bush_eliteactionfigure.thumbnail.jpgFrom an interview with Glorious Beloved Leader in Japan, the question that preceded this "answer" if you can call it that, was this:

Q Last question on Iraq. What is your evaluation about where Iraq is now? Do you think now if the U.S. can afford to withdraw more troops from Iraq, or will you leave that decision to the next administration? What is your assessment on war on terror in general, during your two terms?

In part, this is his answer:

THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you. Let me make sure I get — this is the old three-part question and I’m about to be 62 years old, so — (laughter.) By the way, I will be celebrating my birthday on Japanese soil; that’s interesting.

Q Congratulations.

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, come to the party. It’s not going to be much of a party; it’s only 62.

Let’s see, Iraq and troops. Okay. First of all, there was — the people have — okay, you got to have benchmarks. I think there was 15 benchmarks — 18 benchmarks. And one way to evaluate progress is to measure what’s actually happened to what was expected, and the progress is undeniable. What happened was security was such that the politics and the economics could move forward. And for a period of time, that was not the case. That’s why we sent more troops in. The combat brigades of the surge will finally come home. The last one will be home in July. So we are in a policy of return on success.

Ah, the old "return on success", now did any of the rest of that paragraph make any sense at all or was it just babble? Was it 15 or 18 benchmarks? "Security was such that politics and economics could move forward"…really? Where?

Must have been in the vaunted surge that we hear so much about, where less deaths are more acceptable than what alternative, more deaths? We’d (Americans tired of the Lies) prefer no deaths, but what we seem to want doesn’t really matter. Because they are just minimum-wage junior enlisted getting blown-up, shot at, or killed in any of the myriad ways men and women die on the battlefield, in combat, with maybe an occasional Captain or Lieutenant Colonel thrown in for effect. Cannon fodder in the world of Preznit Eternally Incompetent and the rich cronies and sycophants who maintain his carefully constructed reality, men and women whose lives mean something to the rest of us and whose deaths are meaningless and futile.

And let’s not forget, please, the dozen or two dead Iraqi civilians each time there is an unscheduled "boom" in a "surged" neighborhood. You know, the inconsequential (to the 1600 Crew anyhow) Iraqi and American casualties of a war sold on lies, fear and a fanatical devotion to Dick Cheney.

In terms of the war on terror, step one is to recognize we’re at war. Some in our country don’t believe we’re at war. If you don’t believe we’re at war, that this is a simple law enforcement matter, then what you do is you wait until something happens and then react. You know, law enforcement is there is an action, there’s a crime, and then there — law enforcement acts.

In war, what you do is you prevent the enemy from hitting in the first place. That’s why Iraq and Afghanistan are very important theaters in the war on terror. People — some think these are separate wars. It’s the same war — against ideologues who murder the innocent to achieve their political objectives. These are just different fronts in the same war.

Amazingly he’s still spouting that crap five and half years later. Iraq had nothing to do with the "war on terror", most experts believe that this is a law-enforcement issue … arresting terrorists before they can perpetrate/incite further acts of violence using intelligence (no laughing now) and the slow, steady methodology of solving a crime and taking out the bosses with methods that American law enforcement has used for decades. But no, he’s again taking the opportunity to conflate the "War on Terror" which has been the mechanism for the nullification if not downright destruction of the Bill of Rights with the events of 9/11 and the organizational horror that is Al-Qaeda. After all, the FBI doesn’t get to drop 500 pound bombs from F/A-18’s onto "terrorist hideouts" which gives Barnacle and the neocons a hard-on every time they watch the HUD (Head-Up Display) videos in the privacy of their offices.

The invasion of Iraq was all about getting his buddies in the oil companies, Cheney’s buddies in Halliburton and some solid campaign contributors like Erik Prince of Blackwater fame, richer and richer. It was about allowing a few idealogues the opportunities to test their pet theories about how to bring Western Anglo-Saxon democracy to the great unwashed masses of brown heathens in the deserts and plains of the Cradle of Civilization.

George Bush celebrates his 62nd birthday, and to him it’s not a significant one, but goddamn it’s funny to him and the press corpse toadies he’s talking to.

There are over 4000 Americans and countless Iraqis who would like to have been able to joke about an insignificant 62nd birthday. Or even the one they’ll never have, their next one.

Because he lies, with every breath, every statement, every fiber of his being he lies about everything. 62 and still lying.

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