So Vice President Last Throes went to Baghdad to survey the awesomeness and this graf pretty much says it all:
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavor" during a visit to Baghdad, on the same day a woman suicide bomber killed 40 people.
Look, as Laura Bush famously said, Iraq is really going great -- it's just that one pesky suicide bomber that kills lots of people that bums everyone out.
Joining Cheney on his Iraq4Evah tour was St. McCain:
"The surge is working," McCain told CNN in an interview in Baghdad, countering demands by Democratic presidential candidates Clinton and Barack Obama for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from Iraq as soon as possible.
Yeah, it's working so well that the market St. McCain used as the set for his photo-op last year is now controlled by the Mahdi army. It's working so well that Gen. Petraeus admits it's failed.
My question is -- when does "working" or "winning" or "successful" mean "no more Americans getting killed"?
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I posted this downstairs, more on topic here
so I nearly got into an accident driving yesterday listening to this moron actually say the Iraq invasion was some kind of success
HOLY CRAP
is this guy a bigger moron then bush?
if he thinks WE are bigger morons then bush and that we will buy anything he says ever again, then he IS a bigger moron then bush because NOBODY BUT A MORON would ever think he could say something SO RIDICULOUS
I wonder how the HELL Cheney mastered the English language because ANYONE that has the NERVE to say something as BLATANTLY ridiculous as what this guy says is SURELY intellectually challenged
he was TOO stupid to be able to keep from being THROWN OUT of yale, he is a FAILURE at EVERYTHING he does and EVERYTHING he predicts or claims are REDICULOUS
and the democrats need to start LAUGHING OUT LOUD whenver he makes these bizarro claims as if WE MIGHT believe a word he says
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Obama speech will be carried live on wnyc.org. It’s radio, not TV.
[edited by BT]…read Arthur Silber
http://powerofnarrative.blogsp…..thing.html
Horrible stuff being said by so-called pre-speech panel on MSNBC. Buchanan claims Wright is not a Christian.
Success at what? Working at what? Winning what? Where’s the fucking payoff to the American taxpayers’? What are we getting for our blood and treasure?
Mr. Cheney is the Bush Administration version of the Happy Face!
To be fair, I don’t think Dick was thrown out of Yale, I just think he was a mama’s boy who missed his beloved Wyoming.
and McSame is a carbon copy…failed at EVERYTHING,his marriage,his flying,his schooling…..oy
Are we going to be successful in Iran, too?
Does anybody know where DeadEye is today? I worry about him running around over there on his own.
The swift-boating started early this year. :-(
we are in FUUL THROTTLE fascist takeover of the media…KO called Bill Keller out last night as WPITW
that was Full throttle
1 plus 1 equals three trillion.
4,000 dead soldiers, that they admit, how many they don’t and thousands maimed with over a million dead Iraqui’s.
Heck of a job Darth.
Can we impeach this bastard now?
nefarious from the gitgo,wasted protoplasm
please read this link
http://powerofnarrative.blogsp.....thing.html
We could, but he would be presiding over his own impeachment hearings.
Ain’t no “full throttle” about it; we’re coastin’ down the ramp on the far side.
$12 billion a month. This is “phenomenal”?
4 million displaced Iraqis. This is “successful”?
4000 dead US troops and nearly 30,000 injured. This is “remarkable”?
That is what is at stake in this election.
really, how bad is your shit when Krauthammer calls you on it
on= noi guess we are not alowed to discuss the Iraquis poor aim”g”
it is 100% full assault on Obama for somebody ELSES words and feelings…fascism
second that.
here’s arthur’s take on what we have learned:
Pisses me off, everything would have been cake and ice cream but Bush is too incompetent in killing people too, all their grand plans got bogged down in a god damn war!
Treasonous, genocidal war mongering assholes.
Richard Perle especially disgusts me.
Obama set to give his big speech…MSNBC to carry it live…
watching MSNBC - why aren’t all those seats filled ?
While waiting for the obama speech I have been trying a couple of channels. Having never seen any of these morning twits on teevee before I am in awe.
all of them…they have wrecked us
Looks like CNN.com is also offering a free live stream over the toobz.
Was talking about buchanan at @6; was krautie on also?
but what bussiness did this country have,going there,and causing TOTAL CHAOS? can somebody after all these years enlighten me?
Rachel Maddow pointed out to JoeScar last night that the choir sang a song condemning and damning America prior to the GOP debate last fall. She asked why there was no outrage for that? She nailed him on the hypocrisy.
no, it’s a response to yet another Buchanan screed
Its live on the NYT too
yep—
i don’t see it listed on c-span’s tv schedule (although that could change at any moment), but obama’s speech is listed as one of the events being covered today… so if it’s not carried live, it may be on later.
now I have to post a link to just how big a moron this guy is
from here
wait, isn’t oil at $100+ a barrel, Halliburton stock at record levels and ExxonMobil the most profitable company evah? Mission Accomplished indeed
hey CNN,MSGOP…Obama is half white….you dumbasses
morning pups
amazes me that people keep saying, what Obama MUST say but don’t hold other politicians to the same level
blah..darn sip of whiskey gave me a headache this morning
that there’s a wingnut welfare queen Reverend Joe Thomas - Bush 41 was his intake case manager
is it being streamed on MSNBC?
you got it,and the rest of US,are suffering mightilly,i will light candles for all of us tonight an devery night till they are gone…goopers
hehehe I think the woman is the one trying to bring some clarity to the discussion
So, I think I understand this. The moment someone in the admin actually says something publicly that shows they are in touch with reality, that’s the moment they’re fired. Yes?
oh sweet jesus I miss ‘edit this comment’ X(
Banjo Boy just claimed Obama joined that church as a matter of political expediency - never mind he’s been a member for 22 years
There are two things I would really like to see defined. One is “victory” in Iraq. The second I believe is even harder; it is what Democrats stand for, as in, what our platform should include, what defines us. Remember, I am not saying progressives; I am calling for a definitive answer to what a Democrat is. We all know that the answers that used to be given for Rethugs now does not apply any longer, although they still claim it: smaller government, less taxes. Dems:?
whisky in the morning will do that
bookmarked his ass,he is wearing the boooosh baby blue SILK tie
as a matter of fact it is!
just a sip, eh?
It doesn’t have to be objectively true that “things in Iraq are going great! Phenomenal!” All that needs to happen is Cheney and his minions keep repeating this crap and reporters keep reporting on them repeating this crap (that is, the “reporters” credulously keep reporting on them repeating this crap) so that it becomes “true” enough.
It apparently is working too. The press avoids reporting on the facts in Iraq (no real Iraq Debacle news, no front page reports) and only repeats (stenographically) what Cheney and Bush and Kristol keep saying about Iraq and it magically becomes widely accepted as true.
Iraq is going great because that is what the “leadership” keeps repeating authoritatively over and over (while the Dems let the Iraq Debacle fall to the far far back burner and remain largely silent). The press does its usual stenography and that’s it. The surge is working, the coming “pause” in the de-surge can be extended indefinitely, bodies can keep piling up, and the citizens and everyone in government goes about their merry way! Woohoo!
Buchanan - afroracist message? He just keeps hoping if he says this crap people will believe him he just wants to create that divide.
Shit, did he just invoke David Duke?
Hey Pat how about John HAGEE,you twit
I had the sip last night and now can’t write coherently
BIG DILEMA oh po,po,po Obama….damn this media
Why are GOP folks commenting on this? Obama is never going to say anything to convince them so wtf?
yep–
CSPAN radio will relieve you from listening/watching talking a**holes on teevee
Why arent there Hagee speeches out on YouTube?
but it hasn’t started yet. He’s running late….
Uh, actually no. That would be John Roberts as Chief Justice who would preside over impeachment hearings I believe. At least he would for an impeachment of Little Boots and even Harry would pretty much have to demand the same thing if it were Darth just to avoid conflict of interest.
compare and contrast the all but breathless and very positive expectations these monkeys had for Willard’s religion speech
and what a lameass speech it was and how they completely let him off the hook for not meeting expectations
and suddenly we even have Keith asking about the make or break nature of this one
LETS DO IT!!!!
Sadly, Buchanan is still at it now. Believe it or not, Scarborough is more or less defending Obama, saying that we may be holding him to a higher standard since Falwell and other (including Billy Graham’s son)prominent Christian ministers also said some really bad things after 9/11. He says they went on to endorse and nobody blinked at that.
Eyeglass man must not know any liberals because we have said god damn america many times and stop with the blank canvass shit
Oh, I couldn’t find it there, just some clips to the Today Show. I’ll go look again.
hhere is Hagge,with SPECIAL guest star Tom Delay,makes wright look like snow white
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjMRgT5o-Ig
When have we ever condemned a man for his church? Isnt it separate?
Oh, yeah, that must be why he’s spent so much of his adult life in Washington. *g*
Seriously, I heard or read somewhere that he was too much of a party boy to work hard at grades in school, so he dropped out before he got kicked out. His wife turned him around when she insisted that he settle down or she was going to walk (this was while they were dating, supposedly.) Also supposedly, that what he had in common with Jr.
back on topic - Mornin’ Blue Texan
Cheney met with Barzani and never mentionded PKK
he’s a DEM, remember?
and all his friends say its over for Obama…MSGOP is shameless
Who is the loser host on CNN.com killing time until Obama starts his speech? This guy is terrible.
I would say two million barrels of OIL every day. Much of this is secretly smuggled out of Iraq. We might ask where is the $20 billion dollars of yearly Oil money? Neo-con privatization. Of course, the Successful Surge also means that some of the smuggled Oil profits goes to insurgents.
and McSAme…funny dat
i know…its the GIGANTIC lie…we stole their oil,and slaughterd their populace,and left them with plenty of DEPLETED uranium
It is not good that Obama is late for this important speech. Any technical problems should have been taken care of by the advance crew.
the media is just unwatchable…specially ugly ass Candy Crowley….eye pollution
correcto,leaves the morons to spew tons of trash talk
In Bush America, religion is no longer separate. One must belong to a generic Christian Church to be above suspicion. Being a Catholic or a Mormon is questionable. Being Jewish is tolerable for some positions. If you are an atheist, it is best to hide.
However, if you are George W. Bush, it is acceptable to just pretend to be a Christian.
i’ve got to take off….
but message to RieszFischer (in case he/she is around)… i’m sorry i missed your question yesterday (twice! yikes!) will try to catch up with you at some point.
3,990 young Americans killed in pursuit of a goddamn, fucking, totally wasteful LIE!
Perhaps the advance crew has been cheerfully provided by the Clinton campaign.
H/t to a letter writer in my local paper, apparently a member of the Alabama legislature is said to have noted:
“Education is not a pancreas!”
Magic Xtian?
same streaming, the Today Show was on there for a while…now it’s back to MSNBC. I don’t know what the delay is all about. Speech should be a piece of cake for him…
seems so
Ive got it on mute was watching the Youtube, thanks
Caught that, too; but every single person they’ve had on this morning is setting the goals for his speech so high ain’t *nobody* could make the shot……and even if he does, the pundits will spin it as a failure. Compare the number of times any of these “guests” pointed that out as scar did and you get probably get (1).
ludicris no?
Give it a break.
And even if that were true, shame on him for not figuring it out. He’s running for prez of U.S. and that involves minefields. He is partly judged on his ability to traverse them.
Well we don’t know why he is late so I’m going to wait before making a judgement
They died and continue to die in pursuit of oil and weird Bush family revenge…but not if they are members of the Bush family. The Bushes are more royal than royalty.
The introduction for Obama is underway.
I hope you aren’t referring to her weight. Character, ideas, positions, carrying water for the Repubs, have at it.
But good thing that his speech will be aimed at americans and not the pundits who would pontificate on the nutrional value of wonderbread, if it served their purpose
she is completely horrendous
OT: MSNBC.com
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uh oh
so hat tip rachael maddow last night but she has a clip of a republican presidential debate and before teh debate starts there is actually a quoire singing “why should god bless America?” and it goes on to say because of homosexuality and women choosing not to be an unwilling host god should not bless America
and there the candidates are, tapping their friggin feet to the beet
How stable is the economy again, shrub?
Sad and brainwashed
mebbe we can put,race and religion,behind us so we can save the country from financial disaster…mebbe
it was so much in persuit of oil, it was so they could control oil, raise the price exponentially and steal the assets of the american middle class
in other words, they didn’t want more oil, they wanted less oil
Holy Sh*t! There go my frequent-flyer miles…I have some flight attendant friends on the Cincinnati-Paris route who will lose their jobs for sure. Holy sh*t!
He must have watched John Adams
yup…lettuce 2.00 per head
But it’s the black people’s fault we are in this mess. Neal Boortz told me so.
i love the guy,and its recent
Even at Sams everything was up $3.00
black,brown,and yellow/ ……”g”
i am losing weight
Gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of our time.
Good start by Obama.
in pursuit of the CONTROL of oil
i like HIM muchly
muchly
and he doesnt read Q cards