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Apart from information our Wonderful President Feelgood couldn't 
control, i.e the grunt's Iraq news op asking Rummy why THEY
had to armor their vehicles from local junkyards, a great year is only 
going to get better under this military genius we have for a Commander 
In Chief

Naturally Bush accepts no responsibility whatsoever ---telling the 
Press, He would have asked Rummy the same question himself.
Miraculously, within days orders went out to armor fabricators reversing 
a production policy which envisioned no armor orders until May, 2005. 
Nice to have a fully-conscious Commander-in Chief at the helm.


                                                                
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     GEORGE'S COZY COCOON

12/6/2004

George W likes to live in his own world. In fact, "being Bush" seems 
like a joyful, almost dreamlike experience. Reality, for example, never 
intrudes into his consciousness. And his lies, even his biggest 
whoppers, seem most sincerely to be believed by him – I have no doubt 
that he thinks he served in the National Guard, for example.

For his second term, George is drawing his world even tighter, moving 
swiftly to eliminate advisors and officials who might tell him things he 
doesn't want to hear, further shielding him from bothersome realities in 
the world.

Colin Powell was quickly ushered out the door. Even though he had 
dutifully (and unwittingly) lied for Bush about those non-existent 
weapons of mass destruction, Powell was always questioning the blind 
rush into the war, so George has now plucked this irritant from his 
administration. Condi Rice, his worshipful national security advisor, 
has been moved into Powell's chair, and Bush can certainly trust that 
she won't disturb his consciousness with anything that goes against his 
neo-con ideology.

Likewise, his longtime legal lackey, Al Gonzales, has been dispatched to 
head the justice department, where he can grind out memos to rationalize 
and legalize any little ol' thing that strikes George's noggin. Al, you 
might remember, is the guy who wrote the White House memo saying that 
torturing Iraqi prisoners was legally okey-dokey.

Then there's the CIA, which kept sending intelligence reports to the 
White House warning that the Iraqi invasion and occupation would have 
messy consequences. George didn't like to hear that, so now he's put 
political hack Porter Goss at the CIA helm. Goss is purging top agents 
who have disagreed with Bush's disastrous policies – and he has warned 
all CIA employees that their job is to "support the administration and 
its policies in our work."

There. Don't you feel better knowing that George won't be bothered by 
any unwanted advice or unpleasant reports?

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"CIA plans to purge its agency," Newsday, November 14, 2004.
"Politics and the C.I.A.," New York Times, November 18, 2004.
"A Plague of Toadies," New York Times, November 18, 2004.
"Chief of C.I.A. Tells His Staff to Back Bush," November, 17, 2004.

                
        

                        
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