GW Bush: DEAF MAN, TALKING!
Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 12:15 am<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>G.W. Bush: DEAF MAN, TALKING!</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>THE DIAGNOSIS</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Maybe it's the newly appointed speech writer. Maybe Peter Feaver has been locked away in some windowless sub basement of the White House, without access to the outer world. Maybe he can do little more than recycle earlier speeches about the war in Iraq. Maybe he and everyone else in this administration have become trapped in a bizarre and crippling time warp. Or maybe, just maybe, it's that George Bush is hard of hearing.<br> <br>That has to be the explanation. After listening to his delirious portrayal of progress today and of victory tomorrow in war-torn Iraq, there is only one conclusion: the President of the Untied States is nothing more than a deaf man, talking. <br><br>It's not as if anyone in this administration has ever listened with a discerning ear. Standard operating practice at the White House has been to listen only to those who furthered their agenda, and to absolutely no one else.<br><br>But this time, the man at the helm of a sinking nation has gone a bit too far. This time he has gone stone, cold, deaf.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>THE DISEASE</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>George W. Bush and his handlers have a lengthy history of hearing problems. For more than five years, they selectively closed their ears to those who knew things they chose to ignore. For more than five years, they dismissed the advice of the experienced, and the knowledgeable. They heard nothing that was critical or challenging. They heard nothing that questioned their ill fated policies or their inaccurate conclusions. They heard nothing but their own applause.<br><br>George Bush developed a severe hearing malady early in his presidency. From day one, he turned a deaf ear to warnings that his policies were dangerous and destructive. Fortunately for the administration, the corporate media under-reported or simply ignored the advice of experts with as much disdain as the White House. <br><br>nstead, George Bush listened intently to the words of his PNAC partners who had waited so patiently for the chance to invade Iraq. And yet, he listened to Ahmed Chalabi, a felon convicted of embezzling millions in absentia, who said that an invasion of Iraq would be a cake walk. Instead, he listened to people who had no clue as to the realities of war, or the cultural and tribal entanglements of the Iraqi people.<br><br>Instead, he went to war. And the war became a quagmire. And the quagmire became a nightmare. And the nightmare began to show in the polls.<br><br>And so, something had to be done. That something was another series of speeches by the President to shore up support for his war. That is why George Bush came before the American people once again to introduce a redundant and meaningless National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.<br><br>When George Bush gave the first of his scheduled speeches, his otic infirmity could no longer be hidden. Sadly, his second address to the nation simply reinforced the obvious: the President of the United States is completely and totally deaf. <br><br>More...<br>_______________________<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br>FULL COMMENTARY ON THE FARCICAL SPEECHES:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://tvnewslies.org/html/deaf_man_talking.html">tvnewslies.org/html/deaf_...lking.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--></span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> <p></p><i></i>