No questions asked.
By on Dec 7th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
No questions asked.
Iraq Study Group member Lawrence Eagleburger “said after the event that when the group met with Bush, ‘I don’t recall, seriously, that he asked any questions.‘”
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well, when you dont care about the answers . . .
December 7th, 2006 at 4:53 pmJust like before Katrina struck.
Bush just isn’t interested in possible consequences.
One would think that he might ask “and what would the fall-back position be should the other nations in the region refused to cooperate on any reasonable grounds”? After all, the ISG put a lot of eggs in that basket.
How can you develop a policy when you lack the curosity to form a question.
Wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time. That is Bush in a nutshell.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:02 pmJust like “young Mr. Grace” from that insipid BBC comedy “Are You Being Served?” No clue as to what’s going on – and having the store managed by a bunch of uptight bunglers.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:07 pmWhy would Bush ask any questions. He knows everything. God tells him.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:07 pmThere’s a reason I call him Incurious George.
He could have thrown the old boys in the ISG a bone, and asked them what time it was. Then they could at least say he sasked a question.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:13 pmCrap.
*asked a question.*
December 7th, 2006 at 5:14 pmBush could care less what anyone says the plan to get Iraq oil and control the Middle East was planned by the Administration and the Saudi’s over 6 years ago. So he wouldn’t need to ask any questions because he doesn’t care. Now as our soldiers die everyday Bush and the GOP will turn the topic to making another committee until the crooks get what they want. People will die by the thousands and that is no interest to Bush. As a weak coward non military skip out of duty drunken druggie this is who he is. Daddy and MaMa Bush raised him to be just what he is nothing. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as we see with the Bush twins and their wildness. Now history will so that the President’s daughters were drunk and druggie as they were asked to leave a country.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:18 pmIntellectual curiosity is one of Bush’s weak points. He has no interest in anything that is not his personal idea or agenda. That is why he is so dangerous.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:28 pmAsking a question implies that you understand what is being presented to you in the first place.. or that you care to understand at all. Monkeys in the zoo flinging poo again…
December 7th, 2006 at 5:32 pmBush asked no questions, because he knows the Iraq Study Group Report is just a bunch of crap put together to give him cover to keep the US troops in Iraq for another 2 years! James Baker is a Bush family friend, and fixer of problems, so the report is just smoke and mirrors!
December 7th, 2006 at 5:39 pmI can picture him sitting there, arms crossed, a scowl on his face as the group lays out their findings.
Probably the only thing that keeps him from sticking his fingers in his ears and going “lalalalalalalalalala” is that he’s afraid it might get back to Ma Bush and he’d be in for it then. She told him not to do that.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:47 pmHey, Bush isn’t the questioner, he’s the decider. He doesn’t question, he decides. Asking questions or seeking advice or reading facts will only get in the way of his pure decision making greatness.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:48 pm“Askin kwarshtins is fer smart folks”
December 7th, 2006 at 5:52 pmI am sickened by the spectacle that government has become. They hired a PR firm? What a joke. It’s so obvious that this is a boondoggle to re-align the dissenting sheep into thinking our useless government is doing something about the problems in Iraq. Meanwhile, people are dying senselessly. And we’re all paying for it.
December 7th, 2006 at 5:59 pmKinda like askin him if he’s ever made a mistake.
December 7th, 2006 at 6:11 pmJust sits there and smirks. What the F*ck Me Worry??
Lamb Chop never asked Shari Lewis a question.
December 7th, 2006 at 6:24 pmHe’s a cheerleader, not a General. He doesn’t have a clue how to lead, which would require one to ask questions, which would require one to have at least a few dozen neurons firing, which would require one to actually care, which would require one to have a soul.
December 7th, 2006 at 6:28 pmThe Decider does not ask questions. He just decides… then he destroys.
Impeach the cheerleader, save the world.
December 7th, 2006 at 6:51 pmRozencrantz – I just read your post. Great minds think alike.
December 7th, 2006 at 6:55 pmTruly frightening….his denial seems pathological.
December 7th, 2006 at 6:55 pmH-Patrol
It is scary. Bush is so out of touch with reality. I’m sure there is a DSM diagnosis for this type of thinking. Is it magical thinking? Is that the term?
December 7th, 2006 at 7:03 pmFrom a 24 year old Army Reservist, posted on Powerline
quote
After watching the Iraq Survey Group press conference today I am a firm believer that all politicians are idiots. Okay well not all of them but they all have a problem understanding reality. If any politician is reading this now feel free to email me and we’ll go out for coffee and I’ll further explain. But I digress.
The Iraq Survey Group’s findings or rather, recommendations are a joke and could have only come from a group of old people who have been stuck in Washington for too long. The brainpower of the ISG has come up with a new direction for our country and that includes negotiating with countries whose people chant “Death to America†and whose leaders deny the Holocaust and call for Israel to be wiped from the face of the earth. Baker and Hamilton want us to get terrorists supporting countries involved in fighting terrorism! If I am the only one who finds something wrong with that then please let me know because right now I feel like I am the only person who feels this way.
Not only are the findings of the ISG a joke but the people who led the group (Baker and Hamilton) treat soldiers like they are a joke. One of the main recommendations of the ISG is to send more troops to Iraq in order to train Iraqis so they can secure their own country, but they don’t feel that we are doing a good job of that right now because training Iraqis isn’t an attractive job for soldiers to do because it isn’t a “career advancing†job. As someone who trained Iraqis from time to time I take personal offense to this remark. In my experience soldiers clamored for the chance to train Iraqis. Any soldier who doesn’t think training Iraqis is worth their time because it isn’t a “career advancing†job shouldn’t be part in the war on terror plain and simple.
***
I feel like all of my efforts (30 months of deployment time) and the efforts of all my brothers in arms are all for naught. I thought old people were supposed to be more patient than a 24 year old but
apparently I have more patience for our victory to unfold in Iraq than 99.9 percent of Americans. Iraq isn’t fast food–you can’t have what you want and have it now. To completely change a country for the first time in its entire history takes time, and when I say time I don’t mean 4 years.
Talking doesn’t solve anything with a crazed people, bullets do and we need to be given a chance to work our military magic. Like I told a reporter buddy of mine: War sucks but a world run by Islamofacists sucks more.
unquote
December 7th, 2006 at 7:04 pmAnd you all expected anything different from him????? Questions????? Duh! He can’t spell ‘question’, hasn’t gotten to learning about the Q yet.
December 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pmLook-He just needs to wait and have Chaney Splainit to him. On top of that- just what the heck did the ISG really lay out-79 bull $hit never gonna happen buzz words generated crap the MSM will love to have their “experts” discuss. The ISG has provided cover for both parties. Now they all can get back to getting “K” steet to kick in big bucks so they can get re-elected. Ross may have been a little “touched” but, he was right- one corporation with two divisions. The day after they get elected -they start raising money for the next election. In the mean time, American men and women in our armed forces will continue to be killed and wounded in that hell that GWB created.
December 7th, 2006 at 7:15 pmYeah, why would he ask questions now? The only question he ever asked Rumsfeld was “Who do I make the check out to?”
December 7th, 2006 at 7:25 pmSo, what’s new? When has this guy ever asked questions about anything of substance?
If Eagleburger was implying that by not asking questions Bush was in concurrence with the ISG recommendations, he’s not paying attention to the fact that George just doesn’t care.
Dear richb: You don’t have the support you need to do your job. You never did, by Rumsfeld’s design before we ever went to war. The ISG report is not about whether you’ll get the support you need. It never was meant to be. It was to give George cover to keep you getting used as terrorist training material for at least another year in the hopes that somehow, some way, we will be able to keep all those bases we built to make Iraqi oil safe for big U.S. corporations and the Middle East safe for that compassionate, respectful theocracy, Israel.
Whoever told you that this war was about fighting terrorists was lying to you. Repeat after me: “9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq or Saddam Hussein.” There were no suicide bombers in Iraq, from all accounts I’ve seen, until you guys got deployed over there. As much as I hate to break it to you, the sad truth is that your presence there has CREATED terrorism, not reduced it. Staying there longer will just create more as 100,000 Iraqis A MONTH are currently being driven from their homes and to foreign nations.
You’re the pawn of a bunch of uncaring chickenhawks. If I were you, I’d be mad as hell about it.
December 7th, 2006 at 7:41 pmIn re to the 24 year old Army Reservist that posted on Powerline
I’d like to know right now if this so-called `Army Reservist’ is willing to give up his/her life/arm/eye/etc for the sake of an Shiite theocracy led by the `Death to America’ chanting Al Sadr, Al Dawa (Al-Maliki), and Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Al-Hakim):
Mister Death Squad Goes to Washington
by Ahmed Amr
Sunday December 3, 2006
[snip]
To get a measure of the man, you need to see past Hakim’s wardrobe. This guy is more than a religious missionary. He’s certainly no ordinary politician. You can’t even consider him a military man – although he was the leader of the Badr Brigades – the military wing of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq – SCIRI. Still, he’s so much more than that. The source of his political clout is his control over the Shiite death squads that have infiltrated the American-trained security forces.
And there’s more to recommend this man for the task of getting “the job done.†The death squads under Al Hakim’s command aren’t your run of the mill assassins. They usually leave their signature on their victims before grinding them up. Al Hakim’s dedicated cadres like to drill holes in other people’s skulls before dumping the mutilated cadavers on Baghdad’s streets as a warning to any real or potential adversaries.
Bush surrenders Iraq to Maliki’s death squads
by Ahmed Amr
Saturday November 4, 2006
[snip]
The Prime Minister is the defacto chairman of the death squads – a radical partisan leader who is out to insure Shia supremacy in the new Iraq. Maliki, Bayan Jabr and Moqtada Sadr are cut of the same ideological cloth. They are men who have spent a lifetime in the quest to convert Iraq into a Shia theocracy – by any means necessary.
Iraq: Bush’s Islamic Republic
By Peter W. Galbraith
[snip]
Real power in Shiite Iraq rests, however, with two religious parties: Abdel Aziz al-Hakim’s Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Dawa (”Call,” in English) of Iraq’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari. Of the two, SCIRI is the more pro-Iranian.
[snip]
SCIRI and Dawa want Iraq to be an Islamic state. They propose to make Islam the principal source of law, which most immediately would affect the status of women. For Muslim women, religious law—rather than Iraq’s relatively progressive civil code—would govern personal status, including matters relating to marriage, divorce, property, and child custody. A Dawa draft for the Iraqi constitution would limit religious freedom for non-Muslims, and apparently deny such freedom altogether to peoples not “of the book,” such as the Yezidis (a significant minority in Kurdistan), Zoroastrians, and Bahais.
This program is not just theoretical. Since Saddam’s fall, Shiite religious parties have had de facto control over Iraq’s southern cities. There Iranian-style religious police enforce a conservative Islamic code, including dress codes and bans on alcohol and other non-Islamic behavior. In most cases, the religious authorities govern—and legislate—without authority from Baghdad, and certainly without any reference to the freedoms incorporated in Iraq’s American-written interim constitution—the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL).
[Keywords: Iraq, Islamic fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalism, Shiite fundamentalists, Al Sadr, Al-Maliki, Al-Hakim, Bayan Jabr, Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, SCIRI, Al Dawa, Death Squads]
December 7th, 2006 at 7:53 pmReally? Absolutely no questions. WTF?
December 7th, 2006 at 7:59 pmWhy in the bright blue hell would Preznit Bush Jr. NEED to ask any questions when he already knows ALL the ANSWERS!!! He understands, as do I, that this here Iraq Study Group was just a waste of taxpayer money that was grudgingly endured by Preznit Bush Jr. to satisfy his doddering old man, Preznit Bush Sr. A boy’s love for his pappy is a powerful thing, and if it means Preznit Bush Jr. has to pretend to listen to a report fulla surrenderification nonsense to make his daddy smile, it’s a sacrifice he’s more than willing to make.
December 7th, 2006 at 8:08 pmRichb,
Patience worked well in Korea and Vietnam too! How many must die before you people realize those 3 factions in Iraq will never live in peace, just as well as the crazy christian faction here that wants to kill them, the crazy Jews in Israel. When does the craziness end? When all of you put bullets in each other? Can you please leave us innocent “non-believers” out of your Jihads against each other?
Thanks! We’re the ones who really want to be FREE!
Just goes to show you that he’s one of the 24 years old who thinks he knows it all, because thats what his commanders tell him. He probably thinks they found WMD’s and Saddam & Osama vacationed in Florida together.
December 7th, 2006 at 8:10 pmTHE SOB leaves in denial and thinks we are winning in Iraq, He doesn’t understand anything above “My Pet Goat” level, so why were there any expectations that he would ask questions.
Uncle Dick will tell him if ISG report is a good book or not, and what he has to do.
December 7th, 2006 at 8:15 pmcorrection, the president made the following comments during the meeting:
December 7th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
I think in fact that Seriously did not ask any questions. Whats the problem?
December 7th, 2006 at 9:24 pmYeah, angie, they were tight, especially after he picketed Gore’s dad. Moron.
December 7th, 2006 at 10:43 pmI will take McCain over this shyster any day of the week.
http://www.lcrga.com/archive/200010251159.shtml
And I`m a liberal.
Imagine that.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:37 pmPlease, can I click on the neo-con nutso website, Lonnie? Thanks!!!
December 7th, 2006 at 11:43 pmIt appears that Republicans have given up any semblance of support for the president — they simply cannot defend him any longer and retain any personal credibility.
December 8th, 2006 at 12:36 amBush would have to have a functioning brain in order to think of a question – he would have had to absorb enough information in order to ask for more definition.
And I know there are a lot of people, including myself, who aren’t so sure that the joke about his asking for a drink was indeed a joke.
I will take McCain over this shyster any day of the week.
http://www.lcrga.com/archive/200010251159.shtml
And I`m a liberal.
Imagine that.
Comment by Lonnie James —
Lonnie,
December 8th, 2006 at 12:47 amCan’t you even keep your phony name straight? You posted the exact same message on some other threads as “Tim.”
zooey?
I nice juicy “georgia cheer†for you!!
Oh my,I think that one was in there since turkey day.
Bwahahahaaaaaaaa!
let`s see where was I……………..
$7,269,686…………..
and 21 cents.
Back to work govt. mules……..you`re making my life so easy!!!
Did I mention I have RETIRED STINKING RICH at the ripe old age of
38?
Never again will work adorn my thoughts.
Bush is a Godsend for REAL Americans.
I just wish there weren`t term limits.
This is like a GREAT BIG MONEY MACHINE!!!!
We`ll be back in about 10-15 years to get the rest!!!
angie-the proud corporate raider!!!
Bwahahahahaaaaaaaa!!!!
Have a nice christian CHRISTMAS!!
That is if you don`t have to work Christmas day and all.
muwahhhhhh!!!
December 8th, 2006 at 1:27 amLawrence Eagleburger:
Wikipedia: “Starting in 1969, he served in the Nixon administration as an assistant to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. He stayed in this appointment until 1971; thereafter he took on several positions, including advisor to the US Mission to North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, and, following Kissinger’s appointment as Secretary of State, a number of additional posts in the State Department.
“His period as advisor for Yugoslavian affairs from 1989 to 1992 was highly controversial. He gained a reputation for being a strong Serbian partisan, most controversially denying that Serbian paramilitaries and the Yugoslav National Army had committed atrocities in the breakway republic of Croatia. This perceived partisanship led the European press to dub him Lawrence of Serbia (a reference to Lawrence of Arabia).
Disinfopedia:
“Eagleburger serves as President of Kissinger Associates, Inc.
and
Chairman Emeritus, Academy of Diplomacy
Director, Atlantic Institute (1987)
Director, Halliburton Company (since 1998)
Director, ConocoPhillips
Director, Stimsonite
Director, Universal Corporation
Director, Corning Corporation
Director, COMSAT
Advisory Board, OILspace
Strategy Board Member, Appian Group
Member, Council on Foreign Relations (1988, 2001)
Member, Trilateral Commission (1992, 1998)
and
U.S. Secretary of State 8-Dec-1992 to 19-Jan-1993 under George H.W. Bush
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia 1977-81
Alfalfa Club 1992
American Academy of Diplomacy Chairman Emeritus
American Red Cross international ambassador-at-large (1999)
AmeriCares Advisory Committee
Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Honorary Member,
Board of Directors
Atlantic Institute for International Affairs
Bretton Woods Committee
Council on Foreign Relations
International Republican Institute
It’s My Party Too Board of Directors
Trilateral Commission
Young Republicans
Member of the Board of Phillips Petroleum 1993-2000
Member of the Board of Conoco-Phillips
Member of the Board of Halliburton
Knight of the British Empire 1994 honorary
–
Anything he says is probably a corporate/Kissingerite lie.
December 8th, 2006 at 4:05 am