here's another gem from todays episode of Bush Blurts: "it's going to take a while for the ideology of liberty to finally triumph over the ideology of hate". Translated into GOPerspeak this means "it will take a while for white folks to kill off the Macacas of the world". Does anyone other than me find this whole WOT of Bush's to be solidly aimed at non-Christian, non-White people? He's certainly not aiming at the kind of nuts who blew up the Okla.City building (white rightwing nuts).
Posted by T2 at December 20, 2006 09:55 AMIt may well be that the Dim Panderer in Chief has hit some saturation point in all his pronouncements to a point where credibility has drained away so an abject confession of utter failure at everything might pass unremarked.
Do you ever get the sense that the MSM had stooped to merely humoring him to keep up the pretense that America hasn't become a threadbare morally bankrupt wreck?
The entire administration is beginning to resemble a yammering addled wino passed by on public streets with a shudder and averted eyes.
Posted by Chris Rich at December 20, 2006 10:09 AMHmm, Bush has not been able to terrorize the Iraqi people into kowtowing to him and his puppet thug Iraqi regime after three and a half years of bombs, torture, murder and imprisonment...
How much longer are the American people going to take crap off this pathetic loser frat-rat?
Happy Holy-days.
Posted by james k. sayre at December 20, 2006 10:14 AMand as for Gates....The Hillary and the other Dems who thought Gates was gonna side with them on the Iraq War have been once again snookered into approving a Bush enabler. I guess they'll never learn the "secret" that appears clear to most of us, i.e., Bush doesn't hire guys that won't do exactly as he wants. I hope that when Waxman and others take charge, the first thing they'll do is drag Gates in and grill him like a piece of tuna.
Any decision to substantially expand the size of our regular ground forces in 2007 will not result in any new deployable troops for use anytime soon in the immediate Iraq crisis (or anywhere else for that matter). You cannot just "create" out of whole cloth new brigade-sized units of troops. So this Bushco diversion won't do anything for the situation in Iraq.
And when (some of) these new troopers are ready 18 plus months from now (at best), the situation in Iraq will be far different than today, and we'll be at the end of a presidential election run almost solely on when to withdraw the troops from Bush's War---as a result we won't be needing new units, we'll be spending all our money rebuilding the ones Bush destroyed in Iraq.
There is absolutely no conceivable national security reason to expand our regular ground forces, other than Idiot-in-Chief wishes that he had two more infantry divisions for use in Iraq right now. As Steve says, expanding ground troops for use in Iraq was something that would have needed to be PLANNED FOR around 2004, when Kerry ran on that militarist plank---but at least Kerry could think like a commander-in-chief, which Bush cannot even imagine. Remember, Bushco doesn't do planning!
And what, other than decades-long occupation duty in the Middle East, can be the envisioned mission of MORE American Army and Marine brigades? Is this what we should be investing our scarce public revenues in 2007? Think anyone voted for that last month?
Dems? Response to this nonsense, please? You're in the game now, I'd like to see some plays run. The Codpiece in Chief should be savaged for this idiocy---blithely acting like he was "winning" in 2004, and then stating we're "not winning" in late 2006 and wildly flailing about demanding "more troops".
Posted by euzoius at December 20, 2006 10:24 AMWhat the heck was the purpose of that speech? I said noting.
I doubt that he will be able to do his "surge" (yeah, right, "temporary") without a draft. It will be interesting to see if he has the guts to do it. But I'm wondering is if the seventies lottery draft rules apply to the Skills Draft or the Medical Draft. It occurs to me that that will be a way of getting around the requirement to draft the elite's kiddies. How many of them fit into either category? Look at Jenna and Barbara. No skills, no medical training. Stay tuned.
Posted by Julie at December 20, 2006 10:29 AMCripes, I should learn to preview first.
Posted by Julie at December 20, 2006 10:31 AM
People;
like a gambler who has enough money to play one more hand he is throwing it all on red.
Ramping up the troops will cost more money - you mena to sya 1/2 trillion of a military budget cannot stop an insurgency in Iraq? that another 1/2 trillion will ?
thisi s thropwing good money after bad. the only reason is Politics again. he will use the increase in troops against the democratcts who will ask him to pay with for it and not put in on the Credit card
He will then go out and sell his Sociol Security oprivatization that this govermnment needs to spend money on war and not its own poeple.
Never giving it a second thought of raising the taxes on the rich to pay for his mis-adventures.
This Theive in Chief needs this war to go on so he cover his high crimes - he needs to be impeached.
Posted by PR at December 20, 2006 11:19 AMthat aims to isolate extremists, particularly the powerful Shiite militia leader al-Sadr,
It's doomed. Iraqis want us out in overwhelming numbers, they also don't want more troops.
But if they're going to try and marginalize al-Sadr then they might as well throw this idea into the trash. He's got too much power to ignore. Besides the fact Sadr was doing the grunt work of talking to the Sunnis long before this "plan". The fact that al-Maliki doesn't want to get behind this tells you who's running the show.
Posted by Daryl at December 20, 2006 11:23 AM
Like a gambler is right, but it's like a gambler who is playing with other peoples' money.
Is there no one in American politics who has the courage to cut him off?
Posted by James E. Powell at December 20, 2006 11:28 AMWTF...
Who in their right mind would even percieve that this will work?!?
AT this point I can't figure if he really is that stupid, or just surrounded by enablers that continue to bolster him with comments such as "don't let the bastards get you down, sir."
Is he just putting off as long as possible the political ramifications of his failed policies? If this is the case, he is obviously willing to sacrifice even more American (and Iraqi) lives simply for his percieved political benefit.
He is not a functional being. He is a truly despicable human being.
Forget impeachment. He needs to be delcared mentally incompetent to hold office. Then Impeach Shooter.
Posted by Simp at December 20, 2006 11:59 AMColeman -R-Minn, and Dem Hoyer both came out today rejecting Bush's possible Surge. Coleman's a pretty high profile GOPer, recently back from Iraq. Three or four more GOP Congressmen with sense like Coleman would probably be all it takes to make Bush re-assess his re-assesment. But a solid anti-surge stance by the Dems in Congress is what is needed now....get on the right side of this and quit Hillarying.
Posted by T2 at December 20, 2006 12:00 PMMandatory duty for any child left behind?
Posted by dishwashing engineer at December 20, 2006 12:52 PM