Betray-Us, Betray-Us

So much righteous steam steam has blown out of the media's outlets after Move-On had the nerve to suggest that General Petraeus has been "cooking the books" and is "at war with the facts." With their corporate blinders on the media criticizes Move-On for "embarrassing" the good general. But in truth, our cowardly media is betraying us just as surely as Petraeus and his Commander in Chief.

Petraeus the panderer, by saying what Bush wanted him to say or ordered him to say, has betrayed Americans at home and in Iraq. What his testimony last week basically told us is that he intends to keep our troops in Iraq for an indefinite future. We've devastated their country, killed and wounded over a million Iraqi people, and scattered millions more to the four winds. Displaced Iraqi young women are now working as prostitutes in Syria just to earn enough to keep families alive. Most Americans don't even know this because they don't like reading or hearing "unpleasant" news. We've planted dozens of huge military bases across Iraq and have just completed an obscenely humongous multi-billion-dollar American Embassy in Baghdad. With all that in place, of course we don't plan on leaving anytime soon. The billions of dollars going down the Iraqi drain could fund a universal health system here at home twice times over. We are horribly betrayed.

Bush Embarrasses Blair

Yesterday George Bush in his awful retarded way tried with his limited vocabulary to defend Tony Blair against criticism at their final press conference Instead of looking happy while receiving praise, Tony looked as if he wished the floor would open up and enclose him. An embarrassed grin was plastered to his face. One of the comments I read just about sums up the awful truth about George Bush's crimes against humanity and the moment in history we are in:

"You start to think that surely all of these remarks critical of George are nothing but partisan hyperbole. Then you watch the clip...oh god...this is the kind shallow bullying cretin you would petition the school board to remove as the coach of the junior high football team. George's utter lack of presence )much less charisma), woefully inadequate speaking skills and rudimentary vocabulary always bring me up short. ...[This] shallow, mean spirited and inarticulate buffoon who routinely lies, betrays colleagues, bombs civilian populations, fixes elections, spies on the citizenry, disdains the constitution (it's just a god damn piece of paper"), went AWOL and avoided combat, guts essential social and environmental programs, censors and suppresses science, tried to make a glorified law clerk a supreme court justice...and on and on -- IMPEACH THIS CRIMINAL AND FRAUD NOW!"

Willie Nelson for Secretary of State?

A clip from Welcome to Pottersville [ http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/]

"From his endless faux pas to the deliberate alienation and inevitable guilt-by-association suffered by our allies, George W. Bush has proved to be America’s Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and the presidential candidates of both parties had better give some serious, pre-emptive thought as to how to go about repairing these crucial international relationships should they get elected.

"Last Monday’s Marx Brothers night at the opera with QE II was a mild but classic example. On top of praising a figurehead monarch for her “leadership” in our trying times and getting her age wrong by a century and a half either accidentally or deliberately, Bush didn’t even think a rare visit from the Queen of England herself merited a white tie and tails. If one had a flair for the poetic, they could easily see in the crowned Queen a Lady Liberty extremely aged and wearied by this administration.

"The new and official 43rd president, especially if s/he is a Democrat, will have to deal not only with wary and alienated allies and tyrants expectant of the same deferential treatment but also equally wary right wing nut jobs like John Howard, Canada’s Stephen Harper, Mexico’s Calderon and now France’s Sarkozy.

"Add to the mix Iran’s and Iraq’s leadership, Hugo Chavez and other avowed enemies made during Bush’s reign of error (to borrow a phrase from Krugman) and it’s easy to see that the next president won’t have as many ready-made friends in the international community. Obviously, the incoming administration had better choose a kickass Secretary of State, someone with the knowledge of a Kissinger, the wisdom of King Solomon and the likeability of a Willie Nelson."