Comments on: Scott Ritter’s Overdue I Told You So http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:58:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: vern http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/#comment-74244 vern Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:27:45 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/2037/#comment-74244 <p>Why did Conyers and many of our ‘progressive’ members of congress vote for this sham to send Iran to the UN? Only Kucinich, McDermott, Paul, and Pete Stark voted against it. The way to end the war is the termination of Bush’s presidency which begins in the House of Reps. It only requires one representative to introduce articles of impeachment and let the people’s voices take it from there. We need to quit falling for the ‘nothing we can do’ from the congressional democrats. That is a bullshit cop-out excuse.</p> Why did Conyers and many of our ‘progressive’ members of congress vote for this sham to send Iran to the UN? Only Kucinich, McDermott, Paul, and Pete Stark voted against it. The way to end the war is the termination of Bush’s presidency which begins in the House of Reps. It only requires one representative to introduce articles of impeachment and let the people’s voices take it from there. We need to quit falling for the ‘nothing we can do’ from the congressional democrats. That is a bullshit cop-out excuse.

]]> By: unita http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/#comment-74046 unita Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:22:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/2037/#comment-74046 <p>The peace movement is being led by (the new)COINTELPRO operatives who are nowhere to be found when the real shit hits the fan. Where is MOVEON, TRUE MAJORITY, the movement etc when Bush is caught breaking the law illegally spying? Why hasn’t Conyer’s introduced articles of impeachment over illegal spying? Follow the process and see where it is getting stuck and you will have your answers.</p> The peace movement is being led by (the new)COINTELPRO operatives who are nowhere to be found when the real shit hits the fan. Where is MOVEON, TRUE MAJORITY, the movement etc when Bush is caught breaking the law illegally spying? Why hasn’t Conyer’s introduced articles of impeachment over illegal spying? Follow the process and see where it is getting stuck and you will have your answers.

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/#comment-73581 Phoenix Woman Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:44:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/2037/#comment-73581 <p>Conservatives are trying to reassure themselves with visions of Rove as Army Group Steiner, finally freed from whatever they think he was doing in the West Wing to go work on politics, as if he really wasn’t doing that during every waking moment of the last damn three decades, in the White House or out.</p> <p>But the reality is that <a href="http://phoenixwoman.blogspot.com/2006/04/in-this-case-indictments-really-are.html">Rove’s going to be a bit too busy hunkered down with his lawyers</a> to devote much more time to ratfucking.</p> <p>Our Fitzy, Who art a Badass,<br /> Hallowed be Thy Name.<br /> Thy verdicts come on Bushie scum<br /> Who thought they were safe in Heaven.<br /> Give us this week our Rove indictments,<br /> And forgive them their trespasses,<br /> EXACTLY as these merciless creeps would forgive trespasses against them.<br /> For Thine is the Jury, and the Righteousness, and the Subpoena Power,<br /> Forever and ever, Amen.</p> Conservatives are trying to reassure themselves with visions of Rove as Army Group Steiner, finally freed from whatever they think he was doing in the West Wing to go work on politics, as if he really wasn’t doing that during every waking moment of the last damn three decades, in the White House or out.

But the reality is that Rove’s going to be a bit too busy hunkered down with his lawyers to devote much more time to ratfucking.

Our Fitzy, Who art a Badass,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy verdicts come on Bushie scum
Who thought they were safe in Heaven.
Give us this week our Rove indictments,
And forgive them their trespasses,
EXACTLY as these merciless creeps would forgive trespasses against them.
For Thine is the Jury, and the Righteousness, and the Subpoena Power,
Forever and ever, Amen.

]]> By: mui http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/#comment-73440 mui Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:23:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/2037/#comment-73440 <p>Scott Ritter: He’s baaack. And welcome! Although the circumstances stink. I will always admire Scott Ritter and Wilson for trying to debunk the WMD BS in the face of the rabid media and now we find out: Cheney, Scooter, Rove, & gosh know who else.</p> Scott Ritter: He’s baaack. And welcome! Although the circumstances stink. I will always admire Scott Ritter and Wilson for trying to debunk the WMD BS in the face of the rabid media and now we find out: Cheney, Scooter, Rove, & gosh know who else.

]]> By: roux http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/#comment-73375 roux Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:39:42 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/2037/#comment-73375 <p>oh brother! It’s not worth it to feed the trolls. Let’s let it go.</p> oh brother! It’s not worth it to feed the trolls. Let’s let it go.

]]> By: srgtick http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/#comment-73343 srgtick Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:12:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/2037/#comment-73343 <p>Many people have posted here saying Ritter said Sheehan has no standing. He never says that once in the article however. He has a response to people who say she has sacrificed so much, and that is that she hasn’t, her son did. What happened to her was a tragedy, not a sacrifice.</p> Many people have posted here saying Ritter said Sheehan has no standing. He never says that once in the article however. He has a response to people who say she has sacrificed so much, and that is that she hasn’t, her son did. What happened to her was a tragedy, not a sacrifice.

]]> By: roberto http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/#comment-73305 roberto Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:50:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/2037/#comment-73305 <p>This Rumsfeld quote really rankles my ass. (<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/20/rumsfeld-amusing/">source</a>)</p> <blockquote><p>On Monday, Rumsfeld appeared on the Bill Cunningham Show and had this to say about the retired generals criticizing his management of the Iraq war:</p> <p> <b>“Of course the implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing almost because of the fact that the war plan’s fashioned by the combatant commanders and it’s reviewed in great detail by the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, then it’s recommended to me and the President.”</b></p> <p>In other words, Rumsfeld is arguing that there is nothing wrong with the Iraq war planning — but if there was anything wrong it wasn’t his fault. He’s blaming the combat commanders and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.</p></blockquote> This Rumsfeld quote really rankles my ass. (source)

On Monday, Rumsfeld appeared on the Bill Cunningham Show and had this to say about the retired generals criticizing his management of the Iraq war:

“Of course the implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing almost because of the fact that the war plan’s fashioned by the combatant commanders and it’s reviewed in great detail by the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, then it’s recommended to me and the President.”

In other words, Rumsfeld is arguing that there is nothing wrong with the Iraq war planning — but if there was anything wrong it wasn’t his fault. He’s blaming the combat commanders and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

]]> By: roberto http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/#comment-73281 roberto Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:34:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/2037/#comment-73281 <p>Ritter should have been given the Medal of Freedom instead of Tenet, Bremer, et al. He should be a regular commentator on every cable and network news show because he is the only one that got it 100% right in the run up to the war.</p> <p>Funny how the fuckups are ones that are rewarded in this upside down world.</p> Ritter should have been given the Medal of Freedom instead of Tenet, Bremer, et al. He should be a regular commentator on every cable and network news show because he is the only one that got it 100% right in the run up to the war.

Funny how the fuckups are ones that are rewarded in this upside down world.

]]> By: roberto http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/#comment-73278 roberto Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:32:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/2037/#comment-73278 <p><i>Sorry to be all nitpicky but misunderestimated is not a word as far as I can tell.</i></p> <p>MsAnnaNOLA, (post #128) are you being extra wry and ironic or have you been living in a cave with Bin Laden for the last five years?<br /> “Misunderestimated” is a word that GW famously donated to the world from his own private, mangled lexicon.</p> Sorry to be all nitpicky but misunderestimated is not a word as far as I can tell.

MsAnnaNOLA, (post #128) are you being extra wry and ironic or have you been living in a cave with Bin Laden for the last five years?
“Misunderestimated” is a word that GW famously donated to the world from his own private, mangled lexicon.

]]> By: Bushtit http://firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/scott-riitter-overdue-i-told-you-so/#comment-73081 Bushtit Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:13:07 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/20/2037/#comment-73081 <p>OH.my.God. We are in deep shit. Bush MUST be removed from office now!!!!!</p> OH.my.God. We are in deep shit. Bush MUST be removed from office now!!!!!

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