Bush thinks he’s commander in chief of World War III (no, really)
Bush says fight against terror is ‘World War III’
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of “World War III.”
For those of you still not convinced that Our Glorious Leader is some sort of maniacal warlord with a Messiah complex, you should read this Yahoo! News article very carefully. If you can do that and still remain firm in your conviction that George W. Bush is surely a leader anointed by God…well, you’re in worse shape that I’d thought possible.
This is a President so craven that he seemingly has no problem with using 9.11 to further his own radical theocratic agenda. After seeing United 93, I am sickened that the leader of a government so thoroughly inept, so craven, and so willing to create a pretext for a war that has nothing to do with fighting terrorism can speak in terms that equate the fate of Flight 93 to the beginning of World War III. Is there NOTHING this sad, sorry excuse won’t do, no depth he will not plumb, in order to force his vision of an American theocracy upon the American sheeple? Is it any wonder why Our Glorious Leader’s approval ratings are now in the low 30s?
In an interview with the financial news network CNBC, Bush said he had yet to see the recently released film of the uprising, a dramatic portrayal of events on the United Airlines plane before it crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
But he said he agreed with the description of David Beamer, whose son Todd died in the crash, who in a Wall Street Journal commentary last month called it “our first successful counter-attack in our homeland in this new global war — World War III”.
Bush said: “I believe that. I believe that it was the first counter-attack to World War III.
“It was, it was unbelievably heroic of those folks on the airplane to recognize the danger and save lives,” he said.
And if the sacrifice of those who died aboard Flight 93 can be used to further his agenda of advancing the Far Right’s vision of muscular, end-times Christianity, so much the better.
Flight 93 crashed on the morning of September 11, 2001, killing the 33 passengers, seven crew members and four hijackers, after passengers stormed the cockpit and battled the hijackers for control of the aircraft.
The president has repeatedly praised the heroism of the passengers in fighting back and so launching the first blow of what he usually calls the “war on terror”.
We will never know exactly what happened about Flight 93, though it seems clear now that those on board did indeed prevent the plane from reaching its intended target- the US Capitol. The sacrifice and heroism of those involved cannot be minimized, and it certainly should not be used to further a political, social, and/or religious agenda. That Our Glorious Leader is willing to so blithely exploit the tragedies of 9.11 for his own political gain only demonstrates beyonda shoadow of a doubt how little he appreciates and understands that of which he speaks.
WE DESERVE BETTER….
