First Lady: I Want to Go to Afghanistan

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON — Just three days after President Bush returned from a surprise trip to Baghdad, his wife Laura Bush (search) disclosed that she is considering a trip to Afghanistan next spring.

She said: "I'd really like to go. I hope I'll have a chance."

Her statement caught her aides by surprise, but it wasn't the first time that Mrs. Bush had disclosed a secret. She announced that the president would make a state visit to Britain long before it was announced officially.

The first lady made the comment as she was discussing the president's trip to Baghdad last week, in which he served Thanksgiving dinner to U.S. troops at Baghdad airport and met with Iraqi officials during a two-and-a-half-hour stay.

Mrs. Bush says her husband called from Air Force One (search) not long after takeoff from Baghdad and told her -- in her words -- "how sweet it was."

She said that she was sorry that she didn't get to go with the president, and would like to visit Iraq and Afghanistan in the future.

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[roguevalley]

1. Good. Go. Stay.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. And take your husband with you.

And good riddance to the both of you.

[cthrumatrix]

13. I agree ...go...leave now....tonight

[matcom]

2. hey Laura, JUST ASK HILLARY!!

she will tell you ALL about it!

PUTZ!

[Ripley]

4. You know an ex-First Lady with a brain just went to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Who is stopping you Laura?

Oh yeah, the King and Queen of Wacko World are too paranoid that some evil-doer will get them. :crazy:

Chickenhawks every one of em.

[La_Serpiente]

5. Is Laura getting a little jealous?

Nah, I don't think so, but it is interesting that she would want to go to Afghanistan right after Hillary went.

[Drifter]

6. Americans: We want her to go too . (n/t)

.

[truthspeaker]

7. why?

Can't she get prescription opiates in the US?

[buff2]

8. Awww,Gee........

Isn't Ms. Frump getting enough attention? I hope she goes and doesn't come back. She needs to take her uneducated little mental midget with her,too. If they love this country like they claim to,then they ought to do the honorable thing and remove themselves from it. Our country would be so much better off without those two hypocrite idiots.

[PaDUer]

16. This gets better

all the time! Oh please!!

[Bronco69]

9. Go to Afghanistan

and take your husband with you. Nobody wants that sorry piece of crap here either.

[goforit]

44. Yah...and Bring your blue carpa too!

Maybe your daughters would enjoy it as well.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. If she gets the chance?

Well gee, as a do nothing first lady, I would imagine she must have a very busy schedule. You know, sweep the porch, put on makeup, sweep the porch, walk the dogs, sweep the porch... I just can't see how the heck she'll ever find the time.

[Sideways]

15. Oh Yes She Must Take Her Rag Tag Wardrobe To Iraq So They Can Use The Rags

To mop up the mess hubby AKA MisterMcCoddyILostMyWMDAndWhereIsMy DICK has made.

Marianne are you here? The frump-o-lump is getting cheeky. Please check in to smack her down.

[FredScuttle]

11. This sounds vaguely familiar....

"Waaaaaa! Riiiiiicky! I want to go to Afghanistan too!!! Waaaaaaa!"

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. But, the real question is...

will she be appropiately dressed in a new tailor-made polyester burqa?

[opihimoimoi]

17. Is Afghanistan the new IN Tourist Destination Spot??? And she wanna

be first?

Wanna get first choice on those rugs?

Or Drugs?

What else is there to see? Mountains?? We got those in Colorado.

Yeti? Thems in Nepal.

Oh well, jus go spend $756968676455243.09 of taxpayers moolah

[SemperEadem]

41. just in time to welcome the Taliban back into power

since her husband's administration pretty much dropped Afghanistan off on the side of the road while they went after Saddam, the Taliban has been growing back, unchecked, in Afghanistan... and for that to happen means that Bush wasted our troop and our money by going there and not finishing what he went there to do---like father, like son.

[54anickel]

14. Anyone taking a collection for a one-way ticket? I'll toss in a buck .

[JailBush]

18. Where's Michael Jackson going?

George W. Bush > Iraq
Laura Bush > Afghanistan
Michael Jackson > Swaziland?

[NNN0LHI]

19. The last time Pickles went to Afghanistan she only got as far as Paris...

...and then did a radio show for the Afghan women. Even though there were no Afghan women with radios.

Don

[Zhade]

20. Please do. Just watch out for the warlords your husband hired.

And stay away from Poppy's poppies.

Idiot.

[leetrisck]

21. "Her aides caught by surprise"

I hardly think so - I read this more than 2 months ago. Think she wants to have her picture taken in front of the "Laura Bush Medical Clinic" in Afghanistan - you know the one our kids sent all the one dollars for during the anthrax scare.

[Benhurst]

22. Poor Pickles! She was probably sloshed when she said that. n/t

[NNN0LHI]

23. Here Pickles. This is how a real U.S. first lady does it

U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton surrounded by refugees

[Voltaire99]

38. I'm not as sanguine as you towards Hillary

Hillary eagerly voted for war in Afghanistan and Iraq. When not posing for photo ops, she's done her share to help create refugees.

I quite agree that Laura Bush is a farce. But why ennoble Hillary when she doesn't deserve it? While attacking the opposition we can at least be honest about what Hillary stands for in foreign policy- whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, or on the West Bank. Her uncritical support for US policy has helped bring considerable suffering to the civilian targets of the US and Israeli militaries.

In other respects - particularly her early legal work and later efforts for health care - I admire her public policy. But where foreign policy is concerned, she's a big disappointment: just another willing servant of empire.

[NNN0LHI]

40. The wing nuts thank you n/t

[jmm]

24. When she's willing to send her daughters

to fight in Afghanistan or Iraq that'll be newsworthy but this is just a faux "news" puff-piece.

[GainesT1958]

25. Well at least LAURA knows...

Where the REAL enemy is! :eyes:

B-)

[salin]

26. Tepid words from the woman who more than a year ago...

"took on the cause of the women of Afghanistan" - and after the PR moment was over, never uttered another word about them.

edit: Maybe she would be interested in reading this as part of her preparation for a trip: http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/ai-women2.htm

[Drifter]

27. How could she possibly ...

handle not smoking for nearly half a day.

I hope this piece of shit is not ruining the interior of AF1.

Anyone know if the "No Smoking" air ban is in force on AF1, or any other official flight?

I have heard that Pickles smokes constantly, and does not allow the media to film/photograph her when she is smoking.

Cheers
Drifter

[hyphenate]

28. Yep

She should go. She's nothing but a drugged out do-nothing, who is jealous because Hillary Clinton has a bigger brain than her husband's dick, and more courage than the lot of the chickenhawks put together.

[smirkymonkey]

29. Runnin' low on Opiates....

got to get to the source!

[MaineDem]

30. "How sweet it was"???

Oh please! That's disgusting. It was probably many things but how could a trip to Iraq be sweet? I don't talk Texan but gimme a break!

I read this a few months ago, too. And I remember her "fight" for the Afghan women, as well. I don't believe a thing this Stepford wife or her husband's handlers put out.

[DoYouEverWonder]

32. I saw her on TV the afternoon of 9-11

She was so out of touch with reality it was scary. She was supposed to make a statement in order to reasure the American people and instead she looked and sounded like some airhead who forgot to wear her shoulder pads that day. It seemed that the fact that 1000's of Americans were laying under tons of rubble formerly known as the WTC hadn't sunk into her beautiful mind.

[saskatoon]

36. beautiful mind? you mean like Barbara

"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you suppose?
Oh, I mean, it's, not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
-- Barbara Bush

[leftofthedial]

31. she said she already has that drapery/upholstery outfit thingy

to wear.

[0007]

33. Did Laura go to the funeral of that guy she whacked with her car?

[AndyTiedye]

35. Send the Both To Afghanistan

They should paint "Bring Em On" On their plane.

[kaybea]

34. Ha ha! Here's something worth deriding her for...

rather than her poor taste in clothes. Derivative, unimaginative follower of Hillary Clinton. It wouldn't have crossed her mind to go there if not for the unspoken comparison to Senator Clinton's visit.

Maybe Laura could put together a book symposium and then cancel it when the authors point out the lack of female advancement in Afghanistan. You know, just so she doesn't alienate the Promise-Keeper vote.

[Myra]

37. Yes, by all means Pickles, *go*

And be sure to attend an authentic Afghan wedding
while you're there.

[demgrrrll]

39. These folks wanted to knock Hillary off the news of the day and chose

to do so by mentioning that LB "wants to go to Afghanistan"
Judy Woodruff helped out by reporting the "story"
on CNN. These folks don't go to the bathroom without a plan.
They make my gums bleed.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

42. Does she want to run for Senate too?

too bad for pickles people have to actually like you to get elected.

[Malva Zebrina]

43. Well, I actually do not know what to say about this abomination of a

chained woman. Is it not time to be whipped into submission, be silenced and be relegated to the pits? How dare you all say anything about the sweet little darling,defenseless and vapid Laura! That's the pits and that simply is not fair to the pitiful princess of the pitiful twins--She needs to be protected at all costs, according to some because, well because, it is the pits to criticize a dump o lump o frump who has millions of dollars and could care less what she looks like--she is really the pits.

Now, let us be realistic-Laura is jealous of Hillary? Well maybe, but I rather think that someone in the White House has decided that Laura must compete with Hillary at all costs. She is stressed because of it, as I think she probably knows she has been upstaged and is not on the same intellectual level as Hillary.

She is neither qualified nor does she have the brain power to compete with HIllary. Further, she is not a senator who sits on committees and has a constiuency--all Laura is is a Stepford floppy who has just floated along, satisfied with the wealth she has married into because she can travel, shop and eat at will wherever she wants--and she knows it, and she is pathetic, having chosen this life for herself. Hillary has a perfect reason to go to visit Afganistan and Iraq. She is a duly elected Senator who has a brain and who is savvy and smart. Laura is trying to make it up to the level of HIllary, but all she can do is weakly follow what she is told to do by her husband's handlers. What a pathetic piece of crap.
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Now, I would like to know what happened to all of those Afganistan women that Laura told to sew for the three million children in Afganistan who needed uniforms to go to school. Why do we never get reports back on how this Laura initiative is going. She sent (not really her) 200 sewing machines to women in Afganistan, so they could sew school uniforms for the children--and, horrors, look at the pattern of the uniform these poor children were to wear--I am not surprised, if Laura was the one who decided upon it's pattern



Ugh--it is total subordination of the spirit of childrenhood, dressing them in this awful garment. Laura managed to force others into her dowdy look, but this time it was the little children.

Yup, she left them to themselves--all sort of corporate contributions were made to Afgansitan to facilitate the children going back to school.

But,have they? Why do we not get back a report on how this Laura initiative is progressing. Are the women really sitting down sewing school uniforms out of this depressingly, dank fabric?

The frump wants to go to Afganistan because another women, a woman who has some sense of responsibility, has gone there in her roll as a senator, and the frump is being ordered to give this senator some competition. Laura will be far out of her league to compete with Hillary. All we will see, if the frump does go, is more photo ops and no substance. She is vapid, lacking intelligence and the will to do anything at all except that which she is ordered to do.

[xray s]

45. I have a better idea

Tell the twins to enlist in the Army and go to Iraq.

They need some help over there. Some idiot has them way overextended.

[realFedUp]

46. Springtime in Kabul....

can visualize all those veils falling away...

[remfan]

47. Statement caught her aides by surprise?

Riiiight. Sure it did.

[henslee]

48. why go? fake a trip like your hubbie!!!!!!!!

[bobbyboucher]

49. Slap a rifle in her hands

and send her over.

[Piperay]

50. GO Laura and

don't let the door hit your ass on the way out and don't come back either. :silly:

[Dr Fate]

51. I dont think they will let her bring her Valiums across the border...

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