Democrats: what WMD?
The Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia,
expressed concern that the searches are being diverted away from finding actual weapons.
"Signs of a weapons program are very different than the stockpiles of biological and chemical
weapons that were a certainty before the war," Rockefeller said. "We did not go to war to disrupt
Saddam's weapons program, we went to disarm him."
"It's looking more and more like a case of mass deception," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said
after Kay briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites). "There was no
imminent danger, and we should never have gone to war."
Thursday, July 31, 2003
Morons.com:
Satire: Sharpie Takes Blame for Flag Desecration
Posted by spatula on Jul. 28, 2003
(22 comments from readers)
The company that manufactures Sharpie permanent markers has
stepped forward to take the blame for Bush's flag desecration...
Sanford, a division of Newell Rubbermaid, maker of
the Sharpie™ permanent marker has stepped
forward to take the heat for Bush's recent flag
desecration. Pictured to the right you can see Bush
using a Sharpie™ to pen his signature over the
stars and bars in a display of supreme arrogance.
Satire: Sharpie Takes Blame for Flag Desecration
Posted by spatula on Jul. 28, 2003
(22 comments from readers)
The company that manufactures Sharpie permanent markers has
stepped forward to take the blame for Bush's flag desecration...
Sanford, a division of Newell Rubbermaid, maker of
the Sharpie™ permanent marker has stepped
forward to take the heat for Bush's recent flag
desecration. Pictured to the right you can see Bush
using a Sharpie™ to pen his signature over the
stars and bars in a display of supreme arrogance.
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Anticipation of W press conference - posted by Flash Harry on DU:
Mr. President, how much does America kick ass?
Thank you for asking, David. Well, uh.. u... 'Murka's like a baseball player all hopped up on the juice. Nuthin' can stop us swingin' for the fences. Plus, you'd better not piss us off. That stuff messes with our head, somethin' fierce. And remember, we're at bat for freedom. Facing the pitcher of hatretude. We are the haters of the haters of freedom, and we will prevail.
Mr. President, how much does America kick ass?
Thank you for asking, David. Well, uh.. u... 'Murka's like a baseball player all hopped up on the juice. Nuthin' can stop us swingin' for the fences. Plus, you'd better not piss us off. That stuff messes with our head, somethin' fierce. And remember, we're at bat for freedom. Facing the pitcher of hatretude. We are the haters of the haters of freedom, and we will prevail.
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
U.S. Fights Verdict Backing Ex-P.O.W.'s
By ADAM LIPTAK
hen 21 freed American P.O.W.'s returned home from the Persian Gulf war in March 1991, Dick
Cheney, then secretary of defense, welcomed them at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
"Every man and woman who cares for freedom," Mr. Cheney said, "owes you a very special
measure of gratitude."
Of those 21 former prisoners of war, 17, who had been tortured by their Iraqi captors, would like
something more tangible. This month they won a court award of almost $1 billion against Iraq,
and a federal law says they may be paid from frozen Iraqi funds.
The Bush administration has expressed sympathy for the plaintiffs over what they endured but
is fighting them about the money, saying it is urgently needed to rebuild Iraq.
By ADAM LIPTAK
hen 21 freed American P.O.W.'s returned home from the Persian Gulf war in March 1991, Dick
Cheney, then secretary of defense, welcomed them at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
"Every man and woman who cares for freedom," Mr. Cheney said, "owes you a very special
measure of gratitude."
Of those 21 former prisoners of war, 17, who had been tortured by their Iraqi captors, would like
something more tangible. This month they won a court award of almost $1 billion against Iraq,
and a federal law says they may be paid from frozen Iraqi funds.
The Bush administration has expressed sympathy for the plaintiffs over what they endured but
is fighting them about the money, saying it is urgently needed to rebuild Iraq.
Monday, July 28, 2003
Mark Morford:
== Bush Says Yo 'Sup Homies I Be Down Wid Dat ==
BushCo is making a rare appearance before a group that represents black
Americans, part of an effort to build ties to a demographic group that
overwhelmingly voted against him in 2000 and pretty much thinks he is
the niddering dinkwad spawn of a hollow WASP mafia empire that pretty
much thinks black people are a scourge and a menace just like gays and
Latinos and Asians and dogs and ferrets and small European cars and
solar power and organic foods and love. Bush was to travel to
Pittsburgh on Monday to address a conference of the National Urban
League, a group less critical of his policies than the NAACP, which he
has shunned during his 2 1/2 years in office. Bush was planning on
testing out some of his new humorous zingers about smackin' up some
skank-ass crack ho's and dazzling the crowd with the story of the time
he was snorting blow off Beyonce's ass while "schwizzling the whizzle"
to 50 Cent wid Da Krew, cuz he's down with it. Black people everywhere
were preparing to recoil violently at the very thought of Bush coming
anywhere near an organization of black people and daring to pretend to
care about anything resembling racial outreach. Bush also planned on
trotting out the old chestnut that Condoleeza Rice was rumored to be
black, when in fact everyone knows she is a freakishly rigid spinster
automaton who scares small children and whom the black race officially
disowned roughly two decades ago.
== Bush Says Yo 'Sup Homies I Be Down Wid Dat ==
BushCo is making a rare appearance before a group that represents black
Americans, part of an effort to build ties to a demographic group that
overwhelmingly voted against him in 2000 and pretty much thinks he is
the niddering dinkwad spawn of a hollow WASP mafia empire that pretty
much thinks black people are a scourge and a menace just like gays and
Latinos and Asians and dogs and ferrets and small European cars and
solar power and organic foods and love. Bush was to travel to
Pittsburgh on Monday to address a conference of the National Urban
League, a group less critical of his policies than the NAACP, which he
has shunned during his 2 1/2 years in office. Bush was planning on
testing out some of his new humorous zingers about smackin' up some
skank-ass crack ho's and dazzling the crowd with the story of the time
he was snorting blow off Beyonce's ass while "schwizzling the whizzle"
to 50 Cent wid Da Krew, cuz he's down with it. Black people everywhere
were preparing to recoil violently at the very thought of Bush coming
anywhere near an organization of black people and daring to pretend to
care about anything resembling racial outreach. Bush also planned on
trotting out the old chestnut that Condoleeza Rice was rumored to be
black, when in fact everyone knows she is a freakishly rigid spinster
automaton who scares small children and whom the black race officially
disowned roughly two decades ago.
Just War to sue bush for defamation of character
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) said Monday the Bush administration's lack of planning for a post-Saddam Iraq (news - web sites) and its unclear handling of intelligence claims threaten to "give a bad name to what really was a just war."
The Connecticut senator said on NBC's "Today" show that he is also troubled with members of his own party, many of whom supported the war, "who now seem to be raising so many question that they're leaving the impression that they don't think this was a just war."
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) said Monday the Bush administration's lack of planning for a post-Saddam Iraq (news - web sites) and its unclear handling of intelligence claims threaten to "give a bad name to what really was a just war."
The Connecticut senator said on NBC's "Today" show that he is also troubled with members of his own party, many of whom supported the war, "who now seem to be raising so many question that they're leaving the impression that they don't think this was a just war."
What Geneva Convention? We take hostages, cuz...God is with us!(from Eschaton)
Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, said tougher methods are being used to gather the intelligence. On Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant general. They left a note: "If you want your family released, turn yourself in." Such tactics are justified, he said, because, "It's an intelligence operation with detainees, and these people have info." They would have been released in due course, he added later.
Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, said tougher methods are being used to gather the intelligence. On Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant general. They left a note: "If you want your family released, turn yourself in." Such tactics are justified, he said, because, "It's an intelligence operation with detainees, and these people have info." They would have been released in due course, he added later.
Mishun Accomplished - the Spin:
MR. RUSSERT: Let me go back to May 1. And this was the scene on the USS Lincoln. President Bush arrived on it. And as he is walking to the podium, you see that banner, “Mission Accomplished.” Since that date, 400 U.S. soldiers have been wounded or injured, 107 killed, 48 from hostile fire. Was the president too premature in suggesting that the mission in Iraq has been accomplished?
DR. WOLFOWITZ: Look, the mission for those Navy pilots, and it was a magnificent mission, was accomplished, because, as the president said, major combat operations were over.
MR. RUSSERT: Let me go back to May 1. And this was the scene on the USS Lincoln. President Bush arrived on it. And as he is walking to the podium, you see that banner, “Mission Accomplished.” Since that date, 400 U.S. soldiers have been wounded or injured, 107 killed, 48 from hostile fire. Was the president too premature in suggesting that the mission in Iraq has been accomplished?
DR. WOLFOWITZ: Look, the mission for those Navy pilots, and it was a magnificent mission, was accomplished, because, as the president said, major combat operations were over.
Friday, July 25, 2003
Are for Cars, Not California Governors
by Bill Maher
Excerpt:
Here's why the economy turned: The dot-com bubble burst. (Obviously on the orders of Gray Davis.)
The airline industry collapsed. (Just as Gray Davis planned.) We fought two wars. (Playing right into Gray Davis' hands.)
And Dick Cheney's friends at Enron "gamed" the energy market and ripped off the state for billions.
So you can see the problem: Gray Davis.
And the obvious solution: A Viennese weightlifter. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Finally, a candidate
who can explain the Bush administration's positions on civil liberties in the original German.
by Bill Maher
Excerpt:
Here's why the economy turned: The dot-com bubble burst. (Obviously on the orders of Gray Davis.)
The airline industry collapsed. (Just as Gray Davis planned.) We fought two wars. (Playing right into Gray Davis' hands.)
And Dick Cheney's friends at Enron "gamed" the energy market and ripped off the state for billions.
So you can see the problem: Gray Davis.
And the obvious solution: A Viennese weightlifter. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Finally, a candidate
who can explain the Bush administration's positions on civil liberties in the original German.
Mark Morford:
== Watching BushCo Crumble ==
Ratings slipping, economy tanking, lies spiraling, credibility shot.
Try not to cheer
(By Mark Morford)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/07/25/notes072503.DTL&nl=fix
This is what happens when it's all a house of cards.
This is what happens when you build your entire presidency on an
intricate network of aww-shucks glibness and bad hair and cronyism and
corporate fellatio and warmongering and sham enemies and
economy-gutting policies and endless blank-eyed smirks that tell the
world, every single day, whelp, sure 'nuff, the U.S. is full of it.
Shrub's ratings have dropped below 50 percent for the first (and
probably not the last) time since they surged hugely right after 9/11
and he was hoisted in front of a wary America and puffed out his chest
and pretended like he could find Afghanistan on a map and promised he
would bomb every damn country on the planet that didn't have a
McDonald's or an Exxon or a secret U.S. chemical-weapons deal.
== Watching BushCo Crumble ==
Ratings slipping, economy tanking, lies spiraling, credibility shot.
Try not to cheer
(By Mark Morford)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/07/25/notes072503.DTL&nl=fix
This is what happens when it's all a house of cards.
This is what happens when you build your entire presidency on an
intricate network of aww-shucks glibness and bad hair and cronyism and
corporate fellatio and warmongering and sham enemies and
economy-gutting policies and endless blank-eyed smirks that tell the
world, every single day, whelp, sure 'nuff, the U.S. is full of it.
Shrub's ratings have dropped below 50 percent for the first (and
probably not the last) time since they surged hugely right after 9/11
and he was hoisted in front of a wary America and puffed out his chest
and pretended like he could find Afghanistan on a map and promised he
would bomb every damn country on the planet that didn't have a
McDonald's or an Exxon or a secret U.S. chemical-weapons deal.
On the photos of the dead Saddam sons - posted on DU by Gratuituous:
More Republican Pornography
Put it on the shelf with HUAC, McCarthy, Watergate, the Starr Report, and Election 2000. The boxed set will come out this Christmas for the knuckle-dragger on your list who has absolutely nothing, but votes for Republicans because they'll repeal the estate tax.
More Republican Pornography
Put it on the shelf with HUAC, McCarthy, Watergate, the Starr Report, and Election 2000. The boxed set will come out this Christmas for the knuckle-dragger on your list who has absolutely nothing, but votes for Republicans because they'll repeal the estate tax.
Wall Street Journal on the 9.11 report(26 missing pages)
The gaps could fuel the already-roaring controversy over how the Bush administration uses intelligence. The White House has been shaken by revelations that presidential aides were warned by the Central Intelligence Agency not to publicize a discredited report on alleged Iraqi efforts to obtain nuclear material. In his January State of the Union address, Mr. Bush nonetheless used the report to justify invading Iraq.
The gaps could fuel the already-roaring controversy over how the Bush administration uses intelligence. The White House has been shaken by revelations that presidential aides were warned by the Central Intelligence Agency not to publicize a discredited report on alleged Iraqi efforts to obtain nuclear material. In his January State of the Union address, Mr. Bush nonetheless used the report to justify invading Iraq.
Thursday, July 24, 2003
EMINEM DEEMED MORE TRUTHFUL THAN BUSH
Rap superstar EMINEM has been deemed "more truthful" than American President GEORGE W BUSH by a new survey.
The poll quizzed 1,016 Americans on issues of trust and gossip amongst other topics. And 53 per cent of those asked found the LOSE YOURSELF hitmaker's rhymes more credible and believable than Bush's speeches.
Almost two thirds of those polled in the 18-24 age bracket preferred SLIM SHADY to Bush, and even 55 per cent of 35-44 year-olds thought the same.
The survey was conducted by advertising agency EURO RSCG.
Rap superstar EMINEM has been deemed "more truthful" than American President GEORGE W BUSH by a new survey.
The poll quizzed 1,016 Americans on issues of trust and gossip amongst other topics. And 53 per cent of those asked found the LOSE YOURSELF hitmaker's rhymes more credible and believable than Bush's speeches.
Almost two thirds of those polled in the 18-24 age bracket preferred SLIM SHADY to Bush, and even 55 per cent of 35-44 year-olds thought the same.
The survey was conducted by advertising agency EURO RSCG.
Seymor Hersh: bushco ignores info on AlQuaeda:
“There is no security relationship now,” a Syrian foreign-ministry official told me. “It saddens us as much as it saddens you. We could give you information on organizations that we don’t think should exist. If we help you on Al Qaeda, we are helping ourselves.” He added, almost plaintively, that if Washington had agreed to discuss certain key issues in a back channel, “we’d have given you more. But when you publicly try to humiliate a country it’ll become stubborn.”
“There is no security relationship now,” a Syrian foreign-ministry official told me. “It saddens us as much as it saddens you. We could give you information on organizations that we don’t think should exist. If we help you on Al Qaeda, we are helping ourselves.” He added, almost plaintively, that if Washington had agreed to discuss certain key issues in a back channel, “we’d have given you more. But when you publicly try to humiliate a country it’ll become stubborn.”
Killing your enemy's family - consistent con policy:
http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire021501.shtml
Chelsea is a Clinton. She bears the taint; and though not prosecutable in law,
in custom and nature the taint cannot be ignored. All the great despotisms of
the past — I'm not arguing for despotism as a principle, but they sure knew
how to deal with potential trouble — recognized that the families of
objectionable citizens were a continuing threat. In Stalin's penal code it was a
crime to be the wife or child of an "enemy of the people". The Nazis used
the same principle, which they called Sippenhaft, "clan liability". In
Imperial China, enemies of the state were punished "to the ninth degree":
that is, everyone in the offender's own generation would be killed, and
everyone related via four generations up, to the great-great-grandparents, and
four generations down, to the great-great-grandchildren, would also be killed.
(This sounds complicated, but in practice what usually happened was that a
battalion of soldiers was sent to the offender's home town, where they killed
everyone they could find, on the principle neca eos omnes, deus suos - let God sort them out
http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire021501.shtml
Chelsea is a Clinton. She bears the taint; and though not prosecutable in law,
in custom and nature the taint cannot be ignored. All the great despotisms of
the past — I'm not arguing for despotism as a principle, but they sure knew
how to deal with potential trouble — recognized that the families of
objectionable citizens were a continuing threat. In Stalin's penal code it was a
crime to be the wife or child of an "enemy of the people". The Nazis used
the same principle, which they called Sippenhaft, "clan liability". In
Imperial China, enemies of the state were punished "to the ninth degree":
that is, everyone in the offender's own generation would be killed, and
everyone related via four generations up, to the great-great-grandparents, and
four generations down, to the great-great-grandchildren, would also be killed.
(This sounds complicated, but in practice what usually happened was that a
battalion of soldiers was sent to the offender's home town, where they killed
everyone they could find, on the principle neca eos omnes, deus suos - let God sort them out
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