Bush & World War III ... Remember This Old Joke?

Bush and Powell Plan World War III

Bush and Powell were sitting in a bar. A guy walked in and asked the barman, "Isn't that Bush and Powell?"

The barman said, "Yep, that's them."

So the guy walked over and said, "Hello. What are you guys doing?"

Bush said, "We're planning World War III."

The guy asked, "Really? What's going to happen?"

Bush said, "Well, we're going to kill 10 million Iraqis and one bicycle repairman."

The guy exclaimed, "Why are you gonna kill a bicycle repairman?!"

Bush turned to Powell and said, "See, I told you no one would worry about the 10 million Iraqis!"

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/jokes/bljokebushpowellwar.htm




:nuke:

No health care for kids and world war.

In the first few days, overwhelming American air and naval superiority destroy Iran's principal air, naval, and army bases. Iranian Revolutionary Guard facilities are particularly targeted and are obliterated, as are the known Iranian nuclear research and development sites. Population centers are avoided, though smart weapons destroy communications centers and command and control facilities. There are nevertheless large numbers of civilian casualties and widespread radioactive contamination as many of the targeted sites are in or near cities. Infrastructure is also hit, particularly bridges, roads, and power generation stations close to known nuclear research centers and military sites. The U.S. media, which had supported the administration's plans to engage Iran, rallies around the flag, praising the surgical attacks designed to cripple Tehran's nuclear weapons program. Congress supports the bombing, with leaders from both parties praising the president and commenting that Iran had it coming.

The Pentagon and White House call the attacks a complete success, but Iran strikes back. With five years to prepare, Iran has successfully hidden and hardened many of its military and nuclear facilities, a large percentage of which are undamaged. The aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower operating in the Persian Gulf is hit by a Chinese Silkworm cruise missile and grounds itself in shallow water to avoid sinking. Three other support vessels are also hit and severely damaged when they are attacked by small craft manned by suicide bombers. Pro-Iranian riots break out in Beirut, where the government is forced to call in soldiers to shoot at the crowds. In the south of Lebanon, Hezbollah fires salvoes of rockets into Israel. Israel responds by bombing Lebanon and Syria, which it blames for the attacks. Iranian Shahab-3 missiles also strike Israel, killing a number of civilians. The Israeli Defense Forces are mobilized, and troops are sent to the northern border. Syria and Lebanon also mobilize their forces. Rioters in Baghdad attack US. .troops and the American embassy and are driven back only after the soldiers open fire and call in helicopter gunships. Snipers attack American soldiers all over Iraq. Shi'ites sympathetic to Iran sabotage Saudi Arabia's eastern oil fields. The Saudi fields suffer some damage, and hundreds of alleged saboteurs are shot dead by Saudi security forces. An oil tanker out of Kuwait is hit by a Silkworm close to the Straits of Hormuz and runs aground. Another hits a mine planted by Iran. Insurers in London refuse to cover any tankers transiting the Persian Gulf. Oil shipments from the region, one quarter of the world supply, stop completely, and oil goes up to $200 a barrel. Wall Street suffers its biggest loss in 20 years, with the Dow Jones index plummeting by more than 800 points.

continues - http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=11666

anti-terrorism czar, Condi Rice actually put him in charge of running things in the bunker under or near the White House. He wrote a book called "Against All Enemies" about 9/11.

The title of his novel is "Scorpion's Gate," or at least those words are in the title. He says he wrote it "because sometimes you can tell more truth with fiction." It starts off with Saudi Arabia having run off all the princes and changed its name to Islamayad, IIRC, involves good guys trying to set up a good government there but facing a power struggle with fundamentalist militants, and meanwhile Iran's Qods force is getting involved plus a rookie in anti-terrorism in D.C. happens to notice something odd on a satellite photo of Iranian desert, takes it to her boss, and they immediately start investigating further. Yep, it's nukes buried in the desert. The Chinese are involved, allied with the Iranians. Not a bad novel for a first effort. I might read it again while waiting to see what's going to happen in the real world. After living through all the Cold War, I'm really not happy about all that's transpired since November 2000. I like peace and civility better.

Hitler said to reassure his officers that they could get away with killing Jews:

"After all, who remembers the Armenian extermination."

This week, the US Congress did, and they got trashed for wasting everyone's time.

None.

Republickers don't screw in lightbulbs... they screw in mens' rooms!

But HOW?!?







(Hey, when you make 'em this easy, you leave me no choice.) :D

mindset..do ya think ol' Powell has come around to having a conscience since then?

Count Powell among the surge skeptics

“You can surge all of the American troops you want, but they can’t stop this. Suppose I’m a battalion commander. My troops ask, ‘What do I do today, boss?’ ‘Let’s go fight the Shia militias!’ ‘What do I do tomorrow?’ 'Let’s go fight the Sunni insurgents!’ ‘What do I do the day after tomorrow?’ ‘Let’s go chase al-Qaida!’ ‘What do we do the day after that?’ ‘We’re going to guard streets!’ Our kids are fantastic. But this is not sustainable. Our surge can work only with an Iraqi political and military surge.”

http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2007/09/count-powell-am.html

in and bomb Iraq from the very beginning and nothing they do or can do will change that. Lots of intelligent people knew it was Doomed from the start.

:kick:

some others he'd associated with. He's so right. In military terms, it's a complete clusterfuck over there.

the 24% AWOL decider & his darth want to create (and will create if nobody stops their crazy dream...) next door. :nuke:

OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL (THAT'S ALL THEY DREAM OF) OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL :grr:

so the next one should be WWV, not WWIII

Podhoretz asserts that the War on Terror is a war against "Islamofascism", and constitutes World War IV (World War III having been the Cold War), and advocates the bombing of Iran to pre-empt their acquisition of nuclear weapons.<4> His book on that subject, entitled World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, was published by Doubleday on 11 September 2007.

Your president giggled and grinned while discussing World War III today.

"But this -- we got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III , it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

To the rest of the known world, however, World War III a scary thing. It's just below abortion and above rape on the list of the all time unfunniest topics.

Let's break it down.

1. Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon, and if they ever developed one, they'd be smart enough to know (despite how we caricaturize Ahmadinejad) that using it would invite their own destruction a thousand times over. Thus, there is no Iranian nuclear threat.

2. Yet the administration is drawing up plans to illegally and preemptively attack anyway, based on the lie that Iran is a nuclear threat.

Read the rest at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/world-war-iii-is-going-to_b_68914.html

Rachel Maddow: Bush says 'World War III is worth starting' over Iran

David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Published: Thursday October 18, 2007

While acknowledging that "the administration totally lacks credibility for taking the country to war yet again," Smerconish insisted that "I think historically when the country feels imperiled, the Republican Party benefits. ... It helps the GOP in the '08 cycle."

Maddow responded, "This is good for the country, to know that if you vote for a Republican candidate for president, you are voting for a war with Iran."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Rachel_Maddow_Bush_says_World_War_1018.html