Letters to the Editor
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This just feels better
I don't know if it's the best post I've ever read, but War Room seems to be back! More please. Thanks and please keep it up.
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Proper parsing required
Assuming it's not just the latest attempt by the Bushies to try to convince folks that they're in touch with reality, these sorts of statements require very careful parsing. They are usually constructed to allow deniability when they are challenged after the fact.
In this case, my guess is something like the following.
"Well, I think we've thrown out all of the rose-colored glasses in how we look at Iraq." The tense is past perfect, so they'll just claim that the statement refers to some indefinite time in the past, but relatively long ago (e.g., two or three years). So, you see, they're not saying that they just now stopped seeing things through rose-colored glasses. Oh, no. They've been realists all along.
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No "rose-colored glasses"?
Does that mean that someone has broken the bad news to Bush about next January 20th? That must've been a hard conversation.
"No sir, you won't be able to stay. I'm sorry, sir, not even if your friend John wins. Yes sir, you can still ride your bike at the Brush Ranch. No sir, there probably won't be very many of your reporter pals around. Yes sir, that means you won't have to clear any more brush."
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No more rose-colored glasses
Fuschia is now standard issue at all WH press conferences.
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Rosebud!...
..gaaa-aack... [dies]
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Rose-colored glasses
Yes, the statement you have taken them off means you once had then on. The investigation, therefore, should be who exactly was wearing the glasses and when, if ever, they took them off. I'd say any adminstration figure who ever wore them should be prosecuted as there is no excuse for putting them in the first place.
Though if these lenses do indeed cast reality in a positive light, I'd like a pair. Pink's not really my color, but seems better than Prozac.
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It's no slip, and here's what that means:
Wednesday and Thursday of this week Bush bootlicker/enabler Petraeus will testify before Congress about "progress" in Iraq. As recent developments have shown the facade of "stability" to be just that, Petraeus will change the report and blame Iran. He will announce that Iran is fighting a proxy war against the United States, claiming they arm, train, and support the Iraqi insurgency, and are the cause for the upsurge of violence of late. In so doing he will introduce and promote the lies that will be used later this year, say about October, to attack what they will call "military facilitities" Iran. The only question is whether or not it'll be nukes.
Knowing these asshats, of course it'll be nukes.
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Reminds me of "turning the corner"
And, "making progress," or its variant, "making good progress."
And, who could ever forget that catch-all for all fuck ups: "nobody could have predicted..."
The Bushies are consistent; they latch on to a phrase like a pit bull.
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The glasses ain't rose
Bush's glasses are brown, from having his preppy head up his flabby ass. The only rose connection is that manure can help them grow (watch out for salinity).
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No more rose colored glasses by Bush re: Iraq
They're realizing things are REALLY bad over there. Well. That does it. I guess we're gonna have to dig in and stay awhile.
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Lies, damnable lies , and
Every word that comes out of the White House. These guys have gone to the "Now we're giving it to you straight" line so often, it's pathological.
To paraphrase Mary McCarthy, "Everything they say is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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More hogshit from the war criminals....
Doesn't matter what sort of glasses they are wearing or not wearing if they are blind in the first place.
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It's not a lie if you believe it.
the power of delusion
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The best thing about having rose colored glasses on is...
...you don't see all the blood on the uniforms of our dead soldiers. You can just pretend they're all sleeping. All 4,020 of them....and a few more tomorrow, etc., etc.
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OK - The Rose Colored Glasses Are OFF ...
but the eyes are still wide shut and they've still got their fingers in their ears whenever anyone who might actually have looked comes to visit.
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in response to tesla
"The only question is whether or not it'll be nukes."
You mean that we use on Iran? My guess is yes.
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What it really means
Now the Bush administration (with the advice and assistance of stalwart Sen. John McCain) will roll up their sleeves and get down to the serious business of tackeling the Iraq mess. Its all just more smoke and mirrors to grease McCain's way into the White House so business as usual can go on January 20th. We need those 140,000 troops to stay right where they are to protect all of those well-connected contractors making fortunes off of this "war." For all of the time and money spent over there nothing seems to get done...funny how that works out. But, heck, the cash keeps flowing, and that's all that matters.
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The "rose colored glasses are off"
and the face revealed is none other than: Mr. Magoo. You remember that guy. He couldn't see shit once his glasses were removed (not much better with then on either). Bushit's view w/o the goofy glasses will be just as warped. That no one has impeached this war criminal illuminates two important observations about us: Firstly, they (all levels of governance) are in on it to the hilt; secondly we are a Democracy only in veneer-deep substance. Elections will occur but will, like in 3rd. world countries, be controlled by the puppet handlers formally know as the Free Liberal Press. The MSM control the message and the country that once extolled freedom and ethical and moral authority has been shanghaied by those who fondly rely on torture, theft of civil liberties, blatant lies, and overt deceit at the highest levels, now run the joint. Get used to it if you can. That Bushit walks around a free man is as pathetic as the realization that he too is being "run" by Cheney and whomever his dark handlers are.
Listening to the pundits barking their slight-of-truth garbage on all of the stations (save, Olberman) one realizes that the four or five "families" who own the media control what it is we are fed. Orwell would be both proud and nauseated at his predictions. That "novel" has become the working text of the neocons who stole our republic in broad daylight. Heck of a job America...