In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Since I missed it yesterday, again.
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, No. 125
1. The Bush Administration
Was it really only six months ago that chickenhawk Richard Perle was thanking God for the death of the UN? How times change. Last week the Bush administration officially admitted that their occupation of Iraq is failing dismally and crawled on their hands and knees to the United Nations for help. How embarrasing. Unsurprisingly the UN was not particularly impressed - and who can blame them considering the rough treatment they've received at the hands of Bush & Co. Even while groveling to France and Germany the Bush administration managed to come over as belligerent and hostile, demanding that any UN support must be placed under American command. "Uh, hi there UN. Our troops are getting killed, and it's becoming politically embarrasing. Will you give us thousands of your young men for cannon-fodder instead? Oh, by the way, you can't have any say in what happens to them." France and Germany last week rejected this plan as "insufficient," and that's probably putting it mildly. I mean, what did the Bush administration expect? "Oh, sure, here you go. Never mind that we opposed the invasion in the first place, and you've done nothing but insult us and call us irrelevant ever since. We'd much rather see our soldiers shot at than yours." Honestly, does the foreign policy incompetence of this administration know no bounds?
2. The White House
Any sane person would assume that the bin Laden family could have given us some really useful information about Osama immediately after 9/11 - but don't look to the Bush White House for sanity. It has long been rumored that shortly after September 11 the Bush administration put members of the bin Laden family on a plane and flew them back to Saudi Arabia - and now those rumors have been revealed to be true. According to Richard Clarke, an adviser who ran the White House crisis team after the attacks, "dozens of influential Saudis, including relatives of Osama bin Laden" were allowed to leave the country while most flights were still grounded. Yet according to the FBI, "no one was accorded any additional courtesies that wouldn't have been accorded anyone else." Funny - if I recall correctly, just after 9/11 the FBI was arresting anyone with an Arabic-sounding name and spiriting them away to military bases where they could be held indefinitely without a trial. I guess that was anyone except Saudis who might actually have some useful information - they were sensibly put on a plane back to Saudi Arabia. So let's see: Osama bin Laden is from Saudi Arabia as were fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers, and a recent Congressional report showed that the Kingdom funnels money to terrorists (see Idiots 119). Yet the Bush White House has for some reason done everything in its power to divert attention away from Saudi Arabia. I guess they were too busy drawing up plans to invade, uh, Iraq.
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