Today the Supreme Court ruled that the Bush Administration is guilty of violating the Geneva conventions.


Reminded me of this gem from the architect of the policy of torturing prisoners, Donald Rumsfeld back in 2003:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday Iraqi television footage apparently showing American prisoners of war was a violation of the Geneva Convention.

On CBS "Face the Nation," Rumsfeld was shown footage relayed by the Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera that Iraq television claimed were captive U.S. soldiers.

"That's a violation of the Geneva Convention, those pictures you showed," Rumsfeld said of the international law on treatment of prisoners of war. He said the convention prohibits the photographing or interrogation by media of those captured in battle.

Geradlo Rivera says that "in the last 35 years, I've seen a hell of a lot more combat" than John Kerry.

Well, the evidence doesn't lie.

Bush today on Global warming:

"There is a debate over whether it’s manmade or naturally caused."

Theres also a debate among scientists that smoking cigarettes makes your shit turn to diamonds. It's one crazy guy on the corner who drinks his own piss and calls himself a "scientist" vs. every other real scientist in the world. But because of this we have to say that the "jury is still out", and the question is still "open to debate".

Besides, global warming can't be real because Al Gore believes it and he lied about the internet.

Remember the endless speeches on the floor of the United States Congress declaring anyone who wants to leave Iraq as gutless traitors? Remember Karl Rove and Tony Snow and Everyone on FOX news saying if you are for that you support terrorists? Remember the lovely congresswoman calling decorated veteran John Murtha a coward on the floor of the congress because he felt we should leave Iraq?

Todays USAToday:
WASHINGTON — A clear majority of Americans say Congress should pass a resolution that outlines a plan for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday. Half of those surveyed would like all U.S. forces out of Iraq within 12 months.
The poll finds support for the ideas behind Democratic proposals that were soundly defeated in the Senate last week. An uptick in optimism toward the war after the killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi earlier this month seems to have evaporated.

So the majority of Americans are now Al Queda loving traitors. But its not just America, the general in command of Iraq is also a gutless al Queda loving traitor:
Senate Democrats reacted angrily yesterday to a report that the U.S. commander in Iraq had privately presented a plan for significant troop reductions in the same week they came under attack by Republicans for trying to set a timetable for withdrawal.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that the plan attributed to Gen. George W. Casey resembles the thinking of many Democrats who voted for a nonbinding resolution to begin a troop drawdown in December. That resolution was defeated Thursday on a largely party-line vote in the Senate.

But wait. It now seenms the democratically elected government of Iraq is also a bunch of Al queda loving cowardly America haters.

I remember way back in the beginning of the war when I was against going to Iraq since they had nothing to do with 9/11 being accused, along with millions of others, that because f that I support Terrorism. It was jarring to hear such offensive sludge being hurled, and not by nutcase bloggers, but by senators and Congressman and the White house itself. After literally 5 years of this behavior its just become a white noise. Conservatives have been questioning the patriotism of everyone who disagrees with them on things from Iraq to even, and I’m not kidding, drilling in ANWAR. And hey it’s worked for them so far. Call everyone a traitor, thrown in a few well placed terror alerts to scare everyone. Smear and fear. That the republican plan.

Is this finally evidence that it's just not working anymore? Can we elect sane competent people to government now? Can I actually read about Congress and the senate without feeling shame and embarrassment?

Pretty please?

Gotta love that LIEberal media.

Big headline on MSNBC's website:

"Boost for Bush"

THe article talks about a "spate of good news" inclunding the fact that his top advisor won't be charged with treason. Thats right. The fact that his top advisor was able to avoid being charged with treason is cause for celebration. The era of personal responsibilty at it's finest.

But hey that boost must be coming any day now. I mean, if the LIEberal media said it, it must be true.

Gotta love that LIEberal media.

Big headline on MSNBC's website:

"Boost for Bush"

THe article talks about a "spate of good news" inclunding the fact that his top advisor won't be charged with treason. Thats right. The fact that his top advisor was able to avoid being charged with treason is cause for celebration. The era of personal responsibilty at it's finest.

But hey that boost must be coming any day now. I mean, if the LIEberal media said it, it must be true.

Tom Delay, former House Majority leader and the most corrupt member of congress in the last half century, resigned congress yesterday under criminal indictment. His is a legacy of vindictiveness, greed and corruption that will

But not in his world. From his resignation speech:

In any place or any time on any issue, what does liberalism ever seek, Mr. Speaker? More -- more government, more taxation, more control over people's lives and decisions and wallets. If conservatives don't stand up to liberalism, no one will. And for a long time around here, almost no one did.

I’ve heard it a million times and I'll probably here it a million more. The knee jerk answer from conservatives about why liberalism is bad. I suppose I could point out the fact that the House under Delays leadership has seen the largest expansion of pork barrel spending in over 50 years and over twice as much as when the evil Clinton was President, or how he tried to curtail the personal rights of gays and women, or allowed the president to illegally spy on American citizens without warrants. I could point out that the Republican congress under dealaywas marked with rampant corruption, with Delay himself taking endless free trips to fancy resorts playing golf with corrupt lobbyists buying off other members. I could talk about how during Impeachment he would take wavering congressman to a special room with "evidence" against Clinton about how he raped a balck woman who ended up having his baby, and using that "evidence" to try and convince them to vote to impeach. The evidence was all a pack of lies and he knew it.
But why bother? Soon Delay will be in prison getting ass raped by his cellmate, and the rest of the country will be struggling to pay off the massive debt and corruption left in his wake. That will be his legacy.

I spent last weekend in New York City. I had never gone downtown so I spent the afternoon there and even got to see the WTC site. Next to it is St. Paul’s Chapel, one of the oldest in the city. It was also the place where the gate outside became a wall of pictures of missing victims. They still have a small exhibit inside and its very moving. One of them is part of the wall with pictures of victims all over it, and I saw a picture of Mr. Keane, one of the few Wethersfields residents to die on 9/11 (check out the Keane foundation website here.) And today we find out that the workers from teh WTC site are sicker than we feared. Just one of those tragic things isn’t it? If only we had the foresight to track and monitor the workers health issues to help treat these heroes.

In 2002 Bush vetoed a bill that would have provided funding to establish a health screening program for the 9/11 workers. It would have created a lifelong screening program to track all who loaded and hauled debris, restored utilities and performed other cleanup work that exposed them to several toxic substances. He vetoed it. But if you dare try and cut even a scinitlla of the trillions of dollars of tax cuts for his billionare friends, they will scream bloody murder.

Also, at the time the Bush Administration deliberately withheld information about the health dangers at the WTC site. Why? They wanted to make sure Wall Street reopened. What's the bodies of a few hundred more volunteer workers when there is money to be made for rich people?

He is a disgrace. But don't worry. All you have to do is trot out the "I'm proud to be an American" song at the convention every 4 years, and make some red white and blue decorations, and Republicans can still live in the fantasy land where they are the most patriotic Americans ever. That's the truthiness of it.