I was going to mention the Rough Riders (Saskatchewan and Ottawa) as opposed to the Red Ryders, but a nimble-fingered poster got there before me. Ah, fleeting glory…

To some people, everything to do with Canada is “red”, but the newly minted (neo)Conservative minority Prime Minister Stephen Harper is doing his best to send the country back to the middle ages, to good and evil, to the “shoot first and ask questions later” mentality.

Read this pile of verbal diarrhoea (can you have a pile of verbal diarrhoea?) from Canada’s very own Ann Coulter clone, Rachel Marsden, that sets out her views on Petraeus and Bush. Where do these people come from? I think I’m losing hope.

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Marsden_Rachel/2007/09/17/4502853-sun.php

we’ve had the purge, then the surge, next the merge…

the last of them must be the dirge, which has already been played for nearly 4,000 Americans and probably a million innocent Iraqis, if there ever was such a thing as an innocent Iraqi.

Didn’t Betrayus say that the insurgency is in its last throes? Didn’t he claim victory by saying that the mission was accomplished? Or was his performance like my San Francisco 49ers rallying cry, “Wait ‘til next year!”?

I understand that Alan Greenscum has quickly recanted what he wrote (in his book) about the Iraq invasion being largely about oil. He says now that he didn’t mean oil, he meant vinegar. He is running away from his own words so fast that even Mitchell cannot catch him.

I only have one problem with this article. 

“Q. Does fighting one hurt the other?
A. There used to be two teams in the Canadian Football League called the Red Ryders. But if you beat one, it didn’t mean you got credit for two victories in the standings.”

Although it is a good joke, there were two CFL teams called the “Rough Riders” - not the “Red Ryders”.  Apparently, the Red Ryder was a comic book cowboy in the 1940s.

The Surge(tm) working is such a joke that I now greet soldiers here in Baghdad with it.

Them: “What’s up?”
Me: “Same ol’ same ol’, but at least the Surge is working.”

The joke is, we know it’s not working. We knew it wouldn’t work beforehand.

If a strategy is working, you keep using it. Since Petraeus is recommending that the surge(tm) brigade redeploy on time and W is expected to abide by it, it’s a pretty tacit admission of failure.

Granted, if the Generals really had their way, we’d ALL be here and not go home until it was won [again].

What the General didn’t say is that not one of the “gains” we’ve been having was worth the blood of our soldiers, and the Iraqis fighting Al-Qaeda? That’s only proof that they can defend and govern themselves.

All this reconstruction? Parks? Hospitals? He means to tell us that this “progress” couldn’t have been made without bloodshed?

American Blood, Iraqi Freedom!

Most of what Durst said and says is the truth. Just wrapped up in funny bits to keep us all from crying at what has become of our country.

With out Gonzo, Bush has a new partner.  The General said ” security gains since the “surge” have been “uneven.”  and Bush says the war is “evolving.”  So this means the war is evolving unevenly, or the war is unevenly evolving?  What a hoot!  So this is mission accomplised, we are turning the corner?

The Bush administration has been nothing but a bunch of one liners.  So sad.

The hell of it is, that could have been an actual briefing by the Presidents’ designated Liar…er Press Agent.
Many R’s are incensed here in East Texas,and elsewhere, over the ‘shabby’ treatment afforded Petraeus.
The shabby treatment that their hired guns afforded John Kerry was an entirely different matter, though.
The shabby treatment afforded wounded soldier’s at Walter Reed was due to the dern Democrat’s. Details of that lie are still being worked out.
Made me sad when I read the part about Dem’s running like 12yo girls from a hairy spider…sad because it had an element of truth to it.
Yeah, some bad mouthed Petraeus at the hearing, but when it comes to doing the right thing, they borrow Shrubs’ ‘just be patient’ strategy. Bummer.