This humdrum summer rerun of the same old story we've heard before gets a complete two thumbs down.
The Bush plan, as delivered to the War College a few minutes ago, consists of taking all the spin of the last year or so and adding numbers (1 through 5) to some of the paragraphs.
It continues to include the lie that the US will be handing "full sovereignty" over to the Iraqis on June 30th. Unfortunately, about half of the US will believe that, as compared to nearly none of the rest of the world.
If I had more thumbs, I'd give it four thumbs down.
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1 - Shark
Hal, I thought it was a great commercial for the refurbished Iraq -- Even though we've heard the exact same thing before. (How many months has it been since he told us about all the newly trained Iraqi police that were swarming the streets?)
I am thrilled to know that Iraq has hospitals, health clinics, lots of new schools and bright teachers, and a brand new power grid, and a growing economy, and thousands of police, and and and and....
...And I wish Bush and Company would decide to invade the friggin' U.S. A.
We could use all of the above.
And the "transition" sounded so easy! Just give 'em a new government, a President, a Prime Minister, Two -- count 'em! --TWO Vice Presidents, and wave yer friggin' wand ---
POOF! They're "sovereign!
Wow. If it's that easy, I'm wondering why we didn't do it sooner.
BTW: Interesting that the major networks figured rackin' up a few ad dollars with their standard shit-stream of mindless entertainment was more important than the President's mindless entertainment/half-hour commercial for the "NEW IRAQ" -- which, based on his description, sounded more like Disneyworld than a hell-hole of roadside bombings and assasinations. I'm making vacation plans for Baghdad ASAP!
The only problem with Bush's "speech": He said nothing about going to Mars -- and from his descriptions of Iraq -- it sounded like he'd been to that little red planet very recently.
What a fuckin' maroon. Too bad the majority of Americans missed this one: it would have pissed them off to hear how swell Iraq is doing vs good ol' depression/recession/inflation/gasraped/unemployed/healthcare-less Hometown USA.
2 - RJ Elliott
"good ol' depression/recession/inflation/gasraped/unemployed/healthcare-less Hometown USA."
If someone has been to Mars recently, it wasn't Bush...
3 - Hal Pawluk
If someone has been to Mars recently, it wasn't Bush...
How were the accommodations?
4 - RJ Elliott
I'm more into Neptune myself... :-/
5 - Shark
RJ,
Neptune: no.
Uranus: yes.