Is Bush a puppet?

Question

cause obviously he isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. i think he was used by the neocons.

Answer 1

you are correct, and in the process of him being used we were all used by the PNAC.

In the early-1990s, there was a group of ideologues and power-politicians on the fringe of the Republican Party's far-right. The members of this group in 1997 would found The Project for the New American Century (PNAC); their aim was to prepare for the day when the Republicans regained control of the White House -- and, it was hoped, the other two branches of government as well -- so that their vision of how the U.S. should move in the world would be in place and ready to go, straight off-the-shelf into official policy.

This PNAC group was led by such heavy hitters as Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, James Woolsey, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, James Bolton, Zalmay M. Khalilzad, William Bennett, Dan Quayle, Jeb Bush, most of whom were movers-and-shakers in previous Administrations, then in power-exile, as it were, while Clinton was in the White House. But even given their reputations and clout, the views of this group were regarded as too extreme to be taken seriously by the mainstream conservatives that controlled the Republican Party.

To prepare the ground for the PNAC-like ideas that were circulating in the HardRight, various wealthy individuals and corporations helped set up far-right think-tanks, and bought up various media outlets -- newspapers, magazines, TV networks, radio talk shows, cable channels, etc. -- in support of that day when all the political tumblers would click into place and the PNAC cabal and their supporters could assume control.

This happened with the Supreme Court's selection of George W. Bush in 2000. The "outsiders" from PNAC were now powerful "insiders," placed in important positions from which they could exert maximum pressure on U.S. policy: Cheney is Vice President, Rumsfeld is Defense Secretary, Wolfowitz is Deputy Defense Secretary, I. Lewis Libby is Cheney's Chief of Staff, Elliot Abrams is in charge of Middle East policy at the National Security Council, Dov Zakheim is comptroller for the Defense Department, John Bolton is Undersecretary of State, Richard Perle is chair of the Defense Policy advisory board at the Pentagon, former CIA director James Woolsey is on that panel as well, etc. etc. (PNAC's chairman, Bill Kristol, is the editor of The Weekly Standard.) In short, PNAC had a lock on military policy-creation in the Bush Administration.

But, in order to unleash their foreign/military campaigns without taking all sorts of flak from the traditional wing of the conservative GOP -- which was more isolationist, more opposed to expanding the role of the federal government, more opposed to military adventurism abroad -- they needed a context that would permit them free rein. The events of 9/11 rode to their rescue. (In one of their major reports, written in 2000, they noted that "the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor.")

The Bush Administration used those acts of terrorism -- and the fear generated in the general populace -- as their cover for enacting all sorts of draconian measures domestically (the Patriot Act, drafted earlier, was rushed through Congress in the days following 9/11; few members even read it) and as their rationalization for launching military campaigns abroad.

Answer 2

he's no longer Bush's puppet, he's the puppet of a similar people who've been utilising Bush as thier puppet for the final 8. Why do you think of McCain's opinion variations basically days after he's made a assertion? because of the fact he will say some thing, and his handlers will 'maximum remarkable' him and make beneficial he says some thing this is greater to thier liking.

Answer 3

Yes, dugh, obviously he's a puppet, but he's to stupid to just follow orders and he's to stupid to even realize that he is a puppet. If he would just have been a puppet and did what his daddy told him to in the 1st place instead of trying to go about the war his own way, trying to prove that he was a grown up, then, we wouldn't be in this disaster that we're in in Iraq. I believe that he was originally advised that if he was going to go into Iraq to go in, hit them hard and get out, obviously, he did not listne to the advice he was given, he's AN IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

No. I'll tell you the little known Bush family secret. You see, I too am from Texas, and I happen to know that George Bush JR is not really a JR. He's a clone of his "father" George Bush "SR". I refer you now to the Star Wars saga, see Jengo Fett.......

(May have spelled Jengo Fett, incorrecty.... I apologize to all Star Wars fans I might've offended......)

Answer 5

Isn't Dick Cheney the President? Since he's always in an undisclosed location.

Answer 6

More along the lines of a Muppet. First cousin to Oscar the Grouch.

Answer 7

If bush is a puppet, where does cheney put his hand to make the mouth move?

Answer 8

Bush is in fact a puppet and Cheney puts his hand up his *** to make his mouth move.

Answer 9

No, but the facial expressions remind me of Basil Brush.

Answer 10

isnt every presadent a puppet? everyone is a puppet to someone else.

Answer 11

Yes he is.He isnt a puppet for the neocons though.