{"id":8625,"date":"2023-04-18T17:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T00:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8625"},"modified":"2023-10-16T18:17:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T01:17:49","slug":"rewind-dubyas-cowboy-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8625","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Dubya’s Cowboy Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we\u2019re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we\u2019ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We again revisit 2006 when Dubya was making excuse after excuse for the Iraq War’s less than stellar results. The Bush administration was trying to pivot away from its ‘cowboy diplomacy’<\/a> and looking for another dodge to avoid culpability for an ill-advised war while at the same time trying to con the public that America was turning the corner<\/a> – or in other words, going around in circles and we should stay the course wasting trillions of dollars and killing thousands of people in the process. But in true Dubya fashion he staggered and tripped all over his tongue resulting in yet another embarrassing word salad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s our DubToon from our August 11, 2006<\/strong> issue featuring big buckaroo Dubya lamenting giving up on his prized cowboy diplomacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think\u2014tide turning\u2014see, as I remember\u2014I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of\u2014it’s easy to see a tide turn\u2014did I say those words?” <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

George W. Bush<\/strong><\/em>
06-14-2006<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“End of cowboy diplomacy? But I like being a cowboy.”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of … Continue reading “Rewind: Dubya’s Cowboy Diplomacy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,2417],"tags":[377,1745,50,2439,1058,94,52,115,458,98,491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8625"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8633,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8625\/revisions\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}