Calhoun says Bush read lots of manuals and technical

[meg]

stuff while in his office. DOES THIS SOUND LIKE BUSH TO YOU? Anyone can see THAT'S a lie!!!

[bucknaked]

1. I picture Silver Surfer Comic books within the bindings of those manuals

Listen to the guy speak! Hard to believe he could understand Bernoulli's principle, yet alone master flight, itself.

[Aristus]

2. Hey, Lt. Bush! Whatcha readin' there?

"Lessee. Bill sees Spot. Spot runs to Bill. Run, Spot, Run! Oops, wait a minnit! Um.....th'leadin' edge o' th'wing is th'prime mover in th'science o' aereodyn....dyna.....dyn....oh hell! Um......lift is created when th'air movin' over th'wing.........Shit, man! Cain't make head nor tail outta this shit. Less go git a beer, whaddya say?"

[LibDemAlways]

3. I'll bet Rove is seeing to it that Calhoun's bank account

is ballooning this week. Each time Calhoun manages to keep a straight face while telling an outrageous lie, he gets richer. At this rate expect him to suddenly remember how the chimp saved his life. LOL

[historian]

4. bush reading...???

He probably had a copy of hustler magazine hidden in the manual.

[catmandu57]

7. More likely Playboy

I don't believe Hustler was in publication then. I can just see our young screwy looey whistling as the centerfold falls out. Technical and training manuals indeed.

[sweetheart]

5. Technical manuals like:

"Remove Top, Point nozzel towards underarm and press knob. Turn face away from spray unless you plan to get high off of it, like with cocaine. Then just stick the nozzel in your nostrel and inhale while pressing knob."

for his walmart spray antiperspirant.

[Skittles]

6. YEAH

Calhoun would be MUCH more believeable if he said he remembered that the young Bush "FUCKED OFF A LOT".

[grasswire]

8. I thought about this when I first saw it.

Bush, the notorious non-reader. Probably functionally illiterate. Not possible.

[Octafish]

9. Going by his official Valentine...

... I find it hard to believe.

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. Calhoun = Iraqui Information Minister (eom)

"ANYBODY BUT BUSH" Buttons, Stickers & Magnets

[KharmaTrain]

11. A Great Bunnypants Gotcha...

It'd be great if someone could sneak in on those staged photo-ops they call "impromptu" press conferences and ask his assholiness a couple of questions about the planes he supposedly flew that a person who had flown those planes would know and never forget...like dashboard markings, radio frequencies or beer vendor (ya think some bar-keep in Alabama would have stepped forward to vouch for their former client). That'd be worth the non-denial non-answer.

[seemslikeadream]

12. squeeze him as silly as any freshly sliced wedge of lime

Now, needless to say, if we were still operating under the rules that prevailed in the mid-1990s, James Carville would have been appointed Independent Counsel in the late summer of 2002 to investigate Halliburton. He'd have had the Intel shenanigans, the Plame matter and the Niger documents added to his brief since then. A cowed AG would have given him the Guard matter around the middle of last week. And in a couple of days some FBI agents would be showing up on Calhoun's doorstep ready to squeeze him as silly as any freshly sliced wedge of lime in close proximity to a bottle of Corona.

Lucky for him Dems don't play so rough.

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