Why I Am An Ex-Republican, Reason # 1,463 (The Sanford Edition)

1,463) I can keep my cock in my pocket.

Comments

[PeterUK]

If the doll isn't sufficient Marky, stimulate yourself with this.

[markg8]

Over 800 signatures on 54 pages of petitions so far supporting a strong public health care option in one weekend at our booth. You do anything productive this weekend Petey?

[PeterUK]

Nice to see socialism at work,another booth another petition,I hope you had a tip jar Marky.

[shrubnose]

I am going to wait until the movie ( " The Governor Sanford Saga - Part One - Taking Care of Business in Argentina" ) comes out to form my opinion on all this. I hear the 1st scene goes something like this : Governor Sanford - "Maria darling, I love you more than life itself, however, out of respect for the taxpayers in South Carolina, I must keep this entirely professional, appropriate and business-like. So, drop them drawers and lets get down to business. I am on the taxpayer's dime here and I must make sure they get their money's worth !" .....CUT, and fade to black with heavy panting sounds in background....I wonder how this movie ends. Any ideas ?

[markg8]

Sometimes I hate being right. This is something I posted in essentially the same form all over the wingnutosphere a couple of years ago. This particular post is from Blue Crab Boulevard:

By markg8, May 16, 2007 @ 2:47 pm

Once again it’s not patriotic to leave our soldiers in Iraq to fight and die for a Shiite theocracy. That’s the “victory” we’re winning. Whether this president or the next withdraws from Iraq there will be dancing in the streets of Baghdad. Shiites and Sunnis alike will celebrate their “victory” over the occupiers. As soon as the aid money buyoffs run out the stooges who run the country, whether it’s Maliki or another set of Iranian backed goons will start making public anti-American pronouncements in order to hang onto their phony baloney jobs or just to keep themselves from being strung up from lamp posts. They’ll tear up that godawful hydrocarbon law forced down their throats by Cheney in a New York minute.

Why would they be so ungrateful? First of all because they’re Arabs and live in the ME. The US has been getting bad press in those parts for decades. Secondly because Bush 1 told them to overthrow Saddam in 1991 and then had coalition soldiers stand idly by, sometimes as Republican Guard troops moved right through their ranks to massacre them. Then we sanctioned the whole country into the poorhouse for over a decade for Saddam’s sins. Now we’ve invaded, occupied and destroyed their country. We locked them up without trial and in some cases without even writing down their names and then tortured them. 4 million are displaced. 2 million outside the country. Probably a million have died. 53% in the last poll said they have a close friend or family member who has been killed or wounded by the violence. 60% are out of work. 70% think it’s ok to kill American soldiers.

Bush knows what the reaction will be when we leave and it’s why he doesn’t want withdrawal to happen under his watch. If he can just hang on til January ‘09 he can get someone else to take the fall. Someone else will be left holding the bag. It’s been his modus operandi his whole life.

There is no reason to believe that our troops are providing much if any security in the country to anybody but the fatcat Iraqi politicians in the Green Zone. As General Odom says it’s gotten worse every year we’ve been there. 69% of Iraqis say coalition troops make the security situation worse, not better. The majority of Iraqis say even though a US pullout might lead to a shorterm spike in violence they want us to leave.

From the WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR2009062901712.html?nav=rss_nation/special

By Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

BAGHDAD, June 29 -- Iraqis danced in the streets and set off fireworks Monday in impromptu celebrations of a pivotal moment in their nation's troubled history: As of Tuesday, this is no longer America's war.
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"Out, America, out!" a group of sweat-drenched young men chanted Monday at a Baghdad park as the sun was setting. They jumped up and down to the deafening beat of drums and the wail of horns.

Across town, the virtual absence of American troops and helicopters, the cheerfulness of Iraqis in military uniform, and the cries of joy gave this scarred, bunkered capital a rare carnival-like atmosphere. Iraqi police and army cars were decked with ribbons, balloons, plastic flowers and new flags. A few Baghdadis drove under the sweltering midday sun honking horns as passengers hung out the windows waving flags and yelling euphorically.

In Basra, the sentiment was inscribed on walls with spray paint: "No No Americans." Another graffiti artist instructed: "Pull your troops from our Basra, we are its sons and want its sovereignty."
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At the Zawra Park celebration, one of the largest in the country on Monday, revelers sang songs popular during the war between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s.

"To the front lines we go," they sang. "Our bullets in our magazines."

Then, spraying water from bottles at the crowd, they began chanting: "America has left! Baghdad is victorious!"
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As Americans adapt to the vaguely defined terms of the security agreement that set June 30 as the deadline for soldiers to leave the cities, there is little talk among U.S. commanders and diplomats of engineering a victory in the 2 1/2 years they expect to remain here.

Some officials have begun saying privately that the best-case scenario would be to depart with a "modicum of dignity."

Doing so will mean contending with a resilient insurgency, volatile politics and a growing assertiveness among Iraqis whose patience with the U.S. presence long ago wore thin.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the cities a "great victory." He has not mentioned the thousands of U.S. lives lost in Iraq, or the billions of American tax dollars spent here.

And yeah guys, it's all George Bush's fault.

[PeterUK]

But is happening on Obama's watch. Hope and Change - Humiliation and Defeat.

[Eric Blair]

Petey speaks truth. It's like Vietnam. Nixon didn't start that war, but he sure as shit got blamed for it.

[markg8]

So Nixon was the antiwar candidate in 1968 eh? Try again Eric.

Nixon and Kissinger told Thieu to reject LBJ's peace plan in at the Paris Peace talks in October 1968 with promises Tricky Dick would get him a better deal after the election. In 1973 Nixon took the same deal LBJ had in 1968, and Kissinger declared "peace with honor". Two years later South Vietnam collapsed. Last I heard Thieu was living in London and Key bought a Holiday Inn in San Diego. $10 billion dollars in US aid to South Vietnam was never accounted for.

[markg8]

For those not as crazy or demented as Peter and Eric I give you this. The Iraqis have their June 30th, we have our July 4th. I'm sure a couple hundred years ago our young country, still a few years away from the War of 1812 was celebrating our victory over our oppressors the British in 1783.

I suggest in 13 months when we get the hell out for good we shake their hands, tell 'em they were the toughest bastards we fought since the Nazis or the Vietnamese or some such shit and then ask if they want to trade some oil for fine American made solar panels.

Through out our history, even after the revolution, despite our differences, the Brits were the biggest foreign investors in the USA. They lent the money to build the railroads, steel mills and foundries. There's no reason why we can't have the same kind of relationship with the Iraqis. We're intimates now, born of a shared fiasco and sacrifices of blood and treasure whether we like it or not.

It behooves us all, to try to make something good of those sacrifices that were made by so many on both sides. We do that and maybe we can salvage something more than a modicum of dignity which is all our military is looking for now.

[PeterUK]

"And the winner of the George W.Bush lookalike competition is ---Barrack Hussein Obama.

Sacrifice, Dignity,WTF do YOU know about that?