Shrub is as clueless as always...! Several articles I found today seem to highlight the hypocrisy and lame duck status he has mired himself and the US in...

This recent Pravda Op-Ed is a good example...

Mr. Bush, Enough!!

So you have the colossal audacity, Mr. Bush, to “warn” Russia to pull back? As the wanton, perverse war criminal under whose watch the world saw the crime known as “shock and awe” committed, I’d say you were well out of your mind to suggest that Russia should pull back.

What’s a little shock and awe among inferior people we want to rob and destroy, eh?

What do human beings need an infrastructure for?

Why do they need clean water? Why do they need electricity?

What’s a little torture?

What’s a little regime change? Don’t recall when that was a goal of yours?

What’s a little deviant, perverted sexual experimentation and humiliation?

What’s a few secret detention camps?

What’s wrong with destroying an environment for 4 billion years and generations after generations of people? After all, they’re just rag heads, aren’t they Mr. Bush?

Perhaps when Russia even begins to match your tremendous feats of glory can you speak about pulling back you fool of the worst kind.

You can also tell your number two man to shut up. Cheney said "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the United States."

So how do you plan to answer this erroneously termed “aggression”? He says this will “worsen” relations with the United States? Buddy, relations with the United States could hardly be any worse than they are now.

That's calling a spade a spade, IMHO!

It seems that even Maliki is merely waiting out this Maladministration's ministrations on the SOFA negotiations...

Iraq not bound by timeline on long-term agreement with U.S--spokesman

Iraqi government spokesman on Sunday his country is not bound by a timeline to sign the long-term security agreement with the U.S.

Speaking at a press conference in Baghdad, Ali al-Dabagh, spokesman for the Iraqi government, said “ongoing negotiations with the U.S looked for a mandate for its troops in Iraq in light of potential threats they might face and their relations to the rights of Iraqi individuals”.
U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have been working in fits and starts on a formal Status of Forces Agreement to provide a legal basis for U.S. troops to remain when an U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year.
The Iraqi official reiterated Iraq “is not bound by a timeline to sign the agreement until the coming of next U.S president”.

*ouch* That has to hurt... Poor Dick is getting the shaft too...

The spokesman referred that “six members of the U.S security company Blackwater were flown to Washington to stand for trial on charges of killing 17 Iraqi civilians at al-Nisoor square last September”. The killing of Iraqi civilians by U.S security company at al-Nisoor square last September hardened Iraqi politicians stance on the legal immunity of these companies in Iraq.

Iraqi politician reiterated they would not budge on vetoing the immunity of security companies in Iraq in the deal, while no U.S official commented on this issue”.

I'm sure Tricky Dick is not happy with his private armies being held accountable...!

January 20th, 2009 still seems to be an eternity away...!

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