George Bush

The biggest failure with the Iraq War has been the total lack of planning. The people who laid out good plans lost their jobs, and instead the administration has decided to wing the entire thing. That deadly mentality is continuing:

The administration lacks an updated and comprehensive Iraq strategy to move beyond the "surge" of combat troops President Bush launched in January 2007 as an 18-month effort to curtail violence and build Iraqi democracy, government investigators said yesterday.

While agreeing with the administration that violence has decreased sharply, a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office concluded that many other goals Bush outlined a year and a half ago in the "New Way Forward" strategy remain unmet.

The report, after a bleak GAO assessment last summer, cited little improvement in the ability of the Iraqi security forces to act independently of the U.S. military, and noted that key legislation passed by the Iraqi parliament had not been implemented while other crucial laws had not been passed. The report also judged that key Iraqi ministries spent less of their allocated budgets last year than in previous years, and said that oil and electricity production had repeatedly not met U.S. targets.

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Remember the whole idea of the surge was to get violence down so that goals could be met. Well we did get the violence down, but the goals are still not being met. What plan does Bush has to deal with this? None. What plan does McCain have to deal with this? None. We can call this a stalemate. The only option now is to tell Iraq they are on their own. They have not accepted our help, so we will no longer offer it. That is basically the plan of Obama and the next logical step in this quagmire.

Now that Bush is drinking the McCain kool-aid of offshore drilling, does that mean we will see our old gas prices tomorrow, if Congress lifted the ban today? Hell no. This is another carrot that the Republicans are dangling in front of the face of Americans.

True Bush is just helping guarantee that those coastal states turn blue this fall. South Carolina would be a great example. One of their key industries is tourism, especially in areas like Myrtle Beach. Let a state like South Carolina see the Republicans pushing action that will hurt that tourism, and they just might turn blue this year.

Good - now will he condemn his own party's front runner, who has hired people to run his campaign that lobbied for the military Junta in Burma that is causing this grief.

I know - how about Bush condemn himself. He refused aide during Katrina. Nation's had ships fully stocked sitting off our shores waiting to help. Instead Bush said no. So yeah - we will condemn Mynamar, but we also condemn you Mr. Bush.

That he did this while the disaster was happening:

Seriously - McCain is not "critical" of Bush about Katrina. If it wasn't for this damn Democratic Primary the Democrats could be hitting him so hard over this right now. Show this picture of McCain smiling as people were dying in New Orleans. He really is as stupid as Bush.

Bush gave one of his little speeches today about FISA. Usually I just ignore these things, as they are so painful to watch. Today though, some things really stuck out at me.

Any companies that assisted us after 9/11 were assured their cooperation was legal and necessary

You assured them it was legal? Anyone with a 3rd grade education should know that the executive branch doesn't decide what is legal - the courts do.

Then there was this little charm:

it seems that House leaders are more interested in investigating our intelligence professionals then giving them the tools they need to protect us.

Really? Since Bush is threatening to veto this "tool", it sounds like he is more interested in protecting the multi-billion dollar telecom corporations than he is protecting us.

Here's the entire thing if you can stomach watching it.

So much that he doesn't even think there has been widespread corruption in the Bush regime. That goes to show you, a McCain White House will be another four years of a Bush White House, with no respect for the law.

During the National Anthem, George Bush stands with his hand over his - stomach? I guess he is saying that the song makes him sick.