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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
BobbyG
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Everybody sing...
MERRY LITTLE FITZMAS
Have ourselves A Merry Little Fitzmas,
Make our nation right,
From now on
The WHIGs will all be in plain sight.
Have ourselves a Merry Little Fitzmas,
Make those bastards pay.
From now on
Indictments will have made our day.
Here we are, charges coming soon,
The Grand Jury's tune will roar.
Rule of law once so dear to us
Gathers near to us once more.
Through the years
They all will be together,
If Club Fed allows.
We could hang them all from just the highest boughs.
But have ourselves A Merry Little Fitzmas now.
"...Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Matthews, commentator Tucker Carlson expressed doubts about whether the revelation of Valerie Wilson's identity was damaging to national security..."
With all due respect, Mr. Carlson, YOU don't get to make that call. The national security necessity of keeping certain CIA officials' identities secret is PRESUMPTIVE for good reason. Moreover, it requires no great feat of intellect or imagination to speculate on what the Bush's administration's angry reaction -- and vigorous, immediate law enforcement actions -- would have been had the situation been the reverse, i.e., someone revealing classified information they WANTED kept under wraps.
Get serious. Mr. Fitzgerald got it exactly right during his press conference yesterday.
"Hey, freedom is messy."
- Donald Rumsfeld
When ya got freedom, guess what? A lot of people are gonna get naked for money (or sheer kicks) and do stuff that, well, uh, I would never do in public or on camera.
This episodic hand-wringing will yet again go NOWHERE or acomplish anything. Pretty much a waste of time.
We'll probably never find out, but I would bet that the Bushies knew Saddam was bluffing on WMD (mainly to help keep his hold on power), and that a quick strike invasion would consequently be relatively risk-free. Had the weapons inspectors been allowed to finish their work and then come back to say "nothing there," it would have sucked all of the oxygen out of Bush's "we-must-invade-NOW" faux crisis argument.
As least he's useful. More than we can say about idiot gasbag Limbaugh.
Tell us about YOUR military pedigree, again, Rush. 'eh?
Ya gotta love the arrogance. Bush says even knowing what we know today, he'd still invade Iraq.
Right.
Had the Congress and the public known the truth in 2002-2003 Bush would NEVER have gotten the blank check unilateral authority he got.
I think he knew EXACTLY back then what we all now know -- that Saddam was bluffing about WMD (in large measure -- no surprise -- to keep his grip on power). Consequently, Bush could not let the U.N. inspections run their course, or the lie would have been laid bare. Hence the precipitous rush to war.
Lying dilettante narcissist.
OK, let's see: the White House has known about the NY Times having the NSA warrantless spying story for at least year, and is only NOW starting an investigation into the "leak" of the information.
Oh, yeah, right. We're totally frigging credulous.
WHO in the White House knew? Well, Bush, obviously. After all, he called in the NY Times execs to ask them to suppress the story. What about Torture Boy Attorney General Abu Gonzales? Did HE know? And, if he did, what does it say about his role and DUTY as the head of the Justice Department? If this was such an egregious, "shameful," and dangerous violation of "National Security," why are we only NOW "investigating" it?
Some things are just a little too obvious.
I have four words for any GOP apologists out there:
Read The Plea Agreement.
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/060103-abramoff-information.pdf
About as one-sided as it gets. He's goin' down and taking a large contingent with him.
It is unclear at this point -- and probably "proprietary" in Google's view -- whether Google can/does capture and retain all of the search results of every "person" (merely the requesting IP address?) using their search engine. I have way less of a problem with the government simply amassing aggregate statistics (e.g., # of search requests for "kiddieporn.com" etc.) than them getting a full transcript of every individual's Google search transactions, if it's even possible. The latter would seem to violate constitutional privacy, and it would be an economic death blow to Google were they to comply.
Our Ruling Class need not be bothered by the queries of local authorities or the insolent national press. They are covering up a lot of very inconvenient details here. Probably gonna get away with it, too.
What if you or I accidentally shot someone while out hunting? What would be the subsequent immediate investigative upshot?
Asked and answered.
Typical lawyer abstraction crap. Never mind the fact that MOST of the people we've collared in Bush's GWOT are INNOCENT (e.g., our own post-hoc military estimates now are that ~90% of the people we rounded up and put in Abu Graibh were just hapless schmucks in the wrong places at the wrong times). It'd one thing to split moral hair niceties over the probity of torturing, for example, a high bin Laden or Zarkawi deputy to obtain life-saving information, but torturing/abusing/degrading "suspects" at will cannot but be hugely counterproductive, both near- and long-term.
Clean-finergnails Yoo wouldn't get through the night at Abu or Gitmo.
If any of my undergraduate Critical Thinking students tried to lay that banal False Dilemma shit on me, he'd/she'd get an "F" on the assignment. The WORLD has a stake in Iraq Regional stability. The WORLD should be asked honestly to help establish it (with all that such implies, like loosening Cheney's death grip on Iraq). The choice simply NOT one of Unilaterally-Stay-The-Course vs Cut-and-Run, and ANYONE should be able to comprehend that.
Mr. Cheney, go yourself.
Is this another Harriet Miers Moment for GeeW? Will he threaten to veto the Dubai company's withdrawal? Be interesting to hear him spin this one.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
