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To: NightOwl who wrote (129184)	4/14/2004 1:33:33 AM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

junior sounds like that because they have made him practice the words he used to pronounce wrong over and over so many times that now when he says one of them it doesn't fit into the flow of a sentence. His speech is starting to sound like a computer generated program where each word stands by itself. Remember how for so long he called terror "tare", now when he says it he slows down and pronounces it pretty much correct but by slowing down so much it destroys the continuity of his speech. Most of the time I get the impression the he doesn't even know the meaning of many of the words he uses, kinda like if it was a parrot speaking.

To: NightOwl who wrote (129184)	4/14/2004 3:31:07 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 281500

Note that Junior doesn't walk anywhere from the plane to chopper to WH with anyone; he's usually alone, or maybe with his dog. Unlike every president before him, there's no one who needs to be in conversation with him since he's not the one running the show, and his handlers protect his tiny mind from anyone who might want to intrude. They should fix that for PR reasons at least, even if it means, like on commercials, having phony people making phony conversation for the cameras, so he looks like a VIP instead of the zero that he is. When he got off the chopper this morning he looked like he didn't want to be President.

To: NightOwl who wrote (129184)	4/14/2004 6:03:48 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi NightOwl; Re: "When he got off the chopper this morning he looked like he didn't want to be President. At the "press punishment" tonight, to my ear, he sounded like he doesn't want to be President. Something is wrong. Something we don't know about yet. Something so bad that neither Stockman nor Carl have been able to find a link for it." Look, I've been posting proof that the marines around Falloujah are getting the crap shot out of themselves for several days. Maybe you've been ignoring it. The situation is bad all over the country. The military has suppressed the bad news by failing to report US KIAs on time. The result is that the news talks about "2 more marines killed in Iraq", while the truth is that we're losing an average of about 7 or 8 guys a day there. We have a very small military, and it is stretched very thin. With that sort of situation, we cannot afford to play a game of "attrition" with the Iraqis. With no end in sight to the heavy combat, these units will have to be pulled out of combat early, and there are no reinforcements available to replace them. What with the time required to get the wheels started on training, it is too late to start up the draft. Bush just called up all the major leaders of the world and begged for troops and they all told him to go f himself. There were no (realistic) negotiations over Falloujah, and there was never any cease fire. The only agreement the Iraqis will ever agree to is that if we remove our soldiers from Iraq, they'll quit killing our soldiers, at least in Iraq. Our supply lines to Falloujah have been at least partially cut, KB&R has quit running supply lines leaving the military in the lurch, and the Marines are halted from a combination of lack of supplies to pursue an offense, and a political recognition that our offensive actions in Falloujah are making the rest of Iraq that much more difficult to control, not because of some humanitarian desire to see negotiations through. Before the war, Bush wasn't all about "negotiations" and he sure ain't now. They can't let this information out because they don't want to improve the morale of the other side and thereby cause the situation to grow even more out of control. The crap has hit the fan so hard in the Falloujah area that *our military is sending wounded soldiers out to fight* on the line. This is a sign of desperation, not of a superior force that is waiting for negotiations to end so that it can bring the hammer down: ... Marines fought fierce battles Monday and Tuesday with insurgents in Karma, a village outside of Fallujah. Some 100 gunmen were killed in battles in palm groves and over canals that were so intense that wounded Marines were sent out to fight. "They ran in there with bandages and all," said Col. B.P. McCoy, commander of the 3rd Battalion. ... newsday.com Like I've told you before, war is about numbers, and the numbers are not on our side in Iraq. Of course the President looks drugged out. If I were him, I'd have taken a bottle of Jack Daniels with sleeping pills. I'd have looked much worse, after they'd pumped my stomach. -- Carl