Jingoism on display: Rummy & Myers address baghdad troops LIVE

[mopaul]

on...........cnn

[mopaul]

1. i think the vampire is gonna cry

[Sparkly]

2. I think I'm gonna hurl

What an obvious damage-control photo-op hollow phoney stunt.

[mopaul]

6. i don't read newspapers! i'm a survivor! what a cocksucker

[Sparkly]

9. Was just going to say that

"I've stopped reading the newspapers" -- is that supposed to be reassuring? Did he read them before? This administration doesn't read memos, reports, briefings, etc... What the hell DO they read?!!

[diamond14]

68. he wants more blood (vampire PHOTO)....continuously....

thanks to monkeyfister at
www.bartcop.com

[LittleApple81]

3. Iraqle...do you think Rumsfailed was thinking debacle?

Did you see where he wanted to say building the Iraqi defense forces and he said Iraqle????

[wtmusic]

4. your toilet dubya is hypnotic

I'm...er...yeah

[Neshanic]

5. Our values, our America, the lines are long to get in.

[berner59]

13. He just said he stopped reading newspapers...

Good move Rummy...if you don't read it, it didn't happen...

What a moron...

oh boy, now talking about reading a book about Grant and saying how there was such criticizm of Lincoln...is he trying to compare Bush to Lincoln???? oh PLEASE!!!!!

[cheezus]

58. hey, going to war with a foreign enemy who poses no threat

is JUST LIKE saving the union!

[LittleApple81]

7. He stopped reading the newspapers?and the idiot audience hoops and applaud

WHAT IS THIS COUNTRY ALL ABOUT??? How can he be proud of not reading? Is Bush contagious???

[slinkerwink]

12. I'm sick of how the right-wing keeps trashing education in this country

as if being educated and intellectual is something to be ashamed of.

[LittleApple81]

47. But they feed the troops RUSH LIMBAUGH EVERYDAY!!!!

This is absolutely despicable. I don't want to watch this any more but I cannot help myself. It is so hideous I have to be a witness for future generations.

[arcane1]

69. that's why I stopped watching Friends

thus pissing off my g/f at the time, too

but I digress :silly:

[Neecy]

8. major barf-fest

This is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded PR stunt, a desperate attempt to demonstrate that Rummy has the 'support' of the uniformed military.

I'm sure these guys have been ordered to hoot 'n holler. I'm so sick of our soldiers being used as movie props for this regime.

[mopaul]

11. i love it when they grunt like gorillas in planet of the apes

this is a disgusting obsenity

[LittleApple81]

10. Is he implying questions now are not honest???? Comparing Bush

with Abraham Lincoln????

[PATRICK]

44. Hah! they just lost

Comparable to the "first one to mention Hitler loses" principle is a beleaguered President hiding under the martyr mantle of Lincoln.

However, the dumbest naive thing about this is that the right wing has spilled a lot of ink and airtime trashing Lincoln in every way and catering to Southern Resurrectionists. Ashcroft obviously was not consulted.

So add the old old sign of desperation to the radical base having to swallow another dose of bad-tasting medicine and one only regrets Junior himself is not using Lincoln's shadow to hide in.

Or is it the Lincoln bedroom ghost that haunts the inhabitant of the WH?

[LittleApple81]

64. Myers we have to strech... and then he realized troops are ALREADY

stretched... HA!

[Neshanic]

14. Just in....US Civil War was worth the time.

[LittleApple81]

15. This is NOT Lincoln, and IRAQ is not our country. Lincoln's war

was held in the USA, not exporting the violence like we are doing now.

[Spazito]

20. Lincoln had no trouble replacing those who did not perform...

unlike bush who lauds and vows to keep someone who says "I HOPE it will go well in Iraq"

[mopaul]

16. plenty of potholes in the road ahead.......good one

[seabeyond]

17. this is pathetic

do the troops behind look enthused. and rumsfield, the whole energy just feels pathetic. this is sad

[Neshanic]

18. Tell em what they've won Rummy! A great lookback!

[Sparkly]

19. Ends with "You're going to be proud of your service"

Okay fine. It's all about being "proud." Then you don't have to worry about responsibility, laws, consequences, death, etc. -- just cloak it all in "We're so PROUD" and it's all okay.

[Sparkly]

21. Myers begins by saying he's proud

n/t

[LittleApple81]

26. Myers is a real piece of work. No doubt we are going to WIN? win

what? This generation will be remembered for the slaughter, the jingoism, and the defeat of our nation, our finances, our honor, our compassion, our freedoms...

[mopaul]

32. define win dick

myers is so grandfatherly, as he sends his grandchildren to the meat grinder

[LittleApple81]

35. wrong thread. sorry.

[LittleApple81]

36. wrong thread. sorry.

[mopaul]

22. this is the next best generation? did he mean to say that?

[Neshanic]

25. Yup...he said it. Brokaw on line 5 for you Myers.

[Snellius]

23. Are they holding this "town meeting" is Saddam's old palace?

Jeez, the whole place is completely marble. Like a mausoleum. I thought I saw a "Under New Management" sign.

[deacon]

24. It's shameless political grandstanding at an apex

Rumsfeld making a speech on TV from Iraq.

This is shameless political grandstanding at it's apex. What has transpired is violations of the Geneva Conventions. Very serious issues.

It is not time for phony staged political events. It is time for truth. It is time for him to be fired for the horrendous handling of this entire conflict.



This is another very sad moment in history watching this.

[mopaul]

27. rummy is channeling bob hope's ghost

what a cutup

[Sparkly]

28. "It's generally more fun here than it is back home!"

I can NOT believe he said that!!!

[Neshanic]

29. Translation, love lying to you here, instead of those pesky reporters

[mopaul]

33. only a ghoul would think that funny...........n/t

[cheezus]

63. if you shoot the towelheads back home you get in trouble

but here you get to strip them naked as well!

[deacon]

30. What are they doing laughing at this event!!!!

Doesn't this idiot rumsfeld know that the arab community will see this!!

This is madness!!

[mopaul]

37. yuck it up vampire

the whole world is watching

[LittleApple81]

31. Rumsfeld: it is much more fun to do this here than at home! No shit

Sherlock: they cannot say anything real, ask question, they are THE PERFECT PICTURE OF A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE!!!

[LittleApple81]

40. Captive audience! Captive Audience! Is this the only place where he can

lie without shame anymore?

[LittleApple81]

You should become journalists???? WTF???WTF????WTF???

[Neshanic]

34. Asks Meyers who had to stay longer, can't even get it right. Pathetic.

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[Q]

39. Stopped reading newspapers: codewords for:

...don't believe what the newspapers are saying about us.

[Sparkly]

42. I hope reporters remember that at his next press conference.

He just implied they're liars.

[mopaul]

41. the liberal media is making torture out to be unamerican

why god, why?

[Neshanic]

43. Humvee armor question. Meyers turns it into philosophy.

[Neshanic]

45. Sounds these guys are pissed at paying for stuff that should be provided.

[Neecy]

46. yup

That's the second question now about lack of proper equipment.

I figured these questions were provided by the regime, but maybe not...

[berner59]

48. lots of complaints about services...

tickets home, health care... Of course they're so ready to help now...but the minute they leave, it will be business as usual... WHAT CRAP!!!

[LittleApple81]

49. Even if we are ready to barf, LET'S WATCH so that we can be WITNESSES

of what is happening to this country because of the BFEE and their minions. This is like remembering the Holocaust.

[Sparkly]

50. Rumsfeld wags finger at the recalcitrant UN

says they've been TRYing to get more countries involved... Doesn't mention that they've never agreed to UN's request to give up political control (= oil).

Also doesn't mention dissing "Old Europe" and "the chocolate-makers."

[LittleApple81]

51. Three handful of nations with capabilities to come in? YOU ARE LOSING

support not GAINING SUPPORT you ghoul!!!

[berner59]

52. What a performance....

Someone just asked why civilians can't be armed... Rummy turns it over to Sanchez..."he's working on it...I'll get back to you..." More crap...

[LittleApple81]

53. Question: Policy in Iraq allowing civilians that have been in difficult

situations to be armed.
Called Sanchez. Sanchez does not know.

[Neshanic]

61. Rummy blames 20th Century for force rotation issues

[The_Casual_Observer]

70. "20th century industrial age thinking"

I guess rumsfeld considers himself a nimble 21 century windows Xp IT and management kind of guy. I wasn't aware that he has been keeping himself current in all these technologies!
He is a no nothing fraud and catch phrase guy like Gingrich.

[LittleApple81]

57. Why didn't they invite Iraqis to ask questions if they are so free now?

Iraqi can play soccer, Olympics, symphony... why no Iraqis in the room to ask questions?

[Neshanic]

54. Sanchez promises a getback, talk to me later.

[berner59]

56. oh goody....

We went to war so Iraqi's can play soccer at the olympics???? Can't believe these soldiers are buying this shit????

[mopaul]

55. the iraqis are free to play soccer and wrestle....god bless america

jeeeesus

[LittleApple81]

59. How come no Iraqis there asking questions if they are FREE??? n/t

[Sparkly]

60. Key words today: "Fun" and "Games"

[mopaul]

62. where's the fucking commander in chief?

oh yeah, fundraising

[deacon]

67. Fundraising probably followed by some time on vacation n/t

[Neshanic]

65. We have run out of time...Rummy wrapup. Thanks, don't call me..

[LittleApple81]

66. American people are CENTERED and support the troops... Talk

about pap. Americans are not CENTERED... they are polarized and the ones who are not RW fundies FEEL SORRY FOR THE TROOPS because they were lied to and are losing their soul and their lives.