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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/die-tageszeitung-iraq-front-page_n_5492125.htmlNewspaper's Iraq Front Page Takes A Big Shot At George W. Bush
The Huffington Post | By Jack Mirkinson
Posted: 06/13/2014 11:33 am EDT Updated: 17 minutes ago
As the debate heats up over the unfolding crisis in Iraq, one German newspaper took a decidedly pointed approach to things in its Friday front page.
Die Tageszeitung ran the famous "Mission Accomplished" picture of George W. Bush, but replaced Bush with Shaker Wahib, head of ISIS, the militant group currently running roughshod through Iraq. The message: this is what Bush wrought.
randys1
(16,286 posts)Sociopaths
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)spanone
(135,635 posts)k&r...
and i suspect cheney will be on the sunday talk shows slamming the Obama administration. two words for mr cheney...the. hague.
2naSalit
(86,057 posts)ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)Probably won't be long and what I wish would happen to him isn't something I should put into words. At the very least I would love to see SOMEONE tell him to STFU! Just wipe his smarmy smirk off his face and tell him to put it where the sun don't shine!
malaise
(267,823 posts)and M$Greedia should be speaking with Shinseki and those who voted against the authorization of the Iraq war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)I need a translator however.
Am sure this would b a very interesting read.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)isis can not win.
That's the best I could come up with...print too tiny elsewhere.
xocet
(3,870 posts)Here is the first paragraph - approximately:
Isis Must Not Achieve Victory
It is difficult to say which was the greater mistake: the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 or the withdrawal of 2011 - a withdrawal from a country whose government order appeared to lay in total disarray after, during and in spite of the eight-year American occupation?
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corkhead
(6,119 posts)Fred Gilmore
(80 posts)Shot at with shit; shit at and hit!
"Mission Accomplished"
blackspade
(10,056 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)calimary
(80,699 posts)This is georgie's baby. dickie's baby. wolfie's baby. rummy's baby. dougie's baby.
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY YOU FUCKING BASTARDS!!!!! AND FUCK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!! ,,/, ,,/, ,,/, ,,/, ,,/, ,,/, ,,/, ,,/, ,,/,
QuestForSense
(653 posts)Not a daddy, but a dick just the same.
calimary
(80,699 posts)I'm still convinced she was his backstage girl. And even if they never consummated it, she was THERE. And probably flirtatious and solicitous as hell. I read something back then that described this troika of fawning women dubya had around him ALL THE TIME, a couple of 'em from his Texas days: karen hughes, harriet miers, and contradicta. They fluttered around him and flattered him and fussed over him like Flora, Fawna, and Meriwether, the Disney Sleeping Beauty fairies. I'm also sure it was technically chaste. But they waited on him and worried over him and yes-dear'd him and hero-worshipped him all over the place. And since harriet miers AND contradicta both were unmarried, I'm sure they nursed their own "sigh! If ONLYYYY..." fantasies from time to time. Both in the governor's mansion in Texas and also in the White House he stole from Al Gore, this went on. contradicta herself committed an oopsie one night at some fancy party in Manhattan where she was overheard talking to somebody there, saying "as I was telling my husb-- I mean, the President..." and somebody ran with it at the New York Post or some such, if memory serves.
You bet yer ass he encouraged it. I have seen that dynamic in play SO many times involving men in positions of power who surround themselves with women - both at the secretary level and executives alike. I worked with a general manager or two like that. They eat up the flattery and attention, toy with it like a cat with a mouse, use it for all kinds of manipulative reasons and eat it up til their egos are overfed to Goodyear blimp-size. Makes 'em feel that much more macho and he-man and alpha-male. It surprised me not at all to read that.
malaise
(267,823 posts)for his 90th birthday with Dumbya watching was magnificent.
They are all still clueless and out of touch.
I dare Cheney to drawl out.
Botany
(70,291 posts)n/t
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Recht = ?
My attempt to interpret..
Should have paid attention to my parent's first language when growing up. They only spoke german when they didnt want us kids to know what they were saying, however. We were taught only english.
Botany
(70,291 posts)Ich bein ein hundkopf.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Now I know hund is hound/dog but hundkopf is...
Hello, Rosetta Stone?
Botany
(70,291 posts)Dummkopf = dumb head
totenkopf = SS death head
pferdkopf = horse head
But only the totenkopf fits w, Cheney, Rummy, and so on for starting that unneeded war for oil and money.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)Way past time to bring shaming back into fashion.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)calimary
(80,699 posts)Why else would they feel such a need to overcompensate - to this kind of obscene degree? It's like an NRA-case on SUPER-steroids - not just guns 'n' ammo, but tanks and Blackhawks. This is probably the only thing that gets them pumped up anymore, so to speak.
Cha
(295,914 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)The taz is noted for its tongue-in-cheek headlines,[2] such as:
Oh mein Gott! (Oh my god!) On the election of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI
Es ist ein Mädchen (It's a girl) On the election of Angela Merkel as the first female Chancellor of Germany
Oops they did it again! On the re-election of George W. Bush as President of the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Tageszeitung
flvegan
(64,389 posts)Bush, Cheney, et al deserve the biggest pile of blame here, but come on. Our current dem VP and likely next dem president voted for it too.
And to the thinking impaired, no, I'm not equating Biden nor Clinton with Bush.
Mission accomplished, indeed.