HC: Bill, did you hear that?
BC: Hear what Hill?
HC: It sounded like gun shots.
BC: Maybe it’s those two Big Macs that I ate tonight.
HC: Honey, be serious. I heard gun shots.
BC: Might be those snipers coming back after you.
HC: Bill, do you want to live in the White House when I’m elected?
BC: Sure.
HC: Then knock it off with the cute jokes.
BC: Sorry.
HC: O.K. I guess I was just hearing things. Good night.
BC: Good night.
IT'S THE OIL STUPID!
When it comes to electability, is John McCain’s age a bigger factor than the Democratic candidates’ race or gender?
Age, gender, and race do not count as much as a candidate's intelligence, ethics, and experience.
The experience factor might not matter as much as intelligence and ability.
But a candidate's ability to encourage and inspire others, and work effectively with others, is quite important.
Oh, and what about charisma?
Can Pennsylvania Sen. Casey’s backing help Obama with working-class voters?
It can't hurt Obama, but it will Clinton.
Political pugilism is alive and well.
One candidate receives a left-upper cut, and then the other candidate gives a head-butt---then come those mean jabs, jabs, jabs---until one candidate gets knocked out or the contest goes to the judges.
What will it be for the Democratic Party?
McCain is waiting to fight the winner.
Endorsements from any corner of the political ring will help Clinton and Obama.
The Casey endorsement is an important and timely endorsement .
If a ticket led by Al Gore somehow emerged from a brokered convention, would that be a good thing for the Democrats?
Anyone is better than the liars that we are presently cursed with.
Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama...one of the smurfs...
I don't care which Democrat wins at this juncture as long as Mr. BushClone Bomb-Bomb Iran McCain loses.
What does it say about the importance of this election if voter turnout in November could be as high as 80% in some states?
It says that this election is very damn important.
We are fed up with egotistic, dictator-like-leaders, and a Congress that licks their boots.
This election is a virtual revolt against the past 8 years of a creeping (and creepy) fascism
Health Care…not Warfare.
Education…not Destruction.
Do you agree with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the superdelegates should support the candidate with the most pledged delegates?
Yes.
The Will and Voice of the People has been lost---make that eviscerated---by this Bush-wacky administration, beginning with his Supreme Court selection when so many voters had their votes cast to the four winds that permitted this lying, Long-War idiot-president to nearly destroy everything that's good about America.
Don’t let those super-delegates trump the Choice and Voice of the People.
My answer was confusing, so I'll try again, with less inflammatory Bush-bashing.
I want the candidate to be selected based on which candidate receives the most votes from the American people, not from super-delegates.
This whole process is a little confusing itself.
If delegates go to candidates based upon the votes of the people, and then those delegates are obtained based upon those citizen-votes, then super-delegates should not go against the wishes and votes of the people.
Super-delegates, to me, are analogous to the Supreme Court justices who selected George W. Bush.
The Choice and Voice of the People should not be trumped.
Not even by Superman or Spiderman.
What does it mean if after all the campaigning Hillary Clinton’s positive rating is the lowest it has been since 2001?
Hillary drew her last straw (or made her last draw) when she claimed to have been in danger during her visit to Bosnia.
It was SO obvious that she was embellishing--o.k. lying---about what had occurred.
If Mrs. Clinton had only done this fibbing once, all would have been forgotten and forgiven.
But we don't like liars, especially those liars who are bold-faced ones without any sincere remorse.
Her positive rating is at its lowest because we have had enough of being Bush-whacked and hit over our collective heads with bald-faced lies. Enough is enough.
I don't see how her positive rating can go up much…now that she is a member of the
LIAR'S CLUB.
What does it suggest about the state of this country when AT&T says it’s having a hard time finding enough skilled American workers?
It suggests that the state of the country is in a perilous state of decline.
Hmmm...Doesn’t that sound familiar?
Does the Roman Empire ring a bell?
Instead of educating our children to become wizards and engineers, we train them to become skilled killers.
America the beautiful has become America the ugly because we have betrayed the ideals of our founders.
A big thanks for nothing to Dick Cheney and George W. Bush!
It is no big surprise, then, that other nations who care more about their country's welfare have much better trained and skilled workers.
Is sending excessive e-mails and text messages a sign of mental illness?
I think that the writers in the American Journal of Psychiatry are showing some signs of their own mental illness.
Their conclusions are a lot of bologna sauce (and eating the latter might be a sign of mental illness).
I personally don't experience any of their alleged symptoms.
But so much text messaging and e-mailing does decrease the mind's thinking abilities since so much time is spent doing these things instead of reading.
The Iraq that existed before May 19, 2003 really no longer exists.
With an estimated one million Iraqi's killed by the American-caused war and ensuing chaos, and another four million turned into refugees-this in a country of 24 million-with the country effectively divided into at least three irreconcilable parts, with Turkey invading and attacking the Kurdish north, and Iran bolstering the Shia majority, the land once known as Babylon is now a classic "failed state" held together only by the continued presence of the American military, whose very presence, ironically, is also the prime cause of all this misery and mayhem.
DAVE LINDORFF
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One day the American Green Zone in Iraq might be overtaken by Iraqis.
Not by Al-Qaeda, but by Iraqis.
This Green Zone will be like the Fall of Saigon---not the Alamo.
Or maybe not.
Maybe the Iraq War will be more like The Alamo than the end of the Vietnam War.
Bush & Co are leaving the White House in a few hundred days, but they are taking with them crimes that they committed in the names of freedom and democracy.
Liberation?
They murdered Iraq.
They (and President William Jefferson Clinton and President George Herbert Walker) have covered the planet with the radioactive isotopes of their Depleted Uranium Weapons.
To save the Earth from Terrorism they TERRORIZED and IRRADIATED the planet.
The pie that was cooked in Iraq is now a very burnt one.
Senator John McCain wants that pie to cook longer.
More Americans and Iraqis will need to die...
Until there
Is
VICTORY.
Mad Plato
IT'S THE OIL STUPID!
John McCain is riding on
THE BANDWAGON OF WAR.
His patriotic hands want to hold the reins of Bush’s
A CHARIOT ON FIRE.
If the world is lucky and blessed, Cheney and Bush will not start a war with
Mr. Bomb-Bomb
There is even talk that Barack Obama would bomb both Pakistan and Iran.
(Two for the price of one I guess)
Hillary Clinton will be too busy answering the phone and keeping her eye on Bill.
As a tortured veteran, and as an aspiring candidate who, if elected, would be the oldest president in American history, John McCain wants the arrow of war to pierce the patriotic hearts of all American citizens---or as he calls them---his friends.
New twists and nuances will soon be given to us by General Petraeus now that the boat of diplomacy (Peace?) is no longer being rocked by the booted General Fallon.
Just as they fabricated and concocted their Iraq war debacle so that they could fool the American people (at least temporarily), in order to invade, bomb and occupy Iraq---Bush and Cheney still want only their version of reality to be given.
Why do they continue to stay in their state of denial?
Meanwhile, Iraq is surging again in violence.
Bin Laden, if he is still alive, cheers and celebrates every day that Bush remains in
Bin Laden never really comes right out and says,
“
If the
Insurgents and jihadists will stay angry and get angrier only if the
It’s good for Bin Laden’s business.
Bin Laden knows that a weaker and weaker American military, and therefore a more vulnerable
If the
Bush’s occupation is the best thing that Bin Laden’s jihad could ever wish for.
Bush’s occupation is the best cheerleader for jihad that Bin Laden could ever hope for.
George W. Bush’s experience as a cheerleader has finally paid off.
Bush and Cheney clothe and feed the jihadists and insurgents.
I wonder what those American bases look like in Iraq?
They may be needed sooner and not later.
The Green Zone is becoming more and more a dangerous Red Zone.
Mad Plato
IT'S THE OIL STUPID!
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Though many Baghdad communities are now experiencing their lowest levels of violence in two years, their situations are neither viable, nor stable. The cement barriers, which help to reduce violence, also make social and economic life nearly impossible. Most Baghdadis are now locked into their individual ghettos, terrified of strangers, often afraid to send their children to schools across barriers and neighborhoods, and unable to reach previously held jobs. Employers, deprived of needed workers and customers, have shuttered their establishments. The economy has largely ground to a halt.
For most of Baghdad, the Iraqi government is simply irrelevant. It has no administrative apparatus in any of these communities or the capacity to restore needed services. Its only visible presence, the Iraqi army, is commanded or controlled by American officers; insofar as Iraqi soldiers do act independently, they follow the leadership of Shia militia commanders, not the central government. In neighborhoods even a few hundred feet from the Green Zone, the Iraqi government does not exist.
The Americans remain a major presence, but not a sovereign one. They maintain the most fearsome of the militias in Baghdad, capable of militarily overwhelming any adversary, but incapable of creating stable rule, even in cement-encircled ghost areas like Haifa Street. They cannot deliver electricity, or water, or jobs, or even, often enough, safe passage to the next neighborhood.
As early as May of 2006, Nir Rosen, one of the most informed and insightful journalists writing about Iraq, presciently described the American military's unenviable position in this way: "[T]he American Army is lost in Iraq, as it has been since it arrived. Striking at Sunnis, striking at Shias, striking at mostly innocent people. Unable to distinguish between anybody, certainly unable to wield any power, except on the immediate street corner where it's located… [T]he Americans are just one more militia lost in the anarchy." This description was never truer than today in Baghdad.
The residents of Baghdad are waiting. They are waiting for the walls around their neighborhood to come down, public transportation to be restored, and roads to be re-opened so they can begin to move around the city in something like a normal fashion. They wait for public services to be rebuilt so they can count on turning on the lights, having clean water come out of taps, and perhaps even being able to contribute to "spontaneous economic development." They wait for employers to begin rehiring, so they can begin to support their suffering families.
They wait for the Americans to leave.
In a few weeks, General David Petraeus will tell the President and Congress that violence is dramatically reduced in Baghdad, that there are signs of political progress inside the Green Zone, and that these gains will be lost if the United States does not "stay the course." He will not say that Baghdad is an urban desert of half-destroyed buildings and next to no public services, dotted by partially deserted, mutually hostile mini-ghettos that used to be neighborhoods, surrounded by cement barriers reminiscent of medieval fortifications.
By Michael Schwartz
[Michael Schwartz, professor of sociology at Stony Brook University, has written extensively on popular protest and insurgency. This report on the battle of Baghdad is adapted from his forthcoming Tomdispatch book, War Without End: The Iraq Debacle in Context (Haymarket Books, June 2008). His work on Iraq has appeared on numerous Internet sites, including Tomdispatch, Asia Times, Mother Jones, and ZNET. His email address is Ms42@optonline.net.]
Copyright 2008 Michael Schwartz
When we have economic problems, it's been caused by disruptions in our oil supply. If we have a force in
Robert Kagan
After watching Bush's War on Frontline, I was feeling empty, sick, and sad.
The program did not make any judgments about the war, and that was the correct thing to do.
There was that same male voice (a good one) that Frontline usually has for its programs' narrator.
Some clear and definite points were revealed in this two-part program:
1. The Bush administration was looking for and then repeating false data in order to invade Iraq.
2. Dick Cheney was the chief lord and liar of the Iraq war.
3. Although Frontline did not imply so, it is likely that George W. Bush was aware that he was promoting his war with Iraq that was based upon inaccurate and false information and intelligence.
I wince every time I see a replay of Bush saying:
The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
You can tell that Bush really didn't believe what he was saying.
4. John McCain is probably correct when he says "We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement—that's the kindest word I can give you—of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war. The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously."
What McCain is wrong about is his support of bombing Iraq in the first place.
5. Getting rid of the military, social and police structure was probably the main reason chaos and civil war followed.
If peace had been "won" in Iraq, would any of us really care about why this war was made?
Probably not.
If you were to spin the globe and look for real estate critical to building an American empire, your first stop would have to be the Persian Gulf. The desert sands of this region hold two of every three barrels of oil in the world -- Iraq's reserves alone are equal, by some estimates, to those of Russia, the United States, China, and Mexico combined. For the past 30 years, the Gulf has been in the crosshairs of an influential group of Washington foreign-policy strategists, who believe that in order to ensure its global dominance, the United States must seize control of the region and its oil. Born during the energy crisis of the 1970s and refined since then by a generation of policymakers, this approach is finding its boldest expression yet in the Bush administration -- which, with its plan to invade Iraq and install a regime beholden to Washington, has moved closer than any of its predecessors to transforming the Gulf into an American protectorate.
[From The Thirty-Year Itch
By Robert Dreyfuss, Mother Jones, 29 March 2003]
Here are some brief notes (actually, just a few words and phrases) that I took while I watched Part I of Bush's War on Frontline:
"You're going to die tomorrow and this why."
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"Blue air"
"Piss on the hydrants"
"Coalition of the Willing"
"Half-baked truths"
"Iron-clad information"
"Curve ball"
"Cooked data"
"Tenet knew the holes in the data"
"We were flying blind"
"Intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
"If you break it you own it."
"Two-thirds of Americans say it's not worth fighting."
"So?" Cheney interjected.
"So? You don't care what the American people think?"
"No," said Cheney. "I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls."
No, Dick, you won’t let yourself be blown off course by the flUCtuations (i.e. the fUC*ed-UP situations).
You have been blowing off the American people for nearly eight years.
You won’t allow the American people to blow you off course.
The
American bodies were blown up, and continue to get blown up.
When Dick is not shooting people with his shotgun he's blowing them up.
Both the Decider and Vice President Dick have been giving
They've blown our money on their monstrous and mendacious invasion and occupation of
They’ve blown up the Constitution.
BUSH AND DICK HAVE
BLOWN IT!
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According to U.S. media reports, there are well below 5,000 U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq. However, this data appears to be very misleading. Why? Because many tens of thousands of American soldiers have apparently been killed to-date, as a result of being exposed to radiation poisoning from the indiscriminate killing machines of U.S. military weaponry. Ironically, the only Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that Americans soldiers have found in Iraq are "Made in America". U.S. investigative researchers have discovered an official U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs official, but not well publicized count, of 73,846 U.S. soldiers who have perished as an apparent result of Depleted Uranium based bio-chemical warfare exposure. This exceeds an estimate of 58,000 U.S. soldiers who had been killed in relation to the Vietnam War. Well over 200,000 American soldiers could be killed by 2010, as a result of the after effects of exposure to U.S. dirty bombs. Over One million U.S. soldiers have apparently been disabled from Depleted Uranium based biochemical exposure. Over one million Iraqis have also been documented to have been killed. This is what the U.S. ruling elite including U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. Republican Presidential candidate John McCain calls a "success". How many sons and daughters of the American ruling class have been sent in harms way of the apparent biological warfare that is being perpetrated in Iraq? Not to many, huh? The Iraq War is a class-and-racial-inspired war that is being masqueraded into being about fighting "extremists" and "terrorists". The Iraq War is an extension of brutality by the prevailing elites of the global capitalist system, that the 9/11 Truth Movement has accused to be the ultimate perpetrators of 9/11. Indeed, ruling elites are the only group that could pull off the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City which engineers have represented to be specifically designed to withstand being hit simply by aeroplanes. Investigative scholarly researchers who include Dr. David Ray Griffin, present critical evidence of a technologically sophisticated military planning associated with 9/11, including a 'Controlled Demolition', that could in no way be executed by the alleged Muslim perpetrators. More than 1,820 tons (3-million, 640 thousand pounds) of radioactive nuclear waste uranium were exploded into Iraq alone in the form of armour piercing rounds and bunker busters, representing the worlds worst man made ecological disaster ever. 64 kg of uranium were used in the Hiroshima bomb. The very broad human and ecological disaster of the Iraq War has been drowned out by America's sound-bite driven media organizations, that are owned by the same fascist clique which presides over the Iraq War.
The apparent use of these dirty bombs, could be perceived to a categorical Crime Against Humanity, both against the Iraqi people, and military personnel. Indeed, there are far more people getting killed from these dirty bombs than the alleged terrorist targets of U.S. military propaganda. The fascist clique that is presiding over the Iraq War, clearly seeks to perpetrate widespread Eugenics inspired depopulation of Iraq. Millions of Iraqis could be killed as a result of contamination from the use of U.S. "strategic" "mini nuclear bombs". It is apparent that a Eugenics-inspired megalomaniacal fascist clique seeks to further make Iran a toxic nuclear wasteland The use of these dirty bombs demonstrates that the War in Iraq is not simply about "going after terrorists", but rather, is the apparent premeditated execution of Crimes against Humanity. The kind of demonic intelligence that is associated with such a Crime against Humanity is consistent with the kind of criminal profile associated with what critically acclaimed author Dr. David Ray Griffin labels as the ultimate perpetrators of 9/11. What kind of socio-pathetic milieu would seek to inspire jingoistic patriotism in statements about military personnel "defending the Homeland" while wilfully exposing them to the toxic by-products of radiation poisoning? Libertyforlife.com researchers document: "What the government is doing is only counting the soldiers that die in action on the ground before they can get them into a hummer, helicopter or ambulance. Any soldier who is shot but they get into a vehicle before 'the die' is not counted." "Uranium poisoning, which can take decades to kill not only the soldier but family members as well" are further cited documents in Libertyforlife.com. Libertyforlife.com also adds that more than 1,820 tons of radio active nuclear waste uranium were exploded into Iraq alone in the form of armour piercing rounds and bunker busters (also known as dirty bombs), representing the worlds worst man made ecological disaster, over the 64 kg of uranium that was used in the Hiroshima bomb. "The U.S. Iraq Nuclear Holocaust by mass, represents between fourteen and twenty eight thousand Hiroshima’s from a uranium poisoning perspective. In Hiroshima 70 thousand died from the blast and 70 thousand died from uranium poisoning." "The nuclear waste the U.S. has exploded into the Middle East will continue killing for billions of years and could wipe out a third of life on earth. Winds can and will blow the uranium dust from the U.S. weapons around the world. Gulf War Veterans and civilians who have ingested the uranium will continue to die off from uranium poisoning over a number of decades." "So far, more than one million people have been slaughtered and four million are homeless as a consequence of the U.S.'s illegal invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. Birth defects are up 600% in Iraq – the same will apply to U.S. Veterans children." When depleted uranium nuclear waste in the form of a "dirty bomb" is blown up or released into the atmosphere it has the potential of killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. Well it turns out that instead of storing the nuclear waste from power plants in proper and very expensive storage facilities, the apparent neo-fascists who have taken over America, have been machining the depleted uranium into dirty bombs in the form of armour piercing bullets. Libertyforlife.com researchers critically add: "That’s right, those tanks you saw exploding into flame, as our troops invaded other nations, were being hit with dirty bombs. You were actually witnessing "mini atomic bombs" as the uranium armour piercing rounds made out of nuclear waste called ‘Depleted Uranium’ or ‘DU’ hits it's target." "It turns out the uranium from nuclear waste is very dense and possesses pyrophoric properties. That is, it bursts into flame releasing an explosion of heat so intense when the DU bullet hits the armour, it literally melts through armour, " further documents Libertyforlife.com Many American soldiers have been literally fried from the intense radio energy released from the mini DU atomic explosions. "Now our boys in the military have not been firing just one or two of these dirty bomb bullets and bunker busters, they have been letting loose a hail of death. In Iraq alone during the two invasions, more than one thousand eight hundred and twenty tons of Depleted Uranium dirty bomb bullets and bombs were blasted into that innocent nation," further documents Libertyforlife.com investigative researchers. Astonishingly, Libertyforlife.com researchers also document, because most Americans watch TV, many still think Iraq had something to do with blowing up the three large World Trade center buildings and the Pentagon. Otherwise they try to suggest that Saddam Hussein had it coming because he murdered the Kurds with the helicopters we provided, the year we gave him a billion dollars. Now if 64 kg of uranium can poison seventy thousand people. How many people will two thousand tons kill? The numbers are staggering, that’s more than twenty eight thousand Hiroshima’s. Forty percent of the Gulf War veterans are on “Gulf War Syndrome” disability from uranium poisoning. Seventy Three thousand of them have already died. Every time that U.S troops (and "coalition soldiers) fires depleted uranium against "enemy targets" in Iraq, they are also being exposed to radiation poisoning that is much more intense than the radioactive by-products associated with the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima to end World War II in the Pacific. The U.S. War on Iraq both represents an apparent Eugenics inspired genocide against perceived "lesser breeds" of U.S. combat troops largely made up of African Americans and "poor whites" as well as Muslim infidels. Eugenics seems to be the driving motivation of the U.S. religious-political-military-industrial complex agenda against Iraq. In the apparent view of the architects of the Iraq War, the use of "dirty bombs" accomplishes an apparent depopulation agenda which "frees up more resources" for the "racially superior" self-anointed rulers of our planet Earth. The Iraq War seems to be an attempt to fulfill in the Middle East the Eugenics inspired military expansionist goals that Adolf Hitler had.
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