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Thursday, January 20, 2005
Condi Rice sure seems to be a glutton for punishment.
Having been one of the main architects of the President's foriegn policy as National Security Advisor she is now ready to step forward and become the Secretary of State. That means essentially she can now try and persuade the rest of the world that our foriegn policy really isn't as stupid as they think it is.
She can do this by convincing them that they are no longer as stupid as she once thought they were now that she has her new title. I'm sure they will be impressed.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 10:31 PM EST
Updated: Friday, January 28, 2005 12:31 AM EST
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Having won his first election to the White House by an underwhelming margin the President is already sending clues about his exit strategies from Iraq and Afghanistan. Seems they've finally figured out you can get just about three years out of an invasion before it all goes belly up and people start asking questions. So let's hold elections, declare a democracy or two and then get the troops out and off to a new country.... or two.
And wouldn't you know, Fate has placed Syria and Iran on the opposite sides of Iraq and given one Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction" and the other the potential to build them, which is all you need these days to "shock and awe" your way into democratizing somebody else's country. How convenient.
And we can still save China and Korea for Jeb in four years. Sounds like a plan to me.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 1:13 AM EST
Friday, January 7, 2005
According to the latest numbers the President won the vast majority of Evangelical Christians in the last election. And those same numbers say they equal about 40% of the electorate. For those that are not enlightened, Evanglicals pretty much believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible and many believe Armageddon is right around the corner.
I've done some reading and calculating on this and according to the Good Book when those "end times" come there's supposed to be 144,000 that are good enough for saving. Everyone else is an also ran.
That means we've got a disappointment of biblical proportions in the works when the 40 million folks who all think they got a ticket show up for those 144,000 seats only to find they've overbooked.
And with only two destinations available, a free ticket to anywhere else isn't an option.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 2:58 PM EST
Updated: Saturday, January 8, 2005 9:24 AM EST
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
The President took a few hits again for being "cheap" for only giving $15 million dollars in US aid to the tsunami victims in Asia. So he upped it to $35 million by adding in another $20 million in other peoples (agency) money that was probably not his to add. Now we're told that we will be giving $350 million of someones money in the future. Maybe it's the vice-President's money? It can't be our money because all of ours is already borrowed and spent several times over which is why we don't have any.
Meanwhile the rest of the world is in a bidding war to see who can pledge the most future money they don't have now for the folks that needed it yesterday.
Now you know why "talk is cheap".
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 9:59 AM EST
Updated: Friday, January 7, 2005 11:03 AM EST
Thursday, December 30, 2004
While we have been focused on the Banana dictatorships of the Middle East and Iraq in particular, the 800 pound gorilla of the Far East has been laying the groundwork for its coming changes of fortune.
China is about to bypass Japan as the 3rd most powerful economic power in the world, second only to the US and Germany.
With people+, our knowhow and money, increasing market share and an ever increasing monopoly on manufacturing along with the ability to defend it, they are a force to be reconed with.
Fortunately the President has a secret plan if China becomes too big a problem. We will simply invade them with our spare troops because they actually admit they do have WMD's, however the President has pledged to show restraint and the invasion will remain on hold pending the arrival of the latest supply of helmets, bullets and body armor from China.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 9:42 AM EST
Updated: Thursday, December 30, 2004 9:47 AM EST
Monday, December 27, 2004
We don't seem to hear much on the news about the upcoming elections in Iraq except that they are going to happen at the end of January and a lot of people, except for the President, think they shouldn't.
Nobody seems to know who the candidates are or what they are proposing (probably a good way to avoid getting shot) but with 60% of the country being Shiite this is not going to be a hard call.
Anybody given any thought to what we are going to do when the new Shiite government suggests we start packing and cozies up to Iran. Anybody mention which side we are going to take when the Sunni's and the Kurds start shooting the members of their newly elected government. Anybody going to take up a collection when the new government asks us for more aid or better yet war reparations?
Guess not.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 11:01 AM EST
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
We learned yesterday that the President actually has a plan for Iraq after all. Apparently it has been a secret. In that way it is different from Richard Nixon's secret plan to end the Vietnam War. That one was a secret plan. President Nixon told us it was a secret plan. President Bush's plan is an even better secret plan. It has been a "secret" secret plan.
In Nixon's plan we found out after his 1968 election that we were going to get out of Vietnam by turning all of the fighting over to the Vietnamese Army. "Vietnamization" he called it. After seven years of his plan we turned the fighting over to the South Vietnamese. They ran and we left Vietnam.....quickly. Plan worked.
In President Bush's "Iraqitization" Plan we are going to turn the fighting over to the Iraqi's and then we can leave and because they are already running it looks like this plan will work even better.
Just goes to show that great minds run in the same circles.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 10:57 AM EST
Updated: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 1:06 PM EST
Monday, December 20, 2004
Seventy people blown up in Iraq yesterday. Three bodyguards and an election official were hauled out of their car in the middle of the street and executed. Ten Iraqi employees of an American company were abducted and are still missing.
We're not even to the election yet and they claim it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Maybe it's time for a new approach. Maybe we should do something we haven't tried up to this point. Maybe we should make.............. a plan.
I know it's novel. We haven't tried it in Iraq before but plans do have a history of working on occasion. All we need is someone in the administration with planning experience, a knack for winning difficult elections at all costs and someone who we all believe should go to Iraq and carry out ..........a "plan".
Let's send Karl Rove!
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 9:17 AM EST
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld continues to take his hits over our Iraq policy. The latest flap is over his not personally signing letters to families of fallen soldiers. He prefers to let a computer do it.
However, he still enjoys the absolute confidence of the President and there is no doubt he will stay on. After all, if Rumsield leaves, who is left to blame?
Think about it.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 6:15 PM EST
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Well it was bound to happen. We've run out of money. The President has said so. He's cutting the budget, especially on domestic spending.
Seems he's finally learned Basic Math and was astonished to discover that when the numbers going out consistently exceed the numbers coming in, eventually you run out of numbers to play with.
Fortunately his friends in business who financed his campaign last month when the President pronounced that the "numbers were good" won't have that problem 'cause that's where the numbers going out went.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 9:22 AM EST
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