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Thursday, May 01, 2008
"President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said 'mission accomplished' for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission," White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. "And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner. And I recognize that the media is going to play this up again tomorrow, as they do every single year." Don't you love how the White House pretends Bush is the victim here? Me too. Of course, the reason they weren't more specific and said mission accomplished for these sailors is that they didn't invent that excuse until months after the fact. What a crummy article. The only fault I can see is that we all misinterpreted a perfectly clear banner and beat up a poor defenseless president. It also continues the myth that Bush flew the plane. I wonder what percentage of Americans believe that Bush was the pilot. I bet above 90. If you'll forgive me for patting myself on the back, but that day five years ago I told anyone who would listen - not many - that Democrats were going to wind up using that image in political ads. Labels: Bush, Conservative Goons, history, Iraq, TV 11:26 bone daddy Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Ah, Turkey ready to invade Iraq, Pakistan breaking out the whoop-ass on secular powers and the Get out of Jail free cards on the Taliban types ... how's that "stability to the region" coming? My favorite bit in this article about Musharraf's ham-fisted repression comes in here ... The general's suspension of the constitution has given Pakistani authorities sweeping powers to detain without charge. Opposition groups reported at least 3,500 arrests over the preceding three days, many of them attorneys. Notice anything? When Musharraf gave himself the power to detain without charge, he at least announced it. Labels: Bush, Conservative Goons, Iraq 22:50 bone daddy Thursday, August 23, 2007
No Sense of Decency ... Bush scratches at the wounds of Vietnam in an attempt to smear his critics and prop up faltering support for his Iraq folly. I've long maintained that the pro-war right will get loonier and more violent as the debacle that is Iraq becomes less and less deniable. No reason Bush would be exempt from this I guess. There's two ways of looking at this - either a man with little ability to grasp the present is showing his trouble with the past as well, or Bush knows perfectly well that Iraq is and will continue to be a disaster for some time and he is setting up others to take the blame. The lesson of Vietnam is not to keep pouring lives and treasure down a dark and poisonous well, but to patiently use a pragmatic mix of diplomacy and trade with even our ideological competitors. Lastly, I'd like to ask, if Bush knows so much about winning in Vietnam, why didn't he go ahead and fight there? Labels: 2008, Bush, Conservative Goons, history, Iraq 14:21 bone daddy Monday, August 13, 2007Karl Rove to Leave White House, Spend More Time with Coven Labels: Bush, Conservative Goons, crime, Iraq 16:50 bone daddy Thursday, July 19, 2007Great video on Generation Chickenhawk. Labels: 2008, Bush, Conservative Goons, Iraq 10:33 bone daddy Tuesday, July 10, 2007We're already hearing - for those who couldn't figure it out - that we will fall far short of the goals Bush laid out for the surge/escalation, meeting "not a single goal." First Bush rejects anyone else's (already low) standards or expectations and, in fact, sneers at them. Then he proposes his own (corrupt and artificial and lower) goals as superior. Then he fails to meet them and will probably retroactively creat a third set of goals that he will have to lie to pretend to have met better than expected. I couldn't come up with a better motif of the W years. Labels: Bush, Conservative Goons, crime, Iraq 16:07 bone daddy Monday, July 02, 2007
Who wipes away Libby's prison time? The accountability president. The "restore integrity to the White House" president. The Fitzgerald prosecution, already sort of empty in my book because it did not charge as criminals Rove and Cheney, just got a little emptier. Labels: Bush, Conservative Goons, crime, Iraq 22:14 bone daddy Wednesday, May 30, 2007A Modest Proposal This whole timetable issue has a clear and easy solution. Well, at least the financial end of it does. Let's simply fund the Iraq disaster by taxing the people who supported it. You want it, you pay for it. This would also be quite easy to figure out. By 2004, the war was clearly a disaster. If you voted for Bush, you need to sacrifice for this fiasco you supported. Note how I'm exempting those who originally supported the war but came to their senses later. I'm generous that way. Now if you didn't support the war, but voted for Bush for some other reason, sorry, but you get taxed for having your priorities out of whack. Who could possibly complain about this? What, you want other people to fight and pay for your war? Now some might point out that punishing people for the way they vote is unconstitutional. However, this just brings up another beautiful aspect of my plan. By 2004, W. had already demonstrated his disregard for the Constitution. A vote for him was a vote for unconstitutional rule. Except for the fact that it will never happen, I don't see a flaw here. Labels: Bush, Conservative Goons, Iraq 22:36 bone daddy Tuesday, February 20, 2007
I didn't say what I just said, and neither did Lincoln Representative Don Young calls for the exile or execution of Republican war supporters with his quote of Lincoln, "Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled or hanged." I understand Republican policies, like the "surge," and stop-loss-stay-in-Iraq-longer and the unforgettable "Armor? Eh, you won't need it," hurt troop morale, but I think executing Republicans is taking matters a bit far. This is also especially confusing because Young is a conservative Republican himself. Certainly, the Iraq war can change some hearts. Young's spokesman weirdly points out that Young was "not advocating the hanging of Democrats," which seems obvious to me. Should Democrats really be executed for not oppossing the war strongly enough? Seems harsh. Young himself supported the war until this recent quote. Labels: Conservative Goons, Iraq 08:50 bone daddy Saturday, February 17, 2007
In my quest to read the book about the political build-up to the Iraq war, I finished Michael Isikoff and David Corn's Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War. It's very good, but not definitive. The outing of Valerie Plame gets a lot of attention and Judy Miller of the New York Times has probably never looked worse. The authors document the backstory of three accusations propping up the Iraq menace: uranium in Niger, aluminum tubes, and mobile labs. How easily these could have been kicked out from under the blustery, lying, incompetent Bush adminstration shocks even a cynic like me. Of course, that would have taken an aggressive media, a bold opposition party and maybe somebody inside Bush's bubble willing to say no. 22:40 bone daddy Sunday, September 10, 2006
Coalition of the ... How'd that go again? Are we all aware that our "ally" Pakistan has signed a treaty with the resurgent Taliban stating that Osama is a free man if any of the signees know where he is? (Do you think they used little "wink, wink" emoticons?) Labels: Iraq 21:09 bone daddy |
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