Must Read! bush** is "Rallying the Troops and Avoiding Reality"!

[leftchick]

Good God this is Great! And it supports Cindy's question to bushit. What is that "noble cause" Casey died for? Mr. King does an excellent job of pointing out the chimperor** has no clothes.

From the end....

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Stay the course. What course? So religious-based militia can divvy up the northern and southern portions of the country? So Islam can be enshrined as a principal source of new Iraqi legislation?

Are any of those things worth dying for? Do any of those likely outcomes represent an American victory? They certainly aren't why Bush said we went over there.

Okay, the Bush folks also promised us weapons of mass destruction, and greetings with rice and rose water, and Iraqi oil money to pay for reconstruction, and a model new democracy in the Middle East, none of which has happened.

But this is different.

President Bush is out selling a vision of victory in Iraq while U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad are resigned to settling for less. George Bush can't make good on his original promise, and they know it. They also know that more Americans are going to die in Iraq for what may end up as a theocracy-tinged spoils system.

When those carrying the burden of this war realize what they have sacrificed and died for, the worst days of George W. Bush will have just begun.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082601479.html

[mopaul]

1. oh well, the president is a maniac, but we must support him anyway

[BlueJac]

3. He is our man

I new he dressed up in women clothes. Old cheer leaders never die they just keep on cheer leading even when the score is 1800+ casualties and counting.

[TankLV]

12. Over 2,000. It's been over 2,000 for quite some time now.

The 1864 number, or is it 1868? is frem some time back before May.

Over 2,000

[Beetwasher]

14. W! W! He's Our Man, If He Can't Do It, We're All Dead!

Yaaaay!

[flakey_foont]

2. Thanks, Leftchick

[mopaul]

4. the worst days of George W. Bush will have just begun.

i'm beginning to maybe believe it. but many more will die before he's done.

[FreedomAngel82]

31. Sadly

:( Unless we can do something. :\ But I don't know what. But one thing is that, I do believe, there will be justice. I have heard all of the "this is it!" posts before but it never was. This time I do think it's different. Why? It feels different and how the republicans are on the attack mode much more now days and how they're really really having to spin, spin, spin. On Bill Maher's show this past weekend Huckabee was on there and they talked about Iraq and one girl on the show talked about all the torture and bombing etc. going on and all Huckabee had to say about Iraq was "what about all the schools being built?" I was screaming to myself "what schools you jerk?! There's a fire zone all over the place except the green zone(s)!!! You can't build schools during a war zone!" And the girl got him back and he was very quiet after that. All Huckabee did was kind of shake his head sadly but then he didn't say anything else I don't think with Iraq.

[Hailtothechimp]

5. Great read. This is the truth, and it needs to be told. n/t

[hwmnbn]

6. This is the encouraging phrase.......

...the worst days of George W. Bush will have just begun.

Today is the first day of the rest of his misery.

[leftchick]

8. that was my favorite

the worst days are coming chimpass**!

[HereSince1628]

7. That column _is_ tough on Bush

I sure wish a Sunday talk show would have someone talking like that.

This is another version of Chomsky's public policy versus real policy.

[leftchick]

9. exactly right about Chomsky

the way these neo-cons get away with these lies is incredible. I don't think it will be happening much longer.

As Mr. King notes...

When those carrying the burden of this war realize what they have sacrificed and died for, the worst days of George W. Bush will have just begun.


... the worst days georgie....

[MADem]

13. We'll have to see what the Sunday Talkers say tomorrow

I wonder if Mr. Potato Head (Timmy!!!! Russert) will turn back up. He seems to be badly shaken since his encounter with Fitzy's grand jury, the pecker....

[leftchick]

18. I am hoping for good CBS FTN coverage

sometimes Bob does come through. Now would be great.

[DemReadingDU]

10. Nominated!

[scarletwoman]

11. Nominated. Best line: "more Americans are going to die in Iraq...

... for what may end up as a theocracy-tinged spoils system."

This needs to shouted out everywhere: Our soldiers are dying for a theocracy-tinged spoils system!

sw

[Imagevision]

15. BUSH: "stay the course" until the flow of oil is controlled - (seriously!)

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[oxbow]

16. Wow. didn't hold bacvk at all

The truth is brutal when it comes to Iraq, but our nation would be better off facing facts than going with the White House's rosy assessment. Things are definitely changing in this country though, and we have all people who speak the truth to thank for it.

[WeirdHoward]

17. Mission Accomplished

This war has become a public relations nightmare for BushCo. But it has been a success, if you measure it against the real objectives. The loss of life, and the failure to create a secular democracy are not metrics that matter.
The objective was, exactly as Osama bin Laden demanded, to move our bases out of Saudi Arabia. BushCo. decided that we replace the bases in Saudi Arabia with bases in Iraq. 9-11 just hurried the process. We have established 14 permanent bases in Iraq, and pulled out of Saudi Arabia, so, Mission Accomplished. We have met al Qaeda's demands, capitulated with the terrorists, moreover, negotiated with the terrorists. This was always about energy security (securing the flow of oil), and never about WMD, democracy, freedom, or any of that.
Anyone who thinks our objective was any different has been drinking too much right wing Kool Aid. It doesn't really matter much to BushCo. how things turn out now, except in how it affects the midterm elections in '06.

Weird Howard

[FighttheFuture]

19. Whoa!! For a second there, I thought they were talking anout the U.S.!!!

"So religious-based militia can divvy up the northern and southern portions of the country? "

Gave me a scare, that's for sure!

[silentrex]

29. A nice turn of phrase

to describe the admin's overarching strategy for redesigning the US as well: "theocracy-tinged spoils system"...

[Nothing Without Hope]

20. Here's the perflect TOM TOMORROW CARTOON to complement this fine post:

It's by Tom Tomorrow, one of my very favorites, and it depicts the KoolAid-drinking Bush supporters who continue to ignore reality in favor of believing what Bush and the other neocons claim so baselessly. Lies have no impact unless the hearer of them suspends disbelief and chooses to trust despite any evidence to the contrary. It's the other half of the propaganda cycle that is such an important challenge for us as progressives to break at last with the truth despite the fact that it is far less comforting than the lies.

The cartoon on this page at Working For Change:
http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=19510

The image below may take a few extra seconds, occasionally as much as half a minute, to display. It's worth the wait. (I am routing through a free public cache to spare the original site bandwidth usage. If it is just too slow for you, you can bypass this routing by deleting the .nyud.net.8090 in the link URL.) The title of this cartoon is "Averting Their Eyes."

http://workingforchange.speedera.net.nyud.net:8090/

[njdemocrat106]

22. Tom's dead on regarding Cindy

On TV (NBC Nightly News to be exact), one of the anti-Cindy protesters had a sign reading "Casey=Hero, Cindy=Zero". I have a high respect for our military, but these Freepers worship the military almost as they worship the Bush cabal. Someone should ask these morans "how would Casey feel about you denouncing his mother?" Of course they would still continue their brain-dead mantra of "anybody who disrespects Bush and the troops is helping the terrorists".

[apple annie]

21. I thanked Colbert King...will you?

I loved this article and have already printed it and made copies to post wherever I go. I really do believe that every time we read a great article such as King's, it makes common sense to send the author an e-mail thanking him for writing the truth. We want these journalists to continue telling America the real truth...and since so few of them do, we need to cultivate those who display the guts to speak out. (I'm sure it's obvious...but Colbert's email is at the bottom of his article!)

[cliss]

23. Thanks for posting, L.

That was ONE gratifying article. And from the Washington Post, no less.

With each passing word, I started to feel more and more confident that Mr. King knows what he's talking about.

He's comparing Bush's rhetoric on the one side, and the Reality in Iraq on the other.

It's pretty obvious which side is the truth.

OMG when the news outlets get it, it's only a matter of time.

Bush is finished.

[leftchick]

25. That is my hope cliss

As someone mentioned up thread, can you imagine this making the Sunday talking head shows?? Gen. Clark will be on MTP today. Perhaps he will have it in his arsenal against timmy!

peace,
lc

[emulatorloo]

24. kicking EOM

:kick:

[SlowDownFast]

26. Thanked for the story.

Give em your 2 cents:

[e-mail]

[tinfoilinfor2005]

27. And I'm afraid that bush's continuous rant line "fight them over there"

is as dangerous as his "bring 'em on" boast. They love to prove him wrong and he could be inviting more planning on the part of the terrorists to hit us where we live.

[annabanana]

28. "over there" is London, right?

or Spain?... I'm so confused

[FreedomAngel82]

30. Very good article and so true

I'm sure once people realize everything that is going on they will be very angry. I wouldn't want to cross their path(s). It's definitley just beginning.