Ya know that corner bush keeps saying we turned in Iraq??? Guess what.

[LynnTheDem]

Yep. Wrong corner. Again.

Iraq insurgency has worsened: US intelligence

Though US President George W Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been giving the impression that the insurgency situation in Iraq is improving, the American Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), which monitors the situation daily, says it has worsened.

"The insurgency in Iraq has grown in size and complexity over the past year. Attacks numbered approximately 25 per day one year ago," DIA Director Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby told the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington.

-snip

The pattern of attacks, he said, remains the same as last year. Approximately 80 per cent of all attacks occur in Sunni-dominated central Iraq.

The vice admiral also pointed out that multiple polls show favourable ratings for the US in the Muslim world "at all-time lows."

LBN link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1326565#1326627


Poor bush. It's hard werk being WRONG WRONG WRONG every single damn time he opens his mouth.

[Clark2008]

1. We turned a corner!

Into hell.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. If you keep turning corners,

pretty soon you end up back where you started.

[LynnTheDem]

3. I think we're on our 3rd one of those.

I think. Lost count when I got dizzy turning the last time.

[Carolab]

4. That's what we get for backing the Shia.

"Approximately 80 per cent of all attacks occur in Sunni-dominated central Iraq."

[GreenPoet64]

5. It's so sad . . .

all that we have lost in terms of how we are regarded in the world.

[jdots]

9. all we have lost in our own country too

Do they understand that you can't bomb someone into respecting you.

[madeline_con]

17. no

no, they don't

[MADem]

6. He turned a corner, and found himself in a tunnel

The next message of cheer we'll hear is that there is a LIGHT at the end of that tunnel!!!

What the hell, they keep dusting off all of those old Vietnam excuses (Iraqization/Vietnamization, turning the corner, light at the end of the tunnel, making progress, beating back the Cong/insurgents...). It's really the same shit, different war.

Remember how long it took us to recover from Vietnam? Those awful Nixon years? Ford, and his pathetic WHIP INFLATION NOW (WIN) buttons? Jimmy Carter's "stagflation?" The brutal Reagan economic policies--catsup as a vegetable, indeed.

War makes some 'connected' people rich, but it devastates countries. It tears people apart. Here we go again!

How long will it take this time? Will we ever recover?

[Wapsie B]

7. But........but........

He's true to his convictions. He's such a forceful leader. I'm still glad he was in office on 9/11. /sarcasm

[shraby]

8. I'm afraid the light at the end of the tunnel

will be the train coming.

[Wapsie B]

11. Yeah, there seems to be no end to this.

Sometimes I don't know if we'll live long enough to see the well-deserved demise of this regime.

[LynnTheDem]

22. So was Hitler.

But for some reason, the rightwingnuttery don't get that. Then again, the rightwingnuttery don't get most things.

[Kazak]

10. Two wrongs don't make a right, but...

three rights make a left.

:shrug:

[Wilms]

12. In * World, it's all relative...

[shelley806]

18. Excellent example of B* world. One of my favorite M.C Escher

prints. Up is down, left is right, north is south, east is west, black is white, lies are truth....perfect for B*

[uppityperson]

13. Damn corner, must've been a glitch

"Only the fire of liberty can purge the ideologies of murder by offering hope to those who yearn to live free," Bush

[ginnyinWI]

20. what * really means is

that the "fire of war" will kill those who oppose the U.S. occupation and give hope to U.S. oil interests...but then that would look so "tacky" in the NYTimes...:eyes:

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Do you mean this corner?

Still from the film Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
form MSN

[LynnTheDem]

15. That appears to be the one, uh huh.

But shhhh! Maybe if we don't wake the driver, we'll be ok...

:eyes:

[madeline_con]

16. Yeah, but who ya gonna believe?

Those crazies at the DIA, or our esteemed leader? :wtf:

[LynnTheDem]

19. Oh boy, a toughie; lemme think..."there is no doubt"; "I never said I

didn't care about OBL"; "Want wood?"; "And I continued to fly with my unit for several more years"; "I've been to war..."...

versus the DIA who were correct in every dissenting opinion they gave against bush's bullshit in the October 2002 NIE.

Hmmm...*scratch*...I think I'm gonna go for...ummm...no, wait...yep I'm gonna go for "those crazies at the DIA", madeline!

*crowd cheers wildly*

:D

[ginnyinWI]

21. you know what the worst part of this is--

Most people simply do, not, care. There is nobody out there now, whipping them into a frenzy of moral-self-righteousness or super-patriotism. They are going about their lives just fine, thanks. The election's over, after all. Go to the movies. Go to the mall. Watch junk on TV. Order a pizza. The president will handle it. They think they voted for the strong guy. The right guy. God's guy. They've done their part: they voted for Bush, and they bought a nice little yellow "Support Our Troops" magnet for the back of their SUV, so they can show all their neighbors in the parking lot of Walmart what great Americans they are.

:puke: