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What are the cards he is dealing you?
43’s trump card is the “everlasting war on terrorism”. "The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism," Rand Beers, a former special assistant to the president, told the Washington Post in an interview published June 16th 2003. Beers is no Democratic operative as he worked at the National Security Council for 35 years, under presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton. Beers, 60, had been the 43’s team main counter-terrorism advisor until his resignation in March of 2003.
A gambit he frequently uses is bluffing. He plays it like a high stakes gambler when he touts something to high heavens, secretly knowing it is a lemon.
Did you know that Senate Democrats are demanding that more homeland security money be added to the president's supplemental war budget? Democratic leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said, "This supplemental budget fails to reflect the reality of the home front," said Daschle. "States, cities and towns remain extremely vulnerable to terrorist attack and are ill-equipped to deal with this challenge." "When it comes to this administration and homeland security, we don't need any more rhetoric, we don't need any more photo ops; we need more dollars," said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
Another scam he is a master of is that of the magician’s misdirection ploy. At first glance, isn’t it great he admitted that he is responsible for what he said, the so-called 16 words? When did he confess, and was it a heart wrenching scene of contrition, or a political ploy for votes? Why did he wait until after three people in his administration alternately took the fall? What does it say about the “honor and dignity” of 43?
Rove picked the perfect timing to reduce the coverage of his dunce protégé’s treachery. On July 30th, as he is preparing to head to his ranch in Texas for a month starting on August 2nd, Rove told the boy that he had to act like a grownup. He had to be presidential and admit that he lied in his most important address to the US, and the world, his State of the Union speech. Beside, there were no more patsies to serve up as the fall guy. The ruse was beginning to look stupid for even our least interested citizens to swallow! By talking about it now, he hopes that the boy can be immunized against it when the election arrives.
43 looked like Houdini wriggling out of a locked cage as he finessed this perfidy. Bush rejected criticism that he had exaggerated the urgency of going to war with Iraq even as he took responsibility for the first time for an assertion in his State of the Union address about Iraq’s nuclear weapons program. As everyone knew, this particular story turned out to be based on questionable intelligence. “I take personal responsibility for everything I say, of course,” Bush said. “I also take responsibility for making decisions on war and peace. And I analyzed a thorough body of intelligence, good, solid, sound intelligence that led me to come to the conclusion that it was necessary to remove Saddam Hussein from power.”
Notice that even in that contrived spin he backs away from Hussein being an imminent threat, the deceit that no one in the world community, except for Tony Blair, would agree to. With this clever, contrived deception those who were dazzled by his trickery could think he was a good man, who tried his best for them. The rest of the world can’t tolerate this pile of horse manure he is trying to masquerade as the truth.
Devotees of games of chance cover up. Ray McGovern chaired NIEs and prepared/briefed the President's Daily Brief during his 27-year career at CIA. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He writes, “Sifting through the congressional report on 9/11, I was reminded of the President's Daily Brief item of August 6, 2001 titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US."
Isn’t that title clear enough for 43, the self proclaimed “leader of the free world who doesn’t do nuance”? He continues, “Dana Priest of the Washington Post has learned that this PDB article stated "bin Laden had wanted to conduct attacks in the United States for years and that (his) group apparently maintained a support base here."
According to Priest, the PDB went on to cite "FBI judgments about patterns of activity consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks."
Just like one of his favorite role models, “Tricky Dick”, the current hypocritical president has cited executive privilege in refusing to declassify the PDB item. What happened to his “moral clarity”? I guess it only applies to specific situations.
This is a deck of cards READY TO TUMBLE.
Was Afghanistan just a ploy? He knew everyone would give him the benefit of the doubt there. Like a card shark setting up a bigger bet later on, he tried out his “Shock and Awe” first in Afghanistan. He bluffed with a pair of twos.
When the venture is this hazardous, when there is no other option, compulsive cheats tell outright lies. What about his great victory in Afghanistan? In an Afghan News Network article titled “US-led forces kill up to 24 people who attacked a coalition convoy”, of July 21, 2003, this quote about the dilemma in Afghanistan, “Some 19 months after the fall of the hardline Taliban regime, an 11,500 strong US-led coalition is pursuing members of the militia and its al-Qaeda allies who continue to launch attacks, mainly in the southeastern border region” clearly shows that 43 is lying about this alleged conquest.
Remember that 43’s team was telling us that the Iraqis would be welcoming us liberators? That seems like another bluff. I did a little research and found a typical estimate that 43’s team was pushing at that time. In this one, of February 9th, 2003, Newsweek’s article’s title, “Post-War Iraq Hope Would be to Withdraw Troops in 30-90 Days”, tells it all and just seems clearly silly!
For an opposing point of view, and also by skimming the title only, “The war in Iraq is just starting”, by Jon Carroll on August 7th, 2003 for the San Francisco Chronicle, seems closer to the truth. Here he tried his earlier con with a pair of twos again, but the world is prepared this time, and he’ll lose.
Like a poker faced bluffer, the arrogant 43 team has never divulged the estimated time or cost of the Iraq occupation to Congress. It would seem fair that they do so because Congress has to write the appropriation bills, but 43 is convinced that, since he is leader of the free world, he doesn’t have to get bogged down with details, nuances.
The current distraction of the purposeless Iraq incursion allowed the Taliban and al-Qaeda to reform. The Iraq debacle is detracting from 43’s “war on terrorism”, as every Democrat, and leaders of every foreign country, warned him! The way his group coerced its way to preemptively attack Iraq lost us all of our allies. Rumsfeld’s arrogant remarks about “Old Europe” and our “freedom fries” were indicative of the hubris of this regime.
Every experienced card shark knows he has to play his cards geared to who his opponent is. He can bluff most inattentive foes, but not the on the ball ones. In this case, if he knows his audience reads the Washington Post, and the LA or NY times, or even looks at foreign newspapers, then he gets nowhere with his pitches.
Luckily for 43, a majority of the US is bedazzled with Murdoch’s FOX and, the other arms of the GOP controlled media. On FOX you just know when he is campaigning for re-election, the choreographed scene, the ultimate Commander-in-Chief routine, will be everywhere. Never will FOX mention the number of our US boys and girls who gave their lives in the occupation of Iraq. The sickening irony of that May 1, 2003 photo opportunity, when he had the USS Abraham Lincoln emblazoned with the sign “Mission Accomplished” to declare victory over Iraq, is devastating. How could he dare make it clear to everyone that he was responsible for all praise regarding the Iraq war, and later spurt “bring em on” while our youth were dying?
Does he not necessarily have to be where the buck stops? It is a horrible place, a tangled web of deceit with human suffering as its result. It is too tasteless for the Democrats, but if the Republicans were in their spot, they would be keeping a running tally of all of our sons and daughters who have died since 43 declared victory in Iraq! The current warmongering GOP regime has not seen a military victory; it has only enraged the Islamic world against the “crusader” the US.
Mini-me 41, is the one who can play footsie with the “Southern strategy”, as long as he keeps the country petrified with his “everlasting war against terrorism”. All of the polls state that the great undecided swath of our voters, the working class heroes, trust 43 with matters of security. WHY? They are paying no attention and won’t until a few weeks before the election. At that time Rove’s boy will mouth a few transparent, poll-tested lies, and get enough of the not interested voters, to win again. As far as Rove is concerned, his pedigree boy, the slacker who spent most of his formative life in the blue-blood havens of Connecticut, yet absurdly speaks with a southern accent, is currently running unscathed with his recent duplicitous skirmishes with the truth.
His façade as “the straight talker” is his strength with the red state voters. As soon as they start contrasting the reality of 43’s failures with his duplicitous words about Homeland Security and the related “everlasting wars against terrorism”, then his tissue thin house of cards will tumble.
b. connors
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