So the pope came out today and said that, and I paraphrase, "America has done more harm to itself with the torture of the Iraqi prisoners, than Al Qaeda ever did with planes
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Hell, prior to the war, Bush managed to quite possibly be the worst president in history in the short span of a year. His environmental policies were, and continue to be, atrocious and damaging to the planet, and are implemented only for the benefit and boon of large corporations and conservative industries. Let us take the "Healthy Forest Initiative," for example, wherein he allowed a lumber company to go in and trim a forest because of wildfires that were occurring. However, many ecologists told Bush that the wildfires were natural and part of the cycle of the forest's self-restoration, and that it would be more damaging to the forests to actually smother them. Who won there? The timber industry, of course . . . And I can't stress enough how retarded his answer to the Californian energy crisis was. The only thing he did to pathetically attempt to alleviate the issue was allowing certain nuclear power plants to reopen their doors, after having been shut down for emissions violation. Did this even help? Hardly, of course Bush wouldn't want to curtail the fact that Texas was raping California with the sale of their own energy supplies. This is the kind of shit he pulled before Iraq, before he ever sent us into a country under false pretenses only to further the personal agenda of the GOP, not the country or the people in it. While I, initially, always knew there was no reason more than Bush's vendetta and the Republican's ulterior motives to go into Iraq, I still thought, back then, that it was good to see Saddam taken down. The piss-poor and inexcusably disorganised "reconstruction" of Iraq, though, is fucking sad. Troops driving around in unarmoured jeeps in hostile territory, and we're supposed to be surprised they get blown up by contigents of rebels with RPGs? I feel sorry for our troops, it must be like being employed by a decapitated muppet baby, right now. And we wonder why morale is low, too? It would be supporting our troops to vote against Bush, when you get to the heart of the matter. Republicans may, as a rule, provide more funding for the Defense budget and armed forces, but money can't repair incompetence. Rumsfield? Rumsfield? As if Ashcroft weren't already an insult. Colin Powell is quite possibly the scant few good decisions Bush has ever made, and I'm sure he feels ignored and squelched, only occassionally being able to slightly vent his frustrations to the House or Senate every once in awhile. Don't vote Bush. Just . . . Don't. He's not even a good Republican. His father, at least, managed to have decent economic policy, and the common sense to not thrust his pelvis in the collective faces of the world nations. I don't think I'll leave America, but I do hope to find a nice, obscure niche I can hide in, somewhere in a forest nobody cares about.
Don't vote Bush. Just . . . Don't. He's not even a good Republican. His father, at least, managed to have decent economic policy, and the common sense to not thrust his pelvis in the collective faces of the world nations.
I don't think I'll leave America, but I do hope to find a nice, obscure niche I can hide in, somewhere in a forest nobody cares about.
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