By:
SilentPatriot on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 4:45 PM - PDT
In what should come as a surprise to no one, General Petraeus handed President Bush a war plan today that recommends he continue the escalation surge throughout 2008. This will effectively allow the President to wait out the clock until a real leader can take over and assume responsibility for the mess he has gotten us into.
My guess is he will take the advice. At least this way he can maybe convince himself that all the blood won’t be on his hands.
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this is not American a democracy
this is America bush’s fascist-dictatorship
FUCK BUSH AND CHENEY——–SO !
He looks like he wants to kiss Bush in that photo
It is just unreal that the jackass criminal can just walk away from the hell he created
BushCo desperately wants to get in place a bunch of binding (?) treaties with Iraq for his corporate buddies before their tenure ends in January…
Of course, we’ll be (along with the new administration) left holding the bag,
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Looking at the picture of the two of them reminds me of when I used to drop acid at a pig farm many years ago…
He really deserves the name BetrayUs, for all he has done to us and for us and for all he will do to us and for us.
This is fitting actually. Pretty much every business enterprise or endeavor that Bush set out on his during life has failed and was always left for someone else to fix or clean up. Iraq and Afghanistan are no different.
Blood will always be on his hands whether or not his ass is in office.
His war, his blood.
After Bush and Cheney leave office they should have to reside in Baghdad until we’re no longer at war.
This way security protection will be automatically provided for them with no additional expense to the taxpayer, and they can enjoy the same wonderful housing and food our servicemen and women receive.
Anyone who can send thousands to die in a war, but is unwilling to participate on the front lines is a coward. It’s time they paid their debt to American and Iraqi society.
But, of course, we all know Bush will enjoy his days on a giant ranch in Paraguay instead.
Must be nice. Chimpy gets to f*ck the country….and then shuffle back to Crawford with no ramifications.
Do we really have a mission besides spending more money and lives?
greg white @ 9:
A giant ranch patrolled by Blackwater. I hope someone forms a posse.
Move On was certainly right. Will all the Repugs who vilified them say they were wrong? I don’t know what is worse, the Repugs or the assholes who vote for them.
I want to say he’s thrown the entire US of A situation under the bus, but I know that’s not the correct usage.
Worst. President. Ever.
Dr. Hussien Matt @ 11:
No.
Party of responsibility. Ha.
Joe O. @ 7:
I completely agree. His dad and his dad’s buddies cleaned up before when he screwed the pooch but this time it will be the next democratic president and the rest of us. McCain on the other hand must be getting excited at the prospects of his getting to play war with our people’s lives.
I wonder what is going through the heads of the Iraqis? Did anyone ask them how they feel about the US being there for at least the rest of this year?
General Petraeus=GDCSer.
The coward cut and run from his occupation.
Add General Betrayus to the list of war criminals. He is bright enough to know better than to kiss Bush’s political ass. He could have helped lead us out of this morass, instead he’s decided to sell his soul and extend the misery.
(Sigh)….nope…no surprise… no surprise at all….JD
Well which would be worse, bush staying in office and keeping this shit going forever, or having a democratic president who can begin to slow this disaster down. We have all known for a long time that bush would leave this for the next president. Remember sometime I think it was early last year when bush said some decision about the war would be made by other presidents?
So does this confirm Petraeus as Republicanista VP candidate, or does Senator Joementum still have a “bipartisan” chance?
At least this way he can maybe convince himself that all the blood won’t be on his hands.
Yep. No matter what happens after he leaves office, Iraq is likely to be a disaster. Whether we get out or stay, Iraq will continue to worsen. And Bush and his sycophantic supporters will say that all would have gotten better had Bush remained in office. They will convince themselves that everything was on the road to heaven there until Bush was forced out by term limits.
Joe O. @ 7:
Indeed. He has the reverse Midas touch. His resume contains nothing but utter failures. Disasters. He ruins everything he gets his hands on.
And people in this country put him in charge of the world. He ruined that too.
Joe O. @ 7:
This time Chimpey will pay for it. Jail time. Unfortunately, it will be years (during which we may see a collapse of American influence) before he will pay his dues for the destruction he has wrought on America.
What’s the average re-tour of duty for the troops now? Three, four, five…extending into six, seven, eight?
Stus @ 23:
I doubt Patraeus will be the VeeP choice. Lieberman perhaps.
I’d keep my eye on Gov. Jindal of Louisiana as well.
Petraeus - Four Star General Fluffer.
This is the standard bush plan step into something you know nothing about.
Do everything you can to fuck it up, run it into the ground.
Leave and let someone else fix it. bush hell it’s the republican way!
Hopefully we will finally have a real President next year.
AH, so it WAS General BETRAYUS!!!
No one here wants a revolution, it seems.
But when Bush hands off to the next president, there is not going to be much change.
Just listen to the candidates.
So, how do we get change?
Vote Democratic, some say.
Liberal AND Proud @ 30:
Hopefully, but they’ll be tasked with taking the steering wheel of a plane in mid-crash. Good luck!
God, MSM thinks were so dumb! The saturation of hillary and Obama are pathetic. They are trying to fog the real issue with fluff! Iraq is disasterous, the economy sucks, our children can kiss the fiancial security good-bye. What the hell!
Lady Macbeth had nothing on Bush. The blood on his hands will forever be his - and Cheney’s, and Rumsfeld’s, and Condi’s, and Ashcroft’s, and the rest of this incompetent crew’s. It will never come clean.
suppose bush doesn’t leave office. you know its possible. the military commissions act, nspd 20/51, hr 1955, countless executive orders. falcon raids anyone?
martial law is literally just begging to begin. im sure blackwater can’t wait. then we can begin to prosecute everyone who doesn’t support the GWOT and throw them into camps and call them terrorists while we do to Iran what we just did to Iraq. I hope Israel feels safe and the oil companies are happy. thats it for now.
IMHO the results of November 2006 prompted the “Surge”, and NOT any long term, informed strategy.
Bush/Petreaus talked about retruning the surge troops by December, claiming progress and stabalization.
Instead this “new” “plan” being announced now, was, I suspect, hatched or given the go-ahead in December.
My suspicion rests on the fact that my neigbhour’s nephew and his dad got their redeployment orders in January, their respectively 2nd and third tours to begin in June-three months from now.
Thousands of others must have got their orders at the same time. Their mission is surely to help sustain the troop level of 130,000–all planned months ago in direct refutation of the public rhetoric.
“New” Petraeus Plan to punt Iraq to Bush’s successor? Nice Alliteration aside, let’s be real here. That’s been the plan all along. Petraeus is smart to hitch his star (pardon the pun) to MCcain - it’s his only option going forward after sacrificing his credibility for the Bush administration. If I were not so angry, I’d pity him.
At least Bush can pitch in after January. Go on patrols on his bike.
gemHusseinpei @ 12:
blackwater has renamed themselves to greydoves and moved their hdqt to carribean
so they don’t have to pay any taxes now.
When dick compared Iraq to the Nixon pardon he was saying w will get away with his crimes too.
I sure feel betrayed by that stupid general.
I think in January 08 Bush/Cheney should be required to move to Baghdad …it being the only way they get any retirement money….
blood, schmud!
its time for another vacation!!!
I don’t know what the schools teach about history and current world affairs but, they should beef up the curriculum and make history classes include the most recent U.S. history.
Wouldn’t it be great if a Democratic presidential candidate announced that she/he would tell Petraeus to clean out his desk one minute after entering the Oval Office?
Ron @ 45:
creationism lol
dadams @ 47:
Bull, Bush and Cheney evolved from slugs.
K.O. ought to go down in history for his comments on this administration.
Check out Frontline tonght, if like this post you’ll dig what they’ve put together.
Like people didn’t see this coming? Running toward the finish line in an assault on anything considered sane by this administration, you had to know that both parties would give Bush a pass on our perpetual war for perpetual peace so as to keep the perpetual oil flowing. The only way to end the madness is in creating alternatives to oil through innovation which has thus far been severaly underfunded in this country by heavy handed lobbyists for major corporations that couldn’t bare the thought that the punch bowl would be taken away. I magine what just two months of funding for Iraq might accomplish? At 12 billion dollars of make believe money we might begin making inroads on much needed repairs to infrstructure. At six months or 36 billion, we could pour the funds into a Manhattan type project finding new technologies that would significantly reduce our need for fossil fuels. But alsa, that would be asking too much of the already brain dead in D.C. to even consider while they continue to pick our pockets clean as they look the other way while bailing out non banks like Bear Sterns with tax payer money. You get what you vote for folks and some people just never learn.
Bush and Chaney are not leaving …
If McCain gets in the “Surge” will just be the foundation for the next escalation and the one after that.
Ron @ 45:
I took AP American History my sophomore year (two years ago) and they had the Iraq War in the text book and covered it. However, regular American History classes didn’t even cover the Vietnam War and I doubt many of my friends went home to study it for themselves. The curriculum drop off is so drastic between honor classes and regular class, which I am sure has to do with more focus being put on passing the tests (OGT in Ohio) when the No Child Left Behind act was passed.