Seymour Hersh's opinion of the blivet scares me.

[babylonsister]

Regardless of what the head-shed boots on the ground guys/admirals think, he's in this for the long haul in Iraq, because he thinks he can spread democracy and stay the course, regardless of all the bodybags involved?
My first thought is impeachment because otherwise...there is no 'otherwise'.

[enigma000]

1. Bush thinks he is doing the right thing

And he is too stubborn to do otherwise.

He fancies himself Lincoln during the low points of the civil war, when the North was losing and his re-election in doubt

Or Churchill as the Battle of Britain waged during the darkest days of WWII

My guess is he feels he must bear this cross (no pun intended) It means, folks, that unless the assumption that Bush is nothing but a poll driven puppet is true, we are in 'till the end in Iraq..............

[babylonsister]

2. He's a puppet, but I'm getting the impression he doesn't care

about polls. Here he makes one statement, the wh is making another regarding withdrawing troops, and no one really knows what's going on.
Is that a tactic? :crazy:

[enigma000]

4. If the strategy is to stay the course

Then this is a good a tactic as any: Be unfocused, let your opponents take bolder, maybe more popular or unpopular positions. Debate, hem and haw, bitch about he said this, he lied to me etc. etc. Anything to take the focus off doing anything.

Iraq is Bush's legacy. This decade started on 9/11 and will end when this Iraq saga is complete - one way or another. The two are linked, only with neo-con logic, but THAT is another post.............

[Robert Murphy]

3. What's Scary is...

...The fact that the boob mistakes stubborn pigheaded idiocy with character.

Robert

[Robert Murphy]

5. Oh and...

...Er, what's a "blivet?" ;)

[babylonsister]

6. It's a term you will embrace! Here tis...

2 entries found for blivet.

blivet



/bliv'*t/ "ten pounds of manure in a five-pound bag"] 1. An intractable
problem.

2. A crucial piece of hardware that can't be fixed or replaced
if it breaks.

3. A tool that has been hacked over by so many incompetent
programmers that it has become an unmaintainable tissue of
hacks.

4. An out-of-control but unkillable development effort.

5. An embarrassing bug that pops up during a customer demo.

[Robert Murphy]

7. Indeed I Shall...

...COOL!

Er, it rhymes with 'rivet' (re: pronunciation) right? ;)

Bonehead here never learned the phonetic alphabet...

Robert

[Capn Sunshine]

8. Seriously, he's delusional

I suggest he's had a breakdown, and is demonstrably crazy. Sy Hersh's new article in the New Yorker " Up in the Air" contains some powerful anecdotes about this. Irrational at the very least.
For the good of the country , he must step down.

[lostnfound]

9. Mr Hersch's comments on probability of air assaults on Iraq were equally

depressing.

On the DN! interview today he talked about how troops being pulled out would be replaced by 'air campaigns', which will probably cause even more Iraqi deaths.

And Bushamericans won't care because they are brown heathens and don't exist on Fox 'news'.