Unacceptable language

AP's reporting that Harry Reid has declared General Petraeus' plan to appear to be reducing the troop levels in Iraq while not actually reducing the troop levels "unacceptable."

"This is unacceptable to me, it's unacceptable to the American people," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Unacceptable?

Unacceptable?

Is there anywhere in the English-speaking world outside of the Mother Superior's office in a convent where a novice has just been scolded for listening to her iPod during morning prayers where calling something "unacceptable" produces anything but derision and scorn?

Unacceptable?

You know how President Bush is reacting to being told his pet general's plan is "unacceptable"?

He's rolling on his beloved rug in the Oval Office laughing so hard his gut aches.

Maybe it's too much to ask that we get the Democrats to show a little backbone.  But can we at least get them to sound a little angry when they're supposed to be angry?  Can we find somebody there who can talk like a regular person who is fed up with Bush's lies and his failures and not like a mildly annoyed nun?

Reid says Petraeus' plan is just more of the same, which is true, as much as it is a plan.  But it's not a plan.

There is no plan.

There has never been a plan.

There is no plan to leave.

There is no plan for staying, beyond just staying, which isn't a plan, it's a sulk.

There is no plan for a military victory.  There is no plan for a political solution.

There is no plan.

There is only a goal.

And the goal is to make Iraq the next President's problem so that George Bush can leave office feeling like a war hero.

Hundreds of Americans will die, thousands of Iraqis will die so that George W. Bush doesn't have to face the fact that he screwed up, once again.

Comments

[billy pilgrim]

I beg to differ.

I don't believe George W Bush has EVER had to face up to the fact that he screwed up in the past; therefore this would be the first time, if it happened.

[catherine]

Give 'em hell, Harry! Or just be another mental midget.

[KC45s]

The man used to spend time in Vegas. He hasn't heard profanity before? He can't come up with a comparison to the Mob? Good grief, I couldn't get the White House's numbers past a accountant on crack and the Dems feel the need to be "statesmanlike."

[merciless]

KC, Harry is a Mormon, and they don't cuss (in public), so "unacceptable" is about as cranky as you're going to get. Think I read somewhere that the casinos hire the Mormons to take care of the money. They're very good at it.

As for the lack of plan, well, I think the Rude Pundit hit it this morning when he said that Iraq has become the same kind of show that Terri Schiavo was, spinning hope when there was none.

But there is a plan B. They're going to start another war. It will do several things: (1) show the world that we really "mean business," whatever the hell that means; (2)lock the current congress into supporting Bush, since they can't not support him during a live attack; (3) give the republican candidates a huge new bat with which to beat the defeatocrat surrender monkeys (I just hope they can come up with new insults, cuz I'm tired of these); and (4) take our eyes off Iraq. It won't matter any more.

Sure, there may be consequences. But who cares, right? They'll slide out the back door and it'll be somebody else's problem.

[Halloween Jack]

As much as you'd like to see Reid, or anyone else, be straightforward and call this pseudoplan "bugfuck crazy", it ain't gonna happen with any politician, with the possible exception of John McCain, who could maybe get away with it because folks think that he himself is a little bugfuck crazy.

And I think that maybe last year's W might have bust a gut laughing, but for some reason I get the feeling that now he may actually care, just a little, about already being seen as the biggest fuckup ever to sit in the Oval Office. There may not be enough people to maintain the reality distortion field with Karl and Alberto gone.

[Painini (late as always)]

I wondered if this is an East Coast/West Coast landlocked west thing, actually. Sure, there's no fire in 'unacceptable,' but there's a biting condescension in it. 'You don't hit the other kids, it's unacceptable.' Or maybe your strict-but-avuncular boss, shaking his head sadly: 'That sort of carousing on the company dime is unacceptable, Bob.'

Eh. Maybe you're right after all.