Bush: Failure is Not an Option! It's Standard!

[chefmike]

Failure is Not an Option! It Comes Standard with Every Bush Model!


Failure is not an option. It's standard! On every policy we make!

Name a policy, and it's got failure! Guaranteed! Or your government back!

War in Iraq?

Failure, built in from day one! Go to war based on lies, go to war in a way that's technically a war crime, that's got failure, built in!


To make certain that it had failure, we went in without enough people do to the job! And without a plan!

Post war (the Occupation or the continuing war or whatever you want to call it)?
We started with delusions about how the Iraqis would respond. Delusions are one of the firmest foundations for failure.

To make sure those delusions stayed in place until failure had really taken hold, we had the all the programs runs by incompetent cronies, anti-abortion activists, Republican contributors and assorted dingbats. And it worked! The occupation authority blew through more money than anyone can count - and nobody did count it, then or now, we've made sure of that - and achieved failure in everything they did! And nothing but failure!
To draw attention to that failure, we gave out the highest medals you can to the people who achieved it! That's failure.

Hurricane in the Gulf?

We put 'Good job' Brownie in charge of FEMA. We staffed it with more cronies.

Nero could fiddle while Rome burned. That's nothin'.

Our emperor, George Bush, played country music while New Orleans drowned.

After we saw the levees breached, we didn't tell the city or the state. Let them stop the evacuation. That way we could be sure that the old, the sick, and the crippled drowned. That's failure.

After the city drowned, we promised to rebuild it. But we didn't even pick up the trash! That's failure.

Prescription drugs for Seniors?

We came up with a plan that will cost more than any other possible plan. Better than that, it's racing to bankrupt the whole system.

Failure by design! Failure by intent! Failure on the grand scale.

War on Terror

We launched the War on Terror to get Osama bin Laden. And Mullah Omar. But that was too easy and too direct. That could have succeeded. So we stopped chasing them and did other things guaranteed to fail.

Instead of protecting our ports and chemical plants, we spent billions to violate the constitution by spying on Americans and failed to catch anyone!


Energy Policy

We needed an energy policy because importing oil accounts for 35% of our deficit in the balance of trade. Because oil money corrupts and destabilizes almost every nation that exports it. Oil contributes to unending war. Oil money supports terrorism.

The way we use energy contributes to global warming. Other countries are getting out ahead in the race to create alternative ways to create energy. So when we give up on oil, we'll have to buy the technology from them.

Because, if we don't have alternatives and conservation measures the cost of fuel will go up.
There were so many ways to do something successful.

But we managed to fail in every way. We ran the table with failures. We think of our energy policy as the poster child for failure! (Along with Iraq. And getting Osama bin Laden and a bunch of other stuff).

Tax Policies

We sold you our tax cuts with the promise that they would balance the budget, create jobs, and stimulate the economy.

And you bought that! You failed along with us! Congratulations on being part of our failure. We love you for it and we want to reward you with a giant debts and lowered expectations and a sense of insecurity.

Afghanistan

As we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, opium production is up and the Taliban are coming back. Our promise to you: no success will be left standing! No matter how good things look, we'll find ways to muck it up! Here at the Bush Administration we understand that failure is Job #1.

Failure! Not, it's not an option. It come standard. With everything we do. That's our promise and we'll keep it! Bush - we never fail to fail!

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Another way to look at it, is that the phrase "Failure is not an option" is very clever.

It creates the illusion that failure has not already happened.

But it has. The war is already lost. It was lost by George Bush. The occupation has failed. Already. And irrevocably. It failed under George Bush. The whole effort or plan or whatever it was, to change the Middle East, has failed.

It is a rhetorical device that necessarily implies that failure will be what happens because of what is done now or in the future. Which - they hope - can be blamed on someone else. They should not be permitted to do that. Nothing that can be done now - short of a ten or twenty year commitment, that will require a draft, trillions of dollars, a new foreign policy and Bush to self-immolate in some way to restore the necessary moral authority to call for that - will change their failure.

Failure is not an option. Failure is the condition. Failure is what they've done. Failure is where we are. The question is what can we do about their failures.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-...n_b_38973.html

[White_Male_Canada]

Hmm let`s review:

- No terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11

- Defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan that the left branded a "quagmire"

- Elections in Afghanistan.

-Defeat of Saddam`s dictatorship in merely a few weeks that the left
branded a "quagmire"
.
-A new Iraq Constitution.

-Multiple free elections.

And the Dems want to do what !? Raise taxes !?

Not only raise them on individuals but raise taxes on those greedy
oil compnaies thereby guaranteeing higher prices at the pump.

I say go for it, nothing like playing political russian roullette with a semiauto 45

So you're bragging that, in your mind, America lost?

Your more a sheep coward than I thought. Bragging for your own countries defeat.

[LG]

WMC said:

Hmm let`s review:

- No terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11

That's nothing to brag about. There were nearly no terrorist attacks on US soil before 9/11 (and none as serious as 9/11). There have also been several terrorist attacks at US-related targets (embassies, hotels etc) since.

And Republicans must never forget: 9/11- which may have been preventable- was on their watch. One major fuck-up is enough.

Defeat of Saddam`s dictatorship in merely a few weeks that the left
branded a "quagmire"

No the quagmire is the current situation. I can think of other words apart from quagmire. Mess, chaos, jam, fix, pandemonium, a complete farce, an utter shambles...

Not only raise them on individuals but raise taxes on those greedy
oil compnaies thereby guaranteeing higher prices at the pump.

Do you disagree that greedy companies should be made to pay higher taxes, then? In any case, the tax money should be used on cleaner energy solutions and social welfare, not on buying arms or sending troops for slaughter in Iraq.

And TFan, the name was Robin Hood, not Robinhood. Two words, not one. I'd suggest you read the occasional book now and then- porn doesn't have much educational value.

[guyone]

That's nothing to brag about. There were nearly no terrorist attacks on US soil before 9/11 (and none as serious as 9/11). There have also been several terrorist attacks at US-related targets (embassies, hotels etc) since.

And Republicans must never forget: 9/11- which may have been preventable- was on their watch. One major fuck-up is enough.

LG, my friend...

First there were many attacks on US soil during the Clintonian era. Oklahoma, the two...count 'em two embassy bombings(embassy's are counted as the soil of the country they represent), and the attack of the USS Cole(again American soil) all the while Billy & Hilly played the violin and Sandy Berger was stuffing secret documents down his pants.

And let's not forget the way Janet Reno massacred those poor innocent people in Waco just for practicing their religion.

This administration never did anything like that.

[White_Male_Canada]

That's nothing to brag about. There were nearly no terrorist attacks on US soil before 9/11 (and none as serious as 9/11). There have also been several terrorist attacks at US-related targets (embassies, hotels etc) since.

And Republicans must never forget: 9/11- which may have been preventable- was on their watch. One major fuck-up is enough.

You`re rants have become pedantic,and predictable.

The planning for 9/11 was done during the Clinton administration.Bush was President for 8 months when 9/11 occurred. Clinton insituted the intelligence "wall" which made it impossible for intelligence agencies to share information. Combine that with Clinton`s "scrub" policy on humint and the result was obvious.

Uhhh, I have to explain everything to these dolts. Clinton`s "scrub" policy-no human intelligence or informants were to be utilized if they had any past history of violence or any association with any violent groups.

That is like telling the local police a drug trafficker who wanted to confess and help capture all other drug traffickers he knew was verboten.

[LG]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/...in509294.shtml

(CBS) President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.

CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown into buildings.

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that [using planes as suicide bombs] as a possibility."

However, a federal report issued exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks contrasts with that statement.

The report, entitled the "Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?," warned the executive branch that bin Laden's terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the Pentagon or other government building.

It described the suicide hijacking as one of several possible retribution attacks al Qaeda might seek for the 1998 U.S. airstrike against bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan.

"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House," the September 1999 report said.

The report was written by the Federal Research Division, an arm of the Library of Congress that provides research for various federal agencies under contracts.

And it's come out that an agent in the FBI's Arizona office also speculated about using planes as weapons, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.

It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.

Separately, the New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.

The FBI failed to make a connection between that warning and the August arrest of Moussaoui - a French citizen of Moroccan descent detained in Minnesota after raising suspicions among his instructors at a flight school where he said he wanted to know how to fly, but not how to land or take off.

Moussaoui has emerged as the lone defendant charged in the aftermath of the attacks, which killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. He is charged with conspiring with bin Laden and the 19 suicide hijackers to attack Americans.

FBI Director Robert Mueller has said repeatedly that he wishes the FBI had acted more aggressively in addressing the Arizona and Minnesota leads. Mueller has also said that nothing the FBI possessed before Sept. 11 pointed to the plot.

When hijacked airliners plowed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, Middle Eastern men trained at U.S. flight schools were at the controls.

According to Fleischer, after the information was presented to President Bush in August, the administration put domestic agencies on alert in the summer, just months before the Sept. 11 attacks.

That alert was not announced publicly but Fleischer suggested it may have prompted the hijackers to change their tactics.

"The administration, based on hijackings, notified the appropriate agencies and, I think, that's one of the reasons that you saw that the people who committed the 9-11 attacks used box cutters and plastic knives to get around America's system of protecting against hijackings," he said.

Fleischer did not say which agencies were put on alert and what they did in response.

On Thursday, National security adviser Condoleezza Rice described a series of threats uncovered by intelligence officials, beginning in September of 2000 and reaching a height in the summer of 2001, that dealt mostly with American interests overseas.

Those threats prompted a series of alerts issued by the FBI to law-enforcement agencies and from the Federal Aviation Administration to the nation's airlines and airports, she said. There also were strong warnings to Americans to be careful overseas.

Earlier this month, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham complained that the Justice Department and CIA had not provided congressional investigators with adequate access to documents and witnesses for a probe into intelligence failures related to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Graham said through a spokesman Wednesday that the revelations in the FBI memo mark an important discovery in Congress' investigation into why the FBI, CIA and other U.S. agencies failed to learn of and prevent the Sept. 11 plot.

"It represents a failure to connect the dots," said Graham spokesman Paul Anderson. "This was dismissed rather lightly at FBI headquarters."

[guyone]

CBS News?
The company that makes up all the news it sees fit to broadcast?

[guyone]

No matter how you may white(water) wash it...

IT STILL IS ALL CLINTON'S FAULT!

HE WAS AT THE HELM.

Can't get around that little gem of a fact!

[White_Male_Canada]

However, a federal report issued exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks contrasts with that statement.

The report, entitled the "Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?," warned the executive branch that bin Laden's terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the Pentagon or other government building.

the September 1999 report said.

You`re blaming President Bush for a 1999 report !? Who`s the conspiracy whacko ?

And it's come out that an agent in the FBI's Arizona office also speculated about using planes as weapons, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.

It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.

Re-read that again,stop and think next time you google and print the first page you see:

an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.

Separately, the New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.

The FBI failed to make a connection between that warning and the August arrest of Moussaoui - a French citizen of Moroccan descent detained in Minnesota after raising suspicions among his instructors at a flight school where he said he wanted to know how to fly, but not how to land or take off.

It is now confirmed as fact, you`re a conspiracy whack-job. The 9/11 Commission`s OWN words:

His memo was forwarded to one field office. Managers of the Osama Bin Laden unit and the Radical Fundamentalist unit at FBI headquarters were addressees, but did not even see the memo until after September 11. No managers at headquarters saw the memo before September 11. The New York field office took no action. It was not shared outside the FBI.

Before Sept. 11, the Minneapolis FBI also investigated Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, who was enrolled in a flight school there, but no Al Qaeda connections were discovered until after the attacks