In the Department of Groaaaan, the President is planning to give a series of speeches next week, explaining the administration’s strategy for winning the war in Iraq. Evidently, the morons in the White House think America will learn to love Der Leader again, if he just dispenses another boatload of resolve.
The president hopes to give “better depth, understanding and context for how the strategy in Iraq is unfolding,” a senior White House official said of the planned speeches.
Let me give you an example of how it is unfolding:
In two separate shootings in Baghdad on Saturday, gunmen driving a sedan killed five people in the Dawra neighborhood, the police said, and in a third shooting, a manager of the Iraqia television station was fatally shot by unidentified gunmen as he headed to work in the capital.
Six more bodies were discovered shot and dumped around the city: two in Dawra, two in Baya and two in Sadr City, a large Shiite neighborhood.
At least 37 bodies have been recovered in the capital this week, according to the police. Many of the victims had their limbs bound and suffered execution-style killings by garroting or gunshots.
The above description of a now typical Saturday in Bahgdad was characterized somewhat differently by George W. Bush.
Bush praised Iraqis for so far not escalating the ongoing crisis into a full-fledged civil war. “As I said earlier, there was — no question there was violence and killing, the society took a step back from the abyss,” Bush said. “And people took a sober reflection about what a civil war would mean.”
And if being subjected to the same tired old rhetoric from Bush isn’t painful enough, it gets worse.
Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other Cabinet members will be making speeches on Iraq in advance of the anniversary of the U.S. invasion.
Ah yes, I almost forgot to buy flowers. Happy Anniversary, folks! And have a fun week.
