Bush wounded by anger over war

[DoYouEverWonder]

Tony Allen-Mills, Washington

June 19, 2005


INCREASING American concern about the conduct of the war in Iraq has forced President George W Bush to sideline some of his domestic priorities in favour of a new public relations drive to bolster confidence in the coalition effort.

Iraq will return to the top of the American political agenda this week when the president delivers the first of several speeches aimed at reversing a damaging slide in his approval ratings.

Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Iraqi prime minister, will pay his first visit to the White House as part of a co-ordinated attempt to boost confidence in both Iraq and America.

The president’s move follows complaints in his own party that the public has been misled about the coalition’s difficulties in Iraq. Almost 100 Americans and several hundred Iraqis have died since the beginning of last month despite a claim by Dick Cheney, the vice-president, that the insurgency was in its “last throes”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1659988,00.html



Poor, poor pitiful Bu$h. I can't wait until that headline reads, 'Bu$h forced to resign because of anger over war".

[ixion]

1. I want truth and justice, not a PR campaign

:grr:

[YDogg]

28. Amen, ixion. n/t

[AuntiBush]

92. Elderly Relative Had a Good Laugh at your Pict of Chimp in Prison!

She said, "thanks for the good laugh, she needed one!"

[confludemocrat]

131. He'll give 3 speeches in 2 wks "to accentuate the postive" LOL

Each should be 1 minute in length then because little or nothing is positive there. Will the speeches be fact-checked by the Corporate Media?

Yeah, he going to prison at some point unless he pardons himself like his father had to do.

[AuntiBush]

168. Read 1 w/be with the (clearing throat) Newly Elected Gov. of Iraq

To "boost" his great, and mighty war. Wondering what the 2nd one will be about!?! Hmmm... maybe more "lies." Notice they no longer show his back. They know we're on to those wires!

It promises to be interesting but I'm concerned. A report came out on MSNBC (tube) abt an hour ago. Very short 2 second mention about 1 of our airlines making an ER landing in (drumroll.....) Iran!

Then the CNN anchor-whore moved on to something else of great importance. I turned of the tube after that. They all make me sick since I clicked on that other post just below this one (under Greatest) with the link to him joking about WMD (none here... that one) and there was the media over their surf & turf laughing.

[VegasWolf]

145. Need a photoshopped pict of bush on sadam's underware picture.nt

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. My gums bleed for that little, little man.

n/t

[Arugula Latte]

125. Hey, it's hard work slaughtering thousands of innocents

in the war for corporate hegemony...Poor George.

[donco6]

3. Since when does hearing from Bush stop his ratings slide?

They must really be desperate. When Bush opens his piehole, his ratings always take a dive! Why would they be having him speak? People aren't buying the lies anymore. If he thinks he can spout that usual sing-song drivel, he's quite mistaken.

[lancdem]

9. I agree

[bejammin075]

67. Exactly what I was thinking

The more he opens his mouth, the worse his ratings will get. I can't wait for the next prime time news conference. Train wreck.

Bush is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. The fix is in. He's done. Just a matter of time and continued hard work on his part.

[AuntiBush]

94. Hope you're right, bejammin074 & Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Train-wreck, is right! Good call!

[koopie57]

128. Hip HIp Hooray

The troops should be home in 30 days!

This is really great news cuz what can he possibly say that people will listen to and go, "Hummm, okay, this war is good?"

[dchill]

71. I've watched the stock market drop ...

while he was speaking live about the economy.

[VegasWolf]

147. Next week, sell short during his speeches! nt

[AuntiBush]

93. He's Going to Try in 2 WOW-WEE Speeches this week - oh boy.

Personally, I can't stand even hearing his voice, much less watching him. From Guardian UK tonight report states "Chimp will be giving 2 speeches, 1 w/Iraq President showing Support for war..." Yawn...

Irony at it's best though: News abt our Prez came from UK, not here!

What a riot.

[tavalon]

103. Guardian UK

is calling him chimp?I'm doubtful but that sure would be amusing, if so.

[JawJaw]

123. Do They Call Him A Chimp?

Maybe the Guardian doesn't refer to him as a chimp in the editorial text, but their cartoonist, the legendary Steve Bell has no such qualms...

[donco6]

156. I usually force myself -

but lately its taken toothpicks to keep my eyes on that insipid, drivel-spouting, lying, greedy bastard.

[AuntiBush]

167. LOLOLOL!!!!! I needed that one, donco6! LOLOLOL!

Can't stop laughing! Oh, Jeez! I might give it a try - should be way less "painful!" LOLOLOL!

[deadparrot]

4. Wounded, my ass.

If he can watch 1700+ Americans die and still be able to smirk like the SoB he is, I think he can stand a little debate.

[alcuno]

81. I was hoping it meant that he was pouting about it.

They didn't mean that kind of wounded; they meant politically damaged.

[Turn CO Blue]

141. That's what I was thinking too, that his feelings were hurt...

to which I would have replied, "boo-fucking-hoo".

[VegasWolf]

148. He has feelings? nt

[Turn CO Blue]

162. Idoubt it. If he does, it's singular, as in... "you hurt my feeling." n/t

[lancdem]

5. This effort will fail

Bush has no credibility anymore on anything.

[Wow]

161. Some bubs seem to believe him

[KnightoftheRepublic]

6. Hmmmm.

This could really work to our advantage. If Bush tries to focus on the war more, than the DSM will surely become more prevalent.

[Kadie]

19. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Dudley_DUright]

7. Poor pitiful little me

:nopity:

[coloradodem2005]

8. Well Bush I will just say this.

Fuck you you son of a bitch. Fuck you to hell.

[bejammin075]

70. Call the WH comment line, it's great...

I've been leaving some pretty angry comments lately. Fuck him. He's got to sleep in the bed he shit in.

[AuntiBush]

95. LOL

[Cha]

10. When I first read that

I thought it was saying that bush was hurt because so many Americans were angry about his war.

Now I see that bush is "wounded" politically..Much More Better!

Good! It couldn't have to more deserving rat bastard.

[lancdem]

14. That's what I thought, too

[Cha]

21. We won't find this in a USA

paper..

"There have also been complaints in military circles that the president has recently been more concerned with his proposed reforms to the US pension system — which is supposedly in danger of collapsing by 2047 — than in publicly discussing the effort in Iraq.

“He’s out in the sticks talking about a social security problem that might occur in 2047, and meanwhile the boys in Iraq are getting killed and injured every day,” said one officer. “Don’t you find that a little odd?”

This should be broadcast from sea to shining sea!

[Cha]

25. “Don’t you find that a little odd?”

Not if you knew why bushreich started this war!

[ovidsen]

36. Give it a little time!

This article is from the Times of London.

Fox, a. k. a Rupert Murdoch owns the Times of London.

Maybe, just maybe, this will spread.

[Cha]

41. Cool..I didn't know that but

have heard Rupert is bailing on bush and blair. Time will tell.

[howmad1]

87. WOUNDED POLITICALLY:

Hmmmm, I would suggest we all stay out of tall buildings for the immediate future. Nothing like another 9/11 to bring the chimps rating back to the 90 percentile rating. x(

[tavalon]

105. Oh, it will be different but equally frightening next time

And it's likely to come this summer, unfortunately. My guess is that the sound machine will start hammering about Iran's nuclear capability (that part's already starting) and then Iran will nuke Iraq and we will land in Iran, with Iraq just a smoldering glass rock under which much oil remains. What is going to terrify me even more (yeah, I'm human. I don't want anyone to experience a nuclear bomb but I especially don't want it to happen to me and mine) is if they start implying that Iran is selling nuclear capability to North Korea because then they will be setting up for a nuclear explosion somewhere on the West coast of the US.

Anyway, the short version is that we are being set up for a nuclear explosion somewhere.

[Gay Green]

138. "a nuclear explosion somewhere on the West coast of the US."

Probably San Francisco if it happens.

"Godda punnish them sodommatts fer there sodomee" and satisfy the Fristian Right.

[tavalon]

142. Well, I suspect they would consider it a win-win

no matter where on the West coast, after all, we're all Godless Democrats over here anyway.

:eyes:

[mdelaguna2000]

117. omg I was reading this thread thinking the same thing

What could save him now? I don't even want to say it. Not another MIHOP...

[0007]

11. Perhaps if junior had lost a son or daughter he would indeed be pissed!

Just what is his problem?

[tavalon]

106. He's a sociopath

And if one of his daughters was killed, the only emotion he would be able to muster is anger. That seems to be about the only one available to most sociopaths.

[Wow]

160. Where's a recruiter

I heard that recruiting numbers for the US Military were down before they eliminated the report. Perhaps Jr. should direct those folks to chat with his daughters. He's directing them to chat with all the other kids that graduated from public high schools, why not lead them towards 2 choice picks. Or, maybe he's afraid of what might happen to HIS bundles of joy.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. What a total and complete twit.

[Twist_U_Up]

13. we need some fear

break out osama

[laugle]

26. When the polls slip under 40% he will probably

start bombing IRAN!!!!

[reprobate]

43. When the polls slip under 40% expect a new terra attack.

He'll bomb new york again.

[laugle]

47. attack on terra...that's funny, is it a typo!!

sounds like the movie "gone with the wind"

[MaggieSwanson]

50. Definitions of "Terra"

1. The idiotic way that * pronounces terror

2. Incorrect spelling of Scarlet O'Hara's plantation (Tara)

3. Latin, meaning "Earth"


The "War on Terra" is truly a war on this planet...

[AuntiBush]

96. More like "Gone on a Binge" after Polls are done w/him.

[Gay Green]

139. He'll be underneath his desk...

...with the Oval Office rug littered with beaucoup des bottles of vodka, courtesy of Vladimir Putin, a man * can trust. LOL

[reprobate]

172. Not a typo. Every breath * takes is an attack on the earth.

[dchill]

69. start bombing IRAN!!!!

Or, you know, NYC ...

[fortyfeetunder]

175. Porter Goss is hyping up about knowing OBL' s location

So finding OBL is due to raise the percentages just a little bit.

[laugle]

15. The only thing people want to hear is;

"the war is OVER" Bush reading one of his stupid speeches will not change the disaster he has caused. I can hear it already; "the Iraq war is a matter of our national security, it will make us safer" haven't we already heard that lie!!!!!!!

[stillcool]

16. ...and who is going to listen to his pile of....

horseshit? Poster above is correct...he will only provide more fodder for the fire thats' going to burn his ass.

[buff2]

17. Awwww,gee.....

:nopity: :cry:

[maddezmom]

18. got to love the dig at cheney

despite a claim by Dick Cheney, the vice-president, that the insurgency was in its “last throes”.

[MO_Dem]

39. What was the name of Saddam's press secretary?

They made so much of him for going out and telling the press that everything was okay. Sorta makes ya wonder if he might be working in the WH now, huh?

[maddezmom]

42. Baghdad Bob

:D

[MO_Dem]

45. Thanks! Now WE have

Baghdad Dick and Baghdad Georgie and Baghdad Condi and Baghdad Rumsfeld. I can't wait to hear the Sabbath Gasbags start calling them that.

[Jackpine Radical]

56. When Shrubbie does it, it's Baghdad Boob.

[Dover]

20. Isn't this what alcoholics do when a spouse or friend accuses them

being drunk? Denial, turn it around to make the other feel guilty for questioning them?

[maddezmom]

24. yes and then go on to lie again: Bush connecting 9/11 and Iraq

* seems to be the one "in the last throes".

[CBHagman]

63. Google "dry drunk" and see what comes up first.

Many of us believe that Bush is a dry drunk. In other words, he is an alcoholic who gave up drinking but did not go through recovery. No matter what kind of an addict a person is, recovery is for the rest of his/her life. Bush is obviously following dysfunctional patterns of behavior (e.g., lying, manipulating, doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result). He's also clearly very immature spiritually (look at his rigidity, which is manifested in various ways).

Someday the country will look back on this episode in disbelief -- that is, if this country survives it. Bush could easily cause the U.S. to lose its superpower status. In fact, I think he's almost assured it.

[laugle]

74. My husband says the same thing,

he went through the whole rehab program and has been sober 17 years now. Bush is a psychotic dry drunk. His maturity level has not progressed beyond the age he became a drunk.

[babylonsister]

76. That doesn't explain the rest of the cabal of Shrubbie.

He's 'their puppet'!

[Conservativesux]

113. What about the pictures of * drunk at the 1992 wedding and his little

accident with the pretzel hitting his head?

I dont believe * is a recovered alcoholic for one minute.

[laugle]

114. I always suspected he goes to crawford to

go on a binge!!!! We all know he isn't working. And those longggggggggggggg holidays!

[Gay Green]

140. He's NOT a recovered alcoholic!

And I don't believe he's a dry drunk, either.

[Martin Eden]

122. Idiot or Liar?

Idiot or Liar? Either Way, Bush is Unfit for Office

by John V. Whitbeck

JEDDAH, 19 August 2003 — On July 25, President George W. Bush made a truly staggering statement to the press after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: “The fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in. And therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region.”
<snip>

Explanation 1: The president of the United States believed what he said. In this case, he is so dim-witted and/or totally divorced from reality as to be mentally unfit to hold his current job — or, indeed, any job — and should be taken into medical care.

Explanation 2: The president did not believe what he said but, rather, believes (unfortunately not without compelling post-Sept.11 evidence) that the vast majority of the American people are so dim-witted and/or uninformed and the vast majority of the American media is so sycophantic and/or terrified of being branded “unpatriotic” (or simply losing White House “access”) that he can now tell any lie, no matter how obvious and outrageous, and get away with it. In this case, he is morally unfit to hold his current job and should, by constitutional means, be forced to relinquish it as soon as possible.
<snip>

When a single individual combines ignorance, immorality, dry-drunk syndrome, a publicly proclaimed commitment to perpetual military domination of the entire world by his country, a publicly expressed belief that God personally instructs him to make war on specific countries and a wildly irrational born-again brand of Christianity that views the Battle of Armageddon and the consequent end of life on earth as desirable developments and, at the same time, has command authority over an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction more than sufficient to achieve the end of life on earth, it is difficult to argue that this individual is not the most dangerous person who has ever lived.

When (if ever) will the American people wake up to the real threat facing America and the world?
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=30536&d=19&m=8&y=2003

[lolly]

157. Many of us believe he isn't even dry

In Dec 2000, when he made his "acceptance speech," my first thought on hearing him speak was "Oh my G-d, he's DRUNK!"

I seriously think he's either seriously binge drinking, or taking some sort of mind-altering medication regularly.

[tavalon]

107. Yes

Bush never got treatment for his addictions (finding God is only one part of treatment, not the be all and end all) so he has continued the patterns. Until this last election, I was calling him a dry drunk, which is an AA term for an unrecovered alcoholic who doesn't actually imbibe but still has all of the symptoms of soul sickness.

I've stopped calling him a dry drunk because I saw too many signs that he's wet again.

Either way, an unrecovered alcoholic has his finger on the red button. If you really think about it, it is really, really scary.

[undeterred]

22. This week I saw a clip of Condi saying we need to be generous

and patient, because democracy takes time. There there, the people just need to be reassured and reminded to be patient.

They think we're idiots.

[mike_c]

23. wait 'til they fit the pig bastard with a baggy orange jumpsuit...

...after everything he's done for America. And watch how quickly his "friends" evaporate.

[billbuckhead]

27. Bush hit the trifecta allright

Thief, traitor, war criminal.
:hangover:

[bitchkitty]

35. That will never, ever happen.

As much as I would like to see that, I think I can safely say that Chimpie will not do time.

[UTUSN]

29. Aww, Poor Little Lordling. It Just Wounds Not to Get Your Way n/t

[dweller]

30. good, then the 'piehole effect'

will kick his ratings (and likely the stock market with it) into the basement.

really what the public wants to hear now that they are slowly waking up to this cretin and his mess is how well his fantasy in Iraq is going...

:eyes:

dp

[6000eliot]

31. Hey, George! Fuck you!

It hurts me that you've killed untold numbers of people to please your rich friends. I only wish that you could really feel any pain, that you weren't pathologically unable to empathize with others. Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!

[aquart]

32. He always thinks PR is the solution.

Yet he refuses to meet ANYONE who disagrees with him. So he converts no one to his side, but steadily loses the ones actually allowed to meet and hear him. Fun.

[Cha]

33. "PR" in his little

air-tight control centers.

[bitchkitty]

34. Several speeches? The Daily Show's going to love it. n/t

[schultzee]

37. He was a cheerleader in High School and college so

all the monkey know how to do is cheer for his team.

[glitch]

38. Whistle Ass. nt

[Skittles]

40. I don't think the word WOUNDED should apply to that no-conscience bastard

HE is "wounded"? GIVE ME A BREAK.

[redwitch]

64. it's OK Skittles

It's only a flesh wound.

[stanwyck]

65. Exactly. The wounded in Walter Reed

must really appreciate hearing how "wounded" Bush is...the guy who couldn't make it through Guard training due to "other priorities" is "wounded"? His political party thought it funny to wear little purple band-aids to mock a soldier who was wounded in Viet Nam. And Bush is..."wounded"?
What an ass. What a pompous, self-indulgent ass.

[realFedUp]

44. sideline some domestic priorities in favor of new PR

I guess Rove and the Wednesday koffee klatch
will be working overtime to smear more people...

if ya ain't wit em, you're agin em. hoooyah.

[Erika]

46. Every time he makes a speech his ratings drop

So I hope he makes several.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

48. He's not wounded, but he is starting to smell something burning.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

129. His pants?

They've been on fire for a long time.

[UpInArms]

49. what a freakin' pathetic jerk - he has not attended one single funeral

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061701443_pf.html

excerpt:

But the nation's leaders are missing these somber and patriotic pageants. Members of Congress rarely attend. Top Pentagon officials do so only occasionally. And President Bush has yet to bury a fallen warrior. (emphasis mine)

(edited to add excerpt)

[KeepItReal]

51. Great strategery, just "catapult the propaganda" more!!

"Deeds Not Words"

[Vickers]

52. Wounded, huh? He finally earned one of them Band-Aid Purple Hearts

:eyes:

[truth2power]

53. I thought he didn't pay any attention to ratings. n/t

[MO_Dem]

62. Bush asks Karl:

Is 41% gooder or badder than 51% approval?

[truth2power]

77. LOL!!

:rofl:

[Gay Green]

143. PFFFFFTTT!!!!!

:spray:

[bobbieinok]

165. do you have a source/link for your signature line?????

"I will export death and violence to the four corners of the Earth in order to protect our national security." - King George

[IndianaGreen]

54. Bush's stubborness about this criminal war. and the Congressional

Republicans robot-like support of Bush, will only result in more deaths and wounded in Iraq. The outcome of the war is not in question, however, we lost!

[Gay Green]

146. And thanks to the Iraq War, we lost the War on Terror, too.

All that's left is the War on Terra. (Earth)

[OKthatsIT]

55. playing 'simpleton' is his forte...add a "boo hoo" and you get...

'pathetic simpleton'...the christian right loves that stuff. And better still...a christian turned crimnal, then comes back to the fold.

You just watch the 'pitch' of bullshit shoveled our way this year.

"Forgive me Father , for I have sinned!"

[kiraboo]

57. Call me when the wound is mortal. Until then I couldn't care less. n/t

[burrowowl]

58. Bu$hie hurt!?

Oh poor bay! I want him and his administration:
IMPEACHED!
PROSECUTED!
AND IN PRISON!

Preferrably in the New Haliburton GITMO prison, along with Haliburton and subsidies CEOs, Exxon top management, Novak, etc.
AND the current detainees freed.

[Enraged_Ape]

59. "Bush wounded"? Fuc* him up his a$$ with a big black rubber dildo...

dipped in Tabasco.

I only wish the little bastard could have even a hint of what "wounded" is all about.

[wildcat78]

72. Totally Agree

I want to stand in line to stick the dildo us his ass!

[Gay Green]

150. Totally agree also, except I'd use a sauce much hotter than Tabasco.

And I heard one can buy a two-foot-long "horse" dildo offa one o' them Innernets.

[AuntiBush]

60. World ANGER over Countless Wounded & Death of Iraq War!

Please, someone take this gang out in chains. This is pathetically sickening when we have to get our news from a "Radio Free Europe" manner, at that!

How about:

UK HEADLINE NEWS: "World Saves Americans from Bush & Adm."

AP HEADLINE NEWS: "American's Celebrate 4th of July by Thanking the World in their Efforts to Demolish America Tyranny Regime."

REUTER HEADLINES: "G.W. BUSH & HIS ADMINISTRATION ORDERED IN TO TRIBUNAL COURTS"

[Lorien]

61. Wounded? WOUNDED?????!!!

HOW ABOUT THE THOUSANDS THAT YOU'VE SLAUGHERED AND MAIMED, YOU MINDLESS, SELF CENTERED GIT!!!

[musette_sf]

66. Cry Me A Fvcking River

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[are_we_united_yet]

120. So do you feel sorry for Bush or not?

:)

[dchill]

68. Yet not wounded at all ...

for not attending even one military funeral...

[Dover]

73. Cheney has also been known to continue to repeat lies, well after

the fact. Must be a Rovian 'great idea'....continue to repeat the lie.

[jbnow]

109. Cheney is an awesome liar

So blatant and very confident and firm in his lies. During the debate he lied about facts that were public, that anyone could easily check.
Yet if you didn't know better (and too many don't) he sounds so good.

He could give lying lessons.

[Gay Green]

151. I agree

And if you spout the lies good enough, long enough, often enough and continuously enough like Cheney can, enough Sheeple will believe 'em.

[lovuian]

75. Wounded tried Impeached!!!!

:nuke:

[fooj]

78. That's the thing about bullies. They are experts at playing the victim!

:nopity:

[otohara]

79. Wounded Is Losing Your Leg

Bush still has all of his limbs, last I counted

[ailsagirl]

133. chimp's most obvious missing body part, aside from a brain, is

a heart. :puke:

[otohara]

137. He's One Cold Blooded Individual

doesn't care who dies or how many

[ailsagirl]

144. And he calls himself a CHRISTIAN

I've never heard or seen so much hypocrisy in my life!!

Well, I guess it's no surprise that there are such people
in this world, but what is surprising is that we've stood
for their BS for so long.

Collision course
:hide:

[stickdog]

80. WII: Wounded In Inaction (nt)

[Robbien]

82. Now he is wounded? Where has he been for the last three years?

Is this the first time his trusted staff has bothered to tell him that many Americans do not like him invading and occupying other countries?

[Ms. Clio]

83. Remember how he was supposed to do the EXACT SAME THING last year?

Poll: Iraq Taking Toll On Bush

NEW YORK, May 24, 2004

CBS) Growing public concern about the war in Iraq, the coming handover of power to Iraqis on June 30, and the prisoner abuse scandals there, have taken their toll on evaluations of President George W. Bush. And the last few weeks have provided no good news on the domestic front: Americans have lackluster expectations for the economy, and the new worry of rising gas prices. The President’s approval rating has dropped to a new low of 41 percent, and more than six in ten say the country is heading in the wrong direction.

There is another good reason for the President’s series of speeches on plans for Iraq, the first of which takes place tonight.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/24/opinion/polls/main619122.shtml

[AuntiBush]

98. From Same Article

"if the November election were being held today. Independent voters seem to have been especially affected. Overall, 49 percent of registered voters now say they would vote for Kerry, 41 percent for Bush."

[Gay Green]

152. The independents probably voted at least as heavily against Bush Nov. 2

But those pesky Diebold/Sequoia/ES&S/Tyler vote-stealing machines got ahold of their votes.

[rocktivity]

84. Awwww--poor Georgie's widdle feelings are hurt...

"WAAAAAHHHHH! NOBODY LIKES ME ANYMORE!"

"You HAVE to like me and anything I do--I'm the President! I'M TELLING MY DADDY ON YOU! WAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

...coalition commanders acknowledged last week they had been unpleasantly surprised by the terrorists’ ability to modify their tactics in response to US military might.
Well, who did they think they were fighting against--a bunch of undersized, ignorant rice paddy dwellers armed with not much more than sharp sticks? Uh, never mind...especially since they traded in their sharp sticks for 350 TONS of ammunition.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Gay Green]

153. See how gaunt he is in #84 photo. Does he have AIDS, Cancer, Parkinsons...

...or simply Lost Presidential Teflon Syndrome?

[ReadTomPaine]

177. Il Duce wannabe? Perhaps an "N" belongs in there...

[Javaman]

85. This is it folks, when moron* realizes...

that these latest round of speeches didn't have the effect he hoped for, be prepared for some truly weird bullshit to start hitting the fan.

He's thinking that some flowery words will make everyone lock back into step. This will truly be a side show of how out of touch he is with reality.

You think he's low in the polls now? Just wait a couple of more weeks. The sheeple are waking up, and when he dishes this latest crap, people are going to throw it back at him.

Couldn't happen to a better mother fucker*.

[CoffeeCat]

86. This is the best news I've heard all year...

I am delighted that * will be scooping out his usual buffet of crap to the American people.

This time, he'll look desperate and fake. Everyone knows this staged potpourri of lies and soundbytes is a reaction to his falling polls.

He'll look ridiculous.

People are angry. Our soldiers are dying. We spend a billion dollars a day in Iraq. We're done.

Another canned speech from the liar in chief will only insult America.

We've heard it all before. Yeah, yeah....we're "turning a corner." Or, how about when Bremer left and turned over the keys to Alawi...we were told everything was going to improve. How about the elections...we were told this would cure everything! None of it meant anything.

Finally, America does not not support the war, and they don't believe Junior's bullpuckey.

This speech will make people realize that they've been hoodwinked.

Not any more, Junior. Your failed, ill-planned war that was based on a foundation of lies--is a train wreck--and America isn't buying the snake oil anymore.

But you go ahead and make your speech. I'll thoroughly watch your ratings tank even further.

[LordshipLadyship]

88. I'll pay for the salt to go in the wound. nt

[Pachamama]

110. I'll be happy to rub it in n/t

[scottxyz]

89. Mission accomplished!

NOT!

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

90. Wounded? Iraq will turn out to be his fatal blow.

As with any tragic character, Shrub's rise was swift and his downfall will be certain and by his own hand. Good riddance, fucker...

JB

[Doctor_J]

91. Did he get drunk and fall off his golf cart?

Wounded? Did he get sunburned on his latest vacation? Choke on another pretzel?

More than 10,000 of our soldiers have been wounded. To call what's happened to * the same thing further denegrates what our troops our enduring because of his lies.

[Dervill Crow]

97. Is this getting any coverage here?

I only come to LBN and my Truthout e-mails to get news anymore. I get too pissed with the happy talk about freedom on the march and all that jazz.

[Burried News]

99. This Government has ceased functioning.

The climate is the same as the second term of the Nixon and Clinton administrations. The Republican Congressional majority is almost irrelevant. The initiative no longer resides in the GOP. Events are unfolding faster than they can deal with them. Rove's "genius" is irrelevant.

Who are the gatekeepers of events? I believe it started with the attack on Newsweek and the press' realization that it had to fight or die. And as an aside I note that Sharon is not all that happy with the pressure being applied by George to move the roadmap forward (spying trials etc.). Funny how this works. And then there are the enemies Bush has made over the 5 years, the many many many enemies.

[progressivebydesign]

100. If he was really wounded, he would be denied health care and benefits..

..like the actual Reservists FIGHTING his war. Poor choice of words on the writer's part.

[Pystoff]

101. And so continues

The perpetual campaign. Hasn't this idiot been campaigning since 1999? You'd figure he'd be sick of this by now eh?

[tavalon]

102. new public relations drive to bolster confidence in the coalition effort.

Um, coalition of the who?

Has he even noticed that his coalition partners are leaving like rats off of a sinking ship?

[cliss]

104. There is a battle raging in Washington, at this very moment.

Visualize somewhere in Washington, back-to-back meetings to try to fix the situation.

There is an odd assortment of generals, analysts, PR people, of course Karl Rove, RumsFailed and other policy makers. The topic is Iraq. There are heated discussions on how to proceed.

"What can we do?" asks one general. "We have to secure the country. That was our driving force, all along. We NEEDED Iraq, no question about it". Heads are nodding. Yes, no questions. We need Iraq, badly. No fighting on that point.

"But they can't stand seeing us there", pipes in one analyst. It's like waving a red flag at a bull. We can't continue the occupation much longer. The American public is getting tired of this. Soon, they will start rioting in the streets, and start impeachment proceedings.

The analyst looks over at Cheney, who's sitting quietly, with his fingertips over his mouth. Even Cheney know this can't continue much longer.

About 1 year ago, they understood having US soldiers in Iraq was too galling to the locals. Things were spiraling out of control in Fallouja and other cities. They reached a compromise to start training Iraqis to govern themselves, of course with the US as the ruler.

The US has been desperately trying to turn over the reins of control to Iraqi troops. But it's slow going, and US deaths are shooting through the roofs. The biggest risk is that the new troops will turn on their masters, or plot against them with insider information.

The generals figure they can do it, but they'll need another 5 years. 5 years? No way, the Americans will never go for it.

As fists slam on the table and cursing fills the air, the assembled try to figure out what to do......

.....as their treasure recedes out of their grasp......

"Plan B" was a last-ditch effort.

[AgadorSparticus]

108. The fucker does nothing while soldiers die in Iraq, but the minute we

mention poll numbers, the monkey jumps??!!?!?! ARGHHHH!!!! How I detest this cabal and what they've done to this country!!!
:nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke::nuke:

[driver8]

111. Has shrub done ONE POSITIVE THING since he has been in office?

This asshole has been our fearless leader for almost four and a half years, and he hasn't done one fucking thing for the people of this country other than his fat cat friends.

Not only that, he has got to be the laziest president we have ever had. That may be a good thing...at least when he's not working, he isn't fucking somebody over.

I cannot believe how much I hate this piece of shit.

[Dan]

112. What I would like is

(A) Confiscation of all of the Bush family assets - foreign and domestic - as the start of a restitution to the families of both Iraq and Coalition soldiers that have died in this war.

(B) Immediation extradiction of Bush and his administration to Iraq to stand (public tv) trial in a military tribunal conducted by the Iraq military, enjoying the same rights/protections enjoyed by the prisoners in our prison in Cuba.

(C). Bush and his administration could not seek protection under the Geneva Convention.

(D). For all members of the Bush administration found guilty, all of their assets and family assets would be forfeit - under the same terms as the Bush family assets.

(E). Denial of all pensions, benefits, entitlements from the US government or any corporate or business interest with ties to the American government - either directly or indiectly.

(F). Finally, those that were not executed, let them find Jesus, being poor - they would need him.

[agincourt]

115. I feel wounded

that he hasn't been thrown down a hog confinement system yet.

[DemonFighterLives]

116. I don't want to tip dubby off on strategery (his sp)

but all he has to do is bring some troops home to much fanfare and proclaim that we are exiting. The yellow magnets and flag sales will skyrocket helping the economy and his ratings will go up.

Of course for him to do that and continue fighting and occupying Iraq, many more reporters will need to die and many more bribed to keep up the facade. This gang is known for these methods already, so I guess there isn't that much new. They never say they are sorry or they made a mistake.

Mission Accomplished VI

[Crunchy Frog]

118. Bush is wounded, oh my!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

I guess we should feel as bad for him as for all those soldiers coming home missing limbs, to say nothing of the ones coming home in boxes.

[leftchick]

119. The Wounded one is STILL spewing the saddam/9/11 Bullshit!

If we had real journalists in this country someone might point it out today on the Sunday shows.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usiraqbushattacks

~snip~

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush defended the war in Iraq, telling Americans the United States was forced into war because of the September 11 terror strikes.


Bush also resisted calls for him to set a timetable for the return of thousands of US troops deployed in Iraq, saying Iraqis must be able to defend their own country before US soldiers can be pulled out.


"We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

[DoYouEverWonder]

121. It seems the Iraqis were doing a pretty good job

of maintaining order and defending their own country until we took over. Of course, they couldn't defend themselves from a super power like the US, but they did fight for almost a decade against the Iranians and they managed to maintain law and order within their own country during that time.

Get out now and let the Iraqis have their country back. They been around for 1000's of years before we got there, I'm sure if we left them alone they'll figure out how to stick around for another 1000.

[sattahipdeep]

126. Your sons and daughters are dying over a lie (Arizona republic)

Press ignoring Downing Street memo
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0619sunlets195.html

Jun. 19, 2005 12:00 AM

This is a request to The Arizona Republic and the mainstream media to report
on the Downing Street memo, the leaked classified document that seems to
have been virtually ignored by the press.

It proves that in July 2002, President Bush lied about reasons for going to war
and planned the attack of Iraq months before meeting with the United Nations
about a possible invasion.

A quote from the memo: "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military
action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence
and facts were being fixed around the policy."

It proves that the war with Iraq is a tool to help create the "Project for the
New American Century" and to gain a stronger hold on Middle East oil.

Your sons and daughters are dying over a lie, America; it's time to wake up. - Ed Younkin,
Sun City West

[malmapus]

124. I want him to be more than "wounded" by anger over war

"Wounded" does NOT begin to cover it Mr. President. I myself take some solace that if there is justice, the next life will have a special treat for you and your administration.

[symbolman]

127. Well.. he DID talk about sending a man to Mars..

So we could send him.. oops.. that wouldn't work, it has to be a MAN, tho as I recall they always sent a CHIMP out there first.. :)

What we need to do with the NeoCons is tell them (like in "Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy") that the sun is going to go Nova and that we need to get the finest minds off the planet so that the best of the best of the Human Race will survive - then load them up in a big old spaceship with a bunch of hateful stepford whores (sorta like Ann Coulter, but women that look like women) and send them off into the Universe with a big going away party..

When I first read the article I just assumed that he'd fallen off a Vaccuum Cleaner or something again, thinking it was a Segway :)

The best part of Bagdad Bush ran down his mother's leg..

[Gay Green]

154. "fallen off a Vaccuum Cleaner or something again...

"...thinking it was a Segway :)"

:spray:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[confludemocrat]

130. Sideline domestic fuckups to focus on int'l fuckups

Oooh brilliant strategy. Lets see what lies we haven't told yet and go on a 60 city tour.

[MadisonProgressive]

132. For the Bush administration - Public Relations = Spin and Lies

[Octafish]

134. BUSH SHOULD BE COURT-MARTIALED OVER WAR.

A public relations disaster?

[corbett]

135. Keys To Impeachment

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050601/the_key_to_impeachment.php

[jayctravis]

136. Oh yes, he's going to make some speeches to make it all better!

We all know how well his speechifying does to bolster morale.

[Emillereid]

149. My dream is a re-enactment of the end of the movie Z -- I dream of the

headline that says "Bush, Cheney and Gang Receive Life Sentences for War Crimes and Treason!" Hopefully to be spent in an Iraqi jail with Saddam Hussein.

[manly]

155. the last throes

Yep. The Bush Administration is in its last throes.It is starting to come apart, slowly but surely.

[jean]

158. Cindy Sheehan could teach bush the meaning of 'wounded' if he was

man enough to meet with her a face to face, on the air. She could clarify for him and the nation just what work he should be doing - and it's not PR campaigns and not SS tours.

[roguevalley]

159. poor baby. he can go to the VA and get an appt. in about 6 months

to fix his widdow boo-boo.

[bunny planet]

163. poor 'wounded' lame duck Preznit. I'll save my pity for the men,

women and children that were actually wounded, maimed and killed by his criminal policies and illegal in Iraq.

[mikita]

164. mortally? n/t

[tibbir]

166. But wait....I thought he didn't listen to polls.

[CTyankee]

169. The beginning of the end

is what we are witnessing. I hope so. I want him gone so bad. This presidency is like an abusive relationship. I can't take him any more. He must go soon, as soon as he can arrange a decent exit from the presidency.

[TheWatcher]

170. If only the word "mortally" were included

Then it would be good news for the entire planet.

[puddycat]

171. OT--I like your sig line, but unfortunately most Americans see five lights

Americans see five lights because they are told there are five lights. They are not like Picard in STNG in this regard, but rather like Winston in Orwell's 1984 (from which that Star Trek plot line in Chain of Command is derived from), who at the end of his torture does indeed see five fingers and not the four that are actually there.

[Triana]

173. I want bu$h's terrorist a** in prison...

...I don't give a damn about his 'lie tour'. We've heard them all already.

[ngGale]

174. This group of neocons are so disconnected...

no amount of PR can help them, IMO. We have soldier's dying and they still don't get it. Like I always say, this group needs some active combat or send their children. Then give it some more thought. :grr:

[Lisa]

176. it's "hard work", sending all those troops out to fight ...

Why are Americans being such ingrates? Stop ganging up on poor Georgie! There he is, putting in 16-hour weeks and working his fingers to the bone on his X-Box -- and all you can do is complain!

(sarcasm off)

[David Zephyr]

178. Watch: Bush morphs into Nixon to sell an unpopular war.

Shades of 1968-1974.

[EndElectoral]

179. Chimp was so mad, he went out and bought this!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050620/lf_afp/britainartauction