September 08, 2007 09:24 AM
Surge on!
What's all the fuss?
Bombs killed 20 people in Iraq on Saturday, including 15 in Baghdad, police said, as U.S. President George W. Bush said his resolve to press on with the job of stabilizing Iraq was as strong as ever. Police said a parked car exploded near a police station in Baghdad's Shi'ite area of Sadr City at dusk, when people were shopping. The blast killed 15 people and wounded 45, they said. Another explosion at a market in the holy Shi'ite town of Kufa, possibly caused by a roadside bomb, killed five people and wounded eight, police said.
And we know those deaths won't be "counted," since car bombs are now listed as "accidents" by our military, not acts of war.
His resolve? Um, excuse me George? Ya, George, over here. Hi, I got a pretzel, now pay attention. YOU were selected twice, and are SUPPOSED to be doing what a MAJORITY of the electorate want, not what YOU want. Retire already. Get the hell out of my WhiteHouse. If you worked for my company, and continually did what you wanted, instead of what I wanted, your ass would be fired. Go back to Crawdad before your ass is in jail.
Osama's still running free. But the Surge is ON! Bush's "war-on-terror" is generating new recruits for Osama far quicker than we're killing or capturing them. But the Surge is ON! Al-Queda had NOTHING to do with Saddam's Iraq, but Osama now mentions Iraq as a front. And the Surge is ON! We're all headed off a cliff. And the Surge is ON!
Osama/Usama is just a myth created to control the masses. Surge on George. Kill more innocent poor non-white people. That's the name of the game. Don't worry. The Dems and American people are too busy to notice or care. You da man George. You'll go down in history as the bloodiest, most incompetent US prezident ever. Congrats.
Stay the course and the surge don't seem to be working out very well for the civilians.
Probly a bad fuel pump - car bombs dont count.
but, but, but the "surge is working"
Have you seen the latest Osama tape? Oh, my God, the man should be selling beauty cream!!!! He has amazingly shed YEARS!!!! Living in a cave must be the biggest beauty secret of all!!!! You lose those little lines around your eyes, your tired scraggley beard gets darker and well kept, and his face, no longer the gaunt, withered look that Sanjay Gupta reassured us was a man with terrible kidney disease, looks 20 years younger!!!! I guess living in a cave also cures kidney disease.
It is f*cking amazing!!!! http://adereview.com/blog/?p=32#more-32
"we can make s'mores with the car bomb flames"-Brian Baird
Get out of my White House....CensoredFan.....I like that....heres mine...You can polish a turd all day and at the end of the day...what have you got?...Nothing but a Shiney Turd
Latest Bin Laden Video Is a Forgery: All References to Current Events Are Made During Video Freeze
"U.S. President George W. Bush said his resolve to press on with the job of stabilizing Iraq was as strong as ever."
Well, there you have it. We knew it already but now Bush is once again flaunting it for all to see. He decides and its only his resolve that matters. Bush is no different than any other dictator the world has seen.
mudshark @ 10:
A dirty towel?
mudshark @ 10:
That is insulting a turd Mudshark. Turds have a purpose. GW has NONE. He is nothing more than a scam. A puppet. Sad. Would it be too late to ask Canada to march to the WhiteHouse and burn it down again? It's useless anyway.
Radically Moderate @ 13:
Got Soap?....
According to Congressman Brian Baird the surge is working and will become even more effective over time. His statements blur the lines of who is a Democrat and who is a Republican. And yes, Baird is a Democrat and he also believes that he is taking an anti-war stance. With Baird urging that the surge should be given at least until April of 2008 in order to see how well it is working [or to see how many more American soldiers can end up very dead and how many more can end up maimed, crippled, dismembered, disfigured], the troops should have no trouble recognizing who their enemies truly are.
If only Barbara Bush had been unable to conceive.
Ever think of that?
Finally, Real Progress in Iraq: Green Zone Gets a 'Red Light District'
CensoredFan @ 14:
I agree...and I don't know what to say....I'm very surprised that there haven't been more protest orginizations.Nothing will change untill the people go out and march on DC....I mean ..A LOT OF PEOPLE.....millions
don davis @ 18:
Here's the corrected link: FINALLY, REAL PROGRESS IN IRAQ: GREEN ZONE GETS A ‘RED LIGHT’ DISTRICT
Bush: "My resolve to not admitting I was wrong is as strong as ever. I will get my way, at all costs, even if I have to hold my breath or kill a few hundred more troops, I will get my way! I'M THE DECIDER!!!"
How much of the "20 killed" figure is underreported? How many of the "wounded 45" will die in the coming days. This administration makes me sick.
Okay, this is getting obscene. I seem to have had one of those moments your typical child left behind would have. My dad calls it a brain fart. How can any competent, critical thinking American still believe this administration is acting in good faith or with any integrity or honor??!! How is it that every anniversary of Sept. 11th, bad news cycle for the "bad, nasty" GOP members or hotly contested election periods we get a special treat to a bin laden video? How is it we have not challenged our leader to "get him dead or alive".... Why are we still being called unpatriotic or "not supporting our troops" when we say the Iraq policy of this administration is failing. The troops do not set the policy, nor are they allowed to publicly comment (unless of course they are all dressed up for the photo-op with the commander and still gagged in their ability to say anything negative). When the numbers are showing failure this administration simply changes the way they are calculated. This has been their way to shovel more bull&^%$ into the open mouths of the true believers.
I am ready for a candidate to openly argue total withdrawal NOW. Any debate should start and finish with this is Bush's mistake, we can not fix it, he broke it, and all responsiblity falls on his shoulders. If there is chaos when we leave, we will be open to discuss any assistance we can be to the Iraqi government to help resolve their "chaos". But for now, Saddam is gone, there is an elected Iraqi government, job done... bye bye. All government contracts are herewith terminated, and Iraq will have to renegotiate with contractors on their own. You set your own fees, liabilities, terms, etc. We're outta here and we're cancelling Halliburton and KBR. If they chose to stay, it's on them. All the people who were involved with, and kept quiet about what Bush knew and when he knew it should be called before congress NOW. All proceeds from their books, speaking engagements, etc. should be garnished and put into an account for our military men and women who served, lost jobs, lost insurance, lost homes, lost limbs, eyesight, or their mental stability serving their country under the misguided leadership of this administration. This should include any future publications that will no doubt crop up after 2008 when they will feel safe in being honest and greedy for the fortune they will make by being honest after the fact. My dad told me 2 things ... 1) you will find people will be elevated to their highest level of incompetence; and 2) they will treat those under them as mushrooms... keep them in the dark and feed them bull *&^%. American bought the facade that was specifically designed to sell them the perfect candidate... the one you'd feel like having a beer with... the compassionate guy you know will have your best interests at heart. What bull(*&^%!! I was never in support of him for president.... he was our governor and didn't impress me in that roll, so why would I want him in a higher position?! Why would anyone!!?? He didn't even have his own playmates for his cabinet.... he used the same guys from his dad's administration!!>> (ooops... sorry Alberto... forgot about you). The same guys who were involved with the first Iraqi invasion that daddy stopped just short of overthrowing Saddam. Are all these people trying to relive a moment ? At the expense of our treasured military lives?? Hope the rest of this country (especially our senate and congress) start turning on the lights!! We've had enough dark and bull*&^%!!!!!
Roland @ 1:
just like soldiers who receive battle field medical attention before they die, dont COUNT as a Combat Fatality??
thats right, if they die in Germany from battle wounds they dont count as a combat fatality, therefore arent on the official 38**....... tally.
if they die IN IRAQ, on the battlefield, but a medic gets too em BEFORE they die, they DONT COUNT!!!
So how many soldiers have made the "ulitmate sacrifice" , but still dont COUNT??!!
Where are their families??
Nothing like a 1 Party system........
I agree...and I don't know what to say....I'm very surprised that there haven't been more protest orginizations.Nothing will change untill the people go out and march on DC....I mean ..A LOT OF PEOPLE.....millions
hasnt that already happened like , dozens of times??
There were MILLIONS of ppl protesting BEFORE the war, and after.
Clearly protesting doesnt do shit. Neither does voting for Democraps.
So voting doesnt result in the ppl's will being respected.
Protesting doesnt help the cause.
I think Im done protesting.
YOU'RE HELPING THE TERRORISTS SIMPLY BY POSTING THIS INFORMATION.
If the US Govt cancelled the contracts to Halliburton and KBR......they'd be gone in a heart beat..
mudshark @ 19:
Literally MILLIONS marched before the Iraq debacle began. Did it do anything? Nada. Zilch.
txlvn @ 23:
Wow! chimpy response was cold as hell. Basically he'd saying, to hell with reality.
CensoredFan @ 28:
Millions in the U.S., Spain, England, and Australia. From that we got the Coalition of the Willing.
Isaac @ 31:
Exactly. Protesting does nothing with our current crop of "selected" asswipes, Dem and Rethug alike.
Here's what I don't get. The media reports, almost daily, evidence that the surge hasn't worked, isn't working, doesn't work ... yet what do we see? Ms. Perky Couric looking like a schoolgirl awed by General Petraeus' manly manliness, another dog-and-pony tour of a faked-up marketplace, and a 'debate' that the surge will work if we just give it time.
So why are we, the American people, even entertaining this nonsense? I mean, if Osama were on the other side of a deep chasm, and Bush kept telling us our soldiers could leap across, do you think, MAYBE after 3,700+ dead and 27,000+ wounded, we might think he was snorting pixie dust? Why do a bunch of Congresscritters think otherwise?
"We're fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here."
Truer words were never spoken. It's just that the 'them' refers to two different groups:
"We're fighting terrorists over there, so we don't have to fight the Bush Administration / FOX Brownshirts over here."
Scorecard:
al-Qaeda: 3,027 Americans killed on 9/11.
Destroyed three skyscrapers.
Did not change America's manufacturing capability.
Did not damage America's agricultural industry.
Bunch of stupid videos by an arsewipe who's been 'hiding in a cave' for six years.
Bush: 3,700+ Americans killed as a result of a war waged on false pretenses
27,000+ Americans injured/maimed, same cause
Habeas Corpus denied American citizens on unproven (and later withdrawn) charges.
Posse Comitatus altered to allow domestic use of military on presidential whim.
USA-PATRIOT Act passed (with help from Democrats), provisions still being overturned and other 'lesser-known' provisions still popping up to bite us in the ass.
FISA gutted because Alberto Gonzales couldn't handle the paperwork.
Military Commissions Act authorizes torture.
Ignored regional/religious tensions, toppled a Sunni country to have it replaced with a Shiite majority parliament and a shiny new neighbor to our other favorite Shiite regime, Iran.
Who, again, has done more damage to the country?
Who, again, has decided we need to live in fear?
Why are we giving this man's words and reasoning continued credence?
33 Shadowgm
Brilliant... wish I had thought of that one!!
Who's done more damage to the world?
There is ONE WORD that will bring this Stupid, personal war of Bush's to an end.
DRAFT !!
A line from the indie film "Dill Scallion"-
"Don't sh*t in my mouth and call it a sundae!"
The war should end because it's wrong, wrong, seriously wrong.
Not because chimpy's surge isn't working.
repugs can kiss my ass
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What's worse fakeass repugs (the perpetual decending 29%ers?)
OR
Pissed off dems?
If dems don't get on the quick ball and do what the majority want, I know others that will.
Isaac @ 31:
I was out of the country with no access to info...so I didn't get this info...and no...I wasn't in a cave somewhere...........but I was on a remote stretch of coast in Mexico...
XuYu @ 26:
Au contraire, mon petit troll. I imagine that every time Mr. Bush does his 'we will stay there until the job is done,' they fall down laughing.
XuYu @ 26:
PLEASE!!!! That is a tired defense, and indefensible. I guess you think simply continuing to shop has made America safer, too....
XuYu @ 26:
...and this is all I have to say about that.
XuYu @ 26:
This is from someone who is ..1....sarcastic or 2...A Fixed news loyalist.......we report...you decide......IF this is #2......sheesh....do some research...
I STILL don't see why you (and the rest of the media) keep calling this fiasco a "surge." It isn't a surge, it's a SPLURGE. Look at this way. If you were invested in a hot stock, say early Google, and that stock was skyrocketing with no end in sight, why on earth would you sell short? Why did Prick Shamey predict a "quagmire" when he was in the service of George Sr. but join the chorus of Yay-sayer neocons supporting the Iraqi invasion under George Jr.? Duh! In the interrim, he was CEO of Halliburton. The Bush Dynasty has been heavily involved in war profiteering since the git-go. As long as the War goes on, the multinationals like Halliburton and its sub, KBR, along with all the other non-competitive-bid profiteers (Wolfpack, Custer Battles, et al.) are raking in billions of our tax dollars. There is no incentive to kill the goose laying all those golden eggs. A proper surge would have been something like John McCain was talking about in 2004: a commitment of, say, 300,000 to 500,000 troops to the fray. But that was politically unpopular. Bush only resorted to his "surge" once Rummy was booted, as one of Rummy's biggest blunders was claiming the war could be won with severely limited troop numbers. This time, it's a SPLURGE. That's where you make "a showy display" (Webster's). All Bush thinks he has to do is show some progress in places like Anbar, and he can justify staying on. He wants to claim for posterity that the Democratic president who takes over in 2009 ended the war just when success was in the offing; that way, he doesn't look so bad in the history books. That way, they can get just enought idiots to visit to pay for the air conditioning at the Presidential Library in Dallas. It ain't a surge, it's a SPLURGE!
Splurge. I like that.
Neo-con ejaculate all over Iraq.
Turds have a purpose.
So does Dubya, who for years has aspired to be a turd.
XuYu @ 26:
And in the twisted world of neocons and fascists everywhere, information is the true enemy. The single thing that keeps a free society free is the ready availability and access to the truth.
Does this make Petraeus the "Surge on General"?
And the truth is that this illegal and immoral war is and has always been a disaster. We are a poorer and less safe nation as a result. The war criminals that have brought us to this place should be tried and convicted of their crimes.
Dubya knows he is guilty of war crimes and admitted this to the American people when he signed legislation that retroactively protected him from prosecution of war crimes.
stay the course, same old horse. this dorkwad will only change by force.
if only congress had the guts to do what the majority of Americans want,
stop the insanity.
hfffff ahhhh, the smell of roasting beef ribs on a hot Indiana afternoon....oh wait, thats the smell of eviscerated metal and burning flesh.
XuYu @ 26:
Hi flamebait, nice to meet you!
Shared Humanity @ 47:
Which is getting harder and harder to find......we have to really dig for the truth....and even then....we can't believe everything we read.......but that's what the neocons want....confusion
No confusion.......
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c044c61dfd
CensoredFan @ 54:
LOL.......you folks find some of the funniest stuff.....thanks....that put a smile on my face....I think I'l leave now..while I'm still in a good mood.....thanks again...
“Beginning in October 2007 the Department of Homeland Security will open a new office called the National Applications Office (NAO) charged with civil/domestic intelligence gathering.”
This new division of Homeland Security was conceived entirely by the Executive Branch, with no Congressional input, and will serve as a clearinghouse for requests to access the data provided by military spy satellites, with a resolution of inches, to view the territorial United States. During the hearing Charles Allen, Assistant Secretary for Intelligence & Analysis told Chairman Bennie Thompson that their legal and civil rights oversite concerns were misplaced.”
w is good at stealing freedom.
Unbelievable. OBL will love this.
Geez.
I think someone should try protesting at the White House, but appeal to Bush's heart rather than villify him. He's a self confessed 'crier' and prays for guidance constantly, so instead of criticising him directly people should try and appeal to his sensitive christian side.
Maybe stage an antiwar protest this Christmas, holding a giant banner "War is over... if you want it" and playing the famous John Lennon song. I would actually go so far as to bring out xmas trees and give presents to passerbys who would be curious at the spectacle. Other people could hold up signs in the theme of the song and trying to appeal to his christianity- "Merry Xmas, President Bush" and "Another year over, what have you done?". No Bush paper cutout faces and no fringe groups and their pet causes, just an appeal to the president to change.
I'd end the protest as a silent protest, with everyone putting down their signs and simply turning their backs to the white house. I can't think of a more powerful statement than to have Americans turn their backs on this president, this white house and its policies.
What Bush needs to realize is there are many forms of terrorism. Islamic terrorism is real and exists, but so does Christian terrorism. He terrorizes that part of the world with his policies, and terrorizes Americans with his pro-God fearmongering.
My goal with any protest wouldnt be to embolden him a little bit more by calling him names or driving a wedge, but to try and make him think about what he's doing and make him cry a little bit more.
Starting October 1, I am going outside with a sign saying "Go Find OBL!" for the military spy satellites spying on Americans.
Then I will flip them off and moon them.
Geez.
Al qaeda’s numbers are only 3% to 5% of the total sunni insurgency!
If we’re in iraq to fight “al qaeda”, the terrorists responsible for 9/11, why do we need 160,000 american solidiers to thwart a force estimated to be at best 3,000?
Is “Al Qaeda’s” force of 3000 so much better organized, armed and equipped that they’ve been able to defeat 160,000 american soldiers?
Is “Al Qaeda’s” force of 3000 solely responsible for the nearly 4000 American deaths thus far?
How many american’s were killed by Sunnis or Shiites? How many Al Qaeda have been killed by American troops in iraq?
Who is doing the killing of the hundreds of thosands of Iraqi civilians?
Al Qaeda isn’t the reason for all the killing that’s going on in Iraq. George W. Bush is!
"[I]t is estimated that foreigners make up at least 70 percent of al Qaeda's 1,000 to several thousand fighters. Other estimates suggest al Qaeda's numbers around 850, about 3 to 5 percent of the Sunni insurgency."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_Iraq
[Please don't post good info in All caps. It will in all likelihood be deleted-Sitemonitor]
Whose bombs? American bombs or Iraqui bombs? Who did the bombing. These bombs don't go around bombing things on their own.
Iraq is approx. 160000 sq. miles. We sent in what, an additional 20 to 30000 troops in the supposed "surge"?? Let's pretend (I know the number is high) that we have 200,000 troops there plus the new "surge" troops. That means we technically have 1 troop for every square mile of Iraq? And this is supposed to control a country how? Bring in the draft and watch how fast this occupation is ended.
And after Laura Bush excoriated us for getting all freaked out about, "the one-car-bomb-a-day" that she thinks means nothing--- safe as any Indiana marekt in summer. What lies and propaganda won't they spout??
XuYu @ 26:
Tee hee hee. How much Kool-aid you had to drink today?? Better lay off the stuff, it's not good for your liver or brain.
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