So, basically, Bush said he's going to 'do something' about Iran?

[Danger Mouse]

Does this mean that Congress is going to 'DO SOMETHING' about Bush?
Please? Someone? I can't stand this any longer.
Rep. Kucinich? Please? Can't you do this?
What are you afraid of? More people are going to die. Why won't someone stop him?
Why won't somebody show him that this is still America, that Congress still makes the laws, that democracy still exists and we are free and true?
Why won't someone?
I thought when the Democrats took control of COngress this meant that we didn't have to worry, that there would be no invasion of Iran, that the Dems would stop him.
But they haven't done anything.
Noone is doing anything.
Noone is stopping him. Cheney has pretty much said that noone can stop them.
Why, why, WHY, for the love of GOD, is he not being impeached? WHY, for the love of God, is he still walking around a free man?
How can this be happening? Don't we have the power? Can't Congress DO SOMETHING? Isn't this still America?
...
Is all hope lost, now?

[itsmesgd]

1. Basically, yes we're screwed

he's going to "protect our troops" (the irony is dripping) from Iran who is determined to get nukes and he "is not going to let that happen".

[Danger Mouse]

2. Protecting them from the evil Iranians by going off to be killed by...

the evil Iranians.
Bush makes me want to :puke:

[bullimiami]

3. he is going to get our military is a whole mess of trouble.

iran has some actual fighting capability unlike iraq and he is sticking 3 carrier groups in a bathtub and has 150000 troops in already hostile territory.

bush will be left with no option but nukes if he is going to beat anyone. he is insane. literally. and cheney is rabid.

[Danger Mouse]

5. He doesn't care who he kills, or how many.

He doesn't care how many of our troops are 'sacrificed,' how many innocent Iranians are killed, how much the world suffers because of his actions.
He believs that he is on a mission from God, and he will let NOTHING stand in his way.
I never thought we'd see the day that a bonafide madman occupied the white house, but here it is.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

13. Insane and rabid. Brilliant qualities in leaders.

The dark age of America... and potentially the rest of the world.

[Danger Mouse]

16. Amazing...did you ever think it could be this way?

I never imagined that we could have someone as awful as Bush in the White House.
Just terrible.

[bullimiami]

18. i knew he was going to be bad. I could never have imagined this.

[Danger Mouse]

23. Yeah...originally I was thinking...well, how could he be?

An idiot at worst...fated to one dreadful term of incompetence and scandal.
Then 9/11 happened, and this country opened the gates of Hell and stepped right through.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

21. I was more than appalled at the results in 2000...

2004 created a vast pit of despair. I suppose strength emerges from adversity... but I feel our climb out of this pit will be more than tenuous. We had better busy ourselves very quickly. Each hour of this maladministration is harmful to our minds, our bodies, and our environment.

[Danger Mouse]

24. More of the same politics will just get us more of the same carnage.

Our country is very deeply wounded.
I fear for our future.

[Danger Mouse]

4. 'These are people that will kill innocent men, women, and children to achieve their objective'

Bush, talking about himself and his cronies :P

[Graybeard]

6. And the reporters all laughed...

...at his jokes. WTF is happening?

[Danger Mouse]

10. Our country is going to hell in handbasket, that's what's happening.

The media will not help us, they are not our friend. not by any means.

[blues90]

7. I hear you

I too fear this will develope into another disaster . There is a force behind this bigger than bush , bush seems to be buying time as the puppet for something brewing .

They are talking about this none binding resolution for three days and this will not stop bush . Bush did his press conference today but it seemed like he avoided all direct questions about Iran which does worry me . Now it's the troops he is trying to protect as he stated a few times and it does not seem to matter to bush who is behind the IED's it is only where they came from .

This certainly is not the america I once knew and as not been especially for the last 6 years or since 2000 .

The US is torn apart and this should be our main concern but it is now the war games so we seem to be way down on the list of priorities .

I don't see a way of fixing this mess in america in my lifetime , not at all . Hope and promise seem to define just being able to keep breathing .

[Danger Mouse]

11. Hopefully, our NEXT president devotes a lot of their efforts to...

healing the wounds caused to our country, at home AND abroad.
I don't envy the job that lies ahead of them, but I hope we get a TRUE uniter to help us finally put these dark days behind us forever.
We shall never forget, however, what we allowed Bush to do in our name.

[blues90]

14. I'm afraid it looks like the survival of the fit .

As we watch our jobs vanish and our rights evaporate , cost of living rising and so many out of work along with the people forgotten in new orleans and the miss gulf .

How many will suffer and die whether here or in their insane wars before 2009 , how many will give up or commit suicide before anything even begins to turn around .

This is the dreadful part since many people have already suffered for years now and are all but forgotten . Many of us can easily end up there and this is really scary for a future .

Things will take many years to change and they may get much worse before anything gets better .

[Danger Mouse]

17. I am worried...now that car companies are slashing thousands of jobs...

and another war on the horizon...with american troops dying, and American citizens out of work and angry...
I am concerned about what such an ugly situation could lead to.
Sickening.

[blues90]

20. That's all true .

And the auto manufacturing is just one of the many manufacturing jobs that is vanishing . These along with many white collar jobs are what seems gone for ever . They go by the tens of thousands and there is nothing to replace them .

With tax cuts for the rich and the war funding and social benefits being cut , no security on the home front from any sort of attacks , many out of healthcare or broke because of lack of coverage .

The list is endless , and it continues on at a accelerated pace .

I am reminded of 1984 with a worse end because this was written well before this day and age .

[Danger Mouse]

25. Like 1984 or some kind of nightmare...I can go about my life...

be relatively content...forget everything...or at least try...but you can't escape it, though you may want to.
Our country is having a nightmare. Who's going to wake us up from it?

[AndyA]

8. Reminds me of what Maxine Waters said yesterday in the House:

"Who is the enemy? Is it the Sunnis? The Shiites? The Iranians?

Who are the terrorists? Is it the Shiites? The Sunnis? The Iranians?

Who are we fighting? I don't think our troops know, and I don't think President Bush knows."

The fact that he is now making moves to go after Iran proves that he doesn't know who the enemy is.

By the way, Mr. Bush, how's Osama?

[Danger Mouse]

9. If Congressmen have time to talk, they have time to impeach.

Screw your political careers, our country is at stake!

[scorpiogirl]

12. I definitely share your feelings.

I told my husband last night that I wanted to see those in congress get up there and shout and cuss! I want to see passion from those we elected. Some of them seem angry sometimes, but no one seems to be able to articulate the urgency that they should have. I'm so tired of the politeness! I want action!

[Danger Mouse]

15. Charles Sumner got caned, for the love of God! Caned!

There used to be passion in the Congress! You could tell it was important, not just going through the motions.
What upsets me the most is how much it seems hopeless...that we're just being taken along for the ride...that we are powerless to stop Bush...

[City Lights]

19. I've had it with his tough-guy routine.

He stands up there flapping his jaw and threatens that "he'll" do something about Iran. I wish "he" would go already. Don't send someone else, George. Be a man. Go do it yourself! I'll be first in line to see you off...:patriot:

[Danger Mouse]

22. Haha, that'd be beautiful. Him, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, all his little hawk buddies.

Don't forget Condi. Dress them up in uniforms, tell them how much we appreciate their noble sacrifice, then send them off to fight Iran.
No, Bush is perfectly happy to talk tough while the real badasses are in the shit, killing and dying for the sake of the biggest walking piece of garbage on the face of the planet.