January 4, 2007
Today's GI Death Toll: 3908
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Keith Olbermann comments on the NIE fiasco... you must see them.
UPDATE on IMPEACHMENT... HR 333 isn't dead, it's in committee. Thanks to Dennis Kucinich, who should be a front runner in this campaign. AfterDowningStreet.org is promoting a campaign to have an impeachment resolution read in every precinct of every caucus... will you join them?
We're going to hell in a handbasket; I'm quitting my job; you'll find me on the corner selling handbaskets.
Apparently this "person" will do anything to sell a book, and then brag about how much money she's got.
Signed by 50 students... LINK
After ludicrous claim that the budget deficit is down, Bush installs the biggest idiot in the history of the US House of Reps to replace outgoing cabinet officer Rob Portman as White House budget director. Get out your brown paper bags, political hack extrodinair Jim Nussle is back. Blair knew that there was no post-war plan for Iraq LIBBY ORDERED TO PRISON PENDING APPEAL.... Send your donations of soap-on-a-rope to the White House. BUSH GAFFES HIS WAY THROUGH EUROPE - Calls Pope "sir" - Tries to drive fat limosine through narrow gates at Vatican - Catches a booze buzz with Merkel (think he tried to rub her again?) Bush is a sheer joy when he's drunk. - Embarrasses US by criticizing allies' human rights records which they counter by bringing up Guantanamo - Spoils G8 global warming pact while claiming mantle of environmentalist - Suffers coincidental news story about CIA secret prisons and rendition - Inspires riots and demonstrations of hundreds of thousands wherever he goes The "September progress report" on the "surge" was nothing but a stalling tactic. The "surge" is not working, it has turned into an escalation, and now the Bush advance PR group is starting to do the preliminary softening up to lower your expectations. So why the "surge"? For political cover while they build up troop levels, suck more money out of the taxpayers, and continue plans for the 50 year occupation... Thousands of Turkish troops invade northern IRAQ... Developing.... From last week... Sludge told you: Dubya caught in a pickle with the Turkies and the Kurds. No, it's not a menu, it's a dangerous dispute between US allies Turkey and the Kurds in Iraq. Turkey's PM has demanded that the US destroy rebel bases in Iraq... or they will do it themselves.... LIBBY GETS 30 YEARS FOR BLOWING CIA AGENT'S COVER Well, that's what the headline SHOULD read. Instead, he's convicted of "obstruction of justice" and gets 30 months. So, what was "justice" obstructed from, exactly? Wasn't it obstructed from finding out who ordered Libby to reveal Valerie Plame's identity? Yes, it was... and we know it was Cheney... so why has Cheney not been charged with a crime? Do you have to ask? Somebody ought to be asking. The press seems to be merrily pre-occupied with the possibility that Bush may pardon him. Who gives a f*ck about that? We need CRIMINALS to be DRIVEN OUT OF OFFICE.
Claiming "actionable intelligence", Bush orders the Chaffee to shell "high-value terrorist targets" in Somalia. The article says there is no way to assess the damage or whether or not the "targets" were hit. In OTHER WORDS, the CIC is now engaging in acts of war without congressional approval against "targets" that very well may include civilians. What the f*ck is wrong with this picture??? Bush reverses position on global warming, now admitting that it exists (duh) and that we ought to try to reverse it (duh DUH). What do you suppose Drudge will have to say about that? And Rush? LOL! BTW, Bush also torpedoed the G8 plan for global warming which he can now hang on the wall next to the Kyoto Accord and the International Criminal Court trophies.
Sheehan quits the peace movement, says the Dems have sold her out. So Cindy, are you really surprised by that? Come on. Dems will submit war funding bill with no conditions, dates, or anything. Does this represent the will of the people or their inability to manage and control the political debate and their Constitutional role in war-making? NEW UK PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN WILL WITHDRAW BRITISH TROOPS FROM IRAQ... BUSH LOOKS MORE LIKE THE LONE RANGER EVERY DAY But wait! Bush spokesman says UK will NOT withdraw troops! Wishful thinking, mis-information, or stupidity? We report, you decide. Jimmy Carter states the obvious: Bush Admin the "WORST IN AMERICAN HISTORY". POLL RESPONDANTS AGREE... Chaos looms in Pakistan/Afghanistan. Musharraf struggles to hold on to dictatorial power he seized while his ally Bush looked the other way. Exiled former PMs and coup victims Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif are being preveneted from returning to Pakistan. The people are taking it to the streets... Bhutto's party calls it "the dying kicks of a vanquished dictator." Afghan troops mass on the Pakistan border spoiling for a fight. DEVELOPING... PROPAGANDA BONANZA FOR AL-QAEDA: IRAQI TROOPS ORDERED TO SHOOT JOURNALISTS WHO ATTEMPT TO COVER BOMBINGS New Bush Administration gag orders put the lie to any pretense of Iraqi "democracy" and "freedom" FLASH: JERRY FALWELL BEGINS OFFICIAL ROTTING IN HELL More grist for the political humor mill: Drudge says "Here comes Newt" as a newly "rehabilitated" Gingrich floats a big, fat, trial balloon for his chances as a GOP presidential contender (which are about ZERO). FLASHBACK: Newt admits cheating on his own sick wife while hounding Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinsky al-Qaeda claims to have captured 3 US soldiers Let's hope they treat their prisoners better than Bush/Gonzo treat prisoners. Oh, never mind, they're not pissed off because of abu Ghraib. This is revenge for 3 GIs raping a 14 year old Iraqi girl.
NEW "AXIS OF EVIL" STRATEGY... beg Iran to help US put Humpty Dumpty back together again. After all the cowboy bluster, the overt threats, and the grandstanding bully crap that makes red-staters kiss the flag wrapped around Bush's ass, there is poetic justice in seeing some contrition from The Decider. Humiliating foreign policy, once again.
Bush announces "pre-veto" of new funding bill before it even gets debated. If he doesn't want to fund the war, that should be all right with the Congress. They ought to approve just enough funding to get our people back to the US.
al-Qaeda commander al-Zawahri mocks Bush "surge" and invites him to have a glass of juice in the Iraqi Parliment cafeteria. Also says that funding bill with troop withdrawal would rob al-Qaeda of targets. “This bill will deprive us of the opportunity to destroy the American forces which we have caught in a historic trap.” Dems hold ground on funding confrontation... please let them know you support them on this! LINK BTW... do "loyal Bushies" REALLY believe that withdrawing troops from Iraq is "surrender" or are they just trying to cloud the issue with another emotionally-charged buzzword that actually has little connection with reality?
Bush vetoes spending bill with timetable for withdrawal, tells the Dems, the troops, and the American people to "Kiss my ass" because he is "The Commander Guy" regardless of clear Constitutional limits on his power to make war FLASHBACK: US Iraq Commander David Petraeus says there is no military solution in Iraq... so tell us all about "The Surge", Dubya. What's that exactly for, again? LINK
150,000 Israelis demonstrate in Tel Aviv for Olmert's resignation for bungling, murder, and genocide in last year's invasion of Lebanon. (Some like to call it a "war" but usually in wartime there are two armies involved, not just one .) Rice visits Syria for talks with Syrian Foreign Minister about Iraq... just days after the Bush Administration slammed Nancy Pelosi for doing the same. Matt Drudge finds the last scientist on earth who doesn't believe humans are causing global climate change... "Obviously there is no Global Warming because it got really cold in March and April..." Declassified Pentagon document shows that Cheney/Feith ginned up a phony story about Saddam's links to al-Qaeda... it was a total fabrication, unfounded, unsupported, and actually contrary to the known facts WTF??? Newt Gingrich was HAVING AN AFFAIR at the same time he led the impeachment efforts against Bill Clinton. Do these people have no shame???? IMPEACHMENT RESOURCES
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Personal
update: I've been a bit under the weather so please forgive the gaps
in updates. As much as I love this country, I find that digging
through all of this crap, trying to make sense of it, and then writing
about it is an exhausting task. But sometimes ya just gotta suck it
up and do it.
POWER GRAB: CHENEY SAYS HIS OFFICE IS NOT PART OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. WHITE HOUSE SAYS IT'S NOT SUBJECT TO OVERSIGHT THAT APPLIES TO EXECUTIVE BRANCH. UPDATE.... CHENEY SPOKESHOLE SAYS THAT THE
VP WILL REJOIN THE EXEC BRANCH AFTER ALL....
LOL!!!
Army poised to extend tours of duty... even more. It's deja vu/Catch 22 all over again. Bloomberg quits GOP, joining the ranks of millions who have already quit. So what exactly is the news story here? Judge orders FBI to turn over thousands of "Patriot" Act abuse documents Hamas on brink of Gaza takeover... but WAIT! Paris Hilton is in the news again... BUSH FALLS OFF THE WAGON...
Dubya seen pouring, drinking beer while at G8. Did anyone EVER really believe he quit? Watch the video at this link... UPDATE: Bush never got on the wagon. He has a "favorite" beer, Buckler, which is a low-alcohol beer (0.5% instead of 3.5% of light beers). Once again proving that he's never been to an AA meeting... who will tell you that they cannot drink alcohol in any quantity.
Guiliani characterized as "ignorant" and "not serious" about Middle East by former CIA Counter-Terrorism officer... Bush authorizes CIA black ops to destabilize and overthrow Iran government... This story on the heels of revelation that Iran has plans in place for massive actions designed to drive US out of Iraq this summer... AND... Mitt Romney and Tom Tancredo are all over ABC for breaking the story. ABC says they notified the CIA and asked them for approval to push the story out... heard nothing for 6 days... BTW... Where were Tancredo and Romney when Cheney ordered Libby to out an undercover CIA agent who worked on nuclear proliferation? Anti-global warming dunce Matt Drudge unwittingly links Sun online article where Roger Daltry slams "Live Earth" concert... because Matt thinks it's anti-global warming "news". LOL! If Matt could only read... he would have noticed that Daltry said "Everybody on this planet at the moment, unless they are living in the deepest rainforest in Brazil, knows about climate change.” DEVELOPING... CONTINUOUSLY... MATT DRUDGE'S BRAIN DEATH US Treasury unwittingly provides Michael Moore with a promotional tool that no amount of advertising money could ever buy... they attempt to seize his movie. It's now overseas, reportedly in the same area as the "Weapons of Mass Destruction". LMAO! NEW ALLEGATIONS IN SENATE TESTIMONY: WHEN GONZO WAS WHITE HOUSE LEGAL COUNSEL HE TRIED TO COERCE JOHN ASHCROFT INTO SIGNING JUSTICE DEPARTMENT APPROVAL FOR ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING... WHILE ASHCROFT LAY IN A HOSPITAL BED WITH PANCREATITIS. DEVELOPING... FORMER (thank God) UN Ambassador John Bolton advocates attacking Iran and starting another Iraq-style "regime change" war. FLASH: DEPUTY ATTORNEY PAUL MCNULTY RESIGNS Number 2 at Attorney General Office next in line to take the fall for Gonzo... but when does Gonzo go down? Related.... Karl Rove fingered 5 of the 8 fired US Attorneys.... because they were not "loyal bushies" GONZO blames the guy who's gone... says that McNulty was the "point man" for the attorney firings. But wait! Everybody else involved says GONZO was the point man at Justice and he was working from direct orders from the White House through Karl Rove. As we ALL KNOW, Justice Department officials serve "at the pleasure of the President". It has now become clear what the GOP means by "signs of progress in Iraq by September". It has little to do with Iraq; it's all about domestic POLLS on Iraq. Or is it Petraeus' reports? Or Kingston's metric? Or a secret formula from the White House that is shared through dastardly, irrelevent lies leaked by Cheney and un-named spokesholes? Nope. It's the POLLS. Former Powell aide Lawrence Wilkerson says Bush and Cheney are guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanors and deserve to be impeached".
IRAQ GOVERNMENT ON VERGE OF DISINTEGRATION. Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashhimi gives May 15 deadline for reforms or he will pull Sunnis out of government, ending any chance of reconciliation Boener says the GOP are "nervous" about Iraq... but what are they nervous about? It's simple... they're trying to do the DOMESTIC POLITICAL CALCULATIONS to determine when to dump Bush's failed policy and save their political necks. Talk about your pure partisan bullshit! They don't care about the troops, the budget, the will of the people, or anything else other than GETTING RE-ELECTED. It's a "stealth" timetable... Do they "hate us for our freedom" or do they hate us because we torture them? 40% of GIs polled say they support the use of torture. 2/3 say they wouldn't "snitch" on another soldier who tortured an Iraqi, and 1 in 10 say they have physically brutalized Iraqi civilians or trashed their stuff just for the hell of it. Do these sound like the acts of an army that is winning or losing? FLASH: HILLARY CLINTON AND ROBERT BYRD ANNOUNCE BILL TO DE-AUTHORIZE THE IRAQ WAR... Time Magazine takes Bush OFF the '100 Most Influential People' list. POLL: Who do you trust to tell you the truth about Iraq? Poll respondents say they trust Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, and Nancy Pelosi MORE THAN THEY TRUST DUBYA OR CHENEY. DEVELOPING.... Want to help Bush move out of the White House? Then help send him a moving box! Contact Citizen M at moveoutnow@yahoo.com for more info or visit the site HERE April is deadliest month so far for American troops... over 100 killed. What gives? Dubya says things in Iraq are improving because of "the Surge". FLASH! THE
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION EXPLICITLY GIVES AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
TO DECLARE WAR TO THE US CONGRESS, NOT THE PRESIDENT!
DEVELOPING...
Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduces Articles of Impeachment for Dick Cheney; read them HERE 13,000 National Guard prepare for Iraq; Former Brit commander calls Iraq a "doomed project"; Pope decries "continual slaughter" in Iraq Arab summit in Saudi Arabia... Iraqi President Jamal Talabani calls Bush's war an "occupation". Saudi King Abdullah says it's "an illegitimate foreign occupation". Under-Secretary of State Burns says "We were a little surprised".
ALTERNATIVE NEWS SOURCES
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BUSH REJECTS SUBPOENA ON ATTORNEYGATE Shades of 1974... back then it was about a bungled political burglary, this time it's much more serious. It's about an Executive Branch conspiracy to suppress the vote. Ready for another long, hot summer? Senators Lugar (R, Ind) and Voinovich (R, OH) jump off the "surge" bandwagon. Is this the tipping point for Iraq? LINK
Now we are trying to BUY the loyalty of tribes with cash payments... PETER PACE SHIT-CANNED AS CHAIR OF JCS; BUSH TO APPOINT ADMIRAL MIKE MULLEN IN ATTEMPT TO AVOID ENDLESS DISCUSSION OF IRAQ IN CONFIRMATION HEARINGS. WILL IT WORK??? OF COURSE NOT. PS... LOOK FOR ANOTHER INSIDER TELL-ALL ABOUT BUSH DYSFUNCTION COMING TO A BOOKSTORE NEAR YOU Bush manages to restart the Cold War and the nuclear arms race. Vladimir Putin (formerly known as "Pooty-poot") has issued a stark warning: put your Star Wars crap in Europe and we will target Europe with nukes and possibly new weapons systems. WTG, Bush. The world was getting too peaceful under your "doctrine", glad you could crank the tension up another notch. Another day, another general says we can't win in Iraq. Ho hum. This time it's retired general Rikky Sanchez, (also known as "Saddam Sanchez" for his involvement in the abu Ghraib torture scandal). He blames Bush. I wonder when his brain started functioning? Terrorist "plot" to blow up JFK International "foiled". Except that they didn't have the explosives, and what they were plotting wouldn't have worked, this could have been even worse than 9/11. Except. Congratulations to Homeland Security for... well... nothing. You busted some Islamic America-haters who were talking shit about blowing up JFK. Watch for a new push for increased domestic spying powers and an anti-Muslim backlash. Are the detention camps rumored to have been built by KBR ready yet?
General Sir Michael Rose, former British army commander, says there is "no way" the war in Iraq can be won and we should withdraw troops and "accept defeat". Body of one of 3 captured GIs found floating in river; search for other 2 goes on. US EMBASSY IN IRAQ THE LARGEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. 104 ACRES, 2/3 OF A BILLION DOLLARS, IT BEGINS ITS LIFE AS SYMBOL OF BUSH IMPERIALISM AND WILL END ITS LIFE AS JUST ANOTHER ROTTING RELIC OF A CRUMBLED NATION THAT COULD NOT COMPREHEND HISTORY. IT WILL BE AMERICA'S VERSION OF HADRIAN'S WALL. GOP candidate's debate message to the rest of the world... "YOU ARD SCUM AND WE WILL TORTURE YOU..." If there's a "ticking time bomb", all the better... Romney says GITMO should be "doubled" Wolfowitz resigns... but what a resignation! He ought to have been summarily dismissed and walked out the door, but that's just for the "Little Guy", not for a Bush appointee Big Shot like him. The Comb-Licker will stay on until the end of June, at which time he qualifies for a huge bonus for time served. Even the DISGRACE can't seem to get us justice. US commander in Iraq says he needs more troops; Iraqi PM says they will need US troops in Iraq for 2 years; Bush says we'll stay as long as it takes; Iraqi parliment says it wants US troops out ASAP; ditto with Iraqi people. So didn't Bush pitch "the Surge" as a TEMPORARY increase in US military presence to gain control of security in Baghdad?
BARACK THE MAGIC NEGRO UPDATE: Mainstream media are finally "getting it" that there's definitely something wrong with this picture. Backlash is in the air... let your local Clear Channel affiliate know what you think about Rush's racist trash talk. Iraq oil unions prepare for general strike to stop oil exports in protest of US-backed "oil bill" that would privatize oil production and put it in control of foreign countries. (Can I get a "Halliburton"??) Feds stop 6 wakkos from attacking Fort Dix armed with bad attitudes and a map of the base from a pizza parlor ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER... frontline report from the Red Zone in Baghdad details the chaos, despair, and death MORE "SURGE" NEWS... Major General Rick Lynch says the enemy is surging, too! D'ya think? LINK Patrick Cockburn: Beyond the Green Zone's 'Gated Community,' Bush's Surge Is Failing
Why no exit strategy? Because there was never any intention to exit. There are 5 permanent bases being built in Iraq and the CPA is crafting a law that will give them control of Iraq's oil for 30 years. Army issues gag order on soldiers through new OPSEC 530--1. No more blogging, posting to internet message boards, even sending personal email without prior consent of each item by an OPSEC review board. Failure to comply has punishments up to and including court martial. You see, if we don't know what's happening there it's somehow good for the country. WHAT!!!!?????!?!?!??!! LINK
The
come-apart: Tenet says Cheney cooked the intel; Illinois Senator
Dick Durbin says Senate Intel Committee knew Bush was lying before
war but Durbin was sworn to secrecy; Bush says no "surge" review
until September. Why??? So you don't have to face days like Saturday
4/28... 9 GIs and 156 Iraqis killed in Dubya's war.
Gonzo tells Senate committee "I don't recall" 71 times. He can't remember any details about events that transpired 6 months ago? Ex-aide D. Kyle Sampson sings like a bird.... Gonzo, Rove deeply involved in US Attorney firings and they are LIARS FLASHBACK: Gonzo says he's 'really pained' by suggestions that he has no credibility... would that pain be similar to a 'stress position'? Meanwhile, his White House liason will take the 5th rather than testify Pelosi is the only one from the US government who is talking sense to the Arab world...and Bush thinks she ought to shut up. So how's Dubya's method working out for YOU? But WAIT... GOP congressman Darrell Issa met with Syrian President Assad the next day and then announced that Bush has failed to promote a dialogue to resolve disagreements. Oh, you mean being a baby/bully doesn't work? Time to demand action: Let the prez candidates know that you expect the winner to rein in the Executive Branch to its role as defined in the US Constitution |
