Because I know how much everybody misses my comments on the global situation LOL.
How brainless does the President of the United States of America have to be to not meet a mother bereaved by the loss of her son in Iraq, who is camped outside his Texas ranch until that happens? Instead he goes on a five week holiday - surely the Administration has more public relations nous than that. He is the President, I am sure he could have an hour long meeting away from the media glare? Or perhaps not, apart from the Democrats on Capitol Hill, when was the last time Bush even came close to someone who disagreed with him?
'On Saturday, the current President Bush was pressed about how he could be taking five weeks to ride bikes and nap and fish and clear brush even though his occupation of Iraq had become a fiasco. "I think it's also important for me to go on with my life," W. said, "to keep a balanced life."
Pressed about how he could ride his bike while refusing to see a grieving mom of a dead soldier who's camped outside his ranch, he added: "So I'm mindful of what goes on around me. On the other hand, I'm also mindful that I've got a life to live and will do so."'
Yeah, I am sure the troops in Iraq would also like to get on with their lives away from suicide bombs and IEDs and the like.
The Israeli military is evicting settlers from Gaza. Can't the radical settlers see that even if the Palestinians get all of Gaza back it is still going to be the world's largest ghetto - 1.3 million people at a density of 14,000 people per square mile. It's not going to Shangri La after the withdrawal or anything.
I would love to see the Israeli's pull back to the full 1967 borders, but that is so not going to happen anytime in the next decade, so I am kind of resigned to the whole taking an extra 11% of the West Bank behind the Berlin-type Wall. Just build it, withdraw from the rest of the West Bank, negotiate on some suburbs of Jerusalem to the the Palestinian capital. That is the best I can see happening anytime soon.
Oh, and the op-ed pieces about Bush holidaying while Rome burns - or is that Nero fiddling while Iraq self destructs - go on. And on. Geez, I wonder if Letterman, Leno and O'Brien are getting stuck in as well. I know the Daily Show will be. Would love to slip an LOL into this paragraph, but so not the right moment.
'Another politician -- think Bill Clinton or John McCain -- probably would have met with Sheehan long ago. After all, her request isn't that hard to grant. But for this president, it clearly is. Which is partly how we got into this mess in the first place.'
And even though nuclear proliferation isn't the nicest of topics, you can kind of understand why the Iranians are working on their nuclear program. They see North Korea, with nukes and handled in cotton wool, and they see Iraq, without WMDs and overrun by coalition forces and chaos. And the whole American thing of threatening the Iranians, even if the USAF did bomb the nuclear facilities (and got all those threats out of the way), the Iranians would flood next door Iraq with guerillas or maybe even actual troops, and 'only' 1800 American deaths would be a fond memory. Hmmph.
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Paul
'On Saturday, the current President Bush was pressed about how he could be taking five weeks to ride bikes and nap and fish and clear brush even though his occupation of Iraq had become a fiasco. "I think it's also important for me to go on with my life," W. said, "to keep a balanced life."
Pressed about how he could ride his bike while refusing to see a grieving mom of a dead soldier who's camped outside his ranch, he added: "So I'm mindful of what goes on around me. On the other hand, I'm also mindful that I've got a life to live and will do so."'
Yeah, I am sure the troops in Iraq would also like to get on with their lives away from suicide bombs and IEDs and the like.
The Israeli military is evicting settlers from Gaza. Can't the radical settlers see that even if the Palestinians get all of Gaza back it is still going to be the world's largest ghetto - 1.3 million people at a density of 14,000 people per square mile. It's not going to Shangri La after the withdrawal or anything.
I would love to see the Israeli's pull back to the full 1967 borders, but that is so not going to happen anytime in the next decade, so I am kind of resigned to the whole taking an extra 11% of the West Bank behind the Berlin-type Wall. Just build it, withdraw from the rest of the West Bank, negotiate on some suburbs of Jerusalem to the the Palestinian capital. That is the best I can see happening anytime soon.
Oh, and the op-ed pieces about Bush holidaying while Rome burns - or is that Nero fiddling while Iraq self destructs - go on. And on. Geez, I wonder if Letterman, Leno and O'Brien are getting stuck in as well. I know the Daily Show will be. Would love to slip an LOL into this paragraph, but so not the right moment.
'Another politician -- think Bill Clinton or John McCain -- probably would have met with Sheehan long ago. After all, her request isn't that hard to grant. But for this president, it clearly is. Which is partly how we got into this mess in the first place.'
And even though nuclear proliferation isn't the nicest of topics, you can kind of understand why the Iranians are working on their nuclear program. They see North Korea, with nukes and handled in cotton wool, and they see Iraq, without WMDs and overrun by coalition forces and chaos. And the whole American thing of threatening the Iranians, even if the USAF did bomb the nuclear facilities (and got all those threats out of the way), the Iranians would flood next door Iraq with guerillas or maybe even actual troops, and 'only' 1800 American deaths would be a fond memory. Hmmph.
More later
Paul
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