Sunday, September 16, 2007
good bush bad bush
Day before yesterday i was in davao , mindanao again and as usual visited that arcade in front of marco polo hotel where i stayed selling all sorts of mindanao muslim clothings and sea shell inlaid treasure chests and beautiful mindanao muslim krises,sundangs, kampilans and i was especially smitten by a particularly beautiful and antique barong ( the muslim weapon variety and not to be mistaken with filipino national shirt) but in the end i did not buy it . and that reminds me, if you walk along sukhumvit road around nana skytrain station in bangkok you'll see those stalls on the pavement selling all kinds of stuff , faked dvds, handbags, trinkets and other cheap tourist stuffs like wood carvings of elephants, penis ashtrays and so on and so forth. and you'll also notice stalls selling t-shirts with funny logos. one of my favorite as i've mentioned previously is this one with a picture of george bush mug with 'bad bush' written bellow it and another pic beside it of very hairy pubis with 'good bush' written below it.
george w may be bad but he is quite a character as this review of his biography amply illustrated and in a different situation he may even be a man to be admired. and this review showed glimpse of his character which i've always guessed all along. he's the kind of guy you wouldn't want to be an enemy with and the worst news for the like of iraq and afghanistan.
from this review...
It is in Iraq that all the various aspects of Bush's character have perilously combined: his tendency to excess, his need to prove himself, his search for the Big Idea, his need to drive himself to the limits of endurance.....
There are a lot of tears in the world of Bush. He cries at Ground Zero after the attacks on New York, he cries when he meets soldiers wounded in Iraq, he cries when delivering emotional lines in speeches. "I've got God's shoulder to cry on," he tells Draper. "And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job."
But what is strange about this man who cries so liberally is that he is also rigid and unbending. Once his mind is made up, there is no room for manoeuvre...
and this
These days, though, Bush devours history books - on Lincoln and the rise of Churchill, on the Khmer Rouge and the Algerian revolution. And always for a purpose. "He was frank to me about why he was reading about Algeria," Draper says. "The lesson is what happens when you desert a country - the slaughter of the Algerians when the French left. It falls under the rubric of the consequences of failure."
that's really bad news for iraq...
one time, even as early as immediately after the second invasion of iraq i told an aussie friend that american forces will never leave iraq and he like most white men vehemently deny this and try to convince me that america is a force of good and only meant to do good and once the job is done blah blah blah that got me quite annoyed. and this is one of the few times that i got things quite right and the way the american president is changing goal post every single week i'm dead certain that unless somebody nuke american army in iraq, it looks that they'll stay there for ever ...
perhaps the iraqi 'insurgents' could learn a lesson or two from this hilarious Ali G interview ( Ali G-War) with general brent scowcroft ...and of course as you know, ali g is an older incarnation of baron sasha cohen before borat...
george w may be bad but he is quite a character as this review of his biography amply illustrated and in a different situation he may even be a man to be admired. and this review showed glimpse of his character which i've always guessed all along. he's the kind of guy you wouldn't want to be an enemy with and the worst news for the like of iraq and afghanistan.
from this review...
It is in Iraq that all the various aspects of Bush's character have perilously combined: his tendency to excess, his need to prove himself, his search for the Big Idea, his need to drive himself to the limits of endurance.....
There are a lot of tears in the world of Bush. He cries at Ground Zero after the attacks on New York, he cries when he meets soldiers wounded in Iraq, he cries when delivering emotional lines in speeches. "I've got God's shoulder to cry on," he tells Draper. "And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job."
But what is strange about this man who cries so liberally is that he is also rigid and unbending. Once his mind is made up, there is no room for manoeuvre...
and this
These days, though, Bush devours history books - on Lincoln and the rise of Churchill, on the Khmer Rouge and the Algerian revolution. And always for a purpose. "He was frank to me about why he was reading about Algeria," Draper says. "The lesson is what happens when you desert a country - the slaughter of the Algerians when the French left. It falls under the rubric of the consequences of failure."
that's really bad news for iraq...
one time, even as early as immediately after the second invasion of iraq i told an aussie friend that american forces will never leave iraq and he like most white men vehemently deny this and try to convince me that america is a force of good and only meant to do good and once the job is done blah blah blah that got me quite annoyed. and this is one of the few times that i got things quite right and the way the american president is changing goal post every single week i'm dead certain that unless somebody nuke american army in iraq, it looks that they'll stay there for ever ...
perhaps the iraqi 'insurgents' could learn a lesson or two from this hilarious Ali G interview ( Ali G-War) with general brent scowcroft ...and of course as you know, ali g is an older incarnation of baron sasha cohen before borat...
