So now it’s ‘game time’?

May 9, 2007

You’ll no doubt be pleased to know that now, with the war in Iraq in its fifth year, Dick Cheney believes it’s time to get serious about this thing.

Cheney’s message with Iraqi leaders, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters, was to be: “We’ve all got challenges together. We’ve got to pull together. We’ve got to get this work done. It’s game time.”

Well, that’s certainly good to know. After more than four years of sacrificing blood and treasure, our powerful VP wants Iraqis to know that now it’s game time. As if “the last four years have just been a scrimmage.”

For that matter, it was also encouraging to see that Cheney’s priorities are still intact.

Once safely ensconced in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, however, Cheney appeared to reserve his toughest language for his normal target — the press. Cheney held a lot of photo ops with key Iraqi leaders like Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, but was adamant about not taking questions. At one point, Cheney emphasized to the assembled journalists that “this is just a photo spray.” Later in the day, as reporters filed into an embassy conference room for another photo of Cheney they overheard him tell his staff “then we kick the press out.”

Apparently, journalists on hand for Cheney’s second visit to Iraq thought it might be a good time to ask questions of the man who helps shape war policy. The nerve.

On a far more serious note, right around the time Cheney acknowledged that there are still “some security problems” in Iraq, the AP said there was “a thunderous explosion that rattled windows in the U.S. embassy where he spent most of the day.” The VP was unharmed and his meetings were reportedly uninterrupted.

I guess it was a stark reminder about this being “game time.”

I’m trying to come up with something pithy and clever, but all I can think of is, “What an asshole.”

  • Yes, as I looked for wit and pith, All I could think was “Impeach this bastard”, but then realized that I would have to once again apologize – this time to all of those with uncertain parentage.

  • Argh…I can’t remember the term, but it’s applies to…well…”a male appendage lacking testicles.”

    Or I could just refer to the fat little dimwit as “No-Balls Dick….”

  • “this is just a photo spray.”

    Is that anything like a bullet spray?

    You know, I’m starting to enjoy the snarlings and gruntings of Vice President Slam Dunk Cake Walk Round The Corner Last Throes Game Time All Dick No Brains Cheney.

    They reassure me that when it comes time to try his arse for treason he won’t be able to muster a coherent defense but he will insist on taking the stand, snarling at the jury, threatening the prosecutor and otherwise convincing the American public that the best thing to do for the world is to fit him up with a hempen neck tie.

  • Nine years ago, I remember being oddly impressed with Bill Clinton’s utter lack of shame over Blow-Gate–thinking, “Man, if that were me, I wouldn’t be able to show my face anywhere. And yet this guy goes about his business despite having made an ass of himself, and even manages to do a pretty good job.”

    Cheney’s utter absence of shame might be easier by virtue of also lacking a soul, but even so, he puts Bill far, far in the shade. Not only has Citizen Dick been completely wrong about literally everything, he still acts as if he’s beyond question or doubt.

    It’s beyond sad that this monster in some sense represents us.

  • a thunderous explosion that rattled windows in the U.S. embassy where he spent most of the day.

    What did Dick have for lunch? Has it been conformed that this was not a Dick Cheny fart?

  • I’m near my end.

    The combination of arrogance, stupidity, and lack of awareness that we are bombarded with every day from so many fronts is simply overwhelming.

    Robert Scheer, in The Nation online, talks about this “quality” of human being that seems to be rising to power lately.

    It’s a good read and a timely comment on our times.

  • TAIO – are you having visions of Jack Nicholson up on the witness stand near the end of A Few Good Men?

    Good ol’ Dick spittin’ and cussin’ that we “can’t handle the truth.”

  • Anyone seen Saddam? Maybe we could ask him to tell us how to hold his country together.

  • Shock and awe and 6000 civilians dead in the first month: Opening graphics.

    Dissolution of the army: Pre-game show

    Rise of the insurgency: Commercial before the show.

    Sectarian violence: There’s John Madden again.

    Full-blown civil war, government threatening to dissolve: GAME TIME!

  • According to Condi Rice on Monday, they’re still “looking for a strategy that is going to do what we went there to do”.

    As soon as they find one, and the referee blows the starting whistle, we’ll be off and running, and finally on the road to Victory.

    Hooray!

  • I didn’t realize that all this time we’ve just been playing an exhibition schedule and all the Iraq stats so far don’t count in the record books. When the season opens, I hope Cheney has a huge public ceremony in Baghdad and gets to throw out the first pitch.

  • I have a sense of humor, really i do. and i don’t mean to sound uptight. but i have to say, if i were a parent who had lost a child in Iraq, and heard this asshat refer to anything remotely related to this war as a “game,” or heard a Rethug congresscritter comparing it to the “Cardinals and Cubbies,” i would be out-the-charts beyond furious with these alleged representatives.

    what is it with the pencil-dicked overcompensaters and their brainless macho posuring – all the “Bring ’em on!” “Dead or Alive!” and “Game time” and the like? Someone needs to monitor their dosage on the Viagra.

  • “There’s a lot going on. This is a very important time. There’s a lot to talk about,” said Dripping “Dick” Cheney, paying a visit to his imperial colony of Iraq.

    Indeed, there is a lot to talk about, “Dick”. How’s the looting of Iraq’s oil resources going? While you’re at it, how’s that oil pipeline in Afghanistan coming along? Looks like your fellow ReThug pirate-profiteers are doing a heckuva job robbing the American tax-payers and making out like bandits sticking it to the American consumer at the gas pump.

  • well, i just breathed a sigh of relief. i thought all was lost in iraq, but now good old dickless cheney has finally decided it was game time. everything should be straightened out by……say……after dinner?

  • It’s “game time” because if they don’t pull a rabbit out the hat there will be hell to pay in 2009.

    The next congress will put Cheney on trial and if he’s convicted of doing half of what it looks like he did, he should be hanged.

  • I had the same reaction to the “game time” comment. It’s “game time” now, four years into this thing?

    Has the Iraq mess lasted longer than WW2 yet? What would the history books say if Roosevelt waited until 1945 to get serious? My goodness, the Roosevelt administration started planning post-war occupation of Germany in 1942.

    It was Game Time in 2002 during the planning process. We know they didn’t take that seriously enough – like it was just another scrimmage.

  • When Cheney says “game time”, I wonder if that’s like his “quail time”. If I were Bush, I’d be wearing orange.

  • To some, it’s a game.To some, it’s been all too real for over 4 yrs. Go jump off a cliff, Dickless.

  • “..Asked about security in Baghdad, Cheney told reporters, ‘I have to rely on reports, because obviously I spent the day here basically in our embassy in the Green Zone.'”

    Or you could rely on that big ass explosion that occured while you were there to determine the security in Baghdad.

    Cheney’s message with Iraqi leaders, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters, was to be: “We’ve all got challenges together. We’ve got to pull together. We’ve got to get this work done. It’s
    game time.”

    Or, what?

  • I wonder how long it’s going to take the VP to claim that he has “combat experience” now, given the fact there was a bombing in Afghanistan not too far from where he spent the night, and now there was a bombing not too far from where he held a meeting….

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