When bush/cheney talk

by Duckman GR

stupidity reigns. My bolds in the quotes.

cheney:

"Guantanamo's been operated, I think, in a very sane and sound fashion by the U.S. military. ... I think these people have been well treated, treated humanely and decently," Cheney said. "Occasionally there are allegations of mistreatment.

"But if you trace those back, in nearly every case, it turns out to come from somebody who has been inside and been released ... to their home country and now are peddling lies about how they were treated."

Who do you think's going to tell these stories, the kid down the block? The paperboy?

Another winner:

The vice president said he expected the war would end during President Bush's second term, which ends in 2009.

"I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time," Cheney said. "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."

As if we need reminding, cheney also knew Hussein had WMD’s, and knew he was going to use ‘em. Which speaks volumes towards his credibility, doesn’t it.

Dear Leeder speaks too. It just hurts to hear it.

bush:

With the death toll climbing daily in Iraq, he said that nation's fledging government is "plenty capable" of defeating insurgents whose attacks on Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers have intensified.

Snip

On another foreign policy issue, Bush shot back at critics who suggest his diplomatic approach to North Korea is allowing the communist regime to expand its nuclear program. "If diplomacy is the wrong approach, I guess that means military. That's how I view it as either diplomacy or military. I am for the diplomacy approach," he said. "And for those who say we ought to be using our military to stop a problem, I would say that while all options are on the table, we've still got a ways to go to solve this diplomatically."

They both have a grasp of the obvious, in that the allegations concerning Gitmo came from people who were there, and later released. And also from the Red Cross. And from reporters and troops that were there and at Abu Ghraib. And from pictures of the troops tormenting prisoners at Abu Ghraib, don’t forget those.

cheney says “I think these people have been well treated, treated humanely and decently,” yet this article lists 33 people who died in our prisons either through abuse, homicide, unknown causes or are still under investigation. And another 43 killed justifiably or because of outside attacks while under U.S. custody, and still another 29 who died by accident or natural causes.

Well treatment, Big Time Dick, should include a little better results. Those people were in US custody, quaint conventions or not, we were responsible for their well being, and for whatever reasons, we failed in our responsibility. In a normal world that would have real consequences, but in bushco world, that’s what they call success.

I remember listening to NPR before the Iraq War of Aggression started. They were telling the story of a man who was going to make doors, if I recall rightly, or windows, it was a while ago after all, for houses. He was returning from exile, materials strapped to his taxi, and he couldn’t wait to start rebuilding his country. The pride and determination was evident, the means far less so. At that time, we could have redeemed ourselves for abandoning the Mujahadeen after they had served our geopolitical Cold War function. By truly working with these tough, fearless, proud, people, and helping them build their country. Instead, bushco manufactured a war somewhere else for all the wrong reasons, a war that could never succeed, and we abandoned Afghanistan.

And these are the people telling us victory is at hand, the triumph of our will and arms is upon us, we will never shirk from the hard task, blather, lie, blather, dissemble, lie, blather etc.

When these traitors, and I don’t use this term lightly even though I’ve been using it a lot lately, but when these traitors try to tell me things that defy logic and sense, I get all Gibletty and wish destruction and redemption on the evil doers. But there’s only one Giblets, so I curb my enthusiasm and try to enlighten.

bush formulates a minor theory that makes one earnest leap from the evils of logic, just to preserve his cartoon charactor standing. Nobody has criticized diplomacy, you tool, just your lying and willful perversion of diplomacy. But if sayin so feeds your blood lust, feeds the juvenile fantasies of your craven empty soul, go ahead. Just don’t expect anything less then condemnation and contempt, and continued resistance.

Resistance is not futile, not epic, not glorious nor grandiose. It just is, and shall continue. bush's popularity isn't in the tank because of a sheep like following, it's because the American people aren't that stupid. The DC press, as was discussed elsewhere this weekend, well, draw your own conclusions.

As my screen saver banner says, "bushco must go, down with the chimp!"