Sunday is being simulcast for your experiential pleasure, . . . so please come CAPTION!!!

[skip fox]

W. is saying: "Yes, I hear the American people, and listen closely to them. But as the President I say to them that a surge doesn't have to be a big thing like a bursting bulge. And it's a lot less than an escalation cause it doesn't mean you plan to stay there. In fact, it will help stabilize Iraq so we can get out faster. In a way, then, you could say that I'm sending in less troops. It's just like pulling out, only not. . . . Of course I listen to the concerns of Americans!"

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. "Just like pulling out, only not . . ."

:spray:

thanks for bustin' a slug in my stupified sunday solitude.

[rock]

2. I figure a stack of thousand dollar bills about this big

[peekaloo]

3. See it ain't a surge but an argment, er, augmet, er, augmenstruation, where

we increase the size of the troops, like breastesses, so we can breast feed the young Iraqi democracy. Create 'em in my own image. A big titty baby country that'll learn to mooch off their daddy for years to come."

[knitter4democracy]

4. See, it's not really drinking unless the bottles this big.

I don't go for that anymore. Nah, it's airplane minibottles for me.

[skip fox]

5. W. is saying, " . . . and Karl made a whole filedrawer with cards and they

had all the options and then a list of all the pros and cons, and nothing was off the table except cut-and-run and partition and talking to Iran and Syria or listening to the generals on the ground or a couple of other things, and I went through this all over Christmas because I swore I'd look at every card before I announced the surge, and so I did, and . . ."