Nothing Will Stop Us, Says Bush. (Not Even Ethics.)

“Nothing will stop us,” President Bush said over and over in his convention speech. This pretty much sums up his administration’s greatest flaw. It requires international cooperation to probe deeply into the caves and crannies of the world where Al Quaeda operatives patiently plan their havoc.

A bullheaded, unilateral approach to dismantling Al Quaeda requires a process a little more savvy and sophisticated than “full speed ahead -- and we’ll think about the aftermath later.” The Bush administration has shown us clearly that nothing will stop them -- even facts that prove false their rationale for war.

Nothing will stop them from dehumanizing their perceived enemies abroad and at home, like when they endorse the dehumanizing of John Kerry and the fearsome tactics of chilling American citizens to the bone with their promise that, under Kerry, we will be more prone to attack.

Nothing will stop them -- and we’ve seen that in action when the Republican party imported thugs to Florida to bang on doors and shout in protest with such intimidation that the recount workers could not finish their vote-counting and Bush toadie Katherine Harris, with her Wicked Witch egg timer run out of sand, would not permit the recounting to continue.
“Nothing will stop us,” he said. And that is chilling -- not to America’s enemies -- but to its own citizens.