Legacies
Yesterday in the Washington Post, Bill Kristol expressed frustration that the U.S. didn’t do more to help Burma.
What about using our national power to help the Burmese people against their tyrannical rulers? Burma’s regime lost what little legitimacy it had with its bloody crackdown. Parts of the ruling elite must be nervous. Couldn’t we give at least some of Burma’s generals and soldiers reason to doubt the wisdom of slaughtering political opponents? Couldn’t we turn our intelligence-gathering capabilities on Burma to monitor, document and publicize what is happening? Couldn’t we tell the generals who are ordering and the soldiers who are carrying out this crackdown that they are being watched, that their names are being recorded — and that the day will come when there will be plenty of evidence to hold them personally accountable for their deeds?
I believe that day comes for us all, Bill, but let me address your questions anyway and explain why we didn't do more to help Burma. Click here for more.
Sorry Billy but after Iraq we wouldn't trust bush to send a cub scout to canada.
So Bill "THE BLOODY" Kristol wants another bloody war for oil. Who's surprised?
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We traded our power for the money to fight this war in Iraq.
Billy seems to think he's OverLord of the Planet.
Great explanation. Too bad only the educated and informed will read this, the ill-informed lemmings will simply scratch their heads and say, in a word, "huh?"
Chevron is already making money in Burma. There is nothing for us to pay mercenaries to fight for.
billy bully has no veracity any more. where has he been for the millions who have
had to flee their home in iraq? where has he been for the genocide in darfu?
with his head stuck up his butt, that's where.
An Average Joe @ 5:
I'm surprised he didn't title the piece Message To The Sheeple by William Kristol
if we ever get " taken over" by political opponents, does anyone think they might put Bill Kristol on their list? But I agree, Burma would at least be worth the fight
LOL -- he truly knows no shame.
Or irony, evidently.
Joementum @ 10:
Humility, the quality or condition of being humble, isn't one of Billy's strong points.
L.A. Confidential @ 11:
So that's where his smug smile comes from.
Vampire Kristol strikes again. Now, he is bellyaching on why U.S. won't do more for Burma.
Chevron + Burma = Profits
China has dibs on their oil. Same exact reason we don't do jack about Sudan/Darfur.
Stu @ 12:
He's really a strange creature. No doubt about it.
justabill @ 14:
Russia is poised and well placed to replace us as the Leading Economic Power.
Ironic isn't it?
Show me th' profit margin, an' then we'll start a-crackin' skulls. Now, watch this drive.
~GWB, Head Chimp In Charge
Bonkers @ 17:
Napoleon once said that one must never interrupt his enemy when he is making a mistake.
Which may explain why everyone else in the world is basically just watching us.
AP - 27 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities want the U.S. government to sever all contracts in Iraq with Blackwater USA within six months and pay $8 million in compensation to each of the families of 17 people killed when the firm's guards sprayed a traffic circle with heavy machine gun fire last month.
How in the world can someone be wrong EVERYTIME he speaks and still be able to sell it.
O, Bill! Behind your mask,
Like the last beat of Taps,
Convulses such somber notes of demise;
The tinted base of your deceit
Heaving death like a burning lamp…
O! Your manifest shiv enters my chest,
The plunge, nastily skewed, lances bone
And falcons of liquid screech forth my soul
Addressing what I cannot glimpse;
A sweltering certainty
Clearer than the throat of God…
This ache lies beneath all things
With a precision greater than self,
More blinding than the flash of white phosphorus
Comes your face and your hatred of living…
O! In this swift and decisive instant
The phantoms rise to greet me!
Unsightly they climb up out the collapsing urn
And I see the spiral of your hideous guise
Laying prostrate, groping with enraged beasts!
Thrashing as one in unbridled foulness,
Pawing at one another while the hand of God
Trembles at seeing such hopelessness…
Copyright © 2007 mrp / thepoetryman
casper46 @ 20:
He believes he's right.
Nothing complicated about it.
L.A. Confidential @ 22:
I understand he believes it, But hell, everyone else knows he's full of BS.
casper46 @ 23:
Not everyone. But many do. Probably not enough unfortunately.
Aw Bill, if *onlY* we could. Hey, maybe we could get the rest of the world's countries to help out. Maybe we could make some sort of club for nations to get together and, if need be, exert pressure on governments. We could call it 'The United Nations'.
What did you say, Bill? Neocons are bent on destroying the UN because it fears a one world government or any limitations on US hegemony?
BTW on another note, Bill, with all these wars you want: Where does the money come from?
=my2c
PS. How does this clown still get a podium to sprout his idiocy?
http://www.pushhamburger.com/
Billy is just not too smart.
Here's the deal, Bill. You and your neocon cohorts have bent America over and penetrated our anus. We can't go running from country to country putting out fires while you chicken hawks have your pitiful dicks shoved up the nation's ass.
The bottom line, Bill, is you guys have shagged the USA rotten. And because you have screwed us we cannnot help those other nations whose people are being screwed. This is a chain reaction fuckup started by you and yours.
Just saw on the crawl of c-span that George Allen will co-chair the Fred Thompson presidential campaign. Nice choice, Fred. Nothing like bringing that guy and his story back to the front burner during your faltering campaign.
If we think we're in trouble now (and we sure are) can you imagine how much worse it could get with someone like Thompson making major decisions for our country?
Notice it's the same people who want the government out of THEIR lives to "do something" about (fill in the blank).
Hey, Bill, why not get your buddy Rupert Murdoch to send a horde of papparazzi over to document the atrocities instead of relying on the CIA? Send all the reporters on staff at the Weekly Standard to go and do exposes on the corrupt regime. Maybe Hannity can arrange a "Freedom Tour" for Rangoon.
Putz.
BC @ 25:
His fathers influence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol
casper46 @ 23:
B.S.= bill shit?
Sorry Will-Yam, everything we've got's tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our military is broken, our grandchildren's future is mortgaged. Just what exactly do you suggest we do something about Burma WITH?
pissed off patricia @ 28:
Would not worry toooo much about Freddie Boy T. Even George Will, about as conservative
as they come, wrote an article in the NYT on Sunday telling his reading auidence that
Fred T. is a total and complete "joke". Am inclined to agree.
NOW he wants to take on the FAR east!!!!! China might be just a tad upset with us if we went into Myanmar, and even with ALL of the soldiers that we have in Iraq and Afghanistan and ALL of the private contractors, against China's army, it would be pathetic.
Get a grip Bill. I know war is profitable, but if we get blown off the face of the planet, where are you going to spend all your money?
For some reason the old song from the Inkspots (back before the earth was cooling) keeps coming to mind. "I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to start a flame in your heart"
No idea why.
Get your daily debt clock news here:
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Today: $9,055,929,769,032.74
The estimated population of the United States is 303,201,228
so each citizen's (not taxpayer-- citizen) share of this debt is $29,867.72.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$1.47 billion per day since September 29, 2006!
Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!
The debt clock has links to Washington contacts. I check it all the time. It's a big part of American news that never gets in the news. Funny, that?!? Really?!?
If you'll notice, they always predict an over-high deficit, and when it comes in under, the news is, "We're in great shape: deficit down." It's like saying I had planned to spend $1,000, I don't have, but only spent $800-- good for me!! Woo-hoo. (We only borrowed another $800 from China.)
From the link:
"And there are two key facts to keep in mind about China:
1. China has the largest standing army in the world.
2. China is holding a big honking chunk of U.S. debt. "
They are holding big chunks of our debt because of Bush and our standing army is depleted because of Bush.
Thanks a lot Chimp!
Edwin @ 36:
Do you know for certainty that the U.S. Nat. debt includes the "off budget" dollar amounts
dedicated to the cost of the war in Iraq...something like $800 BILLION at present???
If not, then each citizen may have an even larger individual debt.
I'm all for Kristol's idea about Mynamar, as long as we get to round up the war criminals in America too.
Hint ti BK, you're first!
Sometimes I think that the only way that Bloody Billy will be happy is if the neocons nuke the rest of the world into submission.
Ah yes, spin us more yarns of daring do, diabolical intrigues, and implausible reasoning, Captain Sticky. You speaketh with grave and glib intonations and slippery illogical erudition of evil events and actions as yet to be realized except on Saturday morning cartoons created for compassionate National Socialists and self-important imbreds from the moral majority. The diabolical schemes and Satanic knotted String Theory you so desperately cling to has much to add to the potty discourse of your dubious dialogue for dummies. But then, here lies the rub.... and you are the rubee. With a desire to slash away at further useless blather, as with Occam's Razor, I strive to bring an atoll of tropical (topical?) clarity to this rigged hand of Canasta you have so crookedly dealt. Barring significant joint dislocation, road rash, spinal stenosis, stubbed toes or testicle twists....I expect to see your bucktoothed Smiling Jack joviality at the next booze ladened Campus for Christ Crystal Nacht and other such pitiful pathetic pleasures that are the want of so many of your fellow water-carriers as they eagerly await a stall to open for business, you toe-tapping yanker.
Bill's got some fucking nerve...
That is why he is called general betrayus...he is a water carrying, bootlicking, thug in the crime family first and then a military man.
pissed off patricia @ 3:
I'd agree with but for the word 'we'. I'm tired of sharing the blame for this.
Remember when Bill sold us the war in Iraq and Congress fell for it hook line and sinker? Well if he hadn't done that, maybe we'd have some idle national security assets to direct towards the next humanitarian disaster, be it Myanmar, Sudan, or elsewhere. Unfortunately our army and marines are overtaxed and in no shape to stop appalling things from happening anywhere.
I believe this article confirms that Mr. Kristol may have the remnants of some sort of veneral virus inhabiting his brain afterall.
Myanmar- Area 675,000 sq. km , population 48 million, jungle, borders China
Iraq - Area 439,000 sq. km , population 26 million , desert borders Iran & Syria
Afghanistan - Area 647,000 sq.km. population 31 million , desert and mountains, borders Iran & Pakistan.
Maybe Kristol should consult the CIA Factbook .
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