NO MORE NUKES

"The Iranians should not have a nuclear weapon, the capacity to make a nuclear weapon, or the knowledge as to how to make a nuclear weapon." George W. Bush/April 28, 2006


And if Iran does have any of the above, the Long War President will drop his nuclear weapons on their batty and bombastic butts.
Of course, America's nuclear weapons will be utilized for the peace and security of the world.
And it won't matter if these pre-emptive nukes begin WORLD WAR III.
God is (still) on our side.
Allah is on the wrong side.
Onward Forward...

MILK AND GAS

I bought me a cow.
So I've got milk.
But I also have a gas station.
I put a contraption on the rear of my cow to trap the methane.
That gas goes to a nearby tank.
It takes about 24 hours to "capture" enough gas to fill up my vehicle's tank.
Gas and Milk...what a great combination!
O.K. I didn't buy a cow.
I don't have milk or gas.
But it's something to think about.

CONMEN AND OILMEN

Congressional Conmen want to give me a rebate.
$100.
Sure, I'll take it.
I can fill my 6-Cylinder truck two times with the C-note.
The frugal conmen don't want to offend the avaricious oilmen.
Having the Long War President and all the rest of the government wailing and whining about the rising gas prices is nothing less than pathetic and ostentatious window-dressing.
On second thought....forget that $100 rebate.
I don't want the conmen and the oilmen to feel as though they have wiped and assuaged the brow of one struggling taxpayer.
I don't want your breadcrumbs.
I don't want your patronizing and petty payoffs.
Do something real.
Convert your profit-sucking internal combustion engines into anti-global warming vehicles.
Think about your grandchildren and their grandchildren, and not just about your bulging bank accounts!

MY JOB IS TO MAKE DECISIONS

“George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.”
Tony Snow
11/11/05]

Welcome aboard Tony Snow.
But enter at your own peril.
You are the new spokesperson for a ship of fools.
You're a Fox recruit by the Long War President.
Your name is a fitting one for your new job: Giving Snow jobs.
Nothing personal.
But the Bush gang is slipping fast, going down for the last count, with nooses getting tighter and tighter around their collective and collusive collars.
And the glaciers and ice caps are rapidly melting.
More snow...more
Snow!

THERE'S NO MAGIC WAND TO WAVE AT BUSH ADDICTIONS

Bush's top officials openly assert that he can do anything he wants--including attacking another country--on his authority as Commander in Chief.
Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution/Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith/The Nation


All words between quotation marks were spoken by our Long War President George W. Bush. Words between brackets are by Mad Plato.

1. "America is addicted to oil."
[I'm addicted to war.]
2. "America is addicted to oil."[I'm addicted to breaking laws.]
3. "America is addicted to oil."
[I'm addicted to using bad grammar.]
4. “It’ll take time to restore chaos...” - Washington, DC - White House South Lawn - Remarks upon Arrival from Camp David - 4/13/03 [I'm addicted to restoring chaos quickly.]
5. “Natural gas is...hemispheric...” - Austin, TX - President-Elect Press Conference - 12/20/2000
[I'm not.]
6. "Ethanol is good for the whole country." [I'm not.]
8. "We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." -Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002
[And I've given you one!]
9. "The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway." Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004
[I just help them out.]
10. "Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." -Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
[Is America a free nation?]
11. "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." -Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." -Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
[I really don't know what the hell I'm saying.]

AND...
Journalists at a Columbia University event are worried that, Bush, Rove and Cheney, if they thought they were going to lose the House in November and face serious investigations into their crimes and deceits, would do something treasonous, like launching a war against Iran, or perhaps allowing another major terrorist attack against a U.S. target, so that they could then clamp down further on domestic freedom and ramp up jingoistic support among their wavering base.
Dave Lindorff


There is considerable evidence that military action against Iran has already started. Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner (ret.) told CNN that "the decision has been made and military operations are under way." He said the Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency recently told him that the Iranians have captured dissident units "and they've confessed to working with the Americans." Journalist Seymour Hersh wrote in The New Yorker that "American combat troops are now operating in Iran." He quotes a government consultant who told him that the units were not only identifying targets but "studying the terrain, and giving away walking-around money to ethnic tribes, and recruiting scouts from local tribes and shepherds.

article | posted April 21, 2006 (web only)
Attack Iran, Ignore the Constitution/Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith/The Nation

A VISIT TO THE PODIATRIST

I went to the foot doctor today.
The price was a hand and foot.
No, the price was both hands and both feet.
Feet are important, I know.
And the price to pay for their analysis and treatment is reflective of this importance.
Here's the price list of my visit:
X-Ray Foot 2 views: $55
X-Ray Ankle series: $150
Injection Fascia, Tendon: $115
Injection Hydrocortisone: $5
Strapping Foot/Ankle: $52
Diagnosis Plantar Fascitis/Fibromatosis: $728.71 (Why don't they just round off the price? Why the 71 cents?)
Total: $1105.71
Popcorn: Free
I'm going back to college.
I want to be a foot doctor.

KINGDUMB OF BUSH

George W. Bush
Humpty-Dumpty

Rice and Cheney
Jekyll & Hyde

Hoochie-coochie & Rigamarole

Riffraff & Razzle-Dazzle
Karl Rove

Razzmatazz & Mamby-pamby
Donald Rumsfeld

Colin Powell
Window dressing on Smoke and Mirrors

Torture Jails and Fairy Tales
Mazes and Labyrinths

United States of America
United States of Amnesia

Land of the Brave
Home of the Gas Guzzler

Bring 'em on
Smoke 'em out

Hide the secrets
Bury the lies

Bring 'em to Justice
Dead or Alive

Steal the oil
In the Global War
Against Terrorism!

VACATIONS

Congress is still on vacation.
But they have a lot more eggs to hide.
Maybe they should stay on vacation until Christmas.
Save the country some money.
The president ought to start a long vacation, too.
The Long War President should relax.
Mollify those motions (and emotions) to push any bomb-buttons.
Dick Cheney should go shoot some more birds.
Let those pent-up aggressions dissipate.
The "contemptuous, arrogant and dismissive" Rumsfeld (in the words of Ret. Major General John Batiste) should go on permanent vacation. Mr. Rumsfeld has lots of loot from his connections with Aspartame and Tamiflu.
Ms. Rice should go on tour and play the piano (and quit scaring other world leaders with her ominous orbs).
Finally, let our soldiers begin their vacation.

THE FIRST EARTH DAY

"We only have one earth, so we need to take care of her."
That's what Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin believed. He was disturbed that an issue as important as our environment was not addressed in politics or by the media, so he created the first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970. An estimated 20 million people nationwide attended festivities that day. It was a truly astonishing grassroots explosion, leading eventually to national legislation such as the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.


I remember that first Earth Day.
I was living in Boulder, Colorado.
The most salient memory is of the many Geodesic Domes.
All of those triangles interconnected!
The dream-come-true of any hippie!
A couple of years later, when I was living alone in a quiet one-room "cottage" along Boulder Creek, I had an experience that truly put me in touch with the Earth.
It was a frosty white winter evening.
I was driving my Datsun truck and saw two people asking for a ride (their thumbs extended).
I stopped and asked where they needed to go.
They pointed ahead and said "Sugarloaf Road".
"Get in", I said.
His wife's name was Heidi. I forget his. But I won't forget his huge, red beard that was almost down to his knees.
When I stopped, they invited me to visit their home.
We walked through the snow-laden forest for about quarter of a mile.
"It's over there", said the long-bearded husband.
"Where?", I asked.
"That round circle on the ground", Heidi replied.
Her husband lifted a "door" and they invited me to come in.
Inside this hole dug into the earth was their home.
It was Z-shaped.
A small mattress sat on the top part of the Z. I sat here.
A treadle sewing machine was at the bottom of the Z.
"We put a Tepee on top when winter ends", Heidi said.
Then Heidi's husband showed me a round object covered with colorful "strings".
The strings were copper wires.
The round object was a small bicycle wheel.
"What is it?, I asked.
"It's this", he said.
And he handed me a small metal box.
"It's a bio-feedback machine".
I stared in disbelief at both objects.
"My company is called Psionics", he said.
It was the very first biofeedback machine. I felt honored.
I didn't stay long.
Heidi and her husband walked with me part way down the path from their home.
I was walking back to my truck astonished, when out of the cold blue evening sky a bolt of lightning struck just a few feet in front of me.
This thunderbolt out of Heaven was as remarkable as that meeting in the Earth.

OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES

It's the same vintage.
Just new vessels.
Scott McClellan was stumbling too much over Bush prevarications and had to resign.
Rove (allegedly) is now only in the Domestic hemisphere of Bush's brain.
The Iraq War is spending billions of citizens' tax dollars every 168 hours.
The rich pay far less for the Iraq occupation relative to what middle-class Americans pay.
The Petroleum industry, befriended by Bush from the very beginning of his occupation of the White House, is doing very nicely.
Gas shot up 17 cents in one day!
Oh, well.
Get used to it.
Bush & Company (or The Bush Crime Family according to some critics on the Left) wants to blow Iran off of the planet before it gets a nuke.
Some lefties are even alleging that Bush is taking drugs.
Let's hope that these drugs are the calming kind.
Peace on Earth...
Only 248 days until Christmas!

BAD DICTION

This post is from many years back.  I wanted to give myself some comic relief amidst the present political maelstrom.

"I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation.
But I'm the decider (not dictator [sic]) and I decide what's best." 
 Rose Garden, Washington D.C., April 18, 2006

The Long War President has spoken.

He hears the voices!

But the voices he hears are not delivering fine-tuned language.

Is decider an actual word in the English language?

Yes.

Is it a very good word?

Not really.

But the Long War President is in the habit of using bad words.

Not bad as in scatological. Just bad.

As in bad diction.

Examples:

1. "If the terriers and bariffs (barriers and tariffs) are torn down, this economy will grow." 
Rochester, New York, January 7, 2001

2. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." 
-Washington, D.C., 5 August 2004


3. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country." 
-Campaign speech at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 6 September 2004

4. "I can only speak to myself." 
-George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

5. "We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you." 
-George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2005

6. "I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend." 
-George W. Bush, on visiting Denmark, Washington D.C., June 29, 2005

7. "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." 
-George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

8. "It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way." 
-George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

9. "But Iraq has - have got people there that are willing to kill, and they're hard-nosed killers. And we will work with the Iraqis to secure their future." 
-George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

10. "Who could have possibly envisioned an erection - an election in Iraq at this point in history?" 
-George W. Bush, at the White House, Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2005

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND DICTION

STOP BUSH

"While almost no one disputes Iran’s nuclear ambitions, there is intense debate over how soon it could get the bomb, and what to do about that. Robert Gallucci, a former government expert on nonproliferation who is now the dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, told me, “Based on what I know, Iran could be eight to ten years away” from developing a deliverable nuclear weapon. Gallucci added, “If they had a covert nuclear program and we could prove it, and we could not stop it by negotiation, diplomacy, or the threat of sanctions, I’d be in favor of taking it out. But if you do it”—bomb Iran—“without being able to show there’s a secret program, you’re in trouble.”

“This is much more than a nuclear issue,” one high-ranking diplomat told me in Vienna. “That’s just a rallying point, and there is still time to fix it. But the Administration believes it cannot be fixed unless they control the hearts and minds of Iran. The real issue is who is going to control the Middle East and its oil in the next ten years.”

A senior Pentagon adviser on the war on terror expressed a similar view. “This White House believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the power structure in Iran, and that means war,” he said. The danger, he said, was that “it also reinforces the belief inside Iran that the only way to defend the country is to have a nuclear capability.” A military conflict that destabilized the region could also increase the risk of terror: “Hezbollah comes into play,” the adviser said, referring to the terror group that is considered one of the world’s most successful, and which is now a Lebanese political party with strong ties to Iran. “And here comes Al Qaeda.”

One former defense official, who still deals with sensitive issues for the Bush Administration, told me that the military planning was premised on a belief that “a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the government.” He added, “I was shocked when I heard it, and asked myself, ‘What are they smoking?’ ”

THE IRAN PLANS
Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
The New Yorker/Issue of 2006-04-17/Posted 2006-04-08


January 20, 2009

The last day!
The day of liberation!
When George W. Bush is finished!
Let us hope that America is not at war with Iran...Syria...or North Korea!
It is two years and many days to go.
The president who lied.
The president who sent soldiers to die in Iraq based on his indifference to the truth.
Why would George W. Bush drop nukes on Iran?
Because Dick told him it would be the best thing to do?
Or is Bush’s God telling him what to do again?
Is Iran going to get nuked so that a want-to-be dictator (Not Ahmadinejad!) can exit in a glorious ball of fire?
Is it so that a failed president can put his one last hurrah in the history books?
“He wanted to spread freedom and democracy, but he instead produced World War III.”
For Long War President Bush, an infamous legacy is better than no legacy at all.
WE MUST STOP BUSH FROM NUKING IRAN!

TALES TOLD BY IDIOTS

“We're not going to be intimidated by thugs and assassins,” Bush said. “We will achieve victory in Iraq. And by achieving victory in Iraq, we will make it more secure for a generation of Americans. They hope that we lose our nerve. We will not lose our nerve.”
George W. Bush
April 11, 2006

"It is simply not useful to get into fantasy land."
Donald Rumsfeld
April 11, 2006


Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Situation in Iraq could not be worse
By PATRICK COCKBURN
GUEST COLUMNIST
seattlepit.com

BAGHDAD, Iraq --

I have been covering the war in Iraq ever since it began three years ago and I have never seen the situation so grim. More than a week ago, I was in the northern city of Mosul, protected by 3,000 Kurdish soldiers, but even so it was considered too dangerous to send out patrols in daytime. It is safer at night because of a curfew.

I have been covering the war in Iraq ever since it began three years ago and I have never seen the situation so grim. More than a week ago, I was in the northern city of Mosul, protected by 3,000 Kurdish soldiers, but even so it was considered too dangerous to send out patrols in daytime. It is safer at night because of a curfew.

I was in Lebanon at the start of the civil war in 1975. Baghdad today resembles Beirut then.

Bush and Blair have for the past three years continually understated the gravity of what is taking place. It has been frustrating as a journalist to hear them claim that much of Iraq is peaceful when we could not prove them wrong without being killed or kidnapped. The capture of Saddam in 2003, the handover of sovereignty in 2004, the elections and new constitution in 2005 have all been oversold to the outside world as signs of progress.

Three years ago, when Saddam's statue was toppled, Iraqis were promised their lives would get better. Instead Iraq has become the most dangerous place in the world.

ZOO SPECTACLES

"Also, like other mammals in the order carnivora, the male bears have a special bony structure in their penis called a "baculum". This structure serves to stimulate the female into ovulating, as well as prolonging copulation by widening to lock the two mating bears in a copulatiry "tie". This tie may last for 10 - 30 minutes." (www.lioncrusher.com)


The family went to the zoo on Sunday.
It was warm and the animals were taking it easy.
Then...WHAT THE HELL is that?
It looked like a taut, thick hose swinging beneath the animal it belonged to.
I asked my daughter what animal it was.
She said, "Oso".
I thought the animal looked more like a big anteater because of its sharp snout (and I'm not talking about the part that had wowed us!)
Well, my daughter was right. It was a bear.
Tremarctos ornatus.
Spectacled bear.
Indeed.
What a spectacle he made while we were walking by him.
I continued to stare as I walked backwards.
The spectacle had disappeared.
Where had it gone?
Why had it come out? (I thought to myself, "He's all alone. He must have been aroused by something. Or had he been peeing?")
You never know what you’ll see at the zoo.
Keep your eyes open for unexpected spectacles!

ODE ON WAR

Let Sir Bush
Make a Sign
Of the Cross
For his War that
Is a Double-cross!
Let that big smiling Dick
Inspect his oil-stick!
Get Rumsfeld to go to war
With his crooked arms swinging across
Bloody Radioactive Grass!
Make certain that
Miss Condi Rice
Knows a mushroom
Cloud from her ass!

"On Monday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told me that he and his department's top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the President followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim. Now he tells us."

"The harsh truth is that this President cherry-picked the intelligence data in making his case for invading Iraq and deliberately kept the public in the dark as to the countervailing analysis at the highest level of the intelligence community. While the President and his top Cabinet officials were fear-mongering with stark images of a "mushroom cloud" over American cities, the leading experts on nuclear weaponry at the Department of Energy (the agency in charge of the US nuclear-weapons program) and the State Department thought the claim of a near-term Iraqi nuclear threat was absurd." Robert Scheer, Now Powell Tells Us, The Nation, 4/11/06

WILD SPECULATION

"As far back as September 2004, Israel announced that it had purchased 500 1-ton bunker-busters from the United States that can destroy 6-foot-thick concrete walls."


President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad singing:
Nah-nah...
Nah-nah...
Nah-nah...
NAH!
Iran has made enriched uranium fuel...
For our peaceful nu-cle-ar re-ac-tors!
Allah is on our side!
We are on the side of Allah!
Allahu akbar!
Come on Bush...
Who’s your daddy?
Go ahead...
Make my day...
Bring it on...
Smoke me out...
Dead or Alive...
Allahu akbar!
Drop your B61-11’s…
Give me a bloody nose and I’ll give you one too!
You want Armageddon, do you?
Then so do I...
We are two peas in a pod!
Ha, ha, ha!

ROCK ON GERIATRIC MINSTRELS

I remember the Grateful Dead concert I went to back in the early seventies.
It was held at the old stadium in Boulder, Colorado.
The Dead threw out baggies of pot.
This was just before it started to rain.
The band then sang a song (I forget which one) that mentioned the sun and rain.
I didn't pay much attention to the stage or the musicians.
I just listened to the songs.
I was thinking about this concert (one of just a few I have ever attended) when I pictured in my mind Bob Dylan and the aging members of The Rolling Stones.
They're still touring...wheelchairs and all!
I was going to take my wife to the Bob Dylan/Merle Haggard concert here in El Paso.
Price: $131.00!
I'll buy some more of his CDs instead.
I'm a big fan of Dylan's lyrics.
His voice of many colors.
I've gone to see him twice.
Indoors and outdoors.
Wearing my shades and not wearing them. I even brought him a rose in a vase with a card.
Years later I was stunned when I saw the cover of SHOT OF LOVE with Bob leaning over and smelling a rose.
I thought, "There's my rose!"
Of course, that was wishful thinking.
But I still feel good when I see that photograph.
One morning I woke up in Rocky Mountain National Park. I was "attending" one of the Rainbow Family's Great Peace Gatherings.
I woke up when a dog passing by licked my face.
Then a fellow a few feet away said “Good morning. What's your name?"
"Monty”, I told him.
"That's my name too. I used to cook for Bob Dylan."
Small world.
Bob and Mick are now grandpas.
And I hope they’re still playing when they're 85.
That will be some sight to see.
Rock on, boys!

UNIVERSAL BRAINMATE

I had my cell phone for a year.
It was one of those binding contracts with a penalty.
It was a big cell phone.
It was hard to keep the battery charged.
I don't have a cell phone now.
I don't miss the cell phone.
It doesn't miss me.
The company misses my money.
When I am at my school I see almost every person with a cell phone held to their head.
When I go shopping I see amost every person with a cell phone stuck to their head.
When I am driving I see...
Well, you get the picture.
If these cell phones do cause tumors, then gazillions of tumor doctors will be needed.
Remember those stories about how people used to have to wait weeks and months for their letters and calls to arrive.
The cell phone: TODAY’S UNIVERSAL BRAINMATE.
If you don't have one you must be living in the past.
I guess I am living in the past.
Don’t call me and I won’t call you because I don’t have any phone glued to my head!

THE MISSING LINK IS STILL MISSING

We're still looking for the missing link.
It's been missing for millions of years.
The Creationists and Evolutionists have been looking for it for less time.
Every few years or so this or that shocking discovery is made.
It's usually identified as an earlier descendant of homo sapiens.
The scientists give their discovery a fancy name.
Sisterpithecus or Grandpamithecus or Unclesissicus.
Then we wait for the next shocking discovery.
The chain of discoveries continues for centuries.
Bacteria become Amoebas--then they become Fish...then the FISH become Monkeys...then all of these successors develop into...HUMANS??
This horizontal (or vertical) chain has always puzzled me.
It sounds too fishy.
It sounds too pure and simple.
Where does a Higher Force/Supreme Being/God fit into this chain?
Is there really any missing link?
Where is the proof that this or that body part transformed (evolved) into this or that body part?
The dog has now been reported to be closer genetically to man than our simian cousins.
Darwin was right on the Ascent part.
But I doubt that it was from other creatures that we made our ascent.
Maybe I am missing something.



Discovered: the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution

Alok Jha, science correspondent
Thursday April 6, 2006
The Guardian

"Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago."

Palaeontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called the Tiktaalik roseae and described today in the journal Nature, could become an icon of evolution in action - like Archaeopteryx, the famous fossil that bridged the gap between reptiles and birds."

"The find is the first complete evidence of an animal that was on the verge of the transition from water to land. "The find is a dream come true," said Ted Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences."

NOT A DICTATOR JUST A PREVARICATOR

Will average Americans soon be Revolutionaries of the new American century if they continue to learn how badly (or in this case how well) they have been fooled by fabricated (or in BushSpeak: wrong Intelligence) information?
Misleading data and cherry-picked Intel that the bellicose administration used to justify their costly Depleted Uranium- Radioactive pre-emptive war and occupation?
The slippery slope of Bush is becoming a fast-moving glacier.
The excuses of “We misheard and we misspoke” will no longer sell to the American people.
Americans no longer “buy” the Bush fairy tale.
The liberal left-wing factions that have been finger-pointing and Bush-bashing are gradually acquiring a majority of Americans to their side (who voted for a Long War President the second time).
Dubya, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice are still telling us how their dandy war is going just fine.
George W. Bush…not a dictator…
JUST A PREVARICATOR!

"When the president says something, he better mean what he says. In order to be effective, in order to maintain credibility, words have got to mean something. You just can't say things in the job I'm in and not mean what you say."
George W. Bush

"I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action," he said.
George W. Bush

Bush and Cheney Discussed Plame Prior to Leak
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

Monday 10 April 2006

In early June 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney met with President Bush and told him that CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was the wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson and that she was responsible for sending him on a fact-finding mission to Niger to check out reports about Iraq's attempt to purchase uranium from the African country, according to current and former White House officials and attorneys close to the investigation to determine who revealed Plame-Wilson's undercover status to the media.

Other White House officials who also attended the meeting with Cheney and President Bush included former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, her former deputy Stephen Hadley, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove.

This information was provided to this reporter by attorneys and US officials who have remained close to the case. Investigators working with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald compiled the information after interviewing 36 Bush administration officials over the past two and a half years.

The revelation puts a new wrinkle into Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's two-year-old criminal probe into the leak and suggests for the first time that President Bush knew from early on that the vice president and senior officials on his staff were involved in a coordinated effort to attack Wilson's credibility by leaking his wife's classified CIA status.

WHO DO YOU TRUST?

"The most important aspect of the new evidence is that it locates the center of the effort to discredit Ambassador Wilson, and of the actions taken to further that aim, squarely within the Oval Office."
John Prados, Libby Sings, www.tompaine.com, April 7, 2006


The spin-meisters are spinning and spinning...
Spinning their collective wheels in one united chorus, but using only kids' gloves.
A few sharp jabs have been given, but it's mostly shadow-boxing.
But the American public---LIBERALS, LIBERTARIANS, DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENTS etc.
Are smelling a rat...or two...again!
Who do you trust?
Bush?
Cheney?
Rove?
Rumsfeld"
Rice?
None of the above?
These people have discredited their credibility with
absurd and deceptive claims that they used to ILLEGALLY, PREEMPTIVELY AND UNRIGHTIOUSLY BOMB AND OCCUPY Iraq.
Talk about National Security threats.
And
Torture.
And
Lies...Lies...
And more Lies!
Their criminal cauldron is full of lies, lies and more lies.
America is fed up!
What will we do now?

It is a serious crime to reveal the identity of a covert operative, and Bush called for a criminal investigation to “get to the bottom” of the scandal. It turns out he may be the bottom.

There is no evidence that Bush specifically authorized the leaking of Plame’s identity, and the White House is refusing to comment on an ongoing court case. But it’s not that far a reach to imagine that the president gave his tacit support to the leak. There’s nothing this administration won’t do under the guise of battling terrorism. Eleanor Clift, Newsweek, 4/7/2006

AN UNFATHOMABLE SH*TLOAD OF MORE SNAKES

Bush Authorized Leak to Times, Libby Told Grand Jury
New York Sun Web Exclusive

By JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
April 6, 2006 updated 9:02 am EDT

"A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush, according to a new court filing from the special prosecutor in the case."

"The court papers from the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, do not suggest that Mr. Bush violated any law or rule. However, the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter."


In Court Filings, Cheney Aide Says Bush Approved Leak

By DAVID JOHNSTON and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 6, 2006
New York Times

"If Mr. Libby's account is accurate, it also involves Mr. Bush directly in the swirl of events surrounding the disclosure of the identity of an undercover C.I.A. officer."

MORE SNAKES ARE SLITHERING OUT OF BUSH AND DICK.
BUSH CAN RUN (WELL HE CAN'T RUN BECAUSE THIS IS HIS SECOND TERM), BUT HE CAN'T HIDE. DICK, OF COURSE, IS ALWAYS IN HIS BUNKER (WHEREVER IT IS).
A FEW LEFT-WING NUTS ARE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT AN OCTOBER SURPRISE (2006? 2008? BOTH?) THAT WILL HELP THE WHITE HOUSE RETAIN ITS MAJORITY IN THE CONGRESS AND EXECUTIVE BRANCH (PLENTY OF EXECUTING HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE BY THIS CROOKED GALLOWS).
ALTHOUGH THE CURRENT REVELATION (AS OUTLINED IN THE ABOVE REPORTS) IS HEARSAY AND INNUENDO, THE SHADES ARE DROPPING ON THIS NEOCON REIGN (AND THE DINGLEBERRIES ARE DROPPING ON THE BUSH!).
CERTAINLY THE DEMOCRATS WILL MAKE HAY OF THIS CURRENT NEWS TO FEED TO ITS EQUINE CONSTITUENTS.
LEAVE IT TO BUSH (NOT BEAVER) TO COVER UP, HIDE, SLIDE AND SMIRK AT THIS LATEST NEWS.

MATCH GAME

DIRECTIONS: Match each person with their traits.


1. Rush Limbaugh A. Wincing and Whining
2. Sean Hannity B. Barking and Bellowing
3. Anne Coulter C. Squeaking and Squealing

THE GATE OF PEACE AND QUIET

Build the impervious gate
NOW!
We will name it the Gate of Peace and Quiet.
But it is not a gate to keep immigrants out.
It is, however, a barrier to prevent illegal (or worse) terror-minded persons (Terrorists!) from entering the United States.
Immigrants will always be permitted to enter the United States.
But they have to do the necessary paperwork and pay the fees.
The estimated 12 million aliens already here can stay (unless they choose to leave.)
Investigate all immigrants.
If any have criminal records, then they will return IMMEDIATELY TO THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.
The millions of immigrants (albeit illegal) will receive amnesty. But this is the ONLY AMNESTY to be given.
No more amnesty after this.
Build the Gate of Peace and Quiet now.
Then we will have a safer country.

BEYOND THE PAIL

Democrats and Republicans, quit sitting on the proverbial fence, and choose honor before your politics.
Your Censure of George W. Bush would at least indicate to the voting public that some parts of Congress want to point out sins and machinations of the Bush administration.
We are now informed that the Long War President KNEW that those aluminum tubes COULD NOT be used for nuclear weapons.
Yet he STILL told the nation that THEY WERE.
His administration lied about Katrina.
His administration lied about Iraq.
It lied about domestic surveillance.
"This hearing, I think, is beyond the pale," said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.
Mr. Cornyn, the hearing may be beyond the pale...but what this administration did in Iraq (and in the name of national security) lies deep down, within a cesspool.
And the perverse and false messages came from this administration.
Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, added, "Let's don't play games with their (soldiers) lives."
Mr. Sessions, the lives of soldiers were played with when this administration put them in Iraq based upon false information.