Reply #142: Yup, I agree--the wording is weird. Why does he have to spell out [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

"bathroom break"? Why not just, "I need a break"? And why put a question mark at the end? Makes me think it's code. I'd sure like to know who was speaking at the time, and what happened next. Or maybe the question is: Who was ABOUT TO speak? Is Bush saying, "If so and so's up next, then don't I need a 'bathroom break' (excuse to leave the room)?" If Bush weren't such a lamebrain (and basket case), I'd be convinced it was code. But, given that it's Bush, who knows?

But I still think the startling things are that this photo got taken at all, and that Reuters published it. You just DON'T DO that to world leaders! For a reputable news organization to do it, it's like a declaration of war--or, in this case, a response to the Bush Cartel's war against Reuters. (I don't know the current death toll for Reuters' journalists in Iraq, but I know they've been hardest hit, in some really questionable killings, starting with the initial targeting of the Reuters floor in the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad early in the invasion.)

I also think that things like this don't just "happen" to presidents--not in a highly controlled situation like this one. Maybe a slipup on the campaign trail, that sort of thing, where happenstance can occur (somebody leaves the mike "on" by accident)--but not a highly managed UN appearance, and especially given this excessively managed presidency. How did Karl Rove, and/or Secret Service, and/or private Cartel security, and/or UN security, LET a reporter get that angle, that position, for a photo--behind him, over his shoulder? A behind the prez photo is rare. (Didn't they ban them in the debate rules? --and the "wire" on his back photo was against the rules, or something? I dimly remember that.)

Was it just Rick Wilking's (the photog's) lucky day? Right place, right time? Or is somebody SETTING THINGS UP to harm Bush's public image? (--the guitar photo op, the birthday cake photo op, while a large chunk of the US was getting blown off the map and thousands of American were dying; the cardboard "rescue center"; and this humiliation ("Can I go to the bathroom?") at a UN world conference. (It even makes me wonder about "My Pet Goat"--in retrospect.)

(I sometimes think that it is we, the American people, who are being psyopped--insulted, humiliated, given a low self-image, deliberately, by Bush's idiocy and blunders. Somebody shoving it in our faces. How dare you think you deserve any better than this inarticulete, drooling S.O.B.? It's a torture technique.)