FRED THOMPSON—A TWICE BAKED BUSH
I HEARD FRED THOMPSON ANNOUNCE HIS CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT ON THE JAY LENO SHOW AND I WAS OVERWHELMINGLY UNIMPRESSED
I am an ardent Law and Order fan. And while I was not overly impressed with Thompson's role as the New York District Attorney (a guy from Tennessee just sounds out of place in Manhattan), he is a “C” actor with “C” talents.
However, for some strange reason, Republicans seem to be overly impressed with actors. The last one, you will remember, got us into the Iran-Contra Scandal that should have ended with the president’s impeachment. But more importantly, Reagan was the man who promised to balance the budget in his first four years in office which he had bitched so loudly about for decades on the speaking circuit. Instead, at the end of his eight years in office, he had put this country in debt to the tune of nearly 3 times the amount of the preceding thirty nine (39) presidents. In other words, when he entered the White House in 1981, the deficit from all previous presidents was $900 billion dollars. When he left office in 1989 the deficit totaled $2 trillion 900 hundred billion dollars ($2,900,000,000.).
I am sorry, but we just cannot afford to have any more actors running this government. And why Republicans of all stripes and colors adore Ronald Reagan I will never understand. He is the light sitting on the Republican Hill; he is the ideal to most Republicans who still cling to the hope that a reincarnation of Ronald Reagan will come down from the heavens to lead this terribly distraught political entity out of the hole into which George Bush has dug for it.
Now, without even announcing his candidacy until last evening, September 5, 2007, Fred Thompson is number #2 in the polls just behind the front runner Rudy Giuliani. They do not know what he stands for if anything. They have never heard him speak on a subject vital to our nation’s future. He has never been in a debate against all of the other candidates who have thrown their hats in the ring and have been spending millions of dollars in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina to gain a place on the 2008 Republican presidential ticket. They like him because they have seen him on Law and Order. They like him because he is a second rate actor just like Ronald Reagan. They like him because he is from Tennessee which is located in the South. They like him because they believe he is a Baptist and they like him because he has a beautiful blond on his arm at the events he has managed to attend.
Holy Mary—what a miserable set of reasons for wanting to place a man in the most powerful office in the world? This is just one of the many reasons why I do not understand how any intelligent person could be a Republican—particularly a right-wing, ultra-conservative Republican. I understand how one could support Senator Chuck Hagel from Nebraska and a few other very sharp and intelligent men who belong to the “grand old party.”
But let us not dawdle. Let us move on to Fred Thompson’s announcement on the Leno Show.
What I heard Thompson say during the interview was that he thought the war in Iraq was a good idea. I almost turned him off right then and there. But I decided I had a responsibility to hear him out.
He believes that Saddam Hussein was a bad guy who tortured his people and was in the midst of developing nuclear weapons. Therefore, the United States had every reason in the world to preemptively invade a sovereign nation regardless of the character of its president or the fact that it posed no threat to the United States. I almost turned off the TV again, but I gritted my teeth and heard him out.
He does not believe we should bring the troops home until the streets of the Iraqi cities are sufficiently safe for the citizens of that war torn country to walk the streets again without fear of being shot or killed.
He blames al Qaeda for the violence and did not even mention the sectarian hatred between the Shiites and the Sunnis that dominates the civil war that has been raging there for several years. He did not mention that he was willing to leave our soldiers right in the heart of a 1400 year old battle between two religious sects of Islam that despise one another and have throughout all of modern history.
He mentioned the marvelous victory that America enjoyed when the people there for the first time in their long history were able to vote and select their own leaders. But he failed to mention that the whole election was an exercise in futility. The Shiites outnumber the Sunnis about two to one and that there is no way democracy will work when one religious sect is so dominant. The Shiites in general and President al Maliki in particular, do not have to compromise. They do not have to share the oil revenues. They do not have to allow women to participate in government. They do not have to stop the sectarian violence because the Shiite militias are killing Sunnis right and left and feeling good about it.
We, in America, do not appreciate the fact that for all of the decades Saddam Hussein was the tyrant in Iraq who just happened to be a minority Sunni; he persecuted both the Shiites and the Kurds and anyone who presented a threat to him. This is payback time for the Shias. They are looking for and living for revenge. To hell with democracy, they want control of the government, the oil, and military and police forces.
More importantly, the present president, al Maliki, is a close friend of Iran and just as soon as he can get the U. S. out of Iraq, he will join with Iran in establishing an Islamic state with all of the rigidity that Iran confronts today.
Speaking of police forces, a report, prepared by a committee headed by a former Marine General in the U. S. military, will released on September 7, 2007 which will call for the abolition of the Iraqi police force which the report indicates is riddled with corruption and members of the Shiite militia who are using the role as a policemen to continue the genocide of the Sunnis.
Thompson failed to mention that very poignant fact.
Thompson believes even as Bush believes that the U. S. must stay until victory is in site. Is that 1 year, or 5 years, or 10 years? Neither he, nor anyone else can tell us how long we continue to fight an illegal war that cannot be won.
Thus I call him, Fred Thompson, the twice baked Bush. He is following the Bushie line. He is going to continue, if elected president, what George Bush has started. That is what I heard in his appearance on the Jay Leno Show.
To that I say, Bah, Hum Bug! Not in my life time do I want a second helping of George W. Bush. We will be lucky to survive the first helping and those of us who love this country cannot wait until January, 2009 when the new president will assume the mantel of power that Mr. Bush has so wretchedly handled.
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