‘Civil war this, civil war that’

Yes, the president really did say, “civil war this, civil war that,” as if it were a vaguely trivial matter that’s hardly worth considering.

no different than the attitude expressed to the anonymous CIA briefer who called the preznit’s attention to ‘bin Laden determined to strike w/i US’ to which his snappy comeback was ‘All right, you’ve covered your ass now.’ (from Ron Suskind’s ‘The One Percent Doctrine.’)

Remember in the first year of the war commanders on the ground told their officers NOT to refer to the violence going on as an Insurgency. Now they are playing the same game with the term Civil War.

The Bushite defense, that the Iraqis voted for a ‘unity’ government and thus do not want Civil War kind of mocks the very definitions here. Perhaps some American Civil War scholar tried to explain that Civil Wars only happen when a winning candidate doesn’t get on the ballot in some states, the war is fought over secession or non-secession, and open field battles between clearly defined armies take thousands of casualties in a day.

Somebody needs to explain to the Bushite Morons that most Civil Wars are fought by one group to take control of the whole country from another group (Spanish Civil War, Russian Civil War, English Civil War). I’m not sure if the Sunnis in Iraq are fighting a war of Secession or a War of Dominance. My suspicion is that the Sunnis want to win Dominance over Iraq (and the oil revenues) but will settle for a third of the country.

And someone should explain to Boy George II that in fact he does not have a better understanding of the English language than the rest of the country (or the world for that matter). If English ever became the official language of this country, Boy George II would be automatically disqualified to run for office.

To echo Lance, and to pose a rhetorical question: so, the American populace, around 1860, decided against civil war when they went to the ballot box?

What I find amazing is that it’s in doubt that there already is a civil war going on. Unrelenting and escalating sectarian violence at this level is a civil war. But of course, in this create-a-reality sadministration they will never admit it.

As intelligent thought bubbles up, it’s always blocked by Bush’s glass floor. Anything above it don’t need no stink’n intelligence, as demonstrated by Bush. Gut feelings is what tells the tale, not gray matter, in what the Decider decides.

You know, constantly bringing up the reality on the ground in Iraq doesn’t help Bush’s vision of paving the way for Armageddon in Lebanon.

Sheesh, people, get your priorities straight.

I was unlucky enough to see part of Bush’s press conference today — if that’s what it was. These things seem more like seizures to me.

There he was, Dubya the Dunce, stammering and hyperventilating and frantically grasping for something to say. And as usual, he resorted to his comfortable mantra about how terrorists are bad and freedom is good, with a few proper nouns thrown in to show he was talking about the right topic.

I’m coming to embrace an Australian nugget of wisdom regarding politicians: “Don’t vote. It just encourages them.”

Well folks, that’s it. Herr Bush has now decided to make his field commanders—and the JCS—irrelevant. That adds up to a de facto rejection of the entire Iraq command—right down to the grunts and jarheads fighting his little war for him, just as he’s done to the vast majority of the US population (remember—he has a special place in his heart for stabbing lapdogs in the back—just ask Brownie). Would he play the strawman game if there were a few hundred thousand radicals on the Mall, screaming for his head and burning him in effigy? Probably. Would he play that game if there was a brace of Howitzers perched on the heights at Arlington—zeroed in on the Oval Office? I’m certain that he’d have SnowFlake trying to spin him out of that predicament. Will he play that same game when there’s a Dem majority in both houses of Congress? In a word—yes—because the man has separated himself from any semblance of reality. He’ll run off to Crawford and clear brush until (a) the problem goes away, or (b) his cronies decide who to make the “stooge” for the screaming masses.

93 days until the midterms, and another 56 beyond that until the new Congress convenes. That’s…ummm…149 days, and counting….

Dear President Bush,

Keep reading books on President Lincoln. He had a Civil war after a national election. These things happen.

I must say that you are leaving an impressively large list of memorable comments. I keep hearing them repeated on late night TV. It’s certainly another aspect of your leadership just like your record number of days on vacation, the huge deficit, and the failed wars.

I know you’re concerned about your presidential legacy. Don’t worry, it will be a long time before we forget.

Your boss,

John Q. Public

To slightly paraphrase Bush, he just yada-yada’d civil war. ” A few thousand bombings, tens of thousands killed … yada yada .. civil war.” I have a great idea for a new sitcom, it’s about a president who’s about nothing.