Commanders in Iraq have said that security gains are fragile and that major violence could erupt abruptly. Many of these gains are based on funding, a money for peace stratergy being used by the administration. The US Mint prints up huge amounts of currency and it is given to the same insurgent groups that have killed our troops. In so doing, the shrub can report to the nation the continued lies and distortions about so called progress towards political reconciliation between Sunni's and Shiites.

Should this stratergy run out of funding before they leave office, they won't be able to blame their failures in international politics on Democrats as they currently hope to do when their party is replaced in the White House next year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080322/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_51;_ylt=AjOl39UlrmSe8B9B1yVCT0IE1vAI

"Stoic"?

How about "WPE still has big Stoic up his ass"?

Maybe 4 more soldiers will be killed today to make it an even 4000 for Easter Sunday. I wonder how "stoic" those parents and families will be?

Stoic in the sense that he continues to preach the politics of fear from the bully pulpit to the point that deaths of soldiers have just become another sentence in his litany of tyranny. Dead G.I.'s are mere spent rounds in his crusade against the common man.

I'm thinking Bush's life after leaving the White House will be downright unpleasant as he will no longer have the ability to slant history as it is written. Pesky facts will surface time and time again to Stoic him in the butt.

Since he has admitted that he doesn't read newspapers or follow current events by himself, I doubt he'll even be aware of that. His poor Secret Service detail (Crawford TX: the living hell where bad agents are sent to be punished) will probably decide that it's not worth informing him of any current events since they'll need to break it down into "My Pet Goat"-type language, while he's hacking away at weeds and brush. His gaggle of "Yes Men" cronies will have no use for him anymore, unless he's at Kennebunkport and they'd like to be invited over for some croquet and yachting. One can only hope that Babs and Daddy will keep him abreast of the situation and occasionaly prod him with the big stoic in his butt.

While the loss of US military personnel is a tragedy, the alternative probably would have been much worse.

Saddam and his sons, were very unstable, and could have thought that while the US was engaged in Afghanistan and elsewhere, that would be the time to act, and sent their 3 corps of armor into Saudia Arabia, Kuwait and the other oil fields, and held them for ransome.

You think $100.00 a barrel oil is high, it could have hit multilpe hundreds of dollars per gallon, which would have had the affect of destroying our economy, which would have killed tens of thousands.

My vision of the post-Presidency Bush:

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1217024/tt0079367

LOL!!

Somebody already did this!

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushjerk.htm

Nwokie - let's think about this for a minute.

How much oil did we get from Iraq BEFORE the invasion? How has the invasion and occupation helped worldwide oil prices and supplies?

"Saddam and his sons, were very unstable, and could have thought that while the US was engaged in Afghanistan and elsewhere, that would be the time to act, and sent their 3 corps of armor into Saudia Arabia, Kuwait and the other oil fields, and held them for ransome."

Saddam was a bad bad man who got his comeuppance, yes. That said, to suggest that Iraq, hell that entire region, is MORE stable now than it was pre-invasion is crazy talk. After the Kuwait fiasco, plus with our increased military presence in Saudi Arabia, do you REALLY think that Saddam would have invaded?

Nice spin, Okie!

The opening paragraph of WPE's autobiography: "It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi."

(I love that movie!)

Switching back to the topic of thread, as of today, while we were hunting eggs, eating Peeps, or celebrating the holiest Christian day of the year, 4 more US soldiers died on Easter Sunday, so we are now at 4000 dead.

Spin it however you like, Okie, it sucks and it needs to stop sooner than later. NOBODY has won anything worth the price we're ALL paying.

I'd rather have the gas prices go up, it still is nowhere near the "cost" of this "war" either monetarily or by body count.

Four sets of parents, kids, spouses and families will now always remember Easter as the day their loved one died.

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