It's kind of telling that Dear Leader would drop in like a thief in the night. Part of it's a calculated snub to the al-Maliki government, but the other part is that apparent fact that we don't own the airspace over Baghdad (since a plane full of legislators was shot at earlier last week).
Good thread, Hub!
Cool shoppe, too. I'm setting a Shaq O'Neal "clearout" for Preznit giv me Turkee, as we speak. :o)
And, I totally agree that it's too early for the blogs, themselves, to be endorsing candidates; but I think it's cool for us grunts to be arguing about them. :o)
John Edwards just got the nod from the US Steelworkers, and from the United Mineworkers. :o)
Woops! I just realized; that's not a shoppe. :o)
Hmmmm. So the Pres and his official wife got to play Honeymoon on AF1.
Sweet.
Well, Baghdad is just becoming the "in" spot, I guess :o) :
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/I...n/
10151070.html
Was bush making a pre-emptive visit?
Nice catch TB, I wonder if they are going to meet?
Hub, on the "who's on first?" side of the power struggle, it looks like bush has decided to more-or-less back the Sunnis.
I don't think Maliki would release 6,000 suspected and/or proven Sunni insurgents on his own. He had to be getting pressure from bush to do that as a "conciliatory" move to get the Sunnis back into Parliament.
But the street Shia are going to have a say in this, and every inch that bush gets into bed with the old Baathists or with ANY Sunnis, is going to cost him, with the Shiites.
Meanwhile, the silence from the Kurds on the referendum issue there, is deafening.
You can practically hear the wheels turning in their heads:
"Just HOW badly does bush want us to postpone that vote...?"
Classic! Cheney sends the Codpiece to Iraq for Labor Day, hoping he'll get shot out of the sky.
And not visiting the Green Zone and our bright and shiny new embassy?? Why not, Georgie?
hubba hubba- and all that rumor stuff about laura in NOLA... hmmm?
Dunno why anyone should be surprised at the UK's pullout from Basra. You only had to read The Guardian over the last couple of months to know things were afoot.
or this blog
Blues: :o)
Bollox; thassit. I wish WE had a Guardian.
ANd, Steve Bell is probably crying in his beer to not have Tony around to chain-saw on any more.
My God, he got off some zingers on Blair. :o)
And Gordon aint gettin' MUCH of a honeymoon. :o)
" It's kind of telling that Dear Leader would drop in like a thief in the night."
He's always paid his little visits to Iraq in just such a manner. The infamous plastic turkee photo op had him creeping in and out under the cover of darkness, like a filthy rat.
Last time Dipshit did this stunt, in 2006, I was in Amman, Jordan, and the next day got to hear from a woman who had been locked down in the Baghdad airport for 36 hours because of "security." She was supposed to be on her way to a conference to talk about Iraqi refugees.
I'm sure the Iraqis are glad this publicity exercise seems to have been confined to military bases and did not further impact their destroyed country.
The presidential coward was too yellow to go to Baghdad.
Bush sneaks in to Iraq...again... like the thieving bastard he is.
Yo, Tipsy McStagger!
You want to impress me?
Carry a gun and go to Bagdad and fight with the troops you put in harm's way.
Oh, that's right...you don't do that...asshole.
Bush and the Lump a husband and wife made for each other
and if the strikeout doesn't work - snark
Can anyone tell me the code to put a strikethrough in a commment?
I tried strike, s, and delete behind the angle brackets...helloscan doesn't like any of them...
Just like Shrub...sneaking into Iraq like an unplanned shit in your shorts.
What was the weekend too busy at the Eagle's Nest/Pig Farm/Ranch in Waco?
Is this part of the 'Strike Iran' September product rollout?
Can anyone tell me the code to put a strike-through in a comment?
In a normal tag, put an s. Close the tag as normal.
Re: Bush & Condi's AF1 honeymoon....
Not surprising. We know that there's no place like a war zone to get these two hot and horny...
ugh.
lying, mindless & misbegotten, the whole sorry-assed crew.
oh for a time machine!
Jesse,
Ha. I wasn't buying that pinched nerve story for Laura not traveling for a minute. Yes. George and Sally Hemmings Rice got some alone time.
Jesse
So something like this?
Thanks
grr...anyway
Where are Reid and Pelosi when something like this happens? The country has allegedly been under our thumb for 4 1/2 years by now, and Bush still can't make an announced visit?
Where are they? Why can't they hammer this and make this a major critique of the war? It demonstrates how willfully wrong and self-serving all the Bushie rhetoric is, in one simple, easy-to-grasp stroke. This should be the first thing out of every (alleged) war opponent's mouth on every talk show, every time the subject of the war comes up. Nearly five years later, and Bush is still forced to sneak in and out of what he claims to be a pacified country in the midst of reconstruction.
Just like it's six years since 9/11 and still no sign of that ratfucker Bin Laden....this is not a difficult set of dots to connect. Where are they?
haloscan doesnt allow that level of html
nota bene; good rant.
It aint like the conger-dems don't have a few things sliiightly larger than Bill Clinton's dick, to bring to the attention of the voters.
I've said this before, but I wonder if the Dems suspect, or know, a recession or even a depression is coming, and they want the GOP in power to take the blame when it happens.
Ivory Bill; that's a thought.
And it's not hard to extend it out to the donkeys being hip enough to know that the (I almost said "ending", but there aint gonna be an "end" to this fuckup...) next phase of bush's bloody little petro-merit-badge hunt is going to have most americans looking HARD for someone to blame for it.
Even the best-case scenario is likely to be a partitioned Iraq, with NONE of the parts being user-friendly to the Fortune 500 or Big American Oil.
That's why I think THE question for the campaign is going to become that same old:
Are the democrats stupid enough to be willing to have this dumped in their laps?
Because if they are, it's hard to see how they won't DESERVE the rip-job that the republicans will do on them.
Of course, the repubs will do it anyway, if the dems CAN somehow force the troop withdrawals on their own hook, with no republican help. That's why I still want them to let the GOP twist in the campaign wind.
It's a fine and cynical hair, I admit, but if anyone wants to debate it, I promise to be respectful. :o)
What Pelosi and Reid should be doing is keeping up the press-conference drumbeat. A good place to start would be a scathing turdhurl at the bush trial-ballooners who are trying to finagle the Brits into scapegoat posture for what's happening, and for what is going to happen, in Basra.
By their keeping quiet, Pelosi and Reid, etc., are letting bush and the warpimps define the shitmire in ways that are very favorable to themselves, and to their desperation to keep it going until they can hand the misery to the dems and GTF out of Dodge.
They don't actually have to gin up the impeachment hearings this week; there's still time for that, if they can come up with some "high crimes and mis-demeanors" stuff that will fly with enough voters and with essentially a 50-50 Senate, and not much more of a majority in the house, considering the yellowdog democrats there.
But they badly need to keep the bullshit that bush, etc. are talking, front and center, and, the war itself.
If they do this, that "Get out of Jail free" card won't have much value.
Tanbark: I entirely agree with your thoughts on this. Watching the Dem "leadership" sit by and do nothing, just quietly and meekly and respectfully waiting their turn at the wheel - and obviously waiting to accept the "responsibility" (for lack of a better word) when the ensuing media shitstorm comes, allowing Bush and the neoclowns to dodge any blame whatsoever for the crimes they've committed...well, the only explanation that seems logical is that they must be out of their minds. It certainly seems insane, doesn't it?
And I'm not even talking about such high-falutin' concepts like ethics or morality, the rule of law or honor. I'm talking about perfectly selfish, self-serving politicians acting in their own greedy, amoral interests. What the Dems are doing just doesn't seem to compute.
At least, it wouldn't under normal circumstances. But these are not normal times, are they?
So now Bush has decided to back the Sunnis in an attempt to re Baathify Baghdad?
We may look back on the chaos now happening in Iraq as the good old days.
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