Seriously, how did this irresponsible idiot get to be president?
Net contribution to America and the world?
Seriously, how did this irresponsible idiot get to be president?
The President, he is being backed into a corner, isolated even by his own party...and I fear if this continues much longer, he will feel compelled to strike out at his adversaries by, striking out at an available target like Iran...perhaps the last possible action left to him.
However, those below him may not wish to follow these orders, if they're perceived as being against the interests of the national good...so I would expect his generals to be very nervous of the consequences of such provocative actions and possibly refuse, but I don't doubt that the President will try this, and probably in the next week with the western religious holiday, perhaps Good Friday? A most unexpected day for an attack in the Muslim week?
Behold the eighth wonder of the modern world. Palatial splendour fit for an emperor.
Cost of U.S. embassy in Britain= $31 million, China=$49 million.......
Cost of U.S. embassy in Iraq= $923 million. Staff of 1000. Only 6 speak Arabic.
Priceless? No hubris. Ordinary Iraqis won't come near it, fearing for their lives as open targets for the insurgency.
What does the embassy do? It eats money. To keep people there, they have to pay outrageously high salaries and provide enormously expensive security. Those costs aren't in the $923 million. In order to get staff into it, the State Dept. is considering drafting employees.
When U.S. troops leave Iraq, won't this be the first American symbol to be destroyed? All $923 million dollars worth.
Meanwhile, the brave troops that Repukes think they only support are in substandard medical facilities with mouldy plaster and mice. Apparently no money for the troops in the field or when they return with brain damage .
And ordinary Iraqis? Electricity may be restored by 2013 in Baghdad. The money budgeted for that reconstruction project like most of the others was diverted to security and fighting the insurgency.
The hallmark of Bush leadership = levels of incompetence that can not be described as there is no precedent.
God couldn't reap this much wrath and misery upon mankind.