The Million Shoe March.
Dec. 15th, 2008 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsFirst heard this on Stephanie Miller this morning, and it seems to be going hot: Mail President Bush a shoe. The address for the White House is: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC, 20500.
After all the abuse of office, and the sheer inability of the man to come to grips with the great moral evil he has unleashed on the world, even from a purely secular, even epicurean, even Buddhist viewpoint... he deserves it. He will not go down as our next Truman, loathed upon leaving office only to be rehabilitated by history. He will be the torture president.
In an interview yesterday on ABC with Martha Radditz, Bush made the self-serving statement that "One of the major theaters of war against al-Qaeda was Iraq." Radditz pointed out that al-Qaeda wasn't in Iraq until the U.S. invasion. Bush's response: "Yeah, that's right. So what?"
So what.
So, send him a shoe. You probably don't want to put a return address on it. Think of it as a going away present. Hell, it's not like the country has any money left to pay the mail office workers at the White House anyway.
After all the abuse of office, and the sheer inability of the man to come to grips with the great moral evil he has unleashed on the world, even from a purely secular, even epicurean, even Buddhist viewpoint... he deserves it. He will not go down as our next Truman, loathed upon leaving office only to be rehabilitated by history. He will be the torture president.
In an interview yesterday on ABC with Martha Radditz, Bush made the self-serving statement that "One of the major theaters of war against al-Qaeda was Iraq." Radditz pointed out that al-Qaeda wasn't in Iraq until the U.S. invasion. Bush's response: "Yeah, that's right. So what?"
So what.
So, send him a shoe. You probably don't want to put a return address on it. Think of it as a going away present. Hell, it's not like the country has any money left to pay the mail office workers at the White House anyway.
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Date: 2008-12-16 03:39 am (UTC)Our nation is tarnished, hopefully not irretrievably, by our actions before, during, and now after "the end of major conflict." We re-elected a president who, according to our own Senate, committed war crimes.
The best explanation we have is that we used Iraq as bait. We were so ill-prepared for the post-war cleanup because we hired leaders who said "If you think we're going to spend a billion dollars in Iraq [on reconstruction], you're out of your mind."
You, Darrell, remain a cheerleader for a liar and a torturer, a man so small of soul that he cannot even look at what he did and admit to anything other than his own delusion that he did the right thing.
We can't know what Iraq would be like today if we'd left Saddam in power. The moral objections to Saddam can be said of Mugabe but, funny this, Mugabe hasn't got any oil. Neither has North Korea, another state that fails its people with frightening regularity. We wouldn't have the hundreds of thousands dead; it's quite clear from the celebrations in Iraq and around the Arab world that all the shoe-thrower did was voice what millions believe. We had no business being there. We threw away thousands of our own men and women doing something we had no business doing. We failed to learn from history. We gave Bin Laden exactly what he wanted.
There is no longer any shred of a moral case to be made for what we did to Iraq.
Have a shred of decency and accept that.
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Date: 2008-12-16 04:50 pm (UTC)You, Elf, are completely duped by years of lies from the main-stream-media that failed to report accurately and completely on any aspect of the Iraq invasion.
If it wasn't bad news, then it wasn't news.
Bush had an 80% approval rating when we invaded Iraq. He had the support of almost the entire body of congress, with very few exceptions... easy to forget, no?
But all this is non-sequitor to the fact that you are advocating a ridiculous gesture that amounts to a Denial-of-Service attack on the mail room of the White House.
That's just proof that Liberals are not only sore losers... but they are sore winners, too. GOP members may be a bit depressed, but concede that Obama is the President-elect and will try to work with him and keep him from straying too far to the left. When DEMs lose, they whine, protest, and even riot because they don't get their way.
Now that Bush is leaving office, you are upset that he wasn't impeached or tried for war crimes, so you are trying to thrust one last middle-finger at him while he is still in office by sending him a million shoes.
It's pitiful. Really it is.
At least send matching pairs so they can be donated to the Salvation Army or Goodwill to distribute to the needy. Otherwise, you'll be adding to the landfill problem as well.