“You guys want to be men? Why don’t you go down there and beat some people’s asses. You’re supposed to be Iraqi police but you’re too scared to do your jobs” . . . . . ”Get into a gunfight, and I guarantee you’ll fuck some people up . . . . .
Having returned from a [...]
Rasmussen Reports, 13 January 2009
President George W. Bush in a final press conference on Monday 12 January, 2009 acknowledged he made some mistakes in the White House, but most Americans – at least for now – are a lot more critical than that. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Americans say Bush is one of the five [...]
. . .clearly the answer is no. In the second surprise visit to Iraq in three days British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held a press conference with his opposite number, Iraqi US stooge Nouri-Al-Maliki to announce what we already knew (THUS Passim), namely that the last 4100 British troops would finally be withdrawn from Iraq [...]
Unfortunately, my playful prediction that the Iraqi authorities would meet out summary justice to the shoe thrower was justified, as this BBC report illustrates: Shoe thrower ‘beaten in custody’. Apart from demonstrating absolute contempt for any civilised behaviour, this shows that George W Bush was either powerless to influence the actions of his ‘hosts’ in Bagdhad, or [...]
. . . . the answer is clearly no. Where was the Kevin Costner figure willing to throw himself in front of the Commander-in-Chief when enraged Iraqi journalist Muntadhar-al-Zaidi from Al Bagdhadiya TV, threw his loafers at George W Bush, ruining his latest ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech to the ungrateful Eyerakki people? Luckily, W is the mother of all [...]