America's Shame: Brought Low By a Gang of Cretins

Written by Chris Floyd ,Monday, 11 December 2006

Among the 1,000 people who work in the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, only 33 are Arabic speakers and only six speak the language fluently, according to the Iraq Study Group report released on Wednesday.

This tells you pretty much all you need to know about the American debacle in Iraq. Imagine the arrogance and stupidity of conquering, occupying and trying to run a country without being able to speak its language. A nation of 26 million people – and your embassy has only six people who can actually understand what is being said, written, and broadcast there. This is a folly that amounts to a monstrous crime in itself, aside from the inherent evil of launching an unprovoked war of aggression.

Evil is the only word to describe the wilful ignorance at work throughout the entire process of the Iraq War, from its inception to its execution to the catastrophic endgame now unfolding before our eyes. The reality of the situation is almost unimaginable, almost unendurable: that the most powerful nation in the history of the world has thrown itself, deliberately, for no compelling reason whatsoever beyond the selfish interests of a few elitist cliques, into a cauldron of mass murder and moral ruin, whose financial, political and spiritual costs will be felt, with deep suffering, for generations.

And that such a fate should come at the hands of such third-rate fools! Not only the gibbering idiot hugging his stolen presidency and "Decider-in-chiefship" to his chest like a baby with a blanket, but the whole rogue's gallery of dullards and brutes whose rat-like cunning in the service of their own lusts for pomp and power has been mistaken for genuine intelligence and substance: Dick Cheney, bumbling factotum of two failed presidencies – Nixon's and Ford's – and now the guiding light of a ruinous third; Don Rumsfeld, corporate bagman and lifelong blowhard (also a minion in the failed Nixon and Ford regimes), who began his career with vicious lies and has ended it with the blood of half a million Iraqi civilians on his lily-white hands; Douglas Feith, the utter nonentity well-described by General Tommy Franks as the "fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth," an empty suit who nonetheless had a far greater role in pushing the war and designing its lunatic aftermath than most people realize; Paul Wolfowitz, the comb-licking weirdo whose much-alleged, never-proven "brilliance" has disguised a lifelong record as an apologist for repression and mass murder, from Indonesia to Iraq… and on and on, through the whole sick crew.

To have been brought low by this gang of vicious cretins only adds to the shame of America's immeasurable crime in Iraq. Yet every single one of them will leave the regime for fat, well-paid sinecures and honored retirements, living on in luxury, surrounded still by sycophants and apologists, cheating the justice they so richly deserve until the final judge comes round for them at last – as he did this week for their comrade in murder, Augusto Pinochet. _______Chris Floyd


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Singing the same tune, day after day. This gets incredibly old, FT. We may have to set aside a spot just for your postings, as was done with Shaman long ago.

Singing the same tune, day after day. This gets incredibly old, FT.

But just think how "old" it gets for the millions of citizens being fucked over *day after day*, by the vicious, warmongering, cretinous Bush Administration.

When that band of despicable thieves is arrested for crimes against humanity and dragged away to be tried in a Nuremburg style proceeding, I'll stop making posts that criticize what they're doing.

When that band of despicable thieves is arrested for crimes against humanity and dragged away to be tried in a Nuremburg style proceeding, I'll stop making posts that criticize what they're doing.

You and I both know nothing like that will ever happen. The politicians are going to bide their time until they can come up with a suitable replacement for Bush to shove down the country's throat. Won't be the klinton bitch, nor gore either. Probably won't be anyone you'll have the least use for - regardless of party affiliation - and that's another thing you know full well.

You and I both know nothing like that will ever happen.

I was not implying that I thought it would come to pass.

The politicians are going to bide their time until they can come up with a suitable replacement for Bush to shove down the country's throat.

True.

When that band of despicable thieves is arrested for crimes against humanity and dragged away to be tried in a Nuremburg style proceeding, I'll stop making posts that criticize what they're doing.
Oh the humanity.

When I'm on the road I see a plethora of "GWB" or "Bush Cheney 2004" stickers on people's cars. When I'm on the internet I can't walk a step without seeing comparisons of him to Hitler.

Singing the same tune, day after day. This gets incredibly old, FT. We may have to set aside a spot just for your postings, as was done with Shaman long ago.

But just think how "old" it gets for the millions of citizens being fucked over *day after day*, by the vicious, warmongering, cretinous Bush Administration.

We're all in that boat, FT, and we all know exactly how dire the situation has become.

And while many of us would agree with you that Mr. Bush and his friends seem determined to (continue to) make war, and that their activities while in power have been generally negative for America and Americans (and the world) in many sad and disconcerting ways, I hardly think raging about it every 30 seconds is going to invigorate the masses into doing ... uhhh ... something.

It's certainly not going to change the situation in Washington or the Middle East. Maybe you should be directing all this stuff to the White House and/or your representatives in Congress?

As for myself - the more you go on, the less inclined I am to pay attention. I haven't gotten to the point yet of putting you on "ignore" (sometimes, your outrage is good for a chuckle or two ;) ), but you do seem to be approaching Kathaksung-levels of obsession.

When that band of despicable thieves is arrested blah blah blah blah yadda yadda blah yakkity yak blah blah arf arf arf I'll stop making posts that criticize what they're doing.

I doubt it. In fact, I suspect the Bush administration is going to be the political football you kick around for the rest of your life.

Possibly longer. :) I can just see your epitaph:

Here lies a Freethinker
Taken too soon

Blame that rat-bastard warmongering, cretinous
George Bush!!
%$#@!

:D

America has been embarrassed be cretinous leaders many times in it's history. We have always survived it so far. Occasionally the cretins have proved smarter than their critics thought at the time, other times they have been proved to be the cretins everyone thought.
What is most important about this country is that the citizens are free to complain about the cretins running things, and that they have the opportunity to replace them with other cretins on a regular basis. So far the cretins in power have always acknowledged the results of the elections, and stepped down when told to. The real crisis will come when one of the cretins refuses to step down.

The real crisis will come when one of the cretins refuses to step down.
That'll happen.

We're all in that boat, FT, ...

Yep.

....and we all know exactly how dire the situation has become.

No, actually, that's incorrect.

There is an immense portion of the populace that not only is completey ignorant of how dire the situation has become, but who are extremely supportive of Bush and his Administration and the things they've done to the country in the past 6 years.

And while many of us would agree with you that Mr. Bush and his friends seem determined to (continue to) make war, and that their activities while in power have been generally negative for America and Americans (and the world) in many sad and disconcerting ways, I hardly think raging about it every 30 seconds is going to invigorate the masses into doing ... uhhh ... something.

You miscontrue.

I am aware, 100%, that nothing I or anyone else can say to the masses will register with them or cause them to turn away from the imminent plunge over the cliff when this country, thanks to the failed policies of the ConservaFascists, begins to collapse from within.

I do not level he criticisms that I do with ANY thought whatsoever to it making the dimwitted American Public wake up and change dirrection.

I suspect the Bush administration is going to be the political football you kick around for the rest of your life.

Possibly longer. :) I can just see your epitaph:

True on the first count.....and that's a very good idea --at least something along those lines--- for my epitath.

(What you may be totally unaware of is that I do NOT reserve these criticisms for Bush or his Administration alone; many OTHER people (i.e.,the many who endlessly push the anti-human agenda of God-Guns-n-Guts) in the Washington cabal, from both sides of the aisle, are equally reprehensible and equally antidemocratic. The thing that never ceases to amaze me is how fervently people will --even those who seem to be dimly aware of what an abject failure that Bush has been-- defend Bush and scream to the heavens should anyone dare criticize him and how horrible his leadership has been for this nation.)

America's Shame: Brought Low By a Gang of Cretins

Written by Chris Floyd ,Monday, 11 December 2006

Among the 1,000 people who work in the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, only 33 are Arabic speakers and only six speak the language fluently, according to the Iraq Study Group report released on Wednesday.
......... _______Chris Floyd

Maybe the plan is/was to teach all the Iraqi people ENGLISH under Prae's concern that the whole damn planet must speak ENGLISH. He just can't understand why other people can't speak ENGLISH. If they do, that'll make him happy. Good luck with the FRENCH!

I think any "opinion" FT had on George Bush was many many years ago.. this has become an obsession...

And the funny thing about it is he can't prove anything, he finds little bits and pieces and of course connects any hint of hopeful dots to try to damn George Bush straight to Hell.. but no chance IN hell that FT could prove everything he says about Bush.

I think any "opinion" FT had on George Bush was many many years ago.. this has become an obsession...
I have a feeling that he has loathed the man since his father served under Reagan.

BREAKING NEWS: Bush...one of the worst disaster's to hit the U.S....:upyours:

...but no chance IN hell that FT could prove everything he says about Bush..

?!?!

....the policies he advocates, the agenda he follows and the things Bush does are a matter of historical record.

I do not level he criticisms that I do with ANY thought whatsoever to it making the dimwitted American Public wake up and change dirrection.

Soooo.... you do it just to hear yourself talk?

;)

Maybe the plan is/was to teach all the Iraqi people ENGLISH under Prae's concern that the whole damn planet must speak ENGLISH.
Noooooo.

I just expect them to speak English in MY country, because that's what we do here. (Unless, of course, they're on vacation (read; just visiting), and even then, I don't like hearing Spanish (not that any Spanish-speaking people actually "vacation" here without birthing a child in California, Arizona, or Texas, but I digress.)