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Where do you think all this is going? I don't even want to speculate where it's coming from. Listened to moron Bush last night spouting patrobinsonisms, [Islamofascists ??] Why don't they just cut the the endgame and nuke us all? I'm always thinking of this lovely clever poem, so I'm going to put it here, read it, discuss.
The Second Coming - W.B. Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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It's in everyone's best interests, mentally, to turn the channel when that goon is on.
jessie Member # 681
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blimey, check out these google ads. You couldn't make this up! <-
jessie Member # 681
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I feel like one of those guys with a sandwich board yewlling 'the end is near!'
Multiple military sources have told the Global Network that Pentagon personnel responsible for selecting targets for cruise missile first strike attacks have been sent to Israel.
This indicates that U.S. and Israeli military strategists are now likely meeting to plan a joint attack on Syria and/or Iran.
The Persian Gulf war and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq both began with cruise missile attacks by the U.S. from Naval ships.
It would be wise to recognize that Bush has decided to expand the current war and chaos into the entire Middle East region. The implications for the U.S. will be enormous.
Israel's recent bombing of Lebanon near the Syrian border indicate to me that they are trying to draw a response from Syria. So far Syria has not responded. Look for more such efforts by Israel and the U.S. to provoke Syria.
I would highly recommend local peace groups call on their members of Congress and ask them to speak out against a further widening of this already insane war.
More and larger public protests should be organized immediately.
Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
ARROW99 Member # 11614
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George Bush is a great american whom history will treat well. The truth is Bush and Blair are correct about the Islamo-facists. They are nothing but Nazis without the money and industrial base the Germans enjoyed. In many ways its more bizarre than the Germans of 70 years ago. A sustantial portion of the modern muslim population have literally become psycopathic.
If you want to kill a snake you cut off the head. Its time to destroy Iran and Syria and it will come to that because there people are to stupid to stop.
charm el feikh? Member # 10243
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hello arrow... welcome to ES.
interesting.
geezer Member # 6244
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quote:Originally posted by ARROW99: The truth is Bush and Blair are correct about the Islamo-facists.
Fascism
1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
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Bush fits the definition of fascism much better than the people he terms *Islamo-fascists.* The office of the President of the United States has more power than almost any other *democratically* elected head of state I can think of. At least parlimentary systems generally have a way of voting their prime ministers out when they lose confidence.
If Bush isn't the epitome of *belligerent nationalism and racism,* I don't know who is. (n.b., root of *belligerent* means war-like). He has started two wars and is supporting a third against predominantly-Muslim countries.
How sly has his simple P.R. campaign been, "If you are not with us, you are against us." "Axis of evil." "Fight the war against terror over there, not here." Simple to appeal to simplistic, undereducated American minds. The Patriot Act has effectively eliminated freedoms we have always taken for granted. Where's the 4th amendment now? The sixth (just as those in gitmo). The first amendment for the rest of us? The current culture here demands that if you say something against the government, you are somehow aiding the *enemy.*
Bush uses *terror* much more effectively than any terrorist does, imposing an almost constant fear or at least anxiety of *them* and *what they might do,* using it to keep votes in line, pass legislation he wants, engage in illegal wiretapping, send government hacks around asking if so-and-so has any Arabs visiting his house, get his cronies reelected, justify sole-source contract awards to Halliburton, and so much more. We are brainwashed if we think that the *truth* he sneers out is anywhere near reality. I am not excusing terrorists. They are cowardly and pathetic. But their existence does NOT justify what Bush has done for the past 5 years.
Foreign terrorists have attacked us only twice here on U.S. soil that I can think of, yet we hear about this every single flipping day. Overhead highway signs telling us to dial 800-432-tips to turn in suspicious people. (Hitler did that, with German children even turning in their parents). Elevated threat levels. News stories on how unsafe the metro is, how we can never make it safe. Triage exercises in simulated terror attacks.
Listen well: we create what we fear. We make it happen. All this crap, this lack of diplomacy, the use of war rather than words, it constantly creates the exact threat that Bush has made us fear. He'll be well-remembered in history, no doubt, as the president who did the most breed and nurture *Islamic* terrorism against the U.S.
jessie Member # 681
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"George Bush is a great american"
Hi Mike, where y'all been???
r.i.p.R Member # 11270
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didnt take him long ,what a changing IP adress every 2seconds...
jessie Member # 681
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"Nazis without the money and industrial base the Germans enjoyed." Actually Mike, the Nazis didn't have any money at their inception. As for indrustrial base, Germany was crippled by the Versailles treaty paying massive reparations to France etc. Hence the support the Nazi party managed to get. Luckily, their buddies in America [Bush's family included] bailed them out with funding up until about 1940 [I think, may have been before'40 or after]. Your metaphor sounds more like the situation with the fascists in Israel doesn't it? What is it the US is rushing to send before the ceasefire, fragmentation bombs? Sweet.
ARROW99 Member # 11614
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Actually, you are spinning a bit Jesse or you missed the point completely. Germany is an industrialized economy and has been for well over a century. Regardless of the condition the economy was in the Nazis were able to pump it back up and build a powerful war machine. The fact is, first world economies can do that, there are no first world economies in the middle east or in any Muslin dominated nation. This little game the Islmo facists are playing will go on until the west grows weary of it. At that point those backward thinking movements will be squashed like a fly. Many of us are fed up with extreme Islam. Most Americans are beginning to look at these people as goofballs and wing nuts.
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