Letters to the Editor
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Beyond the Law
George Bush thinks it's a sign of progress towards becoming a sovereign nation that officials will take action against "elements" who believe they're above the law. Mmm-hmmm....
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Uh, aren't they ALL Iraqis?
I'm not sure I understand Mr. Bush: "This is an Iraqi operation" and "The Iraqis are in the lead."
Isn't it sort of a "nous sommes tous Iraqis/indesirables" over there right about now?
Wow. I guess I'm just so confused. So good to know Dubya has it all under control.
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Good thing he's not playing politics
He wants to keep Americans dying over there until he's out of office, pursuing an utterly failed policy, so that when the shit truly hits the fan, a Democrat will be president and he can blame the failure on the Dem.
He should explain that to the troops. I'm sure that would do heaps for morale.
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Incoherent
Even though we've had many, many examples of his confused thinking in the past, this has to be one of Dubya's *finest*:
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"My first reaction to watching the Iraqi government respond forcefully and to make it abundantly clear that -- I think the exact -- I can't remember the exact words of the Prime Minister, but "criminal elements" I know were a part of his declaration -- would be dealt with. I thought that was a very positive moment in the development of a sovereign nation, that is willing to take on elements that are -- you know, that believe they're beyond the law."
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No, off-the-cuff comments are rarely going to be as polished as those you can write, review, edit and then publish -- but honestly, is there any excuse or explanation for THIS incoherent rambling? Just appalling.
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A Few questions
1) What Hannity wannabe lobbed him that softball? I mean, come on! Do you think the uptick in violence helps to reenforce the central meme of your administration's view on Iraq? Why didn't the "journalist" here just say, "tell us again why we must never leave Iraq until the entire population links hands and sings."?
2) What qualified this for quote of the day? While he didn't exactly tee off on that ridiculous question the way he could have, he didn't exactly make any gaffes. He sounded like our usual idiot child-emperor.
3) While our puppet Prime Minister over there continues to earn neo-con praise for his decisive rhetori-- I mean action, what is the microcosmic parliament doing about this? Are they making any progress on stabilizing their country? How many Al-Sadr loyalists walked out of parliament, and can anything move forward without them?
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no surprises here
If bush had said anything else, he would have had to admit that the surge is not working and that we are losing with "war".
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perpective
every time we bemoan the internecine strife 'twixt HIllary and Barack, just read Bush's mangled syntax, his breathtaking stupidity, his utter ineptitude, we should be glad we have a choice left. Bush is, hands down, the worst preznit in Murkan history, excluding only Jefferson Davis.
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Wait a minute!
I thought it was a BAD thing to treat terrorists like they were criminals! I've always heard that the only way you could stop these guys was an all-out war!
I guess it might be asking too much of Iraq to respond to terrorism like we do- they're much too young a democracy to respond to violence by attacking, say, Belgium.
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Weakening the Opposition Through Violence
Aren’t provincial elections coming up in few months? Isn’t there a good chance that Al-Sadr’s party could gain significant political power in southern Iraq? Along with other parties that aren’t particularly happy with the current Iraqi government?
So now the Iraqi government is launching a series of attacks designed to take out one of their leading political opponents. Make no mistake, the Prime Minister and his political allies are running these attacks directly and their clear goal is to destroy or at least seriously weaken their main political rivals for dominance in the Shiite community. Al-Sadr has, up until this point, been keeping a relative lid on his forces (not a perfect one by any means) and pursuing his goals in parliament and setting himself up for the coming elections.
In any other context this would be called a civil war. In Bush’s world view it’s a police action to deal with a few criminals.
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re: A Few questions
The question seems to have come from a British reporter.
The follow-up question:
Q Did we get out too early?
THE PRESIDENT: No, you didn't. The British commitment was -- first of all, you were there from day one, and you were there during the very heavy fighting. And the British commitment was to move to the airbase based upon success. And I'm very grateful for the British friendship and alliance, and the contributions.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/03/20080327-3.html
If the British didn't get out too early (supposedly causing chaos in Basra which is spreading to other regions), why is any American talk of American troop withdrawals tantamount to conceding defeat?
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The Question
My reaction to the question was the same as EMStoveken's, but since this is from a roundtable of foreign media, it's probably not one of our domestic sycophants. The transcript at whitehouse.com is not particularly helpful, but the questioner appears to have been British -- it looked like his name (first or last is hard to tell) may have been Thomas. For what this information is worth...
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Criminal Elements
Bush is an international scourge, a war criminal. When is someone in our Congress going to assume the lead in dealing with him? Impeach Bush and send him for trial at The Hague NOW!
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What the wha?
Wow, he can't even give a straight answer to the softball questions.
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Let's see
More violence, sign of progress. Less violence, sign of progress. Violence stays the same, sign of progress. Thank you god for choosing Bush for this job.
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Uh, Tom Payne
who had this quote: 'Bush is, hands down, the worst preznit in Murkan history, excluding only Jefferson Davis.'
Jefferson Davis was only the president of a breakaway, failed state called 'The Confederate States of America'. He was never within a country mile of being President of the United States of America (thank God).
You might try James Polk or Ulysses Grant (2nd term), or Warren Harding. I think he is worse than all of them.