Why do I get the feeling this picture will become as famous as Rumsfeld with Saddam?
I thought Chimpy thought men who held hands were going to burn?
Are they really holding hands?
Are they really holding hands?
Sure looks like it. Perhaps georgie boy is worried that the prince will tip over his skirt?
Either that or they are having some fortunate son type love in..... call Tom Delay!
They were holding hands. Bush extended his hand as the prince got out of the car, and he held it in a vice like grip. He could still be holding it now for all we know.
No, it's Laura and they're going to a fancy dress party. George is going as himself.....or is he going as a chimp? I can't decide
"George Bush and Prince Abdullah stroll through spring flowers at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas."
Is the actual headline from the article.
Isn't that nice? :evil:
Nobody says it netter than Justin Logan-
http//www.justinlogan.com/justinlogancom/2005/04/oh_give_me_a_br.html
"I can't take it anymore about this Saudi hand-holding kissy-poo schtick.
I was getting more and more pissed off last night about it, but Brooke's driven me over the edge with allegations of "ethnocentricity" and "vague homophobia" against those of us who were wondering what the hell is going on with that. (A gay friend this morning asked me in so many words "What the hell is going on with that?" Maybe he's a homophobe. And yeah, those guys at Reason are just renowned for their homophobia...)
First of all, Prince Abdullah was coming here to visit us, the most powerful country on the planet. In diplomatic terms, the visitor engages in the home country's culture, not the other way around. So when Abdullah comes here, he can listen to country music and do the boot-scootin'-boogie. The U.S. president isn't supposed to look like a lapdog for a Saudi prince. Especially on U.S. soil.
Second, I don't give much of a care what the hell Saudi traditions are. If it's customary for heads of state to spoon and smoke hookahs in that country, and we decide that's appropriate, then whatever. But does our President get to do things his way when he goes to Saudi Arabia? Like, you know, shake hands and chit-chat with unveiled women in public? Dance?
Third, I wonder how those images of the lovebirds play to jihadi-symps in the Arab world. Oh, wait a minute, no I don't.
Fourth, this is just the most outrageous act given that our soldiers are being asked to bleed, be dismembered and die in a sandswept hellhole for the freedom of the Arabs while our president dry-humps the leg of one of the most odious thugs in the region. A man who has incessantly undermined our interests, played both sides against the middle on terrorism, and generally wagged us at will.
I'm not one of those "Topple the House of Saud!" nutjobs, but for God's sake, at the very least an arm's length relationship (in both physical and figurative terms) is in order. This whole sleep-with-the-Saudis approach is rooted in that most odious of fallacies the oil weapon. If we just got our heads on straight, we wouldn't have to do this sort of shameful, foot-washing posturing.
Of course, a thorough treatment of such matters often requires soul-searching conversations about foreign policy, so maybe best to leave it at that."
I see Donald is looking to improve his image too-:
I'm turning this into a caption comp.
Rumsfeld is the special celebrity contestant in this years superhero BO contest.
Ronald Dumsfeld invokes the US Army 'Special Forces' to quell the ongoing insurgency in Iraq.
I saw the Rumsfeld picture and immediately thought 'caption competition' - unfortunately I'm desparately bad at them.
However, somewhere in the Iraq mess, recruitment and retainment crisis and general overstretch of the US military - not to mention the Bush adminstration's delusional approach to the various wars its caused.... there has to be line about using fictitious superheros...
Early Republican '08 presidential candidates welcome the endorsement of Donald Rumsfeld as they unveil a Spiderman-America ticket.
Rumsfeld unaware he's forgotten to put on his Darth Vader outfit.
Rumsfeld unaware he's forgotten to put on his Darth Vader outfit.
That's a tea spitter, excellent :lol: