Comments on: Home Alone IV

by: erinyes

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:05:35 +0000

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

by: bluewave

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:14:07 +0000

Wowsah– I musta missed that part in the Bible where rigged elections in Ohio foretell the coming of the Messiah. Wonder if Bush has a geneaological chart that can trace his ancestry to the House of David? Or maybe even further? He probably thinks that “Burning” Bush was one of his relatives with a nickname. “See, see! We’re listed right there in the True and Unvarnished Word of G_d.”

Or maybe he thinks he’s Henry V and Cheney is his Archbishop of Canterbury explaining how the French are just making up some stuff about Salique law to keep him from being the rightful King of France.

Always comes down to the French, doesn’t it?

by: Cal

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:26:38 +0000

I’m curious about that “former senior official” who told Bush we’re not winning in Iraq. Could it be Colin Powell?:

According to Chas Freeman, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and head of the independent Middle East Policy Council, Mr Bush recently asked Mr Powell for his view on the progress of the war. “We’re losing,” Mr Powell was quoted as saying. Mr Freeman said Mr Bush then asked the secretary of state to leave.

by: Mike

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:10:27 +0000

We’ve known all along that Bush has a messiah complex. This is no surprise. What surprises me is the complete disconnect about ‘as they stand up, we’ll stand down’, meaning once the Iraqis can fight the insurgency we won’t have to. Except, if we weren’t there there wouldn’t be any isurgency. It’s a catch 22. As long as we are there we’ll have an insurgency. As long as there is an insurgency we’ll be there. We have permanent military bases under construction. We aren’t going anywhere. That was decided from the start.

by: alyosha

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:16:05 +0000

Hersch wrote: “Current and former military and intelligence officials have told me that the President remains convinced that it is his personal mission to bring democracy to Iraq…”

I just wonder what does that really mean inside the head of GWB? My sense of Bush is that it means making the country safe for American oil companies, including puppet government and permanent US bases, if need be. How I wish Hersh would deconstruct this.

by: merciless

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:04:21 +0000

But first Bush has to save the Alamo from the hordes of brown people pouring over the border.

Then he’ll try, patiently as always, to explain to us that as the Iraqis stand up, we’ll stand down. This strategy, remarkably, is similar to Senator Biden’s.

I wait for the day when I hear serious talk of invoking the 25th amendment.

by: Swami

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:41:58 +0000

Bush’s first speech is scheduled to take place at the Naval Academy…He’s still confined to an captive audience and can’t muster the courage to face the real public. I hear he intends to muddy the waters with statistics of progress presented out of context. Bush is going to try to pull off a verbal magic show like an evangelist who argues that Jesus was murdered by the Jews and at the same time he laid down his life willingly for the Jews.

Even if Bush’s speech writers are the best that money can buy, they’ll only have bullshit to work with..and won’t be able to salvage Bush’s image of honesty and integrity.