Bush, You’re Doing A Heck Of A Job
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Misson Accomplished, you jerk.
When he goes into the afterlife, President Bush is going to need to wear some light clothing.
You know, because of all the heat.
I’m saying he’s going to go to hell.
Now the death toll is 9/11 times two.
U.S. military deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan now surpass those of the most devastating terrorist attack in America’s history, the trigger for what came next.
The latest milestone for a country at war came Friday without commemoration. It came without the precision of knowing who was the 2,974th to die in conflict. The terrorist attacks killed 2,973 victims in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
An Associated Press count of the U.S. death toll in Iraq rose to 2,696. Combined with 278 U.S. deaths in and around Afghanistan, the 9/11 toll was reached, then topped, the same day. The Pentagon reported Friday the latest death from Iraq, an as-yet unidentified soldier killed a day earlier after his vehicle was hit by a roadside bombing in eastern Baghdad.
2,973 dead because of negligence in the face of a terrorist threat.
2,696 dead for a useless war fought for no reason.
The George W. Bush record.
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You are forgetting to add in the death count attributable to FEMA ineptitude in the wake of Katrina.
Not to mention all the non-American innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan who had nothing to do with Al Qaeda.
Not to mention that a MAJORITY of Democratic senators voted for the war. Not to mention that the governing appartus of Louisiana is Democratic, even down to the mayor of Chocolate City, AKA ‘school buses in parking lot in a flood” Nagins.
They voted for the war Dugger? You gotta be kidding. No Dugger they didn’t you are a liar.
Furthermore, no Democrat had anything to do with how badly Bush fucked up the invasion and occupation. That is entirely on Bush and his Republican enablers.
Poor Dugger, Bush lets NO drown and all he can do is make excuses. Apparently he thinks Ray Nagin should have driven those buses himself.
Dugger,
Democratic senators didn’t “vote for the war”. They voted to give the President the authority to wage war largely because he’d be in a stronger position to avoid war by wielding that big stick. I remember the President saying at the time that he was hoping that we could avoid war… don’t you?
That was a ruse, of course, he was hellbent to go into Iraq before he was even elected.
And it doesn’t matter that the “governing appartus” of Louisiana is Democratic. FEMA is the federal agency charged with managing relief efforts for disasters of that magnitude.
And FEMA didn’t just fail in Louisiana – ask the residents of Mississippi and Alabama who were devestated by Katrina as well.
dugger doesn’t like it when people point out that the codpiece screwed up in Iraq bigtime.
We sure have got our money’s worth with these incompetent bastards. A never-ending occupation with a billion-dollar price tag every 6 days or so, give or take a day. What a complete failure this guy is. Thanks a lot all you people who voted in favor of this moronic administration.
bush at one time had the stick he needed to gain access for the weapons inspectors but that of course was only part of his ruse that he was using at the time, the false appearance of wanting peace. The last thing bush wanted was for inspectors to have complete access but find there were no weapons to back up the threat to invade. It’s time to blame the man in charge.
Dugger | Sep 23, 2006 9:47:43 AM
“Not to mention that a MAJORITY of Democratic senators voted for the war …”
That you acknowledged — in another thread — both as the wrong thing to do and that it was badly executed BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
Years later, with no ‘slam dunk’ victory in sight and a strong ongoing insurgency, your solution is strategic, sloooooooow reduction of troops, dictated by in-field commanders that takes the next 50 years, if necessary.
Even you acknowlege The Decider made a mistake and your best response is ” … but the Democrats voted for war …”?
Obviously, striking back against the Japanese was a bad idea, as soon as American casualties in doing so exceeded the death toll at Pearl Harbor.
Dana, the Japanese were responible for the Pearl Harbor attacks, so striking the Japanese in defense made sense. Striking Iraq in response to 9/11 was just plain stupid, not to mention criminal.
Thankfully, we didn’t invade Peru after Pearl Harbor, like we invaded Iraq after 9/11.
Or Sweden.
Close. Tunisia.
Time Magazine, 1997:
His strongest words last week came when he said he wanted to “wipe the prospect of chemical warfare off the face of the earth…I don’t want a bunch of terrorists with laboratories in their briefcases going from airport to airport wreaking havoc in the world.” That was the kind of rhetoric Americans will need to hear more of if Clinton is to muster opinion in favor of a sustained conflict.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article
/0,9171,987402-3,00.html
No matter how many times he’s shown to be wrong, Dugger will keep saying “the democrats voted for the war.”
Why? Because pathetic lies are all these boys have left.
Likewise, I’m sure SaveFarris will go on comparing Bush’s invasion of Iraq to things like the allied invasion of Tunisia, in hopes that someone out there will be ignorant enough of history to be impressed.
I wasn’t impressed, and I am ignorant of history. I’ve just seen so many of Farris’ arguments be easily disputed. I figure everything he spouts is like that now.
Glad to hear it, Rounds, but for future reference, four days after Pearl Harbor, Germany and Italy declared war on us.
Before any of our troops made it across the atlantic, Germany had already invaded Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Greece, France, Britain and, yes, Tunisia, just to name a few.
S,
Reading comprehension a problem? I do believe as pres I would not have gone into Iraq as Republicans and Democrats decided to do. However, none of us, at this point, know if it was a mistake. If Iraq were to stabilize and modernize, it would be a big success. I think, but don’t know that that won’t happen.
And yes, children, Democrats voted for war. Of course I am right, but if you doubt, I give you, Tada!!!:
“I was wrong,” Edwards wrote in a guest column published Sunday in The Washington Post. “It was a mistake to vote for this war in 2002. I take responsibility for that mistake.”
Now brilliant children all (but maybe a few of you were in fact left behind) why do you suppose Senator Edwards called it a war vote??????
Anyone??? Mal, Midder, S.?????
Be careful, this one is about to blow up in your faces again. Better to admit defeat at the hands of the Almighty Dugger and go back to grousing about the MD senate race or Birkenstock’s quality control.
Head still up your ass, Dugger?
Dugger | Sep 25, 2006 7:55:13 AM
“However, none of us, at this point, know if it was a mistake.”
I understand. In your view, we should wait until our children’s children’s children’s children are born to truly know if invading Iraq was a successful or unsuccessful decision.
Why is it unreasonable for the non-Dugger public to question TODAY’S strategy of the war knowing
– there were no ‘slam dunk stashes of WMD’
– that Iraq’s oil is clearly not paying for the war
– the insurgency that, according to Cheney, was in its last throes, remains strong after 3 years with no sign of abatement?
If Bush could be president for 10 more years and you had 5 sons of varying ages who all eventually served and died in Iraq, you’d be proud and still hopeful of Iraq’s budding stability?
Dugger, I’m encouraged you had the discipline to put the bottle down while you’re posting. This has been one of your most coherent posts. Good for you!
As with other GOP clusterfuc*s, the Iraq boondoggle is to be blamed on the minority party that controls neither executive nor legislative branch of government. What a dittohead the dugster is.
Well, I notice the chirrens have piped down about it not being a “war vote”. It was a war vote and a majority of Democrats supported the war. It is to their cradit that they surrendered – uhh- strategically withdrawn from this one.
My Name is Dugger, King of Posters: Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
No matter how Dugger wants to spin it, the Congress never voted to declare war, merely to empower the President to use military force if deemed necessary as a last resort. Edwards’ description of the matter as a “war vote” doesn’t actually literally mean a vote to go to war, but rather a vote to open the door to such action (which he and others knew full well was likely to happen). That doesn’t let him and other Dems off the hook for putting yet more unchecked power in the hands of the President, but considering the GOP’s manipulation of 9-11 to rally public support for their agenda, it’s not really surprising. Besides, the Dems are chronically stupid when it comes to molding public perceptions, not only about current events but about the party as a whole.
Congress hasn’t actually voted to officially declare a war since 1941, FYI. Congress’ abdication of its war responsiblities to the whims of the Executive Branch is an ongoing black eye to the concept of Democracy.
“Edwards’ description of the matter as a “war vote” doesn’t actually literally mean a vote to go to war”
Like those Irish beer guys say: Brilliant!
If I stay quiet for a while, you guys just self destruct.
Dugger, what does your point prove? Roughly half the Democrats authorized the use of force. OK. Fine.
George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld still did a horrible job with that authorization, and no amount of woofing is going to change that.
I find that you are so easily distracted, like a big mouthed bass chasing a shiny lewer, but the reality shouldn’t go unnoticed.
“If I stay quiet for a while, you guys just self destruct.”
Lately, it appears like you’re the one self-destructing torture boy.
Another point for me as Dugger again fails to disprove anything I said.
Congress hasn’t officially had a “war vote” in 65 years. No matter how much Edwards wants to characterize the vote to authorize the use of force as a “war vote,” it simply was not. Edwards seems to be acknowledging his part in empowering Bush to attack Iraq, but no matter how you twist it, his vote was not one explicity for war.
Prove me wrong Ace.
Dugger | Sep 25, 2006 1:45:12 PM
“My Name is Dugger, King of Posters: Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Like I asked before, is Dugger drinking and masturbating while he’s posting?
Silly Billy,
Lots of stupid things can’t be proved. I can’t prove Bush didn’t sabotage Wellstone’s plane. So, I would much rather you go on believing it wasn’t a war vote. If you think Edwards is lying – a man who actually cast a vote- fine by me. I don’t go down in the fever swamps.
I agree with the dugster. It’s all the Democrats’ fault that bush has managed to turn Iraq into a complete hellhole. And if only bush was not so hated he’d never have become such a miserable failure as preznit.
Z said
“Dugger, what does your point prove?”
First, more than half of the Ds, Z. A majority of them.
remember that and then I suggest scrolling back to the top where OW suggested Bush and Bush only was going to hell because of Iraq. Not a single Democrat.
Point enough????
And where is there conclusive agreement that Bush and Rummy have done a bad job. Some think so, some think not. I frankly don’t know. I doubt the the original idea. But IMO, about the only issue re conduct of the war that respected people on both sides, people without huge political axes to grind, disagree about is troop strength.
I’ve been saying here for a long time, its too early to tell. I still believe that.
And I believ Bush is trying to do the right thing – which could be the right or wrong thing.
I proved there wasn’t a war vote by simply stating a historical fact, that Congress hasn’t had a war vote in 65 years. This would be called “proof.” Do you want to debate whether the Dems share cupability for Iraq for enabling Bush? That’s a different matter and another thread. Does Edwards see his vote as a “war vote?” Possibly, but as I have already established, how he characterizes his vote and what the reality of the matter is don’t necessarily match up.
2.)OW never said no one else, Democrat or Republican, was going to Hell. If he did, I missed it. Please provide the important passage to make your point.
Dugger | Sep 26, 2006 4:59:59 PM
“I’ve been saying here for a long time, its too early to tell. I still believe that.”
When the hell do you draw the line, Dugger?
“And I believ Bush is trying to do the right thing – which could be the right or wrong thing.”
Loyalty to the Commander-in-Chief above all else regardless of whether the ship is going down or not.
Bill L
SO OW thinks a lot of people are going to hell for Iraq, but he only mentions one???
What in the h*ll good is his post then except for slack-jawed drooling haters? He takes 1/1000000 of the story and thats supposed to be a meaningful comment???
Just like the well-thought-out idea to invade Pakistan, the progressives read this crap and shut up. Better to make stuff up about Bush than comment on the gross idiocy right in front of our eyes.Why am I the only one who comments on stuff like this. It transcends politics.
dugger, wipe the froth off your chin, please.
I don’t know whether Bush is going to hell. Nobody except maybe the Big Guy knows that.
What I do know is that the majority of dems in congress did not vote to go to war, they voted to allow Bush the option of going to war.
That was a mistake, but not as big a mistake as Bush’s mistake in pimping the war, inflating the intelligence and managing the war in a cock-assed fashion.
I don’t think there’s a sober person on the planet who doesn’t understand the vast difference in responsibility we’re talking about here — except for those unfortunate few whose egos are so invested in the Republican regime that they can’t admit to the incompetence and corruption that’s staring them in the face. I’m not naming any names here but….. seen any mirrors lately, dugger?