of shame and resign from office. yet, here we are, america…

so many words have been tossed about to describe george bush in the last six years: incompetent, incurious, demented, unqualified, criminally insane… i think that nearly every unflattering description of human behavior and character would be appropriate.

but august 6, 2001… that’s the day when george w. bush revealed his true character. unfortunately, america wasn’t a witness to this revelation until years later, and by then… by then, it was too late.

“bin laden determined to strike in the us”. what kind of fun must you be having to ignore something so pointed, so straightforward in both its meaning and its prose? i’ve done a lot – a lot – of landscaping in my days and i can tell you, it’s not that much fun. if i had the choice between spending a month on conference calls with intelligence and security personnel or clearing brush, well… the brush will wait for me. bin laden, it seems, had a more specific timeline in mind.

conspiracy theories abound – mihop, lihop, what have you – but i’m not a conspiracy theorist. all i need to remember is that george w. bush was too busy relaxing from that grueling first six months of work to give a damn about america or americans. “you’ve covered your ass”, indeed…

fast forward to “the post-9/11 world” that george bush was too self-centered to notice barreling down the track. our own government spies on its citizens and demands retroactive immunity for breaking the law and ignoring the constitution. suddenly, the crawford weedwhacker needs to keep track of every phone call, every web site visit because… well, we really don’t know, do we? evidently, bin laden is no longer enemy #1 but america is populated by 300,000,000 persons of interest.

“what’s the worst that could happen?” has been replaced by a never-ending loop of “9/11! september the 11th!”. yes, we remember september the 11th, mr. bush. some of us remember the fact that you could have done something to prevent it, or at least tried. and now we see you scurrying to cover your tracks and protect your little henchmen – the only people who believe in you and, evidently, the only people you’ve ever been concerned about.

it seems you take the threat of honest americans and justice far more seriously than you’ve ever considered the threat of terrorism. or maybe you just misunderstimated bin laden’s determination.

august 6, 2001. enjoy your legacy, mr. bush.

(thanks and a tip of the kangaroo tail to blue gal and batocchio for the heads up about the swarm, and to tengrain for the logo!)

Labels: 9/11, aWol, war on terror

posted by skippy at 12:17 PM |

5 Comments:

Thanks for spreading the word, Skippy!

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Batocchio, 2:45 PM PDT

Then again, it was also on August 6 that a Democratic President committed the worst war crime in American history.

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Left I on the News, 3:00 PM PDT

which i mention below, eli...

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skippy, 3:32 PM PDT

This is the irony of it all...that on August 6th 2001 Bush could care less about Bin Laden...maybe he was too busy celebrating the dropping of the nuclear bomb, who knows.

And here we are 5 years later, and Bush still hasn't caught Bin Laden or really showed any interest in finding out where he is.

Finally over the past couple of days Bush is talking about Al Qaeda in Pakistan and gettin' tough with him...

But I think this has more to do with Obama's speech that really left the wingnuts scrambling...Obama suggested something unimagineable by Republicans...and that is that we actually go after Bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Pakistan....It was a novel idea, to actually catch those responsible for 9/11

Looks like Bush might be starting to catch on, if only for political reasons.

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PoliShifter, 5:16 PM PDT

Funny how timing works out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

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