{"id":401,"date":"2003-01-23T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=401"},"modified":"2013-11-28T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:41:23","slug":"ws-war-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"W&#8217;s War Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just gotta wonder why the current occupant of the White House doesn&#8217;t fire his speechwriters. Then you realize that he thinks they make him sound good. I&#8217;m sure he fails to see the irony in his recent sabre-rattling about Iraq: &#8220;This looks like a rerun of a bad movie, and I&#8217;m not interested in watching it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Dumbya, as <i>Mad Magazine<\/i> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warnerbros.com\/madmagazine\/files\/onthestands\/ots_424\/gulfwars.html\" target=\"Offsite\">graphically<\/a> pointed out, your warmongering (and your entire presidency) is a rerun of a <b>very<\/b> bad movie that a majority of the voters in 2000 said they were not interested in watching. And an even greater majority are now saying they don&#8217;t want you to replay it with your delusions of rewriting the ending. Perhaps if you&#8217;d watched it a little more intelligently the first time, you might have learned something.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after writing this, I received email listing some of the slogans that had been seen on banners at the San Francisco march. To avoid exceeding my daily political rant quota, I decided to stick them in here instead of adding another rant. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Draft The Bush Twins<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t Mess With Mesopotamia<\/li>\n<li>War Is SO 20th Century<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When Bush Comes To Shove<\/li>\n<li>Brains Not Bombs<\/li>\n<li>War Is A D**k Thing, Peace Is A Heart Thing<\/li>\n<li>George Dubya: Weapon Of Mass Distraction<\/li>\n<li>Beat The Bushes For Peace<\/li>\n<li>Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Look Under The Bushes<\/li>\n<li>Drop Bush, Not Bombs<\/li>\n<li>Bombing For Peace Is Like F*cking For Virginity<\/li>\n<li>Evolve! Work For A Non-violent Future<\/li>\n<li>If War Is The Answer We&#8217;re Asking The Wrong Question<\/li>\n<li>Killing Innocent People Is The Problem, Not The Solution<\/li>\n<li>Save America, Spare Iraq, Make Texas Take Him Back<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Real Patriots Drive Hybrids<\/li>\n<li>Drop Names, Not Bombs<\/li>\n<li>Who Would Jesus Bomb?<\/li>\n<li>Stop Mad Cowboy Disease<\/li>\n<li>George Bush Couldn&#8217;t Run A Laundromat<\/li>\n<li>Bush Is A Servant Of Sauron. We Hates Him!<\/li>\n<li>Make Love, Not W<\/li>\n<li>There Is No Path To Peace &#8211; Peace IS The Path<\/li>\n<li>Justice Or Just Us?<\/li>\n<li>Sorry Dubya &#8211; Have A Pretzel Instead<\/li>\n<li>Pretzel &#8211; It Does A Country Good<\/li>\n<li>Tame The Tyrant In The Mirror, Then The One In Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld: Axis Of Weasel<\/li>\n<li>Go Solar, Not Ballistic<\/li>\n<li>Faster Trains Not Planes<\/li>\n<li>Nonviolence, Not Nonexistence<\/li>\n<li>A Village In Texas Has Lost Its Idiot<\/li>\n<li>How Many Lives Per Gallon?<\/li>\n<li>Make Alternative Energy Not War<\/li>\n<li>How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Soil?<\/li>\n<li>Regime Change Begins At Home<\/li>\n<li>More MPGs, Less MIAs<\/li>\n<li>Put The Peace Back In<\/li>\n<li>No Hitting (held by young girl)<\/li>\n<li>No Oilgarchy (Oilgarchy in circle with slash across it)<\/li>\n<li>God Does Not Bless Only America<\/li>\n<li>Rich Man&#8217;s War Poor Man&#8217;s Blood<\/li>\n<li>Has Anyone Seen Our Constitution Lately?<\/li>\n<li>What If God Blesses Iraq?<\/li>\n<li>Born To Kill, Born To Drill<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s Try Preemptive Peace<\/li>\n<li>Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War<\/li>\n<li>Books Not Bombs<\/li>\n<li>If You Are Not Outraged You Are Not Paying Attention<\/li>\n<li>Bush Is A Moron Don&#8217;t Let Him Get His War On<\/li>\n<li>Make Soup Not War<\/li>\n<li>Honk If You&#8217;re A Terrorist<\/li>\n<li>Smart Bombs Don&#8217;t Justify Dumb Leaders<\/li>\n<li>We Have Guided Missiles And Misguided Men<\/li>\n<li>Who&#8217;s The Unelected Tyrant With The Bomb?<\/li>\n<li>Peaceful Solution Not Daddy&#8217;s Retribution<\/li>\n<li>Make Tea Not War<\/li>\n<li>All Humanity Is Downwind<\/li>\n<li>My President Is A Psychopath<\/li>\n<li>Relax, George<\/li>\n<li>Pierced Pussies for Peace<\/li>\n<li>Fight Plaque not Iraq!&#8221; (and the guy was carrying a toothbrush).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just gotta wonder why the current occupant of the White House doesn&#8217;t fire his speechwriters. Then you realize that he thinks they make him sound good. I&#8217;m sure he fails to see the irony in his recent sabre-rattling about Iraq: &#8220;This looks like a rerun of a bad movie, and I&#8217;m not interested&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=401\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">W&#8217;s War Two<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-6t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}