Maybe this horrific tsunami has given us the excuse we need

[mtnsnake]

to end the occupation of Iraq, stop the war, take the troops out FOREVER, and put them in the tsunami-devastated areas where they can do some REAL good. Not that the chimp would ever admit he was wrong about Iraq, but what an opportunity this could be...to stand up like men, admit our mistake, address the main priority of the world right now, and send our soldiers where they can help keep people alive instead of killing them. If that were to happen, I'd paste my car with those yellow magnetic stickers.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. "Us" who? Did you forget who is running our country?

[mtnsnake]

2. That's why I prefaced my second sentence with

"Not that the chimp would ever admit he was wrong about Iraq...."

[demnan]

3. I'm not part of the "we" anymore when you talk about this country

n/t

[sam sarrha]

4. Instead of unifying the world, Bu$h turned the recovery into a bitch fight

That F'n Moron has the Fecal touch. whatever it is, if he gets involved, he f's it up.

He is a divider NOT a unifier..

his wet brain alcoholism has effected his social skills..

his hostility for his father oozes out like puss from a festered abscess and poisons everything he touches.

and he will never be half the man his father was..

..and his father had the crew of his plane bail out over a Japanese island in WWII where it was certain they would be tortured to death.. he continued on and was saved. The plane was STILL FLYING. the plane was very capable of ditching at sea..if it did quit down the line toward safety. his father showed despicable judgment, cowardice in crisis, he paniced and killed his crew.. then survived to become a hero. now his son is doing the same thing.. only he has the handicap of being brain damaged from alcoholism and cocaine use.
but apple didn't fall far from the tree.. and it was a bad apple to begin with.

it is becoming apparent tho that the media is realizing that they may have crossed the line where the viewers are beginning to realize that the media is complicit in the incompetence they are covering up and will turn on him to save themselves from being seen as also part of the problem. but they are still lapdogs. and will simply just quit supporting him not actually tell the truth..there is a difference

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. small problem with that...

our military helicopters that are there for the rescue ops are getting shot at by some of the villagers, who think they are being invaded.

[LynnTheDem]

6. GEEEZ that hurts...

That people would see us and assume we're INVADING them!

AMERICA DOESN'T DO INVASIONS!!!

That would be a WAR OF AGGRESSION and that's what Germany did to Poland and what the Nuremburg Tribunal called the "supreme crime"!

We're NOT THAT KIND of a country!

*sob*

We weren't that kind of a country... :cry:

[riverwalker]

8. end that meme

Those "villagers" are on an island, and are a stone age tribe that is nearly extinct. They have survived ONLY because the world leaves them alone. They know this. They threw spears at the helicoptor to express "we don't need you, we are ok". Anthropologists are relieved because they feared they were wiped out.
Someday these tribes may be the only survivors to rescue us.

[LynnTheDem]

9. Really?

Honest?

Finally...some GOOD news, then! That bloody HURT thinking what I was thinking! Thanks :)

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Do you have a link for that information?

I have been following the rescue effort quite closely and haven't seen that.

Thanks.

[bobbobbins]

7. Or maybe its the excuse we need to invade Syria!

[shadowknows69]

10. it would be the perfect out.

In my ideal world our President calls a press conference and it goes a little something like this:


"my fellow Americans. In light of the incredible devastation that mother nature wrought upon southeast asia in weeks past we have come to the realization that this disaster is the most pressing problem facing mankind at this moment in time. Therefore we have determined that we have no more time or resources to devote to the folly of war and attempting to usher democracy to nations that inevitibly must learn to rule themselves, by themselves. I am ordering the full withdrawal of our troops from Iraq to free up manpower and monetary resources so the US may be a leader in the reconstruction of the affected areas of the recent tsunami. We will also contine to support a new democratically elected Iraqi government if one emerges and we will regardless continue any and all humanitarian aid needed to areas of Iraq affected by the war. America will prove to the world that we are a beacon of light and hope to our global community and we hope that this horrible disaster will somehow finally bring mankind together as one world and one humanity. Thank you and God bless America."

That's how a real leader would do it anyway IMO

[mtnsnake]

14. "my fellow Americans. In light of...."

Well said, Shadow.

Wouldn't it be nice if the right thing was done. The timing couldn't be any better.

[CherokeeDem]

11. Wish That Would Happen...

...but not with these neocons'. They are only looking at this tragic event as is a PR opportunity to prove to the world what a great compassionate nation we are and they had to bring Clinton in to make their case.

Robert Steinbeck wrote in the Miami Herald today:

" News that the Southeast Asian earthquake and tsunami have killed 140,000 people stirs the compassion in us, but estimates that the war our nation started in Iraq might have caused an equal number of casualties inspires little more than a shrug of self-righteousness from many of us.

The tens of thousands of deaths we couldn't prevent sadden us, but the tens of thousands we needlessly caused don't? Is death more tragic when God or nature brings it about, but less so when we do it ourselves?"

(Rest of editorial at this link...you have to register for the Herald.)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/columnists/robert_steinback/10567526.htm?1c

He goes on to talk about all the people killed in the Sudan and other African nations and how no one seems to care about that. The sheer magnitude of the tsunami forces the Bushies to do something but only to make them look good. There could never be a natural disaster bad enough to accomplish that.

Debbie
Miami

[damntexdem]

13. More likely, the Bushistas will use it to ...

try to tell: all of those Indian-Ocean nations how to run their countries, the UN how to run relief efforts, and the world that American troops will be visiting them all under one rubric or another.