Just in time for Thanksgiving. Do you think Bush will drop in to Iraq for a Thanksgiving feast with the (pre-selected) troops?
Posted by Mary at November 22, 2006 12:19 AMyes he is and always was irrelevent..but how sad and what a tradgedy these last 6 yrs have been for our country and the world..and i do harp on it perhaps..but for me the real tradgedy started with a stolen election..flat out fucking stolen..by a bunch of very bad guys..and these past years did not have to be..the promise of a projected surplus in 2000..some light at the end of a tunnel that could have meant so much to so many.all of us ...not just the poorest among us..healthcare..education...infrastructure..so much squandered..with repulsive men such as dick cheney saying it was their due to cut taxes for the wealtiest among us..it sickens me what was lost these past 6 years...and my god this war is beyond my vocabulary to articulate..so wrong and so many maimed and dead..and for what????..for me winning the election is not enough..some people need to be punished for high crimes against the people and the world...
Posted by dennis at November 22, 2006 03:04 AMHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
My favorite food picture of Little Boots comes from the staged, "surprise" visit to Iraq (many say was actually taken in Kuwait) from his first term.
Bush is holding the plastic turkey platter, adorned in his terrible precious, green flight jacket.
What an idiot.
Posted by Christopher at November 22, 2006 03:46 AMDitto what Dennis said.
The soldier in the picture is saying, under his breath, "give me 5 minutes with this fuck."
Posted by Judith at November 22, 2006 04:19 AMHAHAHAHA Hawaii? Fell off my chair laughing.
Well, that's safe. Macho guy visiting troops in Hawaii. Stop, your killing me.
Judith, Judith...Juddddyyyy! Took the words right out of my mouth! Didja hear that one of the Twin Drunks got rolled in Argentina?
Y'all have a Happy Thanksgiving, one that will shake with meaning, since the elections proved that Americans still have brains. God bless all of the foreign Macaca's in Virginia and Salvadorans and Mexicans who truly keep our democracy and VOTE!! Hardworking, law-abiding citizens who expelled a phony ass like Allen, (to wind up with what is looming to be a real fruitcake, Webb.) Nevertheless, this Thanksgiving is specialllll to the voters last November 7!!!!
Posted by Mal Feasance at November 22, 2006 04:41 AMI can only imagine Bush's first question when Air Force One touched down in Honolulu:
"They take Murikan money here?"
Posted by Christopher at November 22, 2006 04:50 AMChuck Hagel said today on MSNBC that McCain’s plan to send 20,000 more troops to Iraq is not realistic, and that the time for more troops is past, even if we had 20,000 more to send. "Those days are over. We’re not going to recapture that and go back and unwind those bad decisions."
"We’ve been in Iraq now almost four years. We went in completely undermanned, under-managed. We didn’t understand what we were getting into. We didn’t have the plans. We should have gone in with three times the troops that we had."
Seriously, where would we get 20,000 more troops? How come no one has asked McCain that question?
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/21/hagel-troops/
like charlie rangel says ..lets have a draft...rangel is crazy like a fox..
Posted by dennis at November 22, 2006 04:55 AMMal is right. We have many things to be thankful for, but right now I am most thankful that we took back the Legislative Branch of OUR Government. We are heading into 2007 controlling the House and Senate. Thanks to millions of Americans who fought back, whether with their time and energy, or their vote, to stop the madness we have had to endure for six years.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING and God Bless us all.
Posted by Judith at November 22, 2006 05:15 AMWe are one actual terrorist event on USA soil away from having him become resurgent again, do not misunderestimate the country.
Posted by leftymn at November 22, 2006 05:27 AMFunny, I used to work at Hickam AFB, while going to junior college in the 70's. I was a proud AAFES gas attendent; remember full service? (At that time, I really lived in Hawaii for the Pakalolo!)
This is not a normal enlisted chow hall. That's the fancy serving set up for officers. Have to break out the good stuff for the prezent-nut!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and their families!
Posted by Seven of Six at November 22, 2006 05:42 AMlike charlie rangel says ..lets have a draft.
Yep. Reinstate the draft -- begin sending the 18 year old sons from the Congressional millionaire's club to die or get maimed in Iraq and Bush's Middle East folly will come to a close overnight.
It's easy to play General from the safe confines of your Georgetown townhouse, with the taxpayer-paid limo waiting to drive you a half a mile to work at the US Capitol each day.
Posted by Christopher at November 22, 2006 05:45 AMWatch out Argentina, you know what happened to Iraq when they messed with a bu$h!
Posted by Seven of Six at November 22, 2006 05:54 AMflat out fucking stolen..by a bunch of very bad guys
Think James Baker regrets his decision to fight so hard for Junior to win the FLA electors?
Posted by Zappatero at November 22, 2006 06:01 AMI saw a good looking young man without legs and a left arm on TV this morning. He had been in Iraq. His dream was to be a stunt man in Hollywood. These are the people Bush should have a Thanksgiving meal with.
Anjha, I just read your rant (if that's what you want to call it), and I want to say "BRAVO." You go girl!
Posted by Judith at November 22, 2006 06:01 AMSeven of Six, I was wondering about those white table cloths.
Posted by Judith at November 22, 2006 06:05 AM"We didn’t understand what we were getting into."
This meme is almost singularly, the one that really drives me to red-faced-spitting anger. Excuse me Hagel, but some of us did. Some of us saw it plain as day. Some of us tried to say something. Some of us asked for actual proof that didn't come from proven liars that had an interest in going into Iraq. But we were labeled batshit-crazy, unpatriotic, Saddam-loving, terrorist enabling traitors.
Sen. Hagel, you are telling me that you actually and willfully bought all the crap sandwiches that were being fed to you from Cheney et. al.?
Posted by Simp at November 22, 2006 06:25 AM
I see where Bush is headed to the Mid-East to talk to/with Al Maliki. Expect Al Maliki to refuse the Iranian offer of a summit shortly thereafter. The interesting point is that Bush won't even go to Iraq to talk to the head of Iraq, he's going to Jordan. Too dangerous in Iraq, I suppose.
Posted by T2 at November 22, 2006 06:29 AMWhat is it with the Bush men. They just never get it. From Bush, Sr., looking at his watch during the Clinton/Bush debates, to Junior denying the fact that he could lose the House and Senate in the November elections. These guys need to get out of their gated community and the WH once in a while.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_defending_bush
Posted by Judith at November 22, 2006 06:32 AMThe interesting point is that Bush won't even go to Iraq to talk to the head of Iraq, he's going to Jordan.
Oh, I expect there will be an unannounced visit by Bush to Iraq where he'll meet with Maliki at Baghdad International for 2 hours before flying back out before anyone even knows he was there.
Turkee all around!
Posted by snark at November 22, 2006 06:44 AMSimp, it sounds good to say "we didn't understand what we were getting into." That way Hagel can ease his conscious and excuse the mess we are in. It is truly terrifying to have people in high postions of power say they "didn't understand." I would like to know exactly what it is that Hagel didn't understand.
Posted by Judith at November 22, 2006 06:47 AM"No one thought of using airplanes to hit buildings"
"Everyone thought Saddam had WMDs"
"We didn't understand what we were getting into"
Lies, rationalizations, lame excuses, and willful inaccuracies, all resulting in irreversible disaster. We are a nation badly led.
In a nation led by responsible leaders, half the Congress would resign over Iraq, as well as the entire cabinet. But in super-virtuous Murica, we have exactly one "resignation" (actually a firing) as a result of all this destruction, deceit and despair.
Accountability is an American myth, yet another thing that won't be acknowledged by the disgraceful Chuck Hegel and his failed warmongering compatriots.
Posted by euzoius at November 22, 2006 07:29 AMW's looking more like LBJ in his last years every day--armed services captive audience as the only place in public where he can speak. Certainly brings back memories.
Charles
Posted by charles moore at November 22, 2006 08:24 AMPhotos like this one reveal that SOS (shit on a shingle) is still a regular staple in GI mess halls.
Posted by fafnir at November 22, 2006 08:45 AM7'o'6:
Yeah, when I was stationed at Ft. Meade while training at the NSA, Pres. Carter toured the campus one afternoon in '76. The cafeteria, free for us military personnel, served NY steak and also offered peanut soup -- hmmmm. This was very atypical lunch fare, as it always is when the BSD's come a-callin'. (:>
Posted by Donald Cormac at November 22, 2006 10:41 AMBush sure does have a lot more food than the guy next to him. Maybe the other guy lost his appetite for some reason.
Either way, a heapin' helpin' like that is going to mean a loooong bike ride for Dubya.
Posted by dj moonbat at November 22, 2006 01:05 PM"Senator" Chuck Hagel was "elected" back in 1997 with his own voting machine corporation "counting" the votes in the Nebraska GOP primary election, where Chuck was a severe underdog and a guess what? A "surprise" winner... No need for paper trails for those reliable GOP-owned and GOP-operated voting machines... Of course, the biggest newspapers of Nebraska were also in on the "gag." (Still are, with ties to ES&S, the successor to Chuck's original voting machine company) So when Chuck "won" the November general election as again as a severe underdog, again there was no public outcry...
Since he slid into office, he has not had to bother to think much about the realities of the aggressive war waged in the Middle East by Bush & Company. Seems like a lot of Republican office holders don't really bother to do much critical thinking about many things... I guess that helps to define was a Republican really is: a thoughtless, self-centered jackass...
Of course, millions and millions of us here in the "homeland" and abroad protested the coming slaughter of the Iraqi people, but could Chuck and George and their neo-conical buds call a halt? Nah, they were too busy dreaming of the billions of our taxpayer dollars which could be stolen with "no-bid" contracts to Halliburton Corporation and other corporate thieves, under the smoke and smog of our "patriotic" war against Saddam...
Have a good Thanksgiving.
Posted by james k. sayre at November 22, 2006 02:56 PMIs that crow I see on Bush's plate???
Posted by The Oracle at November 22, 2006 05:56 PMUmmm, churchlady sized cassarole and spam! Fat ass wouldn't eat that on a bet! Where is is food taster? What does he do? Put it in his trousers? Georgie spam pants?
Posted by sara swati at November 22, 2006 05:58 PM