Another feather in Bush's cap. From Ephraim Hardcastle's column

[Joe Chi Minh]

in the Daily Mail today:

"SOMALIA'S piracy problem was almost stamped out two years ago by its Islamic Courts Union movement. Then with the Bush Administration's help, Ethiopia invaded, removed the strict ICU and turned the country into a warlord-infested haven for pirates. Curiously we never hear any of this from our wet-behind-the-ears Foreign Secretary, David Milliband."

[opihimoimoi]

1. What is it with the Bushies...did they make Fucking Up into an ART FORM??

Everything under Bush has turned to MUSH....MOLLY IVINs was right...he is a SHRUB

and now...even worse....a Global Bush Depression

somehow...Bush has fucked the Planet

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. It seems almost supernatural the scale and efficiency with which its all been "achieved".

[Cassandra]

2. "a warlord-infested haven for pirates"

Sounds like us, actually.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Aaaaarrrrggggghhhh Matey!

Fetch me my Rum and hand me my lash. Morale will improve.

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. Belay there, ye spalpeen! Bah!, Getting my spiel muddled up, now!

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. Ha! Ha! If only.... When a captured pirate chief was brought before Alexander the Great or some

other such potentate, the pirate chief told him that the only difference between them was that what Alexander did, was on a much grander scale. He plundered nations and continents at the edge of the sword. Words to that effect. Chomsky quoted it, but we all know in any case that it's the God's honest truth. Never mind that imperialists will spin the most shameless yarns by way of justification.

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. As Brian Reade, a columnist in one of our UK papers, the Daily Mirror put it:

WHAT'S the difference between the pirates' seizure of the Saudi supertanker and George Bush and Tony Blair's seizure of Iraq? About 4 trillion barrels of oil, that's what.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Guaranteed; death, taxes, and total fuck-up of every single thing George W. bUsh

touches.