Right wing outraged by correct labeling of Iraq report.
By on Sep 7th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Right wing outraged by correct labeling of Iraq report.
Yesterday, the Washington Times reported that Congressional leaders have begun calling the upcoming Iraq assessment “the Bush report” rather than crediting it to Gen. David Petraeus — a change that the paper and other right wingers claim is an effort to “undermine” Petraeus’ credibility. But, as TPM’s Greg Sargent points out, the legislation calling for the report specifically mandated that it come from the President, not the top commander in Iraq.
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What report??
September 7th, 2007 at 2:39 pmMakes more sense to call it the Bush report. Nobody will get to see it and we can all just take his word for it when he tells us we're on the right path.
Gen. Petraeus is probably grateful his name won't be linked with this.
September 7th, 2007 at 2:41 pmIs Bush going to look for this report under his desk or behind the curtains....maybe Barney ate it.
September 7th, 2007 at 2:45 pm" a change that the paper and other right wingers claim is an effort to “undermine†Petraeus’ credibility"
*****Did Petraeus not undermined his credibility when he proposed the surge thereby foregoing his counter-insurgency strategy.
September 7th, 2007 at 2:48 pmPetraeus hanged his-self all by himself.
Maybe this is why Rove left when he did. After all, someone has to write something to look like a "report". Who is better qualified to make up all that sh!t than Rove?
September 7th, 2007 at 2:49 pmI will do my Jean Schmidt impression and post something someone else said as my own, but I will give all credit and proceeds to the original poster.
*(corrections made by me)
“The Surge is working, apply directly to the forehead’
“The Surge is working, apply directly to the foreheadâ€
“The Surge is working, apply directly to the foreheadâ€
Comment by Starve-A-Bush_Feed-A-Beaver
RIP
September 7th, 2007 at 2:54 pmSGT Stephen R Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Why not just call it "the surge spin cycle"?
September 7th, 2007 at 2:57 pmThe Bush+Petraeus or "Betraeus Report"?
September 7th, 2007 at 2:59 pmI love paper work. Zerox machines are especially useful in the battlefield. Imagine, the finest laser copier/printer/scanner for the trenches.
I know, I'll print this!
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Robot leftist: Must....report....to...congress...highest...using....sustainable....ink. We want more pixels than troops!
September 7th, 2007 at 3:05 pmI always say, apply the Clinton test to these events. Imagine the noise the right would be making if the Clinton administration tried these evasions and insanities. Methinks they do protest too much.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:09 pmImpeach Bush and Cheney and Save the Constitution.
If it is the Bush report then why has there been so much anger/disgust/confusion about the White House writing the General's report? I am not trying to be a smart ass here. It is a legit question. Someone please fill me in?
September 7th, 2007 at 3:10 pmThe right-wing hates it when a spade is called a spade.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:10 pmComment by MASTER p — September 7, 2007 @ 3:16 pm
Because we're programmed that way. We need to keep our violence here at home.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:19 pmok so my comment got blocked... I'm assuming for the word "$h!t" and this idiot #9 is pulling this act on 2 threads...
ok TP thanks... I'll be back when yall can get your act together
September 7th, 2007 at 3:21 pmThis is great news...The Repugniscums have nothing left but words and grunting noises left in their morally and intellictually bankrupt beliefs and positions.
This is the sound of a Repugniscum gargling a big dose of Ghoul-Aid before the party wide death gurgle is heard from coast to coast...^...^...^..........
September 7th, 2007 at 3:21 pmWho can make any sense of either the WH, the article in the Wash Times, or the congressional requirements.
It's such a gobblydegook of nonsense, one's mind is positivtely baffled.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:24 pmAnd this is how we respect our troops. With this garbage from all quarters - the Prez, the Congress, the press, the media - all spinning and spinning, and inversing meaning, and spinning again.
Alice is looking through the glass and refusing to go down the rabbit hole.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:25 pmhil
Did your blocked post include the words P.e.a.c.e C.o.r.p.s - those discussions are not tolerated
September 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pmWe need to keep our violence here at home.
Funny how we've failed to do that.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:28 pmThe Petraeus Potemkin report.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:31 pmMAESTRoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooO
September 7th, 2007 at 3:35 pmIt’s the daily newsletter from the writers of Think Surrender. Featuring hard-hitting censorship and suppression of facts you can’t find anywhere else.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:54 pmComment by michaelIsRetarded — September 7, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
michael,
You certainly are Retarded...can you contribute more...like being less Retarded?
Here's a start. What colour is your short, yellow bus?
September 7th, 2007 at 4:00 pmAs far as reality is concerned, what we observe is not the object or thing as it is in itself, but how and inasmuch it is given in the intentional acts. Knowledge of essences would only be possible by "bracketing" all assumptions about the existence of an external world and the inessential (subjective) aspects of how the object or thing that we think we observe is concretely given to us.
We must concentrate more on the ideal, essential structures of consciousness and exclude any hypothesis on the existence of external objects through the method of phenomenological reduction to eliminate them. What is left over is the pure transcendental ego, as opposed to the concrete empirical ego. We must practice the study of the noemata and the relations among them.
September 7th, 2007 at 4:11 pmI think they could have left the headline as "Thhe right is outraged..." Annd it would have been fine as they seem to be outraged at everything that is not them.
September 7th, 2007 at 4:14 pmBush's word isn't worth sh*t, that's what the right wingers are saying.
September 7th, 2007 at 4:22 pm"How dare the Libruls smear Patraeus by calling his report a "Bush report"!
It always was the Bush Report so what else is new? General Betray-us took the position as Bush's new poodle and is being paid to say what Bush proposes. Everyone knew he was Bush's pimp going in.
September 7th, 2007 at 5:26 pmIf it's truly the "Bush Report," then it's not even that. Undoubtedly, the president cribbed the report (as surely as he did every report throughout his edumacation) and simply replaced the title page with one of his own. Who knows who wrote the report; maybe it was Eleanor H. Porter and it was originally entitled "Pollyanna."
September 7th, 2007 at 5:41 pmIt IS the Bush report, and so should it be named.
I read also that this report will not be distributed, but Petraeus' will only speak his report and Bush will "interpret it."
Of course I am angry and frustrated by the stubborn a$$hole in the White House who thinks "kickin' ass" is an appropriate term, and by the lying scumbags who continue to lie for him, defend him and otherwise support him.
September 7th, 2007 at 6:31 pmBut I am wearing thin on support for the Dems; I won't send them donations any more -- not until they start standing up to Bushie and doing what the public has demanded.
I know they have a slim majority - I know all the facts - but I also know that they are unexplainedly timid and afraid to stand up to him.
". . . one nation, under cowards, divisible, with liberty and justice for wealth."
September 7th, 2007 at 6:48 pm'the bush report' - well that shouldn't come as a surprise - just as there will be no surprises when the report says that the surge is working and we're winning hearts and minds and that we're making progress blah blah blah - it'll be more of the same old bullsh!t over again - he's trying to beat everyone into submission with this repeditiveness - hey,it worked in the sense that everyone kind of forgot about the importance of catching bin laden and not finding any nu-ku-lar bombs in baghdad
September 7th, 2007 at 7:37 pmCalling it the "Bush Report" undermines it's credibility? Really? This is coming from Republicans? Then I have a few other things I would like to throw out there. How about the "Bush Presidency?" The Bush War? Bush plans on Bush Foreign Policy... Bush Legacy... Bush Administration?
I'm Bush ed. To my stomach.
I like the way the English pronounce it... Booosh. It sounds dirty.
Republicans realize that the people see Bush now for what he is, incompetent. So they want to throw the foul flag up. The Bush flag.
September 7th, 2007 at 9:09 pm