From: Da Prez 
To: Everyone
Re: Making friends
Date: October 14, 2003
Hey, guys-
I was thinking - my “Far Side” desk calendar says that Ramadan’s almost here! Time to reach out to our Islamish brothers and show ‘em we care, ya know, get some team spirit goin’ in Iraq.
So I’m thinking… why not send Wolfowitz there in time for the start of the party? Show ‘em that the guy who designed the liberation, a Jewish guy no less, just wants to help.
Let’s make the plans. Wolfie, pack your bags. This one’s a winner, trust me. What could possibly go wrong?
- GWB
Fanny Roborat
13 comments
Murray
October 27, 2003 at 6:36 pm
1What could go wrong? Oh, .. I don’t know, maybe a rocket attack on his hotel?
I wish those guys had better aim and timing.
Overland
October 27, 2003 at 6:57 pm
2This could go wrong…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Wednesday [7-2-03] challenged militants who have been killing and injuring U.S. forces in Iraq, saying “bring them on” because American forces were tough enough to deal with their attacks.
“There are some who feel like that conditions are such that they can attack us there,” Bush told reporters at the White House. “My answer is bring them on…”
johne
October 27, 2003 at 6:58 pm
3During the cold war, the USSR was thought to be dangerous when it was stronger than the US, but it was said by some military and defense analysts to be even more dangerous when it was weaker - something that might cause desperate and reckless acts. There seemed to be no possiblility of good news out of Russia.
The rebellious Iraquis have been regularly acknowledged as dangerous, something supposed to reflect their status as futile “bitter-enders,” probably war criminals with nothing to lose. But now that they have struck pretty much at will causing numerous casualties, they are said by the president to be engaging in desperate and reckless acts, thereby showing their weakness.
There seems to be no possibility of bad news out of Iraq.
tim
October 27, 2003 at 7:13 pm
4Wolfowitz: Can I get a wake up call for 5:30 AM?
Front Desk: Of course, sir!
(Looney Tunes music in background)
craig
October 27, 2003 at 9:07 pm
5Tim….I love it.
picklejuice
October 27, 2003 at 9:42 pm
6You just KNOW that ol’ Wolfie Jewified his name to get some street cred’.
Ain’t no Jew in his game, I can tell ya that much. For one, only Hassidic rabbis can grow beards. So what’s up with that, eh?
tess
October 27, 2003 at 9:51 pm
7rats . . . now they can’t lure georgie, condi, rummy, and dick out there. great way to blow your cover on wolfowitz! sheesh . . . (j/k)
i hope that comment won’t end up making me a terrorist under the patriot act and land me in guantanmo bay for 10 years without seeing a lawyer.
Landis
October 27, 2003 at 11:31 pm
8See ya Tess.
At least I hear the food is good……
BTDT
October 28, 2003 at 4:53 pm
9Good riddance to both Murray and Tess. I hope you enjoy GITMO. I also hope that someday you or someone close to experiences the kind of fear, danger and damage that comes from a terrorist attack. Maybe then you’ll half understand why it’s so necessary to stand up to these murdering scum who attempt to disguise their loathsome and self-serving disregard for human life and liberty as a “holy” war. Aint nothin “holy” about war…especially THEIR type of war. I’ve Been There and Done That as a soldier…as a DUTY to help protect and preserve the freedoms that cretins like Murray and Tess so blatently misuse. Bet you wouldn’t find THEM willingly standing in Harm’s Way to ensure the freedoms they so flippantly abuse.
Jacob
October 28, 2003 at 7:01 pm
10Yes, BTDT, just like our commander in chief who was not “willing to stand in Harm’s Way to ensure the freedoms HE so flippantly abuses.”
OK, so maybe you had a poor example…
“Aint nothin ‘holy’ about war”: a good point, but one that you immediately destroy by “especially their type of war.”
Good note, Adam.
johne
October 28, 2003 at 7:09 pm
11Yeah, we could have stood up against the murdering terrorists; but then again, I guess it seemed like a lot more fun to just go off and invade some country instead, like we’d always wanted to do.
Murray
October 28, 2003 at 8:22 pm
12It was only the luck of the draw that kept me from fighting in Viet Nam. Had my number been say, 7 instead of 354 and I had fought in another war were we had no moral right to be, would that have given me the credibility to say that even America can make catastrophic mistakes and wage war where it shouldn’t. Can only those who fight determine its morality? Is it the duty of every American to follow blindly no matter how wrong?
Don’t think that close friends of mine didn’t become cannon fodder for a lie. Oh,.. and by the way, Flight 93 crashed only 6 minutes away from me. I was directly on its flight path and just 45 miles farther than Shanksville.
As the owner of a small business and husband of a Defense Department executive, I can assure you that I have a strong grasp of the freedoms that this country offers. One of which is the ability to say that I think its leaders are wrong.
I appreciate your service to our country, and I don’t for a minute degrade your sacrifice, but just being a soldier doesn’t preclude your need to determine if the country is right or wrong when it goes to war. Nor does it give you any greater moral standing.
My belief is that the current leaders, who avoided service in a war that they promoted 30 years ago, are now sending people like you to fight in a war that does nothing to increase our security. If our war effort had stayed in Afghanistan to find Bin Ladin, and worked to reduce the tension with Moslem countries I would be onboard. But the war in Iraq is gratuitous; it only increases our vulnerability both there and here.
I’m sorry if you took offence at a joke about some one I feel is perilously close to being a war criminal. Of course I would not want Wolfowitz to come to harm. I don’t want you or any other American soldier to come to harm.
By the way did you send a letter to Jesse Helms when he said publicly that if the commander in chief (Clinton) were to visit North Carolina he couldn’t guarantee his safety? That one wasn’t a joke on a comedy blog. To me it was treason, but I guess that only Democrats attacking a Republican president can be traitors.
adam
October 29, 2003 at 1:43 pm
13BTDT -
I think Murray’s defended himself eloquently, but I did want to add my 2 cents:
Freedom means “freedom.” If saying what’s on your mind is a “misuse” of it, then it’s not really “freedom,” is it?
A misuse of freedom would be to NOT use it - to remain silent when you feel that your country is being grievously misled. If you don’t agree with Murray or Tess, fine. But the very freedoms that you fought for are the ones that Murrat and Tess were exercising right here. In fact, if people STOP saying things that piss you off, I guarantee that it’d mean that you fought in vain.