Dr. Strangemonkey

[Octafish]

Michel Chossudovsky thinks the madman Bush looks upon the aftermath of nuclear war as collateral damage.
Check the smirk when the thought crosses his "mind."

Bush's World War Three

by Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, October 17, 2007

" We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. I take the threat of Iran with a nuclear weapon very seriously...." (George W. Bush, 17 October 2007)


Grin and Laugh: "Here's his expression while saying the words "World War Three" (Huffington Post, 17 October 2007)



EXCERPT...

We are not living in a sound and rational World, where far-reaching decisions by the US President are based on an understanding of their likely consequences.

A World War III is no longer a hypothetical scenario.

During the Cold War, the concept of "mutual assured destruction" (MAD) was put forth. An understanding of the devastating consequences of nuclear war largely contributed to avoiding the outbreak of war between the US and the Soviet Union.

Today, in the post-Cold war era, no such understanding prevails.

The specter of a nuclear holocaust, which haunted the world for half a century has been relegated to the status of "collateral damage".

US foreign policy under the Neocons is based on a diabolical and criminal agenda. The "war on terrorism" is a lie; Iran does not constitute a threat to global security as confirmed by a recent IAEA report. Iran does not constitute a threat to Israel.

The US president is a liar, who believes his own lies.

CONTINUED...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7116

From the perspective of Bush and his cronies, Chossudovsky states things as they are. And it doesn't matter to them. They will be safe in their "secure, undisclosed locations" while the rest of humanity fights it out for a last drink of water.

[magellan]

1. I've always interpreted that smirk differently

He always seems to use it when he's trying to be persuasive, but it's condescending. As in "I'm a paranoid psychopath who'll get what he wants no matter what the truth is, you exasperating fools."

[Captain Angry]

2. You know damn well that he doesn't even use big words in his thoughts.

More like "I'm decider. And you have to do what I say."

[Diamond Dave]

10. Mentally, Bush never moved out of the playground "sandlot" -

a tip of the hat to Jackson Thoreau and his book -
\
Born to Cheat -
How Bush, Cheney, Rove & Co. Broke the Rules - From the Sandlot to the White House

Do Something Press

Octafish meet Jackson, Jackson meet Octafish - oh for the two of you to get together - what a time you would have!

[Octafish]

3. Bush's Nuclear Policy distorts History and Reality

Agree, magellan. His is a fratboy "mentality."



Bush must express his "one-upmanship" at every opportunity, or else the smirk disappears and the mad frown comes out.

In the OP photo, the crazy monkey was actually voicing the phrase "World War III." He looks almost happy, like.

Here's the scoop on the guy's nookee-yoolar statagery:

Bush's Nuclear Policy distorts History and Reality

11 June 2002

In the annals of the nuclear age, this week is historic for two reasons. June 12th is the 20th anniversary of the million-person disarmament march in New York's Central Park that helped turn the tide from an era of perpetual, spiraling arms race to one marked by major reductions in nuclear weapons. The next day, June 13th, marks the end of the required six-month warning period and the official U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

The two events have sparked contradictory responses.

On Wednesday in Washington, the Heritage Foundation is hosting a "celebration" of the imminent demise of the ABM Treaty featuring John Bolton, the Bush administration's virulently anti-arms control Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs.

Later that day in Manhattan, Peace Action and the Nation magazine will sponsor a rally to commemorate the 1982 Central Park disarmament demonstration and to promote an "Urgent Call" for verifiable nuclear arms reductions.

The convergence of these historic events and the ongoing conflict between the nuclear-armed states of India and Pakistan raises an obvious question: are we on the right track to reduce nuclear dangers in the decades to come, or are we on the verge of a new global arms race?

We already know President George W. Bush's answer. He has touted the loophole-laden new strategic arms agreement with Russia as a historic step that will "liquidate the legacy of the Cold War." Administration officials argue that the Pentagon's new freedom to pursue a multi-tiered missile defense system will protect Americans from nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, whether launched by a rogue-state or accidentally by an established nuclear-weapon state. These new-age nuclear conservatives also insist that the Bush administration is carrying on the unfinished legacy of Ronald Reagan, who called for an ambitious missile defense shield and deep nuclear reductions.

Unfortunately, these comforting views of the administration's nuclear policy are a gross distortion of recent history and current realities.

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http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:xf79rCMqcqgJ:www.converge.org.nz/pma/cra0529.htm+bush+nuclear+policy&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12&gl=us

The little turd from Crawford is a madman. He also acts as if humanity is expendable.

[formercia]

9. Nuclear Winter

Junior's solution to Global Warming.

[11 Bravo]

16. Great pic! (Is he holding his breath until he gets his way?)

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. It's his 'What are you, stupid?' look

He's saying, "Ah git this. How come y'all don't? Y'stupid or somethin'?"

Frank Caliendo has him absolutely nailed.

[Mnemosyne]

4. "no longer a hypothetical scenario", uh, thanks to you

bonehead.

The last sentence you wrote is precisely the problem we will facing in a nearer future than we ever wanted to imagine, a lack of water.

Frightening thought. 'WaterWorld" gave me goosebumps.

Very good piece, thanks for sharing Octafish.

Two words; Guarani Aquifer.


It would be quite interesting to see who "owns" land over the world's largest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aquifers

[Octafish]

12. Rev Moon has major holdings in Paraguay. Poppy Bush may have them, too.

Neighbors...

Paraguay in a spin about Bush's alleged 100,000 acre hideaway

Tom Phillips in Cuiab
Monday October 23, 2006
The Guardian

Meeting the new couple next door can be an anxious business for even the most relaxed home owner. Will they be international drug traffickers? Have they got noisy kids with a penchant for electronic music? As worries go, however, having the US president move in next door must come fairly low on the list.
Unless of course you are a resident of northern Paraguay and believe reports in the South American press that he has bought up a 100,000 acre (40,500 hectare) ranch in your neck of the woods.

The rumours, as yet unconfirmed but which began with the state-run Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, have triggered an outpouring of conspiracy theories, with speculation rife about what President Bush's supposed interest in the "chaco", a semi-arid lowland in the Paraguay's north, might be.
Some have speculated that he might be trying to wrestle control of the Guarani Aquifer, one of the largest underground water reserves, from the Paraguayans.

Rumours of Mr Bush's supposed forays into South American real estate surfaced during a recent 10-day visit to the country by his daughter Jenna Bush. Little is known about her trip to Paraguay, although officially she travelled with the UN children's agency Unicef to visit social projects. Photographers from the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color tracked her down to one restaurant in Paraguay's capital Asunción, where she was seen flanked by 10 security guards, and was also reported to have met Paraguay's president, Nicanor Duarte, and the US ambassador to Paraguay, James Cason. Reports in sections of the Paraguayan media suggested she was sent on a family "mission" to tie up the land purchase in the "chaco".

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1928928,00.html

The Welcome Wagon:

Paraguayans accuse Moon of carving out an empire of smack



Senator Domingo Laino (above), a former presidential candidate, is charging the Unification Church with mischief.

Moon's agenda in Paraguay: Ecological paradise without labor laws, or one-stop narcotics supershop twice the size of Luxembourg? The question is explored in today's article from the subscription-only Irish Times, by reporter Seamus Mirodan of the UK's Telegraph.

Reverend Sun Myung Moon, spiritual leader of the Unification Church, self-proclaimed Messiah, multimillionaire and a generous contributor to the US Republican Party, has been showing a strong interest over the last five years in little-known Paraguay at the centre of the South American continent.
Since 1999, Rev Moon has built his personal empire which begins on the marshy banks of the River Paraguay and stretches beyond the hazy, level horizon through 600,000 hectares of arid land - equivalent to more than two Luxembourgs - punctuated by solitary clusters of withered trees and sad bushes which struggle desperately for air.

The scorching sun beats relentlessly on one of Latin America's most desolate zones. It is here in the northern province of Chaco, directly above the GuaranI aquifer, the largest resource of fresh drinking water in the world, where Moon's associates claim he wishes to build an ecological paradise.

Nevertheless, national Senator Domingo Laino sees a different pattern in Moon's acquisitions. "There are two principal branches to Moon's interest in Paraguay," he said, "control of the largest fresh drinking water source in the world and control of the narcotics business", which is so prevalent in this area. "President Lula told me that Brazil took serious measures to curb Moon a few years back as it became evident that he was buying up the border between our two countries," said the senator.

Allegations from local law enforcement officials support this claim. The so-called Dr Montiel, Paraguay's drugs tsar from 1976-89, said: "The fact that they came and bought in Chaco and on both sides of the Brazilian border is very telling. It is an enormously strategic point in both the narcotics and arms trades and indeed the available intelligence clearly shows that the Moon sect is involved in both these enterprises."

Paraguay is the major drugs port through which virtually all the cocaine produced by Bolivia and Peru passes. In the world's second most corrupt country, "the ease of buying influence is second to none", said Montiel. "Corruption reaches dangerous levels and he who wants transparency in Paraguay is a dead man. Indeed the famous Iran contra affair was operated from Ciudad del Este" on the south-east Paraguayan border with Argentina and Brazil.

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http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/2004/10/paraguayans-accuse-moon-of-carving-out.html

The action is where the water is. And if global warming goes haywire, like recent observations show outrunning even the most pessimistic models, Paraguay may be one of the few survivable parts of the planet. It certainly is defensible, which is where the Pentagon comes in.

US military presence in Paraguay irks neighbors

The Pentagon denies desire for a permanent base, but there are many skeptics.

By Kelly Hearn | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
posted December 02, 2005

CUIDAD DEL ESTE, PARAGUAY – Outside the Jebay mall, a bustling hive of black market shops guarded by men with pistols and shotguns, a motorcycle taxista shouts from inside his helmet: "They want to control all this. They think terrorists are here."

"They" means the US military.

The recent arrival of US troops in this landlocked nation of 6 million is brewing fears of the repeat of cold-war intervention in the heart of South America. And in cabs, newspapers, courtyards, and restaurants throughout region, conspiracy theories about Washington's intentions are spreading like wildfire.

In May, Paraguay rankled neighbors by hosting 400 US troops for 13 joint military exercises that began this summer and will end in December 2006. Washington is paying $45,000 for each exercise, some of which are humanitarian, and Paraguay reportedly hopes to land $35 million in extra aid.

When President Bush arrived in Argentina for the Summit of the Americas last month, civic groups in Paraguay simultaneously announced a forum to address the US troop deployment in the country. Many here fear the troops are laying the groundwork for a permanent base similar to the Pentagon's Manta Base in Ecuador. But US and Paraguayan officials are vehement. "The United States has absolutely no intention of establishing a military base in Paraguay," said an official at the US Embassy in Asunción, Paraguay's capital.

Skeptics point out, however, that the US initially denied the Manta base would be permanent back in 1999.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1202/p25s02-woam.html

It's like theirs is an empire of evil, or something.

[AntiFascist]

19. Very interesting about the cocaine angle n/t

[Mnemosyne]

22. Kicking to finish discussion tomorrow. Night Octafish. n/t

[Kurovski]

5. K&R. (nt)

[Faux pas]

7. The loon has no control over his face. I always thought the smirk

was his 'tell'. Letting us know for a fact that he's lying and hoping we are stupid enough to believe him.

[Jim Sagle]

21. More like he's letting us know he KNOWS we know he's lying and he's enjoying every second of it.

[Faux pas]

24. Either way he proves that the human element means nothing

to him.

[trusty elf]

8. They will be safe in their "secure, undisclosed locations"

That reminds me of an article I read during Reagan's reign of error about the building of vast underground bunkers for government officials in the event of nuke-ya-lur war. The article stated that in the event of war, the populace would be encouraged to rely on "self-help", and were to be issued handy portable radiation detectors.

[saltpoint]

11. A recent DU thread asked what title Bush's biography (?) should be, and

DR. STRANGEMONKEY works pretty well.

How many intelligence agencies are there? Sixteen or so? And they are in unanimous agreement that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program to speak of.

Bush undermines his own authority when he smirks and lies his way through these news conferences.

[bobthedrummer]

13. "Well, ah guess this is it, boys. Knewklure war toe to toe wit the Rooskys."

Yep, just what the neocons were indoctrinated and groomed for.
:nuke:

[bobthedrummer]

14. "New Evidence on the Origins of Overkill: First Substantive Release of Early SIOP Histories"

from The National Security Archive posted 11-22-2007

"The first comprehensive U.S. nuclear war plan, produced in 1960, was controversial within the U.S. government because top commanders and White House scientists objected to its massive destructiveness-the 'high level of damage and population casualties'..."

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb236/index.htm

[Time for change]

15. I noticed that myself when I heard him say that the first time, but it didn't fully register with me

It just seemed so much in character for Bush that I didn't think much of it.

I think that you and Cossudovsky are right about this. Bush couldn't care less about the destruction of the rest of the world or of his own country. He just wants to be known as a "successful" war president. He would be very proud indeed to preside over the world's first NUCULAR war.

[leftchick]

17. Very Intersting Octafish

I had no idea the pentagon sells their toys to the public this way. Disgusting!

:puke:

<snip>

While Iran's non existent nukes are said to constitute a lethal and deadly threat, so-called tactical nuclear weapons "Made in America" are described in Pentagon documents as "harmless to the surrounding civilian population".

In a bitter irony, those who decide on the use of nuclear weapons believe their own propaganda. A preemptive nuclear attack on Iran is upheld as a bona fide humanitarian undertaking which contributes to global security.

And now the US Head of State, who has a limited understanding of geopolitics, let alone geography, is hinting that if Iran does not give up its nonexistent nuclear weapons program, we might be reluctantly forced into in a World War III situation. Bush has insinuated that as Commander in Chief, he could decide to launch a war on Iran, which would result in World War III.

"Dr. Strangelove rides again." In an utterly twisted logic, World War III is presented by the US President as a means to preventing collateral damage.

The war would be triggered by Iran, who has refused to abide by the "reasonable demands" of "the international community".

Realities are twisted and turned upside down. Iran is being accused of wanting to start World War III.



REALITY.....

The Nuclear Bunker Buster (flash animation): Simulation of Consequences of a Nuclear Bunker Buster Bomb Attack on Iran


http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2281

[Martin Eden]

18. Slap me hard in the face, please.

I need to wake up. That psychotic buffoon can't really be president of the United States of America. It's got to be just a hideous nightmare.

[seemslikeadream]

20. Dr. Strangemonkey grandpa on the tubes

:hi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8pFS0P8i38

[bobthedrummer]

27. "How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power" by Ben Aris and Duncan Campbell

Guardian Special Report (published 9-25-2004)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html

Prescott just couldn't sit still in his chair during the interview-like a lying simian in a suit (nice find slad).

Prescott wasn't alone.

"The Bosch Invasion" (Time Magazine May 6, 1929)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,732320-1,00.html

[alphafemale]

23. He always grins when saying words like death, torture, destruction.

He really gets his jollies from bringing that to people.

Hehheh the world is my toad NOW!! AND I've got some BIG firecrackers to stickup its ASS!!!!

[bobthedrummer]

25. A kick for Dana Perino-who doesn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was

but she stands behind her Decider's lies...

[bobthedrummer]

26. "The INF Treaty and the Washington Summit: 20 Years Later"

(posted at The National Security Archive 12-10-2007)

"Previously secret Soviet Politburo records and declassified American transcripts of the Washington summit 20 years ago between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev show that Gorbachev was willing to go much further than the Americans expected or were able to reciprocate on arms cuts and resolving regional conflicts, according to documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University."

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB238/index.htm