Tuesday, April 20, 2004

   What the fnord!?
Before I begin yet another rant, I feel it's appropriate to mention that today is the fifth anniversary of the Columbine incident. I'd try a "moment of silence" thing, but it's kind of hard when you're not making any noise in the first place...

Anyways, the following is a quote from a post on Ars Technica (by a member named "ChaNce", btw) regarding Woodward's interview on :

ChaNce:"Is anyone else physically ill after watching 60 minutes?

Note: I am using W. to represent George W. Bush not as an insult, but as shorthand. If this offends you, feel free to use any other symbolic representation for George W. Bush you like. I just don't want to type his name out repeatedly.

Woodward:

1. The president wanted to attack Iraq 72 days after 9/11. Powell asked him if he was willing to "own it".

2. Bush essentially told Woodward that he was driven by God, and that he did not talk to his dad because he (W.) had a "higher father". He did not talk to Powell because he new that Powell would tell him what he was doing was wrong.

3. Woodward reported that the Saudis had an agreement with W. indicating that they would try to drop oil prices at election time in order to help him.

4. Intellectuals are "evil", and W. believes that they have nothing to contribute to his clearly binary (read: black and white) world. Remember, this is a president that refuses to read, and averaged a C at Yale.

5. When asked about how history would judge him, W. shrugged and said "we will all be dead".

There was absolutely nothing that was not damning to W. and this presidency. If you have been reading the blogs for the past few weeks, you have probably noticed that there have been rumblings about this president from all sides. It is clear that W. and this administration is the most damaging administration that has ever existed in this country. We will look back on this time as the single most damaging presidency in our history.

6. This administration secretly took over 700 million from the Afghanistan reconstruction budget to fund a network of secret informers in Iraq. This is in clear violation of our Constitution, and is an impeachable offense."

Myself, I didn't see the interview. But, from reading this post, and this CBS article, I can safely say Bush shouldn't be in office. I'd post my reasoning, but if you skim through my previous posts, I've given most of these reasons. Except for Bush's blatant ignoring of his promises about the environment, and the useless "No Child Left Behind Act".

I'm about halfway through the CBS article on Woodward's interview, and I will have my complete opinion on the morrow.

And remember: Aloha means both "Hello" and "Goodbye".
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