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The fatal incompetence of the Bush administration has been their undoing...

A Failure to Protect Our Troops   For more than two years, the Pentagon largely ignored urgent requests from field commanders for better armor-protected vehicles that could have saved untold lives and limbs.

Springing Head-first Into Another Foreign Policy Disaster  

Springing Head-first Into Another Foreign Policy Disaster

The recent White House-

GALLUP POLL NEWS SERVICE >> GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
The latest USA Today/Gallup pre-election poll finds that likely voters say the Democrats in Congress are better able to handle each of eight key election issues than the Republicans in Congress. This includes two normally strong Republican issues -- terrorism and moral standards in the country. In fact, this is the first time Gallup has found Democrats as having an edge on the terrorism issue.

US interventions have boosted Iran, says report The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a press conference in Shanghai. Photograph: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP
Staff and agencies  Wednesday August 23, 2006  Guardian Unlimited
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Photograph: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP

The US-led "war on terror" has bolstered Iran's power and influence in the Middle East, especially over its neighbour and former enemy Iraqy.  A report published by Chatham House said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had removed Iran's main rival regimes in the region.  Israel's conflict with the Palestinians and its invasion of Lebanon had also put Iran "in a position of considerable strength" in the Middle East, said the think-tank.

Bush the Incompetent  "Incompetence is not one of the seven deadly sins, and it's hardly the worst attribute that can be ascribed to George W. Bush. But it is this president's defining attribute. Historians, looking back at the hash that his administration has made of his war in Iraq, his response to Hurricane Katrina and his Medicare drug plan, will have to grapple with how one president could so cosmically botch so many big things -- particularly when most of them were the president's own initiatives," Harold Meyerson commented http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012401163.html  in Jan/ 25, 2006, Washington Post.

 "Today, in America, we are forced to examine what we are, where we are going, and who we may become… The current regime in America seeks to reinforce traditions of anti-intellectualism and dogmatic fundamentalism.   Fifty years ago Mr. Baldwin intoned that it was essential for Americans to “free ourselves of the myths of America and try to find out what is really happening here.”  After more than a half century of searching, perhaps in the nick of time, we may finally discover what must happen if we hope to survive.  We may feel powerless when “leaders” try to redefine torture and legitimize aggression, but if we hope to find truth, courage, and fidelity among these transgressions, we must take James Baldwin’s observation to heart.   He told us, “The intangible dreams of people can have a tangible effect on the world.”   We can embrace his admonition that “The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.”
http://www.WritingResource.info/baldwin.html

Here is a video clip showing some of the cognitive differences between George Bush
ten years ago and now.  He may not be physically comptent to act as presdient.
detenkev.  http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-3878872949575955434&q=genre%3APOLITCAL

"Perhaps Bush's bizarre summer reading, according to his press office, of
Camus's The Stranger, is responsible for his melange of absurdities, appeal
to existential threat, and erratic point of view, veering from aggressor to
passive observer."  http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0824-20.htm

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Incompetence or Treason?   Was it incompetence, or treason, that Bush’s administration has drained our national wealth with this endless war, killing tens of thousands? ... www.nhgazette.com/news/letters/LT_incompetence_treason11.html

Impeachment is Prudent and Possible.

EV World

America's Deadly Dance  EV World, Nebraska - 10 hours ago
... Meanwhile; sometimes deliberately, sometimes by sheer ignorance and incompetence, the Bush administration encourages political Islam. ...

 
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