Time for Bush, Cheney to crack some Iraqi heads?

The administration isn’t likely to take the advice of Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. Nor that of New York Times columnist Tom Friedman. But both have been suggesting that the president and vice president roll up their sleeves and get more deeply engaged in keeping the sectarian forces in Iraq from waging all-out civil war.
Biden, on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, said “the president, instead of deciding to make a series of speeches here at home, should be on a plane. He should get on a plane and be dealing with world leaders to try to generate an international consensus to put international pressure on the parties to make the concessions that are needed. I can’t imagine if this were Reagan or Kennedy or FDR, they wouldn’t be on a plane. We don’t have to convince the Americans, but you’ve got to convince these folks to get together.”
And Friedman said in a column last week: “We need to bring together all the newly elected Iraqi leaders for a national reconciliation conference — outside Baghdad. We should lock them in a room and not let them out until they either produce a national unity government, so Americans will want to stay in Iraq, or fail to produce that government, which would signal that it’s time to warm up the bus.
“Those choices need to be put to the Iraqis in the most frank, tough-minded way by the most nasty, brutish and short-tempered senior official we’ve got — and that is Dick ‘Darth Vader’ Cheney. Mr. Veep, this Bud’s for you.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman

11 Comments

  1. Ben Huie
    Posted March 14, 2006 at 12:37 pm | Permalink

    But I thought everything was going just fine! At least that is what Bush and company claim!

  2. Ed Friedemann
    Posted March 14, 2006 at 2:18 pm | Permalink

    Israeli supporters are living proof that Hell is leaking.

  3. Ed Friedemann
    Posted March 14, 2006 at 2:46 pm | Permalink

    Think Tanks, such as PNAC, think of everything which could possibly happen except for those thing that actually do happen.

    Then they change course into uncharted waters and, of course thing get worse.

    Then they blame the people who were the targets for not being good targets, such as responding to their first “think.” The “think” that took so long thinking about and planning about and having meeting about and trips about and dinners about.

    Never once considering that the first “think” might have been the wrong thing to be thinking about in the first place.

    They can’t go home because they blew-up that bridge when they first starting “thinking”

    So just keep throwing money at it until it goes away or their clock stops ticking and they can’t “think” about even where to get new “thinkers.”

    “Thinking” things tend to go that way. That’s why mice quit think about what to “think” a long time ago.

  4. Ed Friedemann
    Posted March 14, 2006 at 3:13 pm | Permalink

    Good Jews are going to have to stop looking the other way.

  5. Ed Friedemann
    Posted March 14, 2006 at 3:15 pm | Permalink

    It’s time to clean your house.

  6. steve
    Posted March 14, 2006 at 5:45 pm | Permalink

    I’d be content if the Crack Heads would just step down!

  7. ProudLib
    Posted March 14, 2006 at 7:29 pm | Permalink

    Right on, Ben and funny stuff, steve.

    When will government officials admit they didn’t know what the hell they were doing then nor now.

    The idea that US can settle Iraq’s problems is more of the arrogance that got us into this shituation in the first place . . .

  8. J R
    Posted March 14, 2006 at 9:51 pm | Permalink

    Good ideal Rhonda! Spot on.

    Get dead eye dick and his shotgun on the next plane out for Iraq!

  9. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted March 15, 2006 at 9:00 am | Permalink

    ProudLib:

    “When will government officials admit they didn’t know what the hell they were doing then nor now.”

    When you see the devil ice skating on Cedar Bluff Reservoir, you will know the bushco boys will have admitted their incompetence.

    I dont think the devil will be sharpening his skates anytime soon.

  10. Darwin'sDsciple
    Posted March 15, 2006 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

    A link to an article about how Bush was wrong on his “helping the enemy” accusations:

    http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002238.html

  11. Hegel
    Posted March 17, 2006 at 9:52 pm | Permalink

    Castro ought to crack your President’s head open. Yes, that would be highly entertaining.