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The Lame Duck in Chief is rattling his little tin sword again:
President Bush said the Iranian government has "declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people" and vowed that the United States would be "firm" in preventing Tehran's acquisition of such arms.
In interviews yesterday to mark the Iranian new year, Bush said Iran has a right to build civilian nuclear power plants but that the government cannot be trusted to enrich uranium, according to White House transcripts released today. Different types of enriched uranium can be used as fuel for nuclear reactors or as fissile material for atomic bombs.
Obviously he's under quite a bit of pressure from Dick Cheney to get a whole bunch more American soldiers killed and if you are under some misguided belief that George and Dick care what you think; think again.
Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney offered a positive assessment of the current situation and called last year's troop surge a "major success."
"On the security front, I think there's a general consensus that we've made major progress, that the surge has worked. That's been a major success," Cheney told ABC News' Martha Raddatz during an exclusive interview in Oman.
When asked how that assessment comports with recent polls that show about two-thirds of Americans say the fight in Iraq is not worth it, Cheney replied, "So?"
"You don't care what the American people think?" Raddatz asked the vice president.
"You can't be blown off course by polls," said Cheney, who is currently on a tour of the Middle East. "This president is very courageous and determined to go the course. There has been a huge fundamental change and transformation for the better. That's a huge accomplishment."
$500 billion spent, 4000 dead soldiers, and no end in sight. I'm not sure how much more success we can take.
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General “Buck” Turgidson: Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
Thank you, Stanley Kubrick.
Fucking pigs. They’re making Easter 1916 look like a goddam walk in the park.
Bullshit, you guys just don’t get teh awesome strategists we have: for five years, they’ve been diligently keeping back the crack suicide squad of young republicans for just this occasion.
That’s right, you limp liberals: it only looks like we’re not winning so much in Iraq because we’ve sent mediocre run-of-the-mill troops so far; the real, ruthless killers like Ben Shapiro and Domenech have been patiently waiting for their chance to shine. Now, before November, it’s off to Teheran under the command of Dinesh “Leopard Print” D’Souza and Hugh “Man Boobs” Hewitt to show Amnedidntknowhathithim how a real war is conducted.
Or something like that, anyway… Ah, but I do love the smell of wingnuts in the morning.
At least we can rest assured that al Sadr and the other Shia leaders won’t lift a finger against us when we attack their co-religionists in Iran.
Right?
Right?
Last night on the Newshour, Bobo declared, in connection with the fifth anniversary of the catastrophic victory, that there is in the land an unmet thirst (WTF?) for public service.
Tagg?
I have to say, comparing Bush to Ralph Wiggum is patently unfair.
You owe the entire Wiggum family an apology.
Buh… but I thought that the point was to liberate the Iraqi people and give them the gifts of Democracy…
… which allows the people to decide what their government does! And isn’t it another word for elections, that “polls” thing that he disdains? So aren’t “polls” central to democratic rule?
Dick Cheney makes me so confused.
No that’s not right. The word is “angry”. Or maybe “outraged”.
Screw the threat of Iranian nukes, we are faced with the threat of a Democrat in the White House, and increased Democratic majorities in Congress.
Drastic times require drastic measures.
Exactly! They’ll cheer us on, and send an unending rain of mortar shells into the Green Zone as a token of their support.
It’ll be swell!
Meanwhile Cheney’s BFF King Abdullah will watch the value of his oil skyrocket - that couldn’t possibly have anything to do with Bushco beating the Iran War drum, could it?
When asked how that assessment comports with recent polls that show about two-thirds of Americans say the fight in Iraq is not worth it, Cheney replied, “So?”
Imagine the vitriol and hot air that would issue forth from the liberal media if this had been Al Gore as Veep - the ho-hum treatment of such a callous and idiotic statement makes me sick.
Exactly. It amazes me (not really) that the MSM never questions Dear Leader on the logic of attacking one Shi’a country using another majority Shi’a country as a base. Maybe we should just invade Syria (sunni) and use that as a base? Or maybe Turkey? India? Argentina? Besides, this war is getting boring on my teevee. I keep turning the channell and it’s the same old thing. Boooooring. Somebody pass the cheetos.