Bush Booed

Bush Booed
...Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch -- to a cacophony of booing and cheering

Chris Matthews continues his love affair with Bush:
Bush "has a lot of guts" because "all politicians get booed".

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AWOL Bush and Deferment Dick = WAR!

4,000 Dead U.S. Troops.

1,191,216 Dead Iraqis



Neither Chickenhawk served in Vietnam when they had a chance to fight for their country, no they avoided serving in wars. They only speak before the carefully selected fans, screened, under orders, no trouble. No questions.
President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror

"It must be exciting for you"
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.

As I've said before, he's not too old to drive a truck in a convoy across the desert to take supplies from KBR to the troops he sent there. We'd even let him put number forty three on the side.

OR he could have a Hummer instead, and Dick can ride shotgun.




Dick: Iraq War "Major Success"
On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War's start, Vice President Dick Cheney hails "major success" and insists that although the U.S. economy has hit a "rough patch" it is not in a recession
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When asked about how that jibes with recent polls that show about two-thirds of Americans say the fight in Iraq is not worth it, Cheney replied, "So?"

"You don't care what the American people think?" Raddatz asked the vice president.



"You can't be blown off course by polls," said Cheney, who is currently on a tour of the Middle East. "This president is very courageous and determined to go the course. There has been a huge fundamental change and transformation for the better. That's a huge accomplishment."


Dick Cheney never served in the military.
Rather than serve his country in Vietnam, he sought out and received
FIVE deferments from the draft.


McCain carries the lies overseas.
McCain Conflates Shiite Iran And Sunni Al Qaeda, Needs To Be Corrected By Lieberman

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The surge boys, McCain, Lieberman and Graham are in the Middle East pretending the war is going well. Lieberwhore had to whisper into McWarmonger's ear that Iran isn't training al-Qaeda. Lindsey sure has a nice tan. I didn't know he was so broad in the beam.



A rocket hit the Green Zone, I thought it was an impenetrable fortress.
Fort Oil.

John McCain's false claim that Iranian operatives are "taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back," NBC News political director Chuck Todd asserted: "This was not a one-time slip and ... had Clinton or Obama done something like this, this would have been played on a loop, over and over."

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McCain campaign's assertion that he simply "misspoke". In fact, as noted by the blog Think Progress, McCain made the same misstatement to nationally syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt during a March 17 interview, saying, "As you know, there are Al Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they're moving back into Iraq."

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In the meantime, the news cycle was diverted to "new tapes" from Bin Laden.

Adam Raisman, senior analyst at the SITE Institute, said that the message's release coincides with an increased buzz in online jihadi forums calling for revenge against Europe over the cartoons.

But Raisman noted that bin Laden's message did not specifically mention the republishing of the cartoons, only the publishing, and it did not give any other time landmarks. "The tape doesn't give any specific evidence that would allow us to determine when it was recorded," Raisman said.

Bin Laden said the cartoons were "part of a new crusade in which the pope of the Vatican had a significant role".

The reference was part of a familiar bin Laden strategy to paint Islam and Christian-rooted societies as being in a state of war.

Bin Laden got what he wanted from the Bush administration:
US pulls out of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is home to some of Islam's holiest sites and the deployment of US forces there was seen as a historic betrayal by many Islamists, notably Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden used American presence to justify anti-US attacks. It is one of the main reasons given by the Saudi-born dissident - blamed by Washington for the 11 September attacks - to justify violence against the United States and its allies.


The US was not allowed to carry out air strikes from Saudi Arabia

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Bush Destroyed U.S. Economy

Bush restates confidence in US economy

Bush met with the US treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, and the White House economist Edward Lazear, and said his administration was "on top of the situation".
He said US financial institutions were strong despite the "challenging times", and insisted the economy would weather the storm.

"We have taken strong, decisive action," Bush said. "We will continue to monitor the situation. In the long run the economy is going to be fine. Right now we are dealing with a difficult situation."

Any American who continues to believe Bushco's lies deserves what they get. The rest of us don't. Republicans who aren't in the top financial brackets continue to vote in their own worst interests. It's baffling. They're either fools or liars. Or both.



All the Bush Cheney team is doing now is stalling, stonewalling, tying up loose ends, hiding the money they've stolen from our treasury in Dubai, Paraguay, elsewhere and their idiot front boy can get on with riding his bike, fishing, chopping down shrubs, swimming in his pool, drinking. They can all eat drink and be merry, without having to deal with the masses.

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Dubya Deems Torture OK

Cowardly Chickenhawk announced his veto out of harm's way on the radio "show" he reads each week. The vote was 222-199 in the House and 51-45 in the Senate. So since we haven't enough Congressthings and Senators with consciences and ethics, torture remains perfectly within the law. Or as Dick Cheney said years ago, "We have all the authority we need", in that case he was referring to wiretapping all of us. But we all know Dick's reply to being called on a crime, "So?" as he knows nothing will be done. Cheney said of waterboarding, "It's a no brainer"

Bush said he did not veto the bill specifically over waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning. The Army banned the use of waterboarding or sensory deprivation on uncooperative prisoners in 2006. The CIA, which also prohibited the practice in 2006, has acknowledged using waterboarding on three suspected terrorists in 2003.

"My disagreement ... is not over any particular interrogation technique; for instance, it is not over waterboarding, which is not part of the current CIA program," Bush said in his veto message to the House. The attorney general has deemed that program legal under domestic and international law, he said.


Still, waterboarding remains in the CIA's tool kit. The technique can be used, but it requires the consent of the attorney general and president on a case-by-case basis. Bush wants to keep that option open.

"I cannot sign into law a bill that would prevent me, and future presidents, from authorizing the CIA to conduct a separate, lawful intelligence program, and from taking all lawful actions necessary to protect Americans from attack," Bush said in a statement.

Bush's Legacy


Dick and Dubya must be quaking in their cowboy boots...
Pelosi said,

"We will begin to reassert that moral authority by attempting to override the President’s veto next week"

It will fail, and the White House will "lawfully" torture whoever strikes their fancy. The USA tortures people. What a fine example we are of morality. We have lost all crediblity and respect worldwide. Thanks, GOP.




Dick Poisons Troops
Speaking of waterboarding, KBR (Kellogg Brown and Root)a contractor under Halliburton, providing supplies to the military and being paid with our taxes, is trying to poison our troops by giving them contaminated water. discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq Water Makes US Troops in Iraq Sick.Maybe Dick's gone green and become a recycler par excellence, he sends waterboard overflow to our troops in the desert. Dick and Dubya have robbed us blind and don't give a shit about the actual troops. It's just a word to them, "troops" "warriors" "fodder units". They're collateral damage. Why give them clean water at all, they're so expendable. That would increase the KBR overhead and reduce profits. It's all about the profits, sorry troops, it's business, nothing personal. KBR's stocks went up. Hooray for Dick and his pals. KBR also received govt. contracts to build concentration detention camps in the U.S.

Iraq costs US $12B per month
By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent
Mar 9, 2008

The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book.
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"The Three Trillion Dollar War," Stiglitz, of Columbia University, and Bilmes, of Harvard, report the two wars will have cost the U.S. budget $845 billion in 2007 dollars by next Sept. 30, end of fiscal year 2008
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That total far surpasses the $670 billion in 2007 dollars the Congressional Research Service says was the U.S. price tag for the 12-year Vietnam War.

So, where's all that money going? To support the troops? Not really, there's oil to be removed and stored, there are contractors and politician's pockets to line. There are profits to be made and they only have less than a year to pay everyone off. Blackwater isn't cheap either.
No matter who gets elected in November we aren't leaving. Our embassy there is a town-sized complex. Enormous, impenetrable. The Green Zone will remain the only "safe" place in Iraq as a base for further oil collection. And a threat to Iran, provocation in progress. The Saudis are calling the oil shots, the Israelis are calling the war shots and we the people are getting screwed.



AWOL boy endorsed Little Jerk McCain...they both want to torture and surge. And Bush proved once again, he's a liar.

White House Press Conference
I suspect that over the course of the next months, when I hold a press conference, you'll be trying to get me to engage in presidential politics; trying to get me to opine about what candidates are saying, whether they be Republicans or Democrats. And hopefully I'll be disciplined enough not to fall prey to your question, not to fall into that trap. Bush, August 9, 2007



Straight Talk Express




Bush Secret Video


Bush yearns for Texas in rare singing performance

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush donned a cowboy hat and sang an early goodbye to Washington on Saturday night with a performance that lampooned White House journalists and Vice President Dick Cheney among others.

Bush surprised cabinet secretaries, diplomatic officials and journalists at the annual Gridiron dinner by taking the stage and giving the first public singing performance of his eight-year presidency, which ends in January 2009.

To the tune of country song "Green Green Grass of Home," Bush sang of longing for his ranch in Crawford, Texas and his dog Barney.

"And there to meet me is my mama and my papa, down the lane I look and here comes Barney, heart of gold and breath like honey; it's good to touch the brown brown grass of home."

"For there's Condi and Dick, my old compadre, talking to me about some oil rich Saudi, but soon I'll touch the brown brown grass of home."

"That old White house is behind me, I am once again carefree, don't have to worry 'bout a crisis in Pyongyang. Down the lane I look, Dick Cheney is strolling with documents he'd been withholding, it's good to touch the brown brown grass of home."

Bush told the audience, which erupted in applause and gave him a standing ovation, that they had witnessed "the first and final performance of George Bush and the Busharoos."

The Gridiron Club holds an annual dinner at which journalists put on songs and skits lampooning Democrats and Republicans alike.

They just don't care one iota about anybody but themselves, the GOP laughs about killing people, treason, corrupt officials, and oil. They're laughing while people die.

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