WTF Is It Now?!?

Is it too early to be cranky already?


Bushyite apparatchik rips into Canada on Iraq, says Chretien should quiet critics
Just wtf kind of ambassador is this?????

The U.S. ambassador to Canada, Paul 'Shithead' Cellucci, openly criticized Ottawa for not backing the war on Iraq and urged Prime Minister Jean Chretien to muzzle anti-U.S. sentiment in his government. - Canadian bacon, Canadian beer, and Celene Dion threatened in new boycott by xenophobic, witless bushmoonies. - link.

Diplomacy. Statesmanship. A humble nation. Yes, it's good to see the grownups are in charge.




Media lapdogs take it up the ass like sheep
'Why has the news media ignored a Congressman's assertion that White House officials used evidence they knew to be false to build their case for war?

'The revelations [that Iraqi efforts to buy uranium from Niger were hoaxes] could have delivered a damaging blow to the White House's political and diplomatic push for invasion. But the national media rapidly moved off the story, swept up in the administration's rush to war. And it all might have ended there, but for Congressman Henry Waxman. In a scathing letter sent to president Bush last week, the California Democrat demands an investigation into what Bush knew about the forgeries and when he knew it. Waxman, who voted last year to give the administration authority to wage a war in Iraq, says there is reason to believe that he and other members of Congress have been misled.'

'Noting that the forged letters are just the latest in a string of discredited White House claims, Norman Solomon argues that the mainstream media has frequently been "behind the curve" in reporting on the administration's shortcomings. Solomon, a fellow at the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, faults the press for "waiting to be tossed perspectives and critiques from the administration."

The last few months have witnessed a "slow motion Gulf of Tonkin," he says, "and with very few exceptions, the press is swallowing it." - Chris Smith, at MotherJones.com.