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Dubya vs. Seung-Hui Cho: ....Who's The Greater Menace?
by Barry Lando | Apr 21 2007 - 4:56pm | permalink
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Officials in Virginia are taking heavy flak for their failure to act on early warnings that South Korean Seung-Hui Cho, who massacred 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech, was a seriously disturbed menace to his community
How then to judge the United States Congress which continues to ignore overwhelming evidence that George W. Bush is an infinitely greater threat to his countrymen; indeed to the entire globe.
Wait, you say, how can you compare the august President of the United States with a dangerously deranged 23 year old South Korean?
You can if you consider the relative menace that each of them poses. Acting by himself, and armed with only a couple of pistols, Seung-Hui Cho managed to kill 32 people. Dubya, on the other hand, commands the most fearful military apparatus the globe has ever known—not to mention a vast intelligence network with thousands of specialized agents ready to do his clandestine bidding in any corner of the globe, from Iran to Somalia to Malaysia.
Why are we so repelled by the video taped rantings of the young South Korean psychopath, yet not equally shocked by the day to day outpourings of the American President? Could it be we have grown so inured to Dubya’s bizarre view of the world that it no longer shocks.
Dubya and his clique have been responsible for the illegal invasion of Iraq and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of its people, most of whom—as the President said of Seung-Hui Cho’s victims—“just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
This is not to ignore the continued blood-letting in Afghanistan and the current carnage in the secretive pocket “war against terrorism” being waged with U.S. backing in Somalia.
In America itself, the Bush regime has trashed and/or subverted what were once considered the most fundamental of U.S. liberties, while talking of the fight to defend Democracy.
For years there have been alarming but totally credible accounts from former insiders of the extent to which Dubya inhabits a psychic cocoon, cut off from reality, not just impervious to criticism but hostile to it.
All this would be of no concern to the nation—or the world–if Dubya was running a middling oil company in Texas, or retired to riding his mountain bike and clearing brush on the Crawford ranch, but it is a terrifying flaw in the man who commands America’s awesome power.
Take the last week for example.
After Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s disastrous appearance before a Congressional Subcommittee—where not even the most rock-ribbed Republicans were willing to rise to his defense—Bush’s White House spokesman praised the hapless Attorney General—now viewed by even Bush loyalists as a “dead man walking”—for his “fantastic” service at the Department of Justice. “He is our number one crime fighter. He has done so much to help keep this country safe from terrorists.”Then, as if to show both Republicans and Democrats alike what he thought of their views, Bush’s White House announced that Gonzales would join two other Cabinet members in helping colleges review questions raised by the massacre at Virginia Tech.
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Dubya vs. Seung-Hui Cho: ....Who's The Greater Menace?
by Barry Lando | Apr 21 2007 - 4:56pm | permalink
article tools: email | print | read more Barry Lando
Officials in Virginia are taking heavy flak for their failure to act on early warnings that South Korean Seung-Hui Cho, who massacred 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech, was a seriously disturbed menace to his community
How then to judge the United States Congress which continues to ignore overwhelming evidence that George W. Bush is an infinitely greater threat to his countrymen; indeed to the entire globe.
Wait, you say, how can you compare the august President of the United States with a dangerously deranged 23 year old South Korean?
You can if you consider the relative menace that each of them poses. Acting by himself, and armed with only a couple of pistols, Seung-Hui Cho managed to kill 32 people. Dubya, on the other hand, commands the most fearful military apparatus the globe has ever known—not to mention a vast intelligence network with thousands of specialized agents ready to do his clandestine bidding in any corner of the globe, from Iran to Somalia to Malaysia.
Why are we so repelled by the video taped rantings of the young South Korean psychopath, yet not equally shocked by the day to day outpourings of the American President? Could it be we have grown so inured to Dubya’s bizarre view of the world that it no longer shocks.
Dubya and his clique have been responsible for the illegal invasion of Iraq and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of its people, most of whom—as the President said of Seung-Hui Cho’s victims—“just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
This is not to ignore the continued blood-letting in Afghanistan and the current carnage in the secretive pocket “war against terrorism” being waged with U.S. backing in Somalia.
In America itself, the Bush regime has trashed and/or subverted what were once considered the most fundamental of U.S. liberties, while talking of the fight to defend Democracy.
For years there have been alarming but totally credible accounts from former insiders of the extent to which Dubya inhabits a psychic cocoon, cut off from reality, not just impervious to criticism but hostile to it.
All this would be of no concern to the nation—or the world–if Dubya was running a middling oil company in Texas, or retired to riding his mountain bike and clearing brush on the Crawford ranch, but it is a terrifying flaw in the man who commands America’s awesome power.
Take the last week for example.
After Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s disastrous appearance before a Congressional Subcommittee—where not even the most rock-ribbed Republicans were willing to rise to his defense—Bush’s White House spokesman praised the hapless Attorney General—now viewed by even Bush loyalists as a “dead man walking”—for his “fantastic” service at the Department of Justice. “He is our number one crime fighter. He has done so much to help keep this country safe from terrorists.”Then, as if to show both Republicans and Democrats alike what he thought of their views, Bush’s White House announced that Gonzales would join two other Cabinet members in helping colleges review questions raised by the massacre at Virginia Tech.
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