The Terrorist of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

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The Terrorist of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

 

 

 

 

 

The Terrorist of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

By DOUG THOMPSON

Aug 22, 2005, 06:13

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7252.shtml

 

My first reaction to George W. Bush's all-too-obvious politicizing of

the memories of September 11, 2001, in his latest lame attempt to

justify his illegal and immoral war in Iraq, was anger.

 

Than anger gave way to sadness.

 

Sadness over a morality-challenged politician's use of the deaths of

3,000 plus Americans for his own political gain.

 

And even more sadness because there are still people out there stupid

enough to fall for this kind of crap.

 

Bush has pulled this stunt before. He keeps 9/11 in his bag of tricks

as a last-ditch effort to save his corrupt political hide when things

go bad. And, according to polls, things are bad. An increasing

majority of Americans no longer buy his lies about Iraq and oppose the

war along with growing numbers who finally realize the President of

the United States is a liar who cannot be trusted.

 

Reality, however, will not stop the dwindling numbers of Bushites from

defending their failed leader to the end – and it is that maniacal

devotion to Bush that may signal the end to America as we know it.

 

Sometimes it is difficult to decide who to fear the most – the

ethically-bankrupt President whose madness drives what was once the

greatest country on earth closer and closer to ruin or the blind,

brain-dead lemmings who continue to follow him into the abyss.

 

In more normal times we might be able to dismiss Bush's followers as

just another gaggle of misguided political miscreants who bet on the

wrong horse and now try to justify that mistake.

 

But these are not normal times and the wild-eyed fanatics who continue

to buy this charlatan's snake oil are, in too many ways, as dangerous

as Bush himself.

 

Bush and his klavern of crooks, con-men and thieves have turned this

nation into a monster that threatens world peace, an arrogant

bomb-throwing bully who poses a far-greater danger than any

Islam-spouting lunatic with a turban.

 

When you get past the hyperbole and sound bite rants of the rabid

right, you are left with one sad fact – the United States of America,

a nation that once prided itself in never, ever, being the aggressor

in a conflict, invaded another nation on false pretenses, a nation

that posed no immediate threat to us or our way of life.

 

It is no longer Osama bin Laden and his fanatical followers who pose

the greatest threat to the future of this country. It is George W.

Bush and his equally-fanatical, zoned-out legions who buy into his

destructive, anti-American actions.

 

Osama's still at large and still planning ways to attack this country

but he remains at large because Bush ordered the military to

all-but-abandon the search for the Al Qaeda leader and divert

resources to an ill-conceived, ill-planned and ill-executed illegal

invasion of Iraq.

 

Now the Army admits it is planning for " at least " four more years in

Iraq as the death toll of young American men and women races headlong

towards 2,000.

 

So a desperate George W. Bush goes to the well once more, invoking the

memories of September 11, 2001 to try and save his political skin.

 

We can hope, of course, that this blatant political opportunism won't

work. We can hope that Americans will finally see through the sham

that is Bush and the fanatics who follow him.

 

We can hope that Americans recognize that more than one terrorist

seeks to destroy America and that the most dangerous terrorist of all

lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

 

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