Bush is not about to spoil (politically) the Christmas holiday season by announcing the sending of 20-30,000 more targets to Iraq, concomitant with perhaps having to announce more Reserve and Guard unit Impressments...uh, "callups." The media might come out with a bunch of impertinent human interest stories focused on the families of those about to be shipped off to IED land.

Just make sure you send these kids off with the latest rose petal- proof body armor, Mr. Decider.

Im gonna make a project of this lightweight. A target-rich environment, he is. Lotta low-hanging fallacy fruit in his orchard.

I had emailed him my terse Cheney-esqe reaction to his moronic Ellison/Koran rant. He immediately read my name and email & web address on his radio show.

Dude, you have fucked with the wrong Irishman.

http://www.bgladd.com/Dennis4DummiesCoverArt.jpg

Yep...

You mean THIS dude:

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So Manly.

Enlist. today.

www.goarmy.com

Your War Hero President needs you to die or be maimed to preserve his "legacy." He needs to kick this POS down the road so the next President can be tarred with it.

Bottom, line, Joe: he fucked this up like he's fucked up everything he's touched in his silver-spoon dilettante life. The circumstance in Iraq is now problematic.

It was all gonna be SO easy. Naomi Klein got it right 2 1/2 years ago:

http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html

And, spare me the ad hominem against her 'cuz she's a "leftie." The facts are the facts.

Count me among the Bush "haters" Joe, but, pray tell, exactly WHAT power have Bush opponents had to exert. Bush famously gives not a flying shit what others think. And Iraqi Bush opponents could give a flip about what ANY of us think. They don't get up every day to Google the latest USA Today or Gallup polls on Bush's JAR before deciding whether to rig another IED. They are fighting off an arrogant and incompetent occupier, effectively so.

You can't pin this loss on anyone but the Bushies.

Joe made sure HIS kids won't serve in harm's way. Getting maimed or killed is for OTHERS' children.

Bush was elected to substitute HIS view of proper action regarding critical matters for that expressed by the will of the people (currently running ~three to one against his actions in Iraq), not to mentioned the constraints ostensibly imposed by that "goddman piece of paper" otherwise known as the U.S. Constitution.

HE knows better than EVERYONE else, HE -- this inarticulate dilettante who has documentably made a mess of every adult endeavor he's undertaken.

Depressing. We are ruled by an arrogant madman hell-bent on setting the entire planet ablaze.

Paraphrasing Lewis Lapham, "the world is a place with but two inhabitants. It is a place where Bush the Actor need only please Bush the Audience."

'Joe Lieberman said today that people who oppose the president's escalation of the war in Iraq "have an obligation to offer a plan that moves toward the goal of maximizing the chances of success in Iraq."

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Right. Like Bush would listen to ANY alternate plan offered up by anyone. Beyond Leavermann's transparent misplaced burden of proof fallacy, he's already rejected every proposal proffered by everyone, including the detailed ISG one.

Don't let this moron frame the debate this way.

While the empirical meaning of "probable" is minimally "more likely than not" (ignoring for the moment the difficulties involved in independent objective quantification of such in any given case), the historical constitutional context is interesting. At the time of the framing of the constitution "probable cause" as a legal phrase of art simply meant that someone in authority attested that "x happened/is true" before a magistrate.

See Cuddihy, "The Fourth Amendment: Origins and Original Meaning." The 4-volume, 1,800+ page seminal work in this area (I used it as a major cite in my grad work).

While there may be more overall bench level skepticism today, I rather doubt that anyone as done any comprehensive studies showing that "probable cause" warrants yield, in the aggregate, convictions more than 50% of the time. Short of that, it remains mostly a subjective (and inextricably political) phenomenon as far as we know.

Mr. Stimpson -

You have egregiously, willfully violated the Oath you swore upon entering the military. You should resign immediately, or be dishonorably discharged for your utter failure to understand and act pursuant to your responsibility as a senior U.S. military officer serving in a most critical assignment. Your actions have given material aid and comfort to our truly dangerous enemies -- almost none of whom languish in captivity in Gitmo.

My 90 year old father, who left a leg behind in Europe during WWII, fought (and suffers to this day) for this kind of ignorant, odious, and harmful shit?

Appalling.

So, by your logic, since 19 people of a certain ethnic type blew up the twin towers using airplanes as missiles, it follows that it's OK to gulag and abuse hundreds of innocent people simply because they look similar?

You could work in Bush's DOJ.

Gen. Barry McCaffrey: "First, we must commit publicly to provide $10 billion a year in economic support to the Iraqis over the next five years."

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3/4 to 90 % of it would just get ripped off, if the recent past is any guide. This whole Iraq postwar thing thus far has simply been a diamond mine for fraudsters -- many of them directly affiliated with BushCo.

An intractable mess. The logical conclusion to the failure-ridden career of the Dilettante in Chief.

Though, he could still become MLB Commish in 2009 and fuck that up as well.

Just keep on with that straw man / red herring crap. Utterly predictable Bushlicker BS. By all accounts 80 - 90% of all Bushwar collars have been determined to be INNOCENT, you moron.

But, you just go ahead and keep calling them all "scum sucking terrorists." You'd be squallin' for Momma about 10 seconds into being wrongly detained in ANY jail, much less Gitmo.

Dopes like you are amusing.