Squeezed Pimple – Moon of Alabama

June 28, 2005

Squeezed Pimple

When under pressure pimples tend to unload some nasty content.

Not tonight, yet – there is not enough pressure, yet. So the pimple will try to do what pimples always do.

"To squeeze the biggest pimple is unpatriotic as long as there is a any assumed shade of dirt on any other place."

Leave your notes on Bush’s speech here – I´ll be sound asleep when that sorry show will take place. If it’s worth a word, I`ll comment tomorrow.

Posted by b on June 28, 2005 at 20:34 UTC | Permalink

Comments

“We are fighting against men with blind hatred – and armed with lethal weapons – who are capable of any atrocity.”
Pot Kettle Black
BTW: Who gave them lethal weapons?

Posted by: Friendly Fire | Jun 28 2005 21:42 utc | 1

Here’s a handy reference guide to this sort of speech:
http://www.historycentral.com/documents/LBJnotrun.html

Posted by: maxcrat | Jun 28 2005 23:44 utc | 2

“they failed to stop democracy, they failed to stop, etc., advance to freedom…”
honestly, I thought “they” was the US, ass he talked along there.

Posted by: slothrop | Jun 29 2005 0:10 utc | 3

@Sloth:
Now we are on Afghanistan.
What bullshit!!!

Posted by: FlashHarry | Jun 29 2005 0:15 utc | 4

nukyular, nukyular
Entrusted to us? Says who?

Posted by: gmac | Jun 29 2005 0:28 utc | 5

oh, the emotion, heartfelt.
the veiled threat: bombings done for the benefit of cameras, fly the flag, kiss a marine.
and most despicable: no higher calling than to serve…and then the misty eyes.
one frisson of contentment for me: that he may suffer psychological pain, like lbj on the ranch with his little pony tail.
probably not.
Terry Moran: tool.

Posted by: slothrop | Jun 29 2005 0:33 utc | 6

mort kondracke: an extraordinary speech of strategic vision.
New Fox war slogan: War on Terror: It’s Hard!

Posted by: slothrop | Jun 29 2005 0:36 utc | 7

Why can’t I post? spammer comment?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jun 29 2005 0:44 utc | 8

he reminds me of nothing so much as little dr joseph goebbels dragging his leg to the lectern at the sportpalzt & calling for total war

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Jun 29 2005 0:59 utc | 9

I quit listening when he said “if our commanders ask for more troops, they will get more troops.”
That should make for an interesting Billmon post later tonight. I’ll start — Ny Times:
Among fighting units in the war’s badlands — in Falluja and Ramadi, in Haditha and Qaim, in Mosul and Tal Afar — complaints about force levels are the talk of officers and enlisted personnel alike…. [A] feeling is growing among senior officers in Baghdad and Washington that it is only a matter of time before the Pentagon sets a timetable of its own for withdrawal.

Posted by: Vin Carreo | Jun 29 2005 1:17 utc | 10

Too little too late,
Team Clinton they are not. What we have listened to tonight is kick off to a mid summer ad campaign being rolled out around the 4th of July. The problem is the product. It was oversold and can’t deliver. No amount of lipstick on this pig is going to change the trend.
The British have helped bring a little more military policy realism to the control room, but Iraq is not a just a military problem. The problem starts with our leadership team, who has demonstrated repeatedly that they are both unwilling and incapable of dealing with reality.
No serious change is possible without a change in executive leadership. Team Bush has single handledly pushed, bullied, and intimidated their way off the edge of the cliff. The Team bush core, their backers, and thier advisors need to be removed from office, because they have now clearly chosen the advancement of their own person, at the expense of party and nation. Impeachment remains the cheapest option. As the debts from Team Bush’s bad gamble continue to pile up, the bill remains due and more glaringly unpaid.
Smart Republicans and Dem war hawks, should be actively outreaching at this time, forgiveness remains the core attribute that keeps this nation together. Even in an impeachment mode the best parts of April 1865, remain a viable and expandable template. General Lee is still honored NATIONWIDE for his end war and post war nobility.

Posted by: patience | Jun 29 2005 1:20 utc | 11

rgiap,
He couldn’t pull off a Goebbels no matter the rehearsal. I will say he has been trained to read the prompter fairly well, EXCEPT for the biting of tongue. This happens when he knows he is lying, which is most of the time (lots of tongue-biting). In other periods he thinks mebbe he is telling a truth, so less tongue-biting. All of it is disgusting beyond description.
Tonight during Dub’s presentation I only thought, “Migod, he is saying this for the world, and he expects that his audience will listen, and take him at his word. Now that is truly sick.”
Mind, I don’t watch TV any more, and especially not a presidential address – I had trouble keeping my dinner down til the end.

Posted by: rapt | Jun 29 2005 1:28 utc | 12

Billmon’s “Same old same old” (which will appear her soon no doubt!)provides more that it professes to. The change in rhetoric that he highlights — acknowledging “insurgents” vs “they’re all terrorists” may well portend the future shift in shifting ground. I.e., Bush bows to the realities of having to get the troops out, in major part, but does so under the cover of accommodation with the insurgents, probably with a front group of Iraqi pols who do the deal. Hey, we never dealt with terroists! Right? Plausible deniability; isn’t that what they used to call it in the bad old days?

Posted by: DonS | Jun 29 2005 1:37 utc | 13

It’s like groundhog day all over again. and again, and again, and again.

Posted by: anna missed | Jun 29 2005 1:39 utc | 14

there is no way in hell they’re going to ‘slowly withdraw troops.’ no way.

Posted by: slothrop | Jun 29 2005 1:39 utc | 15

I was busy in my garden and didn’t watch the chimp. And, I feel much better for it.
It does make me feel good that he had to give the speech because he sure is losing support.

Posted by: jdp | Jun 29 2005 1:51 utc | 16

No, the troops will have to go all at once, quickly. The leadership will not allow for anything more practical and realistic.

Posted by: ab | Jun 29 2005 1:52 utc | 17

euuwww, Bernhard…
didn’t see the speech either. why bother, except… just read that Moran (ABC) and Fox and NBC are all reporting that the Bush advance team started applause for resident Bush.
Canned applause, in other words.
Seems like the military knows he has no idea what he’s doing…except, no doubt, for those who are true believers in the bar-b-que d’armeggedon. That’s surely the most of the 38% who still support the Chimp. Bedtime for Bonzo, as Reagan would say, just before he’d say he had no idea the current junta was trading arms for hostages and helping to run cocaine into the U.S. to fund that illegal “freedom fight” too.
This is, of course, a dangerous time in the U.S., if the Bush junta is truly capable of their ends/means evil…and sadly I do think they’re capable…you don’t fight to have such power to play nice.
I’ll watch the highlights on Democracy Now! tomorrow.

Posted by: fauxreal | Jun 29 2005 2:16 utc | 18

You missed nothing jdp, as if I had to tell you that. His handlers wrote the speech and he dutifully read it. As I said above it is sick sick sick, because he/they have NOTHING new to say; only more of the old bullshit piled on deeper, thicker.
They are out of ideas, not that they had any worth presenting in the first place four years ago. (You’d think somebody might have come up with some better excuses by now).
The game is over. I sort of thought Rove might come up with something new to keep up the ruse tonight but he didn’t. I look forward to Int’l war crimes trials; there are no more hidey holes.

Posted by: rapt | Jun 29 2005 2:18 utc | 19

Hmm. The write-up by David Sanger in the NYT contains the following Bush quote set off in a paragraph by itself:
“When the history of this period is written,” he said, “the liberation of Afghanistan and the liberation of Iraq will be remembered as great turning points in the story of freedom.”
I know this is piling on, but … deadpan humour? The President speaks; you decide.

Posted by: Jassalasca Jape | Jun 29 2005 2:31 utc | 20

First time I actually tried to listen to Chimpo. I lasted til a few mins. after he said ~I’ll tell you why we’re there(in Iraq.)…blah..blah..soap bubbles..more bubbles…terra…rebuilding…training…Enough already.
Was there any content at all? Seriously, folks, did he say something & I missed it, or was it all ballon food?
Whose idea was it to dump Country Club bartender in the Oval Office anyway?

Posted by: jj | Jun 29 2005 3:05 utc | 21

I think Billmon’s nailed it. The rest of the speech was just boilerplate; the point was to lever an ideological opening for “negotiating with insurgents” who are now carefully distinguished from “terrorists.” And no I didn’t watch it — don’t get b’cast TV and besides would prefer to keep my dinner where it belongs, once ingested. Excerpts online are enough. ugh. The clunkiness of his speechwriters! Oughta be typeset in Fraktur.

Posted by: DeAnander | Jun 29 2005 3:19 utc | 22

I think the constant pairing of insurgents and terrorists isn’t to add a fourth party that the Bushies can justifying negotiating with. I think Commander Cuckoo Bananas is trying to make insurgents and terrorists into the same thing. Most mainstream media reporting on the war refer to the fighting in Iraq from “insurgents. Bush is just trying to get most Americans to hear “terrorist” when the media reports “insurgents.”
I don’t think Bush has an exit plan. I hope I’m wrong. I’ll accept even the most two-faced, lying exit plan—-as long as it gets US troops out of Iraq. There is no “Win” there. That’s why I wanna scream every time I hear Edward Kennedy or Harry Reid or whoever talk about how we must now “win” in Iraq.
Speaking of Democrats, supposedly afterwards, while doing the post-speech spin for the some show, Sen. Joe Biden gave the president a “Big thumbs up” for “levelling” with the American people. God, I ‘ve hated Biden him ever since he brought us Clarence Thomas. The man’s pathetic.
In fact, I wish he’d get together with Tom Friedman and Joe Lieberman for a three-way. Talk about a trio that deserve each other.
Glad the soldiers weren’t whooping it up behind Bush. Of course, I didn’t watch the speech, so I’m just repeating what I’ve heard in the blogosphere. Purple Hearts to all who could stomach watching the speech!

Posted by: Midwest Meg | Jun 29 2005 3:24 utc | 23

just read that Moran (ABC) and Fox and NBC are all reporting that the Bush advance team started applause for resident Bush.

Well, here’s how the New Pravda is playing that:
They need not have worried. Rather than interrupt the president with applause, the soldiers sat silently in green uniforms and maroon berets, until Mr. Bush, well into his speech, declared, “We will stay in the fight until the fight is won.” Then they clapped, the only applause he received until the end of his address.
LOL. They didn’t want to interrupt him, you see.
This may have seemed like the worse kind of warmed over verbal diarrhea served up at a carny sideshow — and of course, that’s exactly what it was. But it also went out on all three networks and the cable kindergarten news channels. And it had all those butch young soldiers in it. And the non-applause lines will be endlessly repeated on the tube for the next 24-48 hours. That means it will have an effect — a kind of hypnotic brainwashing effect, like poor Raymond in the Manchurian Candidate (“Why don’t you play a little solitaire to help you pass the time?”)
Fortunately, though, it will wear off, and probably fairly quickly. Left to their own devices, TV brainwashing victims are easily distracted by the odd missing-pretty-white-woman story or what have you. Then the next thing you know they’re watching some clip of people being blown up in Baghdad, or talking to some neighbor whose son just came home in a box. And it shorts out the mechanism, or at least weakens it.
What the Rovians really need is the ability to work on their subjects in small groups — like in the “gardening club” scene from the Manchurian Candidate. Or, they need the same 24/7 broadcast capability that Big Brother had. But yhey just aren’t there yet.
The only thing to do now is be patient and wait for the effects to wear off. Shouldn’t take more than a week, I think. Maybe less.

Posted by: Billmon | Jun 29 2005 3:39 utc | 24

“Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying and the suffering is real,” Bush said, according to excerpts released ahead of time by the White House. “It is worth it.”
You’re damn tootin’! WOOHOO!
http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/c/2y/h/hal

Posted by: Jimmy Jazz | Jun 29 2005 3:55 utc | 25

And letttttt’s try that link again.
Link

Posted by: Jimmy Jazz | Jun 29 2005 3:57 utc | 26

Germany Engineers help America Explains what happened on 9-11-2001

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jun 29 2005 5:02 utc | 27

Quote:
Whose idea was it to dump Country Club bartender in the Oval Office anyway?
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jj I love how you think…good one really, hahaha.
Quote:
…Then the next thing you know they’re watching some clip of people being blown up in Baghdad, or talking to some neighbor whose son just came home in a box.
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The only thing to do now is be patient and wait for the effects to wear off. Shouldn’t take more than a week, I think. Maybe less.
***
So right The game is over but it still will take a lot of lives and destruction until it’s really over in a sense that make any difference…if you know what I mean…But yes it’s kind of “the beginning of the end”.

Posted by: vbo | Jun 29 2005 5:34 utc | 28

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