Comments on: BUSH BASHING 101: WHEN IN DOUBT, RECYCLE

By: Neo

Neo — Tue, 23 May 2006 04:20:25 +0000

As the Bush Administration is now working toward the close of Gitmo, there is a need for sponsors for some of the current “residents” who either don’t actually belong to any country or don’t want to go home.
The best possible sponsors are those who really empathize with the Gitmo “residents” and therefore would have no problem having them in a group home in their neighborhood. The obvious choice of sponsors would come from the members of, but not limited to, such compassionate organizations as the ACLU, Amnesty International, the Kos kids, AfterDowningStreet.org, moveon.org, and International ANSWER.
Please end their psychological torture and religious literature abuse. Please step up to the challenge of having one or more pathological killers as neighbors. It will change all our lives for the better.

By: bboot

bboot — Sun, 21 May 2006 09:13:17 +0000

Perhaps a quick read of the Times story on the mismanagement of the Iraqi police would be instructive for you. A brief summary: despite good and widespread advice to deploy substantial numbers of trainers and support the Bush team decided not to. Consequently an institution that could have fairly quickly contributed to order and security has devolved into a rabble that tolerates violence, runs from confrontation, and appears to harbor death squads and torturers. These reasons, not ideology, are the ones that will cause the Bush name to live in infamy in American history. We were once the ‘can do’ nation. Bush and his people have made us a laughingstock of incompetence and arrogance.

By: Sirius Familiaris

Sirius Familiaris — Fri, 19 May 2006 14:45:29 +0000

How long before Katie Couric at CBS or some other MSM assclown trots out an “authentic” document indicating that Bush ordered the September 11 attacks? Mark my words, one of the MSM outlets in this country will publish/broadcast something to this effect before the elections this fall.

By: DaveG

DaveG — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:21:19 +0000

You’re right, crosspatch, but what do you suggest we do when every reaction to a threat brings cries of “impending tyranny” and “irrevocable loss of civil rights” from the head-in-the-sand crowd? “A chill wind’s blowing,” you know.

What would we do in response to a threat similar to 9/11 when we can’t do any profiling at the security gates? Strip search 10% more grannies?

The administration doesn’t dare announce or react to a credible threat because 1) the accusations of fear-mongering from the very same party that promised a renewal of the draft should Bush be re-elected (nope, no fear-mongering there!) would be shrill and immediate, and 2) if they back up their claims with actual intelligence there will be another out-cry over gov’t spying from the very same party that brought us FBI files being used against political opponents and the Carnivore Internet spying program (which, BTW, I am not opposed to).

We are “represented” by a majority party that cowers in fear of a minority party that will stop at nothing to discredit the majority party in order to win back the majority for themselves, even if it means achieving governence of a smoking hole in the end.

By: SShiell

SShiell — Fri, 19 May 2006 09:39:42 +0000

There seems to be a pattern emerging at the Times. They are so infected with BDS, it is infecting their news stories. How long has it been since we bashed Bush? Headline Something! And it has to support be one of the following themes: 1) Bush Lied; 2) Bush should have known; 3) Bush tortured something; 4) Bush’s incompetence. The first one is tied to anything having to do with the events and activities leading to war. The second is for anything 9/11. the third is directly tied to Gitmo and Abu Ghraib. And the last is connected to any misstep in any event anywhere - kind of a catch all category - if we cannot connect him to one of the first 3, we definitely got him here.

Now sit back and wait. When the news cycle deviates for a period away from one of the list, such as recently with the Immigration theme. The Times will suddenly find a story - a sccop - seemingly out of thin air supporting 1 thru 4. And how much of these “scoops” seem to be nothing more than, like this story, nothing more than rehashes of an old story brought out of the cupboard, dusted off, shined up and shown to the world as something bright and shiney new and always bashing Bush.

Wait . . . the cycle is repeating itself again . . . Wanna bet which one? I betcha number 3 is next in the cycle - its been too long since Bush tortured something.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:30:24 +0000

What I take away from this posting is that what we should learn is that when all our indicators are “blinking red” like they were for Perl Harbor and for 9/11, we should consider ourselves already under attack. The only problem with my reaching that conclusion is that I have no way of knowing how many times everything was showing red and nothing happened.

But if we are getting that volume of indicators that something is up, from now on that should be our signal to get agressive and not wait for the attack to materialize. We had plenty of vague warning and it is only by a miracle that Japan didn’t launch the final planned wave of bombers (because they didn’t know where our carriers were) that would have taken out the oil tank farms at Perl Harbor (and would have stopped our Pacific operations out of Perl for years) and it was a miracle that the passengers on flight 93 prevented another disaster in DC and it was a miracle that United flight 23 in Newark got the message just before takeoff and returned to the gate.

We can’t rely on miracles. I think history has shown us that when we have that level of indication, we are generally correct.

By: clarice feldman

clarice feldman — Fri, 19 May 2006 04:29:52 +0000

Pretend you are in the WH and the sigint theats are clear. What do you have from the FBI? Bupkis, between bureaucratic sclerosis/the Gorelick wall and the FISA court warrant kerfuffle where the FBI guy heading the FISA warrants has been sent to Siberia. What do you have from the CIA? Bupkis. Why? Because you have genius analysts there like Sheuer who thinks OBL is an admirable chap and Pillar who things we just have to live with terrorism. It’s no big deal. You talk to the NSC. What do you get? Bupkis. Clarke is more concerned about the internet being jammed.

And when after 9/11 you try to reshape these institutions what do you get? Peridy the likes of which I have never seen. The very people who didn’t so their job are working 24/7 to affect a coup.

By: Svenghouli

Svenghouli — Fri, 19 May 2006 04:12:27 +0000

AST:

Just look at the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998.

http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/libera.htm

By: Scrapiron

Scrapiron — Fri, 19 May 2006 03:40:24 +0000

This the most stupid ‘Monday Morning Quarterbacking’ story i’ve ever read. Someone gather anyone and everyone that is passing it around and/or believes it up and put them in a rubber room. Has there ever been a more blatent political lie in the history of the United States? Never that i can remember and i’m 65 years old. I know the democrats have sunk to a new lows, but this is lies below the gutter level. And they’re going to unite the country, give me a break, they’ll start a civil war and get millions killed. Never again will i have any respect for anyone that claims to be a democrat or even votes democratic. Hell i’ll even support whatever country that wants to take the country over if the democrats ever get in charge again. You listening Iran, Russia, China, or Hugo/Castro, you will possibly have millions of supporters in a couple of years.

By: jainphx

jainphx — Fri, 19 May 2006 01:56:09 +0000

Who believes any thing Miller or the times has to say.