Quips and Comments
   by Barry Crimmins

Profound thanks to the people of Asia for watching George W Bush
for us this week. We really needed the break.

Iran- Contra scoundrels Elliot Abrams, John Negroponte and now John
Poindexter have all been given influential jobs in the Court-appointed Bush
Administration. Apparently a rap sheet is much better than a resume if
you are looking for work with W.

Watching Dubyahoo give a speech in another country is like being forced
to sit through a school assembly featuring the rambling opinions of an
embarrassing uncle who has wandered out of the bar at American Legion
long enough to explain his world view to your flabbergasted classmates.

Afterwards you just know your classmates will never really trust you again.

During his visit Bush offered China an opportunity to become the 51st police state.

UPSA! USPA!! UPSA!!!

Bush had planned to browbeat the Chinese on the issue of human rights
but when he opened his folder on the matter he found his prepared
remarks had been replaced with a note stating: "We are in basic
accord with the Chinese as regards human rights- J Ashcroft"

Bush then fumbled into some previously unpublished text from a Pearl S. Buck novel
concerning zeal for bringing faith-based oppression to the Chinese.

W hoped to convince the Chinese that suppression of religious freedom is a tedious
task but the imposition of religious dogma can be fun for the entire government.

Emboldened by his own trumped-up status at home, W now feels eligible to
browbeat foreigners with his spiritual superstitions. Perhaps the foreign pagans
will find God so they can also play fast and loose with the future of humanity while
acting as if their corrupt and irresponsible behavior is a Divine commission.

After his speech Bush attended a reception for several hundred
Chinese fetuses just so he could provide them with healthcare.

Iran-Era scoundrels Elliot Abrams, John Negroponte and now John Poindexter
have all been given influential jobs in the Court-appointed Bush Administration.
Apparently a rap sheet is much better than a resume if you are looking for work with W.

Who better to fight a war on terrorism than with veterans of the
struggle to keep death squads funded and armed to the teeth?

If anyone knows terrorism, it's these guys.

Now if W feels he needs to funnel arms to Axis of Evil member nation
Iran, he has Poindexter right there to reopen some old channels.

A federal judge has revoked the United States citizenship of John Demjanjuk,
the Cleveland man alleged to have been a Nazi death camp guard. Within hours,
the Justice Department offered to restore Demjanjuk's  citizenship, providing he
agree to supervise interrogations at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay.

That was quite a performance by Rumsfeld on Thursday. He went out of
his way to refrain from apologizing for the murders of 16 innocent
people by US troops. He said plenty otherwise, "Of course the US
killed the innocent people, some of them had actually begun to defend
themselves! Of course there were dead people found shot and
handcuffed. Everyone knows that the first thing you do with a fatally
wounded innocent person is to handcuff him. That way you are freed up
to beat confessions out of non-fatally wounded innocent people."

If Bush is "Smirk", Rumsfeld is "Sneer."

Yesterday Rummy sneered at the wasted lives of 16 people. The Defense
Secretary's outright refusal to apologize for the murders is an unconscionable
insult to all innocent victims of violence. This includes the late and lamented
Steven Pearl and everyone who was massacred on September 11.
 

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