Jesus, I wake up to this arrogant fuck giving a press conference about Iran and I just can’t take it anymore. Fuck him, and fuck the pussy-ass corporate press who laugh along with him and lob him the soft questions. Fuck that smirk! Fuck the dry drunk bullshit!
Word.
God, I cannot stand when he goes into drunken fratboy standup comic mode with the reporters. “You uhh…heh heh…what you lookin’ at…uhhh…checkin’ the time…uhh…are you bored? heh heh heh…remember the debates…heh heh heh” - VERBATIM
He’s got to get us fighting with Iran because he can’t sell Iraq any more, the fucker.
I was heating some leftovers in the microwave at work and trying not to pay attention to the press conference.
But then he said it - “nu-cu-lar”.
Aggghghghghghghgghgghgh!!!
Honestly, besides the question of whether or not the public would EVER stand for such an option could the United States even pull it off? I mean, from what I gather we’re stretched pretty damn thin.
But a press corp member had a spine this time. Someone asked how we could be assured the intellegence wasn’t being doctored this time. The answer was along the lines of “We know Iran is supplying these weapons…”
Who are we talking about here?
Regards,
Shodan
But he’s not going to invade. He’s ruled that out. What he carefully hasn’t ruled out is attacking. Cruise missiles and air strikes. No Americans killed, only a lot of Muslims.
I don’t get the impression the large sections of American public has ever been that excised about dead foreigners, particularly if the spineless media don’t go out of their way to report it.
Just ‘collateral damage’ due to them living near targets or breathing in the radioactive pollution that would follow any strike on nuclear facilities.
I was watching too, briefly. Saw him give the same testy non-response to several questions on Iran, hammering the “my job is to protect the troops!” line.
I think I actually saw rivulets of shit dribbling from each of his ears, but it might have been bad TV reception.
It was nice to see him get posed some “tough” (i.e., non-fluff) questions for a change, and have the press actually follow up on his responses. Of course he still avoided giving any substantive answer, but you could see his agitation level rising.
You know, I dug the rant all the way up to this point. What are you talking about?
Oh, that AA nonsense. Thanks for the link.
On the weight of the new information proffered by my esteemed colleague, I hereby declare this rant a stinker.
The Pres’s got Iran by the short ‘n’ curlies.
We’ve been at odds with Iran for 30 some years. It wouldn’t suprise me in the least if Iraq was the prelude to Iran. I’m sure the planners (not Bush, he’s not smart enough) thought that it would go swiftly in Iraq, and while they were in the neighborhood…
As we all know, it didn’t. So now, instead of Iran being where Iraq now is, we’ve got to stand across the sandbox squinting, punching our palm and pointing.
Al Sharpton.
All I learned from geography I learned from Risk. Iraq and Afghanistan provide a perfect jumping off point for Iran invasion. Let’s take Kamchatka next!
I hope not to experience the real-world equivalent of flipping up the board and scattering the pieces everywhere, when we realize there’s no way we can win.
IIRC, he ruled out invading Iraq before he was elected. (If only he’d kept that promise and not the one about not engaging in nation building.)
I’m not sure we all heard the same press conference (and I really don’t like the fact that I expected him to announce that we’d nuked Iran). To me it seemed that when Shrub was reading from his prepared text he was even more meandering, befuddled, and malaproptic than usual. It only got worse when he started taking questions from the press corps. And also did you notice that he admitted that things are worse in Iraq than how they were described in the Iraq Study Group report? So, not merely shitty, but really fucking, shitty shitty.
I’m beginning to think that Shrub is losing what few marbles he had to begin with and that he’s in danger of going completely batshit crazy.
Yes- his performance was incredible. In a few years time we’ll have confirmed that the guy has been hitting the bottle big time for years. Either that or he really is the bumbling, brain damaged moron his public performances and his entire conduct of the Iraq war suggest.
If the man had the slightest shred of decency he’d demand Cheney’s resignation, appoint a safe hands VP and resign in absolute shame. I can’t imagine how he can sleep at night, how he can quiet his conscience. And being at best a dry drunk for so many years I can’t imagine such a weak-willed, small man not diving back into drinking.
Casting aside for a moment the wisdom of invading a hot-headed country surrounded by hot-headed countries in a region that’s on a knife-edge, with a particularly hot-headed neighbor of both your occupations who hates your fucking guts and is now being squeezed on each side by your troops - are the IEDs actually coming from Iran?
If they are, and there’s concrete proof (rather than “we know they are, we can’t tell you why, shut up, why do you love terrorists”), is this a great enough reason to attack? (Casting aside, if we may, the hypocrisy of a country that arms nasty regimes to the teeth when it’s expedient so to do.)
Add “they’re killing our troops” to “they might get nukes”, is this a great enough reason for the US to try to justify an attack?
The rhetoric issuing from Bush - namely, in my perception, that any suggestion of diplomacy is countered with a “so you want this dictator to attack our troops?” - means I have a Very Bad Feeling about this. Anyone else sharing my discomfort?