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The way I would view this, I view this as the beginning of the end of the President's policy on Iraq in this way. It ends the blank check on more troops, more money, more time and more of the same and it begins the notion that we have to have a new direction to Iraq that has accountability, standards, that you can measure progress or not, and the notion that what we've done in the past doesn't work and that you have to find some other way to bring a conclusion to the Iraq war.
But by all reports, President Bush is more convinced than ever of his righteousness.
Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated “I am the president!” He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.”
Boy Rahm sure showed him, eh?
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Go Jane Go!!!
I am in awe of w’s manliness and manhood. not.
Congrats Dakine on your zed and on getting a question into Senator Dodd. I didn’t know about his work on restoring habeaus corpus so good opportunity for him to tout that horn.
Geez, I think I’m becoming hopeful again. oh god no!
I really need to know exactly what Bush meant by “our country’s destiny”
Oh Jane!! What a great connection!!!!
So, Rahm, just how many billion on a check does one have to sling for needless war, unabated, before it’s no longer blank?
“could not get out of “our country’s destiny”
not get out of?????
The dumb ass faux victory dance by the dems when they caved was insufferable- Rahm was one of the dumber dancers- but they were all there tryin ta make lemonade. Pathetic.
Republicans: If you’re cranking up to smear Senator Clinton, if the Senator is the nominee of my party, well… fine. Just beware sugar daddies Giuliani and Thompson, we’ll do you good. The payback… will I promise, be a bitch.
Public Punditry Contest ends tomorrow:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..ntest.html
by signing it.
Elliott @ 5
Haven’t you read his version of the Bible?
CD Rahm spinning like a CD.
do-si-do @ 4
Thanks! I just hope he and his staffers noticed my and others questions that were not answered. If he can answer most of the questions folks had, he’ll be right near the top of most all of our lists, if he’s not there already…
I swear Bush is losin’ it.
A lunatic on the grass, he sounds like a goddamn 3 year old.
Iraq is, like Lea Thompson’s Lorraine to Crispin Glover’s George in Back to the Future, George Bush’s density.
I wonder if he’s going to make some kind of directive or something, that any successor will be obligated to continue the occupation forever.
Rahm, I’ve been a Democrat a lot longer than you. Sir… you are no Democrat.
Elliott @ 5
Oceania
Eureka Springs @ 13
I doubt if Bush has read his version of the Bible.
OT. I left you a note in EPU land last thread in re: flip 4 mac and Perian (another widget) I downloaded both yesterday and was able to see the vlog live where I had not been able to see Saturday’s efforts…
Eureka Springs @ 13
you mean that funky last chapter?
I wish it were just ignorance but I think his planning is less about religion and more about hegemony.
Jane!
You are playing my favorite clip again.
Brava.
Keep let that a**hole have it. I want my party back. I want my country back.
Neither of those things wil happen when collabrators like Rahm and Joe still have power in this system
Bush’s pronouncements sound more and more like the ramblings of a Hitler “the country’s destiny” indeed. Does the country have the good sense to turn this man over to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague?
Thanks Jane, “Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated “I am the president!” He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.”” So will Sen. Brownback have to rewrite his Intelligent Design thesis now?
impeach/his/bony
*****/who/big time
EPU’ed from last thread
Eureka Springs,
The US is not a signatory to the Rome Statute which created the International Criminal Court. Under the articles of the Rome Statute, those who can suggest charges to the Court’s Prosecutor are a state signatory to the Statute, the Security Council, and the Prosecutor on his/her own.
A state which is signatory to the Statute can go to the ICC if the crime in question happened on its territory, a vessel, or aircraft.
Herein lies the problem. I could be wrong on this but it is my reading of the Statute that Brazil for example could not accuse Bush of war crimes in Iraq. The only country that could do so would be Iraq and because of the convoluted political, military, and diplomatic history between the two countries it is unlikely that Iraq even if it were a signatory could or would lodge a complaint against Bush and company.
A signatory country could I suppose make a complaint if one of its nationals was a victim of a crime in Iraq covered by the Court but such a complaint would probably involve the specified victim or victims only. This is already far afield from what most people would consider a war crimes charge for what has happened in Iraq and at this point the political and diplomatic repercussions for such a tangential charge would come seriously into play. It is hard seeing the Court taking up such a case. If there was much interest in doing so, it could have been done sometime ago.
Sorry that the response took so long.
This is a link to some of the relevant language of the Rome Statute.
http://www.un.org/law/icc/statute/99_corr/2.htm
Jane !!!
And from the non-news department:
America ranks low in ‘Peace Index’
From Times Wire Reports
May 31, 2007
The United States is among the least peaceful nations in the world, ranking 96th between Yemen and Iran, according to an index of 121 countries.
Bustednuckles @ 16
I swear Bush is losin’ it.
A lunatic on the grass, he sounds like a goddamn 3 year old.
In addition to my wish for the imposition of an IQ test for Clarence Thomas, I’d now add a wish for a psychiatric eval of the president.
I believe the operative standard is whether he is “a danger to himself or others”.
He surely fits part B.
I must admit. I can’t get enough of Jane bashing Rahmbo. He’s a first class phony.
Jane, Brava!!! Digby and Josh@TPM, also are hammering the same points, similarly, Christie and Scarecrow, one would think that a saner individual might start raising concerns about Shrub’s Mental Capacity to continue functioning as the Commander Guy! Any competent Psychologist could reasonably assert an argument that the Shrub is exhibiting Type I Schizophrenia!!! Thus impairing his ability to effectively carry out the duties of the Presidency, sort of ala Frist’s Schiavo debacle!!! *g*
Look, Rahm is Israel. That’s the country he’s representing, he certainly is not representing his north side Chicago district.
I think I’m begging to believe those rumors that he’s the highest ranking Mossad agent in the US. He is an Isreali, after all, fought for Isreal, lost a finger, but now claims he lost it from a meat slicer at a deli?
Really? Which deli? I don’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth. And where’d he get those millions? Two years in “private” banking business and he makes like $22 million?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 19
Go, Bentsen, Go!!! 707
Bustednuckles @ 16
Come on!! You are gonna compare Commander Guy with Syd Barrett(that’s who the song was written about)? At least Syd put out one pretty good album before he went stark raving mad. Not only that, but he was the inspiration for 3 awesome albums.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 29
And from the non-news department:
America ranks low in ‘Peace Index’
From Times Wire Reports
May 31, 2007
The United States is among the least peaceful nations in the world, ranking 96th between Yemen and Iran, according to an index of 121 countries.
But did we beat Poland?
Don’t forget Poland!
JPL @ 25
The last lines from Brownback’s Times op-ed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05…..nback.html
Per Brownback, science is not a method. It’s a theocracy. Good to know.
Two thoughts come to mind:
1) He must be talking about the hundreds of bases — including the five super-bases (this includes the $500 million fortress masquerading as the ‘US Embassy’) — we’ve set up over the past four years. He’s banking on the idea that we won’t be able to walk away from such a huge investment. And he’s right –we won’t walk, we’ll run away from it. Hey, if we could leave Cam Ranh Bay to the Soviets, we can leave the Balad Starbucks to al-Sadr.
2) Look at the byline of that story. That’s Georgie Anne Geyer. Who is NOT a liberal.
If she’s dissing Bush, you know he’s in trouble.
looseheadprop @ 23
Yeah I figure we’ll have open revolt pretty soon but I’d like to get 25,000 views before I stop.
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor.
This Rahm youtube takes me back to the daily Ned days. Jane just keeps the best records spinning in the afternoons, until they sink in!
Rahm is definately B-side but this is one hit all need to see and hear.
Keep cutting a rug, Jane! Rahm sucks the soul out of our party.
EPU’d
Thanks Hugh, I will read the link this evening.
And thanks dakine01.. will try perian next.
So do we have anyone to run against Rahmbo in the primary?
That’s the only way we are going to shut him up.
Joe Klein’s conscience @ 35
I was waiting to see who would catch the Pink Floyd reference just like Jane’s on an earlier thread.
*g*
that chest thumping schtick is some serious cuckoo-bananas behavior. This would be the part in the movie where the villain starts monologuing.
Frankly it scares the hell out of me.
Phoenix Woman @ 38
That’s why Shrub had to beat his chest three times saying; ‘Me Commander Guy, You Jane… ;)
No Keith tonight again but his stand-in is playing the right notes.
KO program just told the Bush story just now. Ha!
I view this as the beginning of the end
I sure hope we can stick those words up his tutu soon!
Another one probably facing the beginning of the end is Ted Stevens, who had a fundraiser in Fairbanks yesterday evening to help raise the $5 million he feels he needs to run against – ta-ta – nobody:
“We don’t know who’s going to run against me, but, very clearly, they’ve told me there will be someone running against me,” Stevens said.
According to the Federal Election Commission, Stevens has raised nearly $680,000 in net contributions between Oct. 1, 2006 and March 31, 2007.
Don Young was there with Ted – which one gets the call to his attorney from the FBI first is anyone’s guess – saying:
“It’s not going to be easy. It never is,” Young said. “In this climate today, we must start now. We must organize. We must commit. We must support. We must fund this election.”
I really do hope it is the beginning of the end, Rahm. For you, for Ted, for Don, for…..
Ram Bohner up Bush.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 19
OK,
I see you are practicing on your diplomatic language. Keep at it! Soon you will learn that, with a slight twist of the hand, you can add a little snark that sounds initially like a compliment, until he notices that he’s bleeding from a rapier wound.
Bob in HI
RevDeb @ 42
you’re right, RevDeb, let’s boot his butt out of there.
I believe the President is a very dangerously sick man (his thumping his chest episode which shocked his friends). I’m serious. This is not intended as a joke.
That was never in doubt.
The question is, what can anyone do about it?
The keys of nuclear worldwide destruction are in the lunatic’s hands.
brendancalling @ 44
is he twitching yet? any tremors?
brendancalling @ 44
Was it his chest?
RevDeb @ 46
Do you notice how much more dignified Soltz is when he doesn’t have to contend with the likes of Melanie Morgan…. :O
Oklahoma kiddo @ 52
Sometimes you have to laugh in order not to cry. Look at the mess in the Middle East. Can you imagine what it was like to be in that room with him?
OT – my Rep. Barbara Lee takes W to to the woodshed for the Korea analogy:
Phoenix Woman @ 38
Those Super-bases are SO 19th Century. Just like a bull’s eye painted on the map for an artillery gunner. Within a few years, they’ll be white elephants. Very expensive white elephants.
Bob in HI
from the article linked to in my #48:
Staff Sgt. James Moore, who introduced Stevens, called him a “warrior of the Senate.”
“To be a soldier you must have the ability to tolerate pain and stress,” Moore said. “These are not only on the battlefield, sir, but also in Washington, D.C.”
apparently, SSgt. Moore was in dress greens at the event. I’ve got a call in to Eric Lidji of the Daily News-Miner right now to try and verify…
I was floored by the description of Bush when I read it earlier today. It goes to how irrational Bush is. Partly, that’s crazy irrational but it is also irrational in the sense of not amenable to reason.
That is where the Rahm quote and the frequent representations of Democrats fall apart. They all think that Bush can be reasoned with. After 6 years of constant repetition they still do not get that Bush doesn’t do reason. It’s his way or the highway, always.
My bet is their plan is simply to wait until his term expires but the truth of the matter is that this ourburst should signal to them all that of all our Presidents in our history this is the one that truly deserves to be impeached and removed from office. If not him, then the impeachment clause is worthless verbiage which should be rewritten to explicitly state that it is only to be used in case of a bl*wjob.
The first segment of tonight’s KO featured Jon Soltz of VoteVets. He was particularly harsh on Joe Lieberman’s visit to Iraq, saying basically “why [should soldiers] talk to someone who doesn’t care [about them]?”
This is an important clip, so I hope you get it up asap.
punaise @ 58
Having served a year in Korea, I couldn’t agree more with Ms. Lee!!!
I think W suffers from self-hatred that is so severe, that his rise to power has convinced him that in order to have become president he must be the antichrist, and he’s acting out his delusion.
Hugh @ 61
They’re just keeping their powder dry because dry powder is a valuable commodity.
Gotta have dry powder.
Mauimom @ 62
My Comcast gets CNN, FOX but no MSNBC. I need to pay extra for that so videos are good things.
LS @ 64
When he starts talking to the paintings on the wall as Nixon did, we are really in trouble.
Ed*ard Teller @ 48
Exactly. We need to shove these so far up Rahm’s backside that he can read them in the mirror when he brushes his teeth.
ET, is Benson ready for whatever is coming down the pike? If Toobz has to step down, what happens — special election? Does she have a PAC already collecting money for this purpose?
This native is getting kinda restless.
How was that, OK Kiddo?
Phoenix Woman @ 38
I think you’re right PW, this is about those bases.
Just how desperate are the interested (invested) parties in this? How desperate will the campaign to control the White House be?
Elliott @ 5
See Martin Sheen in the Dead Zone.
Bob Schacht @ 59
To quote the movie Patton: “Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man.”
LS @ 64
I think he’s gone AWOL (again). His behavior in public appearances is getting so weird that it is hard not to suppose that he has become so enraged at the idea that he is not really “in charge” that he has thrown off his handlers (and the scripts they write) in order to show the Amerukan people that
HE.
Is.
In Charge.
Mauimom @ 62
‘Maui’Mom, ooh, the Aloha State is well represented on this thread!!! Bob, You, and Moi!!! See my comment at 56!!! Aloha!!!
Hugh @ 37
Brownback just made a laughingstock of himself and anybody who supports his twaddle. I hope he’s proud.
Fineman on Olbermann, thinks Gore will run. ;0)!!!
rwcole @ 9
The compliant dems seem to be taking roadkill and trying to turn it into roadkillade. I hope it tastes as bad as it sounds.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 76
Works for me.
it pains me that the dems were not more successful in this attempt. but, as gore as pointed out, what the hell are ya gonna do when our maniac in chief refuses to sign the bill and you don’t have the votes to override? i mean, they got a lot of good things in that bill, clear compromises, not least of which is the increased min wage.
but take note, and take heart: the more of these little skirmishes bush thinks he wins – like the way he just bulldozed the majority who did NOT vote for him in 2000, and then the way he claimed a mandate in 04, and now how he’s claiming victory over the dems and that the american people are behind him – all this increasingly bizarre evidence of his increasingly bizarre delusional state, the more exposed is his removal from reality, and the more pathological he appears.
the more this cycle continues, the more deranged will be his behavior. i know, this risks danger, but it’s like these little events allow us to give this idiot all the rope he needs to hang himself.
and he will. we just have to be very diligent to see that he doesn’t hang us all with him.
Hey Rahm, you did SUCH a fine job in the ‘06 elections! It was super the way you took your “victory lap” after promulgating and executing your “Fifty-State Strategy” against that Hack, Gov. Howard Dean, M.D.. Is Dean mobbed up, or DLC’ed up? Are you? Is there a diff? I don’ remember.
You, Sir, are an AHole. Go away, Chamberlain — you are not fooling us.
Hugh @ 37
Even funnier, he thinks that Atheism (which denies the existence of Theo, which is latin for God) is a theocracy!!!!
Elliott @ 54
You remember one of the debates with Kerry, he had that weird cud-chewing thing going on, pushing his mouth out, his jaw, etc….
I wondered then if he was on Thorazine. I think others who are qualified (unlike me) have shot that down, but it did occur to me.
My other thought is that he’s only acting crazy when in fact he’s just way over his head, he knows it, and this is a way to run out the clock. It’s such a stigma, who’s going to bring it up?
“It ends the blank check on more troops, more money, more time and more of the same …” by giving Bush a blank check for more troops, more money, more time and more of the same.
No wonder Bush is thumping his chest, he got 80% of the Democrats in the Senate to give him everything he wants. How do we get rid of these idiots like Emanuel who claim to be “leading” the Democratic Party?
Eureka Springs @ 69
;0)
Angry Off Topic: They are trying to take away Kokesh’s Hon Discharge.
Vet Faces Hearing Over Protest
Sorry if you all have been over it today, I am too angry to read.
I heard this after a local mining company backed out of a deal to give the city an island for a nature reserve, because (after years of talks) the city wouldn’t take legal and cleanup responsibility for the toxic brownfield the mining company left behind.
Jane, perhaps you didn’t see Al Gore’s statement today.
Please, please, direct your ire at the people who are actually responsible for these problems, rather than at the people who are trying, even if you think suboptimally, to fix them.
Otherwise, you’re going to become Nader. And after what happened in 2000, that can’t be what you want.
C. C. in NC @ 71
this clip, perhaps?
Jane! Wonderful the way dems. all over the place are thinking the same thing…Rahm has to go. His influence on our party is deadly. Please take him on the way you did Joe in the next election. I still think Joe winning by that ever present 49-51 is fishy.
RevDeb @ 78
oh, yeah. I’m still holding out for Gore.
brendancalling @ 44
Me too.
DrenchedOtter @ 83
do what RevDeb says, replace him in the next primary
larry birnbaum @ 86
At some point you just have to say I HAVE HAD ENOUGH
Elliott @ 87
Bingo. I remember watching that movie for the first time and thinking how preposterous the idea was. Not any more.
I think he’s gone AWOL (again). His behavior in public appearances is getting so weird that it is hard not to suppose that he has become so enraged at the idea that he is not really “in charge” that he has thrown off his handlers (and the scripts they write) in order to show the Amerukan people that
HE.
Is.
In Charge.
Or he could just be a lil bit drunk… or maybe a *lot* drunk.
Did this outburst take place at his Texas
barpig ranch?kirk murphy @ 90
and coming from you, that means something.
larry birnbaum @ 86
Rahm Emanuel is responsible for these problems. By failing to demand better from the Bush administration than more of the same crapola, he makes himself responsible. By failing to back progressive candidates and going for DLC stooges instead (most of whom lost), he makes himself responsible. By failing to help build the Democratic Party into an opposing force to the idiocy of the last seven years, he makes himself responsible.
Jane is putting the blame just where it needs to be: on weasel-word spouters, slack-offs in office, and corporatist cronies. Like Rahm Emanuel.
Am stram gram
Pique et pique et coligram
Bourre et bourre Et ratatam
Am stram gram
that’s the French version of eeny-meeny-miny-moe. there’s a way to work Rahm into that, but I’ll pass for now.
Elliott @ 87
Oh my! I never saw that before.
Face it, Rahm is a clueless eff’ing idiot. And I apologize to the idiots for bringing you down to Rahm’s level…
Gore probably wont be good at seeing the Liebermans and Rahms… we have much work to do with Gore if he steps in.
jayt @ 94
if he’s acting out like this, it’s no wonder that Pickles is reportedly staying in a hotel while in DC.
Eureka Springs -
Meet the new Gore, (not the)
Same as the old Gore
YMMV
LS @ 98
it sure fits, doesn’t it?
Elliott @ 103
A little too close for comfort.
punaise @ 102
Couldn’t agree more..but he does have a history where I mentioned. I just hope we can point these weak points out in the party and he takes it to heart.
For my Demo friends in Missouri. Who I know lurk here. Missouri! Land of Truman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..I&NR=1
larry birnbaum @ 86
Larry, last time I checked, Rahm was the K Street insider who sold out labor on the latest secret trade deal.
Just as the DLC Dems screwed labor with the NAFTA and later the WTO.
Just a year before the 2000 electios.
Rahm betrayed us on trade. The Dems caved on funding the
WarOccupation. And with their new majority last week the Dems on an Ag subcomittee voted with Big Mutant Food to prevent states and localities from banning GMOs.OK – all by their lonesome, Rahm and the K Street Dems fuck over:
workers
enviros
War/Occupation opponents
Denver ‘08 = Chicago ‘68 (with Seattle ‘99 and a cherry on top)
Or Rahm can leave the dark side, stop fronting for the megacorps and A*P*C, and bring the Dem leaders home to the Dem people.
In fourteen months.
Nawgonnahappen.
So Rahm and the K Street Dems will find a big party in Denver – that despises them and hates their works.
Rahm’s work, not Jane’s.
(OT: Eureka Springs – I’ll dig up some Manu Chao youtubes in LateNite for you tonight. here’s one for now)
Eureka Springs @ 100
There’s a reason why Gore endorsed Howard Dean and NOT Lieberman in the 2004 primary race.
I think the scales fell away in 2000.
OT sorta and btw, if you have the stomach for it, the Paul Wolfowitz interview with Charlie Rose was surreal. It’s worth watching just to study the demon.
JPL@66
.
Oh, boo. I have Comcast & get MSNBC. However, I think you can go to their site [KO section of it] and get “replays.” Also, this was SO good that I’ll bet Crooks & Liars will have it up soon.
CTuttle@74:
I just got back from three weeks in Maui. [I live in Maryland outside DC] and I miss it so. However, I brought home a suitcase full of Coo’k Kwee cookies, Hawaii Sun guava juice, macs & guava/strawberry jam. Should hold me for a while.
EW, does this tempt you to any sort of a “meet up” in DC on the 5th?
Eureka Springs @ 100
OT – I don’t know which worked for me but I downloaded both flip and perian yesterday. Once I did a re-start, I was even able to see the vids on cnn.com although it did question me saying it did not recognize the version of windows media. I clicked continue and saw them for the first time. I think it was twolf1 that had the perian link on a thread yesterday morning.
Elliott @ 110
I tried and just couldn’t. He reminds me of one those creatures in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Thanks punaise, I’m loving my higher speed connection! All tunes all the time, just as I like it.
btw, Does anyone have an addy for encouraging Gore to get in? I am ready to send dollars and sign on to help out.
Elliott @ 110
oops forgot the link
Wolfowitz on Wolfowitz
that chest thumping schtick is some serious cuckoo-bananas behavior. This would be the part in the movie where the villain starts monologuing
As much as I want to believe this account, I’d like a bit of independent confirmation. Just saying.
Hypat
Eureka Springs @ 114
Ask and ye shall receive;
http://www.draftgore.com/
dakine01 @ 112
That’s my next step.. If flip did anything I couldn’t tell. Except QT opened and did nothing, not even a prompt or warning. I have the perian link via twolf..)
Thanks
Hypatia @ 116
the original source for the news was a column by Georgie Ann Geyer in the Dallas Morning News quoting “friends of Bush from Texas.” You’re probably not going to get much more of a confirmation. I don’t believe Ms Geyer fits anyone’s definition of a liberal columnist.
r. emanuel- pin a tag on him, sit him down by the shuffle board players and forget about him. He is a faux dem. To hell with him.
Woodhall Hollow @ 113
he is one of the pod people!
and he is not going softly into any good night anytime soon.
And with all the comblickingtoestockings jabbering we did, I have developed a genuine physical revulsion to the man. So maybe any viewing should come with a barf bag.
OfT – does anyone know whether Bush has yet signed the bill raising the minimum wage (among other less pleasant matters) yet?
From my sweet thing, Lahoma, she loves the islands, to Bob in HI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU_hwOD61_w
DrenchedOtter @ 83
Isn’t Rahm in his “leadership post” because of being elected by fellow Democrats? If that’s the case, we don’t have to go to the trouble of getting someone to run against him; we just need to convince House Dems not to vote for him. Seems like a better use of our time & money.
I suspect that Rahm was “elected” by calling in all the chits he’d collected as head of the DCCC — in response to the money he distributed to them in that position.
punaise @ 97
I’m just driving by and can’t wait…Something to do with ballet and the pas de bourre?
kirk murphy @ 107
But, instead of wasting it on losers like Massa and Maffei,
Rahm shrewdly funneled $3 million to Tammy Duckworth,
which proved crucial to her victory.
Oh, wait…
1,532 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen larry birnbaum and the Firepup Patriots:
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, let me clue ya in there brother larry, this place doesn’t have a lotta time for DLC-A*P*C-corporatist bullshit. Rahm Emmanuel is a big time shill for the corporate oligarchy and he’s all tangled up with the Daley machine in Chicago and is part of the A*P*C-Likud mafia that controls Mrs. Clinton. His politics are straight outta Dante’s Inferno so, no, Rahm is not one of those who is tryin’ ta fix our problems.
KEEP THE FAITH AND FER GOD’S SAKE RECOGNIZE THE ENEMY!!!
kirk murphy @ 107
What the doc said!!
Bad news.
Probation Dept.’s memo on Libby.
jayt @ 122
Is the Iraq funding dependent on him signing part 2 with the minimum wage? I don’t understand that clearly. I thought it was tied together, and that that was how dems could rationalized more money for Iraq.
http://www.draftgore.com/
Done, thanks PeteCO.
dakine01 @ 72
Fixed fortifications, like body armor or a longer lance or a gun that shoots farther, is simply a technique of keeping oneself safe while still being able to hit the enemy. Once the fortification doesn’t stop them then it is irrelevant and should be dropped immediately, in favor of a bigger better gun or some other kind of protective armor or even better faster mobility.
Speed, mobility, reach, firepower, coordination of forces, planning and a strong base of support (economic, industrial, scientific research, etc) are more modern issues.
Take the TB guy as an indicator they’re researching germs, bacteria and viruses as military weapons. If they can find a way to destroy an enemy without even placing our own soldiers in danger, then that would be great reach, firepower and safety, all at once.
Of course, ‘they’ might decide you and I are the enemy and destroy us without even leaving their fingerprints. That’s way too much unchecked & balanced power.
I absolutely detest the DLC!
I wonder if Bush meant that he set up Iraq to continuously be too unstable for the troops to leave, i.e., never being able to achieve a definition of victory…by sending Negroponte down there in the beginning when it was being “set up” and what we keep seeing is the “El Salvador” option.
silly rahm — tricks are
for kids — not for us — the
i n t e l l i g e n s i a. . .
okay — i admit, reading the d.n.c.
tea-leaves, and rahm — is an
endeavour best left to experts. . .
[i.e. not me — so, O/T, sorta. . .]
now what IS NEW, and IS AVAILABLE,
already, from team-libby’s OTHER
FILINGS, tonight, in the criminal
case, are new new tid-bits — of
what those scooter-support
letters contain. . .
like scooter’s efforts on behalf
of another white house staffer
accused of leaking classified
information to a newspaper. . .
yep — he’s apparently been
here, before — in the role of
pro-bono lawyer — not client.
the letter from which this was
quoted may well be one deserving
of some redaction, so i will not
speculate about identities — no,
as to the incident, i’ll patiently
wait to match the above-quoted, to
whatever is made available on, or
after june 5, 2007. . .
that said. . . i think it permissable
to speculate about how this incident
might have influenced the arc of scooter’s
later trajectory — and his life — since then. . .
so, i cannot help wondering whether
scooter “went to school” in some
measure on this case, especially
insofar as it might have helped
him learn where the absolute edge
of “a policy disagreement” becomes,
well. . . “a leak to a newspaper“. . .
do take a squint. . .
watertiger is upstairs
Emanuel, Schumer, and Clinton are two-faced squids. All three are committed to an Iran invasion.
A*PE*Kerheads support Hillary absolutely.
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I just read Froomkin’s report of this story and my immediate reaction was, it will take a Dien Bien Phu to get us out of Iraq. And that defeat will happen. The American people will not support a draft, and nobody volunteers to be a 5 percent chance of coming back in a body bag. More than that, we don’t have a secure supply line, and when the Brits leave Basra, our troops at the McDo’s in their bases will be asking where’s the meat?
This is a disaster. It could have been avoided, and men like Murtha who understand it want to avoid it. But we may see a catastrophic defeat of our military power that is light years greater than what happened in Vietnam, where we exited with success, if not dignity.
MarkH @ 132
Take the TB guy as a sign they’re testing germs, bacteria, and viruses as ways of implementing their nationwide quarantine program once they’ve figured out which agent works best at infecting the most amount of people quickest without actually having a high mortality rate but which causes enough fear to justify sending Blackwater into every major city ahead of cancelling elections.
The deceased microbiologists mentioned supra would have been perfect for finding the fingerprints of the agents and identifying the perps.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 123
Thanks! I’ll send this to all my mainland family and friends, just to make’em jealous!
Aloha,
Bob in HI
punaise @ 97
Am Rahm gram?
Bob in HI
To pursue the discussion down here in EPU-land, the current surge is very much like the battle of Kursk. Both sides knew it was coming. The Germans had to do it because they knew time was not on their side. It was a huge conflagration and close-run, but in the end, the Germans had used up their strategic reserve. It was the decisive battle of World War II. The surge is similar. We are sending in our reserves in effect, by prolonging the missions, shortening the leaves, and cutting back on necessary re-equipment and training. Since there is not going to be a military draft, this means that by the end of the year, we will be on the defensive. We will have soldiers volunteer, but they won’t have high school degrees. Expect death rates to rise.
More newspeak. Caving in is “ending the blank check.”
One Party: two branches.
The false illusion that Dems will actually do anything is perpetuated to keep people out of the streets.