Five minutes my ass...

[stevedeshazer]

It's nothing short of a national humiliation on a colossal scale that the President of the United States had to sneak in to the country we have occupied for more than three years and hide in the grossly misnamed "Green Zone".

And what does he do?

<snip>

At 7.45pm George Bush excused himself from a working dinner, pleading fatigue. "I'm losing altitude," he said, explaining that he was going to his room to read.

His advisers had no reason to doubt him - he is an early-to-bed, early-to-rise president. As far as all but a trusted handful were aware, they would see him again the next morning, when he was to hold a video conference with the Iraqi cabinet.

But, in effect, Mr Bush was staging an escape from his own rural retreat at Camp David. He slipped away on Monday night, with a baseball cap pulled down over his ears, in an ordinary helicopter rather than the distinctive Marine One. He was heading for Baghdad.

The deception was reinforced by an official White House news release issued in the middle of the night, when the president was already aboard Air Force One, providing an itinerary for Mr Bush's movements at Camp David...

more at link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1797014,00.html

And about the 'five minute notice' (link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article994063.ece )

Does this look like a guy who got five minutes notice? link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article994063.ece

[Bluebear]

1. Total bullshit, of course. And "I'M LOSING ALTITUDE"?????

How the fuck much did he spend on his little jaunt and now little lord pissypants is too tired for his "working dinner"?

[flordehinojos]

24. "losing altitude", is that jargon for, "i had too much alcohol to drink?"

that would sound like it to me...surely nothing that would come as a surprise to his evil, criminally inclined, cabinet.

[bridgit]

2. the 'sovereign' nation of iraq & america continue to be punk't by...

these shameless abusers of civil interaction, indeed the entire world...

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. WHAT?

You mean the White House's Resident Fuckface LIED?

The White House LIED?

Oh, you filthy Commie .....................

<snort>

They're such poseurs, aren't they? Suckasses, all of them.

Doesn't our "President" have better things to do back in Washington than this kind of jaunt? I mean, he's always on the road. When does he "werk"?

[NanceGreggs]

4. "... explaining that he was going to his room to read."

Almost five years after 9/11, he STILL hasn't finished The Pet Goat.

At least he didn't show up 'unexpectedly' with a plastic turkey this time.

[Bluebear]

5. Reading material....

[bridgit]

12. ppfftt, believe when i tell you it's more like...

:spray:

[lonestarnot]

6. My Pet Goat is second grade, he's not past Ned and the First Reader.

That bitch isn't fooling anyone.

[Kutjara]

7. Excellent point.

Everyone knows Goatboy cannot read. That excuse would have fooled noone. He may as well have said he was going to retire early to think.

[NanceGreggs]

8. To lonestarnot & kutjara ...

... you both totally cracked me up!!!!


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[lonestarnot]

16. Have to keep your sense of humor in this medium of exchange especially

at this particular bushitler point in time.

[existentialist]

9. Precisely, ("read")

EVERYONE should have known that was a lie.

[lonestarnot]

14. To crap would have been a better story for him.

[Bluebear]

10. "Going to read" must be his BM signal

He'll sit trying to read the Baghdad phone book, wondering what all the pretty squiggles mean.

[lonestarnot]

17. OMG, Great minds think alike!

see above!

[stevedeshazer]

18. Do you smell what the Rock is Cookin'?

[stevedeshazer]

20. That's where his momma sent him, his room

No wonder he still hasn't figured it out.

[Beausoir]

11. Brina Williams and NBC Nightly News parroted the entire thing..perfectly.

These news guys are really good at reading scripts.

Of course, the entire thing was bullshit.
Like I'm supposed to CARE that the bastard ducked out of a snooze and booze fest with his blood-sucking cronies to hop on AirFarce One?

Oooh! How spine tingling!

[stevedeshazer]

13. MSNBC/General Electric is on board

[Mr_Spock]

15. Who's that goofy-looking moran with the Iraqi Prime Minister?

He sure looks out of place there - how did that frat-boy looking clown sneak into that event?

[MikeStl]

19. Russert on Letterman

Russert was just talking about on David Lettermans show how CNN knew 24 hours in advance about his visit and how odd it is they trust the press more than their own staff.

[tinrobot]

23. They pay the press more than their staff...

seems obvious.

[Canuckistanian]

21. "Five minutes" busllshit or not

This is a major fuckup for the Bunnypants-in-Chief.

The Sunnis are not going to like the story that their leader is powerless to stop or even be aware of a sudden visit from his puppetmaster.

And the Shi'a will like it even less.

As Malloy puts it, the leader of a sovereign country wasn't even expecting such a high-level meeting at such a short notice. That it's being reported as such, an outrage. In many countries, that would be an insult.

Good work, Dubya!

[bobbieinok]

22. his expression shows he is SO pleased with himself