Countdown's <i>Bushed!</i>: "Really, Everything's Under Control. Really." Edition
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Apr 16, 2008 1:15pm
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Remember that scene in Animal House where Kevin Bacon is trying to convince the panicked, rioting crowd that "all is well"? Welcome to damage control under the Bush administration.
First up is the disturbing story that the Justice Department Inspector General assures us that while there has been abuses of personal information gathering of Americans from National Security Letters in the past (to the tune of, oh about 6,400), all is well now. Really.
And then there is more proof of that the occupation in Iraq can not be resolved militarily when the Commander of the 25th Infantry division recalled a recent battle in the Sadr City portion of Baghdad, where an Iraqi militia, charged with holding back the Mahdi Army, abandoned their position.
"It bugs the hell out of me," said Sergeant George Lewis, the platoon sergeant for Company B's Third Platoon. "We don't see any progress being made at all. We hear these guys in firefights. We know if we are not up there helping these guys out we are making very little progress."
And finally, there is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who bemoaned the fact that she could find no volunteers for foreign service in Iraq, oddly enough, necessitating a stop-loss strategy similar to the one that forces service members to go through three, four and five tours of duty in Iraq. The nerve of these diplomats! I mean, who doesn't want to work in the largest embassy on the planet? Rice claims that she was "deeply offended" by those who resent being forced to go to Iraq or quit working for the Foreign service altogether.
Well, here’s a suggestion, Madam Secretary, your term is expiring in no more than nine months and four days, why don’t you show your devotion to the country and that department you’ve headed and show those who made those “offensive” remarks what you’re made of? Why don’t you ask the next administration to let you continue to serve at State in one of those great jobs in Iraq?
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Foist?
I'm gettin burned out from all the scandals coming from this administration....I have nothing relevant to say about anything right now.
I love the idea that rice should serve IN IRAQ after her current disastrous term expires, and we are rid of the bitch.
I'd say the same for the rest of this corrupt administration. Show us your "dedication" and support to this nightmare by going over and "helping bring democracy" to what is left of this nation called Iraq.
Condi is offended!! LOLOL!
Call the waaaahmbulance.
Statements like Condi's are just proof positive of how freakin' clueless these elitist pinheads are.
Hulk @ 3:
Naah. We should invoke a strategy where we simply blare Condi's speeches and press conferences all across the Iraqi landscape on a 24/7 basis. All the factions would ban together, simply to make us stop. It wouldn't be cruel and extreme treatment, besides...the Geneva Conventions are just a piece of paper.
Shipping the lot over (along with their horrified families) to "demonstrate their patriotism" might just allow the Iraqis to vent enough to mellow out. It's that eye-for-an-eye thing. I know I'd feel better. And think of the saving garnered by skipping that messy war crimes/profiteering/cronyism/incompetance/all around human scum trial.
Things will only begin to have a chance to become fine again after we sweep out this present administrative hive of cockroaches.
Condi is "deeply offended"? Let's see, do I give a damn? Nope, I sure don't.
The warzone is littered with DU, CAN ANYONE SAY CANCER! hOW STUPID MUST YOU BE TO SERVE THE OIL INDUSTRY FOR PEANUTS. EVEN THE MERCS SHOULD BE PISSED. YOU HAVE BEEN DEALT A DEATH SENTENCE, SO PLEASE PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPONS AND LEAVE IRAQ WHILE YOU CAN STILL WALK.
Like Yoo-Yoo and Powel and Rice all are just house servants for Jr.Bush. And we thought slavery was abolished.
She would be qualified in the food service or housekeeping industry. (Ghostbusters 1)
Just because they won't send their own offspring to Iraq doesn't mean the rest of the country shouldn't! Says Condi Rice: "I find your lack of faith disturbing..." to which Mr. Cheney says, "HEY! That's my line!"
Don't think the shoe stores are good enough there for kindasleazy.
I'm as amused about the idea of Rice being offended by resentment as I would be of the Pope being offended by catholics choosing birth control.
I thought a similar thing to what you said about Rice, when hilliary was asked if she would use W if she was president. She should have said yes I'll send him to Iraq so he can fulfill his war hero on the front lines fantasy!
Is that McSame/Condi rumor still floating around ?
Man, that would be a ticket even Mike Gravel could beat !
So what would be there to stop all these same warcriminals to go over to the Middle East at the end of their term and get their hands and influence on all the money and weapons that they have funneled over that has just disappeared?
Perhaps all along they have been planning on robbing this country blind and starting their own Army/Dictatorship over there?
I know it is just conspiracy thinking, but, sorry to say, these swine have left me with nothing else to believe in otherwise.
“It bugs the hell out of me,” said Sergeant George Lewis, the platoon sergeant for Company B’s Third Platoon. “We don’t see any progress being made at all. We hear these guys in firefights. We know if we are not up there helping these guys out we are making very little progress.”
Well Sergeant, let me clue you in a bit as to the motives behind their actions. "Those guys" (Iraqis) know that they were sent up there by the U.S. Government through its stooge Iraqi Government to kill their own father, brother, sister, mother, or some other relative that opposes the U.S. Government's presence in Iraq. To their relatives, those Iraqi soldiers are traitors. To the U.S. Government, they are "the good guys". This is the same old colonial game that has been played out in Iraq many times before (I.E. the British in 1932) and the U.S. Government thinks that this time the outcome will be different. I seriously doubt it. All myopic, arrogant empires have to learn the lessons of history over and over again. Others, simply have to learn them the hard way. This is why France, Spain, and Germany (the axis of weasels) refused to participate. They have all been down this road before.
She does remind me of our family's cleaning lady way back down on the plantation, 'cept it turns out she was my cousin thanks to my uncle George not pulling out fast enough. Maybe she can get that old fambly job in an exotic location.
Nevil Longbottom @ 14:
He'd flunk boot camp.
Condoleezza wasn't too offended by the tragedy in New Orleans to go shopping for shoes. She wasn't too offended by the PDB of August 6, 2001 to do anything to prevent the deaths of 3,000 people. But THIS? She's offended? Fuck her and her shoes and her total disdain for humanity.
Joe O. @ 17:
Good point Joe, Western arrogance astounds me sometimes. Lesson #1 of counter-insurgency warfare: You must have a decisive majority of the population solidly on your side to defeat any insurgency.
We don't have that and neither does Maliki.
Just watched Condi's boss and PM Brown speak in the rose garden or some damned place. Believe it or not, bush brought up the topic of eating tonight with Brown and his wife. God, the guy is a total embarrassment. Plus for some reason bush was wheezing through his nose and the microphone picked up every breath he took. Even more annoying than usual.
You go, Keith.
pissed off patricia @ 22:
Wasn't it great when he told teh Poop "Awesome speech!1!!!" yesterday? He never fails to deliver. It's all in the timing, you know
What do you expect when you make a dumbass president, and what does it say about a people who make a dumbass president??
miss_kitty @ 24:
He's such a freak and I don't mean that in a good way. Today he was trying to be clever with jokes and yucking it up. Damn, if I had been wearing a flag pin, I might have ripped it off and thrown it at the tv. Brown is so eloquent and in control of what he says, while our stumble bum is making everyone cringe with his antics.
pissed off patricia @ 26:
It's been one long cringe since the SC appointed the boy-king.
casper46 @ 27:
Boy, you said it. This person (I refuse to call this coward and bully a man) has been and is a total disgrace.
We should be ashamed as a nation. This is our face to the world, and the world is laughing.
Don't mean to blogwhore, but go to the below and click on "Whitehouse Life", and you'll have all the insight you'll need into what is going on.
http://www.markfiore.com/
Condi proves that being smart doesn't mean that you can't be so very stupid. That attitude about being offended will set her place in history right alongside the worst people we've had the misfortune to encounter. Cheney's down there along with Rumsfeld and Bush and a host of others. Can't wait for the trials to begin.
Nicole I can't thank you enough for that Kevin Bacon picture I've been trying to find it for years.
I have been thinking of Kevin Bacon in that role for YEARS. Every time we get a "clap harder" moment from the Republicans, I think of him screaming "ALL IS WELL!"
If the Bushies say things are OK, then I believe them. [snark]
Wouldn't it be lovely if all the Bushies were sent to Iraq to help in the war effort, I mean...following their trials at the Hague and serving their prison terms.
It's amazing what Nixon inspired! Nixon may have been the worst president, at least that he got caught red-handed. Now, there are more scandals along with more teflon with BushCo. It's like that cartoon that came out by Tony Auth last Xmas when Bush meets the ghost of Nixon telling him to erase all records of the scandals. If that's the case, then if there is a George W. Bush library museum, it will be almost entirely hallow possibly with just a banner of saying "Museum Accomplished", as suggested in another editorial cartoon.
Rosellini @ 34:
Actually, it'll be the George W Bush Presidential Liebrary.
Does the drum accompaniment make Keith's rants more entertaining? As if trying to be 'entertaining' hasn't already been identified as the main reason tv news has become irrelevant in the US!
Matter of fact, how about Toni Fratto?
I hear Alberto Gonzales is unemployed and looking for work.
What, don't Rice trust him?
You mean Rice can't contract this Iraq assignment out to Iran or the Syrians?
I think the best quote from Animal House was, " You F--K'd up, you trusted us !!", this could be the motto for the Bush white house !!! :)
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