I get it now: the Death of Zarq, Bush's double-super-secret Baghdad visit

[smoogatz]

it's all timed to counteract the negative press associated with the 2,500 KIA milestone. How much you want to bet they've had Zarq's body on ice for weeks, just waiting for the right moment to thaw his ass out and stick him under some rubble? Never mind that, according to our own generals, less than 10% of the insurgency are foreign al Qaeda fighters. Never mind that the violence in Iraq continues unabated, despite the corporate media's predictable attempt to put the "we've turned the corner" lipstick on the Iraq-war pig yet again. More theater of the absurd, brought to you by Bushco and TV News-o-tainment Corp. Symbolism over Substance R Us.

[dysfunctional press]

1. bingo.

that's where my thinking was at too.

[Vexatious Ape]

2. Yes,

and the corporate media is doing their best to either hide or ignore the fact that BushCo could of nailed Zarq back in 2002, but needed him for propaganda reasons. Saddam is harboring terrorists along with WMD's. Right. Just like Jeb Bush was harboring Mohamed Atta prior to 911.

[smoogatz]

3. Yep--with Cuba controlling the airspace from the border to Gainesville,

and from the Keys to Orlando.

[Vexatious Ape]

5. Seems like a good reason to

invade Cuba to me. Think of all the cigars and rum we could gain by doing so, and more contracts for Hailiburton.

[smoogatz]

8. We'd be greeted as liberators!

Grateful Cubans would stand cheering in the streets, tossing candy and flowers to smiling US troops.

[nashville_brook]

4. not sure about Zarq on Ice -- but your post jibes with this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2680168

i'm wondering how we can ever get back to a world where truth and rationality are expected in public discourse. is it too late? have we turned a corner?

[smoogatz]

7. We turned that corner in 1948, when the Soviets consolidated

their hold on Eastern Europe and the Republicans started to accuse (the late) FDR of having committed treason at Yalta. They're still trying to eradicate FDR from the political landscape. That's all they care about--power, power, power, and returning the country to the "golden age" of 1932, before FDR took office.

[nashville_brook]

13. damn good point!

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. It also marked a shift in rhetoric . You won't hear " Iraq war" anymore

from now on it the "global terror war with a battle being fought in Baghdad".

[TygrBright]

9. Wow. The "GTWWABBFIB!" Kinda gets ya right here....

...dunnit? Chokes me up, I tellya, thinking of all those brave young Americans fighting the GTWWABBFIB.

I imagine it being pronounced something like 'git-wab-fib'. Inspiring phonemes! A grabber if there ever was one, alrighty.

ironically,
Bright

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. Naw, it's just the "the war on terror" for short. No more "Iraq" anything

[Cleita]

10. I think we will have to outlaw the Republican Party first.

According to my reasoning any society or organization that is anti-Constitution should be outlawed for treason, but that's just my thinking. No one else seems to have come to this conclusion.

[Jara sang]

11. Bush has the sheeple believing that EVERY Aye-rab is terrorist.

The sheeple don't mind being lied to when it fits in with their own very narrow, limited world view.