bush's meeting with 'the Adults' yesterday was just ridiculous

[mopaul]

it's like some bizarre spooky seance scenario, dig up all these old war pig hacks from their graves and assemble them in a room and photograph them with dubya and viola--see? see america? bush is reaching out to sage experts to give his war a purpose other than slaughter for fun and profit.

my favorite part was afterwards, at the podium outside, laurence eagleburger, the old reagan warpig, standing on crutches and smoking a camel non filter said that the president simply needed to go out in front of the american people and explain himself more, AS IF?

it was pathetic, and it backfired as one of dubya's famous photo ops. pathetic and spookily surreal. it really was a perfect vision of desperation in the bunker. nothing was learned, nothing gained, no ground covered, no changes made, it was an empty gesture, which is one of the things these fuckers excel at.



From left to right are former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, former Secretary of State James Baker, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State George Schultz, former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, former Secretary of Defense William Perry and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Theatre of the absurd - you just KNOW he won't listen...

...to one goddamn thing they suggested.

I hope that some of the more honorable participants come forth and admit the meeting was a mere political ploy.

On Edit: Here's an account of what took place yesterday from the NYT (via Crooksandliars.com):

<snip>
Colin Powell said nothing - a silence that spoke volumes to many in the White House today. His predecessor, Madeleine Albright, was a bit riled after hearing an exceedingly upbeat 40-minute briefing to 13 living former secretaries of state and defense about how well things are going in Iraq. Saying the war in Iraq was "taking up all the energy" of President Bush's foreign policy team, she asked Mr. t Bush whether he had let nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea spin out of control, and Latin America and China policy suffer by benign neglect.

"I can't let this comment stand," Mr. Bush shot back, telling Ms. Albright and the rare assembly of her colleagues, who reached back to the Kennedy White House, that his administration "can do more than one thing at a time.-- But if it was a bipartisan consultation, as advertised by the White House, it was a brief one. Mr. Bush allowed 5 to 10 minutes this morning for interchange with the group...
</snip>

[w13rd0]

10. 5-10 minutes?

That's not a consultation, that's a drive-by. Hell, I think Bush has had at least that much time spent in deep contemplation of the consultation he gets from "we the people", and that's not very much at all. He might have turned on a news program by accident on a couple of occassions and heard a glimmer of dissapproval. Truly, the BubbleBoy pResident...

[mopaul]

11. their time is so expensive and precious that 10 min. is all they can spare

[acmavm]

2. No different than anything else bush** has touched these last five years.

Cuts the funding for levee repair, viola Katrina.

Cut the funding for mining inspections and safety enforcement, viola the great Sago mining disaster of 2006.

Cuts the funding and research into pollution and viola, polar bears are drowning (although that's not all the fault of the US).

Anything he touches turns to shit.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. WTF did they do with the furniture

I mean you invite all these people to the Oval Office and you don't even have chair for them to sit in? That makes for a real comfortable meeting, not.

[kcwayne]

4. Nice pic of a bunch of white guys, Condi included

[Skittles]

12. good one, kcwayne

that woman just sickens me

[speedoo]

13. Yeah, Powell too.

Funny, I was watching a Comedy Central tribute to Richard Pryor last night.

What a contrast in lives, huh?

[mopaul]

14. yeah, i though colin had turned his back on these fuckers, guess not

he never had any integrity, despite the legend.

[teryang]

5. The higher up you go, the less knowledge there is

Jon Stewart last night interviewing the author of Assassins Gate.

[Missy M]

6. Bush is as empty as his desk. With all those people....

assembled they should have met for a week minimum, to get anywhere. Then again, the majority of them were Republican war hawks so they probably agreed with him on everything. What a farce!!!!

[slor]

7. And that prick Lawrence beagleburger talking about Osama...

and how his ears "prick up" when he hears us discussing withdrawal. You fucker, his ears "pricked up" when he hear that we were going to war in Iraq. Hell, his ears probably "pricked up" when the chimp stole 2000, thinking "wow, they put that idiot in charge?".

[leftchick]

8. Cohen was on my TV yesterday

he said how wonderful the meeting went. How they accomplished a lot. WTF? They are all fucking Liars. INSANE Liars. :grr:

[xchrom]

9. not one of those people gatheres there would truly present an alternative

i.e. a peaceful one.

not one.

this was the status quo with some minor twists on a theme.

the ONLY thing that is refreshing is that there women among these powerful men.

now if only we had some real sane, rational people in there i might be impressed.

[HughBeaumont]

15. Where's a firing squad when you need one?

Hey, we're a third world dictatorship and currently wipe our asses with the Constitution, so why not act the part?

[mopaul]

16. any last words?

what a great idea! what a lost opportunity.

[lostnfound]

17. After you've prettied a house so it's ready to sell, take one last picture

dressed in your Sunday best.

Gives me the creeps. Looks like the final days of the American empire, the last bits of facade falling down. About to give up all pretense of democracy and 'State', and reorganize into an outright dictatorship? :hide:

Maybe they are headed for the underground bunker? :nuke: :scared:

Or for they are about to turn the keys over to our debtors the Chinese, who will take over the house, :grr: while the 'cons will abscond to their luxury estates in undisclosed locations? :grr:

Or -- hopefully -- they are finally facing their karma and anticipate many years in jail, where they can keep this photo in their bedside table to remember that one day long ago they were important. :woohoo:

[Sydnie]

18. That rug is really disturbing

Is that NEW? I don't remember seeing any other President's picture in the Oval Office with that rug in it? WTF is the point of that rug? Is it so he can stand in the middle of it and have it appear that all things come from him? Is it to make him appear as if he IS the center of the universe? Did any other President feel the need to have the Presidential seal in his rug to remind him that he IS the President or did they just know it and go on about the job they had to do?

I just don't get that rug and I want it gone. It's distrubing and distrupting and totally over the top. I'm surprised he dodn't make everyone else form a semi circle around him while he stood in the middle of that "sun rug". Gives me the creeps!

[DemonFighterLives]

19. Stupid White Men

dubby spent more time reading "My Pet Goat" than talking to this gang of powerbrokers.
Cheney is comfortable lurking in the shadows and pulling the strings.
By photo opping like this they have all become shills for the corrupt administration and every one of thems' integrity is called into question. Add to this it was the bloodiest day in Iraq since the ""elections"".
:wtf:

[mopaul]

20. yes, this photo was taken on the day that 135 people died in Iraq

chillin'

[DemonFighterLives]

21. And I'll wager a bet that every one of them

stands to profit from the chaos or weapons production or oil or potential future power. The 7 servicemen grew to 9 and these effers smile. :argh: