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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / War / Some Days Only John Aravosis Will Do

Some Days Only John Aravosis Will Do

by Tim F|  July 12, 20077:16 am| 14 Comments

This post is in: War, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.

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Regarding the black-and-white gap between the Bush admin’s happy rhetoric and its own internal assessments:

They knew this six months ago, and still let our troops continue to die

Pretty much.

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  1. 1.

    Third Eye Open

    July 12, 2007 at 7:44 am

    When seems so fucking beyond reapir, the only thing that gives me any hope is to chuckle and shake my head…can we get our pitchforks yet?

  2. 2.

    Third Eye Open

    July 12, 2007 at 7:46 am

    …And when I get indignant in the morning, I lose words and the ability to spell.

  3. 3.

    RSA

    July 12, 2007 at 7:53 am

    Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. In essence, it stems from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality. For this reason, postmodernism is highly skeptical of explanations which claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person. In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually.

    Bush is the first postmodern President. His view that we are winning in Iraq (personal interpretation–hey, he’s not being killed, is he?) is all that counts.

  4. 4.

    Wilfred

    July 12, 2007 at 7:56 am

    Al-Qaeda’s operating capabilities are at their strongest since the 9/11 attacks, according to leaks of a US intelligence report.

    Well, forget progress in Iraq, the real war is against al-Queda, we fight them in Baghdad so we don’t have to fight them here, We. Are. Winning. FREEDOM.

    4,000 of our own people killed, tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans dead, millions of refugees, 450 billion dollars spent and al-Qaeda is stronger than it was on 9/11? I hate using an overworked adjective but this is just surreal.

  5. 5.

    chopper

    July 12, 2007 at 8:32 am

    when i read this

    Hayden said “the inability of the government to govern seems irreversible,” adding that he could not “point to any milestone or checkpoint where we can turn this thing around,” according to written records of his briefing and the recollections of six participants.

    “The government is unable to govern,” Hayden concluded.

    i had to look twice to see which government he was talking about, iraq’s or the US’s.

    (i was gonna say ‘ours’ but i realized that both governments are ours)

  6. 6.

    jenniebee

    July 12, 2007 at 9:16 am

    no ponies?

  7. 7.

    Tsulagi

    July 12, 2007 at 10:04 am

    Hayden said “the inability of the government to govern seems irreversible,” adding that he could not “point to any milestone or checkpoint where we can turn this thing around

    You sure as shit don’t need a four-star, NSA director, and now DCI to tell you that. This Iraqi “government” is entirely dysfunctional due to incompetence, non-decision making, cronyism, corruption, and a lot of faith-based whack jobs among other things. With an idiot as the cherry on top.

    i had to look twice to see which government he was talking about, iraq’s or the US’s.

    Easy to see the confusion. The love child looks so much like the Bush/Cheney parents. Cheney must get a tear in his eye and his pacemaker go all aflutter as a proud daddy.

  8. 8.

    Jake

    July 12, 2007 at 10:18 am

    That’s right Wilfred. The big bad AQ is still out there and of course we won’t ask why or how they came to be entrenched in a country that is supposedly an ally when they are supposed to be dead or in prison.

    Anyway, it’s probably NATO’s fault.

    We’ll just change our fear-soaked pants, buy more duct tape, applaud when the pResident orders everyone to wear a tracking collar and take comfort in the fact that when US soldiers kill or are killed by people in Iraq, it somehow hinders operations in Pakistan.

  9. 9.

    ThymeZone

    July 12, 2007 at 10:54 am

    His view that we are winning in Iraq (personal interpretation—hey, he’s not being killed, is he?) is all that counts.

    A very astute observation.

    I listened to the WHOLE THING this morning, the presser.

    If I heard this phrase once, I heard it ten times:

    “See, what the American people need to understand is ….”

    Get it? WE need to understand.

    This asshole who pimps democracy in a land where there has never been democracy (Arabia) doesn’t have the slightest understanding of democracy in his own country.

    Apparently he thinks that telling us what to think is his job. He calls this “leadership.” I call it delusion.

  10. 10.

    Tax Analyst

    July 12, 2007 at 11:42 am

    So one minute we’re “turning the corner” and then next moment it looks like we’re “in the toilet”. However, the Prezidint juzt tole me it’z reelly a hott tubb…enjoy the dip and never mind the smell…

  11. 11.

    Bubblegum Tate

    July 12, 2007 at 12:19 pm

    no ponies?

    Sorry, no ponies. But not because of any sort of defeat, you defeat-o-crat. There are no ponies because we’ve been so unbelievably successful in Iraq that pony demand has skyrocketed, meaning all ponies are now backordered.

  12. 12.

    Rome Again

    July 12, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    Apparently he thinks that telling us what to think is his job. He calls this “leadership.” I call it delusion.

    Delusion it is.

  13. 13.

    demimondian

    July 12, 2007 at 2:05 pm

    all ponies are now backordered.

    See, what the American people need to understand is that the supply of jackalopes has…um…skyrocketed. Did you know that there’s now a jackalope surplus in Iraq? Yup. That’s right. A surplus.

  14. 14.

    Rome Again

    July 12, 2007 at 3:51 pm

    See, what the American people need to understand is that the supply of jackalopes has…um…skyrocketed. Did you know that there’s now a jackalope surplus in Iraq? Yup. That’s right. A surplus.

    So now, as the price of ponies goes up, does the price of jackalopes go down? I’m just trying to wrap my head around this type of supply and demand.

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