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Nov. 28th, 2003 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phamosso the question has been posed by mr. mark kormes as to why i hate george bush so much. is it his policies or his personality? i say both.
i have agreed with barely a single policy this man has put in place since he's been in office. the only ones i've agreed with are the aids funding in africa and rebuilding funds to new york city, but in both cases he publically proclaimed a certain dollar amount and then delivered a much smaller one. he has used a national strategy to achieve a program that his advisors had decided on long before the world trade center fell, and di it all in the name of the red white and blue so no one can question him. he panders to the conservative christians and the corporate industries because they donate a kajillion dollars to his campaign. his main concern while he's been in office has been to invade iraq (even before they'd necessarily done anything wronger than what they'd been doing for the last ten years -- not to mention what they did to the kurds in '86 and '87, which we did nothing about because we were allies wth them against iran at the time), push religion as the basis for policy decisions, and give huge chunks of our money to his friends and wellwishers, who already have more money than they know what to do with. his corporate cronyism absolutely disgusts me. a number of his best friends ran their businesses into the ground illegally, pocketed all the money leaving their workers ruined, and got away with it with no criminal action or presidential reprimand. his environmental policies (i know you hate this crap, mark, but it's true) are, in the words of michael jackson, very very...devilish. he invaded afghanistan, which i did not actively disagree with the way i did iraq, and then left it a mess. he's only secured kabul, and even that not very well. the warlords still control everything and the taliban and al qaeda are seeping back in from pakistan. our military presence there was almost eradicated because we SO deperately needed to go to iraq, and it seems like we're going to make even more mistakes militarily and politically there before we pull out and leave iraqi leaders with no mandates and the defense and oil contractors to control everything. he's changed his supposed motivation for invading iraq about 3 times, and has now settled on humanitarian intervention, ex post facto. i find this sickening given the US history with humanitarian intervention -- how we intervene when there's money involved and do not when a whole bunch of poor people are dying. again i site the kurds. bush has mentioned them REPEATEDLY, even though when they were actually being killed by the thousands we ignored them completely, and they are now essentially autonomous and have beenbasically left alone by saddam since after the first gulf war. if we were so concerned with human rights in iraq, why aren't we invading saudi arabia? egypt? oh, that's right, because they give us money and military bases, and we don't want them to invade israel. as i do with most conservatives, i disagree with him on women's rights, gay rights, health care, social security, gun control, education, blah blah blah.
also, i despise the man personally. he lived a life bill clinton would envy. we are all up in clinton's crotch, but we don't care about bush's dui's and probable cocaine use? people make up rumors about hillary having vince foster killed, but laura bush actually DID kill someone, in a car crash. i hate him because he has been entitled to everything his whole life. he got into yale and harvard purely because of who his father is, and i HATE that with such a passion (i think it's a columbia thing). he was a dismal student but he BRAGS about it in commencement speeches. "hey kids -- you too can blow off school and then run the world! i am a shining example to you all!" he is completely anti-intellectual, thinks it's funny that he doesn't know what words mean and says "nucular," doesn't bother to read most of his briefings and just "goes on his gut," which i find totally unfathomable in a position of such power. he dresses up in a package-enhancing flight suit to tell us our mission is accomplished, even though he skipped out on his, already effectively-draft-dodging, stint in the texas national air guard. And our mission is certainly nowhere NEAR accomplished. he defended his decision on stem cells because of his faith while people are suffering and dying. he hired john ashcroft as attorney general as a sop to the christian conservatives -- and don't even get me started on what that action alone has wrought. he was basically given an oil company, ran it into the ground and kept all the money -- hey, that sounds familiar! he then bought a baseball team and decided that his decision to trade sammy sosa qualified him to be governor of the state. he was a completely uneducated ass throughout the election year, and yet he got a free pass while al gore was berated for being stuffy, stiff, and boring. obviously we want a president we could throw back a non-alcoholic brew with, not one who ACTUALLY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC POLICY EXCEPT WHAT HIS ADVISORS WHISPER IN HIS EAR. he just looks so self-satisfied, and it makes me want to vomit. it seems almost passe to bring up the smirk -- but the smirk, my god, the smirk!
and finally i hate the fact that the masses don't see through his bullshit, pay enough attention to the uncovering of his lies, and say it's unpatriotic to criticise him. people who solidly disagree with the majority of his domestic policy will still vote for him because they like his folksy manner and believe that iraq was behind 9/11. and it's the rest of us, and the world, that will suffer for it.
i'm sure that there's some stuff i'm leaving out, but this seems like enough. you may disgree with me, but that's just how i see it.
i have agreed with barely a single policy this man has put in place since he's been in office. the only ones i've agreed with are the aids funding in africa and rebuilding funds to new york city, but in both cases he publically proclaimed a certain dollar amount and then delivered a much smaller one. he has used a national strategy to achieve a program that his advisors had decided on long before the world trade center fell, and di it all in the name of the red white and blue so no one can question him. he panders to the conservative christians and the corporate industries because they donate a kajillion dollars to his campaign. his main concern while he's been in office has been to invade iraq (even before they'd necessarily done anything wronger than what they'd been doing for the last ten years -- not to mention what they did to the kurds in '86 and '87, which we did nothing about because we were allies wth them against iran at the time), push religion as the basis for policy decisions, and give huge chunks of our money to his friends and wellwishers, who already have more money than they know what to do with. his corporate cronyism absolutely disgusts me. a number of his best friends ran their businesses into the ground illegally, pocketed all the money leaving their workers ruined, and got away with it with no criminal action or presidential reprimand. his environmental policies (i know you hate this crap, mark, but it's true) are, in the words of michael jackson, very very...devilish. he invaded afghanistan, which i did not actively disagree with the way i did iraq, and then left it a mess. he's only secured kabul, and even that not very well. the warlords still control everything and the taliban and al qaeda are seeping back in from pakistan. our military presence there was almost eradicated because we SO deperately needed to go to iraq, and it seems like we're going to make even more mistakes militarily and politically there before we pull out and leave iraqi leaders with no mandates and the defense and oil contractors to control everything. he's changed his supposed motivation for invading iraq about 3 times, and has now settled on humanitarian intervention, ex post facto. i find this sickening given the US history with humanitarian intervention -- how we intervene when there's money involved and do not when a whole bunch of poor people are dying. again i site the kurds. bush has mentioned them REPEATEDLY, even though when they were actually being killed by the thousands we ignored them completely, and they are now essentially autonomous and have beenbasically left alone by saddam since after the first gulf war. if we were so concerned with human rights in iraq, why aren't we invading saudi arabia? egypt? oh, that's right, because they give us money and military bases, and we don't want them to invade israel. as i do with most conservatives, i disagree with him on women's rights, gay rights, health care, social security, gun control, education, blah blah blah.
also, i despise the man personally. he lived a life bill clinton would envy. we are all up in clinton's crotch, but we don't care about bush's dui's and probable cocaine use? people make up rumors about hillary having vince foster killed, but laura bush actually DID kill someone, in a car crash. i hate him because he has been entitled to everything his whole life. he got into yale and harvard purely because of who his father is, and i HATE that with such a passion (i think it's a columbia thing). he was a dismal student but he BRAGS about it in commencement speeches. "hey kids -- you too can blow off school and then run the world! i am a shining example to you all!" he is completely anti-intellectual, thinks it's funny that he doesn't know what words mean and says "nucular," doesn't bother to read most of his briefings and just "goes on his gut," which i find totally unfathomable in a position of such power. he dresses up in a package-enhancing flight suit to tell us our mission is accomplished, even though he skipped out on his, already effectively-draft-dodging, stint in the texas national air guard. And our mission is certainly nowhere NEAR accomplished. he defended his decision on stem cells because of his faith while people are suffering and dying. he hired john ashcroft as attorney general as a sop to the christian conservatives -- and don't even get me started on what that action alone has wrought. he was basically given an oil company, ran it into the ground and kept all the money -- hey, that sounds familiar! he then bought a baseball team and decided that his decision to trade sammy sosa qualified him to be governor of the state. he was a completely uneducated ass throughout the election year, and yet he got a free pass while al gore was berated for being stuffy, stiff, and boring. obviously we want a president we could throw back a non-alcoholic brew with, not one who ACTUALLY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC POLICY EXCEPT WHAT HIS ADVISORS WHISPER IN HIS EAR. he just looks so self-satisfied, and it makes me want to vomit. it seems almost passe to bring up the smirk -- but the smirk, my god, the smirk!
and finally i hate the fact that the masses don't see through his bullshit, pay enough attention to the uncovering of his lies, and say it's unpatriotic to criticise him. people who solidly disagree with the majority of his domestic policy will still vote for him because they like his folksy manner and believe that iraq was behind 9/11. and it's the rest of us, and the world, that will suffer for it.
i'm sure that there's some stuff i'm leaving out, but this seems like enough. you may disgree with me, but that's just how i see it.
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Date: 2003-11-29 10:44 pm (UTC)But you forgot to add that he is so self-centered and lacking in empathy as to almost be sociopathic. This is a man who made fun--on national television- of a woman he had ordered put to death. (Whether she deserved that or not has nothing to do with his finding her pleading to him for her life funny enough to mock on TV.) This is a man who wants to make better nuclear weapons for America. One who thinks it is an American's "right" to pollute the air. This is a man who hid during 9/11 but has no trouble sending our troops to get killed every day in a secular nation. This is a man who bombed Iraq because he wants more oil. This is a man who doesn't care about anyone but himself.
This is a man who saw the FIRST plane hit on 9/11. IT WAS NOT TELEVISED.
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/bushflub.htm
Bush is an evil person. He scares the hell out of me.