Bush: I’m ‘envious’ of troops on ‘romantic’ front lines.
During a videoconference with U.S. military and civilian personnel yesterday, President Bush praised the troops fighting in Afghanistan, claiming he was “a little envious” of their “romantic” fight:
“I must say, I’m a little envious,” Bush said. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.”
“It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You’re really making history, and thanks,” Bush said.
But isn’t Bush already fighting the war? In June 2007, then-White House Press Secretary Tony Snow claimed, “The President is in the war every day…On the frontlines, wherever.”
(HT: Matt Yglesias)
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“Hey , Im a Psychotic World Leader Who can’t stop saying silly things.”
America = Dumb.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:18 amHe’s drifting into Ronnie Reagan Dreamland. He had a great opportunity to be on the front lines helping a young democracy — and he ran like a little chicken to hide out in Alabama.
It is soooo romantic to have your legs blown off or suffer from permanent hearing loss or serious brain trauma.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:18 amEvery time I think he could not possibly be any dumber…
March 14th, 2008 at 11:19 amThis explains a lot — Dubya’s entire perspective of combat comes from reading Sgt. Rock comic books.
It might have been different if he had gone to Vietnam and actually SAW what combat was like.
Either that, or he really thinks that having limbs blown off and watching your buddies die is “romantic”.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:19 amWell, geez… he could always hop on his bicycle and pedal off to the front lines.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:19 amThis is EXTREMELY insulting. Even if you forget the fact that he had his chance to spread democracy in Vietnam. They would gladly have taken him in the Marines or Army infantry. He chose to pull strings and serve in the Guard (which at that time was never in danger of being deployed). Even worse than that, he has a questionable (at best) career in the military.
This just displays his obvious megalomania and lust for power. You can see it in about everything he does. He LOVES feeling in charge and “above” all the “little people”.
He disgusts me.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:20 amThat’s not fair, gummitch…
Those who snort cocaine, drink, and party also serve.
And somebody had to guard those dental records… and Botch’s own service records… to make sure they did get hopelessly lost… for future generations.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:22 amTell the sweaty loaves of sh1t over at The National Review, Heritage Foundation and the College Republicans this now.
For some reason I think they will stick to eating crabcakes and filet mignon.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:22 amWhen people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:23 amPresident AND GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower
UNFORTUNATAELY MORE COALITION TROOPS ARE DYING THAN AMERICANS NOW
March 14th, 2008 at 11:23 amEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:24 amPresident (General) Dwight D. Eisenhower
Yeah, so envious that he slinks in and out of country unannounced, lest someone with an RPG actually PUT him on the front lines.
Tweedledork.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:24 amHis handlers really need to get a better grip on him. He is such an embarrassment. I’m pretty sure the soldiers do not see what their doing as any type of romantic trist.
What an idiot.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:25 amSgt. Rock was a peacenik next to this yoyo. At least by the time the shrub was keeping Alabama safe from the Viet Cong the comic book stories would close with the “make war no more” tagline. Bush watched “Dr. Strangelove” and didn’t realize it was satire. That and Cheney’s fist up his a$$ seem to be the primary influences on his romantic image of warfare.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:25 amSorry Guys…last one for today–you get the point =)
President (General) Dwight D. Eisenhower
March 14th, 2008 at 11:25 amI read Bush’s comments last night and thought to myself, ‘if only there had been a military conflict when Bush was a young man so he could have fulfilled his dream…if only he could have fought for an oppressed peoples’ democracy back then.’
March 14th, 2008 at 11:26 amI really believe Bush’s brain is pickled from too much alcohol.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:26 am“The real Art of Peace is not to sacrifice a single one of your warriors to defeat an enemy. Vanquish your foes by always keeping yourself in a safe and unassailable position; then no one will suffer any loses. The Way of a Warrior, the Art of Politics, is to stop trouble before it starts. It consists in defeating your adversaries spiritually by making them realize the folly of their actions. The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.” -Morihei Ueshiba, The Art Of Peace
March 14th, 2008 at 11:27 amYeah, exciting, like having your daddy’s friends pull some string so you can serve your country in the Air National Guard in Texas … and then going AWOL.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:28 amBush: “It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic”
Jebus…
If anything shows this f-king moronic chickenhawk has never been in anything resembling real combat, this is it.
Seeing you buddy get his guts and legs blown 10 yards away from his torso is not my idea of “romantic”
What a sick freak.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:28 amPass the friggin’ barf bag.
What a moron. Go back to your comic books, you idiot!!
March 14th, 2008 at 11:29 amBush: I’m ‘envious’ of troops on ‘romantic’ front lines.
You should be more envious of those with brains and an ability to tell the truth , nitwit………
March 14th, 2008 at 11:29 amShi-ite, badmoodman, I can think of an oppressed peoples’ democracy he could fight for right now, if only he wasn’t a delusional, incompetent, hopelessly corrupt sociopath who thinks God talks to him.
Memo to Botch: Those voices you hear in your head? That ain’t God talking to.
(It’s Cheney telling you what to do next… some of the time…)
March 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am“It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You’re really making history, and thanks,” Bush said.
Then it must be doubly exciting for them to see you there ; you , who put them into that position by leaving that place a mess and running off to illegally invade and occupy Iraq……..
March 14th, 2008 at 11:31 amI’d appreciate someone showing me where the actual front lines are?
Bush would be a victim of fratricide if he were there as a real soldier and not just for the photo op.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:32 amI disagree nature Rules.
I say its the booze AND cocaine, plus atrophy from lack of use, and then ya got the prescription meds ta boot…
I’m not sure Botch knows who he is some days anymore.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:33 amExcellent to see Eisenhower quoted on his view of fighting wars.
Here’s an even older quote on the subject:
“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.”
-William Tecumseh Sherman
March 14th, 2008 at 11:35 amWell meester BOOSH, enlist and finish out your duty on the front lines you awol traitor.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:35 amI`ll bet John Mclame feels the same way.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:35 amWhere GG? I thought he’d be here by now, claiming that TP was again picking peanuts from George’s poop.
But I’d agree Bush has ascended the lower reaches of Mt. Reagan with this statement.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:35 amWhen Bush uses the word “romantic” to describe fighting on the front lines I beleive he’s remeniscing about the chubbie he got in his pants last November in Bahgdad playing a virtual reality war game. Jeebus on a biscuit how out of touch can this stupid pantwaste be? I’m sure the families of our soldiers and their loved ones find Bush’s Folly soooooo romantic.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:37 amhttp://rawstory.com/ news/ afp/ Bush_plays_video_games_with_recover_11092007.html
Bush may be a simpleton, but the PNACian plan to use this him as a tool to advance their Fascist Agenda took place long before 9/11.
The one thing (and one thing only) that this Nazi Regime have mastered over the past 8 years is the use of fear politics (whether it was the color-coded terror alerts — of course, timed to divert from Bad Bush News or the fantasy-tinged mushroom cloud images)–
The Rovian smokescreen image of “a simple everyday kind of guy, a guy that likes to cut brush in his back yard — the kind of guy you’d want to sit down a have a beer with” was designed to propagandize this Alcoholic (with a Police record) descendent from his famous Krime family as a “regular guy”. Nothing could be further from the truth.
But it all worked. Meanwhile the All Hat Cowboy Blueblood from Connecticut and his Coterie stole 2 elections, trampled on the Constiution and Bill and Rights and have Plundered from this great nation.
We, as a nation, have a lot of healing and work to do.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:37 amAnd then the troops will come home 100 years later and have a baby boom.
And then the troops unharmed, still alive and not maimed can follow republican instructions and celebrate victory over libruls. Forget the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, women and children stuck in Syria prostituting themselves because it’s either that or get blown up in Iraq, and the 30,000+ injured and 4,000+ dead U.S. forces.
Then the troops will vote Republican for the next 50 years and
have oh so many war stories to tell.
Just the stupid Republican logic.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:38 amWhy don’t We the People send him there IMMEDIATELY since he missed his chance at a similar “romantic” endeavor in his youth. I am pretty sure that we wouldn’t miss his efforts at his current job.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:38 amIsn’t it romantic?
Terrorists in the night, a dream that can be heard.
Isn’t it romantic?
Moving shadows write the oldest magic word.
I hear the Taliban playing in the trees above
While all the world is saying you were meant for love.
Isn’t it romantic
Merely to be young on such a night as this?
Isn’t it romantic?
Every missile fired is like a lover’s kiss.
Sweet symbols in the moonlight,
Do you mean that I will fall in love perchance?
Isn’t it romance?
(instrumental)
Sweet missiles in the moonlight,
March 14th, 2008 at 11:39 amDo you mean that I will fall in love perchance?
Isn’t it romantic?
Isn’t it romance?
I’d appreciate someone showing me where the actual front lines are? — hellinabucket
In an occupation, the front line is everywhere in the country that is occupied and the “enemy” is a face hidden in a crowd.
This is the worst type of combat situation that any soldier can be put into. Innocent people invariably get killed.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:39 amHe had his chance during the Vietnam war and he made sure that he stayed out of combat. Nothing like Monday morning quarterbacking.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:39 amThen why doesn’t he send his darling daughters to fight the “romantic” fight in the hell-hole that is Iraq?
Each and every day this man slips farther and farther into insanity. Is there any legal way to remove a President who has gone bat-shit crazy?
March 14th, 2008 at 11:41 amWatch “The War Tapes”…And tell me its romantic george.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:41 amOn Thursday, President Bush once again provided fodder for generations of psychology graduate students to come. For the second time in just six months, the same man whose dubious Air National Guard service kept him out of the jungles of Vietnam announced he was “envious” of U.S. troops now on the frontlines in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Back in September, Bush told a group of conservative bloggers:
Responding to one of the bloggers in Iraq he expressed envy that they could be there, and said he’d like to be there but “One, I’m too old to be out there, and two, they would notice me.”
For the pathetic details, see:
March 14th, 2008 at 11:42 am“Bush ‘Envious’ of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Romantic limbs blown off. Romantic brain damage. Romanatic PTSD. Romantic suicide.
This man is sick, sick, sick.
The Crawford Caligula rides into the sunset.
-GSD
March 14th, 2008 at 11:43 amUNFORTUNATAELY MORE COALITION TROOPS ARE DYING THAN AMERICANS NOW
That is because we are not paying the sheiks to not kill coalition troops, we are paying them to not kill American troops. The coalition troops can pay their own bounty…
March 14th, 2008 at 11:44 amCan he get any stupider?
If I had been stupid enough to vote for him, I would be so embarrassed now.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:45 amGeez…if this guy really wanted to experience the “romance” of the front lines he should have stayed on base in Alabama and not skipped out of his duties while being stationed there with the Texas Air National Guard. Dan Rather aside, the story has merit and truth. No one ever said he WASN’T awol enough times. This guy never took his service seriously. Now he thinks it’s romantic. What a moron!
March 14th, 2008 at 11:45 amResponding to one of the bloggers in Iraq he expressed envy that they could be there, and said he’d like to be there but “One, I’m too old to be out there, and two, they would notice me.”
Well yeah ; how often does anyone in a desert nation actually get to see a retarded chimp ?
March 14th, 2008 at 11:45 amIt’s too bad that he has to spend all his time clearing that pesky brush… but, if he didn’t do it no one else would. Responsibility’s a hard pill to swallow… gag.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:47 amWhat’s even scarier (for Laura, anyway) is if he thinks combat is romantic, then watching bodies get dismembered and mutiliated must be his idea of foreplay.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:47 amI’d be willing to give him early retirement from his current position so he can fulfill his dream.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:48 amAn authentic cowboy from Texas attends a social function at Bu$h’s fake ranch in Crawford. Once he discovers the cowboy is a native Texan and a Democrat, Bu$h starts to belittle him by talking in his phony Texan accent and single syllable words.
As he was doing that, he kept swatting at some flies that were buzzing around his head. The cowboy says, “Y’all havin’ some problem with them circle flies?”
“Well, yes, if that’s what they’re called”, said Bu$h. “But
I’ve never heard of circle flies.”
“Well sir,” the cowboy replies, “circle flies hang around ranches. They’re called circle flies because they’re almost always found circling around the back end of a horse.”
“Oh,” Bu$h replies as he goes back to teasing the Texan but a moment later he stops and bluntly asks, “Are you calling me a horse’s back end?”
“No, sir,” the cowboy replies, “I have too much respect for the citizens of this country to call their president a horse’s pa toot.”
“That’s a good thing,” Bu$h responds as he begins to belittle the cowboy again.
After a long pause, the cowboy says in his best Texas drawl, “Hard to fool them flies, though.”
March 14th, 2008 at 11:48 amBy all means please go to the front lines. They need the help. Does he even meet current military requirements?
March 14th, 2008 at 11:49 amThis from an AWOL deserting failure?
Note to chympident:
Combat is not ‘romantic’. People’s heads, torsos and limbs get blown to shit. Blood and screaming death fills the air.
You fu(king moron.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:49 amI think I’m becoming an Eisenhower Democrat!
Thanks for those quotes, folks.
Bush has some tough choices ahead of him…’should I suit up again, codpiece & all, and show up in Afghanistan? Hmm, no, that was a pilot costume. Let’s see, how about a cowboy costume? No, I wore that last weekend. Laura! Where’s my GI Joe outfit?’…
March 14th, 2008 at 11:49 amIt’s a trip you’ll never forget…mostly because you’ll come back with PTSD.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:53 amYou had your chance long ago Deserter Bush and you did not then, nor would you now, f’n liar.
Bush/Cheney
March 14th, 2008 at 11:53 amHague Trials ‘09
missmolly Says:
What’s even scarier (for Laura, anyway) is if he thinks combat is romantic, then watching bodies get dismembered and mutiliated must be his idea of foreplay.
Whaddayathink happened to those “destroyed” CIA interrogation tapes?
March 14th, 2008 at 11:55 amIs it just a coincidence that no trolls have arrived on this thread? Or…? Dare I hope?
March 14th, 2008 at 11:55 amYou have to remember that the troops are not going to see this as much of their web viewing has been prohibited.
Is this in the MSM? If not, forget it…they’re not going to see how patronized they are.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:57 am“Yeah, it would be so cool, sleepin’ in a tent, eatin’ food from a can, snortin’ some coke, tellin’ a dirty joke, drivin’ a hummer, shootin’ some Taliban with my buds, watchin’ flyin’ body parts. Dude, I’m all about it.”
March 14th, 2008 at 11:59 am–Boy George Bush
Hey this looks like Firedoglake now. Not sure I like it - much tougher to scan through the comments.
Anyway - Did any of you know that if only W had been allowed to stay in Viet Nam longer, we’d have prevailed in that conflict. He was just about to deliver a death blow to the VC and free the remaining POW’s when the D’s intervened, and made the Pentagon pull the intrepid cheerleader/warrior out.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pmEven if he could go back, he’d still be a feckless, whining little pu$$y.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:06 pm56 - The new system has bewildered them for the time being. They’ll be back, and they’ll be hungrier for freedom than ever before - just you wait and see.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:06 pmtombaker Says:
“… when the D’s intervened, and made the Pentagon pull the intrepid cheerleader/warrior out.”
Saaaayyy… didn’t Chuck Norris make a movie about this?
“Pompoms of Death”???
March 14th, 2008 at 12:08 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
March 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I disagree nature Rules.
I say its the booze AND cocaine, plus atrophy from lack of use, and then ya got the prescription meds ta boot…
I’d say there’s nothing a person can imbibe that will make him this delusional. You only get this way from being certfiably crazy. He should be locked up because he’s a danger to himself and other.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:13 pmI’ve said more than once that Botch might be the first POTUS to leave the WH in a strait jacket.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:14 pmGeorge, please go! We want you on the front lines. Yes, go and tell everyone there that this is just like a John Wayne movie. Yes, go over there and slap some people around like General Patton because they’re not a good little machine. Now, go, you’re wasting time! It’s so romantic being away from your wife or girlfriend and the rest of your family being shot at and blown up. Hurry up and go you demented, twisted idiot!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:14 pmOut of all the emotions Bush could feel about the troops in harms way he choose Envy. Not guilt or remorse. Not shame. No asking for them to forgive him but Envy.
Many above have brilliantly pointed out that when he had the chance to do what these soldiers are now doing he went AWOL. His words now are only salt in the wounds of those who proudly serve and don’t run away. Even when it’s clear that the fight isnt’ what they were led to believe.
Bush, you disgust me.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:17 pmBush is still boozing it up.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:21 pmMy dad served the entirety of WWII in the RAF. Color blindness stopped him from being a pilot (his brother was a pilot, killed over Germany in April 1944) so Dad ran ground ops and as such had a “cushy” time of it compared to so very many. In the rare times he’d tell me anything about his experiences his stories tended to be about consequences rahter than actions–for example:
In North Africa the first returning bomber from a raid was badly shot-up and crash-landed on the airstrip. He ordered it to be bulldozed off the strip first so the other bombers running on fumes could land, before the crew could be evacuated. In the process the navigator had his thigh skewered by the metal leg of his map table.
He showed me a sketch he’d done of an Italian child,its stomach distended from famine, begging for food. “I didn’t expect that…absolute starvation” he told me.
In a town in France he came across newly liberated partisans hanging suspected collaborators. He confronted a “ringleader” and shot him in the foot (the only shot he ever fired), ordered the bodies be cut down and any other “collaborators” be brought to him first (and then secured them at the police station).
Not once did he ever describe his experiences as romantic or history-making or express any kind of enthusiasm, despite having played his part in defending his country and in helping to liberate others.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:27 pmMy troll free hopes are dashed. SouthernMoron is on the McCain thread. Damn.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:33 pmLet’s hope the added cognitive load of working with the new look and comment system will prove too demanding, and he’ll get bored and wander off.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:37 pmLead the charge, you f_cking moron.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:39 pm5th Estate Says:
Not once did he ever describe his experiences as romantic or history-making or express any kind of enthusiasm, despite having played his part in defending his country and in helping to liberate others.
Damn you w/ your painful, bloody reality, 5th Estate. George Botch needs his romantic fantasies…
Saaay… thas kinda strange… last week when Georgie sang his little “goodbye song” to tha DC press folks, he mentioned Barney waitin’ fer him in Crawford, but not Laura. ‘N now, he t’inks war is romantic… but not Laura…
Hmmm… is that marriage in trouble?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:41 pmBush and his lover “War For Democracy”:
Yes yes yes
Dem-oc-c-crac-eeeeeeeee
Oh Oh OH OHHHHH
Oh the frontlines, they’re so BIG!!!
OH YES YES YES
March 14th, 2008 at 12:43 pmOh it’s sooo ROMANTIC HERE
Oh WAR, I LOVE YOU OOH OOOOOOHH AH AH YES YES!!!
Okay, you two… time to find a foxhole.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:44 pmBotch has been leading the charge, Z… putting the tab on credit for years now.
Anything new comes up, thas all Botch ever does… jes’ charge it!
March 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
Botch has been leading the charge, Z… putting the tab on credit for years now.
Yeah, it’s not as if HE has to pay the bills. My kids will be doing that.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pmI think I’m becoming an Eisenhower Democrat!
Me too. He sure did say a lot of things that make sense and were very prophetic. Did you know that Eisenhower’s granddaughter is an Obama supporter?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pmIn all fairness, Z, your grandchildren will be paying them too.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:52 pmI feel safe saying that Eisenhower was the last SANE, ethical GOOP president.
He’d prolly be DISGUSTED by what his party has turned into.
Goldwater too.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:53 pmHmmm… is that marriage in trouble?
That’s what I think. I imagine that Laura Bush is looking at the next 10 months the same way we are. They will be the longest 10 months in history.
March 14th, 2008 at 12:54 pmI swear the man lacks the basic intelligence to understand war is not romantic period, the basic knowledge of history to give him a clue that it is not romantic and the basic empathy to figure it from meeting vets or actually reading about it.
He probably sat through “Saving Private Ryan” with a stiffy and got pissed when Ryan blubbered at the end.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:01 pmBilbo sez -
They will be the longest 10 months in history.
———–
And part of the 8 longest years in the history of this country. Some days I swear the clock is running backwards, like it used to when we were in grade school, on the last day before school let out for the summer.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:06 pmO/T, but I just saw this over at the NYT:
House Rejects Immunity in Eavesdropping Bill
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: March 14, 2008
WASHINGTON — After its first secret session in a quarter-century, the House on Friday rejected retroactive immunity for the phone companies that took part in the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program after the Sept. 11 attacks, and it voted to place greater restrictions on the government’s wiretapping powers.
The decision, by a largely party-line vote of 221 to 188, is one of the few times when Democrats have been willing to buck up against the White House on a national security issue. It also ensures that the months-long battle over the government’s wiretapping powers will drag on for at least a few more weeks and possibly much longer.
I’m… I’m speechless.
Are the Dems finally finding their spines?
March 14th, 2008 at 1:17 pmI’ll bet he felt exactly like that when he thought about his fellow pilots on their romantic crusade to keep the world safe for democracy during the Vietnam war. He must have REALLY wished he could have been among them.
You know, it just flashed on me why McCain really hates Chimpy. It’s not so much the 2000 South Carolina primary. That was pretty bad but I think the hatred predates that.
Think of it. Here they are, both Vietnam era fighter pilots but while McCain was flying missions in S E Asia and ultimately getting shot down, captured and tortured by the NVA Bush was struggling to cut the mustard in the Texas Air National Guard and, finding himself inadequate to the task, deserted in time of war.
That’s more than sufficient to engender a deep and personal loathing of the Commander Guy.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:24 pmThe “commander” is a lying little chickenhawk with no balls at all. Someone that the troop must look at with severe distain for the dilema he has fashioned for their future of long deploys and short on change.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:27 pmWe should all outraged at his sheer stupidity.
Dear President Bush,
You are the commander in chief. If you really want to go, no one can stop you. Not the military (you’re the commander), not your bodyguards. YOU are the decider.
Remember the romance of Hemmingway writting novels while on the front lines.
Staying a few months on the front lines would allow you to interact with those romantic personnel and would be a great story for your memoirs.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:35 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
In all fairness, Z, your grandchildren will be paying them too.
Thanks for making it even better. :|
March 14th, 2008 at 1:41 pmI wonder how many more crimes this Kabal will commit in the next 311 days?
Is Cheney burning the midnight oil in his bunker percolating his evil plans for Iran?
Is he training McCain in false-flag ops?
Is Bush roaming the halls of the White House at night drunk and delusional that he gets his orders from above?
Is the Nazi Chimp going to cancel the 2008 election, cause another 9/11 and install martial law?
Fasten your seat belts : it’s going to be a bumpy 311 days.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:51 pmI’m envious of idiots getting paid $400,000 a year to screw everything up.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:54 pmZooey Says:
Thanks for making it even better. :|
——–
Jes’ Botch’s way of sharing the luv, Z…
March 14th, 2008 at 2:04 pmBush’s description of Afghanstan sounds like a weekend resort area for someone to visit….Romantic…!!!
March 14th, 2008 at 2:05 pmIncredible disconnect from reality.
Chutzpah doesn’t even begin to describe his stupid arrogance.
Bush has surely “jumped the shark” and his comments, speeches, pressers, etc., are often devolving into angry, but senseless rhetoric.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:20 pmRegarding whether or not a mentally ill or incompetent President can be legally removed from office, yes and see the 25th amendment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Sections_Three_and_Four:_Presidential_Disability
However, that leaves us with Cheney as the Acting President. Really don’t know which is crazier. Don’t have time to research removal of crazy VP right now.
Bush and his “romantic idea” and wishing he could be on the front lines as well. Someone should show him the movie “Independence Day,” where the Pres. joins up with all the other pilots to get rid of the evil aliens. Perhaps it would inspire our mental midget to get dressed up again and go enjoy that “romantic” adventure. Fine with me, as long as he takes Dick with him.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:45 pmWith any luck Mr. Bush will see all the “romantic combat” he can stand; In a prison shower.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pmbewley test
March 14th, 2008 at 4:35 pm“I must say, I’m a little envious,” Bush said. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed.”
“It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You’re really making history, and thanks,” Bush said
*************************************************************
So why is it again that the twins haven’t volunteered for military service? They’re not too old…even the British royal family sent one of their own with Prince Harry.
Oh, that’s right — I forgot! Silly me…war doesn’t seem nearly as glorious and romantic anymore when your own children are risking their lives fighting it.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:37 pm$400,000 a year….for the rest of his life (Not that he needed it.
March 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pmSo Dubya’s deployment starts 1/21/09?
March 14th, 2008 at 5:06 pm“I’m envious of troops on the romantic front lines”- George W. Bush
COUGH! COUGH!
This, from a phucking cowardly chickenshit who ducked out of Vietnam like a plague. SOMEBODY FRAG THIS PHUCKING MORON!
I wasn’t on the threads earlier today, for the office computer crashed and burned. BIG time.
March 14th, 2008 at 5:13 pmI read through all the postings, where are all the fascist little trolls defending their fuhrer’s latest exhibition of pure stupidity?
frankie? gooney? Daryll? anyone?
*crickets chirping*
March 14th, 2008 at 5:29 pmIt is frustrating having a presidend who is a mentally retarded idiot.
Who else would make such a stupid, offensive comment about our troops?
His romance has been always with alcohol, which certainly burned his neurons. May be he is drinking again, otherwise, why would he make a comment like that?
Yes he should take a leave of absence and go for some “romance” in the front line of some good battle. With Chenney as his bodyguard…
March 14th, 2008 at 10:07 pmWhat was that sound?! I think it was the rock shattering his legacy. That statement so epitomizes the President’s dysfunction and extreme isolation from reality. It insults every person who has served and exposes a terrible psychological motivation.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:06 pmThis man has been watching too many WWII movies…
March 15th, 2008 at 2:02 am…younger and unemployed…hummmmmmmm that is why the economy is in recession, so they can get more kid to the meat grinder!
March 15th, 2008 at 3:17 amFacism idealizes and romanticizes War…
March 15th, 2008 at 3:18 amWe could send him out to find land mines. That would be romantic.
March 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm