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In the book Decision Points there are no decision points.. Despite what is claimed, Bush junior never stops to consider. He is the Decider who acts impulsively and ‘crisply’, drawing on his ‘moral clarity’. In the scariest line in the book, he has been allowed to let slip that his motive for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq was simple revenge, surely the least desirable emotional quality one would want in a world leader with access to nuclear weapons. About 9/11 the text says: ‘My blood was boiling. We were going to find out who did this, and kick their ass.’
And this is the man Tony (Bomber now billionaire) Blair knelt down and prayed with.
The book Decision Points is a chronicle of the Bush Era with no colour-coded Terror Alerts; no Freedom Fries; no Halliburton; no Healthy Forests Initiative (which opened up wilderness areas to logging); no Clear Skies Act (which reduced air pollution standards); no New Freedom Initiative (which proposed testing all Americans, beginning with schoolchildren, for mental illness) a soupcon of Nazi eugenics, well, what the hell; no pamphlets sold by the National Parks Service explaining that the Grand Canyon was created by the Flood;(he and Blair like Biblical 'truths') no research by the National Institutes of Health on whether prayer can cure cancer
nothing on Bush’s frequent use of ‘signing statements’ to indicate that he would completely ignore a bill that the Congress had just passed
And this is the man 'Bomber', now billionaire Blair prayed with.
Blair and Bush might be said to be flaunters of postmodernity, this deadly duo blurred the distinction between fiction and non-fiction. That is leaving out the parts that were not outright lies
Let's look at George in a deconstructive way. George Bush junior was a pup in a valley of alpha males, inadequate compared to Dad, humiliated by Mother, he classically became a bully to compensate,, noted for what he calls verbal ‘needling’; a boss who cussed out his subordinates and invented demeaning nicknames for everyone around him; a president who taunted terrorists, most of them imaginary, and challenged them to ‘bring it on’.
However there was a soupcon of sanity, he did not believe that bicycle lanes in major cities are part of a plot by the United Nations to impose a single world government.
Despite the sales, it’s unlikely that many will ever read Decision Points, and even fewer will finish it. Those who do will find three revelations, besides the foetus in the jar. Junior killed his sister Doro’s goldfish by pouring vodka in the fishbowl. He was convinced he should run for president after hearing a sermon about Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. And, as a man who likes to go to bed early, at 10 p.m. on the night of 11 September 2001, President George W. Bush was complaining that he needed to get to sleep.
And this was the man Blair prayed with!
Source Eliot Weinberger
In the book Decision Points there are no decision points.. Despite what is claimed, Bush junior never stops to consider. He is the Decider who acts impulsively and ‘crisply’, drawing on his ‘moral clarity’. In the scariest line in the book, he has been allowed to let slip that his motive for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq was simple revenge, surely the least desirable emotional quality one would want in a world leader with access to nuclear weapons. About 9/11 the text says: ‘My blood was boiling. We were going to find out who did this, and kick their ass.’
And this is the man Tony (Bomber now billionaire) Blair knelt down and prayed with.
The book Decision Points is a chronicle of the Bush Era with no colour-coded Terror Alerts; no Freedom Fries; no Halliburton; no Healthy Forests Initiative (which opened up wilderness areas to logging); no Clear Skies Act (which reduced air pollution standards); no New Freedom Initiative (which proposed testing all Americans, beginning with schoolchildren, for mental illness) a soupcon of Nazi eugenics, well, what the hell; no pamphlets sold by the National Parks Service explaining that the Grand Canyon was created by the Flood;(he and Blair like Biblical 'truths') no research by the National Institutes of Health on whether prayer can cure cancer
nothing on Bush’s frequent use of ‘signing statements’ to indicate that he would completely ignore a bill that the Congress had just passed
And this is the man 'Bomber', now billionaire Blair prayed with.
Blair and Bush might be said to be flaunters of postmodernity, this deadly duo blurred the distinction between fiction and non-fiction. That is leaving out the parts that were not outright lies
Let's look at George in a deconstructive way. George Bush junior was a pup in a valley of alpha males, inadequate compared to Dad, humiliated by Mother, he classically became a bully to compensate,, noted for what he calls verbal ‘needling’; a boss who cussed out his subordinates and invented demeaning nicknames for everyone around him; a president who taunted terrorists, most of them imaginary, and challenged them to ‘bring it on’.
However there was a soupcon of sanity, he did not believe that bicycle lanes in major cities are part of a plot by the United Nations to impose a single world government.
Despite the sales, it’s unlikely that many will ever read Decision Points, and even fewer will finish it. Those who do will find three revelations, besides the foetus in the jar. Junior killed his sister Doro’s goldfish by pouring vodka in the fishbowl. He was convinced he should run for president after hearing a sermon about Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. And, as a man who likes to go to bed early, at 10 p.m. on the night of 11 September 2001, President George W. Bush was complaining that he needed to get to sleep.
And this was the man Blair prayed with!
Source Eliot Weinberger
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