1 Yep, like you, Drew, I was solidly fed up with Bushie a couple of months ago on immigration, but on the GWOT, the man is the still THE MAN.  I hear the mushy sound of over-ripe melonheads exploding even as we speak and it's sweet, sweet music.  Got to hand it to him, he knows how to tie the libs up in knots and then yank it tight.  Good cowboy.

2

I question the timing. 

I am still down on W, though.  If he really wanted to make a difference, we'd be knocking Iranian helicopters down in Iraqi airspace.  Iranians can do whatever they want with impunity. This is not a good lesson.  

3 You know, this is really a big story about Bush being over there, and, yet, wonder of wonders, you can't find a thing about it on the "major" network news.  Okay, granted I can't bear to watch them for more than a few minutes at a time, but after I saw the story on Drudge, I turned on the tube and found--nothing.  I don't have cable, so Fox was not an option, but CBS was doing a profound story on barbecuing pork ribs.  Being a southerner, that got my interest for a minute or two.  Wonder what kind of coverage we'd see if Slick Willy decided to go there?  The mind boggles.

4 Think Katie is leaving her airconditioned hotel room and rushing to Anbar?

5 I happen to know a doctor why is in the Guard and who has been posted to a tour of duty in Iraq. He e-mailed me recently on another matter and I asked him to tell me what he had observed while stationed in Iraq. Here is his reply:

As far as the situation here in Iraq, I totally agree that the media at
home tends to focus on the negatives. There really are a lot of positives, particularly in Anbar province which is where I'm located.

The Iraqi army and police are doing a lot of the fighting and taking the majority of the casualties. Fortunately we are not seeing large numbers of US wounded.

I've been very impressed with our soldiers and marines and their level of professionalism. The focus tends to be on the very few that make tremendous errors in judgement not the masses who are doing a great job.  My biggest concern is that once we leave, the Iraqi government won't be strong enough to hold things together and that's something that all the military force in the world can't fix.

I'm also a little concerned about who will be taking care of the Iraqi army and police who are injured once the US military medical presence is gone. Their medical system is good in some places and awful in others. A lot of their doctors are leaving to find safer places for their families, and I can't say I blame them.

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6 Sorry, not a doctor "why" is in Iraq, but a doctor "who" is in Iraq.  In Anbar.

7 A doctor? Like Dr. Ron Paul? 2008? Save the Constitution?

8 You folks read Michael Totten's dispatch last week?  Some interesting thoughts from the soldiers.

One notes, "It’s not like Germany or Japan where people wanted a change. The Kurds up north wanted a change, so they got one. The Arabs don’t, so they aren’t. They hardly change even with us here."

Heh.  Well, at least they aren't Persians.

On the other hand, Totten notes

"Counterintuitive and contradictory as it may seem, I never felt more optimistic in Iraq than I did when I walked the streets and interacted with average Iraqis. Iraq looks more doomed from inside the base than it does outside on the street, and it looks more doomed from across the Atlantic than it does from inside the base.

Major Mike Garcia said this view of Iraq is typical. “Soldiers who don’t leave the FOB [Forward Operating Base] are more likely to be pessimistic than those who go out on patrol. They’re less aware of what’s actually happening and have fewer reality checks on their gloom.”"

9 I want to see Katie broadcasting live and Bush standing behind her, unbeknown to Katie, giving her rabbit ears.

10 Bush is just trying to distract us from the real issues, like the homophobic Republicans who chased Larry Craig from office and the resignation of Alberto Gonzalez.

And, of course, Haliburton's continued war profiteering.  And oil.

/paranoid lunatic

11 The Daily Kos Naval Affairs Committee are whining mightily about this over at Captain's Quarters...

12 paranoid lunatic--you'd be in good company on the comment boards over at abcnews.com.  I have to believe at least a quarter of the crazies have to be pretending, just to draw out the true believers into the open or something...

13

A doctor? Like Dr. Ron Paul? 2008? Save the Constitution?

Nah, I hate that musty old thing.

14 NBC News did lead with it. They teased it during golf (way to go Phil!), telling us that they would decide what his visit meant. Boy, I'm glad we have the deciders out there. It makes my life a lot easier. BTW, I didn't stick around to watch it after Phil dispatched Tiger.

15 It's official, the Deciders have declared that the reason for Bush's trip was so he could announce troop reductions.  I have seen the speech at least three times and he said a lot--but the Deciders only focus on the one thing that sounds even vaguely like, "Run away, Run away!" 

16

via FoxNews:

"During a surprise visit to Iraq, President Bush on Monday addressed an animated military base in what was once a Sunni insurgent stronghold and said it would be possible to reduce troops in Iraq if progress being made there continues."

FoxNews: "We report, you decide."

The rest of the MSM: "We report, and you should believe every last word of it because we went to journalism school and/or can read a teleprompter containing words that were written by someone who did."

 

17

buffalo woman,

Your request about my Hat is seared, SEARED into my memory. I'm sorry, but The Hat is in an undisclosed location. And, my handlers senior senator wife said I really shouldn't talk about it again.

18 Sorry to miss your response AGAIN last night, John, but my husband and I finally got to watch our DVD of "300" and I felt so feisty afterwards that I went out hunting for Persian hobos.  Unfortunately, we leave in an isolated rural area and such exotica are not to be found.  As to what your wife said about the hat, tell her to stick to running the Tides Foundation and leave you to your own devices.  But if I am truly to be denied the thrill of touching the hat, then can I have an autographed pic of you falling on your ass on that mountain when you were skiing?  You know, the one where you blamed the Secret Service guy?  That was truly one of my favorite moments of the '04 campaign season.  Your character shone through with crystal clarity.  Will look forward to your response and THAT PICTURE.  And if you can get the unfortunate that you blamed to initial it, then we might have some good times in our mutual future--got any Persian hobos where you live?

19

I love it when GW does this stuff. I wish he would have done these things on a regular basis throughout the past several years. I think he needs to do two more big things to win his way back into people's hearts here. 1) Put on some body armor and patrol the streets of Baghdad for a couple days and 2) Sign up to work a weekend down on the Mexican border with the Minutemen. Haha, it would be great to see him on a 4-wheeler with a pistol on his hip turning people away at the border.

It would never happen but a fella can dream can't he?

20 I would not want to be a terrorist while GW is still the decider.  He has run those sonofabitches down all over the Globe.  Of course, the combat troops are doing the job but they have to have a Commander in Chief who speaks their language and gives them the leadership and support they need to do the job.  Marines and Soldiers are terminating those bastards at an unbelievable rate.  Let's be happy to know that we still have young people with steel in their spine.  Keep giving them the tools and they will make us proud.  Sooner or later, islamic fanatacism will be relegated to the ash-heap of history.

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