Republicans remain almost unanimously opposed to any required withdrawal timeline, but they supported opening the debate because they want to draw attention to the decreased violence and other military progress in Iraq since the United States sent an additional 30,000 U.S. troops there last year.
Maureen Dowd, column, May 4
The tail hook caught the last cable, jerking the fighter jet from 150 m.p.h. to zero in two seconds. Out bounded the cocky, rule-breaking, daredevil flyboy, a man navigating the Highway to the Danger Zone, out along the edges where he was born to be, the further on the edge, the hotter the intensity.
He flashed that famous all-American grin as he swaggered around the deck of the aircraft carrier in his olive flight suit, ejection harness between his legs, helmet tucked under his arm, awestruck crew crowding around. Maverick was back, cooler and hotter than ever, throttling to the max with joystick politics. Compared to Karl Rove’s ‘‘revvin’ up your engine’’ myth-making cinematic style, Jerry Bruckheimer’s movies look like Lizzie McGuire.
This time Maverick didn’t just nail a few bogeys and do a 4G inverted dive with a MiG-28 at a range of two meters. This time the Top Gun wasted a couple of nasty regimes, and promised this was just the beginning.
Or, if you prefer, the male admirer view:
MATTHEWS: What do you make of this broadside against the USS Abraham Lincoln and its chief visitor last week?
LIDDY: Well, I -- in the first place, I think it's envy. I mean, after all, Al Gore had to go get some woman to tell him how to be a man. And here comes George Bush. You know, he's in his flight suit, he's striding across the deck, and he's wearing his parachute harness, you know -- and I've worn those because I parachute -- and it makes the best of his manly characteristic. You go run those -- run that stuff again of him walking across there with the parachute. He has just won every woman's vote in the United States of America. You know, all those women who say size doesn't count -- they're all liars. Check that out. I hope the Democrats keep ratting on him and all of this stuff so that they keep showing that tape.
Aah, memories!! A few more random gushing emissions you say? How can I resist?
NEW YORK On May 1, 2003, Richard Perle advised, in a USA Today op-ed, “Relax, Celebrate Victory.” The same day, exactly five years ago, President Bush, dressed in a flight suit, landed on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major military operations in Iraq—with the now-infamous “Mission Accomplished” banner arrayed behind him in the war’s greatest photo op.
Chris Matthews on MSNBC called Bush a “hero” and boomed, “He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics.” PBS’s Gwen Ifill said Bush was “part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan.” On NBC, Brian Williams gushed, "The pictures were beautiful. It was quite something to see the first-ever American president on a -- on a carrier landing. This must be very meaningful to the United States military."
And now we know why our country is in the mess we're in today, media whores. They also have blood on their hands and the million dollar salaries are blood money.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson
and they still don't provide a real reason for being there. I can only hope that history won't be kind to the ones responsible for starting and backing this war.
...So maybe we shouldn't rub in just how wrong, and morally corrupt the antiwar case was. Maybe we should rise above the temptation to point out that claims of a "quagmire" were wrong -- again! -- how efforts at moral equivalence were obscenely wrong -- again! -- how the antiwar folks are still, far too often, trying to move the goalposts rather than admit their error -- again -- and how an awful lot of the very same people who spoke lugubriously about "civilian casualties" now seem almost disappointed that there weren't more -- again -- and how many people who spoke darkly about the Arab Street and citizens rising up against American "liberators" were proven wrong -- again -- as the liberators were seen as just that by the people they were liberating. And I suppose we shouldn't stress so much that the antiwar folks were really just defending the interests of French oil companies and Russian arms-deal creditors. It's probably a bad idea to keep rubbing that point in over and over again.
Submitted by Factchecker on Mon, 2008/05/05 - 11:36am.
Sometimes it can be delicious.
Maybe we shouldn't rub this stuff in on the "morally elite"...
Nah.
...the antiwar folks were really just defending the interests of French oil companies...
That reminds me to check my French oil company stocks. What with a barrel pushing $100 more than what one cost when Duhbya took office, and all. Of course, in the wacky up=down Bushworld, we're more secure every day!
Bush wants an "indefinite suspension of troop withdrawals."
Today is the five-year anniversary of Mission Accomplished.
That was eMission Accomplished. :-)
Or, if you prefer, the male admirer view:
Aah, memories!! A few more random gushing emissions you say? How can I resist?
And now we know why our country is in the mess we're in today, media whores. They also have blood on their hands and the million dollar salaries are blood money.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson
Thanks for the reminder of what a dick Chris Matthews really is.
Amazingly enough, these media idiots all still have their jobs.
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Accomplished the destruction of Iraq, control of the oil fields, made Blackwater and other corporate shills happy.
and they still don't provide a real reason for being there. I can only hope that history won't be kind to the ones responsible for starting and backing this war.
Then there's our own Instapundit:
By way of Kevin Drum.
You know an awful lot of supposedly savvy folk tend to forget the lengthy half life of stuff exposed to the Intarwebs.
Sometimes it can be delicious.
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Maybe we shouldn't rub this stuff in on the "morally elite"...
Nah.
That reminds me to check my French oil company stocks. What with a barrel pushing $100 more than what one cost when Duhbya took office, and all. Of course, in the wacky up=down Bushworld, we're more secure every day!
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