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Bush: Still a Goddamned Liar

Submitted by Shal

Edited by Shal

You know, I was recently accused of being one of those liberals who can't find anything good to say about the Bush Administration and who is always harping on the negative events of Bush's presidency. That may be true, but when I read stories like this, I feel perfectly justified.

Bush on Good Morning America, Thursday, September 1st, three days after Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans:

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm. But these levees got breached. And as a result, much of New Orleans is flooded. And now we are having to deal with it and will."



Bullshit, Georgie, bullshit.

The day before Katrina made landfall, the Bush Administration was briefed by the bumbling Michael Brown, then-head of FEMA, that Katrina may very well be "the big one" and that the levees were set to break. There is video evidence of this.

The Associated Press obtained the confidential government video and made it public Wednesday, offering Americans their own inside glimpse into the government's fateful final Katrina preparations after months of fingerpointing and political recriminations.

"My gut tells me ... this is a bad one and a big one," then-federal disaster chief Michael Brown told the final government-wide briefing the day before Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29.

The president didn't ask a single question during the briefing but assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."

A top hurricane expert voiced "grave concerns" about the levees and Brown, then the Federal Emergency Management Agency chief, told the president and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that he feared there weren't enough disaster teams to help evacuees at the Superdome.

"I'm concerned about ... their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe," Brown told his bosses the afternoon before Katrina made landfall.



Yeah, it would have been great if, as the head of FEMA, "Heckuva Job" Brownie had made these realizations sometime during his tenure and tried to fix problems before they occured.

Why does Bush lie so goddamned much? Why can't this administration ever, ever admit when they fucked up and then do their damndest to fix things?

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GramNegative

GramNegative

I'm lost
October 2004

MAR 02, 2006 08:04 AM

Cause God is all knowing, and since he wanted Bush to be president, well, he saw this coming, so it can't be wrong?

quasi_sean

quasi_sean

Houston, TX
July 2003

MAR 02, 2006 08:16 AM

I think when Bush said they were "fully prepared," he meant they were fully prepared for a way to lie and make themselves look good. That bastard.

attn_ho

attn_ho

Brooklyn, NY
February 2004

MAR 02, 2006 08:19 AM

maybe hes not lying. hes acting! all republicans after ronnie reagan are actors.

wait did i say he was an actor? i meant puppet.


i mean shalome you better shuddup, or dick cheneys gonna shoot you in TEH FACSE!

quasi_sean

quasi_sean

Houston, TX
July 2003

MAR 02, 2006 08:21 AM

dirtyprude said:
i mean shalome you better shuddup, or dick cheneys gonna shoot you in TEH FACSE!



I think he only guns down old republican men.

Shalome is safe.

phrogg

phrogg

Greenville, SC
August 2005

MAR 02, 2006 08:22 AM

I think the United States of America and many of its people are under some form of dark enchantment. It's the only remaining plausible reason for me.

attn_ho

attn_ho

Brooklyn, NY
February 2004

MAR 02, 2006 08:30 AM

yeah, when i see congress, i definitly think dark crystal.

Keith

Keith

Hooker, OK
August 2002

MAR 02, 2006 08:40 AM

NewYorkMatt said:

phrogg609 said:
I think the United States of America and many of its people are under some form of dark enchantment. It's the only remaining plausible reason for me.





See, and everyone told me I was crazy when I said there was a lot of anti-Bush subtext in that movie.

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

MAR 02, 2006 09:13 AM

I never attribute to malevolence what can effectively explained by incompetence. Humans are much better at being stupid than evil (even, indeed especially, smart humans - the latter just do stupid things very intelligently). Idiocy is essentially a self-perpetuating condition. A person who makes a mistake and blames exterior factors for the consequences of that mistake is obviously not going to be learning anything from their errors. I think the present regime is a stunningly effective example of that dynamic. The mendacity is simply the method by which these incompetents evade responsibility and avoid challenging their own preconceptions. They're lying first and foremost to themselves, and only secondarily to the American people - who it must be said actively assist them in the act of deception because who, other than some Godless kneejerk AmeriKKKa-bashing traitorous liberal moonbat, would really want to believe that things are as bad they are?

Oops. I just said "as they are." I guess I've outed myself as a Godless kneejerk AmeriKKKa-bashing traitorous liberal moonbat. Crap. Regardless, I still think it's slander to compare Bush with Palpatine - I could get behind Palpatine. I mean, the Dark Side is cool, you get strangle people with your mind and shoot lightning out of your fingers. Bush is not so cool. He's just a totally conventional smirking frat-rat who happened to inherit a superpower from his daddy. That's just dumb.

[Edited on Mar 02, 2006 by Zarth]

shacolwal

shacolwal

Saint Cloud, MN
February 2004

MAR 02, 2006 09:37 AM

Bush is a Sith Lord. I have known this for years.

JohnnyForeigner

JohnnyForeigner

United Kingdom
July 2003

MAR 02, 2006 09:38 AM

quasi_sean said:

dirtyprude said:
i mean shalome you better shuddup, or dick cheneys gonna shoot you in TEH FACSE!



I think he only guns down old republican men.

Shalome is safe.



NO-ONE IS SAFE FROM CHENEY ARRR!!!

theseeman

theseeman

Asheville, NC
December 2002

MAR 02, 2006 10:11 AM

How is Micheal Brown bumbling or incompetant? He did his job. He explained that in congressional testimony. He was set up to be the fall guy for it. I mean look at his face when bush taps in the stomach. If he had been listen to we wouldn't have had 1300 dead 2300 missing. Bush is where the buck stops and his incompetance contiunes to cost American lives and liberty.

here is some video
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/ap_bush_pre-katrina_tape_060301d.wmv

and something else about another scandal:

"Two highly classified intelligence reports delivered directly to President Bush before the Iraq war cast doubt on key public assertions made by the president, Vice President Cheney, and other administration officials as justifications for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein, according to records and knowledgeable sources."
http://hotstory.nationaljournal.com/articles/0302nj1.htm

So that is three lies the president has been caught in, FISA violations, Status of the Levees, and now the aluminum tubes.

mingol

mingol

Singapore
July 2005

MAR 02, 2006 10:21 AM

Why can't this administration ever, ever admit when they fucked up and then do their damnedest to fix things?



Probably because admitting to all the things they've fucked up would be a 24/7 job in and of itself.

DaShiznit

DaShiznit

Mount Pleasant, MI
February 2006

MAR 02, 2006 10:34 AM

Dark enchantment=antichrist???

phrogg

phrogg

Greenville, SC
August 2005

MAR 02, 2006 11:08 AM

theseeman said:
How is Micheal Brown bumbling or incompetant? He did his job. He explained that in congressional testimony. He was set up to be the fall guy for it. I mean look at his face when bush taps in the stomach. If he had been listen to we wouldn't have had 1300 dead 2300 missing. Bush is where the buck stops and his incompetance contiunes to cost American lives and liberty.

here is some video
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/ap_bush_pre-katrina_tape_060301d.wmv

and something else about another scandal:

"Two highly classified intelligence reports delivered directly to President Bush before the Iraq war cast doubt on key public assertions made by the president, Vice President Cheney, and other administration officials as justifications for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein, according to records and knowledgeable sources."
http://hotstory.nationaljournal.com/articles/0302nj1.htm

So that is three lies the president has been caught in, FISA violations, Status of the Levees, and now the aluminum tubes.



Obviously, the guy that reads reports to him had the day off... ooo aaa

papawheelie

papawheelie

Fisty, KY
February 2003

MAR 02, 2006 11:10 AM

shacolwal said:
Bush is a Sith Lord. I have known this for years.



I think it's his dad... he's too incompetent to be a sith lord

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