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Cheney is going to resign following a real or imaginary heart attack. The Usurper is going to choose his own brother Jeb-the-Catholic to finish the term as VP. When will this happen? Soon, very soon, a few weeks after Jeb-the-Catholic has his first audience with ParaRatzi. And as a result of that, the next presidential election will have Jeb and Joe (see below) on the Republican ticket. Not bad, from the point of view of the Vatican, for covering up PapaRatzi's Jewish problem.

Joe-the-Blow Lieberman will be chosen as VP by the future Republican presidential candidate. Joe-the-Blow would prefer to run with McCain, but  anyone will do.

What is the best way for Arabs to stick it to Bush and to the Americans? To re-elect Bush, obviously. The Iraq mess would become a tragedy, Americans would be further discredited in the eyes of the world, Arab leaders (read: tyrants) wouldn't have anything to fear from America anymore, they wouldn't have to face the possibility of a solution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, nor would they be in any danger of spreading of democracy in the area. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and friends would enjoy the status quo.

Now, how do you make sure that Bush gets re-elected? The first possibility would be a direct attack by Al Qaeda inside the U.S, say, during the Republican Convention. People would rally around the President and he would coast to victory. However, this is rather risky, there is potential for a backlash particularly if the intelligence and security apparatus proved to be incompetent.

I think the best way to re-elect Bush would be for the Arabs to give him a big victory, like the capture of Osama three weeks before the elections. Osama himself may decide to engineer his own capture at the hand of Pakistan, for instance. He could do so in true martyr spirit, or because whoever is protecting hi now decides that he must be sacrificed for the greater good of the cause.

I think they are trying to divert people's attention after the total failure of Bush's speech two days ago.

I am on the verge of despondence.

So, the NYTIMES admits it bought the official Bush administration line about WMD and never challenged it. What the Times does not tell you is that Judith Miller, the lead reporter on WMD, is closely associated with a right wing Israeli association. My hunch is that she got played like a violin by the Sharon people and received assurance that Israeli intelligence had concluded that Hussein did have those weapons. Of course, Sharon was very much in favor of a US invasion of Iraq. I remember reading Ha'aretz in those days (http://www.haaretzdaily.com/): they were very skeptical about the WMD stories. However, the official position of the Israeli government and its intelligence was that Hussein was a real threat. That was the story that was leaked to the press. I happened to be against the war, yet at the same time I was in a state of anguish because I was afraid I could be completely wrong in my opposition. What if the stories about WMD were right? I have no trust whatsoever in the US intelligence under Bush, but I thought that the Israeli intelligence assessment could be trusted. Looks like I got played too.

After the speech at the Army War College: I get the feeling that Bush writes his own speeches, hands them in for correction (spelling, punctuation, that sort of thing) and a little editing to his fifth grade teacher. But the material is really his own. No self-respecting speech writer would ever, ever, want to be associated with the banality of parataxis, the subject-verb-object (or subject copula predicate) three-sentence paragraphs and the dripping laundry list of clichès. His speeches sound like a high school sophomore's version of a Valedictorian address: generic, off- the-rack ideas drenched in oily rhetoric, puerile attempts at lofty flights into the sublime, pedestrian syntax, lots of examples because he is not sure he used the right words (doesn't' know the meaning of half of them) when he was speaking in abstract, 'idealistic' terms.

It happened before and will happen again. The Republicans run up gigantic budget deficits through huge increases in expenses for the military and tax cuts for the rich. Then, the moment they lose the White House they get all sanctimonious about the deficit and start howling about a constitutional amendment to balance the budget (government borrowing is bad for the economy.) The cowardly Democrats freak out and end up cutting benefits and services that go to the most vulnerable, the poor and the middle class, exactly the people who vote them. With friends like these.....

Fallujah will end up either like Dien Bien Phu or Hue (Vietnam.) In Dien Bien Phu (1954) the French lost the battle and the war. In Hue (1968) the Americans won the battle but they lost the war.

Text:
"Let Bush be the War President.
I want to be the Peace President.
I want to be the Peace of Mind President.
Peace of mind about health insurance.
Peace of mind about Social Security and retirement.
Peace of mind about education and college tuition.
Peace of mind about a world that doesn't hate us."

The next Presidential election will be decided by Al Qaeda. If they keep attacking outside the U.S, Kerry will win. If the attack inside the U.S. Bush will win.

It's too depressing to even think about it.

Bush believes he is the Messiah.
Just saw Bush's press conference. We are in deep trouble. The guy believes is on a mission from God. Did you hear what he said about America's mission of "bringing freedom to the world" and the blather about "freedom being a gift from God" etc. He is messianic. He is delirious. He is on the verge of a psychosis. He really thinks he is doing God's work, like the Crusaders and the Spanish Conquistadores. That's what happens when you have too little brain and try to compensate with "faith."