Yes, this was one thing that made me so mad I saw red. The other thing was that there have been some neighborhoods in Baghdad where the Iraqi government would not allow us to go to capture insurgents. Are you fucking kidding me? The bad guys are hiding in these neighborhoods, coming out to kill us, and then retreating back and we can’t go after them? No. No. Fucking no way. The first day they fucking told us we couldn’t go into certain neighborhoods after bad guys should have been the day we fucking packed up and left. How many of our fucking guys have been killed by these fuckers hiding in these neighborhoods? We’ll never know, but if it is more than 0 then… actually I can’t think of what then. It’s so overwhelmingly pointless and senseless and wrong and stupid and criminal that I’m speechless. When I try to think of something to say my brain short-circuits.
The government that we set up is conspiring with insurgents to kill us. And we knowingly acquiesced. There are no words.
I would have expected the work of speechwriters to be writing the stuff the speechgiver wanted to say, but ultimately it’s the speechgiver who’s responsible for it, specially in this case.
At least in theory, he’s in charge. It’s like when the Spanish Socialist Party claims that our then-prez didn’t know about murders planned and delivered by the 2nd in command in Interior and some cronies (GAL): if he did know he’s guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and if he didn’t, of willful stupidity.
Celtic warrior blood flowed in her veins, but as a gladiatrix-slave in Londinium’s arena, Rhyddes was nothing more than a wild thing in a gilded cage. Yet though her Roman masters owned her body, she swore that none would claim her soul. How was it, then, that Marcus Calpurnius Aquila, noble son of the Roman governor, could make her yearn for things beyond her reach?
Not sure how that’s supposed to help us achieve victory in Iraq, frankly, but I’ll leave the details to our divinely inspired leader.
It’s a self-serving desperate attempt to salvage some sort of legacy other than that of criminality and gross incompetence. Fuck his mother for not having an abortion.
Me, too. I turned off the TV and the radio and curled up in bed and read. There are so many horrible things going on in my life that I do have to take control of, that I can’t aggravate myself over something I’m helpless to change. I also cannot look at or listen to That Man in the White House without taking years off my life.
At a time like this, with continuing casualties and no end in sight, we must all rally behind the President.
Remember 9/11.
A man who would invade other countries for spurious reasons and cause massive casualties has been overthrown. Let us rejoice.
Remember 9/11.
God is on our side. Let us be thankful we live in a country where His will can be done.
Remember 9/11.
I know you will all want to support our troops.
Remember 9/11.
I am determined to ensure that the front line against terrorism is as far away from the US as possible. My strategy is to keep the terrorists fighting us in Iraq.
Remember 9/11.
Finally, let me remind you of my Administration’s crowning triumph - Guantanamo Bay holds hundreds of the World’s leading terrorists. Not only do we have the attention of other countries, but we have also saved the American taxpayer the cost of a trial.
I think #10 for me is Condi Rice scolding the Iraqis with comments like “Iraqis are the ones responsible for the kind of country Iraq will be.” Right. It’s their fault the entire postwar period was botched, and it’s their fault they didn’t overwhelm the insurgents on their own.
You know, some people said Bush’s obvious stupidity wouldn’t be a big problem because he was going to have such smart advisers around him.
Soldiers dying in a war is very sad, and soldiers dying in a misguided, unnecessary war is tragic. But dying for one man’s stupidity and egomania? I don’t even know what to call that.
Jeez, almost forgot all about that “oil revenues in terrist hands” thingy, once AlQ takes over Iraq.
George, you ignorant slut. The Shia hate AlQ with every fiber of their being, a hatred cheerfully and abundantly returned. They may even hate each other more than they hate us (though we may be coming up against theoretical limits there, neutron density, event horizon, that sort of thing…)
No matter what happens in Iraq, there is no chance…zero, zilch, none, nada damn thing…that AlQ will end up in control of Iraqi oil.
I suppose the argument could be made that this wasn’t Bush’s war at all. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and the other “smart advisors” had been planning it all along, and they were just fortunate to get a stupid enough president that they could talk into carrying out their evil scheme.
I don’t think it’s very true. Saddam tried to kill his dad, remember? I doubt he even needed a nudge into invading Iraq. Either way,“dumb Prez, smart advisers” doesn’t work.
It might have been better if the Iraq Study Group had recommended escalation. The Washington Post reported that part of the reason the Bush administration decided to “surge” was that they wanted to do something different than what the ISG recommended. :rolleyes:
If it’s any consolation to you, many of his lockstep supporters at the Decatur Post Office are starting to get fed up–“finish the damn war already and let’s get our boys home!” is the increasingly prevailing sentiment, and they’re not buying the “we need to escalate in order to finish it” argument. Any damfool can see, saith the CW at the USPS, that if Bush really wanted to finish it, he’d send in everything he had and hammer the insurgency right into the ground. The fact that he hasn’t–and that he’s still not going to–that he’s obviously weaseling at every opportunity, is losing him points bigtime with the USPS downtown.
A sizeable percentage of whom are old enough to remember Vietnam as “Current Events”, not “History”. Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. Sez the boys (and girls) downtown.
The implication was that the new troops would help in training more Iraqis. Are they qualified to do that ? Doesn’t it require advanced classes to become a trainer. In 2004 election Condoleeza Rice repeated endlessly we had trained well over 100,000 troops . It was a lie then and they lie now.
20k is not a lot of troops and they live in a green zone anyway. Leaving every night to go back to the enclave leaves the streets to the insurgents. I can see nothing changing except he gets to buy another Friedman or two. (Friedman = 6 months)
Wasn’t “clear and hold” the strategy General Thag came up with in the war against the Hill People?
I’m kinda boggling at Rice telling the Senate that the Administration doesn’t want to talk about “Plan B”. Isn’t that one reason why things have gotten as bad as they have - no one had a “Plan B”?
Then they had the audacity to go and win, too. Talk about your bad nights.