Better be careful, d.b.

As I recall, FDL has a troubled history with truthful Photoshopped pictures of Joe.

‘Careful’?

I don’t fear mendacious traitors to the Republic, or useful idiots acting on behalf of foreign governments.

What I do fear, however, is the somewhat high tolerance for malfeasance in America, and what it portends for the future.

When they come after me, or any other artist for a constitutionally protected parodic rendering…It will be too late for us all.

I can’t believe you gave Kenosha Kid a link. What will the Kid komplain about today?

No link for Trifecta?

Why, why, why did NOT ONE SENATOR stand up?? I guess we’ll be reading graduate theses trying to answer this question in about fifty years (well, I may not be reading them …), after they reinvent universities and civilization.

Yes, and no questions from MSM either..surprise /s

BTW, I sent selise a link to your culled info.. think she will like it..)

Phoenix Woman doesn’t think these bills will amount to much since the Navy is talking about pulling a couple of aircraft carriers out of the Persian Gulf area.. I’ll believe it when they are far away myself.

Also if you missed a link floating arouond these days to a youtube called Bases Are Loaded.. it’s worth a watch.. very informative.
I cannot help but think with such large bases in Iraq.. Bushco may not need aircraft carriers to pull off an airstrike on 200 locations in Iran..

behindthefall, Thanks for culling that ghastly info.

What the heck were our Senators thinking?

Don’t know if you saw this comment by selise a few days back which includes excellent links and points out the House version of this path to Iranian war, imo.

OMG.
I’d missed that. How about this (from selise’s comment):

scarecrow made an excellent comment that summarizes the issues with this bill very well:

The assurance that the amendment wouldn’t be an explicit authorization to attack Iran should be read in conjunction with Glenn Greenwald’s post during TPM’s Book Club segment.

Glenn’s main point is that once it is generally accepted that Iran is conducting “acts of war” in killing US soldiers in Iraq, then Bush can use the existing AUMF in Iraq to attack Iran. He doesn’t need to get another authorization.

This is not saying that an attack is more or less likely than before; only that it arguably removes a barrier that might have existed.

justin raimondo has a good commentary on this bill and iran in general, “Is War With Iran Inevitable? Yes.”

and just in case you think raimondo is writing crazy talk in his last paragraph, here is what zbigniew brzezinski told the senate foreign relations committee in january: …

Why, why, why did NOT ONE SENATOR stand up?? I guess we’ll be reading graduate theses trying to answer this question in about fifty years (well, I may not be reading them …), after they reinvent universities and civilization.

What the heck were our Senators thinking?

Don’t know if you saw this comment by selise a few days back which includes excellent links and points out the House version of this path to Iranian war, imo.

Jonathan @ 54…

yeah, it’s dystopian but possible – Hillary Clinton may be able to botch and stifle the much needed health care reform twice!

You guys are much too optimistic — Look what happened in Japan after their 1990 tech bubble burst. It is all summed up in their stock market chart history.

(Go to yahoo’s new chart reader (beta) and punch up the nikei 225 [^n225] and look what happened around 1997. It was simply the jumping off point for a 6 year deflationary stretch.)

Interestingly, their tech bubble predicts what is happening in our economy as we speak. Look closely at the huge May ‘97 rally that corresponds to a similar event taking place in our tech-economy now (see link). Talk about an influx of foreign currency! Anyone care to guess where it is coming from now?? And what’s next…?

What happened next was the onset of the East Asian Financial crisis of (July) 1997 when several rounds of currency devaluation kicked off a debilitating deflationary denouement in Japan. And we are just a few months away from the beginning of an analog credit meltdown here at home.

The recession ahead abates in 2009 when a new administration is scheduled to take office. Good times prevail temporarily. Then something really big happens and it is back to the kind of Republican Malfeasance we’ve come to expect.

A republican coup? Good question. Maybe Cheney finally pushes Bush out of the way.

See for yourselves… Explore the future in your Nikkei NoosCruiser! You’ll be amazed what can go wrong!

Flak jackets now required in the Green Zone.

If Timmeh were a journalist, which he’s not, he might have asked
Lindsay Graham about this on MTP.

And how convenient was the outing of not only Valerie Plame but the entire Brewster-Jennings front group? No one left to counter the bullshit.

behindthefall @ 55

Does anybody have a link to the text of the Levin-Lieberman resolution?

How on earth could EVERY Dem present vote for it?

Is it the equivalent of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution? Is there any further approval that Cheney/PuppetOTUS need or, rather, would seek?

Thomas

Under Recent Floor Activity, set the date to 7/11/2007 and click on Last Major Action. Scroll down to item 25, S.AMDT.2073 to H.R.1585. I think that’s it. I got lost in the weeds following the links looking for the text. It has to be in there somewhere.

What a briar patch they hide the deliberations of our democracy in! Here are snippets; it is basically a list of assertions — no evaluation or analysis — and if it is bought wholesale, it does indeed sound like a casus belli is being assembled:
— begin quote —
(4) In an interview published on June 7, 2006, Zalmay Khalilzad, then-United States ambassador to Iraq, said of Iranian support for extremist activity in Iraq, “We can say with certainty that they support groups that are attacking coalition troops. These groups are using the same ammunition to destroy armored vehicles that the Iranians are supplying to Hezbollah in Lebanon. They pay money to Shiite militias and they train some of the groups. We can’t say whether Teheran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that Al Qaeda people come here from Pakistan through Iran. And Ansar al Sunna, a partner organization of Zarqawi’s network, has a base in northwest Iran.”

(5) On April 26, 2007, General David Petraeus, commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq, said of Iranian support for extremist activity in Iraq, “The level of financing, the level of training on Iranian soil, the level of equipping some sophisticated technologies. . . even advice in some cases, has been very, very substantial and very harmful.”

(6) On April 26, 2007, General Petraeus also said of Iranian support for extremist activity in Iraq, “We know that it goes as high as [Brig. Gen. Qassem] Suleimani, who is the head of the Qods Force. . .. We believe that he works directly for the supreme leader of the country.”

(7) On May 27, 2007, then-Major General William Caldwell, spokesperson for Multi-National Force-Iraq, said, “What we do know is that the Iranian intelligence services, the Qods Force, is in fact both training, equipping, and funding Shia extremist groups. . . both in Iraq and also in Iran. . .. We have in detention now people that we have captured that, in fact, are Sunni extremist-related that have, in fact, received both some funding and training from the Iranian intelligence services, the Qods Force.”

(8) On February 27, 2007, in testimony before the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, Lieutenant General Michael Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said of Iranian support for extremist activity in Iraq, “We believe Hezbollah is involved in the training as well.”

(9) On July 2, 2007, Brigadier General Kevin Bergner, spokesperson for Multi-National Force-Iraq, stated, “The Iranian Qods Force is using Lebanese Hezbollah essentially as a proxy, as a surrogate in Iraq.”

(10) On July 2, 2007, Brigadier General Bergner detailed the capture in southern Iraq by coalition forces of Ali Musa Daqdaq, whom the United States military believes to be a 24-year veteran of Lebanese Hezbollah involved in the training of Iraqi extremists in Iraq and Iran.

(11) The Department of State designates Hezbollah a foreign terrorist organization.
— end quote —

eCAHNomics @ 66

Los Angeles Diocese reaches $660 million settlement in sex abuse cases. Ain’t religion grand.

It certainly is, if you count the new cathedral in downtown L.A. Cardinal Roger Mahony certainly wishes he could have spent that $, not on paying off the sex abuse victims of archdiocesan miscreants, nor on the families who frequent the Catholic Worker & other catholic help orgs within spitting distance, but on the gigantic new cathedral recently built in the same environs, commonly known around here as the Taj Mahony…

WAINS (=Why Am I Not Surprised)