(UPDATE: The GOP is in a panic over the legacy of this administration and its effect on November elections. See below the fold.)
We all know Dear Leader has no shame, but here’s yet another example of his terror alert leash jerking and fearmongering, intimating that electing a Democrat will lead to disaster if the U.S. withdraws from Iraq.
President Bush warned in an interview Tuesday that the Democratic presidential candidates’ plans to withdraw abruptly from Iraq could “eventually lead to another attack on the United States” and would “embolden” terrorists.I hate to break it to his highness, but he f*cked up the whole region with his Big Military Adventure. It’s hard to imagine anyone screwing over both this country and Iraq any more than he has.In a White House interview with Politico and Yahoo News — a president’s first for an online audience — Bush said his doomsday scenario for a premature withdrawal “of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”
In the interview, he also shows how he prays away any guilt at sending young Americans to perish fighting military battles based on his bad judgment and Darth’s dark hand. God’s comfort is all these families need, not an apology from the man sitting in the Oval Office.
His Christian faith has increased in office, since “part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord, and that’s a daily occurrence.”And what can only be described as the public ramblings of a sociopath, our president said he shows his solidarity with families who have lost loved ones in his military misadventure by...not going out on the links anymore. I’m not sh*tting you.“Obviously, there’s been some tough moments in here,” he said. “When you know that somebody lost their loved one as a result of a decision that I made, that’s a tough moment. If you’re a faithful person, you try to empathize with the suffering that that person is going through. On the other hand, there is a knowledge that the good Lord can comfort during these moments of grief. And that’s what I ask for in my prayer.”
O.M.G.Bush also said he gave up golf in 2003 out of respect for U.S. soldiers killed in the war, which has now lasted more than five years.
“I didn’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
UPDATE: The Republicans on the Hill are so embarrassed and frustrated by the anchor of the Bush legacy that they aren’t even hiding their fear that the whirlpool of sludge is pulling them under.
Lots of very glum faces among House GOP members this morning as they emerged from their weekly closed-door session. The political situation is not good, and they aren’t even trying to deny it.Rep. Tom Davis stomped on the concrete floor of the Capitol basement when asked by reporters about Republican fortunes at the moment. “This is the floor,” he said, by way of explanation. “We’re below the floor.”
Inside the meeting, Davis had just presented his colleagues with what he said was a 20-page memo outlining his prescription for a way out of this mess. He did not offer details to the press, yet did not spare the party and the president scathing criticism in his public comments.
“The president swallows the microphone every time he opens his mouth,” Davis said.
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“On the other hand, there is a knowledge that the good Lord can comfort during these moments of grief. And that’s what I ask for in my prayer.”
Comfort for whom? The families of the dead soldiers, or himself?
I’m guessing the former. He probably never doubts himself enough to need comforting in the first place.
what.a.fucking.nitwit.
“Comfort for whom? The families of the dead soldiers, or himself?”
The comfort is for Bush - god’s just reminding him he made the right decision to go to war.
Of course, he ALWAYS makes the right decision. He’s the most error-free person in human history.
As far as the families go, they don’t have real feelings because they aren’t wealthy and influential enough. Therefore no comfort is needed…
It all makes a lot of sense when you’re a narcissistic sociopath with delusions of grandeur…
Riding his Bike daily … that’s another matter entirely.
“somebody lost their loved one” of course only applies to Americans … not the several million Iraqi’s that have lost a family member.
Well, he’s right about something. A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man!
Seriously, embetter? That’s certainly not a cromulent word.
I mean, whenever he says something nowadays, i just sigh and ignore him.
Embetter?
EMBETTER????
Mother of fuck, this nightmare cannot end too soon.
I hope Bush and Co., have an opportunity to experience everything that they have implimented for their so-called enemies.
He should play golf more and STAY AWAY from the office. Heck, I’ll pay for the round. His decider-ing days are over.
“Embetter” is a perfectly cromulent word.
Aww, you missed the BESTEST PART:
So let me get this straight: Bush comes up with this ridiculous, pathetic example of “caring” and “empathy” and “sacrifice”…and he still has to lie about it?
Several people already beat me to it, but yes, “embetter” is certainly a “cromulent” word. I’m not sure if it’s funny or just plain pathetic that after hearing a BushQuote, I think of the Simpsons.
I always picture his handlers sitting somewhere right out of the public eye doing the headdesk thing every time he opens his mouth. I get that some people are not good off the cuff speakers, but come on.
While certainly cromulent, the word is still obsolescent.
Still misused though. “to embetter…” is redundant. One embetters oneself or one tries to better oneself.
And Dorothy is right, Bush just enlied. Color me unsurprised.
“Bush comes up with this ridiculous, pathetic example of “caring” and “empathy” and “sacrifice”…and he still has to lie about it?”
How do you tell if Bush is lying? His lips move…
Or Condi’s lips move. Or Cheney’s. Or Dana Perino’s. Or Laura’s.
Etc., etc., etc…
Rep. Tom Davis stomped on the concrete floor of the Capitol basement when asked by reporters about Republican fortunes at the moment. “This is the floor,” he said, by way of explanation. “We’re below the floor.”
I hate to pick nits, but these guys can’t even get that straight.
If they were in the Capitol basement, he should have been pointing to the ceiling, not stamping on the floor.
I’m just waiting for them to zip off their skins and show what they really are.
I’m with Squashed… let’s use some of our taxpayer dollars to get him and Darth Cheney out on the links and away from the big red button that says “Bomb Iran.” (Although apparently it now says “Bomb Burma.” Clearly that’s what the people of Burma need right now…)
I wonder what Dubyah will go on to f**k up after he leaves office?
I wonder what Dubyah will go on to f**k up after he leaves office?
Well, according to Wikipedia we don’t have an ambassador to Iran …
I’m with Er. I’m well into the “sigh and ignore him” stage of my relationship with His Royal Figureheadedness.
Um…Erl, that is.
He should play golf more and STAY AWAY from the office.
The problem is that it’s getting harder and harder to find golfing partners the Secret Service will let near him with clubs in their hands…
Jeez.
You’d think I would have learned by now to pour myself a drink BEFORE clicking “play” on videos of the prez.
Apparently I am a slow learner.
(In all seriousness. this is one of these things that I can’t allow myself to seriously comment on, because my head will explode. Golf? GOLF? For the love of all that you hold holy, GOLF?)
I’m with Erl. I’m well into the “sigh and ignore him” stage of my relationship with His Royal Figureheadedness.
I was, too, until CNN trotted him out this afternoon to tell us all that The Terra-ists Are Gonna Kill Us If You Elect a Dhimmi-crat!
Now I’m back to wanting to punch his stupid vacant face every time I see it.
The worry that a withdrawal will embolden the terrorists is so fucking obscenely absurd as to defy reality, which seems to be his forte. The terrorists are bold because they have targets and goals and a willingness to act upon them. If we left, they’d still have targets and goals and a willingness to act upon them. If we wear a knit cap, they’d have targets and goals and a willingness to act upon them. If we eat green eggs and ham in a box with a fox the terrorists will have targets and goals and a willingness to act upon them. If we reduce our need for global oil supplies they’ll have targets and… oh, fuck it.
Doesn’t anyone see how obscene it is to occupy a country just so it can be a training ground for every misfit in its region? I remember there once were goals to install a democracy, fight for women’s rights, and reduce the likelihood of mass-destruction weapons proliferation. But now it only seems to be about some bizarre notion that they’ll all pack up and move to Manhattan if we withdraw our troops. I think there are more effective ways to reduce that likelihood than spending billions of dollars a day to fund a massive occupation of Iraq.
What gets me about this whole “if we leave we’ll embolderate the terra-ists” meme is that I thought they claimed our invading Iraq had made us safer.
We’ve defeated the terra-ists, or at least beat them up badly, right? They shouldn’t have the ability to attack us again for decades, right?
OK, so if we leave, that might enheartenate them, but we’ve been winning, right? Turning corners every Friedman Unit?
B/c the US took out the Nazis and Japanese in less time than we’ve been in Iraq.
We’re building a Disney-like theme park and the markets are like those in Indiana! The Iraqis love us and want us to stay, but we don’t have to, do we?
I didn’t think that when they said “fight them over there so we don’t fight them over here” they meant we were supposed to stay there as targets forever.
Aren’t we winning? Doesn’t the librul msm lie to us and only say bad things–Cheney said so just last week!
To be honest, I’d rather take a chance on terrorists coming here than to keep sending our soldiers there to kill and be killed.
Please please please let me live long enough to see Bush and Cheney et. al. swing at the Hague.
In case you think Bush can’t do more madness. He just do something weird.
He acts like there is WWIII
http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=161&a=6475
Washington announced at the end of last month that it is resurrecting the long-ago moth-balled Fourth Fleet to reassert US power in the Caribbean and Latin America. Created at the time of World War II to combat German submarines attacking merchant shipping convoys in the South Atlantic, the Fourth Fleet was seen as no longer necessary after the Second World War and was disbanded in 1950.
The Pentagon’s a statement on the revival of the fleet gave a far vaguer indication of its new duties, saying it would “conduct varying missions including a range of contingency operations, counter narco-terrorism, and theater security cooperation activities.”
In other words, since our war in Iraq isn’t bringing us enough oil, we’re getting ready to invade Venezuela and overthrow Hugo Chavez as well.
Nicely played, Republican assholes.
This is major naval force realignment. The kind of things that happens only every 20-30 year or major world war. (I mean even during the gulf war we didn’t change the naval structure.)
(I mean even during the gulf war we didn’t change the naval structure.)
Yes, because during the first Gulf War we weren’t planning to invade any major South American countries to get their oil. Now we’re planning to invade Venezuela, so we need to change the naval structure to do so. Very simple, really.
“conduct varying missions including a range of contingency operations, counter narco-terrorism, and theater security cooperation activities.”
…which translates to:
We are creating yet another way to channel money out of the pockets of the proles and into the pockets of the wealthy and influential via the Military-Industrial Complex. And don’t ask why - We’re Republicans, it’s what we do…duh!
And if you think Blackwater is great now, wait ’til you see them ON the water! Blackbeard’s got nothing on us!…
I found this line to be particularly troubling:
“If you’re a faithful person, you try to empathize with the suffering that that person is going through.”
OK, so what the fuck does “faith” have to do with empathy anyways? If anything, I think his concept of “pray away the guilt” is about the farthest thing from empathy that I can think of. This is the kind of statement that makes me… a generally mild-mannered atheist, want to go out and throttle the nearest…
wait… wait… the moment passed. I’m better now. Still, though, empathy has nothing to do with faith. Most of us feel empathy because we are human. If you need faith to find your empathy, you’ve got some serious problems.
“our president said he shows his solidarity with families who have lost loved ones in his military misadventure by…not going out on the links anymore.”
Funny that didn’t stop him from dancin in public during the war:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqy91GnS-Bg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO65EMBtFjA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIHphRDIMGo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZnpCzitmUA
“our president said he shows his solidarity with families who have lost loved ones in his military misadventure by…not going out on the links anymore.”
Funny that didn’t stop him from dancin in public during the war:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqy91GnS-Bg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO65EMBtFjA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIHphRDIMGo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZnpCzitmUA
What’s the chance that Davis’ 20-page memo isn’t just a rehash of the same tired right-wing campaign strategies? About the only difference is likely to be a suggestion that the Repuglican congresscritters decline offers from Commander Codpiece to campaign with them.
I’m sorry, forgive my ranting, but if I don’t let myself have an angry moment here I’m going to start breaking things in my apartment:
My little brother just got back from Afghanistan. He lost three friends (already overseas) while he was in training stateside, and another five comrades while in Afghanistan himself. One of them was blown to pieces before his very eyes. He has PTSD, which he himself cannot refer to directly, but which is immensely apparent to the trained eye.
AND BUSH GAVE UP GOLF? To send THE RIGHT MESSAGE?
Okay. I’m done. Can’t. be. rational. anymore.
Now I have to turn of the laptop before I smash it.
Please forgive my rather explosive emergence from lurkerhood. Couldn’t contain myself this time.
What can be said the man if you could call it that is a total disgrace to the human race