MSNBC Headline "Gruesome Day" 9 Americans killed, of course will help Bush

[ElementaryPenguin]

Footage of charred American bodies dragged through the streets and pummeled by Iraqi citizens armed with lead pipes! Five more American soldiers killed by a bomb - the more the evidence reveals that our occupation of Iraq is an unworkable nightmare - the more the evidence reveals that we had absolutely no justification for launching this illegal, preemptive war - the more the evidence reveals that Bush was incredibly negligent about preparing for a terrorist attack like 9-11 - and that it was preventable - the more the American Corporate Media Whore Machine manufactures bullshit polls and a Bush PR media blitz which demonstrates that somehow the horrible, ever worsening situation in Iraq and the allegations of Bush's incompetence - is actually HELPING HIM DRAMATICALLY in his effort to be reselected!!!

If this makes absolutely no sense, just remember that NO STORY, NO ALLEGATION, NO AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE of GROSS INCOMPETENCE, DECEIT, CORRUPTION, OR PLAIN TREASON can ever harm GEORGE W. BUSH POLITICALLY!! He has been chosen by God - or perhaps more importantly, chosen by Evil Corporate America to advance a Christian American Empire, to destroy the pesky American middle-class, and to annihilate the greedy, tax collecting, New Deal loving Federal Government - which has always been the enemy and target of Big Business!

Accordingly, the following story actually HELPS the man who got us into this infernal mess in the first place - and who seems to have no clue (or intention) of ever getting us out!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

:puke:
:mad:
:argh:

[Emboldened Chimp]

1. How much shit did Clinton get for bodies being dragged in Somalia?

Yeah, we all know the answer. And THAT situation was created by Poppy. How much crap will Junior get for his mess that he created? How much will Clinton get...?

[jpak]

6. I remember the headlines the day after the Mogadishu battle...

"Republicans Say Somalia Worse Than Vietnam"

The silence from the GOP today is deafening...

[bobbieinok]

40. and when 20+ US soldiers were killed in Saudi Arabia - 'fire the commander

I don't remember ONE reference from media or congress or WH at the time to the 200+ Marines killed in Lebanon under Reagan

[David Dunham]

2. No. Bad news in Iraq hurts Bush. Bombings elsewhere help him.

[aquart]

3. Why would you think that?

Looks like a botched mess to me.

[David Dunham]

10. The public blames Bush if there are Iraq problems. He got us into it..

[worldgonekrazy]

20. Especially now that the public is beginning to understand the lies

"Terrorism" was a ruse to get us into war in Iraq. As long as more stories keep coming out that the Bush Admin had planned this war long before 9/11, people will eventually make the connection.

[ElementaryPenguin]

34. "People will eventually make the connection"

You would THINK! And yet - perhaps they actually cannot unless their television tells them so!

[ElementaryPenguin]

38. Not according to the mainstream press! The people love him.

The more death and destruction he causes - the stronger his support gets!

[ElementaryPenguin]

22. Looks like a botched mess to me, too - but EVERTHING helps Bush!

This is what the corporate driven polls have explained to us fools (the people/a.k.a. peasants of this country)!

[Cocoa]

4. those people are not terrorists

how will they explain this? Saddam loyalists?

[leftchick]

7. That is exactly what I heard a military spokesperson say...

Kimmett I believe, on MSRNC this morning... :eyes:

[ElementaryPenguin]

39. EVERYONE who opposes Bush is a terrorist! Especially liberals!

Chimpco's Bottom line!

[nostamj]

21. actually Cocoa, they did!

I saw a press conference with some sub-Bremer drone out of Iraq and he said it was:

people who wanted to return the country to the torture and murder of the Ba'athists...

[terisel]

5. How do you think it helps Bush? n/t

[ElementaryPenguin]

23. Any way the Corporate Media wants to spin it!

:shrug:

[xchrom]

8. you nailed it.

but these forces are in control right now no matter what.
repukes in power{i.e. corporate facists} and we know who they are -- dems in power more subtle.
right now{relatively speaking} getting public financing back on the front burner can help. it's not a solution but it's a battle that can be won.
the new liberal radio that's on can also help a great deal.
we need the exposes a media outlet like that can get out.

[ElementaryPenguin]

24. thanks. I would prefer to be totally wrong though.

:shrug:

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

9. Half this country gave it's soul to the devil

and now they want 4 more years.

4 more years while the right wing mandates over everything we deem unfair, the very people who pay their wages!

They ask for our taxes but they resist raising minimum wage (even refusing to vote for it! for politics sake)

We implore for affordable health care, instead they give the drug companies higher profits!

We ask for an alternative energy, they send our blood as exchange for Saudi oil!

The GOP is not cutting it, it's time we got our half back!

[JeebusH]

14. "Half this country gave it's soul to the devil" ....

these morans should be asking for it back, but they're getting fucked in the deal too

[ElementaryPenguin]

26. True - but no one (other than students of PNAC) could have known to what

Extent! I hated Chimpco well before they were in power - but even I never dreamed they could be this horribly evil!! I naively believed a Nazi ruling party could never materialize here!

[mainer]

11. I am feeling very pessimistic

A week after the Richard Clarke testimony, it appears the polls show Bush has simply solidified his support. I don't get it, and I never will get it. The American people are deaf, dumb, and determinedly ignoring the facts. I was at breakfast today with some acquaintances, and one of them tried to talk another into reading the Clarke book. Her answer: "I don't need to read that man's lies. I already know the truth." (Probably from Fox news.) Mind you, this is a well-educated graduate of Smith College!

I'm getting this sick, sinking feeling about November.

[lindashaw]

13. I get the same feeling. My friends and I look at each other and say,

"It's not going to happen. We're stuck with this another four years." But we can't give up. Might as well hope than sit around feeling so desperate. But then, how can truth win against a lie? I haven't seen it happen very often. Sorry to be so pessimistic. *sigh*

[prolesunited]

16. She knows the truth

without even considering all sides? :wtf: Perhaps you can appeal to her through logic and reason. I at least listen to the RW spew before dismissing it.

[TheFarseer]

18. I think you are right

legitimate criticism and even damning evidence is being written off as mean-spirited political attacks and lies. How did it come to this? Bush is completely bulletproof.

[hatrack]

12. "Clearly, Wolf, these 9 deaths will increase Kerry's negative ratings!"

"Yes, that's right Candy - John Kerry can run from his responsibility for these deaths, but he can't hide - and there's going to be an electoral price to pay come November.

We take you now to Los Angeles, where we understand a potential juror in the upcoming Michael Jackson trial has sneezed, alarming our legal experts."

[Jane Austin]

15. Is this a real quote?

Thanks.

[hatrack]

19. OH no, I made it up - but it doesn't sound TOO off the mark, does it?

The fact that you had to check says pretty much all that needs to be sound about current "journalists". ;-(

[Jane Austin]

25. And this administration! (eom)

[ElementaryPenguin]

28. What does that tell if you suspect it might be authentic???

WE ARE TOTALLY FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:argh:

[papau]

17. LOL - :-) - so what did Bill offer as analysis to start the conversation?

:-)

[ElementaryPenguin]

27. Right on, hat - I can hear it precisely as you have transcribed!

:puke:

[CBHagman]

29. I'm going to write congressional leadership (and others)

...and ask why the administration isn't correcting its incompetence and wishful thinking regarding this. Come on! They screwed up the whole postwar situation (looting, WMD, etc.) and the prewar. They ignored General Shinseki's counsel on sending MORE troops in, not fewer, and look at the ugly price we're paying.

And let's not get into the "they'll greet us as liberators" crap...

Maybe if the Senate Armed Services Committee hears from 30 of us, they'll start to take notice...

[ElementaryPenguin]

32. Good plan! We CANNOT give up!

If we do, we are surely DOOMED!!

[BabsSong]

30. Iraq is the gift that just keeps giving to Bush--don't you understand the

mind of this public??? The more violence and death the better. To Amurekans it's "foreign rag heads" doing evil things. That means we should kill more of the sons of bitches....let them bleed, baby, bleed 'cause it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling while you watch the Final Four. It makes you so proud that our guys are over their fighting (no one wants to admit it's because the Iraqis hate our guts or that this is a mess). It makes those flags wave more and those charges of "shut your filthy liberal mouth while our boys are dying". Maybe if they had opened their stupid fucking minds a year ago, our boys wouldn't even been there. Either way Iraq goes it's a big A+ for Bush on the "love ya' baby meter". This won't change until we suffer here at home a lot more than we are; then they start thinking about their own pathetic lives.

[ElementaryPenguin]

37. Very astute post, babe!

Unfortunately, I believe you are correct.

[watercolors]

31. I don't get that sense of it helping

Came to class today and everyone was upset by the amount of deaths today.All I heard is we need to get rid of bush, send him packing to texas and many more derogative remarks. This is an adult class I teach, ages form 55 on up. I have not had anyone support the shrub in months. I have 45-50 students aweek. I'm in central Fl too! Don't give in to those feeling, we can and are going to win our country back. We all have to get out and work for the cause, not sit and bemoan he might win again!

[ElementaryPenguin]

35. You heard "get rid of Bush" in your classroom - but you won't hear it on

TV - and, apparently, in this nation today - that's ALL that matters!

[tom_paine]

33. My God, those poor soldiers. Sent to die for a lie

Worse, sent as part of an overall plan to destroy the Old American Republic that they signed up to defend.

George Bush and his Filthy Father should get rooms down the hall from Hitler and Stalin in hell.

(makes one hope for the Judeo-Xtian afterlife being true, doesn't it, just to see the Bushes and their Monstrous Stooges fry like hot bacon--I'd gladly do my time for Non-Belief if I knew Hitler, Stalin, Marcos, Bush, and Cheney were getting their Just Desserts)

[ElementaryPenguin]

36. My sentiments exactly, TP!

:argh:
:mad:
:puke:

[VOX]

41. "Mission Accomplished" my a**!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4551230/
At least the msnbc story above includes the following info:
<snip>
In all, at least 597 U.S. troops have died in Iraq since the war began March 20, 2003. Of the total, 459 have died since May 1, when Bush flew onto an aircraft carrier off the California coast to declare the end of major combat.
<snip>