Dubya in The Tropics: Elio Gaspari on Mesopotamian Mandraquices

"Why Bush infuriates the world; plus Magalhães: The Power, Charisma and Truculence of a Political Phenomenon." Not even the essentially neoconservative and neofascist Veja dared speak well in public of King George II, Baron of Texarkana, Yale and Harvard legacy admission, and idiot princeling of King George I.

As mentiras de Bush têm até carta falsa: Elio Gaspari, a journalist and historian of the military dictatorship — and one of the most reality-based conservative brains in Brazil — uses news of the election of Barack Saddam Hussein Osama Obama to remind Brazilian readers that Bush lied and people died.

Faltam 76 dias para George Bush deixar a Casa Branca, levando para a História seu legado de mediocridade, mentiras e mandraquices. Seus oito anos de governo serão material para estudo dos fracassos. Uma coisa triste como visita a mina abandonada.

Seventy-six days remain before George Bush vacates the White House, taking with him a legacy of mediocrity, mendacity and magical thinking.

“Magical thinking” is actually a mistranslation of mandraquice, which derives from Mandrake the Magician and means that Bush was practiced at the art of deception. But I wanted to preserve the alliteration there.

His eight years of government will provide a case study in failure. A sad spectacle, like a visit to an abandoned mine.

A campanha eleitoral e a crise financeira abafaram as revelações de um livro devastador, capaz de surpreender até os conspiromaníacos do antiamericanismo. É “The way of the world” (“O mundo como ele é”), de Ron Suskind, ex-repórter do “The Wall Street Journal”.

The election campaign and the financial crisis have drowned out the revelations of a devastating book, capable of surprising even the most dedicated of anti-American conspiracy theorists. The book is The Way of the World by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind.

Suskind conta que em março de 2003, quando os Estados Unidos invadiram o Iraque, a Casa Branca recebera de duas fontes a informação de que Saddam Hussein não tinha armas de destruição em massa. A primeira viera de um ex-chanceler iraquiano que estava na folha de pagamento da Central Intelligence Agency. A segunda foi levada a Washington em fevereiro pelo chefe do Serviço Secreto inglês, Sir Richard Dearlove.

Suskind relates that in March 2003, as the United States invaded Iraq, the White House received information from two sources that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The first came from a former Iraqi foreign minister on the payroll of the CIA. The second was forwarded to Washington in February by the head of the British secret service, Sir Richard Dearlove.