Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Happy Anniversary, George.


Five years ago today, you illegally invaded a sovereign nation based on trumped-up, fraudulent evidence cherry-picked by your own people. And for what? To assuage your longtime daddy issues? Well, bravo to you, Mr. President. After 5 years, $522 billion, 3991 confirmed dead American service members and tens, if not, hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis — what have you learned? Absolutely nothing.

President Bush defiantly defended the Iraq war Wednesday as U.S. troops began a sixth year of combat in the long and costly conflict that has dominated his presidency. Bush conceded the war has been harder and more expensive than anticipated but insisted it has all been necessary to keep Americans safe.
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Bush, in a speech at the Pentagon, offered some of his boldest assessments of progress and said the war's legacy is absolute: "The world is better, and the United States of America is safer."

If it weren’t so pathetic, it would almost be funny. Almost. So in honour of your not-so-excellent Iraqi adventure ... a little def poetry which articulates what I feel so much better than I can right now.


4 comments:

Mike said...

On the upside, Haliburton stock, which Dick Cheney still gets and owns, is up 3000+%....

Oh, wait...

The Seer said...

re: cutting taxes and borrowing from the Chinese to finance the war:

"Some might argue that the Tibet explosion has come at an inauspicious time for the despots in Peking. Paradoxically, the reverse is the truth. The Chinese control the dollar. If the US administration does anything to jeopardise the success of the games, then the Peking government can use its billion-billion war-chest of dollar reserves to destroy the US currency. Everyone in the White House, Congress and the Fed knows this. What better way of proving which is the great emerging global power than to force a humiliated US into joining in the Games, its scrotal sack neatly in Chinese hands, as meanwhile Tibet enters a new dark age?" http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/the-west-deserves-olympic-gold-for-sheer-cowardice-1321093.htm

E in MD said...

You're forgetting the couple of thousand veterans who killed themselves once they got home.

E in MD said...



On the upside, Haliburton stock, which Dick Cheney still gets and owns, is up 3000+%....

Oh, wait...

By Blogger Mike, at 9:57 PM


Actually the over all stock price 'only' tripled. However the stock has split a couple of times since 03. You can see that on Halliburton's website under the investor section.

3/18/2003 - $10.45
3/18/2008 - $37.63

Fun eh?