I’ve been wondering if the new UBL video is faked. The whole fake beard thing bothers me. Rich Moran has more evidence of potential fakery in the video, including a pretty suspicious freeze frame….

I love this BDS thing that you have going. As far as I can tell the majority of your population are infected with it. Even the esteemed host of this site seems to suffer from it occasionally. Given that the entire idea is simply absurd, I can’t imagine how I would prove the absence of BDS to you. Could you tell me how yo distinguish between someone who dislikes the man intently for his cronyism, incompetence, bullheadedness, ignorance and gross responsibility for numerous thousands of violent deaths, from someone who is suffering from BDS?

The idea that disliking Bush must be driven by an irrational syndrome should have been put to bed a long, long time ago.

As for Mr.Blair, some good, some bad. I really appreciate the effort that he put into the NHS (I work in it and can see the difference clearly) but think that he made the biggest mistake of his life hitching himself to the Iraq train. I suspect that, looking at how things have gone, he would agree in his quiet moments. At least Mr.Brown has enough leeway to recognise this and is pulling away slowly.

“a lot of people are allowing themselves to be played like a fiddle by the movement or mindset they’ve ascribed to.”

As for this, yes, it goes on everywhere. But this stuff is just blatant. I don’t trust any of those websites. How on earth can you trust the Bush administration now, after the past years of deceipt and incompetence?

Do we need a syndrome for you? Maybe Bush Enrapture Syndrome?

If there truly are rogue elements operating with the president’s knowledge inside the Administration, then Bush should be impeached. If it is true “Bush lied us into an illegal war,” the House should have no trouble drafting/passing Articles of Impeachment for the Senate to pass a verdict on. Dennis Kucinich, darling of the Socialist “peace worshipers” on the far left, speaks of a “war based on lies” as if that were a foregone conclusion, yet Speaker-to-be Pelosi takes impeachment off the table months before the November 2006 election, presumably because enough hard evidence doesn’t exist to support a sure conviction. Can you offer a rational explanation for this apparent dichotomy between two prominent Democrats, one the Speaker of the House and the other a presidential candidate? If not, maybe you ought be more careful about the false labels you’re throwing around in regards to the Administration’s legitimacy.

the posts/comments in said echo chambers confirm that quite a lot of people are allowing themselves to be played like a fiddle by the movement or mindset they’ve ascribed to.

This is true, even (and often most grievously) when the “movement” is a rogue outgrowth of the US government known as the Bush Administration.

No, WE are not making that comparison, but rather YOU are in order to divert from the point I was making, i.e. the posts/comments in said echo chambers confirm that quite a lot of people are allowing themselves to be played like a fiddle by the movement or mindset they’ve ascribed to. Feel free to prove me wrong, but your posts reveal an underlying BDS affliction, although it is a mild enough case that you’re still able to engage in civil discourse here, and perhaps are even still able to enjoy a pint or two on occasion with a person who has supported Tony Blair.

Hmm, so we are comparing partisan websites and their commentors with the proclaimations of the government of your country.

Well, I suppose that the comparison is fair. I’d just expect a whole lot more integrity from my elected representatives, that’s all.

Hey, everyone! Sorry to be so long, brave warriors and jihadis, but as you can see — my barber and Allah (peace be upon Him) have blessed me with — quite a luxuriant beard! …

Doesn’t there come a point where you recognise that you are being played? Doesn’t it get embarassing eventually?

I often have similar thoughts when reading through the posts/comments on echo chambers such as DU, LGF, C&L, Hannity’s site, Kos, NewsMax, ThinkProgress, MediaMatters, etc.

It is not possible, because the Bush administration would never lie about such important matters, just for political gain. It is impossible. It would never happen. They are too suffused with integrity, love for truth and respect for the American people for that.

*sigh*

“One can accuse the Bush Administration of incompetence in many areas but you would think if they were going to run a fake video, they might have done a better job of manufacturing it so that some guy in pajamas sitting in his mother’s basement couldn’t expose them.”

How long did it take to find out that the Niger Yellow Cake documents were faked? I believe that it was an hour on Google, they were so clownishly done.

Besides, this tape fooled you, it fooled the CIA, it fooled Fox, CNN, BBC, ABC, etc, etc. It can’t have been so bad.

Doesn’t there come a point where you recognise that you are being played? Doesn’t it get embarassing eventually?