I wonder if they bothered to wake GWB up tonight.

[Raven]

Sharif ( not that he's anyone to write home about)has just been surrounded as he tries to exit his plane in Pakistan (BBC radio report) and there is a new survey out on Iraq which reports that most Iraqis believe that security is worse since the surge, utilities like electricity and water are terrible, and things are generally grim (also BBC radio report just now).

George! Wake up and get out now!

I'm seriously considering buying a gun...I don't like the sound of this.

[Raven]

1. Well, this is a first. I've never replied to my own post but

I'm a little unhindged...we have a nuclear power on the brink of chaos tonight and a report on just how bad a shape Iraq is in on the eve of the heralded Patraeus Report which is really the Bush report which is really the Cheney Report...and we have an idiot in the White House. Not that I have not been aware of that and maybe it's because it's dark and in the middle of the night and I've been rudely awakened by reality but when yours truly starts thinking about aquiring a firearm as Will will attest...it's worth starting to worry. My antenna are up, real trouble coming and an idiot in charge.

[Kool Kitty]

2. Been considering that myself.

Sometimes I feel like the biggest ninny, but this is the most frightened I think I've been since the Cuban Missile Crisis, when I was 10 years old. Very scary times. I'm going to tune the teevee to the BBC World channel and see what they have to say.

[Raven]

3. Thank God you're here! I was beginning to think everyone was

thinking I was crazy...or maybe I WAS crazy. Nothing like being woken up in the middle of the night to this shit but I really don't think it's me, I think we are in a very bad place right now!

Oh, and I also remember the duck and cover routines but being so yound was merciful.

[Kool Kitty]

6. You're not going crazy.

I get the feeling that anything can happen. There is so much going on all at once. And all of it feels so bad. The endless war, the fact that no one in Congress seems willing or able to stop it, what's happening with the economy and the housing troubles (and I keep thinking about winter coming and people losing their homes, are these people going to be out in the cold this winter?), the same old song and dance about Iraq now being framed to start a war with Iran, the nukes that were "mistakenly" loaded on an aircraft and flown over all of us, so many dead and injured soldiers, so many more dead and injured Iraqis that didn't harm us-it's a nightmare. A waking nightmare, unless you are lucky enough to sleep. I find it harder to sleep lately, and I don't think it's just menopause.

And I think what makes me the craziest is that so many people seem not to be paying attention. Not here on DU, but in general. Where is the outrage? With all the fake outrage that is everywhere, where is the REAL outrage over the things that are happening that are of real consequence and in some cases, global consequence? It took a real disaster, Hurricane Katrina, and the administration's woefully inadequate response to wake people up enough to actually take a look at this President and say that he (and all the minions of his administration) really is inept. Even the press seemed to wake up. A little, at least. What happened to the plan to address poverty, which was much-discussed, even by W, after the storm? What did you hear about it, after a couple of weeks. Crickets chirping. What about "doing whatever it took to rebuild"? Same crickets again.

And did you ever think that you would live in an America where torture is allowed? Where the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were considered "quaint"? I could blather on, but you know what I mean.

Scary times aren't just coming, I think they are already here. How can Bush sleep when the rest of us can't bear to close our eyes?

[riverdeep]

12. Well-phrased question

"How can Bush sleep when the rest of us can't bear to close our eyes?"

Answer-He's a sociopath.

[Mojorabbit]

14. Yes it "feels" bad

and that is why I woke up at four am and am sleepless and worrying.

[BostonMa]

4. Well said, Raven!

:thumbsup:

[Raven]

5. Welcome! There have been happier times here but

it is what it is. Where in Boston to you hail from. I lived in Newton and worked in Boston for years.

[Double T]

7. These are difficult and trying times throughout the US and the entire world.

Much of the blame for the chaos and instability in governments, economics, the environments and job markets can be squarely placed right on the doorstep of the WH. You are certainly NOT crazy and our forefathers had the wisdom to include the Second Amendment to the Constitution; "the right of the people to keep and bear arms." Right NOW we've got two crazy men in the WH that desperately need to be impeached and removed from office; until they're gone little can be done. Don't panic, this will work itself out.....I hope!

[Bluebear]

8. Being he was sound asleep by 11pm on 9/11/01 while the nation was sleepless....

...I would not count on it!

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Oh, give him a break, Bluebear!

You know how hard it is to wake up a drunk. ;)

[truthisfreedom]

10. "The Pet Goat" is the sleepiest read I've ever encountered.

[The Count]

19. It's hard work running from harm's way, doncha know...Presidentin' too!

[opihimoimoi]

11. Take Heart.....Good Times are Here Again....just wait till the elections...Landslide for Truth

[Disturbed]

13. Sociopaths sleep quite soundly.

The situation in Pakistan is troubling. There are other countries besides Amerika that may handle that situation. Amerika with Busholini & Cheney in charge is upsetting other countries. The balance of power may shift.

[radfringe]

15. and take a chance of disturbing him while

dreaming of big bucks speechifying after he's out of office?

[snappyturtle]

16. Why would they wake him up? It wouldn't help...imho.

I just turned sixty and I have never seen our nation in such a state. Wish I could fast forward a year or two and see what is happening then. I am almost frozen as to what to do. It is definitely scary times. :hide:

[KharmaTrain]

17. Musharaf Just Keeps Getting The Check

...then sells his good buddy 'meeester booooosh' out and asks for more. Not a bad scam. Hell, booooosh didn't even know who this guy was until 9/11.

Pakistan is the real ticking bomb here...and one with nukes. Ali is still in business with his nuclear lab and I'll bet his phone doesn't stop ringing these days. Musharaf is a dead man walking the day he crosses his military and he knows it.

[The Count]

18. Why? Hadley has all them things written somewhere.....

george can't remember disbanding an army in Iraq!

[Summer93]

20. Re: waking a drunk

Each time * speaks I am reminded of the strategy of the drunk - distract everyone in the room with something they will laugh at. Stupid tricks work every time. The drunk doesn't have to make sense or talk about anything serious.

[Vanje]

21. I have a dusty old gun.

Maybe its time to finally buy a box of bullets

[Canuckistanian]

22. This Pakistan situation is very worrying

Musharraf looks like he's on his way out. If he goes peacefully by losing an election, fine.

But if he tries to suppress his political rivals like Sharif or Bhutto, there's a possibility of civil war.

Then the radical Islamists take over.