Him. The desperate sincerity of delusion, the bloody dreams of Leadership, the plodding, unimaginative lies over and over again, deja voodoo.
Al Queda this, Al Queda that. Al Queda isn’t squat, as in diddly, so far as our troubles in Iraq are concerned. The Shia are in ascendancy in Iraq, nothing could light up their eyes with more cruel delight that getting their hands on Al Queda. The insurgency is not controlled by Al Queda, if Al Q disappeared tomorrow, maybe one corpse less. Merely another attempt to connect invisible dots with intangible thread. Pure crap.
al Maliki is something akin to Ghandi and Stalin merged, he has a will of iron and a benignly selfless intent, he is entirely willing to piss off his power base and risk anything up to and including assassination. He wlll do this in the name of a federated, secular, parliamentary Iraq…which is his dream. He will gladly give his life to ensure the safety and security of the Sunni of Iraq, power has no temptation for him, and he is fearless.
Anbar Province is the Sunni stronghold, in terms of population and insurgency. And it requires special mention, on a level with Baghdad, because it is so urgently important. Yes. Of course. So, our non sectarian plan of pacification involves sending combat troops into Anbar, while Maliki promises to cow the Shia militia with a stern scolding in no uncertain terms. If we are not choosing sides, it cannot help but look like it.
Choosing sides. Utterly disastrous, as either an appearance or as fact. The only choice, realpolitik, would be the Shia, the Sunni are boned. The Shia aren’t likely to forgive us, the Iranians might despise us just a little bit less, and every Sunni nation (which is most of them) will turn against us to varying degrees. Peachy.
The troops are already on the way. Gee, thanks for the consultation, there, George. Way to ramp up the ol’ bi-partisan comity thingy, douchebag. You do know we’re out here, right, George? We voted, and everything? Hello? Hello?
Joe goddam fucking Leiberman! Jesus fuck a shit souffle, how I despise that weaselspeak bucket of pus! Now is the time for all good men to piss on the shoes of thier party. He’s either a back-stabbling little diva or the stupidest Jew in four thousand years of recorded history.
9/11 But of course he mentions it, that’s what this is all about, don’t you see, if we don’t defeat them there they will dive into the Persian Gulf and swim to New York and catch a Greyhound to your Momma! Please remind us how we have punished a thousand of our enemies by making a million more. Now are the cockpit doors locked, George?
Saber rattlling at Iran. No, this leaves me speechless, I am stunned, I reel, I plotz. The stupid! It burns! It BURNS!!
It’s the worst of both worlds, it is an escalation that is insufficient. Even the proponents of a surge advocate 40k+ in new troops. 20k won’t be able to accomplish anything (I’m not sure any amount of troops would0.
The idea that the Shia dominated police have any interest in protecting Sunnis is flat out delusional. At this stage, the police is nothing short of a Shia militia.
I think Maliki is either utterly incompetent or a Sader puppet. The result is the same. Ultimately, Maliki is an office manage in the Green Zone and has nothing to do with what happens to Iraq. There is heavy fighting in Bdad today, explosions all fucking day long and it is only noon.
I love the way he finished it off: “We go forward with trust that the Author of Liberty will guide us through these trying hours”. Who is this Author of Liberty? The ghost of Thomas Jefferson? Karl Rove?
Bush has hit the nail on the head when he says: “… faith in freedom” and “We go forward with trust …” - i.e. lets keep our fingers crossed. Faith and trust are very important elements to the Bush strategy.
On surging the insugents: the increase in troops is only from 132K to 153K. More like a ripple.
Or perhaps they should decrease the size of the Bush administration’s collective ego. I think the size of the American military is more than adequate, for defence purposes. But therein lies the rub. It is being used as an offensive force, not a defensive one.
Seriously, in all his books, the authority figured that was supposed to be guiding and protecting is actually plotting and backstabbing for his own benefit.
A grammar teacher and a lawyer must have gotten together to write the most passive, weaselly shit they could think of for the Prez on this one. How about “I accept responsibility for the mistakes…” or “I apologize for not listening to the advice that N gave…”? Newspapers will say he accepted responsibility, but nowhere in that construction does he accept it. In fact, he called the situation “unacceptable to me”, again dodging a great chance to state something in the active voice.
I blame the speechwriters, not the President, for that speech – but I blame him for pretty much the rest of the Iraq debacle.
Geez, thanks for spoiling it for the five of us on the whole damn planet who haven’t read The DaVinci Code yet. (And I hear it’s well-written and makes perfect sense, too!)
The speech. That was today or something? Sometimes I love living on the other side of the planet. Sure, everyone on my friends list is laughing over something called Dick in the Box (me: WTF? I don’t think we have dicks in boxes in Bulgaria?), but I can’t be sad that I missed out on Bush’s ever-brilliant oratory.
“Clear and hold”. This is a new strategy? It was trotted out as a “new strategy” in 2005, but if we take him at his word… it took him 3 1/2 years to figure out that you had to “hold” those areas after you “cleared” them? 3 1/2 fucking years to figure that out?
The Iraq Study Group? What a complete and utter waste of time that was.
He said that the situation was unacceptable to the American people and it was unacceptable to him. Disconnecting himself grammatically from “the American people” the same way he’s disconnected himself from the people in every other fashion.
Did anyone clock exactly how many seconds into the speech it was before he invoked “September the Eleventh”? I had 2 minutes 30 seconds in the office pool and I think I was pretty close.
A stupid and hokey speech by the President, typical of his Presidency. Yet many people support him still, in lock-step.
It amazes me that so many people in my own country are so willfully ignorant as to what side of ‘Freedom’ this administration is actually on and what price the world pays for them being as deluded as they are by the lies of it and of this President.
Lets face it: Bush only sent our troops there to capture and kill the man who threatened his father. If I could have given a response to last night’s speech, I would have said the following: 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq; it never has, and it never will. Sadam’s dead. You’ve got your Pound of Flesh, Mr. President. Now stop pissing away our soldiers lives.
I threw up in my mouth a little mid-way through the damned thing.
Why the hell does George Bush remind me of goddamned George Costanza? (From “Seinfeld”.)
Since every instinct George Costanza has is wrong, his buddies urge him to do the exact opposite to get out of his predicaments. Did Bush forget to do the exact opposite of what his instincts tell him?
When he started in on Iran, I got gooseflesh. We are so screwed.
I wanted to watch his speech, I really did. I tried to watch, but I couldn’t do it. The sight of his face turns my stomach, the sound of his voice makes me want to scream. Both at the same time is simply more than I can bear.
