How isolated and out of touch has George W. Bush become?
Well, last week he said that "pulling out of Iraq too soon would
trigger a bloodbath," according to the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041902719.html?hpid=topnews
Hmm.
A bloodbath, you say?
Our Great Leader drew upon his extensive combat experience during the
Vietnam War to illustrate the problem:
"I want to remind you that after Vietnam, after we left, millions of
people lost their life," Bush said here when an audience member asked
about comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq.
"The Khmer Rouge, for example, in Cambodia. And my concern is there
would be a parallel. . . . The same thing would happen. There would be
the slaughter of a lot of innocent life.
Hmm.
The slaughter of innocent life, you say?
Er, hello?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2061750,00.html
Meanwhile, George met with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry
Reid last week, where the following "Jeez, what a dumbass" moment
occurred:
After weeks of scorn from the White House and its political allies,
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told colleagues she was surprised to hear from
President Bush that he hadn’t personally criticized her trip to Syria
earlier this month.
The exchange occurred Wednesday in a side conversation between the
president and speaker when Pelosi attended a meeting at the White
House on the Iraq war funding bill.
The California Democrat made no public mention of the matter when she
spoke to reporters afterwards, but she has since told other Democrats
of the incident and that the president had accepted her offer to brief
him on her trip.
(snip)
"He just said, 'I didn't criticize your trip to Syria,'" Pelosi said.
"In the course of the conversation, he said, 'I didn't criticize your
trip.'"
Well, technically George, I suppose that's true.
Although your vice president did ("I'm obviously disappointed. I think
it is, in fact, bad behavior on her part." -- ***** Cheney),
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070405-3.html and
your press secretary did ("It sends the wrong message" -- Dana
Perino),
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070402-4.html and
your wife's press secretary did ("It's unfortunate that she took this
unilateral trip that we only see as counterproductive." -- Gordon
Johndroe).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070404-2.html
As you can see, Dubya's handlers seem to be keeping the old bubble
walls nice and thick these days.
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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