received this through several former P-38 pilot friends Bush resignation speech We all have our disagreements with President Bush. Immigration, U.S. Attorney firings, Iraq, Darfur, etc. are all hot topics these days. The following "speech" was written yesterday by an ordinary CITIZEN. While satirical in nature, all satire must have a basis in fact to be effective. An excellent piece by a person who does not write for a living. Sent with the author's permission. The speech George W. Bush SHOULD give: Normally, I start these things out by saying "My Fellow Americans." Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer. I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: there's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office. The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out. Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that's despite record numbers of homeowners including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we're mentioning minorities, I'll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton Administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't seem to have sunk in. Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security. We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this “blood for oil" thing. If I was trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don't give me this 'Bush Lied - People Died' crap either. If I was the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty. Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named 'Clinton' established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you? You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to outspend and out-tech them. That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you. And the bastards are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor'. Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops. Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, dammit, you might just as well Fedex a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing. In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol. I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and has a hurricane approaching. I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads. So I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall. Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there're just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008. So that's it. God bless what's left of America. Some of you know what I mean.
Made me chuckle too. It's also funny that over here we have a similar state of mind as regards Blair, though now he is leaving it's fairly clear that other than illegal wars and mindless support of Bush he wasn't that bad.
probably equal to the Hillarites I suppose wonder if Tony would be so bold to pop up a similar letter in real life ? Am sure many would get a real charge out of it.
Yeah, because of course 9/11 was the reason we went into Iraq, not that it was US government policy long before the Twin Towers (that or the letter is lieing, shock horror).
Good luck finding the mastermind of the 7/7 bombings there, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi. You won't find him there because we already captured him... in Iraq.
Great one Erich! I recieved a similar one as an email but was from a high-ranking officer in the Army. Basically though, it was very similar to this one. Well-said Hessler--both your posts.
To believe that Iraq is not part of the GWOT is very foolish considering our enemy, al-Qaeda, sees it as their central front in their global jihad.
Serve's me right for opening my mouth with out doing the research first. Well done Col. Hessler! While looking up Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, I had a hard time finding whether he was a major in Saddam's army first and then went to Afghanistan or was he an Al Qaida operative from the start. I guess what I want to know is when Osama Bin Laden recruited him, any help??
I like the part were buying the New York Times equals buying weapons for the Jihad LOL I know this is a joke, but do you think GWB is dumb enough to believe such things, or is he just counting his Haliburton stocks ?
just saw this post thanks for posting it man, its great, and so true if Pelosi became president, I'd move to france, this Sarkozy guy has hope
If that POPEYED bitch ever became president, I would not turn my back on my country. Merely, I would join the millions who would "head-for-the-hills" and we all would be in a "new" party--the Constitutionalist Party. In reality, if millions on millions of fed-up voters would get their heads out of their asses, they could actually defeat these and assholes who are ruining our country. If men like Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett left the USA because they did not care for the British or the Indians; this country might not have ever achieved the status of being such a great country. Im not singling anyone out in this post but, it's a pet peeve of mine to hear that someone would move to another country just because an asshole is President. Sorry for my language Otto--others. My post would not "stick" if I did not say it like it is. I think Gen George S. Patton would say it the same way. ;-))
lol ouch there man. You and I agree politically it seems like, my comment about France's main emphasis was to be on Sarkozy, not the moving part. The Southern-Sympathizing Jingoistic Jeffersonian Republicans are few and fair between these days, I'm one of them, no need to be pointing the guns and ole CvM
