Bush is a wanker
Jan. 28th, 2003 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockDid not get the chance to speak to parents tonight, as voice has now left entirely. Not even whispering. Just call me mute for the undetermined future.
Listened to Bush's state of the union address. Liked the bit about research into hydrogen-fueled cars and AIDS medication, but that was about it. Still don't see how the tax cut is going to help anyone except the richest 1% of the population. Still don't see how a cabinet seat of Homeland Security assured that I will "live in feeedom" when it and the Patriot act means secret trials, the government having aces to what should be protected by my search & seizure rights. I still don't see how his great new plan for energy is supposed to help the environment when everyone knows that the energy you're promising is only an excuse to start mining in nationally protected land in Alaska that supposed to be safe from drilling, when it won't even produce much oil there anyway.
And I still don't see any tangible proof that attests to why we're attacking Iraq now instead of two years ago or five years ago.
In fact, I don't know if its even war with Iraq that bothers me-- because I do think Saddam is an insane out-of-control power maniac-- so much as the WHY of it, and the fact that it won't be "war", it'll be strategic attacks until we beat them into submission. Like Afghanistan. Like the Gulf War. Why? Because if we actually declared war, we'd have that annoying little thing called "responsibility" toward cleaning up the country we just pummeled. If it's "retaliation" or "prevention" but not actual Congresss-declared "war", then we don't have to occupy them, protect them, and rebuild their government from scratch. And that's the real fuck-up here, becaue the only way Iraq would come out of another altercation with the US as a "liberated" country (to quote Pres. Bush) is if we actually DID all that, and stayed in the goddamn country for 30 years at least. But we won't. We'll do what we did in the Gulf War. We'll beat them up, kill a few hundred thousand, and then back off like dear old daddy Bush Senior did.
Depressing depressing depressing. This is not the person who was popularly elected
Listened to Bush's state of the union address. Liked the bit about research into hydrogen-fueled cars and AIDS medication, but that was about it. Still don't see how the tax cut is going to help anyone except the richest 1% of the population. Still don't see how a cabinet seat of Homeland Security assured that I will "live in feeedom" when it and the Patriot act means secret trials, the government having aces to what should be protected by my search & seizure rights. I still don't see how his great new plan for energy is supposed to help the environment when everyone knows that the energy you're promising is only an excuse to start mining in nationally protected land in Alaska that supposed to be safe from drilling, when it won't even produce much oil there anyway.
And I still don't see any tangible proof that attests to why we're attacking Iraq now instead of two years ago or five years ago.
In fact, I don't know if its even war with Iraq that bothers me-- because I do think Saddam is an insane out-of-control power maniac-- so much as the WHY of it, and the fact that it won't be "war", it'll be strategic attacks until we beat them into submission. Like Afghanistan. Like the Gulf War. Why? Because if we actually declared war, we'd have that annoying little thing called "responsibility" toward cleaning up the country we just pummeled. If it's "retaliation" or "prevention" but not actual Congresss-declared "war", then we don't have to occupy them, protect them, and rebuild their government from scratch. And that's the real fuck-up here, becaue the only way Iraq would come out of another altercation with the US as a "liberated" country (to quote Pres. Bush) is if we actually DID all that, and stayed in the goddamn country for 30 years at least. But we won't. We'll do what we did in the Gulf War. We'll beat them up, kill a few hundred thousand, and then back off like dear old daddy Bush Senior did.
Depressing depressing depressing. This is not the person who was popularly elected
