George Bush's finest hour

Af netinu ...

Since today is Veteran's Day here in the freedom-loving heart of the free world, it seems only fitting to remember our leader's appearance on national television back in February 2004, where he explained why he launched the war that now seems to have killed about a million civilians, give or take a couple of hundred thousand. Full transcript at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4179618/ but here he is at his most eloquent.

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President Bush: Vital question.

And so we — I expected there to be stockpiles of weapons. But David Kay has found the capacity to produce weapons. Now, when David Kay goes in and says we haven't found stockpiles yet, and there's theories as to where the weapons went. They could have been destroyed during the war. Saddam and his henchmen could have destroyed them as we entered into Iraq. They could be hidden. They could have been transported to another country, and we’ll find out. That's what the Iraqi Survey Group — let me — let me finish here.

But David Kay did report to the American people that Saddam had the capacity to make weapons. Saddam Hussein was dangerous with weapons. Saddam Hussein was dangerous with the ability to make weapons. He was a dangerous man in the dangerous part of the world.

And I made the decision to go to the United Nations.

By the way, quoting a lot of their data — in other words, this is unaccounted for stockpiles that you thought he had because I don't think America can stand by and hope for the best from a madman, and I believe it is essential — I believe it is essential — that when we see a threat, we deal with those threats before they become imminent. It's too late if they become imminent. It's too late in this new kind of war, and so that's why I made the decision I made.

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Note the explanation of what happened to Iraq's famed weapons of mass destruction. Once Saddam and his henchmen saw that the US had entered into Iraq, they destroyed them. Hahahaha. What else would you do with weapons when your country is attacked? It was probably this display of Bush's intellect that led the American people to reelect him later that year.

Athugasemdir

[Fransman (IP-tala skráð) 12.11.2007 kl. 15:31]

Ef ég man rétt, þá byrjaði efnahagurinn að sveiflast niður í BNA, bara mánuðum eftir að Bush komst til valda, og nú er hann yrstu nöf ...

Það er sorglegt að miðað við gáfnafar bandaríkjamanna þá munu þeir væntanlega kenna næsta forseta um ástandið því það mun verða hann sem þarf að draga úr útgjöldum og byggja upp aftur. 

[Baldur Fjölnisson, 12.11.2007 kl. 17:19]

Árið 2001 var tiltrú almennings á banar. fyrirtækjum og Wall Street að hruni komin vegna stórbrotins bókhaldssvindls og skipulegrar svikastarfsemi á hlutabréfamarkaði. Þannig toppaði Nasdaq vísitalan td. vorið 2000 í rúmlega 5000 stigum, stóð í 3400 stigum á kjördag um haustið, var í 1600 stigum í apríl 2001, einhvern veginn tókst að ljúga hana upp í 2350 stig um sumarið en allt kom fyrir ekki, 10. september hafði hún sigið niður fyrir 1700 og frekara hrun blasti við á hlutabréfamarkaðnum ásamt meðf. samdrætti í efnahagslífinu. Þarna stjórnar nefnilega hlutabréfamarkaðurinn efnahagslífinu en ekki öfugt. Þannig gengur það í kerfum hvers mikilvægasta starfsemi er skuldapappíraframleiðsla.