the otherwhirled

(Jim Young/Reuters) “Somebody come over here an’ stop tha damn podium from wobblin’. An’ Ah’ll take anudder jack an’ Coke if’n Papa Cheney says its okee….”

(AFP/Pool/File/Gerald Herbert) “Don’cha worry ’bout what them Iraqis say, Darth Cheney. Our troops is dug in, an’ we’ll keep shootin’ ‘em ’til they can’t bleed no more!”

(AFP/Jim Watson) “(from the original caption)….The US House of Representatives was to vote on limiting Iraq war funding to just a few months, prompting Bush to threaten to veto a bill he derided as ‘haphazard and piecemeal.’” Now, you’d think a guy who was so intimately familiar with, if not altogether driven by, the [...]

(REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri) “….when he talks about ‘the surge’.”