{"id":1575,"date":"2007-09-13T22:31:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T03:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/13\/its-his-wall\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T23:23:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T04:23:29","slug":"its-his-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/09\/13\/its-his-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"it’s his wall…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Address by the President to the Nation on the Way Forward in Iraq<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

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Good evening. In the life of all free nations, there come moments that decide the direction of a country and reveal the character of its people. We are now at such a moment. In Iraq, an ally of the United States is fighting for its survival. Terrorists and extremists who are at war with us around the world are seeking to topple Iraq’s government, dominate the region, and attack us here at home. If Iraq’s young democracy can turn back these enemies, it will mean a more hopeful Middle East and a more secure America. This ally has placed its trust in the United States. And tonight, our moral and strategic imperatives are one:\tWe must help Iraq defeat those who threaten its future and also threaten ours…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
blah, blah, blah… George Bush is a small person. He looks small. He’s obviously not very smart. He’s not even very commited to anything [except maybe riding his bicycle]. The people behind him are a little bigger, though equally simplistic. But none of them have distinguished themselves, before or during their time in the White House. They’re not going to be University Presidents or the heads of Corporations. Some of them may hang around the Right Wing Think Tanks like they did when the last President Bush got beat, but, they aren’t slated to be great elder statesmen. They’re headed for obscurity. They’re too old to stick around like Newt Gingrich hoping people will forget their foibles and give them another shot. This is their last chance, and I’m terribly afraid that they’re going to try to pull off a 4th quarter comeback. The problem is that the things they do are so damned destructive. So we’re supposed to sit on pins and needles, while we perpetuate Bush’s Folly, hoping that they won’t do Operation Bomb Iran into the Stone Age or Operation Bring It On? The best course is to initiate impeachment proceedings against this misguided and incompetent President and<\/u> his Vice President, whether the votes are there or not. Second best, vote "no" to any funding bill that has anything to do with the war. Let him take it to the wall if he must. It’s his wall… <\/div>\n
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Tomorrow, Bush admin. will report progress on only one of the 18 benchmarks since last report<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

If you’re watching Bush speak tonight, one thing you won’t hear from him tonight is the revelation about the lack of progress on benchmarks<\/a><\/strong>. A new White House report on Iraq will show improved progress on just one<\/strong> of 18 political and security goals: efforts to allow some former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party to rejoin the political process, a senior administration official told The Associated Press. The latest conclusions, being released Friday, largely track a comparable poor assessment in July. The earlier report said the Iraqi government had made satisfactory gains toward eight benchmarks, unsatisfactory marks on eight and mixed results on two. In the new report, the Iraqi government showed movement on only one of the benchmarks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d enacting and implementing legislation on so-called “de-Baathification, which put the goal in the satisfactory category, said the official, who spoke Thursday night on condition of anonymity because the report had not been made public.<\/p>\n

Tonight, Bush will talk about progress and success. Tomorrow, we’ll learn from his administration that he’s lying.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I guess the point here is that the Benchmarks never mattered anyway. The Surge<\/strong> didn’t matter either – not really. It was all about his ten year plan from the start – his foothold in the Middle East [in the sand above the oil].<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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