"President Bush will give his farewell speech to the nation tonight in
front of another military crowd. It doesn't help him. He's not going to
know if his dinner speech is really funny if he keeps trying it out on an
audience he can court-martial."
- Argus Hamilton
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KILLED: 4226*
WOUNDED: 30934*
COST: $588.5 Billion*
WMDs FOUND: 0**
(* number increases daily)
(** search called off)
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"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. Jan 15, 1929)
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"The United States Army announced that they will accept overweight
recruits. Apparently, the only fit people left to recruit were gay."
- Pedro Bartes
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"I'll be honest with you: I don't think journalists should be anywhere
allowed war. I mean, you guys report where our troops are at. You report
what's happening day to day. You make a big deal out of it. I think it's
asinine. You know, I liked back in World War I and World War II when you'd
go to the theater and you'd see your troops on, you know, the screen and
everyone would be real excited and happy for 'em.
Now everyone's got an opinion and wants to...down soldiers. You know,
American soldiers or Israeli soldiers...I think media should be abolished
from, uh, you know, reporting. You know, war is hell. And if you're gonna
sit there and say, 'Well, look at this atrocity,' well, you don't know the
whole story behind it half the time. So I think the media should have no
business in it."
- Joe d' Plumber, War Correspondent, Dateline: Israel
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Yeah, that "free press" in a "free society" thing is so-o-o-o 20th
century....
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Where Are They Now?
http://www.xoverboard.com/cartoons/2009/090112_where.html
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Conservative fantasies include the persistent belief that training is
unnecessary, that education is for "elitists," and that wishing hard
enough for something can supersede those things....
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"Israeli troops and Israeli tanks rolled into the suburbs of Gaza for the
first time Tuesday, leveling houses and destroying entire neighborhoods.
Wall Street trembled. It showed no matter how bad the housing market is,
it can always get worse."
- Argus Hamilton
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What Could Be Worse?
http://cagle.com/working/090114/beattie.jpg
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Joe the Plumber Attempts to Nail Israeli Reporter
http://tinyurl.com/7u8lcq
JOE: The story here is people are being killed and the media's slanting it
and trying to make it Hamas is, uh, as far as, that Israel's being bad. Do
you believe Israel is bad?
REPORTER: Do I believe it?
JOE: Yeah, do you?!
REPORTER: I'm Israeli, so...
JOE: So answer the question!
REPORTER: No, I don't think Israel is bad.
JOE: Do you think Israel has every right to protect itself?
REPORTER: Yeah.
[pause]
JOE: You do?!
REPORTER: Yeah.
JOE: Have you said that on air?
REPORTER: I'm just a reporter. ...
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What, you can't be a reporter and propagandize at the same time?!?
Crikeys, haven't you ever watched FOX News?!?
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"I think the military should decide what information to give the media and
then the media can release it to the public."
- Joe d' Plumber, War Correspondent, Dateline: Israel
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Join the RedState Army Strike Force
http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2338
The 101st Fighting Keyboardists, 82nd Chairborne Division, on the
attack!!!
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Obama's Cheney Dilemma
http://www.newsweek.com/id/178855
Dick Cheney, who will step down as vice president on Jan. 20, has been
widely portrayed as a creature of the dark side, a monstrous figure who
trampled on the Constitution to wage war against all foes, real and
imagined. Barack Obama was elected partly to cleanse the temple of the
Bush-Cheney stain, and in his campaign speeches he promised to reverse
Cheney's efforts to seize power for the White House in the war on terror.
It may not be so simple. At a retirement ceremony recently for a top-level
intelligence official, the senior spooks in the room gave each other
high-fives. They were celebrating the fact that terrorists have not
attacked the United States since 9/11. In the view of many intelligence
professionals, the get-tough measures encouraged or permitted by George W
Bush's administration--including "waterboarding" self-proclaimed 9/11
mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed--kept America safe. Cheney himself has
been underscoring the point in a round of farewell interviews. "If I had
advice to give it would be, before you start to implement your campaign
rhetoric, you need to sit down and find out precisely what it is we did
and how we did it, because it is going to be vital to keeping the nation
safe and secure in the years ahead," he told CBS Radio. ...
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"Dick Cheney said Tuesday that Barack Obama must not close down Guantanamo
prison when he takes office. He feels strongly about this. When you're
fighting for freedom and democracy it's essential to have a prison that
operates outside international law."
- Argus Hamilton
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The outgoing Clinton administration tried to give the incoming Bush
Administration some sage, practical advice about al-Qaeda based on their
experiences, and the Bushies decided to ignore everything they were told,
and sail the ship of state in the exact opposite direction.
And now, eight years later, after that ship has crashed into untold
icebergs, discharged billions of gallons of metaphorical crude oil, and
done untold damage to nearly everything it's come into contact with....
...the drunken sailors are shocked -- shocked, I tell you! -- that the
new administration doesn't want to take their advice.
Shocked, I tell you!
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Those who don't learn from the mistakes of history are condemned to be
subpoenaed....
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New Monument
http://cagle.com/working/090113/darcy.jpg
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Bush unaware if bin Laden was close to being captured
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090114/pl_afp/uspoliticsbush_20090114053211
.. In a farewell interview of the presidential couple with CNN's Larry
King, Bush said he was "absolutely" certain bin Laden will be caught
sooner or later, "because we have a lot of people looking for him."
Asked if the September 11 mastermind ever came close to being captured
since US forces went into Afghanistan looking for him in 2002, Bush said:
"I don't know. I can't answer that."
Pressed by King, Bush replied candidly: "I really don't know. I'm not
trying to hide anything." ...
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2001 - 2009
http://www.cagle.com/working/090113/sherffius21.jpg
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Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official
http://tinyurl.com/9uqh2k
The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to
bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S.
military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with techniques that
included sustained isolation, sleep deprivation, nudity and prolonged
exposure to cold, leaving him in a "life-threatening condition."
"We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani," said Susan J. Crawford, in her first
interview since being named convening authority of military commissions by
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in February 2007. "His treatment met the
legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not refer the case" for
prosecution.
Crawford, a retired judge who served as general counsel for the Army
during the Reagan administration and as Pentagon inspector general when
Dick Cheney was secretary of defense, is the first senior Bush
administration official responsible for reviewing practices at Guantanamo
to publicly state that a detainee was tortured. ...
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They Forgot....
http://cagle.com/working/090114/fitzsimmons.jpg
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Democratic Lawmakers May Investigate Bush Years
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99276434
President-elect Barack Obama has suggested that when it comes to
investigating the Bush administration on issues such as eavesdropping or
terrorist interrogations, he'd rather look forward than back. He also said
over the weekend that it may take time to close the U.S. prison camp in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But Democrats in Congress have their own plans. ...
One Democratic senator who sits on both the Judiciary and Intelligence
committees said Congress does need to see the secret legal opinions
drafted for Vice President Dick Cheney by the Justice Department's Office
of Legal Counsel. Rhode Island's Sheldon Whitehouse considers those
opinions a blot on the Justice Department.
"I think that there's a lot that remains to look at, and I appreciate that
President Obama doesn't want to make it his purpose as a new president,
with America in real distress in many directions, to go back and look at
all this, but I think we in Congress have an independent responsibility,
and I fully intend to discharge that responsibility," Whitehouse said. ..
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Criminals don't have "legacies".... criminals have RECORDS.
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Swearing In
http://images.politico.com/global/090108_cartoon_600.jpg
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With New Season Of 24, Right Wing Falls In Love With Torture All Over
Again
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/13/24-debut-torture/
The new season of Fox's popular terrorism drama '24' debuted Sunday night
with a special two-hour episode. The season opened with the show's main
character, Jack Bauer, testifying before a Senate committee. Asked by the
committee if he had engaged in torture while interrogating suspected
terrorists, Bauer delivered a dramatic defense of torture...
Bauer's fictional defense of torture and his fictional claims of its
effectiveness are having very real consequences. Over the last two days,
right-wing commentators have cheered Bauer's belligerent Senate testimony,
wondering how Congress could be so ungrateful to a torture advocate like
Bauer. Often their commentary has been directed at critics of the Bush
administration's torture policies and suggests that the "average person"
would approve of Bauer's conduct. ...
The right wing's love affair with Bauer's use of torture is rooted in
fantasy. The so-called "ticking time bomb" scenarios that Bauer often
finds himself in and that conservatives cite as instances where torture
should be allowed rarely, if ever, occur. Further, where torture has been
used, it almost certainly results in the extraction of unreliable or
inaccurate information. The "average person" is decidedly against the use
of such techniques. ...
If right wingers see Bauer as an example of how to prosecute the war on
terror, they might be disheartened to learn that even the man that plays
Bauer, actor Keifer Sutherland, doesn't see his character's torture
techniques as effective in real life. "You torture someone and they'll
basically tell you exactly what you want to hear, whether it's true or
not, if you put someone in enough pain," Sutherland said last year.
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Cheney In Retirement
http://cagle.com/working/090114/luckovich.gif
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LINGUA BUSHICCA
"I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America,
Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I
wish him all the very best."
- President George W. Bush, Jan. 12, 2009
Gawd, I really HOPE he was referring to the next President!
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BREAKING NEWS from PNN.news.com
-- A US Airways jet was hijacked by a flock of muslim geese and crashed
into the Hudson River in NYC shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport
today; updates to follow.
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