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Bill Maher on Bush’s Missionary Zeal

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Posted on Sep 9, 2007
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The “Real Time” host compares the arrogance of missionaries to that of the president, who claims certainty as a virtue: “And the message you hear from Bush apologists these days is, ‘Oh, sure, short-term Bush may have f--ked everything up, but he’s thinking long-term—hundred years into the future.’ Well thank you George W. Nostradamus, America’s first science-fiction president.”

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By purplewolf, September 13, 2007 at 4:47 am #
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Cyrena, george has always changed the rules,just like little kids do at about 3-6 years old,the weedboys mental age also. He is a poor loser.He will not look realistically at the damage he is doing to people and destruction of the planet,the only thing that matters to him is to play the game and keep changing the rules so he can win. The unfortunate thing is that this is a no-win situation for to many of us who are the victims of his schoolyard bullying tactics.By continuing to play the game and then pass it off onto the next administration-if that happens- only shows his ignorance/contempt to the world by “staying the course” with this madness.

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By lodipete, September 12, 2007 at 9:31 am #
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I don’t think “World Domination” was around as a game back in the 60’s or 70’s.At least I don’t remember it. But the Burning Bush has his roots deep in the plutocratic soil of the Same Old World Order. His Bush & Prescott antecedents have been playing the game a long time along with folks like Carlos Slim, Jorge Fox and the Saud family. Even the sainted Poppy had that rumor floating around about clandestine airfields in Mexico and the drug biz. Given his ties to the Mexican plutocrats, I wonder how much was rumor and how much was fact and I especially wonder why the reports vanished so quickly.

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By cyrena, September 11, 2007 at 9:02 pm #
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lodipete (#99706)

...’What if the only thing that he wants to make the world safe for is global capitalism and the plutocracy.’

Here we are, back at what has become a primary passtime for far too many of us..."what if” in any terms connected to george bush.

You could be absolutely correct on this lodipete, maybe indeed that’s all he wants, is to make the world safe for global capitalism.

I read somewhere long ago, (so I can’t credit whomever offered it) that georgies favorite thing to do at Yale, (or one of them) was to play a board game -World Domination- (I admit I never heard of it myself, but I came away thinking that it must be like a global version of monopoly.) So, your theory fits.

Anyway, the story went on to say that back during those days, he would annoy all of his classmates (and presumeably frat brothers) by insisting that they indulge in these marathon sessions of this board game, (to the exclusion of all other activity) and that he would always change the rules or extend the game, whenever he was losing, which was most of the time.

That fits too, eh?

I think the god stuff is all fake. But, it still fits. The most prolific con men of history have conned in the name of God. And, they started this missionary stuff way back when.

The Natives were the earliest victims.

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By Richard Roe, September 11, 2007 at 1:35 pm #
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Bush is a puppet-whore for EXXON/MOBIL

It’s that simple.

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By lodipete, September 10, 2007 at 7:53 pm #
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Everybody figures that Bush is either a nut or some self righteous ass who’s decided that Iraq will have democracy if he has to kill every last Iraqi to implement it. What if that’s all BS. What if the only thing that he wants to make the world safe for is global capitalism and the plutocracy.Marx said “capital has no country” and it sure looks like the moneyed class wants to do away with the nation state including the one called America.

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By purplewolf, September 10, 2007 at 8:00 am #
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We already know how badly this mess has turned out. Can you just imagine what another hundred years, provided there is a planet left by then, will be like. Rather let this maniac continue with his vendetta it should be terminated immediately.

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