The Cracked Egg (Mary Lyon)

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by Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust

Jan. 17, 2007 -- Wow, thanks, George, oh ye Giver of Many Nicknames! I've literally been dumbfounded by the events of the last week -- after watching his pathetic "Let's Keep Feeding the Meatgrinder" speech. George likes to give out nicknames to people. I was never fooled when that baloney started, as most of the rest of the press corpse fell all over themselves at his feet upon his arrival in Washington. Oh, PLEASE, Mr. President! Can I have one of those cutesy, folksy nicknames you've been giving out like so many autographs? I wanna be one of your pets! Can I be in your in-crowd? Oh, you're SO adorable! PLEEZE?? My kingdom for a nickname! My credibility for a nickname!!! PLEEEEEEZE!!! OOOOhhh -- he gave me one! He likes me, he really likes me!" YUCK. I can give out nicknames, too, Junior, and "President Pandora" was starting to sound pretty good.

See Pandora. See Pandora do the Texas Two-Step. See Pandora play armchair warrior. See Pandora pick a fight. See Pandora throw another 21,000 American lives away. See Pandora start picking ANOTHER fight -- in Iran this time. Pandora Gone Wild. But after the idiocy recently on view opposite interviewer Jim Lehrer, see Pandora move over. I think Humpty Dumpty is far more fitting.

MR. LEHRER: Is there a little bit of a broken egg problem here, Mr. President, that there is instability and there is violence in Iraq -- sectarian violence, Iraqis killing other Iraqis -- and now the United States helped create the broken egg and now says, okay, Iraqis, it's your problem. You put the egg back together, and if you don't do it quickly and you don't do it well, then we'll get the hell out.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yeah, you know, that's an interesting question. I don't quite view it as the broken egg; I view it as the cracked egg ...

MR. LEHRER: Cracked egg?

PRESIDENT BUSH: ... that where we still have a chance to move beyond the broken egg. And I thought long and hard about the decision, Jim. Obviously it's a big decision for this theater in the war on terror, and you know, if I didn't believe we could keep the egg from fully cracking, I wouldn't ask 21,000 kids -- additional kids to go into Iraq to reinforce those troops that are there.

What's different is an Iraqi attitude, and it is -- look, failure last time was not enough troops in Baghdad, and the rules of engagement were such that our troops couldn't move when given an order. Their order was countermanded by Iraqi politicians -- in other words, you need to go get this guy in a particular neighborhood, and they would be moving in toward him, and then the Iraqis would pull -- say, well, we'd better not make that move right now, we'd better -- it may be too much politics. And Prime Minister Maliki has assured his commander and our commander that the rules of engagement will be different this time. And so things have changed. In other words, I'm not putting troops into a situation where there hadn't been enough changes to assure me that we can make progress.

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Mom must have dropped Junior on his head back in the day. THAT'S the cracked egg, alright. Unbelievable. "The cracked egg"??? Like that's any more savory than a flat-out broken egg. Or any more salvageable. You can't do squat with a cracked egg except break it all the way, as any cook or rowdy movie reviewer would know. All the king's horses and all the king's men won't improve things, even as they diligently fanned out all over the Sunday talk shows to "sell" the extremely cracked Bush Escalation Plans for Iraq. They did as well as though they really were selling cracked eggs.

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