Bush Dog & Pony show in Iraq & why it is so disturbing...

He and his travelling troop of White House press sycophants get to leave after the p.r. stunt. The troops get to stay and face maiming and death.

How apropos.

What the hell are they up to now? Makes me very uneasy in my skin.

Or possibly just the huge framed picture of the guy's corpse to put in the white house.

for a photo op. with the Iraqi leader.

The demeaning condescension just pours out of his pie hole. What a pathological turd he is!

(But of course they have no sense of shame)


They could give a rat's ass about Iraqi concerns. They just want to get Smirky's numbers out of the toilet.

That the press isn't questioning the point of the thing. I mean he flew there said the exact same thing he said the other day. Does saying it IN Iraq some how make it true. And would they please to god ask him to actually list the gains we will have made to make it worth it.

plastic turkey to protect him?

Then he can sleep for two days.

It's hard work.

He's there to show how great everything is in Iraq, now that the big bad Zarq is dead. Never mind that the whole thing was completely unannounced beforehand "due to security concerns." Just forget about that part, mmm'kay?

Its a PR stunt, pure and simple. He's not going to accomplish a thing except to placate some voters here in the states.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2162249,00.html

In the Chaos of Iraq, One Project Is on Target: A Giant US Embassy
By Daniel McGrory
The Times on Line UK

Wedneday 03 May 2006

The question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?

Irritation grows as residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion watch the massive US Embassy they call "George W's palace" rising from the banks of the Tigris.

In the pavement cafés, people moan that the structure is bigger than anything Saddam Hussein built. They are not impressed by the architects' claims that the diplomatic outpost will be visible from space and cover an area that is larger than the Vatican city and big enough to accommodate four Millennium Domes. They are more interested in knowing whether the US State Department paid for the prime real estate or simply took it.

While families in the capital suffer electricity cuts, queue all day to fuel their cars and wait for water pipes to be connected, the US mission due to open in June next year will have its own power and water plants to cater for a population the size of a small town.

Officially, the design of the compound is supposed to be a secret, but you cannot hide the giant construction cranes and the concrete contours of the 21 buildings that are taking shape. Looming over the skyline, the embassy has the distinction of being the only big US building project in Iraq that is on time and within budget.

In a week when Washington revealed a startling list of missed deadlines and overspending on building projects, Congress was told that the bill for the embassy was $592 million (£312 million).

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And do lot's of "hard work" with Mr. Maliki. What's the hurry?