Iraqi joy at British 'defeat' as Bush makes surprise visit to Baghdad (WH 'furious')

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Source: Daily Mail


Iraqi joy at British 'defeat' as Bush makes surprise visit to Baghdad
But will the pull out cause a serious rift in the 'special relationship' with the US?

Last updated at 16:21pm on 3rd September 2007



US President George Bush has made an unannounced visit to Iraq on the day British troops completed their pull out of Basra.

Iraqis are celebrating the move as a defeat, but Gordon Brown insisted Britain could still intervene in Basra when necessary.

The American response to the pull out has so far been muted, despite its crucial timing.

Bush administration officials were reportedly furious that the operation was launched at a time when the president is begging for more time for his "surge" strategy to turn the tide of the war - though no official comment has yet been made.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. One can only hope that there are many more reasons for the Pukes to be furious in the near future.

[saigon68]

31. Their puppets are getting nervous

As the strings "Fray"

[opihimoimoi]

2. Reality comes to the UK.....get the fuck outta Dodgera..and FUCK BUSH TOO...

[TomInTib]

3. "when the president is begging for more time "

Now, THAT is gonna piss 'em off for sure.

[Webster Green]

5. ..."to turn the tide of the war.."

..(and try to salvage his dismal legacy as the worst president in history).

Ain't gonna work chimpy! The history books won't be kind to your sorry ass.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Brits are wising up, and are finding the guts to say "Fuck off" to the Decider.

Good for them. They leave in defeat, but at least they know when to say enough is enough, and cut their losses.

[rodeodance]

18. They have decided to invest in their own citizens/country

[madison]

6. please note in the photographs of Bush's arrival ...

Of course, just as with John McCain in his "stroll" through a Baghdad market, Bush will go to places that have been cleared of locals by the soldiers and then filled with creatures from Central Casting to look like they're from there; he will be guarded by attack helicopters and hundreds of well-armed soldiers who will be carefully kept OFF camera.

Bush will not even TRY to tell the truth about Iraq; he thinks we have NO need to know the truth. He has talked it all over with God, and God told Bush to invade Iraq, so who are we to question God and Bush?

Usually people who think God talks to them and orders them to invade foreign countries are locked up in institutions for the insane.

BTW, please note in the photographs of Bush's arrival in Iraq that he is accompanied by Condoleezza Rice, who is carrying a shiny black handbag and wearing shiny black high heeled shoes, probably her $400 Pappagallo Shoes.

Yeah, that's the way to dress in a war zone, unless, of course, this has all been photographed in the Arizona desert and Photoshopped to look like Iraq.

[aquart]

7. Condi paid only $400 for a pair of shoes? Were they on sale?

[madison]

8. What are they going for now?

I haven't priced Pappagallo shoes in years. What are they going for now?

[1620rock]

9. Well, she wore her cheap shoes. Lots of blood on the ground ...

over there don'cha know.

[rodeodance]

19. Condi the shopper-her legacy

[aquart]

20. The SHOE shopper. Her Marie Antoinette moment.

While people were drowning, Condi bought shoes.

[madison]

10. And why is Bush dressed all in black?

And why is Bush dressed all in black?

Doesn't he know that is the color the al Qaeda boys are always pictured wearing?

Is he trying to pretend to be al Qaeda so they won't harm him?

Or is Bush identifying with their macho-ness?

Does Bush secretly admire the al Qaeda guys?

He once said he admired Hitler, because Hitler was so strong.

[OnyxCollie]

11. Maybe he wants people to think he's Muqtada al Sadr?

Or Johnny Cash?

Richie Blackmore?

Richard Lewis?

[Joe Chi Minh]

16. So strong that he left his country a heap of rubble, his people starving,

and was personally forced to shoot himself and his newly-wed wife, or face a decidedly premature death, maybe more humiliating than the fate of Mussolini and his consort.

Does any country deserve to be led by such a strong leader? I never cease to be amazed at the idiocy of Hitler worshippers.

[MissWaverly]

21. Yes, let's get past the macho image crap

he was a brutal, sadistic man, millions of people were killed in his name including in the balkans where they threw people
into mountain gorges to their death.

[Joe Chi Minh]

25. It could hadly be a more flimsy macho image, could it? All rulers, even most of the

half-competent ones, are the soft underbelly of mankind.

He's shown character in his decision to get us Brits out of Basra, but I'm still trying to figure out whether he's the natural heir of Keir Hardy, the founder of British Socialism, or Robert Maxwell, the criminal pension-fund thief.

Leaders like Nelson Mandela, Attaturk, the Kennedy Brothers are few and far between. But Hitler was just a numbskull Pied Piper who appeals to the simple-minded, spiritually-derelict and disoriented.

[MissWaverly]

26. yes, we are in the age of uncertainty

well, at least you are getting out of Iraq, I feel like we have become like those who
saw the Medusa and turned to stone. Our leaders remain ineffectual against the
cowboy in the White House, who is really from Connecticut.

[Hardrada]

32. Hitler was very clever and took advantage of a situation of

economic and cultural chaos. I think Germany should have been led back to stability by the Reichswehr but the Nazis were simply too well-organized and motivated.

[Adsos Letter]

27. and also blamed the German people...

...for not being "worthy" of him...

[Joe Chi Minh]

30. Yes,that was really special wasn't it! Especially, if you were a German

who hated hm and his works.

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. However dismissive any officials may be, I believe it is effectivey a rout;

yet it is interesting to see the thoughtful, maybe even respectful expressions on the faces of the Iraqis - despite their exultant raised arms.

God forbid that they should have welcomed the occupation of their country, but it would be nice to think that there may perhaps have been a little ambiguity about their feelings towards us. But perhaps that's wishful thinking.

[Barrett808]

13. "Nightly suicide missions"

Labour MP Kevan Jones, who recently visited Basra, welcomed the decision to pull out of the palace. He said deliveries of supplies to the garrison had been "nightly suicide missions".

Suicide missions for Bush's oil war. Sign me up!

[Barrett808]

14. Off to the Greatest page with you. n/t

[Jacobin]

15. Gee, just like 1920

And we'll be run in out a year or two, also

[Supersedeas]

17. i'm guessing Katie Lipstick Couric won't bother mentioning Basra--hasn't so far these many days

[Pris-LA]

22. When you occupy another sovereign nation...

...the citizens of that sovereign nation tend to perk up when you finally bail out.

[Joe Bacon]

23. I'm waiting to see Katie slobber all over him in person

Wait! she does that every day, doesn't she?

[Joe Bacon]

24. I'm waiting to see Katie slobber all over him in person

Wait! she does that every day, doesn't she?

[hisownpetard]

28. Wow. Bush'll do anything to spend the holiday week-end with Condi. eom

[xchrom]

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