Sticks, Balls, Idiocy and Insult

[american_arcane]

Originally published at Durosia.com. You can comment here or there.

One of my favorite news commentator of all time, Kieth Olberman, has once again masterfully taken the Bush regime to task in a way I could only hope to do.

Love him or hate him, Olberman has facts to back up most of his criticism (if not all). Read it. Watch it and discuss.

Comments

[predigested]

Now all we gotta do is tie Bushie to a chair and make him watch that. About a 100 times. At top volume.

[american_arcane]

Do you honestly think that would make a whit of difference?

I don't.

Reality has no place in most of this administration's decision making.

:(

[predigested]

No, I know it would make no difference.

I would just derive a smidgeon of pleasure in causing Bushie a bit of pain.

I would derive a lot of pleasure getting the chance to waterboard him, come to think of it.

[ns_kumiho]

Haven't watch the full thing yet (need to head out to work) but Olbermann is certainly taking things way out of context right at the beginning:

The question was phrased as follows: "If we were to pull out of Iraq next year, what's the worst that could happen, what's the doomsday scenario?"

The president replied: "Doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States. The biggest issue we face is, it's bigger than Iraq, it's this ideological struggle against cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives."The keyword there was Doomsday scenario - as in the worst possible outcome from the action. And I have to agree with Bush here the worst possible outcome would have the pulling out of Iraq being a propaganda coup for Al Qaeda emboldening them to strike on US and friendly Arab government targets

[american_arcane]

Yeah, I caught that, too. That's what lead to the "most of" part of my initial comment.

It was an unfortunate choice of lead in that did deal with an actual opinion I've heard from Republican circles, though.

That, and I figured the golf thing near the end more than makes up for the slightly sensationalized lead. :)

You'd think we would have learned something about working in the Middle East from Operation AJAX... oh, right, that's history and can't possibly be important in this new, modern age...

*sigh*