Iraq is Getting to Be Downright Humiliating and Embarrassing

When we invaded Iraq, the world just simply hated us 'cause they could figure out it was a lie even if American's couldn't. But, now we have become a cosmic joke..............

We have a renegade CIA (it seems) who decides in the final hours and in the wake of our real Saddam-like prison practices, to act like any good dictator and go bust up and confiscate Chabilis' private property. Geeee, and yesterday he was licking Bush's ear and giving him an Iraqi war erection----he was our boy. But that pales in comparison to this clown act of turning over the government. It's days away and we can't figure out what to pull from under a rock and give the keys to, scrub up, sober up and prop up as the new government. For jeeesus sake, we have been there for over a year and we ain't got nobody to give the keys too!!!! We aren't looking to replace the local Cub Scout leader; we're talking about a COUNTRY and one that is in the midst of a hellhole, to boot!!! The world has got to be laughing and mocking and asking themselves how the big, braggart, "we're #1", USA could be ruled and lead by such sophomoric, stupid, inept clowns. I'd die laughing.....but it puts us in a real weakened position. Those who think we are buffoons, will try to take us down....

is why the US views this sort of thing solely from a point of self interest - the problem in Iraq isn't that it's "embarrasing" or "humiliating" for Americans.

It's like the Vietnam war - people act like that was wrong because 50,000 Americans died as opposed to over 3 MILLION Vietnamese who actually WERE fighting for their freedom.

"For jeeesus sake, we have been there for over a year and we ain't got nobody to give the keys too!!!! "

It's not up to the US to give the keys to anyone, it's not the place of the US to dole out sovereignty - the Iraqi's can't be "given" sovereignty by the US because it's not the US's to give.

turned over to someone and not just any old Joe. We had one year to establish some sort of bridge with the Iraqi people----we let the time go by while we went around raving about June 30th. If this were someone in corporate America, he would have been fired a long time ago. I mean that it's humiliating to be an American---I feel like I would like to take one of those bags and stick it over my own head so that I don't have to be known as a citizen of this jokeland. We should feel humiliated on many fronts. This inability to have set up appropriate means to transfer to the Iraqis makes us look like asses. Did we think Alice in Wonderland was going to come along and do it??---oh, yes, we were the "morans" who thought they were going to throw flowers at our tanks, weren't we?? We have been made fools of. And the sad thing is, too many of us are still proud as peaches to be fools following a fool.

And WE here at DU saw this, even though the media paid no attention during the campaign. He was in charge of THREE COMPANIES. THREE OIL COMPANIES. THREE TEXAS OIL COMPANIES. I forget where I read this, but there was some fellow, in Texas I think, or around there, who wanted to put some campaign commercials together during the 2000 campaign saying this was "a guy who couldn't find oil in Texas."

His track record in that same corporate America is abysmal. It rather accurately fortells how he's wound up running the country - INTO THE GROUND. Only now, he gets to work his incompetence on a global scale, not just corporate or merely state-wide.

I remember the briefing Norman Schwarzkopf held at the end of Gulf War One and one of the many comments that spoke extra loudly was "if you fail to plan, you can plan to fail."

This is the most colossally dismal and incompetent presidency we've ever suffered through - in our entire history, I think. Got a new nickname for him to add to that thread about good nicknames for shrub: New Low.