OMFG
"The stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awaken the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped to set America free." - Bunnypants, Africa, 7/8/03.
The bombing of Pearl Harbor helped to modernize Japan!
Attacking Poland saved Germany from Hitler!
Being privileged kept me out of Viet Nam!
Bring 'em on!
Let's roll!
July 8, 2003
Asshat Does Africa
Goree Island visit by arrogant assh*le sparks anger.
"We were shut up like sheep," said 15-year-old Mamadou.
Many residents compared Bush's hour-long visit unfavorably to the island tour by former President Bill Clinton in 1998.
"When Clinton came, he shook hands, people danced," said former Mayor Urbain Alexandre Diagne.
The residents, cooped-up behind the ever-present Bunnypants "First Amendment Zones," were not impressed.
"It's slavery all over again," fumed one father-of-four, who did not want to give his name. "It's humiliating. The island was deserted."
White House officials said the decision to remove the locals was taken by Senegalese authorities. But there was no doubt who the residents blamed.
"We never want to see him come here again," said N'diaye, hiking her loose gown onto her shoulders with a frown. - link.
Experts grow more sceptical about extent of threat posed by Saddam before war
Focus on BBC row seen as limiting inquiry into intelligence.
The UK Guardian assembled a panel of weapons experts from both sides of the Atlantic - former inspectors, academics and soldiers - to ask them what they thought about the two British dossiers on Iraq as well as Colin Powell's crucial UN speech in January.
While they all recognise that Iraq used to possess weapons of mass destruction, they have grown substantially more sceptical about the extent of the threat. They also question the accuracy of prewar intelligence on Iraq and the use that the government made of it:
'No evidence...bogus plot links...plagiarized documents...largely discredited...widely ridiculed...no evidence...'
Sounds exactly like what we've been saying for almost a year now, doesn't it?
Thousands Died
"He will never be liked on this continent"
The African press on Bush's visit: "Bush's singular achievement has been to make America resented in Africa -- and elsewhere -- to an unprecedented degree. America's unilateralist behaviour under Bush has messed up much of the goodwill America used to enjoy here. Nelson Mandela's declaration that he does not expect to meet Bush during the tour should be taken as an important signal.
"In Kenya especially, America has become a dirty word. It may be just as well that Bush will not be visiting our country, never mind that this view could be taken by Americans as a case of sour grapes. The term 'American arrogance' has become a by-word everywhere you go in this country." - more at Salon.
Medical examiner who came up with novel theory to explain death of young female staffer inside of Joe Scarborough's Florida office has been fired
Starting July first, the Okaloosa/Walton medical examiner will be out of the job he's held the last six years. Dr. Michael Berkland has been dismissed by the Medical Examiner's Office in Pensacola.
The Florida Medical Examiner's Commission had complained of his failure to complete dozens of autopsy reports in 2001 and 2002, a violation of state statutes.
This is the same guy who had lost his license in Missouri for faking autopsy reports but was hired to explain the mysterious death of Lori Klausutis in Joe 'Dead Intern' Scarborough's office (thanks to BuzzFlash).
Cheney energy task force ordered to turn over documents
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Vice President Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney and the energy task force he headed in 2001 must reveal which industry executives helped formulate its recommendations for national energy policy, or else make a more specific case for executive privilege.
In a 2-1 vote, the appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that a suit filed by Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club could proceed. The administration had sought a blanket exemption from laws that require federal agencies to conduct their business in public.
"You're all scum!"
July 7, 2003
Revisionist historians
Bushies admit Iraq-African uranium link 'bogus':
July 7 2003: The White House on Monday admitted that an assertion by warmongering wonderboob pResident Evil this year that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium from Africa was based on "bogus" information.
As the US and UK face pressure on whether they LIED exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein before the war on Iraq, WH spokes-tool Ari 'the Liar' Fleischer made the admission at a White House press conference.
Chronic prevaricator Fleischer said the buck-passing 'Bring 'em On' Bunnypants did not know the reports were wrong when he made the allegation - one of the central elements of his case against Iraq - in the State of the Union address in January 2003.
{snip}
The White House confirmed on Monday that Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador, investigated the attempted purchase of uranium in Niger for the CIA nearly a year before the Dictator-tot's State of the Union address on Dick 'dick' Cheney's request, and delivered his findings to the administration that there was no truth to the allegations.
Mr Wilson wrote in the New York Times on Sunday that "some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons programme was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat".
Habitual liar Mr Fleischer LIED insisted that Smirky McDumbass - and vice-president Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney - were not aware that the Niger report had been found to be inaccurate when the incompetant nincompoop made his case at the State of the Union on January 28.
George W. Bush's Africa Fan Club Is Hard to Find
From the NY Times: Nelson Mandela doesn't like his politics, he has told Liberian President Charles Taylor to leave office, and Zimbabwe's opposition is pinning its hopes on him.
George W. Bush, tough-talking leader of the world's strongest nation, is stirring some powerful emotions in Africa, the world's poorest continent.
Fear and loathing seem to be high on the list.
Gee, what a surprise.
Using one war to distract from another
An editorial from Maryland's SunSpot News: Keep a sharp eye on Liberia, folks.
Not that what happens there is of crucial importance to Americans - any more so than, say, what happens in Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, Zimbabwe or any other African country where life is dangerous, degrading and desperate, and America has done practically nothing about it.
By the time you read this column, U.S. forces might have landed in Liberia and it would be logical for Americans to wonder why - why now? If they haven't landed, but the Bush administration is still talking about the possibility, the same question applies. Why Liberia? Why now? The place has been in a state of bloody chaos for more than a decade.
Could it be that the Bush administration needs a distraction?
If Bush sends troops to Liberia, it would be "Wag the Dog Comes True," except Bush wouldn't be trying to distract from a love affair. He'd be trying to distract Americans from the last war he started in a place that has been wrecked, and where Americans are being killed every week.
He'd be trying to distract Americans from the last war he started, with lies, lies, and more lies...
Oh, and by the way...
Bush has another agenda in Africa: Oil quest may outflank efforts to end conflict, aid development - MSNBC.
Savage Weiner sh*tcanned!
Finally. God, what a hateful pig.
MSNBC on Monday fired Michael Savage for anti-gay comments.
Weiner was taking viewer phone calls about airline horror stories, and a male caller began talking about smoking in the bathroom.
"Half an hour into the flight, I need to suggest that Don and Mike take your ..." the caller said, before he was cut off and his words became unintelligible.
"So you're one of those sodomists. Are you a sodomite?" Savage asked.
The caller replied: "Yes, I am."
"Oh, you're one of the sodomites," Savage said. "You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it."
"His comments were extremely inappropriate and the decision was an easy one," MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said.
His replacements will be Annthrax Coulter channelling Adolf Hitler, and David Duke, via prison-cam.
NEWSWEEK: What do you think of pResident Bush’s using war imagery as a political tool, like when he recently flew onto an aircraft carrier?
WESLEY CLARK: The world expects something more of an American president than to prance around on a flight deck dressed up like [a] pilot. He’s expected to be a leader. That’s my fundamental issue with it. It doesn’t reflect the gravitas of the office. Furthermore, it’s a little phony.
A little?!
Condo 'oil me!' Rice on US troop strategery
"I saw it starting to go wrong before the [2000] election. I met with Condi Rice. She told me she believed that American troops shouldn’t be keeping the peace - they were the only ones who could kill people and conquer countries, and that’s what they should be focused on doing." - Gen. Wesley Clark, in an interview with Newsweek.
"We conclude that ministers did not mislead parliament.''
Vicious...you hit me with a flower....
The NY Times reports:
British Prime Minister Tony 'Piddles' Blair and his government did not mislead parliament or doctor evidence to justify the war on Iraq, a parliamentary committee concluded Monday. The Foreign Affairs Committee, which has been probing charges officials exaggerated intelligence on Iraq's weapons to strengthen the case for war, cleared Blair, a top aide and ministers of the allegations, made on the BBC.
But the committee did slap the government's wrists for giving undue prominence to questionable intelligence in a September dossier on Iraq's weapons and for plagiarizing a student thesis for a second dossier published in February.
Hey, no big deal - just a few thousand people got killed, that's all. Nothing to see here, move along.
Operation qWagmire update
Heat, violence, and betrayal hits US troops
CNN adds O'Brien, shuffles anchors
With Faux Nooze clobbering it by a 1 - 2 million viewer margin at night, CNN is trying to regroup yet AGAIN.
Starting today, former NBC Weekend Today host Soledad O'Brien joins vapid mouthbreather Bill 'hummer' Hemmer on American Morning from 7 to 10 a.m. ET. O'Brien replaces former Fux bimbette Paula 'I'm a serious journalist! really!' Zahn, who has moved to the 8 p.m. slot, where she faces cretinous, hypocritical blowhole Bill O'Reilly. Former ABC anchor Anderson Cooper now anchors the 7 p.m. ET hour.
Crossfire will stay at its timeslot of death, 4:30 pm.
The moves are key parts of an ongoing reorganization headed by CNN chief Jim Walton, who finally replaced pathetic GOP-panderer Walter 'yes, Karl!' Isaacson.
CNN execs say they're sticking with the plan that CNN founder Ted Turner chose two decades ago: objective news. They say that in the long term, sticking to hard news will protect and bolster CNN's brand as a world news operation, instead of as a Faux Nooze-lite joke, like they are now. - link.
July 6, 2003
U.S. falling into bin Laden's trap
Bogged down in a guerrilla war, Iraq may be George Bush's Little Big Horn.
From Eric Margolis, courtesy of the SmirkingChimp: Here in Canada's "make love, not war" capital, I am reminded of a French reader who asked me last week, "Why was Bill Clinton impeached for making love, while George Bush goes unpunished for making a war over fake weapons?"
Excellent question, monsieur.
Asked on TV this week about steadily mounting attacks on U.S. occupation forces in Iraq, President Bush narrowed his eyes, and hunched forward aggressively - thrilling his ardent fans from Biloxi to Paducah - and growled, "Bring 'em on!" - a call to battle worthy of the famously dimwitted American general, George Armstrong Custer who, like Bush, knew what he knew and didn't need advice.
Listening to such adolescent boasting from a man who never heard a shot fired in anger outside of downtown Washington, D.C. made me gag. Bush, let's recall, dodged real military service during the Vietnam war by making occasional appearances at the Texas Air National Guard.
George Bush has well and truly stuck the U.S. into twin quagmires in both Afghanistan and Iraq. These ongoing guerrilla wars, and their logistical support, now tie down some 175,000 men, fully one third of total U.S. ground forces. Back in the 1980s, Osama bin Laden preached that the only way to drive the U.S. from the Muslim world was to bleed it in a score of small guerrilla wars. Bush, who now threatens to attack Iran, is falling right into bin Laden's strategic trap. Bravo, Mr. President.
The longer U.S. forces stay in Iraq, the uglier the guerrilla war will get. And the more Americans will realize they were led into this needless conflict by a second George Custer manipulated by a cabal of neo-conservatives whose primary loyalty is not to the United States.
Quizzing Them on 9/11
Serial liar/incompetant impotentate Napoleon Bonehead and President Bill Clinton may be asked to meet with the independent commission investigating the terrorist attacks.
From Time:
Will President Bush be summoned before the independent commission investigating 9/11? It now appears very likely. John Lehman, Ronald Reagan's Navy Secretary and one of five Republicans on the 10-member panel, told TIME that he wants both President Bush and former President Clinton to meet with the commission and discuss matters that could include what their Administrations knew about the al-Qaeda terrorist plots—and what was done to combat them—before the 9/11 attacks.
Ho ho!
Website turns tables on government officials
Annoyed by the prospect of a massive new federal surveillance system, two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are celebrating the Fourth of July with a new Internet service that will let citizens create dossiers on government officials.
"It's sort of a citizen's intelligence agency," said Chris Csikszentmihalyi, assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab.
He and graduate student Ryan McKinley created the Government Information Awareness (GIA) project as a response to the US government's Total Information Awareness program (TIA).
The system will start by offering standard background information on politicians, but then go one bold step further, by asking Internet users to submit their own intelligence reports on government officials -- reports that will be published with no effort to verify their accuracy.
If there's a dossier on a particular person, clicking on the picture brings it up. A C-Span viewer watching a live government hearing could learn which companies have contributed to a member of Congress's reelection campaign, before the politician had even finished speaking.
Barry Steinhardt, of the American Civil Liberties Union. said, McKinley and Csikszentmihalyi have a First Amendment right to set up the GIA project. And he said that it's a valuable response to the government's TIA surveillance. "I assume the point of this is, turnabout is fair play."
On a page of the GIA website, at opengov.media.mit.edu, McKinley and Csikszentmihalyi give their answer to questions about the legitimacy of their actions.
"Is it legal?" the site reads. "It should be."
Top Homeland Security Official Resigns Position
Official not feeling secure after telling the truth about Bush Cartel's incompetancy, criminality.
A high-ranking Department of Homeland Security official in charge of the agency's analysis of intelligence about terrorists resigned Monday, citing "health reasons."
The resignation came less than a month after assistant secretary Paul Redmond angered many House members at a hearing when he testified that his newly established office has not hired enough analysts or set up enough secure communications lines to receive classified FBI and CIA data for analysis purposes.
It was so nice yesterday that I actually went outside. I immediately had a relapse. Anyway, here's what's new at maru's:
Patriot 1: Isn't this enough for impeachment? This is solid evidence that Bush and the rest lied.
Patriot 2: No way... I did not read anywhere that he actually denied having sexual relations with that uranium.
Patriot 3: However, they DID sex up the dossier.
Joseph Wilson, the diplomat who checked out the Niger claim, goes public -
What I Didn't Find in Africa
A NY Times Op Ed:
Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?When serial liar Snippy the Chimp, in his 2003 State of the Union address, indicated that Iraq had attempted to acquire large quantities of uranium from an African country, he was referring to the Iraq-Niger connection. The connection that had been discredited nine months earlier as a result of the investigation undertaken by the CIA at the request of the vice president.
Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.
For 23 years, from 1976 to 1998, I was a career foreign service officer and ambassador. In 1990, as chargé d'affaires in Baghdad, I was the last American diplomat to meet with Saddam Hussein. (I was also a forceful advocate for his removal from Kuwait.) After Iraq, I was President George H. W. Bush's ambassador to Gabon and Sao Tomé and Principe; under President Bill Clinton, I helped direct Africa policy for the National Security Council.
It was my experience in Africa that led me to play a small role in the effort to verify information about Africa's suspected link to Iraq's nonconventional weapons programs. Those news stories about that unnamed former envoy who went to Niger? That's me. {...snip...}
The question now is how [my] answer was or was not used by our political leadership. If my information was deemed inaccurate, I understand (though I would be very interested to know why). If, however, the information was ignored because it did not fit certain preconceptions about Iraq, then a legitimate argument can be made that we went to war under false pretenses. (It's worth remembering that in his March Meet the Press appearance, Mr. Cheney said that Saddam Hussein was "trying once again to produce nuclear weapons.") At a minimum, Congress, which authorized the use of military force at the president's behest, should want to know if the assertions about Iraq were warranted.
But were these dangers the same ones the administration told us about? We have to find out. America's foreign policy depends on the sanctity of its information. For this reason, questioning the selective use of intelligence to justify the war in Iraq is neither idle sniping nor "revisionist history," as Mr. Bush has suggested. The act of war is the last option of a democracy, taken when there is a grave threat to our national security. More than 200 American soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq already. We have a duty to ensure that their sacrifice came for the right reasons.
Thousands Died
July 5, 2003
Bring 'em on? No! Bring them home!
From Dennis Rahkonen, via the SmirkingChimp:
Confronted with growing concern over a steady, increasing loss of American life in Iraq, George W. Bush recently dismissed all suggestions that we are sinking into a Vietnam-like quagmire there.
He then uttered what future historians will record as the sound of the wheels coming off his bandwagon, and presidency.
In a statement since widely criticized as an invitation for more attacks on U.S. troops, dumb-ass Dubya simultaneously provoked and challenged the Iraqis. Who, me? Worried about ambushes blowing away American mothers' precious sons. Nope...
"Bring them on!"
Three words that decisively proved one thing: Here is a president whose dim-bulb intelligence and goofy, faux-macho posture finally did him in...just as many predicted they inevitably would.
The mainstream media may miss the destructive significance of Bush's politically suicidal remark, or perhaps they'll purposely downplay it, but in coffee, beauty, and barber shops across the land his fate has already been decided.
So it is written, so it shall be done.
Fix! Ann 'the man' Coulter on NYT bestseller list
Thanks to Barney at MWO Watch x4:
1 LIVING HISTORY, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster, $28.) A memoir by the junior senator from New York and former first lady.
2 TREASON, by Ann Coulter. (Crown Forum, $26.95.) The skank icon's imaginary world of 'liberal treachery.' "(+) "
And what does the cross shaped symbol (+) after Annorexia's book mean?
It means that some stores are receiving bulk orders. It means that her sugardaddy/pimp Richard melonhead Scaife is buying her books in bulk. Rightwingnut nooze org Newsmax is giving them away with a subscription, and a poster on the BC Forum reports that somebody was giving the books away yesterday at a local fireworks display. It means that in order to get a good showing for this unimaginable TRIPE, the rightwing organizations are buying it in truckloads.
At least if what Barney imagines is true, this waste of trees will be going back to enrich the soil as compost.
Bunnypants touts U.S. role in shaping world
"It's rounder! And safer!"
"Without America's active involvement in the world, the ambitions of tyrants would go unopposed and millions would live at the mercy of terrorists," pResident Evil said today. And like a drunken retarded parrot, he repeated the old bromide of "tyrants have learned to fear, and terrorists are on the run."
The increasingly imcompetant, irony-challenged Dictator-tot went on to say that "on this Fourth of July weekend, we also remember the brave Americans we've lost in Afghanistan and Iraq." Bring 'em on! - link.
My f****ing GOD.
Thousands Died
SOLDIERS ARE STILL DYING
Happy fifth! And happy 5th of July, too!
I guess EVERYTHING he does pisses me off
Court-appointed disaster Emperor Snippy said Liberian President Charles Taylor must step down and that he was "not going to take 'no' for an answer."
Asked in an interview what he would do if Taylor refused to comply with his demands, Bunnypants said: "You know, I suspect he will, and so, therefore, I'm an optimistic person. I'm not going to take 'no' for an answer."
"Karl told me I have made up my mind there needs to be stability in Liberia, and one of the conditions for a peaceful and stable Liberia is for Mr. Charles Taylor to leave the country," Bush said in the interview, which took place on July 3 and was released by the White House on Saturday. "So there. Phththththth." - link.
July 4, 2003
Don't "bring 'em on"
Letters to the editor of the Washington comPost, via The Hamster:
I am horrified by President Bush's taunting remarks to the Iraqis [front page, July 3]. "Bring 'em on," he said arrogantly. How inappropriate at a time when at least one soldier is being killed every day in Iraq.
Mr. Bush is not in harm's way, yet instead of reacting in the calm, measured way of an adult -- instead of stepping up efforts to bring stability and basic services to Iraq -- he chooses to toss fuel on the fire of Iraqi anger.
This isn't leadership, and this isn't the behavior one should expect from our commander in chief. He should have more respect for our service members' lives and sacrifices.
MARIANNE WERZ O'BRIEN, Falls Church
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The cowboy president speaks again. President Bush's latest macho declaration may appeal to his political base, but inviting foes to attack us doesn't help our national interests -- promoting democracy abroad and establishing security at home.
Are we next going to double-dare Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to top their previous feat? Mr. Bush's tactless comments belong in a barroom, not the White House.
EUGENE D'ANDREA, Frederick
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When is President Bush going to start acting like a responsible adult? His "Bring 'em on" challenge to insurgents in Iraq is only the latest example of the smug, arrogant attitude that makes much of the world resent the United States. It is totally irresponsible for a president who has already put hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops in harm's way to further aggravate that situation with such an immature statement.
MARY L. GESSNER, Woodstock, Va.
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What a f*cking pissant.
MILES O'TOOLE, Sgt, front lines.
"Bring 'em on!"
Iraq attacks linked to Bush taunts
From the free press that is Australia's News.com:
AT least 19 American soldiers were wounded in an attack on a US base in Iraq yesterday, and another US soldier was killed in an assault on his convoy in Baghdad.
News of the twin attacks brought a sombre start to American Independence Day activities for the 150,000 US troops stationed in Iraq.
The blows came as the US offered multi-million-dollar rewards for Saddam Hussein and his sons, and aides to George W. Bush countered claims the pResident had encouraged attacks on allied troops by his taunt to Hussein loyalists: "Bring 'em on".
The decision to offer rewards – $US25 million ($36 million) for the dictator and $US15 million for his sons Uday and Qusay – is more evidence of an about-face by a US administration that two months ago had dismissed Hussein's whereabouts as unimportant.
Damn US liberal media.
"Bring 'em on!"
Bush and Lies and Drugs and Videos
When aggression walks where diplomacy belongs, everyone is a loser.
From the free press that is Pravda:
"...the Bush administration was and is lying. These people have been lying to the United Nations, lying to its partners in the international community, lying to the Russian Federation, lying to its institutions, lying to its people. These people have been lying through their teeth, because the regime knew that the Ba'ath government of President Saddam Hussein constituted a danger neither to the USA, nor to the UK, nor to their allies, nor to anyone else.
"This attack was more than a monumental violation of international law; it was a violation of the integrity of the human race, a violation of the norms of decency and a violation of the fabric of confidence which human beings need to feel between themselves and their governments. This attack was a set-up, a frame-up, right from the beginning."
Thousands Died
Spirit of 4th of July shamelessly politicized
From an editorial in the Chicago Trib:
"Patriotism and national pride--the spirit of Independence Day--have been shamelessly politicized in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, and it is a politics many Americans, including this one, cannot abide. Widespread sorrow and frustration over the murdered innocents have been redirected and leveraged into something else--something cynical and dark of purpose. That something is a macho, vengeful, across-the-board support for our tough-guy president, George W. Bush.
"Carefully, masterfully, the packagers of this handsome, if dull, legacy have used post-Sept. 11 fervor to mask a breathtaking succession of careless gaffes, willful money grabs, abuses of constitutional rights and outright lies.
"Never mind that W didn't win the popular vote in 2000. Never mind that the biggest one-day slaughter of Americans since the Civil War Battle of Antietam occurred squarely, as we used to say in the Navy, on his watch. Or that his national security team has been so flat-footed it has not, to this day, located the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 carnage. .....
"Still we will be marching today. I may even stick a little flag on my softball visor. It's my flag too, isn't it? Or does it belong only to those who are taking the creepy advice of W's press secretary to "watch what they say"?
"Not on your life. It's still a day for Americans to speak out and be heard. Come to think of it, maybe this 4th of July isn't so untimely after all."
Warner changes his tune on banned weapons in Iraq
Saddam's dogs must've buried imminent threat to the US somewhere...yeah....
Virginia Sen. John 'Uhhhhhh...' Warner backed off Thursday from his earlier predictions that U.S. forces will uncover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"When we go in, a lot of smoking guns will be uncovered," Warner had vowed at a Feb. 24 news conference. But on Thursday, after returning from a three-day visit to Iraq, Warner was far more cautious in describing what troops are likely to find.
He said evidence will show soon that Saddam had an "infrastructure" that was capable of producing chemical and biological weapons, and that Iraq had the potential to use or export them.
"There's troubling evidence of exaggeration and stretching by the intelligence community," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Functioningpenis, who accompanied Warner on this week's trip. "The accuracy and objectivity of that intelligence is under review, as it should be."
Levin added, "Nothing I saw on this trip changed my view of the troubling nature of that evidence."
"It's going to take additional time to uncover Saddam's programs," said Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Flopsweat, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "Not the product, but the programs. We are making progress. Every day we find another piece of the puzzle." - link.
Troops are still dying
'Bring 'em on' Bush golfs while our troops die
U.S. Soldier Killed, 20 Wounded in Iraq in Latest Guerrilla Attacks.
One U.S. soldier was killed and 19 were wounded in two attacks in central Iraq on Thursday night, while another was hurt in an explosion on Friday, the U.S. military and witnesses said.
A U.S. military spokesman said that in Thursday's attacks, a sniper shot dead one American soldier in Baghdad and 19 were wounded in an attack near the town of Balad, north of the capital.
Witnesses said at least one U.S. soldier was wounded on Friday when an explosion targeted a Humvee vehicle on the outskirts of Baghdad.
The attacks are the latest in a spate of increasingly bold guerrilla-style ambushes. In previous attacks on Thursday, 10 American soldiers were wounded in three separate strikes that also killed two Iraqis and wounded a dozen.
"Now watch this drive!"
Happy 4th of July!!
The tyranny of George II
From the UK Guardian:
"..being against US government policy should not be lazily extended to general anti-Americanism. If you're a US citizen please do not think I bear you any personal ill will (unless you yourself happen to be reading this, George W - which, let's face it, is unlikely, given the absence of pictures). So Happy Independence Day, America; you did a fantastic job throwing off the hereditary monarchy of George III. But now would it be okay if we declared independence from the hereditary presidency of George II?"
Word.
July 3, 2003
Kindergarten commander
QUESTION (From Terry Moran): On weapons of mass destruction; is it fair to say now after a few months of looking for them that there is a discrepancy between what the intelligence community and you and your top officials described as the threat from Saddam Hussein and what was actually there on the ground?
BUSH: Saddam Hussein had a weapons program. Remember he used them—he used chemical weapons on his own people. Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to the United States because we removed him, but he was a threat. Such a threat that my predecessor, using the same intelligence in 1998, ordered a bombing of Iraq. I mean, so—he was a threat. He’s not a threat now. And the world is more peaceful by virtue of the fact that he is not in power.
The Daily Howler's comment:
"What a remarkable answer! How did Bush know that Saddam had WMD? Because he had used them—in 1988! And how did he know that Saddam was a major threat? Because of intelligence reports—from 1998! Can this possibly mean that the Bush Admin was working off five-year-old information? Here at THE HOWLER, we don’t have a clue. But pundits will know not to ask."
- - Thanks to O. at the BC Forum.
"It's a qWackmire!"
Bush Taking Heat for 'Bring Them On' Remark
..but brainwashed, drooling public just LOVES him!
The article starts off fine: Napoleon Numnuts "has used colorful language before to great effect, but he is taking some heat for his 'Bring 'em on' challenge to Iraqi militants attacking U.S. forces, who he said were tough enough to take it," and "Even some aides winced at Bush's words."
Then it collapses into utter spoogy whorishness: "Bush, a proud Texan with a penchant for plain talk...", "many Americans like what they hear from the president, calling his words reminiscent of his defiant stance against the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks," and "he's saying exactly what the American people want him to say, and saying it even in a way that they would want him to say it."
Jeezus K. F*ck - damn that liberal media.
"Bring 'Em On?"
A Former Special Forces Soldier Responds to Bush's Invitation for Iraqis to Attack US Troops:
"Yesterday, when I read that US Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush, in a moment of blustering arm-chair machismo, sent a message to the 'non-existent' Iraqi guerrillas to "bring 'em on," the first image in my mind was a 20-year-old soldier in an ever-more-fragile marriage, who'd been away from home for 8 months. He participated in the initial invasion, and was told he'd be home for the 4th of July. He has a newfound familiarity with corpses, and everything he thought he knew last year is now under revision. He is sent out into the streets of Fallujah (or some other city), where he has already been shot at once or twice with automatic weapons or an RPG, and his nerves are raw. He is wearing Kevlar and ceramic body armor, a Kevlar helmet, a load carrying harness with ammunition, grenades, flex-cuffs, first-aid gear, water, and assorted other paraphernalia. His weapon weighs seven pounds, ten with a double magazine. His boots are bloused, and his long-sleeve shirt is buttoned at the wrist. It is between 100-110 degrees Fahrenheit at midday. He's been eating MRE's three times a day, when he has an appetite in this heat, and even his urine is beginning to smell like preservatives. Mosquitoes and sand flies plague him in the evenings, and he probably pulls a guard shift every night, never sleeping straight through. He and his comrades are beginning to get on each others' nerves. The rumors of 'going-home, not-going-home' are keeping him on an emotional roller coaster. Directives from on high are contradictory, confusing, and often stupid. The whole population seems hostile to him and he is developing a deep animosity for Iraq and all its people--as well as for official narratives.
"This is the lad who will hear from someone that George W. Bush, dressed in a suit with a belly full of rich food, just hurled a manly taunt from a 72-degree studio at the 'non-existent' Iraqi resistance."
- - From CounterPunch.
Rumsfeld's Reporter-Mocking Breaks Guinness Record
WASHINGTON (DPI) - By bending over and manipulating his buttocks cheeks as though they could speak while he repeated a Washington Post reporter's question in a singsong voice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld entered the Guinness World Records for greatest act of disdain for the press. He easily surpassed the old record set by Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler, who was famous for going to elementary schools and stealing lunch money from reporter's offspring. Rumsfeld gave no indication of resting on his laurels. When asked if he would try to top this benchmark, he told an ABC reporter to "wipe your love life off your chin, then ask me a question".
- - Snort. From The Daily Probe.
Bunnypants concerned taunts may affect his poll numbers
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN PIMP: John, back to Iraq for just a moment, if we could. Today's grenade attack against U.S. soldiers in Baghdad is exactly the kind of attack the president was addressing yesterday. Any reaction at this point from the administration?
JOHN KING, CNN WHORESSPONDENT: No reaction directly to this latest attack, except for White House officials who say that they expect this to happen in a dangerous place. There is discussion behind the scenes here at the White House about the political fallout from the president's remarks yesterday, the president saying, "Bring 'em on." That was his attitude to those who want to attack U.S. forces.
Aides insisting what the president meant was that he would not be scared out of Iraq, that he would not be rushed out of Iraq before the job is done by factions trying to attack U.S. troops. But some here say perhaps he could have chosen better words.
They're not so much worried about the Democratic criticism that the president's rhetoric is macho and that he is essentially taunting or daring the enemy to attack U.S. troops. What they are concerned most about is that if some American is killed over today, tomorrow or in the next few days that the parent of that troop coming home dead might wonder what the president meant. - - link.
Boot Bush, Tony
Jul 3 2003: PM warned he will be election 'target':
Tony 'Piddles' Blair has been told he must distance himself from serial liar/war deserter Napoleon Bonehead. The warning came yesterday at a meeting with Sidney Blumenthal, an aide to twice-elected US president Bill Clinton (Blair will meet his 'political soulmate' Clinton next week in London).
A vicious battle between Democrats and Republicans is predicted in the next presidential election and Mr Blumenthal said the PM would suffer from his close relationship with chronic liar and coward Squinty McSquirtypants.
He said: "The US is about to enter a very contentious political phase as our presidential campaign heats up. Bush intends to exploit 9/11 and that is going to be used against him.
"It is going to become intense to the extent that any foreign leader who associated himself with Bush's political goals will become an object of controversy. He will be an indirect target."
"His vacuous, vainglorious idiocy"
Mike Shannon, at SmirkingChimp.com:
"Even for a man who has made some of the stupidest, most ill-advised, poorly thought out and badly constructed off the cuff comments ever uttered by a high ranking government official, this was way over the line. For George Bush to declare that "we have sufficient forces" in place to handle any armed threat from Iraqi insurrectionists so "bring them on" is so lacking in common sense, so devoid of compassion for those effected by the statement, so willful a display of ignorance of how such a comment will be interpreted by both foe and friend alike that it can be considered nothing but indisputable evidence that he is by temperament and intellect grotesquely unsuited for the office of the President of the United States.
"For a man who has never heard a shot fired in anger to stand in a public forum and deliberately goad others to take violent action against the men and women he is directly responsible for is an abomination. How dare he be so callous? How dare he be so hypocritical? How dare he be so stupid?"
"Karl told me to enjoy my vacation!"
They Were Expendable
"See, we’ve been there for, what - I mean, how many days. Eighty, 90? Frankly, it wasn’t all that long ago that we started military operations. And we got rid of him; much faster than a lot of people thought.” - oblivious dumbass, serial liar, aWol hypocrite Smirky McStinkysox, 7/2/03.
Ummmm, ground operations started on Iraqi soil on March 20th. That means we've been there, what, 107 days! He doesn't KNOW? And then guesses wrong by almost four weeks??
Hey, Tim Russert, you whore, why don't you make an issue of this??. Or of the fact that Chimpboy didn't even know who was in charge of finding WMD's in Iraq? Oh sorry, you've already been paid for, you numb hack.
God, souls of dead soldiers, send George W Bush a message.
U.S. troops attacked in latest burst of violence
At least 10 American soldiers have been wounded in attacks today in Iraq, according to U.S. military officials.
The attacks came a day after cowardly war deserter and faux-cowboy Sheriff Sh*thead - saying he was confident that U.S. forces in Iraq were well-protected - said to those in Iraq looking to harm American troops, "My answer is, bring them on."
July 2, 2003
Dems react to 'Bring 'em on!' comment by cowardly war deserter
"I am shaking my head in disbelief. When I served in the army in Europe during World War II, I never heard any military commander -- let alone the commander in chief -- invite enemies to attack U.S. troops." - NJ Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg.
"I have a message for the president: 'Enough of the phony, macho rhetoric. We should be focused on a long-term security plan that reduces the danger to our military personnel."' - Rep. Dick 'Fluffy' Gephardt of Missouri, Democratic presidential candidate.
"Today, President Bush provoked Iraqi militants targeting our soldiers in Iraq, saying ‘Bring them on.’ This was incredibly reckless rhetoric. These men and women are risking their lives every day, and the President who sent them on this mission showed tremendous insensitivity to the dangers they face. This is the wrong message to send to our troops in the field and their families who wish them a safe return. President Bush should focus on encouraging the keeping of the peace, since that is now our mission.” - Gov. Howard Dean, prez candidate.
"I think the president's remarks were tough and really boosted morale, he's a born leader and a proud veteran of the Vietnam conflict." - fake quote that could've come from the drooling yap of Joe 'GW Lite' Lieberman (thanks to a DU poster). - - - - link.
Recall nut held twice on illegal gun charges
Rep. Darrell Issa was arrested twice on illegal-weapons charges, including an incident in Michigan that led to a misdemeanor gun conviction.
Issa's weapons arrests have come under new scrutiny as the millionaire Republican attempts to oust Gov. Gray Davis in an unprecedented recall campaign.
Court records on file in Issa's hometown of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, show that in March 1972, one month after getting out of the Army, Issa was arrested on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and auto theft.
The incident, which involved Issa's older brother William, concerned the alleged theft of a new red Maserati sports car from an auto dealership. His campaign has denied the incident in later interviews as well, saying it never happened.
U.S. deaths in Iraq send political ripples
From the Whore Street Journal:
Lawmakers, Public Become More Restless and Pessimistic, Put Some Heat on Bush.
WASHINGTON -- Continuing American casualties in Iraq are generating new restlessness among lawmakers and the public, presenting an unexpected political problem for pResident Bush.
At least 63 American troops have died in the two months since Mr. Bush stood on an aircraft carrier and hailed victory under a "Mission Accomplished" banner. And almost as many have died since the fall of Baghdad on April 9 as those who died during the war up to that point. Now the White House faces swelling public pessimism about the occupation, and bipartisan calls for more complete disclosure about its risks and costs as well as for more international support.
Few al-Qaida ties seen in Iraq arrests
U.S. forces in central Iraq have detained a handful of people suspected of ties to al-Qaida, but American intelligence officials describe them as mostly low-level operatives with unclear purposes in the country.
Their presence is far from conclusive evidence that the Bush Cartel's pre-war assertions about al-Qaida links to the Iraqi government were accurate, experts say.
Bet you didn't see this on CNN.
Dems: GOP is starving the inquiry into WMD lies
Democrats on the Senate and House Select Intelligence Committees say their panels do not have enough resources to investigate allegations that the Bush Cartel manipulated evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to justify an invasion.
These lawmakers say the committees’ regular staff is too small and saddled with too many additional responsibilities to evaluate accurately whether the administration properly reported evidence of these weapons — or the lack thereof — to Congress.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, House republicans defeated two Democrat-sponsored amendments to broaden the investigation into the misadministration’s handling of evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
One amendment would have required the General Accounting Office to investigate what information U.S. intelligence shared with U.N. weapons inspectors before the war. A second would have authorized the CIA’s inspector general to audit communications between Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney’s staff and CIA analysts.
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) said lying about evidence of weapons of mass destruction would be grounds for impeaching serial liar/war deserter pResident Evil or other members of the administration.
COULTER: North Korea is different from Iraq. That isn’t - the 9/11 terrorists didn’t come out of that region.
MATTHEWS: That region. But they came out of Iraq.
COULTER: No, they came out of the Middle East.
MATTHEWS: And therefore we should have attacked Iraq?
COULTER: That’s part of the reason. We have to clean out the whole swamp.
The Chris Matthews spanking of delusional neonazi skank Ann Coulter, here.
MATTHEWS: Were the Republicans willing to oppose World War II before Pearl Harbor right? And they vigorously
opposed getting involved in the war in Europe.
COULTER: As I describe in my book, they were wrong and I have to describe this...
MATTHEWS: The Republicans were wrong?
COULTER: Yes, they were.
MATTHEWS: Were they traitors?
COULTER: No. They came around...
MATTHEWS: But when liberals oppose wars, they are treasonists.
Whose turn was it to watch him?
More inspiring quotes from the clueless Crawford Caligula:
"There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring'em on! We've got the force necessary to deal with the security situation."
"We've got plenty tough force there right now to make sure the situation is secure."
"But make no mistake about it, and the enemy shouldn't make any mistake about it, we will deal with them harshly if they continue to try to bring harm to the Iraqi people."
- the Iraqi people?? - aWol simp, cowardly cretin, and unbelievable bonehead Daddy's Little Deserter, safe behind his SS agents and bulletproof glass in DC, 7/2/03, as our soldiers are being shot and killed on a daily, if not hourly, basis.
"Worst. pResident. EVER."
Clueless, pointless, ballless
From the What is he, high? department:
Senator Joe Biden, D-ino, is thinking about running for president.
Well, it's pretty much an unimaginable horror for you to be the "president"...
Flashback: "Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I - it's - I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values." - serial liar, war deserter and f*cked-up fratboy "Bring 'em On" Bush, aWol chickenshit, Washington DC, 7/2/01.
The Kitten Kevorkian, unkut
What a kook.
God, his poor patients. How Bill 'Mew!' Frist got his nickname:
'There's a serial cat killer on the loose in the West. Has anyone checked Bill Frist's alibi?
'In his 1989 memoir, Dr. Frist, the heart surgeon and Senate majority leader, confessed that at Harvard Medical School, he used to adopt stray cats at shelters, take them home and slice and dice them for practice.
'"It was, of course, a heinous and dishonest thing to do," he wrote. "And I was totally schizoid about the entire matter. By day, I was little Billy Frist, the boy who lived on Bowling Avenue in Nashville and had decided to become a doctor because of his gentle father and a dog named Scratchy. By night, I was Dr. William Harrison Frist, future cardiothoracic surgeon, who was not going to let a few sentiments about cute, furry little creatures stand in the way of his career. In short, I was going a little crazy."' - Maureen Dowd.
I'm still pretty much out of it today.
Cannon fodder
How f*cking HEROIC: pReznit Gameboy taunts Iraqi guerrillas who are killing our troops.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - War deserter, coward, and irredeemably stupid sack of mucus pReznit Privilege, from the safety of the White House, today challenged militants who have been killing and injuring U.S. forces in Iraq, saying "bring them on" because American forces were tough enough to deal with their attacks.
"There are some who feel like that conditions are such that they can attack us there," Resident Evil told stenographers reporters at the White House. "My answer is bring them on. We have the force necessary to deal with the situation."
Chr*st, what a dumbass.
July 1, 2003
Sad news
We say goodbye to JC Christian, Jesus' General, one of the funniest blogs ever. He'll be missed.
"A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."
What did the Commander in Chief do? Nothing. He sat there. He sat for well over 5 minutes, doing nothing while 3,000 people were dying and the attacks were still in progress.
In this footage obtained exclusively by The Memory Hole, watch as the President of the United States sits and does nothing after learning that his country is under attack. Note: This is not the truncated, 2-minute footage that has been available for a year. This is a much longer version, never before seen by the public - link.
Democrat Dr. Ruth headlines Bush event
Jesus K. F***....
DINO Dr. Ruth had Bush supporters clamoring to see her at a $2,000-a-head fund-raiser in Tampa and at a similar event in Miami earlier in the day.
For Bush top financial supporters who were rewarded with having their picture taken with the simian serial liar, the added bonus was a snapshot with Dem turncoat Dr. Ruth.
"I got my picture taken with the president, he got down on his knees," she said. Numb stupid bitch.
Rumsfeld: we are not facing a guerrilla war or are stuck in a quagmire
Six more American soldiers were wounded in ambushes in Iraq today, four possibly killed - link.
Feeling safer yet?
Study: Emergency Responders Unprepared
(AP) - Nearly two years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States remains "dangerously unprepared" to handle another catastrophic attack, according to a study by the Council on Foreign Relations. The government says it already has done some of what the council suggested and is working on other recommendations. The report said the main problem is that emergency responders on the front lines — police, fire, public health and other officials — are drastically underfinanced and lack the equipment or training they need. The council, a New York-based private world affairs advocacy organization, recommended spending $98 billion beyond the $27 billion it said the federal government planned to spend on first responders over the next five years.
Sorry about the light blogging. I've been sick and trying to sleep it off. It's not working too well. The cats come up every so often and paw at my face until I give them Friskies treats, the dogs appear to have gone on Molecule Watch, and warn me whenever one seems to be sneaking up on me. The crows decided today would be a good day to hang out right outside my bedroom window, telling jokes. I could murder them.
"The attack has been spectacular"
"Given that thousands of Iraqis and more than 200 Americans have already lost their lives (even as US soldiers are ambushed and murdered daily) and that the illegal occupation of Iraq is expected to last somewhere between 5 and 60 years, weighing the consequential trauma of Monica's soiled blue dress against the long-term consequences of Bush Doctrine-related fabrications is like wondering if Martha Stewart is as criminally diabolical as John Wayne Gacy." -
Maureen Farrell, at BuzzFlash.
The Moron-in-Chief's chief enablers
"Today, as the fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq continues and the White House claim that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to America seems more dubious by the day, more questions are being raised in Congress about President Bush's tendency to mislead and deceive. Many journalists, though, seem less interested in being the watchdog than in assuring Americans that Bush hasn't lied about central issues like war and peace. Instead, he's simply exaggerated." - Eric Boehlert, in Salon.
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