Why We Hate George
21 Mar 2003
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This time round, the doves seem very hawkish. My observation (correct me if your experience differs) is that when you talk about the war, people who don't want us to fight become much more rapidly heated than people who do. Peaceful people go red in the face, speak with higher pitched voices, and fire off undeleted expletives; warmongers remain suave.
I'm not saying this is a subject people shouldn't get fired up about. I just think it's odd that the people who want us to fight seem a lot cooler under the collar than those who don't. There's a flavour to the anti-war talk that is not so much like saloon bar politics chat, as it is like how people discuss family bust-ups or horrible employers. This time it seems personal. And not altogether rational.
It's no exaggeration to say that George Bush is more widely and deeply hated in Britain and the Western World than Saddam Hussein is. And that's even though Saddam has home advantage, as it were, in that he's a fit object for hatred by both sides. If you punch up "I hate George Bush" on your favourite search engine you'll get a good deal more links than with "I hate Saddam Hussein". And you'll also notice that a lot of the Saddam links are to articles about George Bush saying "I hate…"
Or try this, from Time Magazine citing a marcher in Paris: We love Iraqis, we hate Saddam Hussein. We love Americans, we hate George Bush. No Mass Texecution. Let's roll, but for peace.
Surely, though, in any sane conspectus no reasonable liberal person could seriously think that Bush was as bad as or no better than Saddam. Just count the bodies. So why this intemperate loathing?
I think it's about the re-birth of grand narrative.
In the nineteenth century there was a lot of this: America had Manifest Destiny, Britain its Civilising Mission, France spread Liberty and Reason. Nobody tittered at a motto like "fear God and honour the King". It was in the air that national life was a struggle of good against evil, and civilisation was advancing in a more-or-less straight line. One could use words like "true", "good" and "beautiful" with the same confidence as "grassy", "red", and "equilateral".
Then towards the end of that century a Mr F Nietzsche of Germany had the idea that there was no Big Plan, it's all just about power-grabbing and the main chance – and by the way, God is dead. But he said it better than that – so that people took it seriously. And after that we had two horrible wars, which made us think the future might not always turn out better than the past, and perhaps we'd had enough Grand Struggling between Good and Evil, thanks.
So for the last fifty years right thinking people in the Western world have dedicated us to tolerance and self-doubt. Nowadays these values have the same function in our culture as ideas about religion a hundred years ago. If you'd gone around saying "God is dead" in the polite parlours of Edwardian England they'd have given you dirty looks or worse. Today you'd get the same looks in right-thinking society if you said "it would be good if Britain had a single dominant culture, so everyone knew where he stood". I'm not (here) commending the second kind of remark. I'm just noticing that it would be thought in pretty poor taste, whereas in 1903 nobody would have batted an eyelid.
So here we all are, content in our civil understanding that nothing is either absolutely wrong or absolutely right, everyone wears a grey hat, and the Western world can't teach any moral lessons. And then this awful man comes along and starts saying… such things my dear.
I remember seeing George Bush interviewed by Trevor McDonald on the telly a year ago – quite a famous interview. Trevor McDonald asks him what America wants to do about Saddam. Trevor expects the usual "on the one hand we'd all like blah blah… but on the other hand we have to bear in mind blah blah…", but George just ups and says "it's my policy that he not be in charge of Iraq". And Trevor's so taken aback he asks the question again, giving the man a chance to draw a decent veil of nuance and ambivalence… and George says the same again.
As we've got to know him better, we've found this was quite in character. You can think of other instances; or if you'd like a typical response from someone on the other side, try this. And of course, there are also rational reasons to hate George Bush, if you adhere to a set of quite respectable political views. But I think the vigour, the scale, and the personal, outraged quality of bien-pensant hatred stems from a much deeper disagreement.
It's not a disagreement about whether or when to fight (though I agree there is scope for reasonable disagreement there). It's not even a disagreement about political philosophy (though ditto). No, the reason we (you, or they, to be accurate) hate George Bush is because of a disagreement about theology.
Not that he's a professing Christian – though this comes into it - but that he rejects an article of faith in the secular theology. Why do we hate George? We hate George because he trashes the holy precept we all learnt at our mother's knee: that a spade may be, depending on context, and allowing for its cultural construction, an implement for excavation.
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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 beach front 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. Tha'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 are 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.
The rest of you, * off.
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blah blah blah wrote on 24 Mar 2008
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The minute you find yourself constructing an argument that does anything but indict the Bush Administration, you've lost. You've lost your integrity, your free thought, your right to demand better leadership, and most important of all: you've lost your self respect. Get over it. Put Bush in jail, and make every Bush supporter dig graves and pay out of their own pockets in front of those they've offended.
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herbie wrote on 26 Sep 2005
In england (no capital E as we don't deserve that anymore) we have already a king, yet Blair is being a right old Roberspierre! In fact, I guess we have two kings, one is sadly senile, the other one has a picture of himself on your president's desk in the white house (no capitals either), lovely!
Let's face it, we are screwed and they are taking us for the ride of our lives!
I don't think we will have a future and I don't think that in a hundred years time people will be reading history books, since there won't be anyone left except monkeys (the same as those ruling now). Maybe aliens looking at our planet will have a good old laugh at what a waste of a species we have been.
Looking at ourselves, I mean westerners, why exactly do we think to be better than anyone else? because we export more weapons? (US is number 1, GB is number 2 in the world!) or is it because we have more money? Maybe because you are good at American Football and we are rubbish at every other sport? I really am not sure what the answer is, but they tell us we are better than everyone else so it must be true! I am sure that soon they will find those bloody WMD in Iraq and then all this bad press will end!! I am surprised that no one thought of taking some there , hiding them under a little sand and then sending a little boy to blow over a mine and accidentally find the missing weapons, maybe the plot is too complex for some!!
At least we are set to export some old good democracy (small D). In England, the majority of us citizens wish to have a timescale for when to see our troops come back from Iraq, yet our PM, blair is not concerned, he says "I have absolutely no doubt as to what we should do. We should stick with it."
What exactly is democracy? i thought it meant that people vote and a parliament does things to represnt as much as possible the popular vote. I guess instead it means that a man, the leader, can do what he wants. When I was a child, they called this Dicatorship, I guess I must check out the dictionary, things do change when it's not to do with governments, churches or the law!
Anyway, if Iraq is going to gain our democracy, well, good luck to them, I am sure they will be thanking us for a long time to come! If I was an Iraqi I would try go to China, can't be worst than here!
sorry but today is monday so i am a little bitter.
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Mandy wrote on 24 Mar 2005
I would just like to quickly say that I applaud this article. I am an American, and I absolutely cannot stand George Bush. The main reason is simply that he believes he has been elected King, not President. He completely ignores the wants of the American people and decides for himself what is "best." I apologize to the world for this ignorant man and hope that the world does not give up on America.
The typical man from the "old" europe: wrote on 22 Feb 2005
Is this man crazy?
Bush must die! wrote on 22 Feb 2005
Please kill him!
So thousands of peoples live can go on!
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Phil Nelson wrote on 19 Oct 2004
As an American citizen, I find it hard to beleive the polarized condition of our country. Rarely in our history would one be truly upset about having the opposing candidate in office. Personally, I do not like either one of the candidates very much. However, I do support Kerry for one reason: intelligence. As a left-brainer, I have no qualms skipping past the aesthetic appeal of George Bush, both in his looks and charming Southern boy personality. However, when you listen to what he says, you can tell the doomsday clock is rapidly approaching twelve, as he is so stubborn in his beliefs that he will sacrifice a nation to uphold them. Although I do admire resolve, I also despise that a single individual can destroy the world's superpower, his own country, because of his black and white views of the world.
On a side note, I think you Europeans would agree with me on this, the "No Child Left Behind Act" is a step backwards. Won't waiting for the last kid really leave the rest of the class behind, causing people like, oh, let us refer to them with the arbitrary name George Bush, to appear as bright as the top students, even though they stopped everyone else so this student could catch up? Brilliant plan.
Although this is a truly roundabout statement, all I want to get across is that I am truly scared where this nation is heading. I say vote for Kerry because no progress is better than backtracking.
Scott S. wrote on 17 Oct 2004
I get sick to my stomach knowing that George W. Bush is the President of The United States. How the hell does this happen? Not only is he not bright, one could argue that Bush is flat-out stupid! No president in the history of this country has accomplished less than Mr. Bush did before taking office. Anything and everything in George's life has been handed to him on a silver platter. Bush was born on third base and he thinks he hit a triple. HA! Let's not forget that he is extremely arrogant which has led him into being a war-monger. I mean the man actually said "I am a war president." I am embarrassed for my country knowing that George W. Bush is our "leader". The scariest thing for me is that he has a strong chance of being in office for 4 more years!! God help us all.
Chris wrote on 27 Sep 2004
I find it very sad that in a country of 250 million plus the only candidate for Presient are G.W.Bush and Senator Sleeping Draught.
Biased Brits wrote on 23 Sep 2004
The reason that more sites come up when you search for I hate bush is because people know stuff about bush and he is running for president of THE most powerful country in the world. Nobody really knows about Hussein and nobody cares anymore, hes gone.
Do you honestly think that Kerry can or would have done a better job then bush?
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I like your perspective. I've been wondering why there is such vociferous hatred for GWB. I think you nailed it.
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andrew wrote on 26 Nov 2003
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"William M. Cooper" wrote:
Subject: This is the letter I sent the New York Times
.... I think that even if you don't find as much as a
primer to a bullet cartridge, you have still found
thousands of body parts of the thousands of innocent
civilians who were butchered at the hands of a madman.
You have unending stories of the victims coming
forward and testifying of the brutality that they
lived in every day. You have the Kurds who were
gassed to death. Not soldiers, but women and
children. You have the jubilation of the freed people
as they tore down the statues of their tormentor and
beat the head of it with the bottom of their shoes;
which for them was the highest insult to offer up.
You do the President, Great Britton's Prime Minister,
the military forces from differing contries and their
sending nations a great injustice by calling the war a
bad move to have taken. To clarify this position;
what if Hitler hadn't been grabbing all the countries
he did, but kept to all his secret projects and his
genecidal activities. Would we not had gone after him
once we learned just how brutal he was and how
murderous his power over the peoples of Europe had
become? Perhaps you would have wrote then something
like: "well it's only Jews, Gypsies, Retards,
Handicappers, Elderly, Ministers and a mixed group of
nonGermans, so why waste the fuel and manpower?". I'm
so sick to my stomach to say, that the way the news
and Democrats are using airtime and prose for nothing
better than showing the world your total contempt for
the suffering masses around the world. A very
obnoxious and macabre way to slam the integrity of a
man you obviously want to loose the next election,
while doing it over the tombs of those whose blood
cries out for some justice, and protection to those
they leave behind. The media was so biased against
the then, Governor Bush during Bush's election that it
really opened the eyes of a lot of people who saw your
tactics. But you still didn't learn anything. When
the war started, the networks started the propaganda
machinery all over again and lost ratings, because of
their baseless cries of destruction to the American
Military and other such nonsense. Now you're at it
again with slam articles about not finding weapons of
mass destruction.
I think you and every body else who has verbated all
the parties previously mentioned, owes President Bush
and Prime Minister Blair, and all the other noble men
and women who freed the multiple people groups who
were brutalized in Iraq a huge and resounding pat on
the back for what they did do and not what a madman
with ample warning was able to successfully ship
accross his borders and hide before the war started.
The intelligence that the President used was also from
previously found items that were found before the war
by UN inspectors who saw the illegal hardware with
their own eyes. So continue the antiBush/Blair
stance you seem to be insanely devoted to, but you'll
not find a sympathetic ear from me, because it is
obvious that your minds are so polluted with
prejudice, that every thing appears evil in your eyes,
even when good is all around and in clear sight.
I say this to your shame.
For our noble President, England's Prime Minister, the
troops, the victims, the grieving mothers, fathers,
children of Iraq.
William M. Cooper
1227 W. Kenedy #52
Kingsville, TX. 78363
http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/8857
coopr2000@yahoo.com
Richard wrote on 11 Oct 2003
Hello,
Read your article. Being a physicist I try to stay away from politics, but I am intrigued with Bush. First off, I dont hate him, I dont hate anyone. It is a pathetic emotion. I am concerned about him because I dont beleive that he has the mental ability to lead a nation. Also, I really liked John McCain, and he "push polled" him in S.C. So why do I dislike him? 1) He passes laws that benfit the rich at the expense of the poor. 2) There were some very unethical situations in the election. Like the turning away of thousands of minority voters. 3) I'm glad we went to Iraq, but I dont think that he has the leadership to do what is right there that will benefit both the US and Iraq . 4) Dick Cheney and the ties to Halliburton. Did you know that company doesnt even have to bid? They automatically get the contracts. That doesnt sound like good business by the us government. 5) They often bring religion into politics. They try to say that they are the moral right and that the other candidates are "evil". Well if you've read history religion never sets the moral standard, it only reflects the moral attitudes of the present. (ie slavery) As a famous physicist said: "Good people will always do good things, bad people will always do bad things, but it takes religion for good people to do bad things". 6) He divides a country. He said "You are either with us, or against us" and then creates easy terms to define good and evil. An intelligent person will realize that good and evil
Dubya is a walking malapropism. (Just check out the shirt at www.teestyle.com). He may be the least intelligent sounding president in American history.
I just have disliked more than 80% of the Americans I have met. That has nothing to do with their leadership, but a lot to do with their attitudes and upbringing.
wrote on 25 Sep 2003
hmmmm, let's see the last time the world "hated" America and its trigger happy leader the Soviet Union (or liberal utopia) vanished from the face of the earth. I can still hear them saying "don't offend the world or the soviets....we are scared...booo hooo hooo". Why don't you all get a spine and quit whinning and contribute something to society in stead of playing the blame game. America leads the world, it doesn't follow the French.
George Bush needs to go!!. The United States is already hated throughout much of the world, with people out there waiting for the right excuse to spread their brand of terrorism. Now Mr big shot gave everyone their excuse. The U.S is now THE MOST HATED COUNTRY IN HISTORY.!!!. And all thanks to this trigger happy idiot.
What I find extremely upsetting is that in the U.S. anybody can be president. EVEN ACTORS!!!. I think it's about time that these people need to have a resume at hand and be elected for their intelligence not their personality or pretty white teeth. Come on Americans you must start looking at the qualifications of these politicians. Look what happen last time. G.W. Bush.
Stevo wrote on 30 Aug 2003
he is a trigger-happy man ignorant of world affairs. why is he president of one of the most powerful countries in the world????