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George Bush: Poet King.

CNN Reports that Laura Bush chose to share a cute little love poem Dubbya left for her.

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Oh my, lump in the bed.
How I’ve missed you.

Roses are redder.
Bluer am I.
Seeing you kissed by that charming French guy.

The dogs and the cat, they missed you too.
Barney’s still mad you dropped him, he ate your shoe.
The distance, my dear, has been such a barrier.
Next time you want an adventure, just land on a carrier.

Just land on a carrier? I’m in a state of shellshock about this poem. Apart from the fact that he ought to have something better to be doing with his time than writing this.

Is George insane to write this? Is Laura insane to reveal it? Or maybe she had a burst of patriotism, and has decided to bring about his downfall! Maybe she really did fall for the French guy, and has chosen his team. Hop on pop!

“We’re through the looking-glass, people!”

I can just see them in the UN. Bush II comes in, and puts forward the reasons why the UN should sanction the next war. A voice pipes up. “Oi Bush! Next time you want an adventure, just land on a carrier!”.

Look for Bush to use “The charming French Guy” kissing his wife as Cassius Belli soon. In Operation “Keep your garlicy hands off ma wife!”

Constitutional Angst.

Just how long does it take to write a constitution?

Paul Bremer: “This certainly can’t be done in just a few months..”

George W. Bush: “I do think it would be helpful to get the United Nations in to help write a constitution,ï¿½ Bush said. ï¿½I mean, theyï¿½re good at that.”

The Founding Fathers of America: The Constitutional Convention made many drafts and many revisions to the Constitution. The Convention started, May 25, 1787; and adjourned, September 17, 1787. From the US Constitution FAQ

Benjamin Franklin, speaking before the Convention: I agree to this Constitution with all its faultsï¿½if they are suchï¿½because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

Good ol’ Ben. He’s always been my favourite founding father. I’d love to raise up his ghost right about now. There’d be more than just kites getting hit by lightning.

Hop on Pop

Laura Bush Shares Her Story for Lifetime Television’s 300th ‘Intimate Portrait In a life of rare opportunities and experiences, what has been Mrs. Bush’s fondest memory: “One of my happiest memories is watching him [President Bush] lie on the floor reading Doctor’s Seuss’ “Hop on Pop” to the girls and they would take it literally and hop on pop, start to jump on him as little babies in their little Doctor Denton pajamas with their feet in it. It was such a really precious sight and a memory I’ll always have.”

If I ever get to see anyone jump up and down on Bush, I expect it’ll become one of my fondest memories too…
Bush Crush. We like to Crush. We like to Crush President Bush.

OK, I feel better now. I’ll try to find some proper news. Preferably some that doesn’t involve Rattling Rush Limbaugh. Not that I don’t rejoice in his downfall, but no-one in the UK has ever heard of him.

North Korea postures wildly

North Korea says it is using plutonium to make bombs
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Thursday it has completed reprocessing its 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods and is using plutonium extracted from them to make atomic bombs.

“The (North) successfully finished the reprocessing of some 8,000 spent fuel rods,” a spokesman for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the North’s official news agency, KCNA. The spokesman was not named.

Accusing the United States of taking a “hostile policy” toward the North, the statement said that North Korea “made a switchover in the use of plutonium churned out by reprocessing spent fuel rods in the direction increasing its nuclear deterrent force.”

North Korea also said it will reprocess more spent fuel rods to be produced from the small reactor in its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang.

Earlier this week, North Korea claimed that it was taking “practical measures” to boost its nuclear weapons program as a deterrent against what it calls a U.S. plan to invade.

The claim came as some U.S. intelligence analysts are becoming increasingly concerned that the communist regime may have three, four or even six nuclear weapons instead of the one or two the CIA had estimated.

New atomic bombs would give Pyongyang more authority at the negotiating table, and may allow it to part with one, either in a test or by selling it, experts say.

The United States and its allies are trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear programs. The North says it will do so only if the United States signs a nonaggression treaty, provides economic aid and opens diplomatic ties.

The nuclear dispute flared in October 2002 when U.S. officials said North Korea admitted running a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of international agreements.

Oh doom. We’re really getting into pre-emptive strike area now.

Guantanamo infiltrated?

The BBC reports that a third Guantanamo employee has been charged with espionage.
Making the large assumption that the charged men are guilty, it begs the question just how efficient al-Qaeda is? To get three operatives into the US highest security concentration camp must take some doing. Maybe we’re in a whole lot more trouble than we realised. Next they’ll be charging White House officials with treason…

Scandal

There doesn’t seem to be much doubt as to whether the illegal leak occured. What the world eagerly awaits now is the answer to “How high did it go?”. *Does the Regime Change dance.*
As the Washington Times amusingly said today“But it is worth noting that the Bush White House team is utterly unqualified by both experience and disposition to be as effective as Mr. Clinton and his scandal managers were. After all, Mr. Bush has never had a significant scandal, and most, if not all of his team have never worked for someone who has.”

TWT, once again proving that it is sent to us from a parallel universe. I hope they prove to be right about the Bushies being rubbish at covering up, now that the mainstream media has relocated its teeth.

No scandals. Well apart from his election, his tax cuts, and his phony war at any rate.

Who’s Next?

A special assistant to Donald Rumsfeld was upbeat. “We’re going to get better over time,” said Lawrence Di Rita. “We’ve always thought of post-hostilities as a phase” apart from combat, but “the future of war is that these things are going to be much more of a continuum. … We’ll get better as we do it more often.”

Eeeeeee! The US is always scariest when it has a burst of honesty.

It’s competition time! The question is, who’s next? Syria, North Korea, or Iran? Personally I wouldn’t rule out Venezuela. Perhaps somewhere on Africa’s oil rich west coast?

I don’t think it’ll be North Korea. Not if they’ve succeeded in convincing the Pentagon they actually DO have weapons of mass destruction. And it’d really annoy China. The noises coming out of the administration regarding Iran’s nuclear program could certainly be laying down some sort of foundation for operation “Iranian Freedom”.

Alexa