I gotta wonder if Scooter is going to maybe have a good time hanging with his ol' buddy Duke Cunningham? They are both going to be in the US Bureau of Prison system somewhere. Maybe living it up together, talking about the good old days screwing America while living large on the public dole. To think, they'll still be getting three squares and health care from us, just on a bit more scaled-back basis.
It's fun to see the "rule of law" crowd having paroxysms of rage over the Libby conviction, I have to wonder how many of them can still tell us the number of spots on Clinton's dick? Which is sort of like Scooter's Dick, but not as powerful...
I am going to greatly enjoy watching Scooter trotted off to the big house at some point this summer... it's gonna make for some interesting TV. Maybe he can get some tips from Paris Hilton on how to (1) use a psychiatrist to get out early (2) find religion behind bars (calling Chuckie Colson) (3) cry more than she did when taken away from his family in the prison vehicle.
At least Paris Hilton has expressed remorse for getting caught, something Scooter has yet to do. I wonder how much money is in the trust fund for his kids from "Uncle Dick"?
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday Washington was disappointed with the Iraqi government's efforts to pass laws aimed at reconciling the country's warring factions.
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Gates arrived on a day when the U.S. military said it had completed its troop build-up to 160,000 soldiers. Nearly 30,000 extra troops have been sent to Iraq, mainly to secure Baghdad.
The effort has been costly for U.S soldiers. May was the third deadliest month for U.S. troops since the start of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, with 126 killed.
The military said on Friday that four more soldiers were killed on Thursday, taking the June toll to 42 and 3,519 in total since 2003.
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In its quarterly report on Iraq published this week, the Pentagon said it was too soon to assess the military crackdown. While violence was down in Baghdad, the overall level was unchanged in Iraq because militants had simply moved their bases outside the capital, it said.
I guess that none of the brain-trust that runs the Pentagram for His Most Exalted Preztleness has managed to figure out that if the troops are in Baghdad, you move your operations elsewhere. Because that kind of thinking could get you fired from your delightful do-nothing job, and all future political work for the RNC would be in jeopardy. Better to spend your time writing letters to Judge Walton on behalf of covicted felon Scooter Libby than worry about the effects of piss-poor policy and planning.
The mess in Mess O'Potamia won't get better anytime soon, but I do expect a news conference any day now where Beloved Leader urges all the "little people" to clap until our hands bleed.
Preznit Putz has an indisputable talent for fucking up a wet dream. Honestly. Look at his track record ... a gimmee job in the Texas Air National Guard; business after business driven to ruin by his incompetance; a war in the Middle East; oh and his ineptitude in the Israeli-Palestinian mess...
Five years ago this month, President Bush stood in the Rose Garden and laid out a vision for the Middle East that included Israel and a state called Palestine living together in peace. "I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror," the president declared.
The takeover this week of the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group dedicated to the elimination of Israel demonstrates how much that vision has failed to materialize, in part because of actions taken by the administration. The United States championed Israel's departure from the Gaza Strip as a first step toward peace and then pressed both Israelis and Palestinians to schedule legislative elections, which Hamas unexpectedly won. Now Hamas is the unchallenged power in Gaza.
I won't mention the Sammy Sosa trade, because there's no point in piling on.
