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Posted by: populist 2 years, 9 months agoBenedict has put his finger on the crux of Bush's flawed and simplistic gnosticism. Iraqi society is not pure evil. Nor is America - which Bush sees personified in himself as the "Decider" - pure good. The claim might serve a useful propaganda purpose, but it is dangerous if taken seriously.
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lvrofwolves
April 10, 2007, 8:46 a.m.Yeah! he's a 'decider' all right...everytime I think about him saying that, and many other things, it cracks me up...on the surface-cause in life you need laughter, but down below, it's sad. I AM THE DECIDER!
Wow! did Bush really say that Iraqi people were pure evil?????
If so, jesus I sure hope the Iraqi people did not hear that.
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Bopi365
April 10, 2007, 9:16 a.m.Bush lives in a two dimensional world, either that or he is just demented.
Put on the white hat fellows and lets round up the bad guys
Us against them
but God is on our side.
Heathens
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nikkibabe
April 10, 2007, 9:50 a.m.Shiite Iraqis who constitute 86% of Irqai population either demonstrted or supported the demonstration demanding US leave Iraq.
"When Iraqis stand up, we will stand down".
Well Mr. Illusionist in the White House, they stood up 2 days ago and asked you to leave.
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miklkit
April 10, 2007, 10:37 a.m.This is a very good article. I hope the republicans read it and take it seriously. The implications are scary. Very scary.
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0513-29.htm
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paulzimmerman
April 10, 2007, 10:51 a.m.bush is no king and not the "decider" of anything except
when he is going to do his next "job" which involves his
butt in contact with a toilet seat... :>)
it is "we the people" here and it is past time for people
in this country to start speaking up.
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crespi
April 10, 2007, 10:55 a.m.Sorry miklkit,
the only thing the Ultra-Conservative Fundamentalist Christian Republicans take seriously is how to maintain their absolute power base.
Ethics, the law, Democracy, human suffering mean nothing to them and in fact are only seen as means to further their control.
Impeach.
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ChefEOD
April 10, 2007, 11 a.m.What I read is a statement that such an act is pure evil, not that all of Iraqi society is evil. Some of you folks sure know how to take a bone and run with it.
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Disulfate
April 10, 2007, 11:10 a.m.I'm always suspicious of a person who claims to really be
good....especially George Bush.
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skyking2p
April 10, 2007, 11:16 a.m.I just watched this guys speech to the vfw on CNN and it must be one that was written 3 or 4 years ago. Same sheite different day. He is so simple minded. The sad thing is there are still thoughtful people in this country that support him. Impeachment now.
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crespi
April 10, 2007, 11:37 a.m.MonkeyBiz- and anyone else
You've probably seen it but there is a "150 Pat Robertson Grads In the Bush Administration" thread that could use sensible commentary.
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keinkampf
April 10, 2007, 12:03 p.m.Those ungrateful Iraqis obviously don't realize that we are killing them and destroying their country for their own good!
They must be liberated from themselves!
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Dionys
April 10, 2007, 12:08 p.m.Unfortunately the RepubliCons won't take it seriously. Why? The people who put Bush into office LOVE the idea that the world is so plainly black and white. They love the idea that we are 100% good and our enemies are 100% bad. Because that's the only way they can justify taking hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, including children, through supposed "collateral damage."
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rickcb
April 10, 2007, 12:11 p.m.A couple of months after Bush leaves office he'll go off on a cocaine and Jack Daniels binge, and they'll find him running naked through the streets of Crawford Texas screaming "I AM THE DECIDER!"
The man is a lunatic.
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Fisherman451
April 10, 2007, 12:45 p.m.Bush's radical position has put Americans in a shooting barrel in Iraq, Iraqi civilization in jeapardy, the Middle-east in termoil, and America at the bottom of the list of world leadership capability and statesmanship!
I am ashamed every time I see "dub-ya" smiling as he walks in front of the camera. With approval rating below 40% for the last 7 months, how can he continue to resist the will of the American People?
Perhaps his daughters could help out in some small humanitarian way by volunteering in the "green" areas of Iraq? We would surely recognize their gift of time and consideration of the Iraqi People's need. Perhaps, Bush and his spouse could lay awake nights sharing the worry that thousands of other parents have ... night, after night, after night, after night.....
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shyanbelle
April 10, 2007, 1:11 p.m.Populist, you spend all day searching for anti bush crap online? Dude u seriously need to step away from the I hate Bush Blogs and take a look at reality for a change. Im sure through the delusion you and your organization are engulfed in may be hard. But why don't you try to find some thing that actually shows some good in America for a change.
I swear. You people really HATE the USA. One day your time will come. One day.
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simonsez
April 10, 2007, 1:24 p.m.The usual poor article from populist, but it gives you Bush bashers your "fix" for the day.
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rickcb
April 10, 2007, 1:28 p.m.Delusion Confronts Reality? I wouldn't exactly go that far; granted Bush IS delusional...but is the pope so grounded in REALITY? I mean the man is wearing a cruise missle for a hat, he wears a dress...and his purse is on fire!!!
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ChefEOD
April 11, 2007, 8:54 a.m.ET & Ian, Let me try and explain this to you. There are three types of people in the world; sheep, wolves and sheep dogs. The sheep do not even want to know that danger exists for them in the world, they simply want to get their share of the best grass and have a warm place to sleep at night and they will NEVER do anything to protect themselves or those around them. The wolves can take the sheep standing two feet away and the rest will still do absolutely nothing other than a little bleating. The wolves will ALLWAYS kill and eat the sheep and they will never stop without a sheep dog intervening. The sheepdog exists to protect the sheep, they do not know how to do otherwise, they will never look the other way, they will ALLWAYS go after the wolves.
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ChefEOD
April 11, 2007, 8:54 a.m.We were given multiple reasons for going into Iraq. Everyone who eventually agreed on that action had their reason that to them was logical and right. I agreed with many of those reasons but for me the primary was to remove a bloody dictatorship and give the Iraqi people an opportunity to decide their own future. I am a sheepdog, I know no other way than to fight the wolves. People wonder what gives America the "right" to be the world's policeman. We have no such right, we have an obligation to stand up and protect those who cannot or will not protect themselves. Since its conception America has always stood in the gap and fought the wolves because we were made that way by virtue of being given the ability in mind and body to fight the wolves. If you and others are not sheepdogs that is well & good, that is how you were made. But do not expect those of us who are sheepdogs to lie down and let the wolves of the world continue their slaughter - it will not happen.
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Bopi365
April 11, 2007, 11:57 a.m.Wrong chef
while I cannot debate your own personal reasons for wanting to invade, the reasons this Admin gave do not in any way mirror yours. this is only the current version as to why we are there.The latest update.Spin. Are we to believe that an Admin who cares little to effect policy domestically has such heartfelt desire to do so abroad.
Wolves and sheepdogs
You forgot farmer brown and his shotgun. you forgot market prices of wool and acceptable losses caused by wolves.
You forgot that wolves have been hunted to near extinction due to farmer browns policy of eradication and that wolves help maintain the natural balance. you forgot that sheep graze grass down to the roots which is partly why cattlemen despised them. etc.......
This is the problem with george. Life is not that black and white.
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