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My Fellow Americans

by George W. Bush Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 3:52 PM

Bush turns the corner in response to demands from the left.

My fellow Americans:

After consulting with our loyal allies in Europe, speaking with United Nations officials, reading major American newspapers, listening to National Public Radio, consulting with Hollywood movie stars, and meeting with professors from our universities, I have changed my mind.

They are right.

I now realize that the most important goal America and its president can pursue is to be liked, hopefully loved, by mankind, and especially by France, Germany, China, and the Arab world.

I now realize that we Americans who think in terms of good and evil are simpletons. We should think, as the professors do, in multicultural terms and, therefore, render no moral judgment over Iraq or any other nation except Israel. Who am I to declare any regime an "axis of evil?"

I now realize that it was arrogance to make such a judgment on three regimes governed by men whom I should have tried better to understand. Now that I realize America's primary goal is to be liked, I will never again call any regime evil. In fact, in consultation with the presidents and deans of our major universities, I have decided to rename the governments of Iraq, Iran and North Korea an Axis of Diversity.

I now realize that the only reason I ever considered putting thousands of young American lives in jeopardy was because of oil. I was deluded in thinking that Saddam Hussein might use his weapons of destruction against vast numbers of innocents, or to think that because Saddam erased a sovereign nation from the map in 1991, he would contemplate doing such a thing again. The French have taught me that the way to deal with people whom I used to believe were evil is by giving them business contracts.

Yes, all these people knew better than I that I considered attacking Iraq only in order to obtain cheap gas for American SUVs. Even though it would have cost us far more money to topple Saddam Hussein than we would make from Iraqi oil. Even though I could simply have done what the French and Russians have done -- make deals with Saddam to buy all the oil we want. And even though we publicly promised that after Saddam, Iraqi oil will belong to the Iraqi people.

Despite all that, the left somehow recognized that a war against Iraq was really only a way to enrich my oil buddies. The left, whom I used to foolishly identify with appeasing and defending evil, have opened my eyes. They are right that nothing America does is out of a sense of mission to lead humanity in confronting evil. That was all a cover up for our true motivation -- more wealth. That is why we alone stand by Israel -- for all that oil in the Negev. That is why we protect Taiwan -- for Taiwan's bounteous natural resources. From now on, our moral model must be the Europeans who shape their Middle Eastern policies so as to be loved by 200 million Arabs rather than by a few million Israelis.

I now realize that America must be guided by Germany with its 100-year record of moral leadership; by France with nearly as long a record of standing up to evil; by our university professors, who almost alone in America understand that America and Israel are the world's villains; by the United Nations, which was so prescient in doing nothing during the Rwanda genocide and today provides more moral light with Syria on its Security Council and Libya heading its Human Rights Commission; by The New York Times and other newspapers that so insightfully attacked President Ronald Reagan for labeling the Soviet Union an evil empire; and by China, which I used to identify with cultural genocide in Tibet, but thanks to my new desire to be loved, I will now regard only as a huge potential source of love and cheap imports.

My fellow Americans, I will no longer be calling you "my fellow Americans," but rather, "my fellow earthlings" or "my fellow citizens of the world." Nor will I conclude this or any future address by asking that God bless America. That annoys secular Europe, and if we aim to be loved, we can no longer speak in religious terms.

Finally, given my new belief that America's task in the world is not to lead but to be loved, I have decided to step down from the presidency as soon as Congress and the states pass a constitutional amendment allowing Al Gore to be president. He, my predecessor President Clinton, and the whole Democratic Party have long believed that America's purpose is to be loved. They should be governing.

My fellow world citizens, peace and love.


George W. Bush

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Mr. President

by . Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 5:26 PM

May the bleeding piles caress you,
and the corns adorn your feet,
and the crabs as big as buzzards
sit upon your balls and eat.
And when you're old and feeble,
a syphylitic wreck,
may you fall right through your asshole
and break your fucking neck.

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Way to Go

by TheLeftaretrraitors Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 5:33 PM

That's right the left are traitors.
Anyone who's ever been to college, surfed for news on the internet, or talked to the average wacko at "peace rallies", knows just how insidious the left is. For starters, the left has a strong presence on almost every college campus, seeking out idealogically-inspired good-hearted young people, and turning them into self-hating simplistic thinking crackpots who, reflexively, blame everything that goes wrong in the world on their country, incidentally, the freest and most morally courageous nation in the world.
The very fact that the left is tolerated here just proves what a glorious country we live in. The left has supported the worst of our day including josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tsung, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, Manuel Noriega, Daniel Ortega, Kim Jong Il, need I go on?
The left scorns capitalism every chance they get, and would rather haver a centrally planned market coordinated system. The Soviet Union proved how successful that idea is. Markets. to them, are evil, and human nature is but a small barrier to the society in which they hope to create. One that preaches tolerance and democracy, but will undoubtely follow the path of their socialist gods Mao and Stalin.
The Left should be systematically destroyed. Not through force, but through the truths that we all know to be self-evident.

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You can talk but you cant hide

by Severian Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 6:26 PM

Bray all you want about it, running dogs. The descent of the energy vampires has already begun: some time ago at that. Now we watch as they flail about seeking footing where there is none. . .And, occassionally, we will do more than watch. Keep looking over your shoulder. . .No, the other shoulder. . .Just put your head on a swivel.

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If you really spread the truth

by Diogenes Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 6:28 PM

...about the corrupt morass our government is with a delusional Republican pResident who thinks he wants to conquer the world. And spineless wimps in Congress who rubberstamp his edicts because they are so hopelessly compromised and blackmailed that even if they wanted to they could not oppose the mandate for murder. Although the may have a little spine left because duhbya has been unwilling to go the Constitutional route and ask for a Declaration of War. If he did that there would an open debate. Can't have that.

The solution is to really support FREEDOM become a LIBERTARIAN (and if not that then anything but a Republicrat or Democan).
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Mother of all Russias

by KGB Descendant Tuesday, Mar. 04, 2003 at 11:12 AM

Open eyes can see the propoganda.
So tell me B.A. and company, how much is my government wasting on having you retarted, uneducated, otherwise jobless, brainwashed C.I.A. operatives to come and speak stupidity to people who have a vested interest in free speech. How many more times to you wish us to believe that Enron didn't rob California or that Cheney really does have our interests in mind while he pockets millions of our dollars. Game over Suckers, you lose, we know the truth, and none of your facisti rhetoric will ever work on us again, give up and go home to (oops, fascists will never have a home again when we're done) just go to the landfill where you and your toxic waste promoting, gas guzzling, small penis big car driving, liberty destroying, nudity fearing, anti- American asses belong. Because according to all the text of the founding fathers, Bush is exactly what they didn't want!!!!!
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