Bush pushes his surge rhetoric, his minions say WTF?

So the president has decided that he needs more souls to feed his hellish thirst for human life more troops, despite what he has said in the past. Syria and Iraq had better watch out, cause Bush is gonna go after you next. And just remember, America is safer because of the military genius that was the thinking behind the Iraq war. Blah blah blah. It's no wonder that people don't follow politics anymore.

Blogs on the left have been having a field day over the president's latest presentation, and the cable TV news networks have been falling all over themselves pointing out the factual and logical errors in the the president's speech. What I noticed when looking around for the spin tonight was that the right wing blogs were all waiting for the other shoe to drop before they spoke. The following websites had not posted anything about the President's Address to the Nation at thie time of this writing, (about 8 hours after the speech): Ace of Spades HQ, Jawa Report, pajamasmedia.com, Malkers, Publius Pundit, Red State, and SoCalPundit. I did find one right wing blog that covered the story, hotair.com, a website that I loathe. But they did give a pathetic drooling reasonable and positive analysis of their dark lord the speech, and offered this graphic that probably more informative about the president's position than I got in three hours of telelvision news and several left wing blogs. It is kind of a "these were our previous mistakes, and these are the mistake we are going to make in the future" chart.

This tidbit is filed on the hotair.com site under Mistakes in bullet-point format from the National Security Council’s Iraq strategy review. To really obfuscate a subject properly, you really need to start by correcting minutia.

I liked this quote from the Joe Scarborough Comedy Hour that hotair.com posted.

Apparently, not even the surge’s strongest supporters think 21,500 is enough. Or, to quote one critic, "This is not like a Hail Mary pass on the part of the President. This is like calling a draw play when you’re down big in the 4th quarter." hotair.com

So go out and win one for the gipper. You have to give Joe Scarborough some credit for staying on message tonight. I did not hear him talk about Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert at all tonight. No clips, nothing.

The Surgin' be Emergin'
New York Daily News: 21,520 more troops to fix my mistakes
hotair.com: Bush’s surge speech
whitehouse.gov: President's Address to the Nation
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