August 18, 2004

Bush Body Count

William Rivers Pitt has a joke for George Bush:

Q: What is the difference between President George W. Bush and President Ted Bundy?

A: Bush killed more people than Bundy.

Pitt rightly complains that the press and even the US opposition have been way too soft on young George, and quotes Abe Lincoln to justify his growing outrage with an administration running amok:
"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure...if, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I can see it, if you don't.'"


After some more sustained criticism, Pitt quotes Frederich Nietzsche:
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

"You have become a monster, George," says Pitt, "and the abyss is staring into your eyes. I wonder what it sees there. I know what I see."

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