George Bush, American Idiot
I can’t wait until this dumb son of a bitch is out of office:
President George W. Bush will acknowledge on Wednesday the Iraq war has been fought at a high cost but will insist a U.S. troop buildup has opened the door to a “major strategic victory” against Islamic militants.
“The successes we are seeing in Iraq are undeniable,” Bush will say in an upbeat assessment of the U.S.-led campaign in a speech marking the fifth anniversary of the war, according to excerpts released on Tuesday.
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“The surge has done more than turn the situation in Iraq around — it has opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror,” Bush will say.
Mission fucking accomplished all over again.
Obviously, President Dumbshit hasn’t a clue about what the word “strategic” means. He invaded a country with no connection to al Qaida and its network of Islamic terrorists in order to topple a regime which was both frightened of and hostile to radical Islamists it viewed as a serious threat, and who in turn viewed Iraq’s corrupt, brutal, Baathist dictator as a heretic marked for death.
By toppling the regime and destabilizing the country and the region, Bush ignited a series of violent reactions which, according to our own National Intelligence Estimate, inspired a new series of Islamist militants and eased al Qaida’s task of recruiting more jihadists by the thousands.
Now, after an investment numbering in the trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives, the commitment of the vast majority of our military has marginally stabilized a largely failed political state in Iraq, a country which is still beset by widespread violence which can be viewed as a positive development only in light of the even more appalling levels of violence during the prior year of our occupation.
So, basically, vis a vis the Islamic militants, we’ve killed many of those our actions helped to create, we’re still militarily bogged down in Iraq, and the numbers of terrorist attacks as tallied by our own counterterrorist agencies worldwide are now measured by the tens of thousands, geometrically higher than the two hundred and eight terrorist attacks which occurred world wide in 2002, before we invaded Iraq.
So, to sum up, we’ve expended a ton of resources, turned millions of Iraqis into refugees, lost 4000 of our finest young people, and the number of terrorist attacks world wide jumped from 208 in 2002 to over 14,000 by our own last tally.
And this stupid motherfucker calls this a strategic victory?
MORE: As Bush chumbles moronically about “strategic victory” in Iraq, another strategic failure there — the latest attempt at reconciliation between warring factions is an utter failure:
A no-reconciliation conference
Influential Shiite and Sunni groups boycotted a conference on Iraqi reconciliation Tuesday, as U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney traveled north to meet with Kurdish leaders.
Members of the main Sunni Arab parliament coalition, Tawafiq, refused to attend the two-day meeting because of complaints about the Shiite-dominated government.
Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr’s bloc walked out of the conference, saying it did not want a ceremonial presence. The same went for a contingent led by Sheik Ali Hatem Sulaiman, a representative of Sunni Muslim tribes that rose up against the Sunni insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq.
The boycott was symptomatic of the rifts and enmity among Iraqi parties, which are organized along ethnic and religious lines and have delayed progress in power sharing between the country’s Shiite majority and the formerly ruling Sunnis.
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Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s government has dwindled since last summer to a core group of Shiite and Kurdish politicians. But the Shiite prime minister’s relationship with the Kurds has become strained over matters such as Iraq’s stalled oil legislation and the country’s northern boundaries.
Maliki’s detractors describe him as being hindered by an inner circle that does not like to share power and is fiercely sectarian. His supporters argue that he is trying to build a strong government and that other parties are standing in the way for selfish reasons.
For the war profiteers bottom line it has been.
Do you remember when war profiteering was actually illegal?
HA! Right on…
IF an apple had an IQ it would be higher by tens of points than dubya… He’s just the puppet in front of cheenneey - he’s too stupid to do anything else.
Sometimes I wish there was a god, because Dumbya would roast in hell.
You need to understand what Dubya’s strategy really is. He doesn’t care about Iraq. He doesn’t care about the terrorists. He doesn’t care about radical (or moderate, for that matter) Islam.
He cares about himself. He’s a spoiled rich kid who’s failed at everything in his life and been bailed out by his family and friends at every turn. He’s just in there to have a good time and shove it in the face of the “lower class” people he holds in contempt.
At this point, for him, strategic success means screwing things up and being bailed out *again*. And that’s going to happen, in case you haven’t noticed. Indeed, it’s already happened. Pelosi took impeachment off the table. Reid enables the White House in everything they do. Most of the media back him up. And, of course, his political party obstructs even the tiniest attempts at oversight.
He’s an idiot, yes, but he’s a cunning idiot. He’s a failure as the President, but that’s nothing new; he’s been a failure at *everything*. What matters to him is that he’ll never pay the price for it, and he’s been wildly successful at that.
**THAT** is the strategic victory he’s bragging about.
His speech on Wednesday pissed me off royally, as well. Here is a letter to the editor I wrote in response:
‘President Bush said on Wednesday that the world is a better place because of the United States’ invasion of Iraq. He should try telling that fairy tale to the estimated 2.5 million Iraqis who are either refugees or who are internally displaced as a result of our invasion and occupation of that sovereign country. The truth is Saddam Hussein was no threat whatsoever to the United States and in fact, was considered an ally by the Reagan Administration during the 1980s even as he gassed his own people. I guess we liked him then because he was busy killing Iranians in the Iran-I raq war, whom we apparently like even less or fear even more than Iraqis. Mr. Bush’s fatuous on-going attempt to link the invasion of Iraq to 9-11 also rings utterly false and hollow when you consider that Bush’s biographer, Mickey Herskowitz has written that Bush told him he wanted to invade Iraq in 1999, a year before Bush became president and two years before 9-11 even happened. In addition, a recent report released by the Pentagon concluded that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. As former National Security Adviser Richard Clarke has said, “attacking Iraq after 9-11 made as much sense as attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbor”.’
The good news is that he’ll be out relatively soon[albeit not soon enough].
But the far worse news is that the American public will be electing another idiot. What does it say that we gave him enough legitimate votes to steal the election twice ?
At least if we elect McAin a war saavy person will be the protector. This may not happen.