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[boston bean]

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[Subdivisions]

1. Yep. It's go time.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[boston bean]

7. I hope he fucks up real bad! I hope he gets completely tonge tied

I hope spittle is dripping from the corner of his lips.

I hope a booger is visible in his narro nostril.

I hope he has a big gigantic zit in the middle of his forehead.

[Tellurian]

15. TROOP SURGE UNDERWAY!!! (leaked)

By JONATHAN KARL

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 10, 2007 — President Bush's speech may be scheduled for tonight, but the troop surge in Iraq is already under way. ABC News has learned that the "surge" Bush is expected to announce in a prime time speech tonight has already begun. Ninety advance troops from the 82nd Airborne Division arrived in Baghdad Wednesday.

An additional battalion of roughly 800 troops from the same division are expected to arrive in Baghdad on Thursday. Eighty percent of the sectarian violence occurs within a 30-mile radius of Baghdad, so that is where most of the additional troops will be concentrated. It is the first small wave of troops in a new White House strategy that is expected to put more than 20,000 additional U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq and likely require new call-ups of the National Guard.

The president is expected to deliver his announcement about the troop increase, a plan that has already met with stiff criticism from many members of Congress, in a speech tonight from the White House. The arrival of additional forces in Iraq comes a day after leading Democrats said they would back legislation that would block funding to pay for additional military forces.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who, Tuesday, urgently called for Congress to vote on — and reject — the proposed surge, told ABC News that the arrival of additional soldiers "underscores Senator Kennedy's point that Congress must act immediately." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-N.M., also responded to the report, calling the troops' arrival "deeply disappointing." Reid has said that Americans don't want to see additional forces in Iraq and that he has been considering plans offered by his congressional colleagues.

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FWNT%2FIraqCoverage%2Fstory%3Fid%3D2785532

[HuffleClaw]

88. he KNOWS he's got to act before congress does

[Tellurian]

90. Watched the "SIEGE" last nite..

first thing they said...

"No, we can't send the Nat'l Guard to fight the Islamists,
We need them here to protect the country in case of a catastrophe!"

I believe that movie was made in 98'.. but Oh, so relevant... <shudder>

and yes, you're right. the troops were deployed last week...preclude debate!

[Connie_Corleone]

2. Get your barf bags ready.

[Cameron27]

3. Good idea.

[tavalon]

4. I'll be watching here as I don't have TV

I will be relying on you folks for honest evaluation of the Chimpster in Chiefs useless babble.

[bigwillq]

8. Same with me.

I am at work. No TV access, this computer has no audio.

[Jack Rabbit]

37. This is my TV

Image from Kill Your Television

[northofdenali]

80. Jack, the last time I tried to watch the asshole*

on TV, my husband had to restrain me from tossing an 8 pound chunk of jade through the tube..........

So now I just depend on my good friends/analysts at DU.

[Jack Rabbit]

87. Denali, ma'am, my TV has been looking like that since

. . . since the MSM went all Monica all the time.

[tavalon]

94. I actually have a large TV like thing

but it only plays DVDs. We have no rabbit ears and even if cable came out to BFE, I wouldn't subscribe. I do fine without it.

[bobthedrummer]

5. ok

[Sparkly]

6. Tweety SOMEhow compared this to the Bay of Pigs

saying it was awful but somehow Americans still liked Kennedy. This is awful, but oddly Americans aren't supporting the Chimp...

UH, Slightly different scenarios, Tweety?!?

[MzNov]

yep It's the Bay of War Pigs

[jazzjunkysue]

91. ROFL! What's the banana for? n/t.

[bluewave]

9. Watch out for warning on Iran

'I recently deployed carrier group to ME,' something like this

[Connie_Corleone]

11. Yep. That mofo!!

[BuyingThyme]

10. I never noticed that before...

How the greater-than-less-than deals ( > < ) make the title line disappear.

[boston bean]

16. me neither, took me a while to figure out what you meant, but I finally

found it, you are talking about the title of the top of the page.

[BuyingThyme]

42. Strange thing, though. It didn't happen with the

expletive thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3088304

[Connie_Corleone]

12. Kick

[bobthedrummer]

13. I wonder if it has been taped, edited and is chock full of subliminals.

Or is it "live"?

[bobthedrummer]

LIAR!

[bobthedrummer]

27. IRAN-YOU LIAR

[RadiDem]

14. Keith has been GREAT in the lead-up

[LSK]

17. watching on CSPAN

[Cameron27]

18. Oh no,

here he comes x(

[bluewave]

19. He fucked up the beginning lol

no sound and he gestured "huh?"

[Subdivisions]

20. Oh no...

:puke:

[shadowknows69]

26. I have no words.

You guys take it.

[spanone]

21. The bullshit meter is climbing.......

[eleny]

22. He Looks Wasted To Me

Very pale.

[malaise]

34. Breathing real hard

sighing non-stop. Looks weak.

[boston bean]

23. He sounds like he is in a box, miles away. anyone else??

[eleny]

28. yup

[boston bean]

39. why does he sound like that?? It's like that on CNN and MSNBC

i didn't check the other channels.

[eleny]

48. I'm at C-Span and he has a cold for sure

Pale and face looking wasted.

[boston bean]

54. What were the two reasons we failed? Simpleton

[boston bean]

58. Where is the cowboy???

[Cameron27]

30. Yeah, thought it was my tv.

[bluewave]

40. What's up with that?

This sounds live to me, unless the station f'd up.

[Homer Wells]

24. Deer in the Headlights look

LOL

[RadiDem]

25. Deer in headlights look! Meds off again!

[Gregorian]

29. A REAL LEADER WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING.

And limits. And sacrifice. Not WAR.

[shadowknows69]

38. There's the Iran word

n/t
Taking responsibility but about to make the same mistake.

[Pithy Cherub]

31. Iran is being blamed and here we go.

unacceptable to the American people and unacceptable to me. :crazy:

[spanone]

32. Where's the Cowboy Texas Accent?

[malaise]

41. He's scared shitless

heavy breathing and sighing non-stop.

[boston bean]

61. I was wondering the same exact thing. nt

[berni_mccoy]

33. He's blaming Iran, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda for the situation in Iraq

Anything, anyone, but his own incompetence.

[leftchick]

anyone else? Dishonest John too?

I smell desperation

[durtee librul]

81. Did he just say Afghansitan is ok?

And that it is under control and now the Al Queda are on the run there? Funny, I thought it was the Taliban that caused the majority of the trouble there......hmmmmmmm. I must be confused.

Well, I think he pretty well told us all we are going to bomb Iran and get involved in whatever way HE thinks is necessary to 'support our allies.' I read that as, "go ahead isreal, bomb the fuck outta whoever you want. We got your back."

Screw HIM!!!!

Here we go with the tarrarist shit again. I tried, I am off to watch Without a Trace on TNT.

[w8liftinglady]

35. has he blinked yet?

[malaise]

45. non-stop n/t

[cwydro]

36. Dick in the headlights

Christ.

[RadiDem]

43. Chickenhawk in headlights ! ;-)

[shadowknows69]

50. september 11th

drink. He needs to be locked up. Completely delusional and he's about to order our troops to kill without restraint.

[cwydro]

77. Took him under 3 minutes to bring it up.

Took less than that for me to want to up chuck.

[w8liftinglady]

44. 9/11

[Catchawave]

46. He's so hard to listen too...stumbling on words

[mucifer]

47. he is working so hard to speak his English.

[berni_mccoy]

49. We must achieve 'sucksess' in Iraq

But he doesn't define what Success is.

[shadowknows69]

52. Where is this plan in writing exactly George?

n/t

[bobthedrummer]

51. LYING WAR CRIMINAL

[eleny]

53. Door to door to gain trust - HUH???

[mucifer]

55. he should say " I forced the commanders to say..."

[durtee librul]

56. Does he have a zit on his upper lip on the right side?

What a doofus.....he THINKS 5 brigades will be deployed. Geez isn't this what our boys are doing now?

[w8liftinglady]

65. he bogarted the joint

[eleny]

57. What's with the PURPLE tie???

It's ridiculous.

[bobthedrummer]

59. oh, so "the killers returned"...LIAR

[berni_mccoy]

60. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Bush Says 20K TROOPS IS ENOUGH TO KEEP CLEARED AREAS CLEAR

That is the BIGGEST BULLSHIT LIE EVER TOLD

It's going to take SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE TROOPS to do that.

[roamer65]

62. Escalate this, Numbnuts!

Go fuck yourself.

[Cameron27]

63. Somebody gave him one valium too many.

[Roxy66]

66. lol

[diamidue]

64. Sorry, I can't take any more.

I tried.

[roamer65]

70. Delete.

[bobthedrummer]

67. OIL-OIL>>>

[Catchawave]

68. How about sharing oil royalites with US...grrrrr

[tabasco]

69. The neocon cabal must be brought to an end immediately.

I am a former Army infantry officer and Army planner and I am saying Bush is insane. These people know nothing about the principles of war. They are motivated only by greed. More troops just means more dead bodies. Nobody knows what victory means. This is a classic clusterfuck that will be reviled in military academies for ages to come.

[Straight Shooter]

82. Truer words were never spoken.

Makes you want to gnash your teeth and pull out your hair to see this maniacal idiot tearing apart what took so long to build.

[bobthedrummer]

71. IMPEACH HIM-DON'T FOLLOW ILLEGAL ORDERS

[durtee librul]

72. Well, he is obviously been

drinking the kookaid with statements like he has been making......unf*g real. He is totally in a fantasy world with what he is saying is going to happen. He is NUTS.:hangover:

I can't believe he actually thinks this is real....he is seriously off his rocker.

[tabasco]

89. "The Sunnis and Shiites want to live in peace."

No they don't George. They want to have that civil war we warned you about before you launched the illegal invasion.

Bush is lying through his teeth. He's stupid but not stupid enough to believe his own lies.

Traitorous lying warmonger. That's all GW Bush will ever be.

[bobthedrummer]

73. LIAR

[bobthedrummer]

74. IRAN and SYRIA

[Whoa_Nelly]

93. Yes...Iran and Syria

the man is such an evil fuck :grr:

[roamer65]

75. What this guy been smokin'?

Whewwwwww...<passing the joint>. Here, have some.

He's in dreamland, folks. :crazy:

[Catchawave]

76. Terra-Terra-Terra...we MUST not be defeated!

Or they'll come git'us :silly:

[roamer65]

78. Sounds like King Abdullah got his way by bitching out Cheney.

[Cameron27]

79. "must expect more American casualties"

yeah bozo, we all know that.

[senseandsensibility]

84. He truly has no shame.

Nor brains, but that's another story.

[mvd]

83. Geez, this speech is so nuts I'm even blowing a gasket..

listening on Malloy. He's completely out of control, and impeachment is becoming more and more urgent.

[vanlassie]

85. Are there any polls that need DUing?/nt

[vickitulsa]

86. Notice he is preparing us for NO CHANGE in how things are going

to look in Iraq even though he's making this supposed "change of direction."

He knows damn well what he's doing now, sending more troops, won't do any good and won't change anything, so he's preparing everyone for the continuing news from Iraq of killing and death and kidnappings. In other words, It's going to look just like it does now!

He tried near the end of the speech to redefine what "victory" IS by telling us it "won't look like previous victories America has won."

What does it say that he's trying to define "victory" now as THE SAME THING AS WHAT'S ALREADY A HUMILIATING LOSS in Iraq (and Afghanistan too, btw.)

Sickening... just sickening, the entire speech from beginning to end. I could barely listen to it but decided I should.


So now when anyone, including those in the corporate media who have finally become more critical of his war, makes comments about how nothing is getting better in Iraq, the Chimp will come back with, "But I TOLD ya it isn't gonna look like VICTORY!"

Yet we're supposed to just believe HIM that it IS victory the next time he proclaims "Mission Accomplished!"

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[wiggs]

92. Good way of putting it....hadn't heard that in TV analyis, but that's

exactly what it is. More mistakes, more chaos, more bloodshed....more of the same under the guise of hope.