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Ärende: Bullhorn moment
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Looks like this columnist has Preznit LuckySperm's number.

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Bush's 'bullhorn moment' just bull

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

I'm amazed that anyone is amazed that it took George W. Bush three days to
show up in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

That's exactly how long it took him to show up at Ground Zero after 9/11.

So it mystifies me that the pundits and the cable gasbags keep telling us
that George W. Bush missed his "bullhorn moment" in New Orleans.

No, he didn't.

Because his bullhorn moment in New York City was just as late and just as
disgraceful as his fumbling handling of the Katrina carnage.

I wish I had a bullhorn to shout just how tired I am of hearing about how
wonderful George W. Bush's "bullhorn moment" was.

It will go down as one of the worst moments in American history because
when he stood on the smoldering ruins amid the dust of the dead it was
through that bullhorn that Bush's Big Lie was first shouted to the world
that the people who knocked down those buildings would soon be hearing from
us.

It might have been a fairly good, better-late-than-never moment if all Bush
had done was use that bullhorn to launch a war on Al Qaeda. It might have
escalated into a great piece of historical stagecraft if we'd just gone
into Afghanistan and stayed the course on a noble quest to kill Osama Bin
Laden and all his Al Qaeda cowards who murdered our people.

But the words that echoed through Bush's bullhorn into the smoldering 16
acres of lower Manhattan, the words that resounded across the grieving
outer boroughs and the sorrowful suburbs and the stunned globe, were but an
orchestrated setup for a grander diabolical scheme.

Because we fast gave up the hunt for Bin Laden for a bait-and-switch war in
Iraq that had nothing to do with the rubble upon which Bush stood at Ground
Zero shouting bull through his bullhorn.

Bush has now declared that half-a-buck stops on his desk for Katrina.

But he doesn't ever mention that Osama Bin Laden is still out there roaming
free and plotting more American murders. That stops on his desk, too.

Historians will refocus that bullhorn moment as the point of origin to
exploit a terrible attack on America for a preconceived war in Iraq that
had nothing to do with our dead.

Historians also will remember that directly after the terrorists attacked
the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 2001, killing 2,749, our fearless
leader, with all that Texas Air Guard combat training, hopped aboard Air
Force One and lammed to, um, Omaha.

Talk about heroic.

And as real heroes dug in the rubble for signs of life, shortening their
own lives in the toxic air, Bush hid out. Then three days later, when the
coast was clear, he arrived to shoot a Karl Rove-inspired reelection
commercial and to launch a war in Iraq.

The invasion of Baghdad started in New York in that "bullhorn moment" three
days after Sept. 11.

That final battle of the war in Iraq was lost in New Orleans when Bush
showed up three days after Katrina.

As bodies floated down the street, and tens of thousands were stranded
without food, water and medical supplies in the convention center, the
white flag in the war in Iraq was waved when Bush told Federal Emergency
Management Agency boss Michael Brown, an incompetent crony, "Brownie,
you're doing a heck of a job."

Now, with Bush's approval rating at 40%, with more than 50% disapproving of
his handling of Iraq, the Security Moms and NASCAR Dads for Bush are
silent. Even the Swift Boat Vets can't save Bush from drowning in his own
ineptitude.

For what the floods of Katrina revealed was just how out of his depth
George W. Bush is as presidential stock.

I often ask successful conservative businessmen friends if they would let
George W. Bush run their private businesses. They almost always smile and
admit they wouldn't. And yet they voted for him torun the most powerful
nation on the planet.

It would be funny except that almost 1,900 Americans troops have been
killed to create an Islamic state that spirals toward a possible civil war
in Iraq since Bush's wonderful "bullhorn moment." 
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