The Pure Water Gazette's War on Arrogance

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Arrogance, the overweening pride of hubris,  boastful self-aggrandizement--these have become the key characteristics of America's current pack of "leaders." 

This page is dedicated to Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, John Ashcroft, Condaleeza Rice, Dick Cheney,  Paul Wolfowitz, Colin Powell and other arrogant humans.

Recently added: Lao-Tse on Arrogance.

Quotes, pictures and articles exposing the ultra arrogant.

 

 

Articles about the King of the Arrogant, Donald Rumsfeld.:

Should We Talk Like This?   by Charley Reese. Is Donald Rumsfeld an arrogant jerk? Yes.

Would You Buy a Used Car from This Man? by Hardly Waite. Would the Office of Strategic Influence lie to you?

Donald Rumsfeld: A Man of Constant Sorrow by Hardly Waite. The burdens of people in high places.

The Cruelty of Time by Hardly Waite. The world's greatest one-sentence essay.

"Donald Rumsfeld Makes Me Ill" -- Progressive Editor Matthew Rothschild.

Dapper Don sold nuclear systems to North Korea then arrogantly denounced it. The Two Faces of Rumsfeld.

Don And Friend.  Rumsfeld's buddy Saddam fell from grace when the winds of politics made it profitable for Don to move on.

 

"The US has not run out of targets to bomb.  Afghanistan has run out of targets. Ha, Ha, Ha!"

"Secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, whose heart beats with the compassion of a crocodile, clings to his job by staging Florence Nightingale-like tableaux of hand-holding of the wounded while declaiming into the desert wind about 'vicotory.'" -- Sidney Blumenthal, Dec. 2004.

Lesson from an Old Woman by Hardly Waite.  "Why do they hate us?"  Here's one good reason you may not have thought of. 

A brand new Tiger Tom article: Corporate Patriotism.  If you think you're patriotic just because you've got a big flag on your car and know all the words to "God Bless America," wait till you see the sacrifices corporate America is making to conquer terrorism. Corporate America treats America's arrogant politicians like morons-for-hire.

George W in the Garden of Gethsemane. An open letter from Michael Moore to Enron George.

Many  People Saying Bad Things by Jon Carroll. You can now get blacklisted for giving aid and comfort to skeptical people. The arrogant in action.

Arrogance of American Leaders Allowed Bin Laden to Escape, according to an LA Times article.

Great Leaders of the Future Won't Be from America by Charley Reese. The moral poverty of the mediocre men who rule the United States.  "We had a president once who vowed to make the world safe for democracy. We now have one who is busily making the world unsafe for Americans and who doesn’t have a clue as to how ridiculous he now appears in the eyes of the world."

Secrecy and arrogance: Bush out to create an imperial presidency by Bill Staub.  The Detroit News questions his motives and his sanity.

Bluster and arrogance, but no balls. "Teddy Roosevelt said walk softly but carry a big stick - not be a loudmouth with a toothpick." See Charley Reese's Article: Mr. Bush's Albatross.  "Mr. Bush is only a batboy in the Truman-Eisenhower League."

“I have not seen such executive arrogance and secrecy since the Nixon administration, and we all know what happened to that group.”--Sen. Robert Byrd, VA

Larry Klayman of the conservative group Judicial Watch has said that "... the Bush administration goes beyond the Nixon administration in terms of arrogance."

"American empire is an intellectual construct of scribblers and think-tank denizens more familiar with the hazards of graduate school than of gunnery school. Americans won't send their sons to die for an empire concocted by talking heads whose boys won't be patrolling that empire."--Pat Buchanan.

"There is a sense that the United States has become too arrogant, too dominant, too self-centered, proud of our wealth, believing that we deserve to be the richest and most powerful and influential nation in the world."--Former President Jimmy Carter.
 

 

A man whose only military experience was performed mainly in absentia here is shown pretending to be a soldier seeking the Evil Ones in North Korea.

"Bush is due for a reality check. We need allies whenever we contemplate such drastic actions, and our allies are worried about his constant saber rattling. Some day he is going to try to give a war and nobody is going to come" --Helen Thomas..

Don't offend the Alpha Girls or you won't be invited to the party.   No More Bratwurst! "As with alpha girls, the president makes leadership all about him. He thinks there are only two places to be: with him . . . or with the terrorists."

"[George Bush] has surrounded himself with neoconservatives full of hubris. At their urging, he's acting like a little boy who suddenly fancies himself a soldier and emperor of the world." Read Charley Reese's Neo-Conservatives Are Crazy.

"The Bush campaign for war against Iraq has been insulting to American citizens, not just because it has been dishonest, but because it has been unserious. A lie is insulting; an obvious lie is doubly insulting."--Michael Kinsley.

"Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president." -- Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, September 22, 2002

 “While most Americans think that we are planning an attack on Iraq to save the world from a madman, most Europeans think that Bush is the madman, with the evil intention of grabbing a foothold in the oil-rich Middle East to extend the American empire’.”--Jeremy Rifkin.

Hubris Unbound.  The title says it all.  The men who wage wars for bogus causes are those who profit most from them.

"It seems to me that if Bush were merely mistaken, he would admit it. He would say to the American people: "Look, I thought Iraq had those weapons based on intelligence, but apparently the intelligence was wrong. I apologize for misleading you." But the president will not do that. He gets huffy and defensive when asked about weapons of mass destruction. Before the war, he never opened his mouth without talking about weapons of mass destruction. It might be that there is simply an arrogant gene in the Bush family. It might be that he was just lying."  -- Charley Reese.

 

The Day Ashcroft Foiled FOIA by Ruth Rosen. An unpublicized edict robbed us of our right to know.

Staff cry poetic injustice as singing Ashcroft introduces patriotic games by Julian Borger.  Hear Mr. Ashcroft sing "Let the Eagle Soar."  You won't want to miss this one. The arrogance of a would-be singer with a captive audience.

John Ashcroft in front of the indecent nude statue that he ordered covered.

Cheney Made Millions Off Oil Deals with Hussein by Martin A. Lee. Despite the vice president's arrogant denials,  he and Saddam are old business buddies.

God Must Divest Himself of Earthly Holdings by Tiger Tom. Dick Cheney in the afterlife.

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"Such a collection of compromised and profit-driven businessmen has not been seen in the White House in 100 years." --William Rivers Pitt.
 

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