Thursday, April 26, 2007

Your day's activities

If you missed it, watch Bill Moyer's show on PBS last night on how war is sold. Then listen to a Q&A with Moyers sponsered by the FreePress

Watch Olbermann dismember Rudy.

Enjoy the company. Approving of the President has never been so marginal.

Folks, look at the top of this page, not at Janeane, but at me. You are probably looking at the winner of the Gonzo is Gonzo pool. The question is .... will this be Gonzo for Roveso too. All roads lead to the White House on this one.

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toniD said...

Moyers and Russert and Cheney Oh, My!

Moyers exposes Timmeh for the inside the beltway, message delivery system that he is. Ron Popeil would be proud. The Scooter Libby trial gave us a look into the way Cheney used Meet the Press to control the message and Moyers confronts him on it. Russert's response was 'absurd." This clip has the smoking gun/mushroom cloud talking head embarrassment…

BILL MOYERS: Was it just a coincidence in your mind that Cheney came on your show and others went on the other Sunday shows, the very morning that that story appeared?

Download (3336) | Play (3399) Download (1463) | Play (2089) (4 minutes)

The media is freaking out on Moyers. Duncan debunks CBS's Mark Knoller here…David Sirota says the beltway media elite are in total freak out mode because of Russert's piece. Jane Hamsher has her favorite moment…Chris Cillizza has the nerve to compare him to David Halberstram…

Read Digby's piece on Russert…

It's certainly not a problem for rich people to advocate for the poor or the middle class as Edwards, Kennedy, Roosevelt and millions of other wealthy progressives have done in our history. But trying to pretend that you are poor or middle class yourself ("just a blue collar guy from Buffalo") from the podia of your own TV shows (or your fabulous summer home in Nantucket)is just plain insulting…read on

Transcript below the fold

LINK

mmrules said...

toniD said...
War Dog said...
Tell this to the president and vice president!!!

April 26, 2007 11:21 PM

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I would say elected office is the greatest service to your country..

And I think President Bush flew Jets for 6 years..

But still..

It is only one part of developing a well rounded and productive life....

April 26, 2007 11:29 PM

Hahahaha! yeah, right!!!

ARe you doing comedy tonught War Dog? Not your forte!!




Hey war puppy.I've got some swampland in Florida to sell,if your interested.

air-ono said...

//This page cannot be displayed//

screw you, seder

i ain't recruiting no-one until i'm guaranteed a fully functioning blog

(i got a rep to protect)

War Dog said...

Keep listening to Limbaugh. Facts would be upsetting.

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Having never flow a Jet Fighter, I am wise enough to know not make light of it...

It is on a level that I have never achieved myself..

Kinda like being President..

Or even elected dog catcher...

air-ono said...

bbl

need to buy more penicillin, cause i'm still contaminated by a staph infection

and i'm busting to meet a girl

toniD said...

bridge said...
edna ellen poe said...

ToniD,

Chris Matthews is a vile little man. Found this on the Daily Howler.

---
he sure is, edna
that was me who called for his firing upthread. Posted too fast and forgot sig.

I read that piece, too. The Daily Howler is a site I check daily
...........

I'm not disagreeing with you about Mathews. He's also wierd.

toniD said...

Begala calls Broder a “gas bag”
By: John Amato @ 12:45 PM - PDT And yes folks, I happen to agree. Paul exposes his elitism and goes through his many "gas bag" statements. Read it all. His attacks on Harry Reid have been savage.

LINK

Anonymous said...

McCain said recently that he would continue to appear on Imus. Don't forget about the Senator's own nasty little joke. Maureen Dowd was one of the reporters that help keep it under raps. It's one of the many reasons why I can't stand her.

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html

A joke too bad to print?

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HOW SEN. JOHN McCAIN'S TASTELESS TWO-LINER ABOUT CHELSEA CLINTON AND JANET RENO WAS CENSORED OUT OF THE NATION'S LEADING NEWSPAPERS.
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BY DAVID CORN

During the last few months, many established media outlets have decided to report innuendo and rumor about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, as long as they have a source they can cite (at least anonymously), or another media player has reported the same.

But this new standard in the practice of journalism seemingly does not extend to other political figures, at least not media darlings like Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Earlier this month, at a Republican Senate fund-raiser, McCain told a downright nasty joke making fun of Janet Reno, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton.

The fact that McCain had made the tasteless joke was reported in major newspapers, as was the vain attempt by his press secretary to initially deny what McCain had done. But in several major newspapers, the joke itself was kept a secret. When McCain subsequently apologized to President Clinton, the Washington Post, in its personality section, noted the apology but said the joke "was too vicious to print."

The Los Angeles Times, in its Life & Style section, provided an oblique rendering of the joke that did not fully convey its ugliness. When Maureen Dowd penned a column in the New York Times about the joke, she wrote that McCain "is so revered by the press that his disgusting jape was largely nudged under the rug." But Dowd chose not to relay the joke, either.

The joke did appear in McCain's hometown paper, the Arizona Republic, and the Associated Press did report the joke in full, so everyone in the press had access to McCain's words. But by censoring themselves, the Post, the Times and others helped McCain deflect flak and preserved his status as a Republican presidential contender.

Salon feels its readers deserve the unadulterated truth. Though no tape of McCain's quip has yet emerged, this is what he reportedly said:

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno."

The joke may be crude, but it pales in comparison with the published details surrounding the presidential sex scandal. McCain's two-liner conveys some interesting insights into what he considers humorous (lesbianism, a young woman's physical appearance), particularly since it was delivered to a Republican crowd. Remember, this is the party that champions pro-family values.

McCain's lapse in judgment -- admittedly, not as big a lapse as having a sexual relationship with an intern -- may be a significant clue into aspects of his "character," and thus relevant to the voting public. But many voters have been spared this insight, thanks to the censors in the press.

Accordingly, McCain is well-positioned to ride out this messy little episode. Ever since he started championing the anti-tobacco bill (which was torpedoed by his GOP comrades), McCain has been the White House's pet Republican on the Hill. Consequently, the White House played down his Chelsea remarks. McCain is also unusually popular with the media. He gives good quotes; he is outspoken. He takes positions that contradict the Republican leadership. When you talk to McCain, he converses in the manner of a real person, seemingly telling you what he thinks. That is rare among elected officials. Ask him a question and he does not shift into automatic-politician mode, as do most members of Congress.

The former Vietnam POW should escape this matter without serious political harm. In the inevitable magazine profiles of McCain that will be written, there will no doubt be the perfunctory line: "McCain's tendency to speak too freely was proven when he made a distasteful joke at a fund-raiser about the first family and then had to apologize to the president."

But the joke revealed more than a mean streak in a man who would be president. It also exposed how the Washington Post, New York Times and Los Angeles Times play favorites when reporting the foibles of our leading politicians.
SALON | June 25, 1998

David Corn, Washington editor of the Nation, is a regular contributor to Salon.

Anonymous said...

I promise. No more long post.

I'm going to watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Alice said...

Isaac Davis: Why is life worth living? It's a very good question. Um... Well, There are certain things I guess that make it worthwhile. uh... Like what... okay... um... For me, uh... ooh... I would say... what, Groucho Marx, to name one thing... uh... um... and Wilie Mays... and um... the 2nd movement of the Jupiter Symphony... and um... Louis Armstrong, recording of Potato Head Blues... um.... Swedish movies, naturally... Sentimental Education by Flaubert... uh... Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra... um... those incredible Apples and Pears by Cezanne... uh... the crabs at Sam Wo's... uh... Tracy's face...

...

Tracy: Not everybody gets corrupted. You have to have a little faith in people.

Crank Bait said...

edna ellen poe said...I'm going to watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
April 26, 2007 11:57 PM
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Shouldn't that be "Agua Teen Thirsty Force"?

I'm just saying...

Anonymous said...

toniD said...

Begala calls Broder a “gas bag".
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It's about time. So is David Gurgen.

toniD said...

Richard Clarke gets it right
by AJ in DC · 4/26/2007 04:24:00 PM ET

Clarke knocks it out of the park in a Daily News op-ed on Iraq, just destroying the ridiculous "flypaper strategy" meme. These Bush administration claims are both illogical and politically motivated, deserving of the contempt that Clarke delivers. No summary of mine is going to improve upon his biting deconstruction, so here are a few excerpts:
Does the President think terrorists are puppy dogs? He keeps saying that terrorists will "follow us home" like lost dogs. This will only happen, however, he says, if we "lose" in Iraq.

The puppy dog theory is the corollary to earlier sloganeering that proved the President had never studied logic: "We are fighting terrorists in Iraq so that we will not have to face them and fight them in the streets of our own cities." . . .

How is this odd terrorist puppy dog behavior supposed to work? The President must believe that terrorists are playing by some odd rules of chivalry. Would this be the "only one slaughter ground at a time" rule of terrorism?

Of course, nothing about our being "over there" in any way prevents terrorists from coming here. Quite the opposite, the evidence is overwhelming that our presence provides motivation for people throughout the Arab world to become anti-American terrorists.
While we create more terrorists in Iraq, meanwhile, we aren't devoting the requisite resources to actually improving our security.
In the real world, by choosing unnecessarily to go into Iraq, Bush not only diverted efforts from delivering a death blow to Al Qaeda, he gave that movement both a second chance and the best recruiting tool possible.
I'm not sure how many experts need to say this before everyone understands and believes it.

Here's Clarke's oped:

LINK

Crank Bait said...

toniD said...
Richard Clarke gets it right
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Listening to Limbaugh absolves the unimaginative from being imaginative enough to understand that the war in Iraq cannot prevent terrorism on U.S. soil.

Crank Bait said...

Speaking of terrorism...who committed the second-most remarkable act of terrorism in U.S. history?

A Desert Storm vet.

What goes around comes around.

War Dog said...

Listening to Limbaugh absolves the unimaginative from being imaginative enough to understand that the war in Iraq cannot prevent terrorism on U.S. soil.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..

Yet, inexplicably it has..!!!!

Listening to Sam taught me that...

ooops....

Sorry Sam..!!!

Funny things, Outcomes..!!!

Well, not so funny for Sam...

But Rush is livin large..!!!

Anonymous said...

Now, looking back, I have identified the nine steps I lived through to be living by the principles of The Secret.

1. I gained awareness that my life was at the abyss.
2. I broke through denials – recognized I was the reason.
3. I took responsibility for all of my words, actions, and behaviors.
4. I learned how to control my mind and end the negative, self-limiting dialogue.
5. I understood the source of my fears and consequences of believing in them.
6. I looked at new, positive perspectives of my life and forgave myself.
7. I learned how to be present, to live in the moment and appreciate what I had.
8. I created a new vision for my future, consciously choosing positive values to honor.
9. I reaffirmed my absolute belief in myself, and become grateful.
10. I made an action plan, living each day with the intention of succeeding.

toniD said...

Getting sleepy.

Later!

Just wanted to say how sad I feel about River Bend.

Good Night

Anonymous said...

edna ellen poe said...
ToniD,

Chris Matthews is a vile little man. Found this on the Daily Howler.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh013007.shtml


TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2007

MATTHEWS SCANS THE LOBBY: To help you grasp the soul of your “press corps,” let’s return to the charity event we glancingly described in October 2005. (See THE DAILY HOWLER, 10/24/05. Scroll down to “Culture Corner.”) The emcee that night was Kathleen Matthews, then of Washington’s Channel 7. On the way out of the Mayflower Hotel, we saw her husband, TV talker Chris Matthews, chatting with DC journo Mark Plotkin. We don’t know Plotkin, but we know Chris a tad. So we decided to stop for a chat rather than walking on by.
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Kathleen Matthews is a strong woman who was not only the WJLA (local ABC station that I have known tends to report the news more accurately than the other locals) primary anchor, but hosted/produced many local political talk shows that featured women, their work and their issues. She sits on many non-profit boards and has always been well-regarded and well-reputed;and her demeanor is thoughtful and reserved, proving opposites do attract.

Local stations pay very well too. So for over 30 years, her paycheck and popularity has exceeded and overshadowed her husband's, which may have contributed to his peculiarity. She recently left the station for a corporate executive position, with The Marriott Corp. I think.

Local D.C. pundit Mark Plotkin has a political talk hour on WTOP radio for several years after a long run as a pundit on an NPR local affiliate, WAMU-FM. Since I've listened to him for years and have friend who is a friend of his, I know he is a player--likes the ladies and a confirmed bachelor.

However, he's not a risk taker and prefers sticking other people's necks out but not his own. (Example: Mark's a big proponent for DC House voting rights. He strongedly suggested the DC little league team invited to play a game on the White House lawn should wear t-shirts in support of the issue, and when it was suggested he do the same when he received an invitation, or refuse it in support of the issue, his spine turned to rubber.)

Of course it's just my conjection, that with Kathleen in the spotlight, again, Chris needed some validation and thought, maybe assumed Mark could "hook him up."

air-ono said...

//I promise. No more long post.//

i'm not saying a word, edna

apparently it's sam's blog
: )

moreover, i'm at peace...
i've discovered my inner-pig

he says, hi...
(what a great guy)

air-ono said...

shelly informs me that i can't be a man 'cause i don't smoke
the same cigarrettes as her...

i can't get no
(oh no no no)

*
mmmmm... they're quite satisfying

War Dog said...

Go to hell, where you belong. War Dog.

April 27, 2007 12:50 AM


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Now, now, dada..

Not so very liberal of you is it..??

Beware of becoming what you fear most..

Oh, to late..!!!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

air-ono said...

//Go to hell, where you belong. War Dog.//

hell's too good for him

send him to bloggie hell!!!

the place where...

This page cannot be displayed for all eternity

(not unlike this blog)

Unknown said...

hee hee

Unknown said...

nice pic A.!

sometimes b&w is the best!

Unknown said...

"Beware of becoming what you fear most.."

I most fear becoming a person that buys into that "The Secret" stuff.

Gives me the shivers just thinking about it.

air-ono said...

oh, war-dog

you're such a disappointment

we tried to edumacate you

tried to put food on your family

but to no avail

oh, *sigh*

*sigh* everywhere a *sigh-sigh*

Unknown said...

Snark! refresh!

Snark! refresh!

Snark! refresh!

Snark! refresh!

Snark! refresh!

Snark! refresh!

forever!

War Dog said...

I think it's the Crazy Thing that prevents the Far Left from being Liberals...

If you keep moving left far enough, you hit the fringe...

Not pretty the fringe..

Lots of hate and jealousy and regrets on the fringe..

Did you watch the fringe on the debate tonight..???

Wild-eye Crazy-Talk..

While Hillary looked Satisfied..

The Fringe appeared Frustrated..

air-ono said...

//Wild-eye Crazy-Talk..//

you're making my inner-pig very angry!!!

Alice said...

Liberal illusions, liberal complicities

It's not an accident that from time to time certain "apostles of change" are anointed by the corporate media and recognized as such by the affluent liberal brigades. Of late, the much revered Arundhati Roy seems to have come to occupy this position in the pantheon, a fact that has afforded her the bullhorn to make some pretty seductive statements. I do not doubt for a minute that she means well, but I think she got it egregiously wrong in her brave iconic speech in New York, where she adduced "that there is no way to defeat the Empire by force and that its component parts must be isolated and paralyzed one by one."

Sounds eminently sensible, until we examine the idea up close, and realize that it also contains, in practice, a glaring contradiction. For how does Ms. Roy and her well-heeled admirers propose to paralyze the vital "component parts" of the most heavily armed, cynical, and ruthless class privilege system in history without some form of REAL confrontation? With 2-hour candlelight vigils and some symbolic arrests which, by the way, may or may not be reported by the corporate-owned media? If THAT were all that was required to get rid of an immoral, deeply rooted capitalist system, a Nazi terror regime, a vicious landowning oligarchy in El Salvador, and so on, humanity would have moved past these filthy horrors decades if not centuries ago. As Churchill points out in his book, Nazi Germany was defeated by the massive application of force; the racist American South was similarly juridically defeated in the 1860s by massive military force, by organized all-out violence, (I say juridically because in practice it took 100 more years of struggle that saw innumerable crimes before African Americans could begin to take their rightful place among their fellow citizens)...Fact is, there is not a single case in history where a deeply entrenched system of colonial, class or racial exploitation was overthrown by moral suasion and symbolic protests alone...If real change came about it was because force, serious disturbances, were being applied somewhere else alongside the nonviolent tracks...That's the point that Churchill and others are making in this book. It's a discomfiting point, but I'm afraid it's a point that can't be ignored.

Unknown said...

Crazy talk is an insult.
I don't know why you think you can show such disrespect and not get told off, dog.

Alice said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Unknown said...

Exactly, nothing but insults. "You're jealous and angry and crazy."

And then you want to play nice.

Go to hell, where you belong, Dog.

War Dog said...

Well it is once again time for my beauty sleep..

Bike rides this weekend and I must be fresh..

I hope you got to see Hillary tonight..

She is your Destiny...

Was that one guys name gravel..???

Ha ha ha ha..

Don't be sad...

People start over every day..

Don't forget the People's Party...

Have fun now...

Sam and I are, we have the time....

Wado..............................

air-ono said...

(gtg),
this boil on my neck is making me thirsty

Alice said...

john andrews said...

Reformers from Jesus Christ to Martin Luther King via Ghandi have demonstrated the power of non violent resistence - but presumably these lessons from history 'matter less' to Mr Greanville's call to arms. What the world most definitely does not need is another wide-eyed revolutionary standing at the back urging others onwards to their deaths fighting for the noble cause of replacing one set of dictators with another.
The success of the great non-vilent reformers was achieved by means of having an idea, or a dream, even, and then having the courage to lead from the front in showing how those ideas and dreams might be achieved.
We in the west are lucky. We are neither hugely oppressed (such as the Palestinians, for instance) nor facing mass starvation (such as those in the horn of Africa). Also we have the means of achieving reform through existing laws. What revolutionaries such as Mr Geanville are lacking is a good idea which the masses want to support. Come up with a good idea Mr Greanville, and give people the right to decide whether your idea is good or psychotic, and reform could be achieved without a shot being fired.
Thu Apr 26, 12:28:00 AM CST
jason said...

It's interesting that Churchill qualifies his argument by aiming it specifically at "the American left," by which he means American liberalism. I've only read excerpts of Churchill's writing, but does he ignore the long history of nonviolent anarchism, which stretches back to Tolstoy, and is today perhaps best represented by groups like the War Resister's League and Food Not Bombs (who are both anything but reformist liberals)?
Thu Apr 26, 06:54:00 AM CST
jason said...

Also, as an addendum, the argument for radical nonviolence that I'm familiar with is only an absolute moral ideal inasmuch as non-hierarchy is an absolute moral ideal for anarchists. The difference between the two is that those arguing for radical nonviolence see violence as the ultimate ill of humanity and not hierarchy or other forms of oppression, because it is violence, itself (whether physical or in spirit), that is the root cause of all forms of oppression. Therefore, to do away with violence is to do away with all forms of oppression and hierarchy. This is why many nonviolent activists cannot respect "a diversity of tactics" (when such a phrase usually means, "to include violent tactics") -- they see violent tactics as a form of oppression, and thus incompatible with (and contradictory to) the aim of combating hierarchy and oppression.
Thu Apr 26, 07:19:00 AM CST

Unknown said...

Sleep tight, Dog

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(video)

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Alice said...

Sema Ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes

Speaking as a total girl.it's actually fun to twirl in a dress & see it spinning....I remember liking that...but I'm not sure why it was fun now...

Unknown said...

womens medieval costumes

http://www.realarmorofgod.com/shop/index.php/cPath/40_113_178

Unknown said...

I'd like to stay and chat, but I really have to catch up on some sleep.

Later everyone

mmrules said...

Demand a Paper Trail:



http://www.getitstraightby2008.org

Unknown said...

Cya Dada!

pleasant snoozies!

Anonymous said...

thanks for the new threads!

I see War Dog is here, wasting his life away on a silly blog that no one reads or cares about

-conbo

Anonymous said...

War Dog the Loser-Troll

hahahahaha

hi Sunny J

:)

-conbo

Anonymous said...

whoa

that was so an hour ago

Sorry Sunny

bbl

-conbo

mmrules said...

Is it me just me,but doesn't Laura Bush look,and sound Like a Stepford Wife??

mmrules said...

Oprah.


http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001441.html

Anonymous said...

Laura Bush is on Planet Pastel

bless her heart

all the draperies match there

-conbo

Anonymous said...

Oprah gets a pass

She has done more than her share for humanity

She is not politically savy

Oh well

Life goes on

-conbo

Anonymous said...

'fair share'

She abhores Bush

She can't say it

But she does

You can see it in her gritted teeth

-conbo

Anonymous said...

She had her brush with the bushittes with the whole cattleranchers ordeal

(not that bush gives a flying fuck about cattle ranchers-but he plays one TV)

-conbo

War Dog said...

What a Happy Doggie Day..

We a gonna pack up and go bike ride today..

My favorite thing...

Did I tell you I am gonna buy and a Recumbent Tandem SEAVO...

Ya gotta love that..!!!

blah blah blah said...

send him to bloggie hell!!!

the place where...

This page cannot be displayed for all eternity

(not unlike this blog)

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hmmm. i think you got that wrong. in bloggie hell you see the same page over and over and it gets longer and longer and gets slower and slower.

War Dog said...

Didn't you just love the debate last night...

I know I did..

I loved the vote on The War On Terror...

I loved the way Hillary made them face the facts on Iran...

I loved the end when Biden told them to cut the Happy Talk and face War..

War Dog said...

It was one of those nights that showed why I came over to the Democrat Party..!!!!

Ya had to love the vote on Impeachment..

Ha ha ha ha..

Poor Dennis..

War Dog said...

They say the Republicans want Hillary because they can beat her..

Well I don't know about that..!!!

I like her because she is a fine War Dog..

And Blocker...

She keeps the Crazy Talkers off the ticket..

Anonymous said...

It'll be a happy doggie day the day we hear that you've been hit by a Greyhound bus and instantly killed.

War Dog said...

It'll be a happy doggie day the day we hear that you've been hit by a Greyhound bus and instantly killed.

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I pointed this out last night..

The difference between the Liberals and The Fringe..!!!

That's is why The Fringe never has a home in the Democrat Party but War Dog does...

It's the Crazy Talk that makes folks look at ya and shake their heads..!!!!!

blah blah blah said...

c'mon dog, stop sniffin and wishin for somethin better. the only way hillary can win is if the south secedes from the union. you cross the mason dixon line and those folks hate the clintons. they don't know why they hate them, they just do.

a branch of the family is from tennessee and back in 2004 they were convinced that kerry was a draft dodger who stole those purple hearts. i don't know if its the water or what, but things just ain't right down there.

thats why its going to be edwards-richardson. richardson has issues but his heritage will get him a lot of votes.

on a separate note, whats wrong with alaska? how could one state give us the two extremes of loonyism with stevens and gravel.

War Dog said...

you cross the mason dixon line and those folks hate the clintons.

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Now a ways back I remember this big ol red face guy havin fun in oval office with a chubby little Dem girl...

What was his name..??

It slips my mind, but I think he was only Dem who knew how to win the South, and win the White House twice in a row, just like Bush and Reagan..

I know his name...

I just can't think of it..

It wasn't Kerry...

It wasn't Gore...

It wasn't Dukakis

It wasn't Mondale..

It wasn't Carter..

It wasn't McGovern..

It wasn't Humphrey...

It was Bill something...

Anyway if ya think of it...

Ask him how to do it..!!!

War Dog said...

I don't give a fuck. If we heard today that you died from cancer and your head exploded in pus, it would cheer us up.

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..

Could that be why you got no radio show..

No Party..

No Candidate..

I think it just might be..

The one thing that unites the Wild-Eyed Crazy Talkers is Misery...

Now take Rush Limbaugh..

He has fun every day...

Just like War Dog...

They took a poll on that once..

Conservatives are way happier than Liberals...

And The Left Wing Fringe is downright miserable..!!!

War Dog said...

The way it stand right now..

We Blue Dog Democrats are controlling things..

We have the votes the block the anti-war Crazies in Congress..

We have control of Democrat Primary..

It looks like 2007 and 2008 are gonna shape up to be two more great years..!!!

blah blah blah said...

can't disagree that bill whats his name was the best. but he chased that chubby little dem for the same reason she can't win.

War Dog said...

Remember back when I told Ya'll you should start your own party...????

Oh, you didn't wanna do the work..

You wanted my Democrat Party...!!!

Well, how did that work out..??

Not so hot, huh..???

blah blah blah said...

war dog said:

Conservatives are way happier than Liberals

now, thats crazy talk.

and with that we'll be back (you've been warned as somebody used to say).

War Dog said...

That's the beauty of the War Dog Plan..

If Hillary does not win..

The Republican surely will..!!!

Either way we have a fine War Dog runnin the show to 2016..!!!

What more can you ask..???

mmrules said...

Put your money where your mouth is!

War puppy to Iraq!!All say I !!
The I's have it.See Ya!

War Dog said...

- Raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour.

- Unemployment insurance for all workers.

- Moratorium on farm foreclosures

- Labor law reform to remove barriers to workers who want to join a union.

- No privatization of Social Security. Increase benefits.

- Universal prescription drug coverage administered by Medicare, and Universal health care system.

- Restore social safety net. Welfare reform that includes job training, supports and living wages.

- Full funding for equal, quality, bi-lingual public education. No vouchers.

- Repeal tax cuts to the rich and corporations.

- Close corporate tax loopholes.

- Restitution to workers' pensions.

- Strong regulation of financial industry.

- Regulation and public ownership of utilities

- Prosecute corporate polluters. Public works program to clean our air, water and land

- Aid to cities and states. Federally funded infrastructure repair and social service programs

- No to war with Iraq

- Repeal Fast Track and NAFTA, stop Free Trade Area of the Americas(FTAA). No secrecy.

- Save Salt II Agreements, reject Star Wars and Nuclear Posture Review

- Abolish nuclear weapons

- End military interventions.

- Cut military budget and fund human needs.

- End racial profiling.

- Repeal the death penalty.

- Enforce civil rights laws and affirmative action.

- Repeal USA Patriot Act.

- Legalization and protection of immigrant rights.

- Public financing of elections. Overall election law reform including Instant Runoff Voting.

- Youth and student bill of rights. Guarantee youth's right to earn, learn and live.

War Dog said...

Remember that..???

The People's Party...

Hell, I even set ya up with that..

But noooooooooooo...

You did do the work..

Well, that's the problem isn't it...???

War Dog said...

Ya'll thought you could sing "Bush Sucks" for 8 years and things would change...

WRONG..!!!!

All that got changed was AAR...

I tried to tell ya..!!!!!

toniD said...

Are the unidentified RNC emailers Cheney aides? Yesterday, the Republican National Committee released a list of 37 White House officials who use RNC email accounts. But at least a dozen or so other White House officials with RNC accounts remain unidentified. Emptywheel notes that while the list released yesterday includes several former Cheney aides, it has not a single current aide to the Vice President. Are Cheney’s current staffers among the unidentified officials?

LINK

War Dog said...

That would put the Battle Of Iran 2 year out....

The War Dog Plan..!!!!

=========================================================================================================


Iran Could Have Nuclear Bomb in Three Years, Report Says


By Julie Stahl

CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
April 27, 2007

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Iran could obtain nuclear weapons in less than three years - sooner than previously anticipated -- according to a new U.S. Intelligence assessment, CBS News reported late Thursday.

Previous assessments suggested Iran would not be able to obtain atomic weapons for about eight years, but the new report says Iran has overcome technical difficulties in enriching uranium that could speed up the process.

Iran has defied a United Nations Security Council demand to halt uranium enrichment, a key step in producing either nuclear fuel or nuclear bombs. Although Iran denies it, the West believes that nuclear bomb-making is Iran's ultimate goal.

The CBS report quoted former CIA officer Bruce Riedel as saying that the three-year time frame puts pressure on Israel to make a preemptive strike sooner rather than later.

toniD said...

Hundreds protest Cheney at BYU. Roughly 300 demonstrators gathered today in conservative Provo, Utah, to protest a commencement speech by Vice President Cheney at Brigham Young University:

Dan Kennelly, a Korean War veteran from Sandy, acknowledged that he and other protesters were outnumbered in Utah County.

“But we’re going to try,” he said. “If someone doesn’t want to listen, that’s fine, but we’ll try.” BYU student and war dissenter Diana Smith said she’s used to being a minority voice at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints school, “but while many may disagree, it is usually respectful,” she said.

That was the general tenor of the streetside - though as in many protests, a few middle fingers were let loose by angry drivers and indignant protesters. One truck driver screamed to the protesters “you’re all traitors!” while several others in this largely Mormon town opted for the more subtle “I’ll be praying for you!”

Guess they don''t like the VP

War Dog said...

How many years did ya'll spend yellin about Zitzmas...????

If you would have used half that time building a party you would be out in the cold now..!!!!

War Dog said...

Well maybe this Lionel fellow will have some answers...

It will be his turn next..

Perhaps he will be an entertainer like Rush Limbaugh..

Perhaps he will turn this AAR mess around..

toniD said...

Administration targeted another U.S. attorney. “The Bush administration considered firing the former U.S. attorney in Minnesota, but he left his job voluntarily before the list of attorneys to be ousted was completed.” Thomas Heffelfinger’s case interests congressional investigators “because he worked in one of the states that White House political adviser Karl Rove identified as an election battleground, and…was replaced by a 34-year-old Bush administration loyalist who’d been a member of Gonzales’ inner circle.”

LINK

War Dog said...

When ya'll learn yellin "Bush Sucks" does not build you anyting...

Maybe you can start over..

But until then..

Bundle up, it's cold without a party..!!!

toniD said...

Rep. Renzi may resign. “Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., could soon step down in the wake of a federal investigation into his involvement in a federal land swap deal and FBI raids of an insurance agency owned by his wife. His resignation could come as early as Friday or soon after, according to sources familiar with the matter. Top Republicans, including U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, have been meeting to discuss what they will do if Renzi resigns and his rural congressional seat opens up.” (Via War & Piece)

Another one bites the dust!!!

toniD said...

The chorus for "Bush Sucks" has grown into millions of chorus members and is still growing.

28% approval rating!! My, my, my!

War Dog said...

28% approval rating!! My, my, my!

April 27, 2007 8:48 AM

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And who is the President of the United States of America...???

Hello....!!!!

Anyone home...???

toniD said...

A highly-commended active-duty Army officer has published “a blistering attack on U.S. generals, saying they have botched the war in Iraq and misled Congress about the situation there.”

“America’s generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq,” charges Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, an Iraq veteran who is deputy commander of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. “The intellectual and moral failures . . . constitute a crisis in American generals.” […]

[Yingling’s essay in Armed Forces Journal] signals the public emergence of a split inside the military between younger, mid-career officers and the top brass.

Many majors and lieutenant colonels have privately expressed anger and frustration with the performance of Gen. Tommy R. Franks, Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno and other top commanders in the war, calling them slow to grasp the realities of the war and overly optimistic in their assessments.

Some younger officers have stated privately that more generals should have been taken to task for their handling of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, news of which broke in 2004. The young officers also note that the Army’s elaborate “lessons learned” process does not criticize generals and that no generals in Iraq have been replaced for poor battlefield performance, a contrast to other U.S. wars.

Read Yingling’s full article HERE.

toniD said...

And who is the President of the United States of America...???

Hello....!!!!

Anyone home...???

April 27, 2007 8:50 AM


Cheney 9%

toniD said...

Senators debunk Broder. Yesterday, ThinkProgress noted David Broder’s baseless claim that, thanks largely to his views on Iraq, a “long list of senators of both parties…are ready” for Sen. Harry Reid’s tenure as majority leader “to end.” Today, the Post publishes a letter to the editor signed by all 50 members of Reid’s caucus, praising him for his “extraordinary leadership.”

Things are changeing

In the words of the "righties" after the 2000 election "get over it"!

mmrules said...

The War Dog Plan..!!!!

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Iran Could Have Nuclear Bomb in Three Years, Report Says


By Julie Stahl

CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
April 27, 2007


Brought to you by the Company(CNSNews Parent Company) that just Gave Rush"Oxycondone Boy"Limbaugh an Award the other day!

toniD said...

Saudi Arabia reports arrest of those plotting to destroy Oil Fields There. Per MSNBC

War Dog said...

I would think that the largest, most popular, biggest money-maker in radio would be getting awards all the time..

Folks just love Rush...

You know he has millions of Liberals who listen every day..

See that's the key to radio Success..

Getting normal people to listen..

Sam learned that in the end..

But Janeane would not take Phone Calls..

She only wanted to hear her own Crazy Talk..

The show never recovered..!!!

mmrules said...

War Dog said...
I would think that the largest, most popular, biggest money-maker in radio would be getting awards all the time..

Folks just love Rush...

war puppy you are Such a Moron!!Go Enlist!!

War Dog said...

Did anyone else notice how weak Obama was without a prepared text..??

Gone were the glory day of the Dem Convention last year..

He seemed nervous and not the same guy...

Hillary looked great...

I love her smile..

War Dog said...

war puppy you are Such a Moron!!Go Enlist!!

April 27, 2007 9:39 AM


=========================================================================================================

I did that in 1969...

Served 4 years in the Air Force..

That is were I learned Nuclear Weapons..

The same ones that latter brought down the Soviet Union..

I think everyone should serve their country..

At least two years...

Draft everyone and let Cheney sort them out..!!!!!

You would learn a new respect for the United States..!!!

Anonymous said...

I say Gonzo is gone next Friday, May 4th at 5:30PM, EST.

Bush will hang on one more week with his buddy JUST BECAUSE, then pressure will build & *poof*, he'll be gone to spend more time with his family.

Can't stand you're not on the radio everyday, Sam...it's been a rough 2 weeks.

War Dog said...

As I said last night..

Serving in elected office is the highest service to your country...

Cheney has served this country well...

War Dog said...

I always have to ask..

I ol Gonzo leaves..

So what..???

Do you think anything changes..

Nope..!!!

You guys have already missed your chance for change..

War Dog said...

There is nothing wrong with having Crazy-Ass ideas..

You just aren't gonna sell them to the Democrat Party..

If you want to promote Fringe Ideas..

You must start a Fringe Party..

Such as the People's Party..

I don't know why you all don't understand that..!!!

Anonymous said...

http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/april2007/240407giulianilie.htm

Giuliani Caught In Bizarre Building 7 Lie

Claims WTC 7 collapsed in stages, Kerry Building 7 admission explodes on You Tube popularity charts

Anonymous said...

Preventing Massive Water Transfers

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042607G.shtml

Who owns what water? Canadian nonprofit associations worry about US corporations taking over Canada's water with NAFTA connivance, and the US government supports water privatization at home.

Anonymous said...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=THO20070421&articleId=5454

War and the Police State: Complicity of the American People

By Donna J. Thorne
Global Research, April 21, 2007

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth…. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not..? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know.. it — now." Patrick Henry, 1775.



In this era of perpetual warfare, escalating domestic tyranny, government-sanctioned torture, and a Nazi-like pursuit of Middle-East domination, one would expect, at the very least, an audible outcry from the People who proclaim resolute devotion to the ideals of liberty and justice for all. Yet for the most part, Mainstream America continues to assume a posture of apathy, bitterness, or eery silence.

When confronted with hard facts and scientific evidence linking key government officials to the attacks of 9/11, ostensibly intelligent, levelheaded people angrily and defiantly reject said information without a moment's deliberation. Sincerely compassionate and peace-loving individuals support the criminal invasion of Iraq and close their eyes to the U.S. slaughter of 600,000 Iraqi civilians, choosing instead to believe in the myth of American supremacy, at the heart of which lies the notion that foreigners alone are capable of such atrocities.

And now, in the aftermath of 9/11 and the subsequent establishment of Homeland Security, previously rigid supporters of civil rights quietly tolerate the piecemeal deconstruction of the U.S. Constitution under the pretext of protection, and to their own peril, disregard increasingly strident warnings and signs of a growing and imminent police state. Clearly, Mainstream America has surrendered to the subjugation of a power-crazed, despotic administration whose control continues to expand exponentially with each passing rumor of imminent peril .

Why,when confronted with a black-and-white record of autocratic offenses, are so many sensible Americans ignoring and even endorsing the current administration as it openly paves a tyrannical road to hell? Are we so deluded by rhetoric and weapons-grade propaganda, that we are no longer able to distinguish truth from fiction, thereby allowing, if not abetting our own enslavement ?

Inarguably, a collective set of circumstances exist to explain the acquiescence of the American People. What follows is the first in a series of explorations by which this writer will attempt to identify possible core factors contributing to the scourge of apathy in American society today.

Anonymous said...

"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

Anonymous said...

Preventing Massive Water Transfers

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042607G.shtml

Who owns what water?

Canadian nonprofit associations worry about US corporations taking over Canada's water with NAFTA connivance, and the US government supports water privatization at home.

Anonymous said...

Seder: We need better trolls. The old ones are rotting. Fresh meat!

toniD said...

Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz “will be allowed to argue for his job in front of a bank committee investigating him.” But one senior bank official “suggested that members of the committee had already decided to recommend Wolfowitz’s ouster, casting Monday’s appearance as a last-ditch appeal.”

"Great job Wolfie"

It's not loyalty that Bush is interested in, it's closed mouths!!

You leave the Bush admin...you write an expose.

toniD said...

Media Matters documents how during the first presidential primary debate yesterday, several questions about Iraq, immigration, and national security were “based on false premises.”

LINK

toniD said...

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) “asked 27 federal departments and agencies yesterday to turn over information related to White House briefings about elections or political candidates,” substantially widening the scope of his investigation into potentially illegal partisan activities being conducted by federal officials.

LINK

toniD said...

Ex-C.I.A. Chief, in Book, Assails Cheney on Iraq

WASHINGTON, April 26 — George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a “serious debate” about whether Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States.

The 549-page book, “At the Center of the Storm,” is to be published by HarperCollins on Monday. By turns accusatory, defensive, and modestly self-critical, it is the first detailed account by a member of the president’s inner circle of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the decision to invade Iraq and the failure to find the unconventional weapons that were a major justification for the war.

“There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat,” Mr. Tenet writes in a devastating judgment that is likely to be debated for many years. Nor, he adds, “was there ever a significant discussion” about the possibility of containing Iraq without an invasion.

LINK

blah blah blah said...

has anybody noticed how all the official news coming out of iraq is positive this past week. it includes or alludes to the phrase that the surge is making progress.

hmmm. surely they must be telling us the truth...

Anonymous said...

I've been gone awhile....who is this guy on Air America during Sam's timeslot....he's a republican. Did I hear correct?

Unknown said...

eya gang!

mornin!

Alice said...

Activists Unfurl 30-Ft. Impeachment Banners in Senate Building

....in Washington, fourteen people were arrested in the Senate office building Thursday for unfurling two thirty-foot banners calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. One banner read:

“Your silence, your legacy"

while the other listed articles of

impeachment.

DN

mp3

toniD said...

Russia to Suspend Compliance With Key European Pact
Putin Cites U.S. Missile Defense Plans

By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, April 27, 2007; A16



MOSCOW, April 26 -- President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he was suspending Russia's obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, ratcheting up a tense standoff with the NATO alliance over U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe.

The CFE Treaty dates from the last days of the Cold War and limits the deployment of conventional arms, including tanks and other heavy weapons, on either side of the old Iron Curtain. Putin linked his decision, which he said could lead to full withdrawal from the treaty, to the U.S. missile plan.

NATO countries are "building up military bases on our borders and, more than that, they are also planning to station elements of anti-missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic," said Putin, delivering his annual state of the nation address to both houses of parliament, the cabinet and regional leaders. "In this connection, I consider it expedient to declare a moratorium on Russia's implementation of this treaty."

Western governments have contended for years that Russia has not fully complied with the treaty and amendments to it, pointing to force levels it keeps in the Chechnya region and the continuing presence of its troops in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Moldova. The missile defense plan has raised disputes over the treaty to a new level of intensity.

The Kremlin has expressed deep hostility to the American system despite repeated assurances by the Bush administration that the planned 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and radar station in the Czech Republic would pose no threat to Russia.

U.S. officials, including Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who visited Moscow this week, have said the system is small and directed against potential threats from Iran, and could be easily overwhelmed by Russia's strategic missile forces. They have said they are open to cooperation with Russia on missile defense.

LINK

Alice said...

Update re debate video from Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis is pretty connected to network media, and he's called MSNBC on this, here at Buzzmachine:

For shame, NBC News: Stealing the debate

A properly pissed off birdie forwarded me NBC News’ restrictions on tonight’s presidential debates, which are many and lead off with this: “internet use is not permitted.”

I think that’s ridiculous and so I sought to find out why they would do this. I called Joe Alicastro, producer of the debate for MSNBC, who was on site. I asked him why they were restricting use of the material on the internet. He twice didn’t answer and said “that’s our policy.” I said I know that’s their policy. I asked why. He would not answer.

I asked whether he thought the Amerian people had a right to this debate since it is our election. He said that “the American people have ample opportunity to view the debate on MCNBC and two North Carolina stations.”

Shameful. What makes NBC think it has the right to own the democratic discussion in this country?

Posted by craig at 08:34 AM

Alice said...

Politicians Making Fools of Us All

The Case of Ethanol as Motor Fuel

by John Chuckman / April 26th, 2007

Ethanol has always been a poor choice as a fuel, but the scientific and economic considerations behind that statement don’t stop politicians from claiming otherwise.
...

Anonymous said...

The AAR site has a photo of Lee and "The Lee Rayburn" show. has kind of a strange bio too.

Anonymous said...

I'd Just Like To Say Hello To My Uncle!

toniD said...

Fox News Sinks To New Low, Repeatedly Reports Parody Story As Actual News
On Tuesday, Fox News morning show “Fox & Friends” aired at least eight segments on a purported “news” story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion.

The backstory: Last week in the town of Lewiston, Maine, a group of Somalian Muslim middle school students were the subject of a cruel prank when their peers placed a ham steak next to them in order to personally offend the students. School officials filed a report because the students considered the act to be a hate/bias crime.

This actual story was then spoofed by a parody site called Associated Content, which made up quotes and details, such as the school’s intention to “create an anti-ham ‘response plan.’”

On Tuesday, Fox & Friends reported these parody quotes and details as actual news. Poking fun at the students, hosts asked whether ham was “a hate crime…or lunch?” and showed screen shots of ham sandwiches, starving Somalians, belching, animal noises, and mock “reenactments” of the incident. Ironically, the hosts assured viewers several times, “We’re not making this up!”

Watch a compilation:

Fox’s careless blunder made news in the town and “launched an immediate avalanche of angry phone calls and ugly e-mails to the school system.”

In the parody, the ham steak became a ham sandwich. Fake quotes were attributed to Superintendent Leon Levesque, Stephen Wessler of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, and one of the Somali students targeted in the incident. […]

Following the Fox broadcast, Levesque’s office received dozens of angry phone calls and profanity-laced e-mails, made and sent by people all over the country, who charge the school district overreacted to what they believed from news reports to be a ham sandwich tossed at a Somali student. […]

“Fox has figured out, from the calls we’ve gotten, that they’ve made a big mistake,” Wessler said.

“This is a wake-up call that the level of hate and anger, among a small population, is vibrant,” he added.

Levesque said he was bothered not only that the parody took aim at a sensitive issue in Lewiston, but also that Fox and others reported the information as fact without checking. The national media, Levesque said, sees information posted online and “uses it as gospel.”

We’ve long known Fox News’ reporting was parody, but reporting parody news is a new low.

LINK

Unknown said...

so last night one of the mason bees hatched at 11pm or so here in my office. i put her in the darkened outer room.

earlier i had put in a dampened paper towel, rolled up to make it compact, so she ended up crawling in to the center of that to wait for dawn…

i let her out at the bee condo this morning, and she chose a tube for herself right off the bat. i imagine she’s currently looking for one of the boy’s!

Unknown said...

maybe not.

extremely cold and wet today outside.

Unknown said...

UCSF Sleuths Identify Suspects in Mystery of Vanishing Honeybees

http://pub.ucsf.ed...re/200704251.htm

toniD said...

Iraqis welcome Congressional vote
to get out but fear vacuum
Iraqis are glad U.S. soldiers could soon depart but fearful of what they might leave behind, after the U.S. Congress approved a bill linking troop withdrawals to war funding.

LINK

toniD said...

Saudis Arrest 172 Islamic Militants In Terror Plot
AP | ABDULLAH SHIHRI | April 27, 2007 12:35 PM

Police arrested 172 Islamic militants, some of whom had trained abroad as pilots so they could fly aircraft in attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil fields, the Interior Ministry said Friday. A spokesman said all that remained in the plot "was to set the zero hour."

The ministry issued a statement saying the detainees were planning to carry out suicide atttacks against "public figures, oil facilities, refineries ... and military zones" -- some of which were outside the kingdom

LINK

toniD said...

Early 2007 Economic Growth Worst In Four Years
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | April 27, 2007 09:19 AM

Economic growth slowed to a near crawl of 1.3 percent in the first three months of 2007, the worst performance in four years. The main culprit: the housing slump.

The fresh reading on gross domestic product, released by the Commerce Department on Friday, was even weaker than the 2.5 percent growth rate logged in the final three months of last year. The new figures underscored just how much momentum the economy has been losing as it copes with the strain of the troubled housing market, which has made some businesses more cautious in their spending.

LINK

toniD said...

Active duty Lt. Colonel blasts Bush & generals over Iraq
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/27/2007 11:12:00 AM ET
Discuss this post here: Comments (104) · digg it · reddit · FARK · · Link


Read between the lines. The generals are responsible for letting Bush screw up the entire war effort. I've been writing this for years. Now we have active duty members saying the same. Bottom line: The author argues that Bush screwed up, and the generals didn't have the balls to call him on it. They sent their troops into battle unprepared and destined for failure.

From Armed Forces Journal (below are my titles, and then quotes from the article indented).

THE GENERALS REFUSED TO STAND UP TO BUSH
If the policymaker desires ends for which the means he provides are insufficient, the general is responsible for advising the statesman of this incongruence. The statesman must then scale back the ends of policy or mobilize popular passions to provide greater means. If the general remains silent while the statesman commits a nation to war with insufficient means, he shares culpability for the results....
THE GENERALS LIED TO THE THE PUBLIC
America's generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq.... America's generals did not provide Congress and the public with an accurate assessment of the conflict in Iraq....

After going into Iraq with too few troops and no coherent plan for postwar stabilization, America's general officer corps did not accurately portray the intensity of the insurgency to the American public. The Iraq Study Group concluded that "there is significant underreporting of the violence in Iraq." The ISG noted that "on one day in July 2006 there were 93 attacks or significant acts of violence reported. Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence. Good policy is difficult to make when information is systematically collected in a way that minimizes its discrepancy with policy goals."
BUSH AND THE GENERALS DIDN'T SEND ENOUGH TROOPS TO IRAQ, AND THEY KNEW IT
The most fundamental military miscalculation in Iraq has been the failure to commit sufficient forces to provide security to Iraq's population. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) estimated in its 1998 war plan that 380,000 troops would be necessary for an invasion of Iraq. Using operations in Bosnia and Kosovo as a model for predicting troop requirements, one Army study estimated a need for 470,000 troops. Alone among America's generals, Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki publicly stated that "several hundred thousand soldiers" would be necessary to stabilize post-Saddam Iraq. Prior to the war, President Bush promised to give field commanders everything necessary for victory. Privately, many senior general officers both active and retired expressed serious misgivings about the insufficiency of forces for Iraq. These leaders would later express their concerns in tell-all books such as "Fiasco" and "Cobra II." However, when the U.S. went to war in Iraq with less than half the strength required to win, these leaders did not make their objections public.

Given the lack of troop strength, not even the most brilliant general could have devised the ways necessary to stabilize post-Saddam Iraq. However, inept planning for postwar Iraq took the crisis caused by a lack of troops and quickly transformed it into a debacle.
TYING UP SO MUCH OF OUR MILITARY IN IRAQ PUTS AMERICA AT RISK
Moreover, America's generals have not explained clearly the larger strategic risks of committing so large a portion of the nation's deployable land power to a single theater of operations.
CONGRESS IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE US (I.E., NOT BUSH)
We still have time to select as our generals those who possess the intelligence to visualize future conflicts and the moral courage to advise civilian policymakers on the preparations needed for our security. The power and the responsibility to identify such generals lie with the U.S. Congress.

LINK

Cat Chew said...

Hiya, Toni! :)
Just a quick pop-in.
New thread up
Good to see you.
Later!

toniD said...

Has anyone watched Steven Hawking's amazing ride into zero gravity. He was smiling. Good to see him out of his wheel chair.

He said it was the best experience of his lifae and he said "Space...here I come".

mmrules said...

War Dog said...
war puppy you are Such a Moron!!Go Enlist!!

April 27, 2007 9:39 AM


=========================================================================================================

I did that in 1969...

Served 4 years in the Air Force..

That is were I learned Nuclear Weapons..

The same ones that latter brought down the Soviet Union..

I think everyone should serve their country..

At least two years...

Draft everyone and let Cheney sort them out..!!!!!

You would learn a new respect for the United States..!!!


What were you,a Cook??

Anonymous said...

Oregon has a neat Gov.,he goes to most of the soliders funerals. I tried the food stamp diet for one day. Pretty hard to eat on $3 a day.

Don't listen to air america radio much any more. H ave switched back to npr.

Can hardly wait for SUN SHOW with SAM SEDER.

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