just more politics. By stopping the funding of Iraq rebuild, Bush eliminates the Dems from campaigning on his waste of Billions in Iraq while New Orleans poor go homeless. He'll couple that with a early summer troop "re-deployment" to show victory has been achieved. By September, the GOPers will say "Iraq is now funding it's own future,running its own democratically elected governement, and has only a few American GI's left as "instructors". It will be up to the Dems to counter: "Bush destroyed their country and ran out on it, Bush helped them elect a hard-line Religious government that hates us, and Bush lost the war on the ground and bailed". Somehow, I can't hear Hillary making that point. Will anyone?
Posted by T2 at January 2, 2006 10:00 AMOK kids,
Nobody is coming to liberate us.
We're gonna have to do it ourselves.
We start with blowing up Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia.
Posted by Vinnie at January 2, 2006 10:08 AMAn all too likely scenario T2. Let's hope the increasing illusion of journalism will somehow become real and a few, "wait a minutes" will be heard as victory is declared while the last Americans are ferried out of the Green Zone clinging to the helicopter landing gear.
You see, Iraq's really not Georgie's problem any more. Now that he has (so far unindicted) Karl "turd blossom" throwing billions at Haliburton & friends inr no bid, no-account contracts to "rebuild" the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, his priorities are fully covered. There's a wonderful chance to keep those ungrateful African Americans (Democratic voters) scattered in places like Connecticut, Nevada and Oregon until they can cut all benefits and force them into desperate employment. Then they can rebuild The Big Easy they way it should have been, RED and RICH.
Let them Euruhpee'uns worry about Iraq. He's been "re"-elected, already, so he's already lost interest. However, that pesky little Venezueala has some sweet oil reserves. It's time to show them some good old fashioned democracy & freedom, Republican style.
Posted by DeminNewJ at January 2, 2006 10:32 AMI guess that statute of King George in Baghdad square will be delayed.
Hasn't this always been bu$h's MO?
One of my biggest bitches has always been not finishing the job in Afghanistan. Complete reconstruction of that country's infractstructure. bu$h went on to bigger and better resources when he had public support.
This latest Rovian tendency is to apologize, blast a Democratic idea, repackage the same idea into a republican thought and plant the image of success in the media.
bu$h turns tragedy into a money making scheme for his friends, while avoiding negative press.
When the Europeans, Chinese, and Indians end up with all the Iraqui oil we went to war over what will Dumbya Bumfuck, Big Time, and Rumsfuck do or say? Maybe we'll have to invade Venezuela, it is a lot closer to home.
Posted by Red_Neck_Repub at January 2, 2006 02:10 PMKey word of the note is "clean up Bush's mess". Get used to it. You will hear a lot of that in the next ten years.
Posted by William Jensen at January 2, 2006 04:04 PMI got the feeling not too long ago that we(the USA) are flat broke.
Everyday I see more and more evidence of this.
Can we please drown Grover Norquiest in a bathtub now?
Posted by SnarkyShark at January 2, 2006 05:35 PMWe only need enough infrastructure to pump oil and launch new wars. You can bet runways for bombers and fighter jets will be well maintained. If the average Iraqi suffers Bush could not care less. If they don't like it he'll just have them killed. I'd also be curious to know how much of the reconstruction money is being siphoned to Sunni leaders as payment to go along with the new government?
Posted by steve duncan at January 2, 2006 05:51 PMI don't get what your beef is on this, Steve. What do you care what "others in the Arab world" think of these proposed cuts? You've never believed that any money should have gone into this operation ---and now you're going to cluck and moan that we are somehow disappointing the region by tightening the purse-strings?
Let the Iraqis sell some of that oil and get themselves back in the game and on the open market. They'll be a prosperous country in short order if the Sunnis will just find a way to neutralize the murderers living in their communities.
Posted by Toby Petzold at January 2, 2006 08:49 PMLet the Iraqis sell some of that oil and get themselves back in the game and on the open market. They'll be a prosperous country in short order if the Sunnis will just find a way to neutralize the murderers living in their communities.
Toby,
The oil is not in the sunni part of Iraq and the shiites and kurds will not share the revenues. Your statement has the logic of saying that the poor wouldn't be poor if they had money.
Posted by rlp at January 2, 2006 10:27 PMOh for the good old days , when the 900 lb. gorilla ruled with an iron fist from inside a harmless box. He sold us oil, and we had his radar sites to test our missles on when they "lit up" (or not). All this, and he suppressed terrorists and fundies, alike. He also helped keep Iran in check, and if we stopped the sanctions, he could have sent some of his boys to get Bin Laden for us.
Posted by TIKI AL at January 3, 2006 04:14 AMCareful, Al! You're using logical thought to express what might have been if Little Cowboy Boot$ hadn't decided that he was really Julius Caesar!
Posted by pessimist at January 3, 2006 06:50 AMAt least Julius Caesar knew to treat his troops well because he was out there with them.
Posted by at January 3, 2006 08:06 AMJulius Caesar knew how to treat his troops because he shared their lives - an experience Georgie has to have read to him from Teddy Roosevelt biographies.
Posted by pessimist at January 3, 2006 12:04 PMYou are forgetting all of the military bonding Bush experienced while at the company dentist at the Arkansas front. (or was that record forged?)
Posted by TIKI AL at January 4, 2006 12:59 AM