I wish my summer vacation went down like our dear hated leader, President Bush, aka Beijing George.
(If you are one of the 20 percent of Americans who still believe Bush is awesome, I suggest stop reading)
I was biting through my lip every time the NBC TV producers decided to show Bush at the Olympics. The suits at NBC must not have received the memo stating that nearly 8 out of 10 Americans and an even higher number of world's citizens loathe this Fn guy.
An overwhelming majority of the humans on earth correctly observe Bush royally sucks at his job but somehow his mug was plastered all over the TV at one of the most premier sporting events held on the planet. WTF?
However, China trip jet lag and a little Russia/Georgia military conflict will not impede Bush from partaking in his annual August Crawford brush clearing activity. HEE HAW! I hope he can find time for bike riding and watching Josh Hamilton hit homers for the Rangers.
It was nice of Secretary State Condi Rice to finally halt her vacation short and probable shoe shopping spree to make some hollow public statement on the Russia/Georgia issue which likely gave Putin a good chuckle.
Even though I am cheering all American athletes to win gold and beat those commies in China, I can not ignore how terrible Bush policies of the past 7 years have left America and the world in ruins.
Please carry on with your evening of swimming, gymnastics, beach volleyball and water polo. USA! USA!
OH, Mac G got 1 year older and dirtier today. My only wish is a Bday BJ. SKEET, SKEET, SKEET! I hope that I just did not jinx myself.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Beijing George's Summer Vacation
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Polly Want a Cartoon?
No political rants needed as these solid Cartoons depict my mood quite well.
Mac Gs World
Thursday, September 13, 2007
You Call that Center?
The President tonight plans on telling the country that the his "Surge" 30,000 troops will be coming home next year but will still leave the same number of troops as before he announced the surge last January.
I can not comprehend this shit anymore. I just want to drop F bombs all over the place. This action is WAY out of touch with what the public wants.
Kids keep dying, Iraqi refugees are fleeing(2mil and rising), Hundreds of separate highly armed Militias control their own individual neighborhoods and could care less what is going on in some inconsequential "Green Zone."The propped up US Iraqi Govt has absolutely no control over them.
Osama is still alive and we keep going further into debt as a nation.
People against the war are continually smeared as unpatriotic, defeatists but pro war supporters are labeled as strong Americans who fight for freedom and want victory.
Against the War= Pussies, Losers, Un American
For the War= Tough, Winners, True Patriots
Being against this war is a pretty main stream idea and no matter how hard the WH spins this "Surge," all it really is more death and destruction for Iraqis/US soldiers. Losing more US life sure does not seem to bother House Minority Leader John Boehner. He was on CNN saying more US troop deaths are a small price to him. Of course, they are not HIS kids or HIS family members. Check out the video here.
Our political debate has sunk to new lows. We can not even admit our mistakes and try to move forward. The policy is a complete failure and has been since the day we disbanded the Iraqi Army. Do not ask Bush about the decision to create large numbers of unemployed, highly military trained insurgents with arms. He can not recall who made the decision. SHOCKER!
"The policy had been to keep the [Iraqi] army intact; didn't happen," Bush told Draper. Asked how he had reacted to Bremer's reversal, Bush replied, "Yeah, I can't remember. I'm sure I said, 'This is the policy, what happened?' "
The Pro War cheerleaders keep arguing things are not mistakes and that they need more time to prove everyone wrong. Where is the leadership in this country to finally say hey, after 4 1/2 years, 600 bill, 30,000 casulaties that we have no clue to what we are doing. Therefore, it is time to cut our losses and get international help out of this situation.
F BOMB times FBOMBS!
No one wants to abandon what our shitty leaders did to these poor people in the middle east because of our imperliastic hatred of their former dictator. We have to find real solutions for them and us. Political ones and not military.
The people in charge are so vested in to "winning" that they will not face reality.
FBOMBS!
My Man Froomkin sums up our political leaders ignoring the demands of the people up quite well in his column today.
You Call That the Center?
What's a middle-road approach to Iraq?
The White House would like you to believe the middle road is what President Bush will announce tonight from the Oval Office: The possible return to approximately pre-surge troop levels by sometime next summer.
A growing bipartisan movement on Capitol Hill would like you to believe the middle road is Congress agreeing on some modest, incremental, and in some cases non-binding limits on the president's policy.
But what's middle-road for the American public? A sizeable majority wants Bush to bring most of the 160,000 troops home from Iraq in about the same time frame that he is proposing to withdraw less than 30,000. According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, for instance, 55 percent of Americans support "legislation that would set a deadline for withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq by next spring."
On the antiwar extreme, some Americans want all U.S. troops of out Iraq right now; on the prowar extreme, some want those troops to stay indefinitely. But the consensus view is that Americans want out -- starting now, ending soon.
How, then, has the political debate in Washington become so skewed? Why is it so out of step with the will of the people?
One answer, of course, is that most Republican members of Congress are sticking with Bush. But a lot of the credit belongs to the White House, for a public-relations push that flooded the zone starting in early August.
The emphatic and persistent White House message about nominal military successes in Iraq, culminating with Gen. David Petraeus's congressional testimony this week, dominated the airwaves and shifted the inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom about Iraq policy -- while not, interestingly enough, diminishing the public's desire to get the hell out one bit.
Froomkin ColumnUS deaths are a small price to Boehner
One Sided Political Debate
Who Disbanded the Iraqi Army? We Still Do No Know
Friday, June 15, 2007
This Week in Iraqi Occupation ClusterF^&*!
We have decided to arm the Sunnis in Iraq. We are now training the Shiite dominated Iraqi army and giving arms to their Sunnis. Not only are our troops in a middle of a civil war, we are now giving arms to both sides.
Ice Station
