When I see Bush and Rove together I can only think of the “Pinky and the Brain” cartoon series. I don’t think it takes much imagination to match the cartoon character with the appropriate flesh and blood empty suit. The Brain’s purpose was to takeover the earth with Pinky’s help. Predictably their plans ended in failure by the end of every episode. Sounds eerily familiar that we have had a foreign policy determined by episodes of an old cartoon series for the last six years. The producers should be suing for plagiarism. At least the original was funny - the latest White House version is anything but.

A name for Bush’s war, lagaresh?  Hmmm, well, in the 1740s there was the “War of Jenkins’ Ear”; howsabout with a nod to Old Grunt, there, we call this one “The War of Bush’s Balls”?

“THE ETERNAL PENANCE OF GEORGE W. BUSH”
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On November 7 the US people are going to prove to the rest of the world that Bush and cronies misunderestimated the intelligence and heart of their voting public.

We win on the seventh of November, after which we pressure Congress to bring our troops home STAT and to cancel this Iran war, and then to impeach President George W. Bush.  After that he’ll be on his way to the International Court of Criminal Justice where he’ll be tried for his crimes against humanity - “Have the jurors reached a decision?”  “We have, your honor.  Guilty as charged.”

The people who read and post comments on blogs (left or right) are arguably the best informed voters in America, but they represent a fraction of the electorate. The vast majority of voters depend exclusively on the corporate owned mass media for news. Which as most of realize is the propaganda arm of the Republican party. Even so, I’ll bet a majority of viewers spend more time watching sitcoms, girls-gone-wild commercials and wrestling than they do the news. A majority of the majority are stone ignorant of everything that is apparent to those of us worried about the impending collapse our economy, our country and our way of life.

It is also a fact that majority of eligible voters don’t vote in midterm elections, which is the one glimmer of hope for those of us who take our citizenship responsibilities seriously. Republicans have more reason to rig this election than any before, so we must assume they will do it again. Be alert and watchful for glitches and snafus when you vote. Report any suspicious events you see. When you return home document what you saw and suspect and post on all the blogs you frequent.

The mass media ignored the clear and abundant improprieties which occurred in past elections and will do so again. This time we must raise a stink they can’t ignore. Look for long lines, voting machine glitches, voters being declared ineligible and turned away, anything that you think might be a tactic to influence the outcome. Then follow up with emails to your local newspaper and to your representatives.

Stop Republicans from stealing another election.

You are right “old grunt” when you said, “This president has made mistakes but he never waivers.”  He doesn’t waiver, he just stays the course and keeps compounding the mistakes.

You also said, “He’s got a set of balls and isn’t afraid of using them, unlike “we must be politically correct” clinton leadership.”  I would say that one who continuously makes mistakes but refuses to admit to them and refuses to hold anyone acountable for them, is the one who is concerned about being “politically correct”.  A leader would admit to mistakes and hold accountable those who made them.  A politican is only concerned about his image and staying in power.  Bush is no leader.

For Bush to now blatantly repudiate the term “stay the course” reminds me of my time in the Army. In Basic Training we’d occasionally have one of these Generals give a long-winded speech, and almost invariably he’d screw up a line of thought at some point. It was at that instant that he’d say “As You Were,” which is military-speak for “Forget everything I’ve just said, THIS is what I REALLY meant to say.”

Same thing with Bush. He repeats a catchphrase countless times (and has it recorded for posterity just as many countless times) and then has the sack to look into the camera and deny he ever said it to begin with.

Thank God I’m a country boy. And a Democrat.

funny thing: I posted this earlier and it got “lost” somehow . . .

”...politicians have never known what they were doing in Iraq…”

And neither, apparently, have you or any of your cohorts here save Scheer, who got fired for saying it.

It’s really not that we invaded and occupied Iraq to steal control of her oil, it is rather that we fear more than anything the result of NOT stealing oil. What triggered the great depression of 29 and sank Enron and Argentina wasn’t the FACT of bankruptcy but was instead the attendant loss of confidence of the people in what were supposed to be the Titanics of the economic world.

I understand that it is not in our interest to admit that we coveted, lied, stole, and murdered for Iraq’s oil, but the reason we did that wasn’t just because it is there a la Willie Sutton, but because of what will happen if we do not steal oil from someone somewhere. Even so, the thefts won’t keep us from economic disaster, just put off the denouement for a while longer so we can pass the desperate times on to our children and grandchildren.

Gore Vidal . . . Chomsky . . . Dreyfuss . . . Palast . . . Floyd . . . Herbert . . . Scheer (once, but not any more) . . . all of the above admit why we went to Iraq, but none to my knowledge want to talk about what happens if we don’t steal oil, and how soon the real issue will have to be confronted.

You’re wrong, Joe. The Bush admin knows exactly what they’re doing. Exxon-Mobil had record profits AGAIN. No one craps on their place in history unless they’re blinded by greed, or bought and paid for.
The occupation of Iraq will continue until the oil is gone or Western oil companies control all the profit. They will buy Democrats and Republicans and assassinate heads of state who divert oil profits to their citizens. Only way to stop ‘em is to stop using oil. Can we have our Democracy back when all the oil is gone?

-Ev

acquired from another , but here for a laugh

Boowweeep! Boowweep! Booweep!

Dive! Dive! Truth detection device targeting USS Rove!
Dive Dive Dive!

‘Snowy, this is Cptn. Mephisto! Can you give me any more speed?!’

‘Sorry Cap’n, I’m givin’ ya all she’s got!’

‘Then send in the clowns! That’s an order!’

‘Aye aye Cap’n!’

(Clowns assemble on the bridge)

‘OK, Condi, fly to London, jerk Straw out of bed, then hot foot it over to Baghdad and start to threaten Maliki!

Donny, get in front of the cameras and talk about the unknown unknowable that was suspected but was actually a unconfirmed confirmation! DOUBLE TIME PRIVATE!

You three generals! Get a school painted and report back to me!

Mr. President; you are doing just fine, a heck of a job! Just keep doing what you’re doing.’

Boowweeep Boowweeep Boowweeep!

**************

Old Grunt is nuts.

1) More people actually voted for Al Gore.

2) Having a set of balls means standing up for what you believe in. Mr. “I’m so Christian” Bush doesn’t know the first thing about love (which was Jesus’ main message). All he knows is lie, cheat and steal. He hasn’t once even tried to settle thing peacefully. How many people need to die before the Old Grunts get it.

Bush got “balls”?  They were never functional anyway and now they have been crushed by the Iraqi Militants.  What we can only see is the spectacle of him trying to energize something that even Cialis cannot!

Nobody ever said George was brainy
Daddy said, Don’t worry, you’ll have Dick Cheney
You can rely on him as your vice
And you won’t have to even think twice

Dick knows all the big money guys
And he’ll have you promising pies in the skies
The gullible public will swallow it whole
And, after all, their vote is the goal

You have Karl Rove for the dirty tricks
He’ll fix whatever is needing a fix
He’ll take care of the nefarious schemes
While you’re selling the voters on your dreams

And in your own inarticulate way
You’ll have them asking, “What did he say?”
You can say one thing when you mean another
And they’ll all be thinking of you as a brother

They can listen to whatever you say
And try to interpret it in their own way
The public will hear what they want to hear
And when you’ve finished, they’ll all give a cheer

When it’s all said and done, we’ll all be wealthy
Who cares if our country is extremely unhealthy
Our national debt will be plumb out of sight
While our armies continue this winless fight

Don’t even think about the thousands of dead
Or the maimed and wounded confined to their bed
Don’t worry about all the lives you have shattered
You got your second term and that’s all that mattered

Old Grunt says that George has a set of balls and isn’t afraid of using them. He’s talking about a guy that sat out Vietnam on an Alabama barstool. Took flying lessons at the expense of the taxpayer and didn’t show up for his flight physical so that he would be taken off flight status. Doesn’t take balls to send other people to fight. Right now George has killed more Americans than Osama. We wont count dead Iraqis, who, incidentally, never did a damn thing to us, to deserve what we are doing to them.

The “outsourcing” of a solition to the fiasco in Iraq to the Baker Commission is indeed a stunning admission of failure and incompetence on the part of the State Department, Defense Department, NSC, and the President, and even the Congress. One thing we need to do is begin making preparations to receive thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of Iraqis who collaborated with us. When our troops leave they will follow. There are parts of Texas where the environment is similar to that of Iraq. Perhaps we should settle them there.

Those who seem impressed with the rumor that Deputy Dubya Bush has “balls” ought to recognize the awful disasters that have ensued because he attempts—and fails—to think with them.

Then, too, I don’t remember seeing him or Sheriff Dick Cheney in Vietnam during my tour-and-a-half there. No one else did either. Their woeful inexperience with real war has now come to bitter fruition for America and Iraq because they never understood what H. G. Wells meant when he said: “The first man to raise a fist is the one who has run out of ideas.”

Little balls and even smaller brains go ill together.

Red Rover Red Rover send another 200,000 over to

INCLUDING

the lazy pentagon 10-2pm workers,

the RED senators and RED house members,

the lobby boys from K-street (30,000 strong) ,

and every RED voter that supports

this BANKRUPT Incompetent Katrina War

Machine!!!!!

We welcome all in the IED Ritz Carlton Sandbox!

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061026/26ir aq.htm

It’s beginning to look like the fix is in. Why else would Bush, Rove and company keep insisting there will be no significant change in congress from the coming election? Take a clue from Ohio, where already it has been made clear that many absentee ballots will not be counted. It doesn’t matter what is said about the war, or anything else. It’s a matter of who owns the voting machines.

in response to Rolf

-Well sadly only 122,267,553 votes were registered in the 2004 election. Our population is now 300,000,000 (not sure what it was in 2004). He got 50.7% of 122,267,553 or less than 62,000,000 votes.

-Im befuddled by the TOTAL lack of accountability that seems to be taking over here. When absolute absurdities can be claimed by the President in public without ANY real accountability for his lies. However, the media is owned primarily by 4 major conglomerates. Thus it is easy to be controlled.

-Things are highly polarized here. Also, since there are only two real political parties people get dragged into voting for things they don’t agree with. For example, A voter has a list of priorities in mind when voting. One voter may only want to minimize taxes (the big one here) and care not for the rest of the parties platform.

The U.S. is made up of a lot of great people, in general. But massive disinformation seems to be on the rise (and was bad before). There seems to be no true authorities anymore as everyone has some agenda or another. So how do the voters know who to trust? They don’t. So they trust based on other criteria not exactly honesty.
(How else can one explain Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Al Franken, or any of the multitude of other blowhard crackpots out there?)

  B

http://b-political.blogspot.com/

This entire site consists of Monday-morning quarterbacks and “victims”. Why did folks vote for Bush? Because they were tired of the Clinton leadership that flowed with public opinion. The idiots that support the theory that 9-11 was a product of our governmnent are just that, idiots.

This president has made mistakes but he never waivers. Ever wonder why he is so popular with the US Military? He’s got a set of balls and isn’t afraid of using them, unlike “we must be politically correct” clinton leadership.

We are the current situation with N. Korea and the various Islamic extremist because of our in-actions for 8 years, while clinton was in charge.

He has a legacy but it certainly isn’t the one he wanted. Remember, if you don’t want to patrol outside of your firebase, you cant blame the enemy when they get too close.

To Rolf, this is what happens when the other 50% try to impose their moral, tax relief, religious values on the rest of the population. They are not satified with there current status, they need to MORE power and more influence. They need to take a hard look at todays problems, they created them, it’s called GREED

In as much as I have been opposed to the Iraq war by the so called coalition of the willing (including Australia) I hope the Repubs hold on to Congress after 7/11 so that the US can get the politicians they deserve.

How do you admit you lost a war you started? That’s what Bush would have to do if he wanted to acknowledge reality. He can’t admit to losing, and being wrong, just as none of these right-wingers can. So he won’t.

Dan Froomkin’s 25/10 (writing it the way Australia and the rest of the world does) column in the Washington Post has an explanation, in the Commander-in-Chimp’s own words, about why he says “we’re winning.” The only way we would “lose” Bush-it told a clavern of right-wing reporters is if the troops withdrew. So as long as there are troops in Iraq, no matter how bad the situation, the U.S. hasn’t “lost.” All this death, just so he won’t have to concede defeat.

I have a name for the Bush’s war, it can be called Katrina II or Titanic II.  This war is a colossal failure. Mr. Snow did honor to his last name in trying to explain the administration take on the issue, a real snow job.  Wake up America!!!!!!

George Bush has always had his daddy and his daddy’s friends to clean up the messes that he made especially all of his failed businesses. But this time neither Jim Baker nor all the Arab oil money in the world can clean up the mess he has made in Iraq. Iraq is equivalent to a massive oil spill that is on fire. The fire will burn itself out in lost lives. Unfortunatly lost American lives will be part of this.

Can someone explain me WHY?

- Have more than 50% of the American people supported and then re-elected Bush?
- So few of the rotten lies about 9-11, “war on terror”, WMDs, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea…. are openly discussed by the big media? (Isn’t USA a free country?)
- Are so many Americans afraid of “changing their minds” even after so many evidences of failures, mistakes?

... I think I have a clue:

Watch at:

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/3755686.stm