If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,

I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,

And speed glum heroes up the line to death.

You'd see me with my puffy petulant face,

Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,

Reading the Roll of Honour.

'Poor young chap,' I'd say-'

I used to know his father well;

Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap.'

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,

I'd toddle safely home and die - - in bed.

Ann1960 wrote: "..I live in a very red state (Texas) and no matter what new scandal comes to light, no matter how incompentent this administration is, no matter how the Constitution is trampled--too many people here are STILL glad that "that traitor" Kerry didn't win the last presidential election. I'm dumbfounded."

Ann, don't be "dumbfounded". The obvious answer is "it's Texas!". Not to denigrate the birthplace of my father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, but, Texas has never been a bastion of sanity, imho.

Those "good ol' boys/girls" prefer to ignore truth and embrace polemics...as long as the person spewing polemics is waving the flag.

Sad. very sad.

I live in a very red state (Texas) and no matter what new scandal comes to light, no matter how incompentent this administration is, no matter how the Constitution is trampled--too many people here are STILL glad that "that traitor" Kerry didn't win the last presidential election. Yes, many (even here) are not happy w/ the current prez, but they are infinitely happier that Kerry lost. I'm dumbfounded.

...is about to receive the medal of honor for his valor in fighting on the front lines, but i would much prefer a purple heart be awarded him for choking on that pretzel.

Maybe Tony Snow is just addleheaded from the treatment.

as to what might be filling that flight suit if Bush actually were on the front lines of Iraq combat? There is so much to hate about this administration that it seems there is left left to shock or appall us. But Snow is beyond calloused in this latest outrage. Comparing the fecklessness of George Bush with the courage and daily sacrifice of those serving multiple tours in combat is venal. Place Snow's bullshit in the context of a Pentagon report showing that 40% of the returning troops have some sort of mental incapacity and that fully one in four has a serious mental health issue. Bush has a mental defect but it was a pre-existing condition.

The photo-op pictures of George Bush, pausing to "chat" paternally with grievously-wounded young soldiers and marines in Walter Reed, are eerily reminiscent of the pictures of Adolph Hitler wandering the streets of Berlin in April, 1945, patting the cheeks of his 14-year-old German boy-soldiers. How many are/were to die for the lie?

Recently, Bush looks very old, tired, out-of-touch and mentally distant...merely shuffling from a fund-raiser to a pep-rally before the hard-core few "true-believers" to a Rose Garden speech, given half-heartedly, and all replete with trite homilies, fetid boiler-plate and gross errata.

Perhaps Mr. Bush will grace us with HIS descent into a bunker prior to January, 2009, accompanied by his pack of jackals that include Cheney and Rove. I'd submit that he can do it right now, since we already know what the "legacy" of his odious and putrid Maladministration will be.

Don't count on it, however; he wouldn't know the honorable way if it bit him on his buttocks.

Please, do us all a favor, and remove that revolting picture from the site. My dinner is coming back up.

Dear Mr. Snow,

I heard what you were said about the President being in the war and all... and I thought that you might want maybe have another photo op... like when the president played dress-up in that flight suit (the 'mission accomplished' thing remember?) Anyway... this time... let's put him in a flack jacket and fatigues, give him a stick, and have him clear landmines in Baghdad..... No? Then how about we use him as a human shield... strapped to the hood of a humvee...like a hood ornament... for patrols at night in Baghdad.... What? You don't like that idea either?.... what do you mean "What am I getting at?" ... These are class A ideas!... Ok... then... can't we at least have the president go on regular hunting trips with vice president?

If Bush is so involved in the war that Snow can characterize it as being on the front lines, why did we need to appoint a war czar?

from the rear

and the front line died

and the generals sat

and the lines on the map

moved from side to side...

- Pink Floyd

I was at the Roger Waters concert at the Hollywood Bowl last night and he effing RIPS bush and blair but good. Highly recommended. They had a gigantic helium filled pig that they bring out and sail around the audience, with stuff written on the side like "Habeus Corpus Matters" and "Torture Degrades Us All" and "Impeach Bush" and it was AWESOME!

Go if you get a chance.

It should have gone,

"Yes, the president. The president is in the war every day. In other words, No."

Garry Owen wrote:

"You always know when Bush or anyone in his administration is about to let fly a stream of bullshit. They preface it with..."

Actually, there's an even easier way to tell when they're about to BS: they open their mouths to talk.

The most craven thing I've ever heard come out of this White House. Kudos to the reporter for putting it out there. But honestly, when are the american people going to look at an answer like that and just finally decide enough is enough? It's like we've been living the last 5 years under the depressing weight of a failed state.

It's like we just don't care anymore. It's like no scandal, no amount of sheer stupidity, no amount of pathetic blundering can get people mobilized against this guy. Now, Democrats. That's a different story. A dem jaywalks and it's a scandal, worthy of trials for treason and hangings in the public square.