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Juan Cole Rips Bush Apart One Last Time
Mon, 12/08/2008 - 10:15am | mal contends
Update: See also J. P. Green's Challenging the 'Bush Kept Us Safe' Meme - "It's reflection time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the inhabitants of the white house and their minions are not milking their fading authority to smash and grab as much as they can, they are busy spinning history to describe their positive accomplishments. All they have is the fact that we have not had a major terrorist incident 'on U.S. soil' since 9-11. For this, they figure, Americans should be expansively grateful to the lamest duck."
In case anyone missed it, Juan Cole tears apart Bush's-impersonation-of-a-Soviet commissar address last week on Bush's Middle East policy at the Saban Forum in Washington, D.C.
In case anyone missed it, Juan Cole tears apart Bush's-impersonation-of-a-Soviet commissar address last week on Bush's Middle East policy at the Saban Forum in Washington, D.C.
Not that anyone with the power of insight exceeding Cokie Roberts takes anything Bush says seriously these days, but Bush's "self-glorifying speech" disrespects the million human beings no longer alive because of his lying foreign policy.
Concludes Cole:
Tags: In Defense of Joe Lieberman
Fri, 11/14/2008 - 12:11pm | mal contends
Update: Hartford Courant: Secret Ballot To Decide Lieberman's Fate - "Joe Lieberman votes with me a lot more than a lot of my senators. He didn't support us on military stuff, and he didn't support us on Iraq stuff. But you look at his record, it's pretty good." - Sen. Harry Reid
I don’t care for Joe Lieberman as a U.S. Senator.
Lieberman went right along with the obscenity of the Iraq Invasion and the Patriot Act, among other imbecilities.
I don’t care for Joe Lieberman as a public man.
Even among elected officials in Congress, Lieberman stands out as a lying propagandist.
Lies and Obstruction
Sat, 07/26/2008 - 8:56am | mal contends
It’s no surprise that Bush, Cheney and their supporters are so intent on controlling the images and impressions coming out of their Iraq War catastrophe.
These are the same people who went to war with the swaggering casualness of a young teenager playing a cool video-game system, though teenagers are typically more candid about their rationales and objectives.
Blocking their actions from examination is a full-time job for this administration and its paid liars, who even today are selling the Iraq War alternately as a mistake/unfortunate imperative, and not a colossal lie.
Michael Kamber and Tim Arango’s piece in this morning’s New York Times on the “growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war” makes a reader wonder if somehow all this destruction in Iraq could have been prevented by candid discussion in this democracy of what war is during the 2002-03 roll-out of Bush's Iraq propaganda.
Write Kamber and Arango:
These are the same people who went to war with the swaggering casualness of a young teenager playing a cool video-game system, though teenagers are typically more candid about their rationales and objectives.
Blocking their actions from examination is a full-time job for this administration and its paid liars, who even today are selling the Iraq War alternately as a mistake/unfortunate imperative, and not a colossal lie.
Michael Kamber and Tim Arango’s piece in this morning’s New York Times on the “growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war” makes a reader wonder if somehow all this destruction in Iraq could have been prevented by candid discussion in this democracy of what war is during the 2002-03 roll-out of Bush's Iraq propaganda.
Write Kamber and Arango:
Peace Movement Is Right, Tom Friedman Is Wrong
Wed, 07/16/2008 - 10:00am | GlobalGirl
A woman just needs love and reassurance sometimes; that’s why I read Glenn Greenwald at Salon.
That's not a commercial advertisement for Salon, just a statement of appreciation of Greenwald’s article this morning chiding Tom Friedman (and Fred Hiatt, Charles Krauthammer) and other Iraq war cheerleaders.
Chickenhawks seem incapable of realizing that American foreign policy under Bush-Cheney (including that Iraq War thing) is more serious than mere “mistakes,” deserving of a "thumbs-down," as Friedman writes this morning.
From Greenwald’s column this morning on the “befuddled” Tom Friedman:
935 Lies Led to the Iraq Invasion and War Continuing Today, Humanitarian Disaster Predictable
Wed, 01/23/2008 - 9:17am | mal contends
One lie in a civil deposition about consensual sex caused the Republicans to impeach Bill Clinton.
Nine-hundred and thirty-five Bush administration lies leading the nation to a terrible war shattering the lives of millions have not even merited a Congressional investigation.
I was disgusted some weeks back when talking head Michel Martin said on the Bill Maher show: "But how do you – why – why is it so invested in the idea that (the Iraq War was based on) a lie, as opposed to a mistake? I guess what I’m just curious about is why."