The situation in Iraq has gone from bad to worse, and Preznit Vacation has no desire to let unpleasant facts get in the way of heading to Crawford to vote in the election there, at taxpayer expense.
President Bush won't talk about the prospect of civil war in Iraq and what it would mean to the U.S. troop presence.
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"Khalilzad said the U.S. has little choice but to maintain a strong presence in Iraq -- or risk a regional conflict in which Arabs side with Sunnis and Iranians back Shiites, in what could be a more encompassing version of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, which left more than 1 million dead.
The last time the US sent military forces in to intercede in a civil war, we had to build a monument to 58,000-plus Americans who lost their lives taking sides in a civil war that both the Preznit and Vice-Preznit ran away from, in spades. This time, those two cowards started it and we, the People own it. Unfortunately.
One dyed-in-the-wool republican (the rare honest kind) and the Duchess of Dupont. Amusing. Unfortunately with Sullivan's bi-polar love-hate disorder, he's as likely to be penning paens to Preznit Fails Everything as writing "biting" critcisms next week. Stay tuned, he'll claim it was the drugs.
Hey, look! It's the lying bastard republicans stripping away our civil rights, pissing on the Constitution, Fellating Beloved Leader and still getting to the bar for a tall, cold frosty one.
Moving to tamp down Democratic calls for an investigation of the administration's domestic eavesdropping program, Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that they had reached agreement with the White House on proposed bills to impose new oversight but allow wiretapping without warrants for up to 45 days.
Yes, that'll work because the 1600 Crew is so pre-disposed to allow oversight of anything by that one branch of the government they respect so much. You know, you'd think that eventually some republican members would get either tired of being made irrelevant or a bit sore from the boot on their necks. I guess not, they just go see Kitty-killer to get some more pain meds to ignore the throbbing, blinding pain of those boots and continue to soldier on and destroy the republic with that goofy, brain-addled smile on their faces.
Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how to operate the devices, a scientist said on Monday.
He's a man to be proud of. I'm betting that Bunnypanyts probably sicced the Secret Service, or Cheney's-Got-A-Gun on them to take that defective Segway back...wouldn't surprise me at all.
Fascinating interview by The Talking Dog with Professor Rick Wilson, who is defending a teenage defendant in GITMO. This is our government...in action. Gosh, they make me so proud.
Preznit Whiny Baby got his PATRIOT Act, that legislative tribute to Bedwetters everywhere. Supposedly the PATRIOT Act was supposed to "fight terra-rism" everywhere, but when it was passed many of us foresaw it as a tool for the chickenshit law-and-order (until they are caught, Duke Cunningham) congresscriminals to toss everything but the kitchen sink into the US Code of Federal Regulations, damn it's relation to terra-rism.
Well they have:
The reauthorized Patriot Act includes new tools to combat the manufacture and distribution of methamphetamine. It will require retailers to place cold medicines with pseudoephedrine -- a key ingredient of the illegal drug -- behind counters, and would set limits on each person's monthly and daily purchases. Buyers would have to identify themselves and sign for their purchases.
Coming next...a rule for calling for summary execution for running stop signs, speeding in school zones and too many parking tickets. There are plenty of other tools to fight meth use, the PATRIOT Act is hardly one of them.
DINO Henry Cuellar, the man Beloved Leader likes to kiss (right after Joementum) is going D-O-W-N (we hope) according to the latest results from the Texas Secretary of State. Rodriguez will be the replacement for Cuellar, since there is no one running as a republican (they did not need to, they had Cuellar, right?).
Ned Lamont is going to be running against Joementum, in that other state that can claim Preznit Rexall Wrangler as a "native son". He deserves to send Joementum off to join the Heritage Foundation as a Senior Fellow in charge of kissing ass and sniffing butts. I'm sure that Clarence Thomas' wife will be happy to help him pick out his furniture. Something in Early Homophobe will do nicely for him, and his pecksniff prig 'tude.
Some nice person nominated Democratic Veteran again this year for a Koufax in the category of "Most Deserving of Wider Recoginition". There are lots of great blogs nominated this year, as always. Check a few out if you have a minute.
Thanks, and if you toss a vote my way, thanks for that too...
Got an email today from a reader, Doug, who sent me a link to an article from DefenseLink, about how the good folks at CENTCOM are trying to get all buddy-buddy with bloggers...and it seems that they want to be bestest good friends with a certain...um...persuasion of on-line journalists...
Public affairs officials here said thousands of blogs are created each day, and they estimate that more than 21 million blogs are posted on the World Wide Web today.
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McNorton said the team contacts bloggers to inform the writers about any given topic that may have been posted on their site. This outreach effort enables the team to offer complete information to bloggers by inviting them to visit CENTCOM's Web site for news releases, data or imagery.
The team engages bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as bloggers who are posting incomplete information. They extend a friendly invitation to all bloggers to visit the command's Web site. (my emphasis)
Well isn't that special? The very next email I had in my in-box was from a SGT at CENTCOM...
Greetings Democratic Veteran,
My name is SGT Xyzt and I work at the US Central Command public affairs office. I found your site linked on another blog and I wanted to invite you to visit our website at:
Our site provides news/press releases, images and casualty reports from the CENTCOM area of responsibility, including anti-terrorism activities. I wanted to contact you because of your interest in politics and the CENTCOM AOR. If you are interested in signing up for our newsletter, you can do so at:
[http://blah blah blah yadda]
I also wanted to invite you to place a link to the CENTCOM website on your page if you think that is something your readers would be interested in. If you have any questions or would like any additional information, please contact me and I will do what I can to help. Let me know what you think. Thank you for your time.
SGT Xyzt
USCENTCOM Public Affairs
So Yo, CENTCOM all you needed to do was ask for a link...now it looks like you're sending me emails to try and influence my "bad" thinking.
Bottom line: next time I do a blogroll update, I'll toss you a link. I have no beef at all with the military, it was my home once too and I'm proud of that. My beef is with the idiots running the show. Clear as mud? Good. Now go find Osama, alright? And stop spending my tax dollars doing Unka Karl's dirty work.
