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Good for Cheney, and the President will have some nice fresh info for the speech tonight from "his man in the field."

all need to make that trip.  The question, of course is, what side of the Green Zone will they touch down in?

This is great news.  From what I hear, Baghdad now has a substantially lower crime rate than Washington DC.  He'll probably have a smaller security detail there than here.  That's the irony of all the liberal whining about conditions in Iraq -- conditions are worse in most American inner cities.  Why don't they start calling DC, Chicago, south central LA,, etc. quagmires?  That would be an accurate use of the word.

I don't know that it is even POSSIBLE for Kennedy to visit Iraq.  Is alcohol readily available there?  If not, he will never show.  The withdrawals would probably kill him.

Of course he is a coward, too.  He did not even bother to contact police when Mary Jo Kopechne was suffocating in a submerged vehicle in 1969.

Well Bush was there, so there had to be a good supply of cocain for him.  You want to talk about cowardace?  How about Bush signing up for the national guard so that he wouldn't be drafted.  If he wanted to help the country, why didn't he go to 'Nam?

Bush can't even string a proper sentance together without screwing it up.  Don't thy to sell him as the greatest president ever.  What has he done for health care?  What has he done for jobs besides allow them to be shipped overseas.

And about this phone tapping story...Those of you who are all for it, why don't you get chips implanted in your arms so that the governmant can keep an eye on you?  How much of your right are you willing to give away?

I always thought the Right was all for small government, taking care of our own first,  & low spending.  This president has done a 180 to all that.  Billions of our dollars spent & thousand of lives lost all to fight a war that did not have to be fought.  All while the man the set up the attack on our soil runs free & is practicly forgotten about.  

I could care less about the Iraqis freedom.  Fix whats wrong with America first, then go spread democracy & christianity.

how's the crack pipe treatin' ya? my gawd....

Dan Rather the best 4ever1!!!!!!

Screw freedom and democracy and human rights! I want my socialism now dammit!

Vote Democratic Party in 2008.

YOu cant get those goons to go to Iraq,you cant even get them to go to the chamber and vote lazy bums.

What a moron

Does any one want this guy,we in Illinois are ready to get rid of him.

Slowly, gently

The Pile™unfurls its splendor.

Grasp it, sense it,

frog inside a blender.

...considered impolite to chide a poster for poor spelling and grammar (if nothing else, it ensures that you'll suffer the same fate* from somebody else) - but this was almost artistic.

But I do agree that some things in America need fixing.  We should start with whatever high school let this fellow graduate with such a poor command of the written English language...

Can someone find last week's quote from Hillary, harping on Cheney for not having visited Iraq since pre-invasion? No kidding, my first reaction when reading it was that Cheney will be in Iraq soon.

The reason I was so clever is that earlier in the week I had seen a John Kerry quote calling for a 20,000 troop reduction after the election (not 15,000 or 30,000 but 20,000)- and a much earlier announcement by the Pentagon that troops would be rotated out after the election in the amount of.... wait for it.... 20,000!

If a Democrat calls for something palatable, you can bet on it happening, and you can also bet that there were already plans for it to happen.

I guess it's not all bad for the Democrats. They've gone from not having any plan at all, to leaking or adopting the administration's plans.

...as a haiku?

The withered blossom

Drawn to waterfall's roaring -

Enjoy The Pile, punk.

So much ignorance, so little time.  Sigh.  I'll just take one of your sad little points.

Joining the guard to avoid service in Vietnam.  Are you aware that the vast majority of servicemen in Vietnam were in the guard?  Funny how that works.  (It was that way in Korea and both world wars too btw).

Most people who wanted to avoid service did so by running to Canada or hoping that their own number didn't come up.  Bush would have "endangered" himself more by joining an air fighter jet unit as a pilot rather than just remaining a grad student at an ivy league school.

I suppose you criticize cops, seeing as they joined the police force to avoid swat duty.  Nevermind that the majority of deaths and law enforcement officers come from the patrolman side of things.

Our nation rejected your pathetic thoughts in the last several elections, but I suppose you think those were rigged.  Consider a happier life surrounded by those more in line with your thinking then move.  Now wait, we don't need anymore Taliba John Walker Lindhs when we bust into Iran.

...but the last line is clunky. (I'd give it an unsportsmanlike penalty for excessive celebration.)

How about:

The withered blossom

Drawn to waterfall's roaring-

Sinks to still despair.

...in tones when I write haiku; I mean, what the heck, it's not like I have the language skills to do them properly.  :)

If I hadn't so shifted, I would have gone with

Petals sink like tears.

Or

Leaves scatter like tears.

...would suit better, although I've no objection to your own line.

In short forms, subtlety is a lot of fun. You want to produce a sudden shift in the emotional temperature without dis-unifying the style at the surface level. Petals sink like tears is an improvement.

I like poetry. It's just as effective as jerking off and much less messy.

Doomo arigatoo goziamasu. Eruvisu no haiku desu.

Arigato gozamasu. <bows deeply>

Bush can't even string a proper sentance[SIC] together without screwing it up.

Self-fisking!  Beautiful.

I could[SIC] care less about the Iraqis[SIC] freedom.

There's the one statement in your rant which we can all believe.

-----  (Switching to the sane audience...)

About the haiku, it would be nice if the last line mentioned or implied, (even obliquely) a particular season.

No points off for not doing so, but bonus points if achieved.

"withered blossom" implies a season. You pick the flower- that determines the season. How about chrysanthemum? Appropriately Japanese, and appropriately autumnal. Cherry might have been nice too, very gossamer. The proper haiku-ist leaves all this unsaid and lets the reader fill it in.

To Moe Lane: the first two lines of your haiku really are marvelous.

We've got our own problems in Ohio. Kucinich, Voinovich, and sometimes DeWine (I'm still PO'd about that gang-of-14 nonsense).

Small frog calling out

In the fast-rushing river

Feeds the hungry pike

Especially the Stabreim (yecch, how's that for a linguistically-mixed metaphor) even though it wouldn't make much sense in Japanese.

I also like the fact that I can imagine the accompanying anime film, with green and yellow as the dominant colors, and Wagerian background music (Act 2 of Siegfried perhaps).

...demonstrating intelligence with bad grammar, lousy spelling, and total inattention to capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structure.

Well Bush was there, so there had to be a good supply of cocain for him.

George Bush had every opportunity to grow up to be, for all practical purposes, John Kerry. He rejected that and took up another lifestyle. That's what makes you so apoplectic. Apostates are always hard for fanatic True Believers to accommodate. +1 point for not using "the change never happened" and "the change turned him into a pure villain" in the same sentence, though.

You want to talk about cowardace?  How about Bush signing up for the national guard so that he wouldn't be drafted.  If he wanted to help the country, why didn't he go to 'Nam?

One of these days you're going to figure out just who you're insulting with this canard. The result may be death from embarrassment.

Bush signed up for a difficult job requiring extensive active duty in a unit that had a detachment in Viet Nam when he volunteered.

Curious that you didn't add the other half of it, which is that after thirty-five years of decrying "Rambo" you want to put up a Naval officer who abandons his command and goes bounding across the landscape after Bad Guys with a bandolier across his chest as a "war hero".

Bush can't even string a proper sentance together without screwing it up.

As opposed to yourself and your buddies, who can't write a sentence without at least one misspelled word.

Don't thy to sell him as the greatest president ever.  What has he done for health care?

Umm... prescription drug benefit strike any bells? Just because what he considers an advance doesn't mesh with your ideology doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

What has he done for jobs besides allow them to be shipped overseas.

Yeah. Number one, the economy created jobs even during the hurricanes, so your criticism doesn't mean anything. Number two, "Git back in your ditch, Pedro, I got SUV payments t'make" is not the statement of a person who can rightly be called "liberal".

And about this phone tapping story...Those of you who are all for it, why don't you get chips implanted in your arms so that the governmant can keep an eye on you?  How much of your right are you willing to give away?

Funny, I hadn't noticed any. The "right" to be pursued by the IRS for dissing Clintons isn't really a desirable one. The core of the accusations re: tapping seems to be that "i"s weren't dotted afterward. ::Yawn::

I always thought the Right was all for small government, taking care of our own first,  & low spending.  This president has done a 180 to all that.

We're not happy with that either, but we'll take care of it if possible. It'll be easier if you leave off the mud-slinging and start curbing your moonbats.

Billions of our dollars spent & thousand of lives lost all to fight a war that did not have to be fought.

If you think the war didn't have to be fought, you're delusional.

All while the man the set up the attack on our soil runs free & is practicly forgotten about.

Let's get this straight: failing to adequately protect the country is a Bad Thing. Collecting intelligence necessary to do so is a Thoroughly Vile Thing. And you don't see the disconnect? Check with your therapist. There are drugs for that sort of thing these days.

I could care less about the Iraqis freedom.

Which is to say, you're not a liberal. You're not even a "progressive". You're a selfish, jingoistic, chauvinist bigot. Thanks for pointing that out.

Fix whats wrong with America first, then go spread democracy & christianity.

Then get out of the [*] way and let us go about it, willya?

Regards,

Ric

Your infantile spelling almost outdoes your ignorant opinions.

Almost.

The AP headline above is being run on the Yahoo site from the AP. The AP is careful not to let its followers get far from the bad news in Iraq.

to The List™ of things I never needed to hear in my lifetime.

TMI...

He's only been in the country for less than a day and he is already creating more terrorists.

Why is the administration still making secret trips to Iraq?

Why not publicize the trips...Isnt it better p.r.?

If we faxed his itinerary to Zarqawi a week ahead of time it would open a dialog and promote peace and understanding.

safety first PR latter.  other than that - maybe to direct the new Iraqi leaders toward the American way.

But making these trips secret, appears to suggest that the administration is afraid of traveling to the area.

Why not say that Cheney will be visiting Iraq in a week?

Dont give the date or times, but announce to america that he or anyone in the administration is not afraid to travel to the area.

And pr is important if you are going to convince the american people that we are beating the terrorists.

Thanks Drudge - he's linking tonight to the story I was thinking of...

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/58957.htm