This just makes me want to punch myself in the face until I'm out cold...

[WilliamPitt]

...so I won't be aware of shit like this anymore, or at least until I wake up. A nice reprieve, if you will.

From Dan Froomkin's daily Washington Post news round-up:

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Laurent Lozano writes for AFP how Bush's attempts at humor did nothing to assuage some grim visitors yesterday: "Eight Afghan governors met with US President George W. Bush to tell him a few unpleasant truths about the plight of their country as coalition forces fight terrorists and the Taliban. "While grateful for the overthrow of the Taliban regime and the changes taking place since 2001, the governors complained about the slow pace of progress and how it was serving militants' interests, and about the 'excesses' of coalition forces.

"The eight visitors poured out their feelings in a very civil, one-hour dialogue with Bush, who is a former governor of Texas, and before a group of reporters, including AFP, at the White House Tuesday. Asadullah Hamdam, Governor of Oruzgan province, was first to raise the thorny issue of indiscriminate arrests by coalition troops. Bush, attempting to soften the moment by appealing to their shared experience as governors, told the group that he understood.

"'They come and complain to you,' he said, remembering his years as Texas governor (1995-2000).

"But seeing his Afghan guests' serious demeanor, Bush added haltingly: 'When somebody gets arrested that shouldn't have been arrested you file a complaint obviously. . . . '

"'If I just may,' Khost Governor Arsala Jamal politely cut in. 'I think the issue is greater than that: we have 640 detainees in Bagram and like the governor said, all the governors are facing this problem.' . . . Jamal told Bush about the nightmare people arrested without charge face, and became downcast when Bush apparently failed to understand his suggestion that some operations were best carried out by Afghan rather than coalition forces.

"'I got you,' Bush repeated several times."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/04/09/BL2008040902028_5.html

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*THUD*

*...aaaaaahhhhhhh...*

:grr:

[babylonsister]

1. I sure am glad the m$m is keeping us peons informed; first I've

heard of this. :grr: And his reaction is disturbingly typical. Guess he doesn't care.

[YDogg]

3. froomkin has all sorts of nuggets nobody else shares

[YDogg]

2. bushed

[lpbk2713]

4. Such an embarrassment.

It will take years for us to live this down, the fact that we elected such a complete nincompoop to represent us.

[acmavm]

49. He was NEVER elected. He was appointed by the Supreme

Court on the first one. They rigged Ohio on the second.

Repeat after me, HE WAS NEVER ELECTED.

[alstephenson]

5. I hear you, WP. eom

[panader0]

6. I can testify that it's really, really hard to punch yourself

until you knock yourself out. But bush has made me want to try it too.

[stellanoir]

7. Ahh please don't self abuse yourself over the idiocy of others.

thanks

[AteAlien]

8. "I got you"

He has indirectly been saying that to the people of the US for years, if not decades.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Will? Hey, Will, wake up. Nope. He's out cold.

Aw shit. His wallet is empty.

[WilliamPitt]

17. As usual.

:P

[spanone]

10. it's beyond embarassing....he got nothing

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. "I got you, I just don't give a flying fuck. Now watch this drive."

Bubble boy has no desire to even hear about this, much less work up the enegy to pretend to care.

[tavalon]

15. Yep,

He's been phoning it in for a few years now.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

21. That's as good a tagline as I'll ever see tavlaon

:rofl: :hug: :loveya:

[caseycoon]

39. BEST. TAGLINE. YET!

:rofl:
Wish I'd thought of it!
:toast:

[trusty elf]

45. ...

[hisownpetard]

43. That's the exact thing I thought of. "Now, watch this drive."

What a pig.

[MichiganVote]

12. Brain damaged idiot. They shoudl just give it up and schedule w/Cheney.

Not that the response would be any more helpful.

[elehhhhna]

13. Hey! At least he didn't say "...so?", like some world misleaders we know.

[Olney Blue]

14. "the issue is greater than that"

This sums up the chimp's response to everything during his tenure in a nutshell.

[checks-n-balances]

27. I wish his tenure was only in a nutshell!

Sorry, I just couldn't resist that one!:evilgrin:

[truedelphi]

16. The sad thing is, abt a yr ago, when I saw footage of people at a wedding

And a great number of them were killed, one of the survivors was indeed beating at himself at the head. Due to hysterics.

Our "mission" in Iraq and Afghanistan is incomprehensible to those serving in uniform, and to those who they perpetrate that "mission" upon.

[Richard Steele]

18. Right idea, wrong face. K&R

[Demeter]

19. If Bush Died Today--Just Dropped Dead Spontaneously--Nobody Would Grieve

That's got to be the saddest excuse for a human being ever spawned.

[liberal4truth]

28. Even *s parents wouldnt care. They didnt care when hs sister died.....

poor little *. It must really suck to be him.

[El Supremo]

20. But you are fixing the potholes. Heh heh.

[Muttocracy]

22. Why can't he just go to the ranch for the rest of his term?

Can he just stop creating more damage? Dancing around Africa on our dime, being ignored in Europe, embarrassing us here. JUST GO AWAY!

[TBF]

26. Oh thanks send him back to Texas early -

just what we need. Isn't there a planet somewhere else that is missing it's idiot?

[Ilsa]

32. Box him up and ship him to Paraguay to the new compound. nt

[dysfunctional press]

44. i think that the paraguay estate is their escape for when world society implodes.

they know full well what's coming.

[Irishonly]

42. Perhaps Not In This Universe

We could send him off in search of a planet in a far, far away universe. He could take all of his buddies with him. Better yet, an uninhabited planet where they can invade each other, destroy their own economy and torture each other and mankind could live without the threat of every seeing any of them again.

[samsingh]

23. not your face that should be punched

[madrchsod]

24. yes he`s brain damaged

...hell that thing the republicans accepted is more coherent than bush...

[mhoran]

25. What else can he do?

His legacy is that of an arrogant, incompetent fool, and somewhere way back in his teeny-tiny lizard brain, he knows it.

If his incompetence wasn't so lethal to so many, he would be pitiable.

[EFerrari]

29. I had the same reaction to this mom of two deployed servicemen being raped

and told to stfu by KBR.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3261145

[scarface2004]

30. so!!! cheney sneered!

go fuck yourself!! cheney sneered!

[Ilsa]

31. Coke and ETOH brain damage? Or did Babs just do too much gin when preggers? nt

[The Straight Story]

33. Well, there are a lot of things that make me want to punch you in the face as well

but this ain't one of em :)

[lonestarnot]

34. I ran into his brother wondering if he had missed some gladiator blood match to some dumbass he was

talking to on the cell phone. If looks could vaporize! rip my face off!:argh:

[backscatter712]

35. Why punch yourself in the face?

That just hurts.

Punch Bush in the face (if you can get past his SS goons...)

That would feel much better, wouldn't it?

[JHB]

38. That might be more satisfying, but...

...what effect could it possibly have?

It's not like * is going to notice a few more damaged brain cells, is it?

[BrklynLiberal]

36. prez shit-for-brains is dumber than a box of rocks..not a very shocking revelation.

That he is president is the heartbreaking part.

[Time for change]

37. He's a psychopath

Just doing his best to pretend that he gives a damn.

[caseycoon]

40. K&R

He is such an embarrassment.
I just want to :hide: til he's gone

[donkeyotay]

41. George, I don't think you got it.

When you replace lawful processes with troops and round people up and throw them in jail, torture them, and let "god sort them out," people complain. They wail and whine that some of the bodies you're sifting through are actually husbands, brothers, fathers and friends. Some of them posed no danger to us before, but they do now.

See, George, that's why we have laws. Rather than allow rulers to rummage through populations at home and abroad like bargains on a Macy's sale table, we support a process rather than a deranged emperor. Out of those 640 humans you are holding under ethically questionable circumstances, how many are guilty of something real, how many are guilty of thinking something you don't like, and how many are innocent victims of circumstance? You, George, have no idea. You do not got it.

I will no longer punch myself for you, and I no longer desire to punch you upside the head, Dear Ruler. In honor of the Dalai Lama's visit, I am searching for my compassion for you, for the utter sadness of your leadership.

[Martin Eden]

46. Bush = national EMBARRASSMENT shame NIGHTMARE

I was never so ashamed of my country as when enough of my fellow citizens voted for * in 2004 to enable the stealing of a 2nd term.

However, I haven't yet resorted to self-flagellation.

It's enough for now that you punched yourself repeatedly in the face x(

[MessiahRp]

47. This reminds me of the CIA briefing incident

When he heard all he cared to heard about the al-Qaeda threat (which would end up being 9/11) and all the intelligence they heard to suggest an attack and fuckface kept repeating, "Okay you covered your ass now you can leave."

Anytime he hears what he doesn't want to hear he attempts to rudely interrupt and cut off conversation.

Rp

[bdamomma]

48. bush has got shit,

what an insane man, and what a insane comment, I got you??? what a stupid ass man.

Why is everyone afraid of this little man in the WH? oh, nevermind.

Nothing will beat the time, when he was joking and laughing about WMD's looking under his chair, we have a very insane man ruining this country.

[LSK]

50. what he wanted to say was

"why must these peasants bother me"