Friday, April 23, 2004
One of the private companies being hired by the U.S. to help in Iraq, is hiring!
The name of the company is called Custer Battles.
What?
What are you laughing at?
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Comparisons #3.
Vietnam era medical histories.
Kerry.
His first Purple Heart citation.
His second.
His third.
Bush.
Had a hemorrhoid while serving in the champagne unit of the Texas Air
National Guard.
Comparisons #1.
(this one is from Kos)
Kerry:
Intelligent, mature and rich in educational background and
experience, Ens Kerry is one of the finest young officers I have ever
met and without question one of the most promising.
Bush:
Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of
report.
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
B.D. Loses his leg.
I'm more shocked that this is the first time in 20 years they showed BD without a helmet on.
Remember when Colin Powell had integrity?
Woodward says Prince Bandar was told of the decision to go to war before Powell. If this is true Powell has only a few options. Admit the truth, say nothing, or do the third option: invent an accusation never made and deny it, thus leaving the blatantly dishonest impression the actual alleagtion is false.
Guess which one he went with?
The Washington Post journalist said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice-President Dick Cheney told Bandar of the decision in a meeting on Jan. 11, 2003, using phrases such as "you can take it to the bank" and "He (Saddam) is toast."
"That's silly because I participated in the development of the plan," Powell responded on Monday on the Sean Hannity radio show.
"I commented on the plan when it was being developed, and I knew when Vice President Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld and General (Richard) Myers were going to go brief Prince Bandar on a plan, a plan that I was intimately familiar with," Powell said.
But Woodward said on the CNN program "Larry King Live" that while Powell might have known of the plan, he was not told of the decision to implement it until after the Jan. 11 meeting with Bandar.
And of course Condi Rice, whose proven herself time and time again to be a lying sack of shit, continues this same bullshit argument:
"It's just not the proper impression that somehow Prince Bandar was in the know in the way that Secretary Powell was not. It's just not right. Secretary Powell had been privy to all of this. He knew what the war plan was."
Geez. I wonder where people learn to be such lying pricks. Is it genetic? or is it taught?
Q Mr. President, why are you and the Vice President insisting on appearing together before the 9/11 Commission? And, Mr. President, who will you be handing the Iraqi government over to on June 30th?
THE PRESIDENT: We will find that out soon. That's what Mr. Brahimi is doing; he's figuring out the nature of the entity we'll be handing sovereignty over. And, secondly, because the 9/11 Commission wants to ask us questions, that's why we're meeting. And I look forward to meeting with them and answering their questions.
Q I was asking why you're appearing together, rather than separately, which was their request.
THE PRESIDENT: Because it's a good chance for both of us to answer questions that the 9/11 Commission is looking forward to asking us, and I'm looking forward to answering them.
Let's see --
Q Mr. President --
THE PRESIDENT: Hold on for a minute. Oh, Jim.
Q Thank you, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: I've got some "must calls," I'm sorry.
DIANE SAWYER: (You) stated as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons still —
PRESIDENT BUSH: So what's the difference?
"There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on."
- George W. Bush
"Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere ... nope, no weapons over there ... maybe under here?" Bush joked.
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
The man is truly frightening.
Woodward: “He chastised me at one point because I said people were concerned about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction. And he said, ‘Well you travel in elite circles.’
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said in a telephone interview that while the group has differences with Bush, most members "still consider him a friend." LaPierre said Kerry is "probably the most anti-Second Amendment candidate in the country's history," and would "go after every semi-automatic firearm in the country."
The association, which endorsed Bush and Cheney in the 2000 election, will not endorse a candidate until the fall, spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said.
The suspense is killing me.
From Pandagon:
The president must remember that the military is a special instrument. It is lethal, and it is meant to be. It is not a civilian police force. It is not a political referee. And it is most certainly not designed to build a civilian society.
-Condoleeza Rice, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2000.
Monday, April 19, 2004
"I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time, so I could plan for it. (Laughter.) John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could have done it better this way, or that way. You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet. "
George W. Bush
"There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on."
- George W. Bush
99 Soldiers Killed in Iraq in April.
Woodward on 60 Minutes:“Gets to a point where in July, the end of July 2002, they need $700 million, a large amount of money for all these tasks. And the president approves it. But Congress doesn't know and it is done. They get the money from a supplemental appropriation for the Afghan War, which Congress has approved. "
Article 1; Section. 9; Clause 7, the United States Constitution:
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
