The gloating is insane

[Cocoa]

literally insane. Mass mental problems in this country, especially on TV.

Iraq is worse than it has ever been.

The insurgents just shot down their first plane, and two helicopters in the past few days, $9 billion is missing, and there were prison riots today where four inmates were shot dead.

That prison riot scene was undoubtedly hellish, wait til we start hearing some accounts of what it was like.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. Well, they are looking desparately for the lipstick for the pig

so I can understand it. Let them delude themselves a bit before reality sets back in.

[Sandpiper]

2. Another Touchdown Dance at the 20 yard line

Is the best description I've heard.

3 Marines were killed just today, and January has been the third bloodiest month of the occupation.

Nothing has changed on the ground and yet the Repukes are acting as though everything has changed.

It's not like they haven't done this before though.

[theresistance]

3. January was one of the worst months

ever for attacks and violence, although you wouldn't know it by listening to the MSM. US forces must have stayed low judging by what would have been a lowering of casualties if it wasn't for that helicopter crash. The elections are irrelevant in terms of the resistance to occupation. In fact they are right back to business with the plane shoot down...

[Alpharetta]

7. the additional Abu Ghraib pics this month

More prison torture pictures came out.

Congress approved appointments for those who backed the torture.

A devastating setback for America's image in the world.

January was a collosal failure.

[Rick Myers]

4. Somone better tell that British C-130 crew

that things are going great!!! :grr:

[The_Anchorman]

21. God bless the C-130 crew

May they rest in peace.

[Stirk]

5. These people have been living with extreme congnitive dissonance

for so long now, that they'll seize onto anything. Look at how desperately they promoted those stupid "sarin gas" shells, which ended being nothing. Or the weather balloon trucks. Or the buried "centrifuge".

Look how they they strained to dismiss Abu Ghraib, war profiteering by US corporations, etc.

For two years now they've been making the thinnest excuses for the greatest of crimes. They think that these elections are a get of jail free card- an after-the-fact justification for all that came before it. You bet they'll milk it. These sham elections are literally their greatest success. It's pathetic.

[Blue Gardener]

6. Everything Bush* touches turns to shit

I'm sure the election will be no different. It shouldn't take long before the truth starts to come out.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. American Media is FACIST!

[Stirk]

9. This is also about giving Bush his illusional "mandate" before the SotU.

The crooks are licking their chops and dreaming of privatized Social Security. This little mediorgasm is a nice lead-in to the State of the Union address, and then Bush can use his "mandate" to dismantle Social Security.

[DalvaThree]

10. thank god I don't have cable anymore

[trochanter8]

11. it's to be

expected. Let them have fun.

[cliss]

12. You're absolutely right, Cocoa.

This gloating is truly insane. I was going to start a thread and entitle it, "Why is Bush so bloated? We're broke".

This gloating is beyond belief. But ------ look a little closer. If you look closely, you can see beads of sweat building on their foreheads. See the desperation in their eyes....the twitchy trigger finger as the world realizes what's going on.....

Imagine all the meetings that are taking place right now, far from the prying eyes of the public or the press. Visualize fists being slammed into tables, cursing, red faces, as the unreal becomes real.

...more and more leaders are hip to what's really going on with the US. And it's the death dance. The desperate struggle to stay afloat, grasping at straws, as the ship sinks.........

[Cocoa]

13. the purple fingers shows they've gone over the edge

they know not what they do.

Is it true that some republican showed up on "Crossfire" with his finger dyed? He actually sent his people out to get him some purple dye? Didn't his people tell him to stop, maybe take a vacation?

[Rapcw]

14. I had heard that too n/t

[natrat]

17. gorbachov the only one calling it like it is

[flordehinojos]

15. that is why this afternoon my t.v. schedule looked like this,

It consisted of surfing and changing channels between,
Paula Deen's Home Cooking,
The Ellen Degeneres Show,
Mystic Pizza
Everyday Italian with Giada ?????

a brief look at the local news for a glimpse of the weather

and on to feed the dogs, check the e-mail, and surf the web.

I can't listen to the gloating, the lying, the propaganda.

[TrustingDog]

16. Christiana and Anderson were slipping around

in their own slobbering, gushing joyfulness over how well the election went and how bloody Great! things are in Iraq but I sensed desparation and false gaiety - I could Hardly stomach it.

I did have some bit of respect for Amanpoure but that flew out the window yesterday. What a friggen DITZ.

[maxsolomon]

18. they have to believe.

their sanity & self-respect depends on it. any scrap of validation turns into irrefutable proof of the righteousness of their cause. those troops had to have died for something or god does not exist. its that stark of a choice.

willful delusion in the service of an unsustainable, doomed lifestyle.

[KharmaTrain]

19. False Complacency

The bullshit being fed by the corporate media is this election is so important with the implication this is the beginning of the end of this Iraqi invasion. Somehow it's being framed that this is the start of the happy ending, not the latest mis-step in a continuing nightmare and quagmire.

Sheeple now are being led to think we'll be winding down our involvement and somehow the "insurgents (like some monolith, nation-state army) was vanquished. Doesn't anyone in the media bother to read a history book to see how absolutely destructive this mindset is for both the conquered and the "conqueror".

The "insurgents" weren't vanquished, they just took the day off. Note to the any so-called journalists: these people live in that country...they have more to fight for than we do and aren't going anywhere. They'll bleed us dry and wear us down. The only question is how long will it take for this to finally destroy whatever sanity we have left in this country...then a meltdown.

In '68, sheeple thought we were doing all good and no wrong in Vietnam...then came Tet. Sadly, we're due for another one before this nation wakes up.

[Cocoa]

20. they didn't even take the day off

they shot down a freaking plane.

[KharmaTrain]

23. The Day Off In Our Media, Cocoa

I stumbled on the "G" (or I say Con) Man this afternoon. Would you believe these assholes thought our media was spending too much time reporting about the insurgency yesterday.

The media is still trying to claim those copters were "mechanical" as that would mean less...that our incompetence is far more acceptable in losing live than if the thing was shot down. But you know that area has to be flooded with RPGs and small anti-aircraft...just like the Mujahadeen were in Afghanistan. The media is so conflicted, they can't even admit a major reality and stay lock-step on the scripted lie.

[cliss]

24. Thanks for pointing that out, K.

I've been really concerned about all this gloating. I'm afraid that the more bush does this, the more he's going to enrage the Iraqi's.

He's going to milk it for all it's worth during his SOTU. Bush's probably thinking everything's fixed now......

I think you're right: they just took the day off. Also, the Iraqis are very patient people. They think in terms of years......decades.....centures..


Whereas Bush and his minions think in terms of days.....hours....minutes.....seconds. That's how short their attention span is. Bush is going to F*** it up.

[KharmaTrain]

26. Going To? Mission Accomplished

With this regime, the best defense, the only one, is a loud offense, and we're being shouted at on a daily basis now. The louder they get the worse things get...how long this can go on? I have no idea, just that one day it will end.

Just play the game where it's the U.S. that's invaded by China and then the Chinese decide that their system of government and economics is what we need and force us to have an election and to codify their values into our own. You think people would sit idly by or go flying to the polls?

The incredible thing here is how blatantly obvious the contempt most Iraqis have for this country...especially now...and to think that they'd want to accept anything this nation dictates would and is being viewed as treason.

Our myopic media only reports on how things affect this country and in "American values"...when the story strays then either it's ignored or lies are written.

Cheers

[kohodog]

22. Every dog has his day

Wait a few days and they'll no longer be crowing. Too bad though. The Iraqis certainly didn't desrerve this.

[Taxloss]

25. It's very distasteful.

I hate the assumption the left thinks Iraq SHOULDN'T be a democracy; that's just offensive.

[adigal]

27. Weren't four marines killed today also??

Every person today who gloated about the election received this response from me: "So why were 4 marines killed today? Isn't the war over? Aren't we coming home???"

GGGRRRRRRRR!!!!