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Bush’s Missile Defense vs. My Erector Set

July 27th, 2007 | Add a Comment

Judging by how the overwhelming majority of Americans simply dismiss President Bush whenever he seizes the podium to spout more nonsense and lies about his illegal, immoral invasion and incompetent occupation of Iraq – arguably the worst foreign policy crime and blunder in U. S. history – virtually every image of our swaggering punk president must now be entering American brains accompanied by the caption: “Warning: This pigheaded, lying screw up doesn’t have a clue!” Knowing that he now comes adorned with that indelible modern-day scarlet letter, Bush has attempted to obscure it by cloaking it with the credibility of others. First, it was Colin Powell. Today it’s General Petraeus. When Petraeus no longer suits his needs, Bush … Read entire article »

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Missile Defense: Putin Rescues Bush from Yet Another “Foolish Thing Poorly Done”

June 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment

When it comes to the rank incompetence of our pathetic President, George W. Bush, and his reprobate Veep, I’m often reminded of Samuel Johnson’s observation about “a foolish thing well done.” Except, the only “foolish thing well done” by the Bush administration was Bush’s election and reelection as President – and for that, credit must go to Karl Rove, the Supreme Court, the Swift Boat Veterans for Lies, the good folks in Ohio who suppressed the Kerry vote there in 2004 and the rank stupidity of a large segment of the American electorate. Yet, the abysmally poor performance of the Bush administration during the past six years has me clinging to Dr. Johnson’s phrase, even if in a slightly revised form. … Read entire article »

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The Nutty Demagogic Spin of Curt Weldon’s Internal Gyroscope

June 21st, 2006 | Add a Comment

Few people register higher on the index of self-important, blustering demagogues than Pennsylvania’s Congressman Curt Weldon. Granted, he’s a mere piker when compared with former congressman Tom DeLay, or such conservative propagandists as Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly or Ann Coulter, but it’s not for lack of effort. Called a “connoisseur of terrorism nightmares,” who possesses the personality of a “blowtorch,” Weldon likes to use props – a dummy nuclear suitcase, or a replica of a sarin gas dispenser, or a genuine Russian missile gyroscope – to bring theatricality to his Chicken Little histrionics. But his “sky is falling” routine has a deadly serious objective; the hawking of so-called “indispensable” weapons programs, which, coincidentally, provide jobs for his constituents and business … Read entire article »

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America’s Pursuit of the Ultimate Weapon

June 16th, 2002 | Add a Comment

Originally published in Defense News “The obsessions of the technological utopians derive equally from the deeply and quaintly American belief that all human problems have engineering solutions, and from the profoundly unAmerican … post-Vietnam search for technological silver bullets that will permit U.S. forces to wage war without suffering – or perhaps even inflicting casualties.” ~MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray, “The Dynamics of Military Revolution” “Every military weapon ever built has instigated another weapon to counter it.” ~Helen Caldicott, “The New Nuclear Danger” Earlier this spring, within the space of four days, the Washington Post and the New York Times printed articles about America’s national missile defense program that spoke volumes about the technological utopianism and recklessness of President George W. Bush’s administration. On April … Read entire article »

Filed under: Bush Administration, Military History

Unilateral Steps Undermine Foreign Security

August 6th, 2001 | Add a Comment

Originally published in Defense News Notwithstanding the warmth and chemistry resulting from U.S. President George W. Bush’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16 and July 22, the latter quite clearly, if diplomatically, warned the American leader about the risks associated with any unilateral action regarding the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty or national missile defense (NMD). As he noted at the post-summit news briefing: “And taking into account the fact that the United States and the Russian Federation, as no one else, as no other country of the world, have accumulated huge amounts of nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction, we bear a special responsibility for maintaining the common peace and security in the world, for building a new architecture of … Read entire article »

Filed under: Bush Administration, Foreign Policy