Dub Ducks Validating The Iraq Report...
A columnist in my newspaper had an interesting and funny observation about our Dub. He says, "It was as if he had just figured out, after six years rolling around the Oval Office as blind as a marble, that he has a State Department and a Defense Department, and it occurred to him that maybe he ought to talk to some of the people in them." I laughed hard at that...so true.
The president's visits were blown out of proportion with photo op upon photo op, with every attention-getting device short of drum rolls and trumpet flourishes...which of course were reserved for the grandiose exit staged either to celebrate or to lament Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's firing.
And all of Dub's running around the White House...or so we were told...was in the service of Dub perfecting his eventual announcement, postponed from soon to sooner or later, of a new way forward in Iraq...forward, that is, from Mission Accomplished. And everytime I hear those two little lying words I want to start tearing wings off flies.
Dub, by attacking and occupying Iraq, would treat the Mideast to peace and democracy, the most awesome bringer of light since the Big Guy...heh heh! And by conquering Iraq with only a relative handful of troops but lots and lots of super-high-tech-stuff, Rummy would validate his new, smaller video-game army...no more of that nasty door-to-door fighting.
Seems neither bothered to heed memos from the experienced hands in the State Department and Defense who were warning that a U.S. invasion could ignite horrific internal problems in Iraq and destabilize the region unless they prepared a detailed post-combat plan. They didn't, and have been making it up as they went along ever since.
And very quickly it became patently clear that any of us that were dissenters would pay for our apostasy. Case in point...Army general Eric Shinseki...he testified to Congress that an Iraq invasion and occupation would require for success, hundreds of thousands of troops...and this guy was respected...I said WAS...they bounced his ass out the door in a hot minute. Don't forget we Dems became appeasers...and or terrorists too.
Item by item, the Dub has been dismissing the recommendations of the independent ISG. As Dub crawls around for a way out of Iraq that could also justify (in his mind) his tromping into it, it looks like the new way forward must not seem to endorse the study group's conclusions or even suggest that its deliberations were called for in the first place. Now that will take some doing. We'd all have to be brain-dead to not realise that...so I guess he really thinks we are all that stupid. Poor deluded fool-chief!
The president's visits were blown out of proportion with photo op upon photo op, with every attention-getting device short of drum rolls and trumpet flourishes...which of course were reserved for the grandiose exit staged either to celebrate or to lament Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's firing.
And all of Dub's running around the White House...or so we were told...was in the service of Dub perfecting his eventual announcement, postponed from soon to sooner or later, of a new way forward in Iraq...forward, that is, from Mission Accomplished. And everytime I hear those two little lying words I want to start tearing wings off flies.
Dub, by attacking and occupying Iraq, would treat the Mideast to peace and democracy, the most awesome bringer of light since the Big Guy...heh heh! And by conquering Iraq with only a relative handful of troops but lots and lots of super-high-tech-stuff, Rummy would validate his new, smaller video-game army...no more of that nasty door-to-door fighting.
Seems neither bothered to heed memos from the experienced hands in the State Department and Defense who were warning that a U.S. invasion could ignite horrific internal problems in Iraq and destabilize the region unless they prepared a detailed post-combat plan. They didn't, and have been making it up as they went along ever since.
And very quickly it became patently clear that any of us that were dissenters would pay for our apostasy. Case in point...Army general Eric Shinseki...he testified to Congress that an Iraq invasion and occupation would require for success, hundreds of thousands of troops...and this guy was respected...I said WAS...they bounced his ass out the door in a hot minute. Don't forget we Dems became appeasers...and or terrorists too.
Item by item, the Dub has been dismissing the recommendations of the independent ISG. As Dub crawls around for a way out of Iraq that could also justify (in his mind) his tromping into it, it looks like the new way forward must not seem to endorse the study group's conclusions or even suggest that its deliberations were called for in the first place. Now that will take some doing. We'd all have to be brain-dead to not realise that...so I guess he really thinks we are all that stupid. Poor deluded fool-chief!
The mental image of him as a marble rolling around in the oval office was perfect. Of course it insults marbles, but still.
Outstanding cartoons today.
They are dragging out this decision to make it look like he's studying all options carefully. I call bullshit on that. He knew what he was going to do all along, he's just too chicken shit to do it close to the holidays.
Just before I was about to leave this comment, blogger went crazy but seemed to recover quickly. Hope this isn't the beginning of another round of problems.
Posted by
pissed off patricia |
3:41 AM
Ya, POP, I was getting a "505" failure earlier before work. I'm waiting for Google to come out with a "Blogger Study Group." The story of the Wastrel Son continues...
Posted by
Frederick |
5:20 AM
Very good toons today. Wtih PoP on the show. The decision was made by Cheney and Fred Kagan of the AEI weeks ago. It is their only option since they refuse to admit failure. Keep pumping lives and money at it until there are none left.
Posted by
fallenmonk |
7:39 AM
We had a front page article in the newspaper about how a treasured social service agency that helps street kids is losing funding because of the Dems moratorium on earmarking. And people say we are a blue area and the media is liberal!
Posted by
PBS |
8:59 AM
I thought maybe the Dub was rolling around looking for his own marbles - something he lost long ago.
Posted by
Peacechick Mary |
5:37 PM
Wars are tricky. When you launch one, you never really know exactly how it will go and where it will end. This one in Iraq, at least in my mind, was fully predictable for the one main reason.
This sorry band of NeoCons had an unanimous decision as to what will be in the end and how to go about achieving this victorious certainty. There was an unshakeable belief that didn't need to be argued about or proven wrong. We know it all and if you don't share our view, you are an anti-American, frog eating Frenchman.
This mindset, killed the possibilities of having right information reaching the White House. Anybody who wanted to advance in their carreers had to be sensitive enough to give the right kind of "intelligence" that always supported the prevailing and wrong notions held by these men in the helm of power. "You reap what you sow" is find and dandy. However, these arrogant men seem to be skimming the cream while the citizens at large get the shaft.
Some ideology, some ideologs!
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:23 PM
The "marble" quote is quite fun.
Local reporting here: None ; (
Yep, he must've maxed his brain out in that 3 hr meeting.
The irony for me, is the notion that "now" he's attempting to figure things out. Why not at first?
Quite frustrating and enjoy the toons as always!
Cheers!
despite GW! ; (
Posted by
Coffee Messiah |
2:14 AM
If he was really looking for a way out of Iraq, he wouldn't have invited Cheney and Rice, they're only going to give the same input they did last year, last week and last month. My guess is that they'll suggest upping troop levels and attacking Iran as the only way out.
Great cartoons, once again!
Posted by
Lew Scannon |
11:39 AM
Poor lil' Dub has to go on vacation to Crawford and undecide for a few days.We always suspected both his shirt and his stocking were stuffed. LOL
Posted by
Anonymous |
3:23 PM
But ... but ... but he worked for THREE HOURS!!!!
Posted by
Fixer |
4:05 PM
The idea that he could....did..tried....sat...for three hours in a room and attempted to look engaged and like he had a Friggin' clue it quite a picture...
I love when the talking heads talk about him "studying" all the Information he gets, when we know damn well that would be The Christmas Miracle...( the Iraq Study Group Report is probally a paper weight somewhere by now).
I LOVE THE MARBLE IMAGE...I can now just picture it rolling around the office...
Edwards was just on Hardball , Tweety asked " What did you think of Bush telling people to go shopping last week?"
Edwards: " What Planet is he ON?"
GREAT POST Sumo...you rock..so glad I got my computer fixed so I could come here again....
Posted by
enigma4ever |
4:17 PM
Great entry! And that second cartoon- PERFECT!
Posted by
Chuck |
6:30 PM
Enigma, what I hear is, that Bu$h is using the ISGR as his toilet paper. "That damn fancy stuff was too thin and my fingers always poke through half way up there"!
Posted by
Anonymous |
6:55 PM
Heh heh...great comments guys!
Posted by
sumo |
10:49 PM