Plamegate and Iraqgate get the shaft: normenclature of scandals

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Originally Posted by Tonchi

Just one more thing I need to clear up with you: I am not some degenerate liberal hippie type who protests any lawful and rightful military action. I detested Jane Fonda and I am not against War across the board. I was born on an Army base, both my parents were Army officers, and I don't lie cheat or steal or tolerate anybody who does. The problem I have is with stupid stupid people who have their own agenda taking the cream of our country into places where we have no business being so that they can get wiped off the face of history for NOTHING. And I believe Iraq will go down as the biggest Nothing in our history.

F*ckin' A, Tonchi.

Just being loud, obnoxious, and (most tiring of all) persistent, doesn't change wrong to right. Changing the history books doesn't make it right. Suppressing contrary views doesn't make it right.

This Great Country is big enough to hold misguided souls like UG and the rest of his dittoheads, but they are disproportionally represented due to the volume of their chicken little ravings and the real effect of their fearmongering.

The ghastly, criminal mismanagement of practically everything this administration has its fingerprints on is appalling. If GWB were such a humanitarian, why doesn't he START AT HOME? There are numerous opportunities for him to display his noblesse oblige in our own country. But no. And why not? Why is he so galactically hypocritical? Because it is less profitable. Because it is more visible, especially the mistakes. Because it doesn't jive with the agenda of those to whom he is beholden--big busine$$ and the religious fundamentalists who bury their heads in the sands of the past and righteously demand that everyone else do likewise.

He spends our blood and treasure so freely because it cost him little to accumulate it and therefore has proportionally little appreciation for how hard it is to come by. The deaths of the men and women--tragic almost beyond words for those whose loved ones are now gone--doesn't register with him. I find his political speechreading to the contrary unconvincing. His boggling explosion of our debt, his unconsionable acceleration of the imbalance of wealth and sacrifice in our nation is a wound so deep, the scar will be borne for generations.

I started to write that I hate GWB. I don't though. I don't believe he's evil, but I am certain he's in well over his head. The things he knows how to do, don't apply to the problems at hand. He knows loyalty, a good trait. But loyalty without accountability is cronyism. He knows determination, a good trait. But determination without vision is bullheadedness. He knows pride, a good trait. But pride without humility is hubris.

I am enormously saddened and infuriated that his incompetence in his leadership role is leading us rapidly downward in national economics, social progress, and world standing. It is a damn shame he has what it takes to get us into this mess, sadly, he doesn't have what it takes to get us out again.