Bush recently visited the Pope, presenting him with the USA's highest civilian award, the "medal of freedom." He called the pontiff a "devote servant of God." This makes sense since he is, after all, the Pope. As always, it's nice to see just how much the Bush administration refuses to separate Church from State (okay, so I'm stretching the concept a bit in this case). Check out the article to read up on the lovely welcome George Dubyah received in Italy.
I suppose the medal presentation is a desperate attempt by Bush to increase his approval rating, especially after the most recent blow to his Administration: the resignation of George Tenet. Just how many rats will jump ship before it goes completely underwater?
I'm obviously no fan of Bush, nor Bush Sr. for that matter. I still remember the day when his "Operation Desert Storm" was launched. I'm surprised at what lengths they will go to in order to protect what is now essentially "their" oil supply. Maybe once we actually ween ourselves off of our crude oil addiction, we'll enter a new era of peace. Not likely though.
It may have started out as a means to find and destroy Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction and/or his connection with Osama (hell, they couldn't find Bin Laden, so why not go after someone they *could* find?). But wait, there's not really any WMD's, so they then called it something like "Operation Iraqi Freedom" -- time to get rid of this awful dictator and his mass graves and killing fields! A fine plan indeed, freeing the Iraqi people, but maybe you should have held off to make sure it was a more coordinated effort by all those others who would have liked to see this done for the humanitarian reasons? No, no, of course not. You see, what they really want is more control of the oil, and unless they show up first, they won't get dibs. By the way, George, how goes that search for Osama?
It's a little disheartening to realize all this fighting is over our dependency on the remains of the last group of creatures that ruled this planet. In a few million years from now, will someone or something be fighting over our liquid remains?
I suppose the medal presentation is a desperate attempt by Bush to increase his approval rating, especially after the most recent blow to his Administration: the resignation of George Tenet. Just how many rats will jump ship before it goes completely underwater?
I'm obviously no fan of Bush, nor Bush Sr. for that matter. I still remember the day when his "Operation Desert Storm" was launched. I'm surprised at what lengths they will go to in order to protect what is now essentially "their" oil supply. Maybe once we actually ween ourselves off of our crude oil addiction, we'll enter a new era of peace. Not likely though.
It may have started out as a means to find and destroy Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction and/or his connection with Osama (hell, they couldn't find Bin Laden, so why not go after someone they *could* find?). But wait, there's not really any WMD's, so they then called it something like "Operation Iraqi Freedom" -- time to get rid of this awful dictator and his mass graves and killing fields! A fine plan indeed, freeing the Iraqi people, but maybe you should have held off to make sure it was a more coordinated effort by all those others who would have liked to see this done for the humanitarian reasons? No, no, of course not. You see, what they really want is more control of the oil, and unless they show up first, they won't get dibs. By the way, George, how goes that search for Osama?
It's a little disheartening to realize all this fighting is over our dependency on the remains of the last group of creatures that ruled this planet. In a few million years from now, will someone or something be fighting over our liquid remains?
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