Comments on: Where’s George? http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:31:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: The Mahablog » Bush Hides Behind China’s Skirts http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-38637 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:22:52 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-38637 [...] Bush has been downright wobbly in dealing with nasty foreign people lately. You might remember the G8 Summit dinner last July in which the President was caught by an open microphone – “See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this (expletive) and it’s over,” Bush told Blair as he chewed on a buttered roll. [...] […] Bush has been downright wobbly in dealing with nasty foreign people lately. You might remember the G8 Summit dinner last July in which the President was caught by an open microphone – “See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this (expletive) and it’s over,” Bush told Blair as he chewed on a buttered roll. […]

]]> by: Sky-Ho http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19458 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:26:51 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19458 GWBush AWOL, again? Why would you expect him to do anything different than he ever has done? Reading "My Pet Goat" while Americans were dying? GWBush AWOL, again?

Why would you expect him to do anything different than he ever has done? Reading “My Pet Goat” while Americans were dying?

]]> by: The Heretik http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19420 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:07:17 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19420 [...] Question not asked of the press: Does anybody care? Pigs will continue to fly as long as reporters let them. And what Bush does will fly until somebody shoots it down. Something reporters might want to ask about: “Bush hasn’t spoken to any Middle Eastern leaders in the past couple of weeks. Why? [...] […] Question not asked of the press: Does anybody care? Pigs will continue to fly as long as reporters let them. And what Bush does will fly until somebody shoots it down. Something reporters might want to ask about: “Bush hasn’t spoken to any Middle Eastern leaders in the past couple of weeks. Why? […]

]]> by: temperance http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19417 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:46:12 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19417 Lynne: If you can stomach it, I suggest that you take a look at the worldnetdaily site (worldnetdaily [dot] com). There’s a frightening synergy between the articles in the center, which seem to be cheering on the escalating Middle East violence, and some of the apocalyptic-themed nonfiction books they’re advertising on the sides of the page. I’m really worried that people who have a “worldnet” worldview are the ones making the key U.S. policy decisions (or indecisions, as the case may be) in this crisis. Anyone else find it both appalling and predictable that, in a 5 minute web search, I found clothing companies selling t-shirts that said (variously) “Nuke Iran,” “U.S. Out of Iraq – And Into Iran,” & “If Iran Wants Nukes So Bad, Heck Give Them to ‘Em” [accompanied by a cartoon of a mushroom cloud]. Maybe you've all discussed these shirts before -- I wasn't aware of the prevalence of this particular clothing line until today. Some people, it seems, can’t get ENOUGH military conflict and bloodshed. This attitude freaks me out, to say the least. Lynne: If you can stomach it, I suggest that you take a look at the worldnetdaily site (worldnetdaily [dot] com). There’s a frightening synergy between the articles in the center, which seem to be cheering on the escalating Middle East violence, and some of the apocalyptic-themed nonfiction books they’re advertising on the sides of the page. I’m really worried that people who have a “worldnet” worldview are the ones making the key U.S. policy decisions (or indecisions, as the case may be) in this crisis.

Anyone else find it both appalling and predictable that, in a 5 minute web search, I found clothing companies selling t-shirts that said (variously) “Nuke Iran,” “U.S. Out of Iraq – And Into Iran,” & “If Iran Wants Nukes So Bad, Heck Give Them to ‘Em” [accompanied by a cartoon of a mushroom cloud]. Maybe you’ve all discussed these shirts before — I wasn’t aware of the prevalence of this particular clothing line until today. Some people, it seems, can’t get ENOUGH military conflict and bloodshed. This attitude freaks me out, to say the least.

]]> by: Steve M. http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19413 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:21:44 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19413 Sorry, that was silly, but <a HREF="http://www.lucianne.com/routine/archives/07-14-06.htm" rel="nofollow">look at this picture.</a> Jesus. Sorry, that was silly, but look at this picture. Jesus.

]]> by: Steve M. http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19400 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:33:12 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19400 You don't think he's just distracted because he's <a HREF="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15027749.htm" rel="nofollow">head over heels in love with Angela Merkel?</a> You don’t think he’s just distracted because he’s head over heels in love with Angela Merkel?

]]> by: temperance http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19390 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:41:25 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19390 For me, one of the scariest lines in Hirsh’s new article was: “The situation cries out for decisive U.S. intervention, at the very least a high-profile American envoy.” It’s scary because our “high profile American envoy” seems to be John Bolton. While Bush has gone off in a corner and curled up into a ball, we have a walking temper tantrum in charge of negotiating a truly horrific situation in the Middle East. Scary. For me, one of the scariest lines in Hirsh’s new article was: “The situation cries out for decisive U.S. intervention, at the very least a high-profile American envoy.” It’s scary because our “high profile American envoy” seems to be John Bolton. While Bush has gone off in a corner and curled up into a ball, we have a walking temper tantrum in charge of negotiating a truly horrific situation in the Middle East. Scary.

]]> by: Lynne http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19381 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:23:55 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19381 Just throwing this in: Recall a while ago the discussion about some conservative Christians believing (as always) that the end times are upon us? I have been wondering how much the Leader of the Free World subscribes to these notions. If he does, then what happens in the near east may be just considered inevitable and the plan of the Almighty. Just throwing this in: Recall a while ago the discussion about some conservative Christians believing (as always) that the end times are upon us? I have been wondering how much the Leader of the Free World subscribes to these notions. If he does, then what happens in the near east may be just considered inevitable and the plan of the Almighty.

]]> by: janinsanfran http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19378 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:07:17 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19378 I sure hope you are right that what we are seeing is imperial overstretch rather than a brutal NeoCon plan to drag an unwilling United States into war against Iran and Syria. Wouldn't it be novel to have a government that we could trust to be acting with a plan -- a plan that is in the interest of most of us? Having just come back from Lebanon, having driven those highways and flown from the Beirut airport, I cannot shrug off the current eruption as just one more episode of Middle East lunacy. The Israelis are wantonly attacking innocent Lebanese, practicing collective punishment of a whole country. I sure hope you are right that what we are seeing is imperial overstretch rather than a brutal NeoCon plan to drag an unwilling United States into war against Iran and Syria. Wouldn’t it be novel to have a government that we could trust to be acting with a plan — a plan that is in the interest of most of us?

Having just come back from Lebanon, having driven those highways and flown from the Beirut airport, I cannot shrug off the current eruption as just one more episode of Middle East lunacy. The Israelis are wantonly attacking innocent Lebanese, practicing collective punishment of a whole country.

]]> by: justme http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19365 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:15:05 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/07/13/wheres-george/#comment-19365 I would be a lot less worried if my family members on the ground in Iraq were not being told to"gear up for the next WAR" and if rummy didn't make comments like"we learned a lesson for the next wars"....If the war is winding down why lower the recruiting standards and raise the age? They will now take people with criminal records, drug problems, people who score lower on testing(brain dead folks) and people in their 40's....If rummy will invade a country with too few troops you know too many troops sitting around during peace time won't wash......I want you to be right and me to be wrong....I love to be wrong at times like this but boy it sure gets a lot harder to be relaxed or trusting when you actually have someone at stake on the ground... even harder when one of the family has already come home in a box...the stakes couldn't be higher...bush has given us nothing but reason to worry..If he doesn't mess this up it will be the first thing. I would be a lot less worried if my family members on the ground in Iraq were not being told to”gear up for the next WAR” and if rummy didn’t make comments like”we learned a lesson for the next wars”….If the war is winding down why lower the recruiting standards and raise the age? They will now take people with criminal records, drug problems, people who score lower on testing(brain dead folks) and people in their 40’s….If rummy will invade a country with too few troops you know too many troops sitting around during peace time won’t wash……I want you to be right and me to be wrong….I love to be wrong at times like this but boy it sure gets a lot harder to be relaxed or trusting when you actually have someone at stake on the ground… even harder when one of the family has already come home in a box…the stakes couldn’t be higher…bush has given us nothing but reason to worry..If he doesn’t mess this up it will be the first thing.

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