Bush has little to show on Iraq

It'll take more than a good speech Tuesday to revive flagging public support or to reverse an alarming slide in military recruitment, analysts suggest.

"I don't think anybody will be able to watch that speech without wondering where is the banner saying 'Mission Accomplished,' " said Anthony Cordesman, a defense analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Bush's credibility takes a direct hit
From own vice president, Secretary of Defense, generals on the ground, fellow republicans, facts.

The Iraqi insurgency is in its "last throes." - Dick 'dick' Cheney, 30 May 05.

"Senators are hearing from back home: If things are going so well, why do we hear every morning that 30 people have been killed in Baghdad?" said a top Republican advisor who refused to be identified.

Though Cheney spokesman Steve Schmidt said the vice president thought the controversy was mostly partisan politics, other administration officials and Republican elders, who spoke anonymously because they feared retribution from the White House, said the vice president had blundered.

"This is like the aircraft carrier," said former Reagan aide Michael Deaver, referring to Bush's infamously stupid "Mission Accomplished" stunt from the deck of the Abraham Lincoln in 2003. "God, what a boner THAT turned out to be."


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If by "liberate the Iraqis" you mean "kill more of them than their previous dictator," then Mission Accomplished.
-headline at Fark.


Gee, ya think?

"In discussing the White House's problems, Republicans cited a variety of assumptions and decisions that have not worked out as Mr. Bush and his team had planned.

"They said the administration may have overestimated how much of mandate Mr. Bush had coming out of last year's campaign."

- the Daily Duh!


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Taking the fight to Karl
"Shame on the Bush Administration"

"Really Karl, you prepared for war? How did you do that, play golf or have dinner at the White House? You make the conservatives sound so strong, yet, if I recall Karl, you have never severed. I also recall that your puppet Bush ran to protect Austin from the Viet-cong while his fellow Americans were dieing in the rice patties of Vietnam. Cheney had more deferrals than a tree has leaves. So I ask again, how do conservatives prepare for war?"

American servicemen and women bitchslap "fat, hateful" cowardly asshat Karl Rove.


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Dear Karl Rove,
Since you feel so strongly about defending America, enclosed is an enlistment form for the US Army. Have fun, and hey, good luck over there! Not!


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Seen at BartCop!
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Spent another crappy night writhing in pain from the tooth-pulling earlier this week. Even Vicodans aren't helping. Damn medical marijuana laws...


On the internets this morning...
Heh - via The Sideshow: "Maybe Dana Milbank should take John Conyers - and a Constitutional crisis - a bit more seriously."

Kos reports on why Karl Rove's been such a flaming asshat lately.

Dick 'dick' Cheney: the new Baghdad Bob.

Case of mad chimp disease found in White House.
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What they said

Let me spell it out for you, Bitch. Your boy Rove pretty much condemned half the fucking country as working to get American soldiers killed. That does not sit right with those of us who didn't want to put them in the line of fire in the first place, you smug sack of lying, disingenuous shit.

And we feel that if Rove is going to blame us for wanting soldiers killed, the least he and his war-mongering asshole bosses can do is take some of the $200 billion dollars of our tax money they've absconded with in the name of the Quagmire Called Iraq and give them the basic equipment that might help keep them alive.

- stranger, at Blah3.

Words cannot express the contempt I feel for Karl Rove and for the chorus of brainless little yappers applauding his recent remarks on liberal reactions to 9/11...

- Barb, at Mahablog.


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Sieze this
Hey, Supremos, what's the fair market value of a right testicle?


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Easy livin'
Beach parties, tropical drinks, personal massueses...

"The treatment they're getting -- they got a brand new facility down at Guantanamo. We spent a lot of money to build it. They're very well treated down there. They're living in the tropics. They're well fed. They've got everything they could possible want."

- Dick "dick" Cheney, on the hedonistic lifestyle the prisoners at Gitmo are living.


"You'll just have to take my word on that, Wolf."
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Oh good
The rethug-owned House gives public broadcasting back its 100 million dollars in cuts, then puts a rethug in charge of them.


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US image abroad: Even China's is better
Many Europeans now have a more favorable view of China than of Bushistan the United States, according to a major new international opinion poll.

Preznit WarMonkey was cited as the single largest factor of anti-American feelings.


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Friday cat blogging


Milo hangs out.

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Feeling a draft...

The Defense Department began yesterday creating a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches.

The new database will include personal information including birth dates,
Social Security numbers, e-mail addresses, grade-point averages, ethnicity and what subjects the students are studying.

"Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos."


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Yeah!
9/11 widow and activist Kristen Breitweiser reams Rove a new cornchute:

Now Karl, a question for you, since you seem to be the nation's self-styled sensei with regard to 9/11: Is Usama Bin Laden still important? Lately, your coterie of friends seems to be giving out mixed messages. Recall that in the early days, Bin Laden was wanted “dead or alive.” Then when Bin Laden slipped through your fingertips in Tora Bora, you downgraded his importance. We were told that Bin Laden was a "desperate man on the run,” and a person that President Bush was not "too worried about". Yet, whenever I saw Bin Laden's videos, he looked much too comfortable to actually be a man on the run. He looked tan, rested, and calm. He certainly didn't look the way I wanted the murderer of almost 3,000 innocent people to look: unkempt, panicked, and cowering in a corner.

More to the point, Karl when you say, “Conservatives saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and prepared for war,” what exactly did you do to prepare for your war? Did your preparations include: sound intelligence to warrant your actions; a reasonable entry and exit strategy coupled with a coherent plan to carry out that strategy; the proper training and equipment for the troops you were sending in to fight your war? Did you follow the advice of experts such as General Shinseki who correctly advised you about the troop levels needed to actually succeed in Iraq? No, you didn't.

Finally Karl, please “understand” that the reason we have not suffered a repeat attack on our homeland is because Bin Laden no longer needs to attack us. Those of us with a pure and comprehensive “understanding of 9/11” know that Bin Laden committed the 9/11 attacks so he could increase recruitment for al Qaeda and increase worldwide hatred of America. That didn't happen. Because after 9/11, the world united with Americans and al Qaeda's recruitment levels never increased.

It was only after your invasion of Iraq, that Bin Laden's goals were met. Because of your war in Iraq two things happened that helped Bin Laden and the terrorists: al Qaeda recruitment soared and the United States is now alienated from and hated by the rest of the world. In effect, what Bin Laden could not achieve by murdering my husband and 3,000 others on 9/11, you handed to him on a silver platter with your invasion of Iraq - a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.

Which leads me to my final questions for you Karl: What are your motives when it comes to 9/11 and are you really sure that you understand 9/11?

Read more here.
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Changing the tone
Wake the #uck up, Dems, you #ucking apologetic losers, because being sensitive and polite is for #ucking pussies. You want an apology from the WH? You ain't gonna #ucking get it.

White House stands behind Rove slander

White House official said Friday the administration finds it "somewhat puzzling" that Democrats are demanding presidential adviser Karl Rove's apology or resignation for implying that liberals are soft on terrorism.

"I think Karl was very specific, very accurate, in who he was pointing out," communications director Dan Bartlett said. "It's touched a chord with these Democrats. I'm not sure why."

Fuck you. And #uck all you Democratic "leaders" who turn into fucking cowering jellyfish everytime the rethug propaganda machine squirts out a fart. Have you learned nothing yet??? WAKE THE FUCK UP AND DO SOMETHING.


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PSM
Help skippy get a million hits!


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Shit
Another win for corporate America.

The government can now seize your home to build yet another McWendyKing. Welcome to the Communist States of America.
-headline at Fark.


Let's start with YOUR house. I bet it's sitting on some primo real estate.
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Last throes

"Isn't it time for you to resign?''

- Sen. Ted Kennedy to Darth Rumsfeld, 6/23/05.


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Repub candidate calls Bush misadmin 'Nazis,' quits party
"We are criticized for nothing more than the exercise of our Constitutional rights. Those who disagree with any aspect of the administration are branded as traitors and must be silenced. "

A candidate for North Carolina Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court has announced on her campaign's blog that she is leaving the Republican Party and denounced the Bush administration's policy on troop withdrawal from Iraq.

Rachel Lea Hunter, a Republican and a candidate for Chief Justice, likens Bush’s administration to the “Nazis” and says that all who disagree with the administration are being branded as “traitors”.

- from Raw Story.


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