Simply chilling. Very 1984-like, with "We've always been at war with Eurasia," just like "We've always been at war with al-Qaeda in Iraq." And the fact that there has been no acknowledgement of the subtle shift from "insurgents" and "sectarian fighters" to "Qaeda" is reminiscient of the abrupt and seamless shift from Eurasia to Eastasia in the novel 1984. It's sad that this is happening in our media. Thank God we have the Internet to bring attention to this very disturbing development.

Not even Shooter believes Shooter... on second thought, RealName might believe Shooter.

WorldNetDaily is a right wing for profit 'news service' run by a Joseph Farah of Oregon begun with seed money from Richard Mellon Scaife, of the Arkansas Project ill-fame. The Clinton videotape story wasn't on the web site when I scrolled through the most recent 50 items of dreck. They place ads for penny stocks 'turn $300 into $218,000 in three months!'and quack medicine 'four drops can turn tap water into a fountain of health!'in the same column as wire service copy and credulous accounts from Sen. Inhofe of Senators Clinton and Boxer plotting to drive Rush Limbaugh off the air.

But Shooter was holding out on us! WND also reveals the nefarious plots of President Bush to flood the country with Mexicans and create a North American Union of Canada, the US and Mexico...books available for purchase, from WorldNetDaily!

Even unintentional comedians like Shooter need a joke writer. I'll bet he pays for their 'insider' newsletter, with better medicine and stock offers, perhaps.

including that we didn't have the man power and did not intend to actually hold the areas (outside Baghdad) we were clearing -- for instance -- as well as continued assessment of the Iraqi forces' likely performance as doubtful to dismal.

Actually, there have been other statements apparently telegraphing our intentions -- whether a ruse or not, I can't say -- but declaring we're gonna have Fallujah cleared by August, when that push has not yet begun ... well ...

Ordiano (sorry for spelling) -- I love your interpretation ... that (at least) this suggests that "the enemy" (tm) is within Iraq's borders.

Every time our various "leaders" get all het up with insisting that, say, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey tighten up their borders to, essentially, help us out, my eyes glaze over -- yeah, like they're all gonna mobilize massive forces to help us, when a substantial amount of traffic is just citizens conducting business as usual and Iraqis trying to get the hell out of Iraq by land. We should really try making the same demand on Mexico and see how far it gets us... oh, yeah, we tried that a few years ago ... they laughed.

ok so you namecall and hide behind anonymous

that's about par for the course here.

-- RealName

Does that comment mean that RealName really is your real name?

I started noticing this about a month ago and have sent several letters to the usual media suspects. No response, of course. Needs a bigger gun than li'l ol' me. How about a Salon exposé?

Let Petraeus blame Al Qaida. That's a lost argument. And Bush's overuse of the words Al Qaida suggest that the invade-Iran coalition at the White House has also lost its argument.

Because whenever the invade-Iran coalition is winning, that's when we hear all the noise of Iranian belligerents arming Iraqi terrorists.

If Bush isn't trying to rile up American sentiment against Iran, I'll let him fight 2001 all over again.

This thread, originally inspired by reports of Gen. Odierno's Baghdad news conference, has so far ignored the other jaw-dropping aspect of the General's briefing.

Gen. Odierno expressed disappointment that most of the leaders of [whoever it was we were really fighting there] had fled. The general seems to think that this may be a consequence of comments about the forthcoming offensive by senior American officials in the press prior to the operation.

Really, you think? The administration that equates the revelation of the fact that we are intercepting terrorist communications illegally rather than legally, or that we imprison terrorists, or that we torture them, to the revelation of impending troop movements in the field turns out to think that, well, the revelation of impending troop movements in the field (or the disclosure of covert CIA identities) is just no big deal. Heckuva job, Generals!

that's about par for the course here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492714/

Gary Kreep and the U.S. Justice Foundation (snicker)

CPAC: Judiciary Activists Attack 'Undermedicated, Psychotic Lefties'

While yesterday’s segment at CPAC devoted to judicial nominees – featuring Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania), who can count few fans at the event – was sparsely attended, even fewer showed up for today’s panel discussion on “judicial activism” instead of joining the crowds for Mike Huckabee and Wayne LaPierre of the NRA down the hall. Still, Jan LaRue of Concerned Women for America, Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, and a man named Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation did their best to keep the attention of the handful of conference-goers on the subject that was one of the most vigorously touted at last year’s CPAC.

The enemies remained the same: judges who “legislate from the bench” and believe in a “living Constitution” which they “write … at will,” and senators who opposed some of Bush’s extreme nominations or who participated in the “Gang of 14” deal that halted the march toward the “nuclear option,” which would have forced through a rule change eliminating filibusters on those nominations. Fitton said of the filibustered nominees that “liberals thought they were too conservative, and yes, too Christian.” LaRue described as “undermedicated” and “psychotic” Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with groups like People For the American Way that opposed confirmation of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.

The judicial heroes were also familiar: Roberts and Alito, whose successful appointment LaRue called the “biggest grassroots victory” in years; Justice Clarence Thomas, whom Fitton described as a model for “humble judges” who “restrain themselves.” In addition, Kreep singled out Janice Rogers Brown, perhaps the most radical of Bush’s appellate nominees, for her success in getting on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. According to Kreep, Brown was targeted because of her race by the Democratic Party, “one of the most racist” groups in country, which he said opposes any minority who doesn’t “kiss their tuckuses” and “say ‘yessa massa.’”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/groups/united_states_j/

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_States_Justice_Foundation