Bush uses federal resources to push re-election [Salon.com]

More fodder for the anti-Bushies

11:57:12 AM    

I finished reading Clarke's book - its no wonder that the right wing and the administration (redundant) is working overtime to discredit him  - it's a damning indictment of the Bush Administration and its failure to address the terrorism problem both before and after 9/11 or to make this country safer from future attacks.  The Bushies are far more interesting in ramming through their socio-political agenda and shoveling money at their crony capitalist friends than they are in fighting terrorism, which if anything keeps Americans scared enough to keep them in office while they continue to strips the country bare of its wealth and prestige. I strongly urge you to read it.

And its not just Clarke - read the interview with Gary Hart in Salon to see how he warned the Bushies in advance of 9/11 that "the terrorists are coming, the terroists are coming," but was ignored while the Bushies focused on their Cold War political priorities like trying to make America safe from ICBMs.  And at the other end of the political spectrum Pat Buchanan writes:

Bush's world democratic revolution is Wilsonian imperialism, which contains an inherent and perhaps fatal contradiction. Imperialism means we decide the government a nation will have and how its foreign policy shall be oriented. Democracy means they decide.

What do we do if we impose democracy on Iraq, and the Iraqis use their freedom to vote to throw us out and confront Israel and claim Kuwait as their long-lost province? We should be thinking about it, because it may just happen.

So if both the left and the right believe Bush's foreign policy is a disaster, then who is supporting Bush?  I believe that we have a third poltiical force at work in this country, one that is an uneasy allinace between fundamentalist Christian conservatives who have only one issue (turning American into a Taliban-style fundamentalist Christian theocracy); the neo-conservatives who see power as an end in itself; and Bush's cronies in the energy industry and elsewhere who installed him in office to effectively eliminate any tax or other obligation they have to support this country fiscally, and instead hand over to them the remaining unexploited natural resources for them to plunder at will. 

When will American wake up and realize that the Bush presidency has been an unmitigated disaster for the country from the start?

10:44:26 AM