I had planned a lucid excoriation of the world media (particularly the British) for their Bush Wins headlines. The Daily Mirror, a British Publication, had George Bush on the cover after his election and the question, “How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?" But now, I'm not going to hold back...here it comes, both barrels. Prepare thyself.
Slate further reports, “The Guardian's "G2" section was fronted by a page of solid black containing just two small words: "Oh, God." Meanwhile, the Independent ran the headline "Four More Years" along with iconic images from the first Bush term: kneeling prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib, soldiers fighting in Iraq, oil-drilling machinery, sign-wielding religious extremists, and a smirking Dubya.”
Then, I read what this jerk had to say. I quote it in entirety now:
GOD HELP AMERICA
Nov 5 2004
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN..
THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has
deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation
and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world.
Yes, we got what we deserved. We also got our choice, thank you very much. "Lawless Cowboy?" As far as I can see, the US led by Bush, was one of a few select nations that chose to enforce the "law" according to your beloved UN, at least if all of those resolutions can be called "law" in the case of Iraq. And in the case of Afghanistan, we were attacked first, if you recall. We gave the Taliban the option of expelling bin Laden and they refused. As such, they were seen to be harboring the enemy, thus, they were the enemy. We retaliated as was our right.
This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four yearsFearful? Backward-looking, very small? Hardly, sir. We are so afraid of bin Laden that we called his bluff. We are not afraid! WE ARE NOT AFRAID! We are out there leading the fight, looking forward to the peace our victory will bring. Small? If by small you mean petty and vindictive...damn right. We are damn well going to take the misdeeds done unto us very personally and revisit them upon the transgressors. You, sir, are the idiot.
and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in
doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small
nation.
This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their
critics by raising their eyes from their own sidewalks and looking outward
towards the rest of humanity.
Get over yourself! We are looking up and out, you jackass. We are attempting to save the rest of the world from this menace with the assistance of many other brave nations, yours included. I think you are the one that is blinkered and not aware of reality. The threat is real, no matter what you may wish.
And for a few hours early yesterday, when the exit polls predicted a John
But then the horrible, inevitable truth hit home. They had somehow
Kerry victory, it seemed they had.
managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put
before them. The Yellow Rogue of Texas.
First, we don't serve you anymore. We relinquished that yoke of tyranny back in 1776. We don't vote to please you, but to please ourselves. LIKE ALL FREE PEOPLES, you smug sonofabitch. You managed a bit of clever poetic license, that's the best I can say for your essay. And by the way, one man's "reckless" is another man's "courage under fire."
A self-serving, dim-witted, draft-dodging, gung-ho little rich boy,
whose idea of courage is to yell: "I feel good," as he unleashes an awesome
fury which slaughters 100,000 innocents for no other reason than greed and
vanity.
President Bush serves the people of the United States, not himself. In our system of checks and balances, no man acts without the knowledge and agreement of Congress. According to reports, Bush has a higher IQ than your hero Jean Francois Kerry, so if one is dim-witted, they both are, but again, you don't really use any facts to back up your argument, so why should I? Draft-dodging? Not at all. He served in this nation's National Guard, a very courageous thing to be lauded. The Draft-dodger was your other hero, Slick Willy Clinton. Gung-ho, gotta say, when it comes to the guy leading the fight when we are at war, I want somebody gung-ho, not a hand-wringing, worrying pussy. The actions of the United States were not motivated by greed or vanity. If it was all about oil, we would have invaded Saudi Arabia or Kuwait. If it was about Vanity we would have invaded France. We invaded Afghanistan to seek out and kill our enemies. We invaded Iraq, with your help by the way (And Thank You, very much) to rid the world of a terrorist (Saddam) who aided and abetted other terrorists (Abu Abbas, Abu Nidal, et al) and had led the world (just about every foreign intelligence agency and the UN) to believe he was creating, stockpiling, and intent on using weapons of mass destruction. We took him at his word. Again, we called him on it.
A dangerous chameleon, his charming exterior provides cover for a
power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves whose goal is to increase America's
grip on the world's economies and natural resources.
And in foolishly backing him, Americans have given the go-ahead for more
unilateral pre-emptive strikes, more world instability and most probably another
9/11.
Okay, get this straight, it was not unilateral! Dude, you guys freakin' went with us! Are you stoopid? World instability should be laid at the feet of international terrorism in all its guises and disguises, including Arafat. We are fighting the good fight to prevent another 9/11. It happened to us, jerk-off, perhaps OUR opinions should count a little bit?
Perhaps you didn't listen to what OBL said. He said neither Bush nor Kerry could keep us safe, then specifically threatened the states who voted for Bush, clearly showing his preference for the weaker Kerry. If my enemy wants me to not use a specific weapon in a fight, which would be best for me to use to end the fight fastest? Five-year-olds on the playground recognize this ploy, even if you do not. And another thing, Americans don't like being told how to vote. Not by readers of The Guardian, not by terrorists like OBL, not by the British or the French, or anybody else.Why else do you think bin Laden was so happy to scare them to the polls,
then made no attempt to scupper the outcome?
There's only one headline in town today, folks: "It Was Osama Wot WonVery much so, thank you. Democracy is good. We have a strong President who will continue to fight. Essentially, we told Osama to "bring it."
It."
And soon he'll expect pay-back. Well, he can't allow Bush to have
his folks whoopin' and a-hollerin' without his own getting a share of the fun,
can he?
Heck, guys, I hope you're feeling proud today.
To the tens of millions who voted for John Kerry, my
commiserations.
Mine too.
To the overwhelming majority of you who didn't, I simply ask: Have you
learnt nothing? Do you despise your own image that much?
Learned nothing? I'd say 9/11 taught us a whole lot. Like who our friends are...and who our enemies are. We fight to preserve our way of life, you condescending, uppity loon.
Do you care so little about the world beyond your shores? How could you
do this to yourselves?
At the risk of repeating myself, we do care, that's why we are acting to stamp out tyranny and terrorism and promote democracy.
Ask John Kerry. He has a very good idea on that score.How appalling must one man's record at home and abroad be for you to
reject him?
Kerry wasn't the best presidential candidate the Democrats have ever fieldedI doubt that Kerry can understand the complexity you speak of if he doesn't understand his own electorate. I think we should ship him to you. You clearly think so highly of him. We don't do socialism here. That's all yours.
(and he did deserve a kicking for that "reporting for doo-dee" moment), but at
least he understood the complexity of the world outside America, and domestic
disgraces like the 45 million of his fellow citizens without health cover.
He would have done something to make that country fairer and re-connected it
with the wider world.
Instead America chose a man without morals or vision. An economic
incompetent who inherited a $2billion surplus from Clinton, gave it in tax cuts
to the rich and turned the US into the world's largest debtor nation.
Those tax cuts you speak of? I got one and I'm not rich. And I'm very happy to have gotten one. Fighting a global war tends to cost money. Fortunately, we also have the world's largest economy, so we can afford it.
A man who sneers at the rights of other nations. Who has withdrawn from
international treaties on the environment and chemical weapons.
You mistake sneering for a simple matter of enforcing UN resolutions. Why should we play by the rules if nobody else does?
A man who flattens sovereign states then hands the rebuilding contracts
to his own billionaire party backers.
Sovereign states? More like terrorist states run by those committing genocide. Keep apologizing for Saddam. Maybe he'll survive his trial and you can invite him to stay with your family. Your children can call him "Uncle Saddam" and you can put out a fancy Christmas card. Lovely. Who else better to get the gravy than the guys who supported us? Fool.
A man who promotes trade protectionism and backs an Israeli government whichIsrael has a right to defend itself against terrorism, just like everybody else. Just because you are an anti-Semite doesn't mean we all are. As to the UN, she has no credibility because she does things like the oil-for-palaces scandal and putting the worst violators of human rights in charge of human rights.
continually flouts UN resolutions.
America has chosen a menacingly immature buffoon who likened the pursuit of
the 9/11 terrorists to a Wild West, Wanted Dead or Alive man-hunt and, during
the Afghanistan war, kept a baseball scorecard in his drawer, notching up hits
when news came through of enemy deaths.
A RADICAL Christian fanatic who
decided the world was made up of the forces of good and evil, who invented a war
on terror, and thus as author of it, believed he had the right to set the rules
of engagement.
George Bush dreamed 9/11? That's such a relief. We aren't fighting a conventional war, therefore, normal rules do not apply. That Dead or Alive stuff? That's just fact, not romantic poetry to days gone by. We'll take bin Laden how we can get him, dead or alive, but we much prefer dead.
Which translates to telling his troops to do what the hell they want to
the bad guys. As he has at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and countless towns across
Iraq.
George Bush did not order thoses atrocities. They were the actions of a few bad apples. You have your own bad apples, but again, I merely suggest you back up your allegations with proof, scumbag.
You have to feel sorry for the millions of Yanks in the big cities like New
York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco who voted to
kick him out.
These are the sophisticated side of the electorate who
recognise a gibbon when they see one.
As for the ones who put him in,
across the Bible Belt and the South, us outsiders can only feel
pity.
Were I a Kerry voter, though, I'd feel deep anger, not only at them
returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us all into
the same category of moronic muppets.
The self-righteous, gun-totin',
military lovin', sister marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin',
foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' red-necks, who believe God gave America
the biggest dick in the world so it
could urinate on the rest of us and make
their land "free and strong".
You are an arrogant SOB. Sophisticates only live in major metropolitan centers. The rest of us are dumb hicks. Which makes you what? A smelly, bloated, self-important, stuffed-shirt, prig, cheese-eating, royalty loving, filthy Brit? I think you none of those things but you heap offensive assumptions on me. So, let's be clear: I am from the Southwest and live in the Midwest. I am a red-stater who lives in a blue state. I have a college degree, read 5 books a week, carry expensive handbags, am nobody's muppet (including my husband's), perhaps a bit self-righteous when I am insulted such as I have been by you, "Gun-totin'" - guilty, but then I've also just barely escaped a violent rape and don't wish to fight so hard next time. I love the military, true, but then I also love the freedom that they provide. I did not marry my sister, nor has anyone in my family. We haven't married any brothers either. I thought that was a blue-blood, keep the money in the family, royal thing to do? Don't paint us with your sins you SOB. I'm a pro-choice woman who couldn't care less what other people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms. I have met quite a few foreigners (after all, this is the great melting pot) and have almost universally loved them all. I do own a passport and have traveled extensively outside of my own nation. I simply prefer the United States. Much like you probably prefer French wines to the cheeky upstarts from Napa. Redneck? Guilty. That comes from having done actual work under the sun. We can't all be pale, weak, limp-wristed, namby-pamby, fainting ninnies, now can we? Again, see discourse on world's largest economy. Big Dick? Better than your tiny little shriveled worm. And last time I checked, dicks were good for only two things, neither of which is making war or providing peace.
You probably won't be surprised to learn of would-be Oklahoma Republican
Senator Tom Coburn who, on Tuesday, promised to ban abortion and execute any
doctors who carried them out.
He also told voters that
lesbianism is so rampant in the state's schools that girls were being sent to
toilets on their own. Not that any principal could be found to back him
up.
The people of Oklahoma are free to choose their own representation. They do not need your approval. I'm not going to discuss it further.
These are the people who hijack the word patriot and liken compassion to
child-molesting. And they are unknowingly bin Laden's chief recruiting
officers.
Al-Qaeda's existence is fuelled by the outpourings of America's
Christian right. Bush is its commander-in-chief. And he and bin Laden need each
other to survive.
Both need to play Lex Luther to each others' Superman
with their own fanatical people. Maybe that's why the mightiest military machine
ever assembled has failed to catch the world's most wanted man.
Blah, blah, blah. You are crazy. Wack-a-doo. Off your nob.
Or is the reason simply that America is incompetent? That behind the bluff
they are frightened and clueless, which is why they've stayed with the devil
they know.
Your contempt for us is obvious and you and I shall never see eye-to-eye. So, should you come calling for aid the next time some fascist army and air force is blowing up your beloved homeland, I shall suggest you call Arafat or Saddam or bin Laden. Because I shan't be calling my representatives in Congress to urge the President to save your collective asses.
VISITORS from another planet watching this election would surely not credit
the amateurism.
The queues for hours to register a tick; the 17,000
lawyers needed to ensure there was no cheating; the $1.2bn wasted by parties
trying to discredit the enemy; the allegations of fraud, intimidation and dirty
tricks; the exit polls which were so wildly inaccurate; an Electoral College
voting system that makes the Eurovision Song Contest look like a beacon of
democracy and efficiency; and the delays and the legal wrangles in announcing
the victor.
I wouldn't expect someone who worships royalty to understand our system. It has nothing to do with blood lines, breeding, or Eton. Our founding fathers detested your nation so vehemently that they set up this system. It works very well, whether you recognize it our not. Again, the system only need please us, not you, so get stuffed.
Yet America would have us believe theirs is the finest democracy in the
world. Well, that fine democracy has got the man it deserved. George W
Bush.
We like him.
But is America safer today without Kerry in charge? A man who overnight
would have given back to the UN some credibility and authority. Who would have
worked out the best way to undo the Iraq mess without fear of losing
face.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. We are safer if only because our mortal enemy is afraid of our leader. We've got a Commander in Chief not afraid to fight instead of a Surrenderer in Chief. I've already discussed the UN's lack of credibility and authority. The US can't give the UN credibility our authority if it won't back up its own words with actions and is morbidly obsessed with emptying the coffers of a country starving its own people.
Instead, the questions facing America today are - how many more thousands of
their sons will die as Iraq descends into a new Vietnam? And how many more
Vietnams are on the horizon now they have given Bush the mandate to go after
Iran, Syria, North Korea or Cuba...?
Hundreds of thousands died in Vietnam. A little over one thousand have died in Iraq. That doesn't even compare. And another thing, if we could fix the problems of Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Cuba at the cost of 1000 American lives each...I'd be all for that. Cheap at twice the price, considering what the world would gain in stability and freedom.
Today is a sad day for the world, but it's even sadder for the millions of
intelligent Americans embarrassed by a gung-ho leader and backed by a banal
electorate, half of whom still believe Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.
This intelligent American is sad for you. I'm not convinced that Saddam wasn't colluding with al Qaeda in some way, or if he was. I do know, however, that he was a sponsor of terrorism and for that reason alone he deserves to die.
Yanks had the chance to show the world a better way this week, instead they made a thuggish cowboy ride off into the sunset bathed in glory.
And in doing so it brought Armageddon that little bit closer and re-christened their beloved nation The Home Of The Knave and the Land Of The Freak.
God Help America.
And on a more personal level - Go Fuck Yourself, you whining pretentious prig.
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