Why is he not being pelted with rotten fruit? Do you not have a source of sufficiently rotten fruit in the US? Can’t you import them from China or something?

Start holding breath…..now!

And who, exactly, is that gonna be, Hill? We’ve gone through Allawi, Jaafari and Maliki. None of them have worked.

What about Jhinga Karahi, or Mughlai Biryani, or Paneer Makhani?

Waterloo – I was defeated, you won the war
Waterloo – promise to fight you for ever more
Waterloo – couldn’t escape if I wanted to
Waterloo – knowing my fate is to be with you
Waterloo – finally facing my waterloo

My my, I tried to hold you back but you were stronger
Oh yeah, and now it seems my only chance is giving up the fight
And how could I ever refuse
I feel like I win when I lose

Waterloo – I was defeated, you won the war
Waterloo – promise to fight you for ever more
Waterloo – couldn’t escape if I wanted to
Waterloo – knowing my fate is to be with you

And how could I ever refuse
I feel like I win when I lose

Waterloo – I was defeated, you won the war
Waterloo – promise to fight you for ever more
Waterloo – couldn’t escape if I wanted to
Waterloo – knowing my fate is to be with you
Waterloo – finally facing my waterloo

Hey! Just because we lost doesn’t mean we didn’t win!

mikey

Mickey Mouse, of course. Hamas loves him. Americo-philes love him. It’s a win-win situation.

First Iraq was so emphatically nothing like Vietnam. Now Iraq is indeed a second Vietnam — and the US would have won the first one, if it weren’t for all those draft-dodging rich kids who are now the government meddling kids in the media.
All this flip-flopping is very confusing.

Tee! Zzzinga!!!

Grover Norquist’s dream for America?

I’m no expert, but it’s looked like a failed state to me for a long time. What we call the Iraqi government simply doesn’t control vast portions of the country. What else do you call that?

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/12631.html

Mark Noonan is clearly on a roll, like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

…those of us who live in the real world understand that in President Bush we have a nearly uniquely honest President – so honest that it has cost him dear in terms of political power and support. The common refrain of how we just need an honest man in the White House has been answered – and never, I think, has a man been more slandered than President Bush; honesty is hated in large areas of the world. The relentless campaign of lies and half-truths directed against President Bush has taken its toll….

How about a shah? I’m pretty sure they’d like to try one of those.

Why does Hillary, or anyone else, need to have an opinion here? It’s not like Bush and Cheney will pay any attention to anything a Democrat says … unless they need political cover for fostering a coup in Iraq, as a preface to attacking Iran.

After all, the surge has been advertised as a “great success”, and Iraq is still a massive clusterfuck. How can that be? By definition, that can’t be Bush’s fault, so it pretty much has to be Maliki’s. So they need to dump Maliki … he’s the fall guy for the failure of the glorious surge … and the new government will be promised a nice juicy chuck of Iran (Shatt-al-Arab, anyone??) in order to play along.

But all the Dems should do is stand back. They can’t control events. All their oh-so-reasonable statements do is provide a fig-leaf of bi-partisanship for whatever Bush’s next horrible fuckup is going to be. It’s pretty clear that’s going to be the installation of an anti-Iranian government in Baghdad (which means Baathists and Sunni insurgents). Because then they can attack Iran and not worry as much about totally losing control of the ground situation in Iraq.

All any Dem should say is “This is George Bush and the Republican’s war. It’s a utter disaster for our nation and it will continue to be an utter disaster until the people vote in different leadership”.

This is Bush’s war, and Bush is the Republican’s guy. This is their noose. Let it hang them.

Next week they’ll be unveiling the zombified General Westmoreland, who will be taking command of the Surge. Or of Surge II. Or the Unsurge. Or something.

Legitimacy– the ability to make what you say stick– is the basic currency of governance, and no government that has to use foreign troops to keep order will ever be seen as legit. That’s why Teh Surge™ isn’t working and could never work.