Gannon screw-up

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"They screwed up?"
Author samela    
  

        
In response to Reply #14


Sure they screwed up. But it has consequences.
They screwed things up royally in Iraq, too. They've screwed up the long-term economic picture of the country. Look, these people operate on two principles:
(1) hubris
(2) incompetence
And they get away with both things time after time.
Let's remember how Bush was hell-bent on getting his tax cuts passed. Here's this guy with no mandate, having eked out his power from a controversial Supreme Court decision (the whole election scam/fight thing in Florida itself being an extreme form of hubris ... I mean, who would think they could get away with having a candidate's brother strong-arm an election in his own state using such lumpenly obvious scams as the Karl-Rove butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County and phony lists of felons), and he puts forth this zany idea, and even a lot of old-time Republicans warn it's a bad idea, and it's plain as day what the consequences will be. But he gets away with it anyway, and to make matters worse does it again after 9/11. And everyone says, no one in their right mind would cut taxes when the nation is at war and the deficits are mounting, and you'd think he'd have to be nuts to propose cutting again, cause unemployment is going up and the gubmint revenues are declining ... but he does it again. And we now have historic deficits--he blew nine trillion dollars, taking us from a $5 trillion surplus to $4 trillion deficits. And a lot of people would say, yeah ... but you know, some stuff came along and, well, they didn't realize and they just screwed up. He's gotten away with it.
Let's not even talk 9/11. Can you imagine a president of the United States going on a month-long vacation after serving only 5 months in office, getting a memo entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Within the United States" (not to mention the 52 other memos specifically mentioning domestic suicide bombings using planes that we now know about) and then not doing one fucking thing about it? I mean, sitting on his ranch clearing brush or whatever and not having his National Security Advisor even call a single meeting? And then, after doing absolutely nothing with regard to this information, spending his time at an elementary school and ... even after being informed that America had been attacked ... sitting there on a little teeny chair reading a story about a pet goat? I mean, who could imagine anyone screwing up that badly? But he gets away with it, and they call him "manly" and "a leader" to boot.

So this happens, and that very night Rumsfeld is running around the Pentagon saying find an excuse to attack Iraq. And Richard Clarke tells him, and other people tell him, WHA? Iraq had nothing to do with this. But he says fuck that, this is a great opportunity. So they do all this shit for the next however many months that is really quite unbelievable--so unbelievable you can't imagine them actually having the hubris to do it on purpose cause who could get away with such things? -- kicking out the CIA analysts from meetings so Doug Feith can stovepipe his own raw intelligence up the ladder, getting the National Security Advisor and the Vice-President to go on TV and lie about nuclear capability and scaring people with phony stories of mushroom clouds. And they have the unprecedented gall to baldfacedly have the President lie during his State of the Union speech, including known fabrications like the Niger Yellow-Cake story, full well knowing the CIA has told them it is not true. But they do it anyway. I mean, that is so far-fetched that a Presient of these United States would get up and tell a boner like that after having been warned a dozen times it was not to be used (even having had it removed previously from a speech in Cincinnati). But they do it anyway, and they don't even care when they get caught with it. They just break a law by smearing the people telling the truth, outing a CIA agent -- and they get away with it.
And then they attack Iraq and even though all the generals have told Rumsfeld you need way more troops and you need a plan for after the military portion, he completely ignores them and goes ahead with his own hare-brained amateur battle plans. And talk about screwing up. Oh man, we don't even have to go over this. Not guarding the ammunition caches, letting all the country be looted of records, firing all the Ba'athists, creating a maelstrom of insurgency that has enmeshed us in an unwinnable war in which some 1,500 troops have died and 8,000 maimed and untold thousands and thousands of innocent Iraqis dead. And it was all based on this bold, audacious set of lies. And they get away with it.
And now you ask if they would intentionally have the nerve to pass through a known male hooker with no journalistic experience into the White House for two years? I mean, what rational administration would do something that nutty thinking they could get away with it?
Well, you know what? They are that nutty and that "fuck-you-we-can-do-anything-we-want." And they will get away with it.
This is the screw-up administration. And I am both shamed and scared to be an American right now. And if it takes a two-bit hooker who is blackmailing Scotty McClellan--or whatever the story on this turns out to be-- to discredit them, so be it.