We have of course been hearing about it for weeks. The surge, the wonderful surge is working!!!! Violence is down (oops, but of course its going up fast in Afghanistan isn’t it, and we don’t have enough troops to boost our numbers there because……we don’t have any more? Yes, McBush is riding on that wave of optimism, hoping it will carry him to the White House in the fall.
What will I expect turn out to have been a major blunder, McShame has been trying to make a lot of hay from the fact that Mr. Obama has not visited Iraq in some time. I agree that it’s important to talk to people actually there and doing the job and living the life to get the best picture. Phone conversations can only give most all some of the information no doubt.
But as I read the stories that are coming off the presses, it seems that Iraqis are pressing harder and harder for us to do as Mr. Obama suggests set a time table and get the freaking hell out of their country. Mr. Mac’s idea to ride Obama for his non-attendance may well backfire. Mr. Obama may in fact see first hand what those who live there know oh so well.
The price of all that reduction in violence is that folks now live in prison camps.Yes, that is what they call living in Fallujah these days. One needs badges to enter or leave, one cannot move through neighborhoods at will, but most are cordoned off. You can’t invite a guest to visit you, or for the most part leave easily.
I’m glad Obama is heading over. I hope the media will take lots of pictures. I’m sure he will demand to see the reality and not the photo-ops pics that McCain and company are showing us. Then we can see why Americans are now trading death in Iraq for death in Afghanistan. I wonder if parents really care from which country the casket arrives from ?
McBush continues to claim that all is well. It’s not, and plenty of folks are seeing that. Obama will too. McStupid might have been better to not have raised the issue that Obama hasn’t been to Iraq argument, until nearer the election when perhaps Obama might not have been able to arrange the trip. I think he will regret that he made such a fuss about it.
One wonders what will happen next. It’s starting to look as if Bush will withdraw some troops, probably for two reasons: too many deaths in Afghanistan and a little boost for his boy McMac. Perhaps that is why he also thumbed his nose at the G-8 folks with his farewell (”Say goodbye to the biggest polluter in the world”) remark., and his refusal to do a damn thing on emission controls against the advice of his own EPA. Is that just another gift to McCain? Let the boy have his one issue of separation? After all, Bush doesn’t care. He figures apparently he’ll be sipping tea with Jesus long before the planet actually becomes inhabitable. Oh but that is another issue isn’t it?
I keep getting these two confused these days. I wonder why?
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God forbid that the Iraqis should actually ask for control of their own sovereign nation or that we don’t give the neocons the 58 military bases they want.
And on top of all that, Bush just rescinded his dad’s moratorium on offshore drilling.
I can’t believe how badly Bush has treated this country, and the world, for that matter.
Ruth, isn’t it the truth? Most of us knew that this was never about anything but oil and military bases. But of course, they used the lie, and effectively sad to say.
Kurt, yep, he is beginning to make a good case fore being one of the more evil folks in history. Added to being nearly the dumbest, I think he’s on the road to a real record!