Opening The Files: 09/04/07

Published: September 4, 2007, 5:10 am

Tags: iraq, republican pundits gone wild, bush arrogance, lies the lying liars, propaganda catapulting

The Commander Guy Stops By While most Americans were off for Labor Day (sans yours truly), President Bush was making like a laborious used car salesman, making another surprise visit to Iraq to try to sell his surge strategy. Seems he’s holding out hope that his successor will pick up the payments of blood and treasure on his lemon of a war. Apparently Bush wanted to “see for himself” what was happening in Iraq, to get the skinny straight from the puppets mouth as it were. The not a photo-op photo-op took place outside of Baghdad because the security situation is still too dangerous to send a symbolic message of impatience with Iraq’s leaders. So The Decider decided to “assess” the situation from the confines of a remote airbase in Anbar province surrounded by a 13 mile buffer zone and 10,000 US troops. Now while Bush chose to forgo bringing any plastic poultry on this trip, he was still willing to serve up something equally chalky and tasteless.

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