GEORGE BUSH AND NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE…one of these things doesn’t go with the other
Dr. W.R. Marshall
August 26, 2007
In about a month the nation will receive the Petraeus Report on troop surge progress. (Well, it used to be the Petraeus Report, now it’s the Petraeus/White House Report, in two weeks it’ll be the White House Report and the day is comes out it will be called “Iraq; the Gospel According to Dick.” I hear Mel Gibson is trying to get film rights.)
While everyone outside the White House knows what will be in the report—it’s like knowing what happened to Lincoln when he went to the theatre—everyone inside the White House is anxiously waiting for the results—that’s a lot of Kool-Aid. Last week the N.I.E. (National Intelligence Estimate) published its findings on “Progress for Iraq’s Stability” and really watered down the hallucinogenic effect of the stuff they’ve been sipping at 1600. It stated: “Some security progress, but political reconciliation elusive.” It also went on to say things are going to get worse in the next year.
Of course the ‘Chushies” (a Chush is what you get when you mix a Cheney and Bush) will ignore the report, they’ve ignored all the other N.I.E. reports, the ignore common sense and frankly, reality doesn’t interest them all that much either…more Kool-Aid anyone?
However, there’s an added buzz kill here; Republican stalwart, Senator John Warner going public, starting on Public Television, the place where the lefties live, and saying he’s going to ask the President to start pulling out troops in September…the September that starts in a week.
Two things to consider here: first, the Chush White House reads Intelligence Estimates the way the rest of us read catalogues we put on the toilet tank. “Hmm, do I really need a pair of orange espadrilles?” “Hmm, what are the odds of Iraq becoming a recruiting tool for Islamic extremists? “Hmm, I bet Barney would love a chew toy shaped like Iran.”
Second, John Warner ain’t Harry Reid. Warner is a stud Republican who was nailin’ Liz Taylor, so we know he’s got the equipment in the place the Democrats don’t. When he stands up and tells Dubya, “things have got to change,” it won’t make a difference to the ‘Commander Guy’, but maybe the part of the Republican Party that can still think and goose step (as opposed to just the goose steppers, so no cause for alarm for you right wingnuts out there; Graham, Hatch, Brownback, et al will march on—right over the cliff), may step up and inspire the Democrats to finally find a little sack and pull the plug on this madness.
So next month we’ll get to read what should be a pretty good piece of fiction—which is being written right now by Joseph Geobbles, who is chained to a rock in Hell by the Vice President Who Must Not Be Named, and as Geobbles writes, Ann Coulter hovers over him, biting the heads off bats and promising he can have her if the report is good.
While everyone outside the White House knows what will be in the report—it’s like knowing what happened to Lincoln when he went to the theatre—everyone inside the White House is anxiously waiting for the results—that’s a lot of Kool-Aid. Last week the N.I.E. (National Intelligence Estimate) published its findings on “Progress for Iraq’s Stability” and really watered down the hallucinogenic effect of the stuff they’ve been sipping at 1600. It stated: “Some security progress, but political reconciliation elusive.” It also went on to say things are going to get worse in the next year.
Of course the ‘Chushies” (a Chush is what you get when you mix a Cheney and Bush) will ignore the report, they’ve ignored all the other N.I.E. reports, the ignore common sense and frankly, reality doesn’t interest them all that much either…more Kool-Aid anyone?
However, there’s an added buzz kill here; Republican stalwart, Senator John Warner going public, starting on Public Television, the place where the lefties live, and saying he’s going to ask the President to start pulling out troops in September…the September that starts in a week.
Two things to consider here: first, the Chush White House reads Intelligence Estimates the way the rest of us read catalogues we put on the toilet tank. “Hmm, do I really need a pair of orange espadrilles?” “Hmm, what are the odds of Iraq becoming a recruiting tool for Islamic extremists? “Hmm, I bet Barney would love a chew toy shaped like Iran.”
Second, John Warner ain’t Harry Reid. Warner is a stud Republican who was nailin’ Liz Taylor, so we know he’s got the equipment in the place the Democrats don’t. When he stands up and tells Dubya, “things have got to change,” it won’t make a difference to the ‘Commander Guy’, but maybe the part of the Republican Party that can still think and goose step (as opposed to just the goose steppers, so no cause for alarm for you right wingnuts out there; Graham, Hatch, Brownback, et al will march on—right over the cliff), may step up and inspire the Democrats to finally find a little sack and pull the plug on this madness.
So next month we’ll get to read what should be a pretty good piece of fiction—which is being written right now by Joseph Geobbles, who is chained to a rock in Hell by the Vice President Who Must Not Be Named, and as Geobbles writes, Ann Coulter hovers over him, biting the heads off bats and promising he can have her if the report is good.
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