Remember THIS!?

[chucK]

 

Now which one of those missions exactly did we accomplish?

[Peter_Puget]

Here is a short but continuing series:

 

(1) knocking off Saddam leads to ...

(2) Quaddaffi (or however you spell that) losing his nerve and

(3) blowing the Iranians' and Pakistanis' programs

(4) which led to Khan's Kut-Rate Proliferation Mart being exposed and shut down

(5) which left Musharraf's ass exposed big-time

(next up)

(6) ... causing him to drop a dime on bin Laden

[chucK]

So that's what this is all about? A very complicated way to get Osama, and limit Arab nuclear proliferation in the process! I can get behind that! What a complicated chess game played to perfection by the proud anti-intellectual! To think that he'd had all that planned out 7 months before we even captured Sadam!

Brilliant.

 

So Iraq is merely a 200 billion dollar, 545+ American lives, 8000+ Iraqi lives, sting operation? Whoa!

Edited March 2, 2004 by chucK

[Gripped]

Dazed and Confused?

 

George was put on this green earth to "kick some ass and drink some beers"

 

"Looks like I'm all out of beer".

[Peter_Puget]

ChucK - Glad you finally see the light! The reason I don't go to PCs is that they onflict with the King County Repubilicans Social, skip the PB and join me at the social! Tonights topic is a bit risque - The Girls of the DAR!

 

PP

[ScottP]

Tonights topic is a bit risque - The Girls of the DAR!

 

PP

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)

You pachyderms sure know how to party.

[Stonehead]

Yeah, yeah...I know it doesn't hold true for all cases but...

 

"I'm so sick of arming the world and then sending troops over to destroy the fucking arms, you know what I mean? We keep arming these little countries, then we go and blow the shit out of 'em. We're like the bullies of the world, you know. We're like Jack Palance in the movie Shane... throwing the pistol at the sheep herder's feet:

 

'Pick it up.'

 

'I don't wanna pick it up, mister; you'll shoot me.'

 

'Pick up the gun.'

 

'Mister, I don't want no trouble, huh. I just came down town here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about 10 rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, mister.'

 

'Pick up the gun.' (Three gunshots)

 

'You all saw him. He had a gun.' "

Comedian Bill Hicks at the Dominion theatre, London, November 1992

 

It's comedy fer crist's sake. I like it fine right here. Don't take it so seriously.

[j_b]

Here is a short but continuing series:

 

(1) knocking off Saddam leads to ...

 

civil war, a military quagmire, 10,000's of death, loss of credibility on an imprecedented level throughout the world, increasing exposure to terrorism, etc ...

 

 

(2) Quaddaffi (or however you spell that) losing his nerve

 

what a joke. he had been trying to make friends with the euros for years and as inspections showed he had essentiall nothing in his arsenal

 

and

(3) blowing the Iranians' and Pakistanis' programs

 

blowing? what did we do again?

 

(4) which led to Khan's Kut-Rate Proliferation Mart being exposed and shut down

 

and now he is free to go spend his ill-gotten money. but he showed entrepreneurial spirit so ....

 

(5) which left Musharraf's ass exposed big-time

 

to whom, the fundamentalists?

 

(next up)

(6) ... causing him to drop a dime on bin Laden

 

ha! the joker!

 

is this really all you could think of? things must be going pretty badly.

[arlen]

Cut him some slack! He's been busy decompatmentalizing:

 

 

PRESIDENT PROPOSES MARRIAGE AMENDMENT TO SATISFY AL-QAEDA

“We are not infidels,” says a somber Bush. “We agree with you on so many issues.”

 

With President Bush’s embrace yesterday of a marriage amendment, the compassionate conservative of 2000 has shown he is willing, if necessary, to make common cause with Osama bin Laden and fundamentalist mullahs throughout the Middle East.

 

Al-Qaeda, which translates as “The Base,” despite three years of not attacking the US directly, has grown restless over Bush ignoring them and focusing too much on Saddam Hussein and John Kerry. At the same time, al-Qaeda is pleased that Bush has forwarded their agenda of destroying the United States, though Bush prefers “soft” methods such as financial mismanagement and murderously reckless environmental policy.

 

So when gay marriages advanced in Massachusetts and San Francisco, Bush felt a need to respond to the cries of angry mullahs—even if it meant losing some swing voters he needs in November.

 

“Ultimately, I don’t think he had any choice,” said Ayman al-Zahawiri, a religious conservative who some call “Bin Laden’s Brain.” “The president has never really shown an enthusiasm about the wars over the culture.” Al-Zahawiri added: “It would’ve been inconceivable that a president so associated with traditional values would have sat idly by while marriage was being redefined. He had to act.”

 

full text and more

 

[Blake]

WASHINGTON, DC—In a move intended to dispel criticism over his Vietnam-era military record, President Bush announced Monday that he will spend the weekend at the Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, TX, to make up his missed National Guard service.

 

 

 

 

Above: Bush tries on his new uniform.

"My fellow Americans, let's put an end to this controversy," Bush said. "This weekend, I'll take two days off from leading the greatest nation in the world, go down to Texas, and do drills with the Texas Air National Guard, if that'll make you happy. I can't imagine anything more important for me to do than sets of push-ups with a bunch of enlisted Guardsmen."

 

Added Bush: "Don't let me forget to ask Cheney to fill in for me as leader of the free world. Because I'll be busy spit-shining flight boots."

 

Critics claim records show that Bush was not seen by his direct military superiors from May 1972 to June 1973. The controversy, which first arose during Bush's Texas gubernatorial bid in 1994, resurfaced Jan. 17, when filmmaker Michael Moore called Bush a "deserter" at a rally for Democratic candidate Wesley Clark.

 

Although the White House has tried to prove that Bush fulfilled his obligations by releasing torn payroll records and evidence of a dental check-up, many remain unconvinced. Critics have said Bush's reluctance to release his entire military file indicates that he's hiding something.

 

"Go ahead and wave your dusty stacks of papers, call names, and point fingers," Bush said. "I'm just going to have to be the bigger man."

 

Bush, whose approval numbers have declined in recent weeks, said the accusations were false, but that he was willing to do "whatever it takes to please everybody" so that he "can return to the business of governing the country."

 

"I had to cancel dozens of appointments with cabinet members, congressional leaders, and foreign dignitaries," Bush said. "All that stuff's going to have to wait, since this 30-year-old story is apparently a pressing national concern, or something."

 

White House communications director Dan Bartlett appeared on CNN with Wolf Blitzer to defend the president.

 

"Others want to focus on talk, but President Bush is focused on action," Bartlett said. "George Bush, whose chief priority is keeping our country safe in a post-September 11 world, believes that going down there and making up a couple days' service is the best way to finally put this issue to rest."

 

Retired Army Gen. John Wilcox warned Bush that his service in Alabama might have unexpected consequences.

 

"Once he gets there, he's an enlisted man like anybody else," Wilcox said. "A lot of other National Guard and Army reservists thought they were just signing up for some tame domestic training and ended up in Iraq or Afghanistan. The president is taking a real risk here. For his sake and the sake of the nation, I hope he doesn't get shipped out."

 

At a press conference Monday afternoon, a reporter asked White House press secretary Scott McClellan why Bush wasn't making up his time in Alabama, where critics say he failed to report for drills during the entire time he was working on a family friend's U.S. Senate campaign.

 

"Well, the president is familiar with the base in Texas, so he chose to do his service there," McClellan said. "Why would he go to some random base in Alabama that he's never even been to before? I mean—let me start over. He did serve at the Alabama base, but we felt it would be easier to accommodate travel to a base that was closer to his ranch in Crawford. Case closed."

[chucK]

Here is a short but continuing series:

 

(1) knocking off Saddam leads to ...

(2) Quaddaffi (or however you spell that) losing his nerve and

(3) blowing the Iranians' and Pakistanis' programs

(4) which led to Khan's Kut-Rate Proliferation Mart being exposed and shut down

(5) which left Musharraf's ass exposed big-time

(next up)

(6) ... causing him to drop a dime on bin Laden

 

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