[lbo-talk] Winning the GWB dead pool

[Chuck Grimes]

...``The opposition, the terrorist groups, the Baathists read our media
and read our public opinion polls, and are trying to play to the
country's opinion,'' he said. Brownback even said U.S. adversaries were
using attacks to drive down support for Bush....

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You don't say. Why those dirty rotten bastards. I stand one hundred
percent with my President when I say, ``Bring It On!''

Let's see now. There is no road to victory since we already won. But
there is no retreat and no withdrawal either. No going foreword and no
going back. Just sit and sink. Sounds like the Q word.

I think it's time to start the George W. Bush Dead Pool count down. 

Bush can remain in office, stay alive politically with one dead US
soldier every day. 

How about two? Sure Bush can live with that. How about five? Bush can
live with five a day. There are probably already five a day, but four
are buying the ranch in Germany so they don't count. How about eight
to ten? Yeah that's getting iffy. But Bush might survive on eight a
day, but not for very long. 

How about twenty? Forget it. Even if we disappear half of them in
Germany or sneaked them back in cold storage for delayed release, that
still leaves about ten a day. Besides at ten a day, there won't be
enough Lehrer News Hour time at the end of the week to cover all those
silent moments. 

So, I am betting on some where around eight, which means fifty a
week. Near fifty is probably the magic number for winning the George
W. Bush Dead Pool.

Chuck Grimes