Category: war kitsch

Remainders: Your Active Denial System Edition

• President Bush wants us to believe that everything is going super-terrific well in Iraq, that democracy is on the march and that the electoral process is bringing hope and flowers and funnel cake to the misbegotten motherfuckers of Mesopotamia. BUT IF THAT IS TRUE: Why is the Pentagon sending their PAIN RAY (!?) to Iraq? [DefenseTech.org]

• Timothy Noah says George Bush told a whopper. That'll teach him. [Slate]

• Today is Festivus. Let the airing of grievances commence! [Wikipedia]

• Maureen Dowd's temporary pen caddy chivalrously rises to her defense. [GuideLive]

• Don't forget! You have only a few days left to vote in the Urbs! [Gridskipper]— DCEIVER

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Once Were Warriors

NY Times scribe David Sanger, on the Asian beat with the president's entourage this past week, files a report on Bush's moment of respite from the cares and worries that go with defending an unpopular war. Mongolia, it turns out, is a merciful waystation where "presidential entertainment is vivid":

As his limousine raced across the steppe, a team of Mongolian warriors - carrying spears and shields and wearing the body armor that Ghengis Khan used to subdue territory that Mr. Bush is still grappling with 800 years later - suddenly appeared and galloped alongside.

Gone from Mr. Bush's face was the let's-get-on-with-it look he had at Gigkakuji, the famed temple he visited in Kyoto, Japan. He talked with the warriors and stepped around camels and yaks to make his way into a quite luxurious ger [Mongolian domed tent]. . . . The man who once power-walked through Red Square in less than 10 minutes actually lingered.

The president grew yet more animated as the Mongol invaders explained how the doctrine of pre-emptive war was in complete accord with the teachings of Leo Strauss, and that they, too, do not torture. -- HOLLY MARTINS

A Texan Gets a Friendly Reception on the Steppes [NY Times]

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