Elaine Meinel Supkis
Bush tries to 'defuse' questions about Israel's hyperwars against virtually unarmed neighbors (note who can fly and bomb with impunity over there!) by joking about pigs. As usual, he has a total tin ear when it comes to humor or diplomacy. Part of being a psychopath.
Bush couldn't stop making one pig joke after another, I don't list them all here.
Ledger-Enquirer: "I understand I may have the honor of slicing the pig," Bush said at a news conference earlier in the day punctuated with questions about spreading violence in the Middle East and an intensifying standoff with Iran over nuclear power.The president's host, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, started a serious ball rolling at this news conference in the 13th century town hall on the cobblestone square of Stralsund. But Bush seemed more focused on "the feast" promised later.
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But Bush wasn't apologizing for any of his boar banter Thursday, as reporters from Germany and the U.S. peppered him with questions about the standoff in Iran, violence in the Middle East and flagging democracy in Russia. He answered all in earnest, of course, but he leavened it all with pig talk.
Facing a pointed question about Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had made fun of Vice President Dick Cheney this week, Bush replied with yet more humor.
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But reporters were looking for more than humor in historic Stralsund this day.
"Apart from the pig, Mr. President, what sort of insights have you been able to gain as regards East Germany?" a German reporter asked the American leader.
"I haven't seen the pig yet," said Bush, sidestepping the question about insights gained from his two-day visit to this rural seaside region that once rested behind the Iron Curtain in a Germany divided between East and West.
I am sure everyone was rolling on the floor laughing. Bush should have finished with 'Springtime for Hitler in Germany.' The ever-widening war in the Middle East is a grave matter. And joking about pigs is at best, displaying a very tinnish ear. I would say, the chuckles Bush enjoyed were entirely due to the fact that he knew perfectly well that using a pig as a repeated talking point when being asked about Muslims and Jews is stupid and nasty. This is why he kept harping on it. His brain couldn't let go of the private humor in the whole matter. 'Hee hee hee, them thar Jews and rag heads hate pigs, I'll poke at them again, hee hee hee,' must have been the tape playing in Bush's booze addled brains.
The other day when I actually read the Reagan/Gorbachev negotiations over reducing nuclear arsenals and guaranteeing peace, it was a sharp reminder how bad things are now. Bush Sr. always irritated me with his faux cowboy talk but Bush Jr is genuine in the fact that he always talks as if he is in a fly specked bar in some sleepy town down south! The loss of face this causes us is vast and amazing. No one can take our government seriously.
As things spiral out of control in the Middle East, people who are not telling stupid pig jokes try to solve the problem and fail. I wonder how serious Qatar is...I bet the people there are not happy with the waythings are falling apart.
UNITED NATIONS - The United States cast the first U.N. Security Council veto in nearly two years Thursday, blocking an Arab-backed resolution that would have demanded Israel halt its military offensive in the Gaza Strip.The draft, sponsored by Qatar, accused Israel of a "disproportionate use of force" that endangered Palestinian civilians, and it demanded Israel withdraw its troops from Gaza.
The various oil countries living under our aegis don't want wars raging on their borders. And when Israel was 'quietly' (due to press censorship in the West) oppressing and stealing from the Palestinians, this was perfectly OK with the despots ruling most Arab oil principalities. But this open warfare is a grave danger to them since their own subjects can get very restive about this. The rulers want this to all go away!
This is all tied in with bin Laden who is accusing them of being dogs of the Israelis and Americans. If they do nothing, they are dogs. So they try to use the UN for what it was created for and are immediately put down by the USA. So the USA will go back to condemning one of the few Muslim states that can defy the Israeli/American plans of colonization: Iran.
The abuse of the disarmament morality is going to start a world war. Instead of negotiating our way to disarming ourselves or Israel, we are simply demanding that all other nations around us and our client state disarm so we can do as we wish which is to imprison the Palestinians in small ghettoes until they all die off or flee. Then we got the 'Holy Lands' wholly for ourselves so we can boast that God loves US and wants US and we are superior to everyone who God doesn't love.
Charming.
BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Thursday that China hoped to advance the all-round strategic partnership with the European Union (EU)."As the EU occupies an important place in China's foreign affairs, China would like to enhance its all-round strategic partnership with the EU," Hu told the visiting European Parliament President Josep Borrell Fontelles in Beijing's Great Hall of the People.
Europe is slowly triangulating. They worry about a one-sided relationship with America. Germany wants to do what England has done: extend their imperial wishes riding on America's sea of IOUs. This way, Germany can exert power without paying any bills. What a great deal that is! Every country is now trying to piggy-back onto American military power because it is not only vast but is entirely located outside of this country which can't even muster 2,000 troops to patrol our swiss cheese borders!
Since we decided to defend America by disarming our home base, why shouldn't others hijack our military and use it for themselves? The Israelis have hijacked our entire government!
By Arkady Ostrovsky in Moscow, Caroline Daniel and Hugh Williamson in Stralsund
Published: July 13 2006 19:19 | Last updated: July 13 2006 19:19
Sergei Ivanov, Russia’s defence minister, on Thursday warned the west to stay out of its internal affairs saying it would use its “military might” as a deterrent and a guarantor of its sovereignty. His comments came as President George W. Bush sought to put democratic freedoms in Russia back on the agenda for the Group of Eight summit in St Petersburg this weekend.In an article published in Izvestia newspaper Mr Ivanov – a possible successor to president Vladimir Putin in 2008 – hailed Russia’s resurgence as a great power, underpinned by a triad of “sovereign democracy, a strong economy and military might”.
The differences between Russia and the USA are vanishingly small. The main thing is, Russia is building a huge FOREX reserve and we are destroying our own fiscal base. And our military has been 'privatized' which means it is now hideously expensive to run and is causing so much red ink to flow not even the communist Chinese can fund it all for us!
Russia isn't ready to step into the mess in the Middle East. As in the Cold War, they will act elsewhere. The Chinese don't want to use military power anywhere. I was reading an old history book last night, from the early 1900's. The Opium wars and the attempts of the Chinese to secure their own borders and how everyone invaded more and more, ganging up on China, denying China any say in anything. The blow-back from that mess is still ongoing! This is why I watch the China/Japan parry and thrust so closely.
The USA, during the dismemberment of China, tried to triangulate with Britain, Germany and Russia over that mess. This failed. It also was one of the many causes of WWI and WWII. Namely, the failure to secure weaker nations' borders can cause great powers to come into conflict. And the desire for sovereignty such as we saw in Serbia in 1914, can trigger great wars.
And to think that this bozo represents the US. Kind of makes us all look bad.
Posted by: dandy | July 14, 2006 at 09:49 AM
He makes Reagan look like a genius.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | July 14, 2006 at 11:49 AM