'Power Brokers Carefully Arranging Fig Leaves To Cover The Emperor's Nakedness' By Joseph Galloway

[kpete]

Posted on Mon, Dec. 18, 2006
Desperation in the White House
By Joseph Galloway
McClatchy-Tribune Information Service

The power brokers in Washington carefully arranged fig leaves and tasteful screens to cover the emperor's nakedness while he was busy pretending to listen hard to everyone with an opinion about Iraq while hearing nothing.

Sometime early in the new year, President Bush will go on national television to tell a disgruntled American public what he has decided should be done to salvage "victory" from the jaws of certain defeat in the war he started.

The word on the street, or in the Pentagon rings, is that he'll choose to beef up American forces on the ground in Iraq by 20,000 to 30,000 troops by various sleight-of-hand maneuvers -- extending the combat tours of soldiers and Marines who are nearing an end to their second or third year in hell and accelerating the shipment of others into that hell -- and send them into the bloody streets of Baghdad.

These additional troops are expected to restore order and calm the bombers and murderers when 9,000 Americans already in the sprawling capital couldn't. They're expected to do this even when Bush's favorite (for now) Iraqi politician, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, refuses to allow them to act against his primary benefactor, the anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Shiite Muslim Mahdi Army militiamen who kill both Americans and Sunni Arabs.

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[Bitwit1234]

1. This is a man who brags he sleeps well at night.

[jazzjunkysue]

2. Actually, I've heard claims that they drug him to sleep and awake

every day. That's easier to believe, in my opinion. He acts like a drug addict, half the time.

[blm]

3. Matches the firsthand reports of Hunter Thompson who watched Bush's buddies

carry him into a bathtub while he was drunk in Hunter's hotel room, and then woke him to carry him out again some hours later.

[BikeWriter]

6. There is an eyewitness account on one of my forums...

by a woman who was a florist back during * days in Houston. She says she saw him once after closing time at a posh country club. He was flat on his back unconcious with his pants down. She claims her mischievious friend placed a napkin ring around a strategic portion of his anatomy.
The staff later threw him out back by the dumpsters.

[blm]

7. heheh...if only we had known and taken picture back then, eh????

I know many of the LA crowd who knew he was having an affair with Bo Derek back in 88 wish we had cared enough to even talk about it and get it on the gossip pages - - but, no one cared enough or even gave a shot about who Bo Derek was having an affair with - especially the idiot son of the VP.

How times have changed. If we only knew then.

[BikeWriter]

8. Yep, a picture of him passed out may have saved a war.

[rodeodance]

4. yes, Mike Malloy was talking of this last week on his show. It was

funny the way he played with it.

[damntexdem]

5. Are you sure?

If true, then when is the half of the time that he DOESN'T act like an addict?

[blue neen]

9. Truer words were never spoken.

"It can be argued that Bush understood little about war and peace and diplomacy and honesty in government. Cheney understood all of it, and he bears much of the responsibility for what's gone on in Washington and in Iraq for the last six years. Keep a sharp eye on him. Desperate men do desperate things."

[liberalla]

10. Yes, that last paragragh got me too.

"Desperate men do desperate things."

and that's the part that scares me...

[LuckyLib]

11. Oops. Duplicate. Edited.