Good rant and most timely! I was in the hospital for an out-patient procedure but got home in time to hear the reports on his comments. I noticed his eyes were like a wild animal constantly trying to move out of the line of fire.

This is the most dangerous President in my lifetime and knowing he has another year to bring on WW3 is frightening. I heard Biden's comments and felt that if he means what he said, he will demand the House impeach Bush if the attack on Iran goes before the Congress.

Thanks for this commentary, we need your opinions to verify our own and, of course, to write our Congress to stand firm on the combined security information.

Well said Doug...

...yes, he's coming apart -

...we need to rise up and take measures to ensure he doesn't take us down any more than he already has -

...to quote him, "it ain't workin"

LFTL

Bush reminds me of Nixon as end of his administration approached - grasping at straws - trying to keep the lies alive - really pathetic when you come right down to it.
Like Nixon he needs to be removed or driven from office - and send his evil sidekick packing as well -

Peace

Steve

Can we blame this on the speech writer?

This policy of MAD (mutually assured destruction) is so 1950's, I can't get over how BAD history keeps repeating itself.

Perhaps we should look at how Eisenhower faced the soviet threat? He built US highways, fortified OUR infrastructure, warned us about the War Machine/Profiteers. Yet what do we have here? Bridges falling down, trillions of national debt, and the cloud of nuclear waste over our heads. And who's getting rich? Or does War mean Sacrifice for everyone's sake?

What a frapping idiot. To allow himself to be used by TPTB (in the headlights) proves it, he's no man nor Christian either. Not one that loves God or Jesus or Mary even.

And the fools that follow him? Ten bucks says they're lawyering up.

Perhaps he's looking to bring about the "end times" as described in the Bible so he can look upon the face of Jesus ...

As I read about is "peace initiative" the words to a Dylan song (off of the album "infidels") kept streaming through my head ...

"sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace"

Steve

I have never felt secure with Bush/Cheney as President. I too was reminded of Nixon yesterday, as Bush spoke with his eyes darting back and forth as he lied and tried to cover his arse. The only difference was, with Nixon I never felt he would put the nation in such a dangerous position world wide as Bush has done and will continue to do. These last months of Bush in office I shudder to think of the things he can and will do if he's not stopped.

Bottom Line....Bush is a known liar as well as an incompetent and dangerous President...He should never be trusted by anyone at anytime nor under any circumstance or for any reason!

"Yes, I know, no one has come forward publicly to confirm that meeting in 2005 where we reported Bush uttered those words but I trust the people who gave me the information and no one in the White House, Congress or the Republican Party has denied or publicly disputed the story."

"Those words" are all over the internet, whether it started here with you and CHB or not, its out there. Besides, his actions reflect his regard for the constitution anyway so his belief is confirmed.

-- Kent Shaw

Doug, I agree with every word you wrote. If this President is not impeached today it cannot be for lack of evidence against him..and his sidekick that rides shotgun alongside him..or is it the other way around.

It was very scary the look of madness that Bush projected as his eyes darted everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. That is the way of a cornered animal desperately searching for a direction to run. This man is obviously on the brink of losing what little control he has somehow managed to retain. He could not wait to run from the room after making his pathetic attempt at covering his rear end. And this is the Leader that we and the rest of the world is supposed to look up to. He has made us the laughing stock of the world.

What is Congress afraid of ? All that illegally obtained information that all of his spying has uncovered ? Are all of the Members so afraid of what might be disclosed if they start impeachment proceedings ? It certainly cannot be for lack of evidence to impeach, for if there was ever a President that cried out for impeachment it is this one. Nixon and Clinton are running a country mile behind this man.

Come on, Congress, do your job. Do what you were elected to do. Stand up for your country and the people that put their trust in you. You need not be afraid of losing your job if you call for impeachment...in fact the very opposite will happen. We, the people will begin to have trust in Congress again. You may even begin to respect yourselves again.

When there is strong evidence individuals have committed serious crimes, we arrest those persons and hold them for trial. Why? For the safety of society.

Why are Bush & Cheney still at large? We must begin impeachment before these sociopaths set the whole world on fire.

As they say, payback is a bitch. Looks like folks are finally getting back at George for outing Plame and the past spinning of the NIE and other intelligence estimates.

It will be interesting to see what Senator Joe, nuke'm till they glow, LIEberman how has to say. And Israel is still looking for a new Masada to martyr themselves for.
Israel vows to resist Iran nuclear drive despite US report uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071204/tpl-iran-nuclear-us-politics-israel-b04fc5e_2.html

Dear Doug,

Your words are mine.

I'm presently reading "A Tragic Legacy" by Glenn Greenwald; the author goes a long ways towards explaining how Bush's mental processes got him into the place he's at. If he gets anymore cognitive dissidence his head will explode; we should all pray he will not take us with him.

Keep up the good work.

Big Jer
Bakersfield, CA

Doug, I forgot to say thank you for a great RANT. I agree with you and also with the Steve Horn' posts and in fact all todays posts. Believe me, I am taking a LONG HARD look at all candidates and I have not yet made up my mind..but I don't think ANY one person or administration will be able to undo the severe damages caused by this current one...it will take many years and many concientious leaders and I'm not sure it can ever be undone. If those elected to run our country don't kill it off, the public apathy and ignorance surely will. Thank again for all the great posts today.

Your rant is a superb indictment concerning this nation-destroying mattoid!

Unless Congress is in on the deal to take down America with dubya as our first dictator, then they best get crackin' and impeach both he and Cheney. If they keep screwing around with these two characters then they too will be rounded up and shot in the event Bushco pulls off some scenario that allows them to declare martial law.

The sooner he and Cheney are impeached and hopefully found guilty and flushed, the safer it will be for pols on both sides of the aisle and we the people too.

The guy is obviously a sociopathic, psychopath...!

Carl Nemo **==

Doug (and Nigeldh) are spot on!! Payback is one COLD BITCH! This is what W. gets for his constant pandering to the neocons and Likud-nuts! I submit the last straw was his defacto pardon (i.e., "commutation") of Scooter Libby, which probably took the intelligence community over the edge! There's a real battle royale being fought behind the scenes with AIPAC, Israeli Intelligence and the Neocons on one side, versus the Washington Military and Intelligence Establishment on the other. The latter is sick of being used, abused and dying for what they see as clearly not in the USA's best interests.

More to come. Especially when this Sibel Edmonds woman is free to spill the beans on the neocons and Israeli/Turkish intelligence!

Two facets are interesting.

First, that the intelligence services would appear to have ganged up on the pres and said something like "We will not be subverted again." Can you imagine this happening just a couple of years ago? Wouldn't have happened. Is a core if integrity re-emerging within the intelligence services?

Second, the Bush Bluster of righteousness in the face of contrary data. Not surprising, just interesting. One gets the picture of two self-righteous religious zealots, Bush and Ahmadinejad, each wishing he could bring about the apocalypse, frustrated by more rational people within their respective governments.

My grandkids will never understand.

-Warren

Gosh, these are wonderful replies to Doug's Rant. The only way our Congress must have stayed silent during these last 4 years must be that the Intelligence Agencies had done a job on their personal problems.

We elect Representatives on their appearance and sex appeal and seldom on their agenda. We get what pay for and only the FBI has the truth on many of these legislators.

When I speak out against the Patriot's Bills and their intrusive investigations on our lives, I can only imagine what they discovered about their enemies the Democrats.

If they can come up with dirt on Ron Paul, I will have to into what lies they have arranged to go after him. Sadly, most people who spot my bumbersticker ask me how he would look in the White House. I answer that I've never seen an honest man in the White House and like to see how he looks.

I found a Goldwater for 1964 badge and I wear it proudly and people understand the connection. LBJ scared the hell out of the American voters that Goldwater would nuke the world. Instead he screwed all of us with building the largest federal government possible.

This election will prove that Americans want their safety net and will be willing to sacrifice their freedoms for the handouts. We will get what we deserve in 2008.

BushCo's last stand?

Guys, think about this: If Dumbya can't get his way, he can and probably will do this:

Arrange another 'terror attack' sometime early next year in another major city, thus, giving him justification to declare a 'state of national emergency' and suspend the 2008 presidential elections indefinitely....leaving himself and his evil sidekick in power as long as they want.

A couple years ago, I laughed at the thought of W trying to revoke the 22nd Amendment, now, all this cooked (burnt) intel has American citizens everywhere in a constant state of fear over 'terror threats' and these Bull#$!& audio tapes from OBL (I think he's dead, really). Nothing like reinventing the closet monster to scare us all into submission.

I knew this clown was a sociopath the first time I saw him and heard him talk back in 2000. Everything he's done since has confirmed my initial sense of him. I've been blogging against him most of this year (being new to blogging...)

I can't stand seeing him or listening to him. He gives me the same sense of physical revulsion and disgust I get when looking at something utterly diseased and loathsome. Reagan had the same effect. It's a gut reflex.

Bush and his cronies and political comrades, without exception, have dragged this country down into the foul pits where they live, and unless the 2008 election produces an exceptional result, I do think there will be civil bloodshed in this country between right and left, between the rich and the rest of us, between Republican and Democrat, and sooner rather than later. To let these people continue on in any degree with what they are doing is to be complicit in their crimes against humanity and their treason against the United States.

Nuclear weapons were originally built to be used, upon an unsuspecting humanity.
The nuclear 'Trigger' has been pulled on us all several times over the decades.

The current "Madman" in the oval office has tried to start a nuclear war, that is planned to spread and lead to the destruction of the mass human race.

The decision to use nuclear weapons upon humanity was made in 1946. This is what the Extraterrestrial intervention is all about.

We are the "Living Dead."

The darting eyes of the cornered predator show that he is calculating how and when he will do his last stand up comedy routine in office.

Bush is a sociopath. His eyes are the eyes of a person who cannot tell the difference between right and wrong.
Great rant.

Warren: you are absolutely right. And there is a military procedure in place to prevent a madman president from "blowing up the world." This I know for a fact, having been necessarily briefed on it many years ago. The military has it's own law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice. That overrides civilian law. The military does not swear an oath to obey the commander in chief, the president of the US. They swear their oath to the constitution - " to protect and defend the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic." They and not the president are in control of nuclear and all other weapons and who will have access to them or the power to use them.

I have explained this many times in this and other forums due to the prevailing misconception almost everyone has about who the hell is in control of the nation's weaponry. It is not some stupid spoiled little frat brat that somehow became president without ever winning an election.

Warren and SEAL, I hope you are right about taking the trigger away from Bush. Let's hope Cheney will not be in place to flip it. This Administration is even worse than I imagined and wrote about. I have always feared the Christian Missionaries who stirred up and destroyed so many cultures all over the planet. Just reading the assault on Central and South America should have warned us but they came with the migrants from Europe who were fleeing their religious problems at home.

Bush has tried to demand that all Americans follow one God and it will come back and cause him to overreact as the Church demands. We are living in the shadow of destruction and after listening to Romney last night my hope for a free Nation dissolved.

Something wicked this way comes....at least that's what I think is going to happen now. Bush is a psychopath, without conscience, and he's not going to sacrifice himself to save face, he'll sacrifice us - maybe another larger-than-life incident to distract us all.

Today is the date Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. I had thought maybe an action on this date might prove to be another attack. So far, so good. Be careful everyone.

The movie industry has created so many misconceptions. They have everyone believing that the little black case that is never more than a few feet away from the president has a secret process that, once the machine receives the proper code, can be opened and then and goes through some super secret fail-safe identifying procedure that determinmes that the right person is activating it's ability to order and actually initiate by the pressing of a button any weapon owned and controlled by the United States of America. With one finger the president could destroy the world. But that is pure horseshit!

That little black briefcase sized box (commonly referred to as the "football") is only a unique communicating device. It does have a verification process that could be considered fail-safe. But what that little box does is connect the president with all those necessary to determine the validity of the threat and advise what the appropriate response should be. The president makes his decision and issues the orders to "those who are actually in controll of" our nations weapons. They are the ones who give the final order to launch and they are not robots. They have a sworn duty to their nation and a responsibility for the result of their actions. They answer to a higher power than the president. He may be right or he may be wrong. They may or may not obey his orders.

This is the way it is supposed to work. But, where people are involved, anything can happen. However, you must understand that the president cannot open the box and press a button that will launch nuclear weapons or even send three marines to throw rocks at someone. The reality is that the level of using nuclear weapons cannot be entrusted solely to one person. There is no one single switch that could launch the end times. And I don't know how it works now but that little black box used to always be in the hands of a Naval officer. The signifigance of that could not be properly conveyed here.