What is your reaction to Bush suprize visit to Iraq -cspan 1 WJourn now.

[rodeodance]

[madame defarge]

1. A round of rubber ribs for everyone!

My first thought was of the damn rubber turkey, then I remembered it's Labor Day...

[Buzz Clik]

2. I'm not surprised -- other than he missed vacation days.

[connecticut yankee]

3. I wondered

if he served plastic turkey this time.

[malaise]

4. Murderers always visit the crime scene n/t

[maseman]

6. I think everyone here should lighten up and leave Bush alone

It's Labor Day. Let's celebrate all of those high paying, full-of-benefits jobs that are out there in our booming economy. :sarcasm:

[malaise]

8. Labor and Bush?

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Has that lunatic ever done a days work without the end product being a clusterfuck? :rofl:

[madokie]

5. had to scratch what I really wanted to say

NSA being what it is and all

[lonestarnot]

7. Serving steamed crap opportunity.

Wasting our tax dollars for more lies. Fucker could have stayed in Crawford falling off his bike to do that.

[BurtWorm]

9. Whoopie.

:eyes:
I'm sure he's going to see for himself how things really are in the fiasco he made.

:do I really have to put the sarcasm smiley?:

[saltpoint]

10. Once in a while, political grandstanding pays off and persuades the

public that this or that angle on an idea is worth their support and enthusiasm.

But to pull that kind of grandstanding off, you have to be possessed of some degree of expressive talent and personal charm.

Bush ain't that guy.

Most voters are going to interpret this kind of grandstanding for what it is: a cynical and pathetic spasm of cheap PR prior to the pro-surge/We need more time propaganda he's about to unleash in the media.

Generally speaking people know that Dubya's administration is done laid flat on the cold slab, and that we're all just waiting for the embalmer to show up.

If anything, this "surprise" drive-by will remind the world what a failure this president is and how unsupportable the "surge" really is.

The folks over in Old Europe had it right from the beginning.

[frogcycle]

14. not Baghdad - too dangerous

shit, a C-130 carrying Senators and Congressmenwas fired on leaving Baghdad International just a couple of days ago

Air Force One touched down under the blazing sun at Al Asad Air Base in Anbar province. The White House said the base was chosen because of the "remarkable turnaround" in the province.

Bush has hailed Anbar -- a Sunni province west of Baghdad -- as a success, citing the U.S. military's alliance with tribal leaders in fighting al Qaeda in Iraq.

Marine commanders on the ground told Bush that "morale is high," despite long troop rotations.

The president was expected to deliver televised remarks from the base at about 12:30 ET. Video Watch CNN's Ed Henry on the president's surprise Iraq visit »

During Bush's previous two visits to Iraq he visited Baghdad, but this trip will remain confined to the heavily fortified air base west of the capital for about six hours.

It was chosen not because of a "remarkable turnaround" but because it is the only place they dared try to get to. Probably flew over Jordanian or Saudi airspace, came in hot, and will have a freaking five regiments patrolling the ground all the way to the border when it takes off.

[saltpoint]

15. Thank you. Good catch.

I'll amend my post if the time-out hasn't expired.

[Bitwit1234]

11. Picture on CNN online

bush is shown shaking hands (?) with the troops on the front page of CNN online. Those military standing there are very glum. Only one has a smile. Even the one starting to shake his hand does not have a very happy face.

[deutsey]

13. Is this the photo?

[WinkyDink]

17. BWAHAHA! Yes, that's it!

[bdamomma]

12. checking those oil wells of course, that is what it is all about.

surprise visit huh?

[TwilightGardener]

16. Prop-to-the-Ganda.

[WinkyDink]

18. Bush was in Da 'Hood!

[acmavm]

19. I'd say it would have been newsworthy if he and Condi and Gates has

strapped on some weaponry and marched to Baghdad. Otherwise, it's just another sneaky photo op by a guy who went AWOL when he had a cushy spot in TANG and that was more than he could handle.

That's why I don't understand those soldiers with those big grins while shaking his hand.

[Beelzebud]

20. "Like, wow!" "Like, this is so totally awesome!"