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By getalife

March 15, 2006 07:03 PM | Link to this

Bird flu talking to mad cow and angry W.

Mike, do you need a vacation?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 15, 2006 07:09 PM | Link to this

The White House is on fire. Is this projection too?

By Midori

March 15, 2006 07:16 PM | Link to this

Looks like Chimpy McCokespoon is sinking lower than the Titanic.

I hear people are clamoring for him to shake up his staff.

Why not put Capt. E. J. Smith at the helm.

“Man the lifeboats!!!”

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 15, 2006 07:38 PM | Link to this

I guess the only way we’ll ever find out how many blacks have worked in the Bush administration is to wait for them to get in trouble someday so we can read the breathless, triumphant stories on the front page of The New York Times about a black Republican scofflaw. It’s amazing that anyone has ever heard of Condoleezza Rice — she’s never even been arrested for jaywalking.

Let me be the first to say: Congratulations, Mr. Allen! The New York Times really hates you. Welcome to my world. We’re so happy to have you in our club.

Guess who.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 15, 2006 07:44 PM | Link to this

Why, this just about seals it!:

Third Democratic senator backs censure resolution Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has become the third U.S. senator to back a move to censure President Bush over the warrantless wiretapping program.

When Bush loses Boxer, it’s time to breathe a sigh of relief.

By JJG

March 15, 2006 07:45 PM | Link to this

I’ve never understood the obsession with approval ratings. Like I’ve said before, either you voted for the idiot or you didn’t. If you did and now you’re unhappy with his constant ineptitude and immorality, too freakin’ bad for the rest of us. And if you voted for him and still think he’s not the worst thing to ever occupy the White House, then too bad for you. Either way, we’re stuck with him and his Reagan-era goons for awhile. If only the Dems weren’t equally as spineless…

By George

March 15, 2006 07:52 PM | Link to this

Bush ratings continue to drop to new lows NBC/WSJ poll: Majority now prefer a Democrat-controlled Congress

WASHINGTON - The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll might sound like a broken record, but the tune grows louder as congressional midterm elections get closer and closer: President Bush is once again facing the lowest job approval rating of his presidency, the lowest percentage of Americans who believe the country is headed in the right direction, and an electorate that greatly prefers a Democratic-controlled Congress over a Republican-controlled one.

By JJG

March 15, 2006 08:08 PM | Link to this

So, the disgusting Ann Coulter, and at least one of her devoted brain-childs here, think it’s important to give King George II credit for having some blacks in his admin. Wake up, Idiots! Sure, we want blacks in the administration, but Chevron oil queens that will lie until hell freezes over? For the truth about Condi read this:

(http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/07/25_condi.html)

By Brian Curtis

March 15, 2006 08:09 PM | Link to this

Good cartoon. And a very understandable result; after all, the diseases pose much less of a threat to humanity than Traitor Bush does.

By JJG

March 15, 2006 08:19 PM | Link to this

It’s funny how hypocritical the modern day political right is. Take Bob Barr’s column today about the filth coming out of Hollywood. Of course, he’s right that modern culture is laced with garbage for the mindless, soul-less millions in this land. But I’ll bet you a dime, his right wing buddies watch and pay for at least as much of that crap as anyone. And who can forget that at a charity event in the 90’s, Barr licked whipped cream from the chests of two women or that during a 2002 Senate primary, he accidentally fired a pistol at a campaign event. No one ever accused him of being a class-act! But I’ll give the prosecutor credit when it’s due, and his analysis of the failings of this administration is pretty accurate.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 15, 2006 08:33 PM | Link to this

Talk about hypocritical: JJG is cool with Bob Barr, Clinton killer, because he has, check this original idea out, bashed Bush.

By RW-(the original)

March 15, 2006 08:36 PM | Link to this

The Georgia State Senate at work. If you are interested in contacting your Senator before the 9:00AM vote.

By Midori

March 15, 2006 08:41 PM | Link to this

What happened to the polling experts on this blog?

Now that CBS has released an updated poll showing that a roughly equal percentage of Democrats and Republicans produces the same approval rating for Bush, those same media figures who denounced the prior poll have yet to report on the newest results.* Below are their prior denunciations:

* Rush Limbaugh, from the February 28 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show: "This is not representative of the -- of the population of the country in any way, shape, manner, or form. Nor is the fact that Bush has 34 percent. ... You just know that's not possible. It simply isn't possible." During the March 14 broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh again referred to CBS' "bugged poll" showing a Bush approval rating of 34 percent. * Fox News host Sean Hannity, from the February 28 edition of Hannity & Colmes: "Look at, for example, you have these polls that came out today in CBS. And if you look at the headline, it says, "Bush lowest number in his presidency." The first thing we find out that nearly two to one they polled Democrats." * Fox News host Brit Hume, from February 28 edition of Special Report with Brit Hume: "Yes, there's good reason to be skeptical of this CBS poll. It's wildly oversampled Democrats, it appears, anyway." * Fox News host John Gibson, from the February 28 edition of The Big Story with John Gibson: "A new CBS News poll puts the president's job approval number at an all-time low, 34 percent. Of course, it's weighted with more Democrats, so you've got to take that into account."

By finch

March 15, 2006 08:41 PM | Link to this

JJG,

I’ll polish up your Condi link here, because it’s a really fun read. Don’t worry about Suck calling you hypocritical.

This (JJG’s link) defines hypocritical!

By Buy Danish

March 15, 2006 08:48 PM | Link to this

LSL,

Andy, how’s it going? And how’s your imaginery attorney doing? I have to say, the imaginery attorney is not as pathetic as the fact that your most intimate relationships are with strangers on your computer screen who you scream obscenties at all day long. I thought Midori’s analysis was the most accurate- you’re like a monkey in a cage throwing feces.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 15, 2006 08:50 PM | Link to this

Ain’t it funny how the pinkos have to prove their polls aren’t faked?

Buzzflash, now there is a news source we can all count on. Losers.

By Liberals Suck and Lie

March 15, 2006 08:52 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Oh yeah? Well your the same as a POS liberal. Now I know why your such a b!tch, your a menopausal hag whose stuck in the 80’s, a real cappucino and croissant “Republican” who speaks French and probably lifts her finger when she drinks tea (when she’s not lifting the middle one at passer by’s). Wank this you POS MF wench of a wannabe hoe!!!

By JJG

March 15, 2006 08:53 PM | Link to this

Hey Dr. Demento, Where did you read that I’m “cool with Bob Barr”? Your comprehesion skills really need help. I made it clear that he’s a GOP POS, but unlike you, he’s somewhat prinicipled and not completely blinded by allegiance to his party. And just where did you get from my post that “he bashed Bush”? If you think that Barr is even capable of “bashing Bush”, you really need medication. Are you truly incapable of understandng anything that doesn’t agree with your all-consuming love for GWB?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 15, 2006 08:54 PM | Link to this

The imaginary attorney has offered to produce a subpoena to compel the AJC to release the identity of the poster in question. This step is necessary to file harrasement or discrimination charges (you have to have a name to fill in the blank.) I was sort of sitting on it, since it seemed to be a self correcting episode. Would you like me to proceed, piece of s-hit?

By Buy Danish

March 15, 2006 08:55 PM | Link to this

LS&L,

Maybe that smoke over the White House is the Texas wildfires. You know - Bush’s fault.

Ann Coulter - that was perfection.

JJG,

Who says: Either way, we’re stuck with him and his Reagan-era goons for awhile.

Yes, it really is a shame that Reagan and Thatcher got those Stalinist goons out of power. Go Communists!

And since JJG is so quick to find fault for alleged frat-like behavior, I just can’t wait to use my ouija board to see just how perfect this little t.u.r.d. who lives in a glass house really is.

I hope he’s not related to James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree!

By George,

Go right ahead and pray at the altar of poll numbers. Between that and Russ Feingold, you may have a strategy.

By JJG

March 15, 2006 08:59 PM | Link to this

finch, Thanks for the help! And trust me, I’ve fought much bigger foes that this guy!

By Liberals Suck and Lie

March 15, 2006 09:01 PM | Link to this

Yes, you are harasing me and discriminationing me with your dirty tricks. And I don’t like sitting on my imaginery atorney when I can be sitting on a real plunger, which is much more to my likening.

By Empress of Elba

March 15, 2006 09:08 PM | Link to this

Well, well. I’ve gone from being white trash in a trailer park to eating croissants and drinking tea. It sure doesn’t take much to be thrown out of that great big Democratic Party tent now, does it?

Either way, I hated the 80s (except for Reagan)and I’m most definitely not stuck in them.

By finch

March 15, 2006 09:12 PM | Link to this

Q: What do Suck and Bill O’Reilly have in common?

A: They both think they can use threats of attorneys and police to intimidate people who have the gall to call them idiots.

In O’Reilly’s case, it’s people who phone his radio show who dare mention MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, a news anchor who has made calling O’Reilly an idiot a top feature on his “Countdown” program. (It’s sooooo funny!)

In Suck’s case, it’s anyone who even suggests he’s a moron, or homophobic, or obsessed, or suffering from ADHD, or…

In both cases, these two “men” apparently don’t realize that their fascist (oooh, did he say fascist???) inclinations have no place in the good ol’ USA.

By SS&S

March 15, 2006 09:19 PM | Link to this

When the jackers come out, I keep hearing “ping” “ping” “ping”. Chinks in their armor I suspect. They are such noble knights dontcha know.

By Empress of Elba

March 15, 2006 09:20 PM | Link to this

finch,

In case you didn’t notice, the wanker is back, so any criticism of LS&L kinda pales in comparison.

By Liberals Suck and Lie

March 15, 2006 09:23 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I noticed you didn’t argue with the menopausal hag part. I’ll take that as a confirmation. I’m calling my imaginery atorney sinse you changed you’re name to Empress of Elba. That’s harasement and discriminationing against me. You will be charged and subpeonized, whichever comes first.

By Empress of Elba

March 15, 2006 09:23 PM | Link to this

SS&S,

You must have really great hearing! Because the sound of the obscene grunts coming from the disgusting wankers are so loud that I can’t hear those “pings” you mention.

By Mike Parker

March 15, 2006 09:24 PM | Link to this

The myth of Ronald Reagan, the only divorced man to be elected president. With a gay son and daughter? King of Family values. Personally defeated Vladimir Putin… oh that’s right.

The former Head of the KGB is now the emperor in fact of Russia.

The USSR did not fall before Ronald Reagan. Hell, Reagan was loaning them money and giving them grain. He was propping them up.

Some guy named Mikail Govbachev knowingly and willingly disassembled the USSR through the policies of perestroika and glasnost.

The wingnuts that think Reagan toppled the Wall, are cerebrating the fall of GDR not the USSR.

The USSR made a decision to end the Cold War and then informed us. We were a fricking after thought.

Wake up to history and reality ya bunch of wingnuts.

By Objective Observer

March 15, 2006 09:33 PM | Link to this

SS&S,

I’m surpised you would use that kind of language regarding Asians. I really am disappointed in you and your slander, refering to Chinese knights like that. Shame on you.

By Emperor of Elba

March 15, 2006 09:34 PM | Link to this

The wanker is having a little trouble with his English tonight. He is mixing Subpoena up with P-enis, to arrive at “subpeonized”. That’s what happens when all you do is wank.

By DavidU

March 15, 2006 09:36 PM | Link to this

Liberal S&L - I think that would be considered a “frivolous” lawsuit. What ever happened to Tort reform? Personal Responsibility? Oh yeah that’s just as long as it involves other people, got it!

By SS&S

March 15, 2006 09:39 PM | Link to this

O.K. Buy Danish, we’ll go with grunts.

I especially like the way, one is sniffing the other’s a-ss. Don’t you? But if they’re looking for each other’s wankers, they’re gonna have to go lower. They are soooo confused.

By Scooter

March 15, 2006 09:45 PM | Link to this

David U, don’t trust anything you read, the jacker is back.

finch, that JJG link about Condi’s hypocricy is interesting. I am still looking for all those warnings of hijacking planes in the 9/11 Commission Report. If I find them I will let you know the page numbers.

By Scooter

March 15, 2006 09:55 PM | Link to this

Also finch, hijack used to mean take over the plane then negotiate hostage release, not fly them into buildings. What was that it was a failure of imagination thing the Commssion spoke of?

By Hijacker

March 15, 2006 10:01 PM | Link to this

HAHA! The funny part is I don’t really have to exaggerate much to make you freaks sound like the Republitards you are. It’s just a matter of saying the same things you say and misspelling some words, and we have a mirror image of Andy’s inane, feces throwing primate chatter, Scooter’s wannabe an intellectual “thought provoking insights,” and a hint of b!tchiness along with incorrectly applied references for the Empress. See ya’ll tomorrow night!

By Able Danger

March 15, 2006 10:10 PM | Link to this

Scooter,

Don’t forget, there is a lot of testimony that the 9/11 commission did not even hear.

By JJG

March 15, 2006 10:13 PM | Link to this

BiPolar, You dim-witted Reagan lovers are really pathetic. Even Richard Nixon said that the claim that Ronnie “won the cold war” was a myth! (But apparently, he was a real conservative, not this brand of neofascist garbage that passes for that now). Let’s review; in order to beat back the Red scare, Ronnie had the brilliant foresight to massively arm Saddam Hussein (and later Iran) with conventional and chemical weapons (even with your selective memory you must remember the pics of a beaming Rumsfeld shaking Saddam’s hand), and he funded (illegally in many cases) and supported dictatorship after dictatorship in Latin America. Oh yes, and he also paid and armed the “anti-communist” rebels in Angola who murdered 100,000 of their own countrymen. And, he absolutely loved the racists in South Africa because they were Commie haters. Yes, Ronald Ray-gun was a real bastion of liberty and freedom, alright. But back to your history lesson, son. There were numerous reasons the Soviet Empire fell. First was its own enormous internal problems - corruption, waste, and ineptitude, to name but a few. And are you so myopic that you think 45 years of resisting, fighting and undermining by the people of Eastern Europe and Russia had nothing to do with it. Secondly, oh brilliant one, was that decades of previous American Presidents had opposed it and weakened it at every chance. True, Reagan tried to bankrupt us by simply outspending the Commies militarily (can you say Star-wars?!), and this country is still laughing at his idiotic trickle-down monetary policies. But I digress. Let’s see, I also believe I remember a guy called Lech Walensa and something to do with Solidarity. For you Bush-lovers who can’t recall, they were pro-democracy Poles who risked life and limb to fight off Communism, as did dissidents in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, the Baltic states and elsewhere. Many of these democratic leaders were openly skeptical of Reagan. Dissident Czech playwright and later president Vaclav Havel, when asked about Western influences on his movement, replied that he had been more inspired by John Lennon and Frank Zappa than by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. BTW, those first two names are rock and roll musicians; you can google them, if you’d like. OK, children, raise your hand if you think any of the above had a bigger impact on the fall of the USSR than dumbo’s misguided recollections about RR and Maggie. And BD, you, too, seem to have a major deficit in comprehension skills. I didn’t find fault in Barr’s “alledged” (your word) frat-like behavior, just his two-faced hypocrisy. I find book burners like you and him, much, much worse and much more dangerous than any of the crap that comes out of Hollywood. Think, before you speak, man. And finally, use your ouija board for something constructive like predicting the fall of the House of Bush!

By Buy Danish

March 15, 2006 10:14 PM | Link to this

I’m fine with b***. Doesn’t offend me in the least. But any idiot can tell the real me from the wankers witless effluence.

By SS&S

March 15, 2006 10:15 PM | Link to this

Let’s see, there were 38 minutes between the jackers previous post and his last post. I’d have to guess it took him that long to have his wanker verify his spelling for him.

Damn, his wanker is smarter than he is. See ya tomorrow night wanker, and bring your poster with you.

By Bush Sucks More than Monica

March 15, 2006 10:19 PM | Link to this

Great Bush to Hitler Morphing gif if anyone needs an avatar for display!

Let’s be friends- I’ll hug your elephant if you kiss my a-s-s!

By Objective Observer

March 15, 2006 10:25 PM | Link to this

Jacker - I guess Robin Williams said it best!

God gave us a p*** and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time.

Be kind to your wanker. Maybe it will share it’s blood supply with your brain occasionally.

By Socialist Democrat

March 15, 2006 10:30 PM | Link to this

JJG,

You are correct in your assessment, but unfortunately the Wacos, as in Texas, you’re trying to speak to are incapable of processing information or evidence. The conservatives have been reduced to being little more than a lunatic, fringe cult. See Liberals Suck & Lie, SS&S and co. as exhibit A. You won’t get anywhere with our resident morons, but keep up the good fight.

By finch

March 15, 2006 10:44 PM | Link to this

Scooter, we both know that the 9/11 Commission’s report wasn’t flawless. And the evidence is clear that the US had anticipated the possibility of suicide hijackers ramming buildings before 9/11.

NORAD had drills of jets as weapons

Hindsight is 20/20. I’m tired of blaming and blaming everyone. The truth is, somebody screwed up. We may never know exactly who.

By Midori

March 15, 2006 10:49 PM | Link to this

Liberals Suck and Lie must have been up to his tricks again

By Socialist Democrat

March 15, 2006 10:55 PM | Link to this

finch,

I’m okay with blaming Bush, the guy who never held a cabinet meeting about terrorism prior to 9/11 (but did manage to vacation for months at his ranch in Texas), and who didn’t feel like he needed to bother thinking about the report Condi Rice gave him entitled, “Terrorists Determined to Strike Inside America.” No wonder he sat in that elementary school classroom for minutes on end while we were being attacked- he had never even considered the issue before, and the only experience he’d had was in running businesses into bankruptcy, just as he’s doing with the country.

By Socialist Democrat

March 15, 2006 11:00 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Read some of the above posts. It looks as if the hijacker returned and caused Liberals Suck and Lie to start theatening lawsuits. I’m sure he’ll go on an all-day rant tomorrow when the spasms stop and he changes his wet britches.

By Building 7

March 15, 2006 11:18 PM | Link to this

No plane struck me, and no fire gutted my halls.

By Building 7

March 15, 2006 11:27 PM | Link to this

No earthquake shook my walls.

By Building 7

March 15, 2006 11:31 PM | Link to this

Yet, starting from the top, I shattered and fell into a neat little pile. Quietly, quickly, and oh so neatly, into a little pile at my feet.

By JJG

March 15, 2006 11:33 PM | Link to this

OK, as long as I’m riling up the right wing reactionaries, how about one of my favorite topics. The rise of the “chickenhawks” in the GOP. How disgraceful and hypocritical that so few of them have served, much less with valor, in the military. And yet they now so seem to love and champion other people’s kids getting their f**king heads blown off. We’ve got a pretender commander-in-chief who hid out in Alabama, stumping for some no-name Republican hack while other less fortunate sons were fighting by the thousands in and above the jungle. His cabinet and staff are full of fat, lazy non-vets. The entire GOP leadership has about five guys who actually served, and of them, only McCain (a moderate) did so with distinction and courage. No wonder Rove and his henchmen smeared him so, and even less wonder that we’ve got such a god-awful mess in Iraq. Thank god, King George II wasn’t in power in 1941. After Pearl Harbor he would have attacked the Koreans! Funny, isn’t it, how us liberals and Dems put our money where our mouth is infinitely more so than Republicans, when it comes to actually DOING something to defend this incredibly great nation. And for your gutless non-serving insult-hurlers on the far, far right, yes, I’m a vet. I enlisted in the USAF in 1972 at the age of 17. I was just trying to do my part… Some interesting reading on chickenhawks: [http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html]

By RW-(the original)

March 16, 2006 01:01 AM | Link to this

Wow this JJG really riled some folks up alright. It looks like he stirred up a building, a socialist, and a couple of moonbats. Good job JJG!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 04:45 AM | Link to this

This is what piece of sh-it finch has to say, for no f’k-ing reason:

They both think they can use threats of attorneys

In Suck’s case, it’s anyone who even suggests he’s a moron, or homophobic, or obsessed, or suffering from ADHD, or…

I talked to an attorney on Buff’s behalf becasuse of the f’king piece of s-hit liberal that maliciously impersonated his recently deceased father.

I had at least a tiny bit of respect for f’k-face finch, not anymore. This mofo is encouraging the bullsh-it with the stupid things that he says. F’k him.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 04:59 AM | Link to this

This story says nothing of the care the veteran in question received. Care ranges from excellent to mediocre to poor, depending on facilities, treatment programs, doctors and the specifics of each case. But it points to the fact that America’s medical infrastructure to handle the unique needs of Iraq veterans is still being developed.

Congress should ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs has everything it needs to make the Level II facilities a reality, expand the number of polytrauma centers and monitor the establishment of both. The need is immediate — so immediate, in fact, that we think Congress should also consider whether a crash program to rush the needed infrastructure into existence might be warranted. The severely wounded returning from Iraq have made staggering sacrifices for the nation. They deserve no less.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 05:14 AM | Link to this

When gas prices jump by 50 cents (or more) per gallon, many people get angry at “Big Oil” — and decry what they consider “price gouging” at their expense. But how come no one gets upset about the 50-70 cents (or more) per gallon in taxes imposed by government?

Federal (18.4 cents per gallon), state (35-50 cents per gallon), and local motor fuels taxes (anywhere from 5-10 cents or more per gallon) account for at least one-third of the per-gallon cost of gasoline — an outrageous levy in both absolute terms and as a percentage of the purchase price of the item being taxed. Imagine, for instance, if you had to fork over 50 cents in taxes for every $1 or so of groceries you purchased.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 05:25 AM | Link to this

A USA Today analysis of 25 major government programs found that enrollment increased an average of 17% in the programs from 2000 to 2005. The nation’s population grew 5% during that time. It was the largest five year expansion of the federal safety net since the Great Society created programs such as Medicare and Medicaid in the 1960’s. Spending on these social programs was $1.3 trillion in 2005, up an inflation-adjusted 22% since 2000 and accounting for more than half of federal spending.

Shouldn’t this make the stupid POS liberals happy? Isn’t this what they want? Why do they still continue to whine like a bunch of babies? Why even bother to try and satisfy their fat as-ses?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 06:07 AM | Link to this

These “stand your ground” laws, as the NRA describes them, expand what is known as the castle doctrine— the right to use deadly force to defend your home (gasp! shriek!) — to public places and eliminates any duty to retreat. “I think this bill has the potential to turn our streets into the OK Corral because it could be misinterpreted, misused and abused,” said DeKalb District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming.

The first person to seek immunity from prosecution under Florida’s “shoot first” law was tow truck operator Donald Montanez, who shot and killed a young father attempting to retrieve his car. Montanez said the man tried to run him over, and he fired in self-defense.

Police said the physical evidence contradicts that defense and charged Montanez with second- degree murder, four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm and shooting into an occupied vehicle.

Apparently the law works. What are the pinkos wailing about?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 06:46 AM | Link to this

“Once again serious questions surround Senator Clinton’s fund-raising operation,” the Republican challenger in Mrs. Clinton’s Senate re-election bid, a former mayor of Yonkers, John Spencer, said about the donations. “We know that federal charges were levied against her fund-raisers from her last campaign and that she has taken money linked to supporters of Iranian mullahs. Now another issue pops up. Senator Clinton needs to come clean and answer these latest questions.”

The contributions in question come from a New York-based real estate investor, Hyung Young “Daniel” Lee. According to records on file with the Federal Election Commission, Mr. Lee, 44, donated $4,100 to Mrs. Clinton’s 2006 Senate re-election campaign through Friends of Hillary in May 2005. His wife, Eva, donated $5,100 in four separate contributions between August 2004 and May 2005. FEC documents show that the Clinton campaign refunded Mrs. Lee $1,000; FEC regulations cap donations to a candidate at $4,200 for an individual contributor during an election cycle.

Hillary knows the law doesn’t apply to her, she’s the Chief Pinko. She doesn’t even care anymore, taking money from Iranian mullahs, North Korean communists, anybody look to see if Al Qaeda is paying any in?

By candide

March 16, 2006 06:56 AM | Link to this

Get ready for an invasion of Iran. It is the only thing the White House can think of to save George W.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 07:15 AM | Link to this

Steve Chapman, “Conservative”:

Republicans on Capitol Hill, presented with the censure resolution, practically trampled each other to prove their slobbering devotion to the president. Sen. John Warner of Virginia assailed the proposal as “the worst type of political grandstanding.” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee accused Feingold of giving hope and encouragement to al Qaeda: “The signal that it sends, that there is in any way a lack of support for our commander in chief who is leading us with a bold vision in a way that is making our homeland safer, is wrong.”

Gosh, he doesn’t sound biased at all.

By Charles

March 16, 2006 07:22 AM | Link to this

Shouldn’t ML reveal the names of the Mad Cow (Barbara Boxer) and the “Byrd” Flu (Democratic Senator Robert “KKK” Byrd)? Both are part of the problem with this country - criticizing and not providing solutions - something the Bush-hating Liberals still don’t understand.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

March 16, 2006 07:27 AM | Link to this

Commenting on the cartoon. Excellent

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 07:29 AM | Link to this

Pat Buchanan, wildly foaming at the mouth:

‘Conservatives don’t trash their countrymen, even if they think they’re wrong. It is slander to say opposition to the Dubai deal exposed some deep, dark strain in the American soul.

They don’t?

What Barnes calls paleo-conservatism is the conservatism of the common man, rooted in tradition and wisdom born of experience. It is not the Big Government, open-borders, free-trade, interventionist, globaloney of the neo-cons and their Rebel in Chief.

Are you sure about that?

What happened to the ports deal is that Davos World collided with America First and got its clock cleaned. Economic patriotism, which engages the heart, thumped globalism, an intellectual construct of economists and corporatists.

So are you, Pat Buchanan a Conservative or a hypocrite?

A disconsolate Weekly Standard has now weighed in. The collapse of the ports deal means “it’s a paleo moment in America,” wails Fred Barnes — as in paleo-conservative. America is headed for a politics that is “gloomy, negative, defeatist, isolationist, nativist and protectionist.”

Hypocrite it is.

Here, again, is PBS-New York Times conservative David Brooks: “This Dubai port deal has unleashed a kind of collective mania we haven’t seen in decades … a xenophobia tsunami … a nativist, isolationist mass hysteria. … God must love Hamas and Muqtada al-Sadr. He has given them the America First brigades of Capitol Hill.” Is there not some compassionate conservative who will send Brooks a grief counselor?

Such anger, such bitterness, such a… liberal?

By AntiRadical

March 16, 2006 07:36 AM | Link to this

Well the Reps want to raise the ceiling for the national debt to $9 TRILLION dollars. I guess this is part of their “smaller” government program? Since “smaller” government is costing more; would “bigger” government then cost less? Reps and Dems have exchanged ideologies under GWB it seems; the Reps are now the “tax and spend” party of record!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 07:40 AM | Link to this

Meanwhile, the Democrats, who have lectured us ad nauseam about ethnic stereotyping, couldn’t resist the political opening. So they jettisoned this old sensitivity to score jingoist points by suggesting that an Arab fifth column could, in theory, gain control of our ports.

It was surreal to hear Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the multicultural guru, lecture us about the dangers of these Gulf middlemen — even as her huckstering husband advised the United Arab Emirates how to finesse the American Congress.

The American public was supposedly outraged that an Arab country would oversee the operation of its major ports. Yet did we have a clue that a Chinese company took over operation of Panama Canal ports during the Clinton administration?

The port deal reveals deeper pathologies than the hypocrisy of our politicians and ignorance of the public. A now hyper-media is fueled by a 24-hour news cycle — regardless of whether there is enough earth-shattering news to justify thousands of salaried telejournalists.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 07:43 AM | Link to this

Harris to Stay in Race for Senate Seat Mar 15 10:59 PM US/Eastern

U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris plans to spend $10 million she inherited from her father in her race to unseat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, she announced Wednesday night. Harris ended speculation that she would quit the race on Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes.”

Go Girl!

Donate Here!

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 07:54 AM | Link to this

LS&L,

Can you post the links to your last 3 posts?

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

Could this illegal dirt-digging be considered a “personal attack”?

Kimberly - would you like to weigh in on this?

By Scooter

March 16, 2006 08:24 AM | Link to this

finch, thanks for the link to the NORAD drills. You saved me some time filtering through the 9/11 Commission Report. Also finch, I truly hope you are tired of placing blame. I myself believe Condi when she says we simply were not on a war footing prior to 9/11.

To anyone out there who wants to look into Socialist Democrat’s unfounded claims I will try to lead you where I think his super intelligence came from. You see, 85 percent of my closest friends are liberals and I recieved an e-mail that contained many of Socialist Democrat’s claims.

Of course it takes someone who does not hate Bush with every fiber of their being to filter through some of the garbage that comes form the “left”. But, this person gave it the attention it deserved;

The left’s e-mail that was distributed to gullible minds blinded by the emotion of hatred

By finch

March 16, 2006 08:57 AM | Link to this

Scooter,

There’s so much blame to go around for 9/11, there’s no standout villain (outside of Al Qaeda), and precious few heroes. Thanks for the link, even if it was pdf:->. I don’t think President Bush is evil, but he’s not the smartest wrench in the toolbox, and he’s surrounded by “patriotic” exremists who give really bad advice, the “pre-emptive” Iraq invasion being a prime example.

And speaking of President Bush…

Bush Sees Iran As Possibly Greatest Threat

It’s a damn shame the US is hip deep in Iraq. The real menace has always been next door.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 09:02 AM | Link to this

Muslim: I attacked ‘out of love for Allah’ Man who barreled SUV into 9 people sends letter to N. Carolina TV station, cites Quran in defense

The smarmy Ibrahaim Hooper uses this popular comparison:

“There are people who have strange views about any number of faiths and they shouldn’t be taken as representative of those faiths. The people who kill abortion doctors claim they are doing it in the name of Christianity and we all know it is a distortion of Christian beliefs.”

Here’s a website that recounts the entire history of abortion clinic activism, from picketing to the few reprehensible violent acts

Maybe it’s just me, but unlike Islamofascism, I’m not seeing evidence of a popular movement intent on world domination, waging a war of terror, where they routinely slaughter civilians, and leave a cowering press afraid to print cartoons. I see a few kooks who have been marginalized. I wish we could end Islamofascism so easily!

As an aside, note the tasteful use of an abortion clinic advert atop this article, with a cute add for e Harmony’s online dating service about half way down. Personally, if I were the marketing director of e Harmony, I don’t know that I’d choose this location as an advertising “opportunity”, but that’s just me. I guess they know their audience - no doubt the result of extensive marketing research.

P.S. Does anyone know it the NY Times has mentioned the inconvenient fact that Allah Boy is a muslim yet who had long planned to kill Americans?

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 09:08 AM | Link to this

finch,

If necessary, is it easier to launch an invasion of Iran from right next door or not? Whadda think? I have no degree in military strategy, but something tells me that we’re in a good position to move expeditiously, and have better access to ground level intelligence.

Tell me again how dumb Bush is.

By gadem

March 16, 2006 09:15 AM | Link to this

I have figured out why LS&L hates everyone…he is the jolted ex-husband of Ms. Clark AKA Sicko. Newsflash LS&L….maybe the teenager satisfied her more than you could….you know missionary gets old after a while….

By gadem

March 16, 2006 09:19 AM | Link to this

BD, I guess our supply of military troops are infinite as well?

By Kevin

March 16, 2006 09:21 AM | Link to this

Nice topic clinton n hillary as the mad cow n bird…Okay folks lets get real bill n hilliary were on arabs emrites runnin ports…so read more n find.No network will say just Fox news is (yes me spellin bad so sue) always on top! Now the wire tappin was allowed okayed when we were attacked on spt 2001 remember folks Think.Now i say again if Gore had done the same thing u see now n the other party was blastin Him what hell u think they say we no support are chief in time of muslims morons bent on killin n takein over Us!

By Scooter

March 16, 2006 09:29 AM | Link to this

finch, it is good that you don’t hate Bush. Hate should be reserved for child molestors and such.

I don’t wan to post the Duelfer Roports key fidings again. In which it states Saddam was pursuing, through Oil for Food, the end of sanctions so that he could reconstitute his programs. That knowledge leads me to believe Saddam was a sore, festering in the Middle-East, and unfortunately the UN was being taken advantage of. So, in my humble opinion it would have been even more fool hearty to leave the man in power to pursue his goals with the UN watching over him.

I personally never thought it was going to be easy to pull the Sunnis off of the Iraqi government’s “oil teet”, but the best rewards often come from hard struggles. This is an attempt at a generational shift of perceptions in teh Muslim world and you and I are on the front end.

Of course all of this assumes the desire of all men to be free from oppression and Iraqis are willing to fight for it. Time will tell, I simply see to many policies/criticisms of the left working to ensure Iraq’s failure and that is more dangerous than anything Bush has done. I understand that people wanted to leave the UN in charge of Saddam, but they need to cease and assist rather than politically handcuffing our troops. All is fair in love and war, he who maitains the high ground generally gets his a-ss handed to him.

If the Iraqi government can get their shizzle together and elect a unity government, then subdue the insurgents, it will be huge plus for us. Also in my opinion, there is no single country that is the problem. Rather it is a region in which dictators practice favoritism with oil revenues while leaving the unfavored to their own devices. Unfortunately religion is used in the Madrasa’s to manipulate the hopelessness and despair of the oppressed into beliefs that killing infidels will bring them better circumstances with Allah.

By Like It Really Is

March 16, 2006 09:40 AM | Link to this

Firm Failed to Protect U.S. Troops’ Water

Halliburton was headed by Vice President Dick Cheney for several years before he ran for vice president. Its KBR subsidiary, also known as Kellogg Brown & Root, works under contract to provide a number of services to the U.S. military in Iraq, including providing water and purifying it.

The contaminated, non-chlorinated water at Ar Ramadi was discovered in March 2005 by Ben Carter, a KBR water expert at the base. In an interview, Carter said he resigned after KBR barred him from notifying the military and senior company officials about the untreated water.

More evidence of how much the Bush/Cheney administration REALLY cares about our men and women in uniform! Absolutely NO checks and balances to safegaurd their welfare at all. If it weren’t for whistle blowers our troops wouldn’t have a friend or a chance in the world to survive. Like it Really Is!

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 09:41 AM | Link to this

gadem,

Of course not. So what? Keep them on mothballs while Iraq, a state sponsor of terrorism with a history of invading its neighbors is allowed to proceed uninhindered? Fine example to set for others don’tcha think? We’d still be dealing with Saddam and Quadaffi..

By Scooter

March 16, 2006 09:56 AM | Link to this

Like I really want it to be is a more fitting handle.

There are two types of water, potable and non potable.

Here is something to think about when listening to the critics;

Specifically, it has been reported that military contractors charged with supplying water at B4 Ar Ramadi base in Iraq have been taking water from the Euphrates River, and filtering it and using a Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit (ROWPU). They reportedly have been using the treated water for potable drinking water, but using the reject waste water or “concentrate” from the ROWPU for non-potable water. Clearly, such water should at a minimum always be chlorinated to reduce the levels of bacteria and viruses. But it should be pointed out that even if this water is chlorinated, some chlorine-resistant disease-causing microbes like Cryptosporidium would not be killed by chlorine alone, and could still cause illnesses if present in the water.6 This is a potentially dangerous situation for anyone who uses the non-potable water for showering or hygiene such as brushing teeth.

By gadem

March 16, 2006 09:56 AM | Link to this

Well BD, judging from how Dubya is handled the invasion of Iraq, I don’t think America wants him starting a war with any other countries. Why you ask…because he has no plan. No exit strategy, no contigency plans, nothing…just go in shoot and use sound bites to convince the meek and cowardly that he will protect them. When in fact he is making us all less safe.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 10:11 AM | Link to this

gadem,

Not “in fact”, “in your opinion”, and even your opinions are not based on facts. Just more blah blah blah…

And is that a definite NO from you for dealing with Iran militarily if need be?

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

Scooter,

I get as far as “Halliburton” and the claim that the National Resources Defense Council is “non-partisan” and I’ve read enough.

All I want to know is this: Is this a real threat where they can demonstrate that our soldiers are getting sick, or is this a request that we take pre-emptive measures?

Can you tell me so I don’t have to read the whole thing? Thanks!

By Building 7

March 16, 2006 10:18 AM | Link to this

No plane hit me, and yet I fell. What secrets I held, I now cannot tell. You watched as I fell in a pile so neat. Why don’t you ASK how I sunk to the street?

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this

gadem: Thanks for paying attention. The Cato Institute (That’s right) recently held a forum on our government. They said it was: “…inept, vindictive, incompetent and unconscionable.” So then, smart a**, what is the Iraq War Plan? Tell us the “Exit Strategy”. What is the “Contingency Plan? Anyone? Now, we will listen to the roar of silence.

By gadem

March 16, 2006 10:22 AM | Link to this

So BD, please tell me how are we more safe. It is not like we were having terror attacks on US on a regular basis. People like you and Andy live in fear….in my opinion that is what this administration did to a majority of Americans. Fortunately America is beginning to wake up and smell the BS. At this point in time, Americans traveling abroad are now in more danger of harm than they were before the war was started. I know you are one of the 37% that think Bush is doing a bang up job…

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 10:28 AM | Link to this

Wishin and Hopin,

So its Cheney’s fault because he ran Halliburton before he ran for VP?

Very interesting. James DeWitt used to be the head of FEMA, so maybe we can blame Katrina on him!! SHAZAAM!

Great idea! Thanks for the tip! Our team can use that every time you mention the name Halliburton in that non-partisan way of yours.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this

Today is going to be one of those really fun, entertaining days where I get to mercilessly skewer the NIVS.

Gadem states:

It is not like we were having terror attacks on US on a regular basis

This one is a keeper for my “quotable quotes” file - Thanks for helping me expand my collection!

By gadem

March 16, 2006 10:35 AM | Link to this

Daniel the plan for Bush is to have Karl Rove think up more sound bites for BD and the masses. Mission Accomplished Stay The Course War On Terror Terrorist Will Not Win We Are Spreading Democracy The Iraqi People Are Happy That We Are There …..did I leave any out?

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this

gadem,

P.S.

Thanks for linking IRAQ to 9/11!

Building 7,

Maybe so many people were wanking when the planes hit that the noise and vibrations made the building fall - the way a note of music can break a glass.

The black helicopter is on your roof. Get on board.

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this

No answer, just yet. Perhaps they’re thinking.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 10:38 AM | Link to this

gadem,

P.P.S.

Warning: Do not travel to Aruba.

By gadem

March 16, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this

BD, no need to thank me, this administration brainwashed you all a long time ago into believing that Sadaam was an integral part of 9/11. But I digress, please let me know when you are going to enlist so that you can fight for this war that You and Dubya believe so highly in.

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this

gadem: CNN had Bush at 33% yesterday. So, there is no plan. They serve the suckers bovine christianity, and they’ll believe anything. The debt ceiling was raised to over 8 trillion dollars. There is an economic plan: Borrow from China.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 10:49 AM | Link to this

Unfortunately religion is used in the Madrasa’s to manipulate the hopelessness and despair of the oppressed into beliefs that killing infidels will bring them better circumstances with Allah

Scooter,

Sorry, so much to comment on today, that I missed this earlier. I actually have to disagree a bit on this. You see I think that it is the religion that makes them oppressed.

For example, the 9/11 hijackers were upper middle class. And what about the Iranian college student at UNC who mowed down his fellow students? He was economically priveleged, and while the colleges are infested with leFtist professors, I don’t think that we can call him “oppressed”.

BTW, if he had hired a small plane, instead of an SUV with a mind of its own, to crash into the students, do you think that there would be any credence to the thought that it might be an act of terrorism? Do you think that the NY Times might have mentioned the fact that he was a determined American-hating muslim by now? Or would that still be too “offensive”; too much information for us to handle?

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 10:50 AM | Link to this

Daniel,

I gave my answer to your fellow NIV gadem. You’re covered.

By finch

March 16, 2006 10:51 AM | Link to this

“If necessary, is it easier to launch an invasion of Iran from right next door or not? Whadda think?”

Buy Danish, we are hardly in control of Iraq as it stands now. To use it as a platform for an Iran invasion (if it comes to that) would be folly.

And gadem is right, you know. The US is not enduring terror attacks on a regular basis. President Bush says that, so it must be true….

By gadem

March 16, 2006 10:53 AM | Link to this

Newsflash BD, there are plenty of Christians that hate America. As a matter of fact I think the government needs to handle all of these Nazis, militia, and other anti government organizations that are in our borders.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this

NIVS,

“Operation Swarmer” is in progress as we speak in Iraq.

finch,

Nice try. No cigar.

gadem,

Yep, those nazi Christians are taking over the world. You say “plenty”. Can you give me a round number?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

gadem: So what “secrets” do you think Building 7 held, before Bush collapsed it? I’m asking the right goofball, aren’t I, you seem to be clued into all of the moonbat theories?

If you look at a map of the world, you will notice that Iraq is on one side of Iran and Afghanistan is pretty much on the other side of Iran. We got them surrounded. Starting to look like you’ll get your wish, with Iran winding up to be the real objective.

Practice makes perfect:

Largest Iraq Air Assault Since ‘03 Begins

By gadem

March 16, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this

BD what was the plan that you eloquently laid out for me, I must have missed it…

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 11:00 AM | Link to this

In the 1930’s Sinclair Lewis said:

"When fascism comes to America it will have a flag in one hand and a cross in the other."

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this

Gadem: Gee! I didn’t see it either.

By gadem

March 16, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this

So LS&L we are struggling in Iraq as we speak, and you all think we are in a position to invade Iran. Do you think at this point in time that America can afford, both financially and with manpower, to fight a war on two fronts…if you believe that, you have just confirmed my suspicions that you are off your rocker.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this

gadem,

Invasion, elections, constitution, self-government while we multi-task and surround Iran. That’s a plan…

And Operation Swarm illustrates our flexibility to change tactics as the situation on the ground changes with Al Qaeda.

Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat

By gadem

March 16, 2006 11:11 AM | Link to this

Oh Daniel the plan was actually the sound bites I regurgitated…see BD thought she wrote those. You know the troops hang that on there vests when they go out to battle. Those sound bites scare those the bedickens out of those insurgents….

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this

Does anyone think that Gadem would be willing to fight any war on any front, other than “the War on Poverty”?

I mean, It is not like we were having terror attacks on US on a regular basis

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this

If only the right-wing heroes on this blog were in Iraq!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this

gadem: So you are a media dupe, falling for the “we are struggling in Iraq” nonsense. You’re the same useful idiot that would have been all freaked out over the 80,000 soldiers that were killed in the Battle of the Bulge, pulling France’s balls out of the fire. It’s a good thing this country is run by men, instead of sissies like you.

The United States of America could surround Iran and then flatten it, turning into a vast sand filled wasteland. But we don’t kill civilians en masse, we try to achieve our military objectives with as little collateral damage as possible. By taking this high roadof civility, this noble path of action, we open ourselves up to criticism from puny little wankers like you, to say stupid sh-it like the world’s most powerful military ever is “struggling.”

But that’s life in the big pinko city, I guess.

By gadem

March 16, 2006 11:24 AM | Link to this

Oh contraire BD, I will fight for a war that I believe in.

By gadem

March 16, 2006 11:28 AM | Link to this

BD, so we will put the war in Iraq on pause and then go and fight Iran. See that plan would work if you were not actually in combat in the two countries that you are planning to make a staging ground to go to war…never make the mistake of having your enemy close in on you from the rear….

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this

If gadem is going to quote Sinclair lewis , I guess I can quote a Christian:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience

C.S. Lewis, author of “The Chronicles of Narnia”.

By gadem

March 16, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this

These same men that you are applauding are the ones that refused to go to war themselves….a shining example for you to hang your hat on.

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this

The US Army is having trouble meeting its recruitment goals. My children tell me none, none of their friends believe in this war. None of our leaders children are in this. None of the wacko’s are in it and none of their children are in it. They believe in this so much they are willing to send other peoples children to fight and die for them.

By Bushie

March 16, 2006 11:37 AM | Link to this

Is that a bird sitting on Barbara Bush’s back?

By Dusty

March 16, 2006 11:39 AM | Link to this

Keep going, Buy Danish and others who bring some degree of intelligence and integrity to this blog. Stay strong.

Luckovich, leader of the anti-American Americans, has gone from delirious to disease ridden. All the little anti-Americans hopped right on the “funny wagon” with him.

We get exposed to the traitorous Candide and Curtis. To the poison-pen, long-winded JJG. To singing-bird finch and religious Daniel (bovine Christianity)of the p***-cat den. To blind gadem who parrots the same old dim Dem dum line. What a crew!

Just a fortunate reminder here. Mad Cow disease cannot be transmitted on blogs. So it is still safe to read the comments of the above crew, although the reading of them is discouraging.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 11:40 AM | Link to this

If invading Iran makes absolutely certain that American cities don’t get filled with nuclear fire and destruction, I say let’s err on the side of the innocent civilians living in those American cities. I know there are some pussies around here who would rather let the civilians, women and children, fend for themselves, Daniel for instance, but I can live with a tough go in Iran/ Iraq.

Call me old fashioned, I just don’t think that mass murderers are really as chic as y’all liberals do.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 11:41 AM | Link to this

gadem: Come on, homey, I addressed all of your concerns, when you gonna tell me about the “secrets” of Building 7?

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 11:44 AM | Link to this

gadem,

Vraiment? It is not like we were having terror attacks on US on a regular basis

Meanwhile, you may want to tune into the FWord network if you can pull yourself away from wherever it is you get your NIV opinions.

RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT. Good practice should we need to go after Iran.

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 11:50 AM | Link to this

They are willing to send other people’s children to fight and die for them.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 11:52 AM | Link to this

Attention NIVS, here is the “plan” in action.

U.S., Iraqis Launch ‘Operation Swarmer’ By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — U.S. forces, joined by Iraqi troops, on Thursday launched the largest air assault since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, targeting insurgent strongholds north of the capital, the military said…

Italics are mine.

By gadem

March 16, 2006 11:54 AM | Link to this

Here is another C.S Lewis quote BD…“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon and you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” seems kinda confused to me….we all have had our doubts about religion at one time, but he was known to have suffered from depression BD….is that someone that you want to quote? Take tips on running a business from Dubya while you are at it.

By Like It Really Is

March 16, 2006 12:03 PM | Link to this

Danish- It is not Haliburton’s fault that the Bush/Cheney administration is not checking their work through a standard system of checks and balances in order to insure the safety of our men and women in uniform. It is the Bush/Cheney administration that REALLY cares so very little about the welfare of our troops. From poor initial planning and intelligence, to inadequate body armor and inadequately shielded personnel carriers, and now contaminated water suppiles; the Bush/Cheney administration has consistently used the American soldier in propagandist fashion while all the time leaving them undermanned, undersupplied, unprotected, and in harm’s way! Like It Really Is!

By Dusty

March 16, 2006 12:04 PM | Link to this

Another health reminder: Most people recover from depression. No one has ever recovered from Mad Cow disease.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 12:11 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

Its a volunteer military. But thanks for pointing out that our military fights and dies for US.

Attention all:

You know, I’m too old for combat. I do my best, right here on the ground, fighting the good fight. And you know something else? I was privileged to receive a phone call from the proud grandfather of one of our heroes serving over in Iraq. He read an editorial letter I wrote that was published in the local paper and he rang me up. You know what he told me? He thanked me! He told me that I made his day! He told me how much it meant to him and his family. Made me damn proud, and it happened to be on my birthday. Best birthday present I ever got - bar none.

So you smug little pee-ons can call me a “chickenhawk” all you want, but I just betcha that no one has ever thanked you on behalf of our military.

The best we can hope for is that you stay out of the way.

By Midori

March 16, 2006 12:22 PM | Link to this

So you smug little pee-ons can call me a “chickenhawk” all you want, but I just betcha that no one has ever thanked you on behalf of our military.

actually they did - among them in the form of the Army Achievement Medal and several Good Conduct Medals. As I don’t have my 214 available, I can’t name my other awards of recognition.

But my memory isn’t that bad that I recollect that there have been several people in their 50’s and beyond who have been recalled to active duty. So your “too old” excuse doesn’t wash.

By Midori

March 16, 2006 12:24 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish - proud member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists!!!!

By Midori

March 16, 2006 12:25 PM | Link to this

You know, I’m too old for combat. I do my best, right here on the ground, fighting the good fight.

Just like Superman.

Fighting for truth, justice and the American way.

betcha the color of your cape is yellow.

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 12:31 PM | Link to this

Thanks, Midori. I’m VFW. BD: volunteer? Does that mean you’re not a coward?

By Like It Really Is

March 16, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this

Veterans Against the Iraq War

Here’s a few hundred letters from mostly present and former veterans and their families who are opposed to the war in Iraq. No couch potato bloger warriors here. Like It Really IS!

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this

recalled to active duty

Nice try midori-san.

BTW, I was talking to Daniel and Gadem. How dare you interrupt?

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this

You got it.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 12:39 PM | Link to this

BTW, Midori,

If you actually knew how to write, you might be able to do your part too.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this

It is not news to me that not every veteran approves of the Iraq War. John Kerry is a sterling example.

By seeker

March 16, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this

The only ones surprised by “Operation Swarmer” are the American media and brainwashed Bush groupies.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (March 14) - American forces have dramatically increased airstrikes in Iraq during the past five months, a change of tactics that may foreshadow how the United States plans to battle a still-strong insurgency while reducing the number of U.S. ground troops serving here

Okay, not a surprise. Decent objectives. If only those annoying civilians didn’t keep getting in the way…

Osama Jadaan al Dulaimi, a tribal leader in the western town of Karabilah, a town near the Syrian border that was hit with bombs or missiles on at least 17 days between October 2005 and February 2006, said the bombings had created enemies.

“The people of Karabilah hate the foreigners who crossed the border and entered their areas and got into a fight with the Americans,” al Dulaimi said. “The residents now also hate the American occupiers who demolished their houses with bombs and killed their families … and now the people of Karabilah want to join the resistance against the Americans for what they did.”

Time to brief these ungrateful natives on why we destroy villages in order to save them. To win hearts and minds, of course! Like we did in Vietnam! Where are their priorities?

By Dusty

March 16, 2006 12:50 PM | Link to this

Well, isn’t that great. Former members of the US military are now knocking everything this country does. If you think you are JUST complaining about Bush, you are sadly confused. Liberals are anti-war which reflects directly on our military, not just our president.

Do you think everybody is going to forget your attacks? No way. Did you notice how the Georgia legislature voted against ANY kind of honor for Jane Fonda this morning? Only ONE legislator voted for it. Fonda was not military in the Viet Nam war, she was ONLY a traitor. I think you will find that the entire country has little use for traitors and does not forget them ever.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 12:50 PM | Link to this

Danish: Maybe I’m wrong but last war didn’t the liberals call the troops baby killers, druggies and murderers? I wonder why now they see them a scholars, soothsayers, prescient noble knights in shining armor? Could they possibly be using our brave soldiers as stupid political props? Instead of letting them protect innocent American women and children like they volunteered to do?

Always think low when searching out liberal motivations.

By SS&S

March 16, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this

Midori, I recall that it was you who led the jackers in their shameful assault the other night against someone who you are fond of. Nice going.

With friends like you………………….?

This is one you cannot deny!!!!!!!

So wear that badge of courage in shame!!!!!

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 12:54 PM | Link to this

Wishin’ and Hopin’,

Thanks for the link to Cindy Sheehan’s group. Great American that Cindy!

Proving me right, one post at a time.

By seeker

March 16, 2006 12:54 PM | Link to this

A tribal sheik who lives on the outskirts of the troubled Anbar town of Ramadi, who asked that he be identified as Abu Tahseen instead of by his full name out of fear of possible retribution, said that the strikes create more insurgents than they kill because of the region’s tribal dictates of revenge.

“They (the Americans) think: `As long as there are resistance fighters operating in this spot, we will wipe it out entirely… As you know, our nature is a tribal one, and so if one from us is killed, we kill three or four in return.”

Not having learned from history, America is repeating it.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 12:56 PM | Link to this

Seeker,

Great job. Any quotes from the families of Palestenian suicide bombers who just hate it when the Israelis come in and destroy their homes?

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:02 PM | Link to this

Seeker,

You don’t happen to have any info on Fallujah residents who hate Zarqawi’s guts do you?

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 01:02 PM | Link to this

BD: Cindy has made her sacrifice for this war. She has lost a son. What is your sacrifice? Dusty: What have you given? What is the republican party sacrifice? Abramoff the thief and Cunningham the crook! Cindy Sheehan is a great American. Dusty: It’s time for your nap. I’m off to my work-out. Auf Wiederseh’n.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:07 PM | Link to this

LS&L,

Yep. One of them ran for President of these United States, and is STILL calling our military “terrorists”. He must listen to a lot of Harry Belafonte records.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:14 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

Go ahead. Align yourself with Mother Sheehan.

Its “ironic” that you all are moving the discussion in this direction, because it just so happens that the very same letter which inspired that grandfather to pick up the phone and thank me just happened to be about Mother Sheehan and her acolytes.

By Like It Really Is

March 16, 2006 01:15 PM | Link to this

Danish continues to use only taunts and invective to support her rantings (where are her links to supporting data?). She is afforded the dignity/consideration of having her moniker posted without ridicule but never extends the same dignity/honor to recipients of her venom. Her lack of character is only exceeded by her lack of manners. It is unfortunate that she obviously had little decent upbringing and that she was never taught the meaning of the words “dignity” and “honor”. Like It Really Is!

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:15 PM | Link to this

SS&S,

I gather that Midori joined the army to fight for the name-jackers right to name-jack.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:21 PM | Link to this

I scanned just a few of the “HUNDREDS” of letters that the NIVs were so smart to post on that VFW post. Golly, I only got through half a dozen of them to see that a lot of CANADIANS’ letters are included here.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:22 PM | Link to this

Wishin’ and hopin’,

I guess I should use Midori as my role model for etiquette.

Nah!

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:28 PM | Link to this

BTW - Wishin/Hopin,

I have been name-jacked hundreds of times, so I’m not too sure about all this repect that I’ve been shown.

Every time you post, you just prove to me that me instincts and intuition were correct when I reacted to your posting all that negative propaganda from The Valley of the Wolves.

You can complain indignantly all you want about what a meanie I am, but at the end of the day, I have a clean conscience.

Anybody who can’t get off the subject of Halliburton, and links to Cindy Sheehan, is in one camp, and only one camp, all pretenses of “objectivity” notwithstanding.

If you don’t like my style, let me use a little more French, just for you: TANT PIS.

By getalife

March 16, 2006 01:32 PM | Link to this

Looks like ” Operation yellow elephant” is here today.

By Like It Really Is

March 16, 2006 01:34 PM | Link to this

Danish- I suppose if Midori (or anyone else) jumped off a building you would jump too. Just because someone else does wrong, gives you no right to be just exactly like them unless, of course, you REALLY are just exactly like them! Like It Really Is! (Wishin’ & Hopin’ according to you)

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:34 PM | Link to this

Here’s just one brilliant post from the Cindy Sheehan connection. Is it just me, or does this letter sound like it was written by a 6 year old?:

August 31, 2005 Dear VAIW,

I am a Canadian citizen and all I want to say is thank you for your web site.

Up until now I was hating the American people for being so blind and scaring me that you’ve all gone crazy or have been brain washed.

When 911 happened I would have fought and died for you, the anger I had was boiling over, how dare they attack our best friends. But then came Iraq, how could you attack an innocent country? Why not someone deserving like North Korea or Iran?

You opened my eyes, I don’t hate Americans or America I hate your government and that I’m sure you’ll change in the next election.

God be with you and your loved ones.

Your Friend to the north

By Dusty

March 16, 2006 01:35 PM | Link to this

Daniel,

I realize that your workouts are more correctly called rehab. Please go.

As to Cindy Sheehan, her SON made the greatest sacrifice he could give for his country. She has used that sacrifice to dishonor the country. Pity is all that I have for her.

My father, husband and oldest son have all served in the military, including overseas duty for all. They received many military honors and left the service with honorable discharges. Is there anything else you want to know?

Go, Daniel, to your “workouts” and try hard to remember when you were patriotic and not afraid to honor this country.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:42 PM | Link to this

Here’s another letter from a NIV. Gosh, there must be some conspiracy going on!:

July 25, 2005 Dear VAIW,

I have noticed that when the media covers the death of a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan, the soldier’s friends and family seem to almost always say it was for a good cause and that we are needed over in those areas.

Almost never is heard a voice of dissent or outrage (granted there are exceptions but way too few).

Also, many soldiers returning to the States very frequently say that things are going quite well and the Iraqi/Afghani citizens are happy we are there.

I have heard that many soldiers and surviving families are told by the military to keep the war(s) in a favorable light or some benefits will be cut off. Has anyone heard of this going on?

Thank You.

Ganesh

By Dusty

March 16, 2006 01:44 PM | Link to this

Honest, Buy, Danish, I never get you confused with Midori. Just my wonderful insight I suppose.

By DCM

March 16, 2006 01:45 PM | Link to this

My God….what is going on in this country? Is this really the USA?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 01:46 PM | Link to this

Why would Dan Rather do such a thing? Partly because the stories of deranged, trip-wire vets is much more dramatic than the true story: That most Vietnam veterans came home to live normal, productive, happy lives. Second, Rather apparently wanted the story of whacked-out Vietnam veterans to be true — just as he now wants the Jerry Killian story to be true.

Or maybe — despite a preponderance of the evidence — he considered the sources of these tales of Vietnam atrocities “unimpeachable.” As angry Vietnam veterans began calling CBS to complain about the factual inaccuracies of The Wall Within, Perry Wolff, the executive producer who wrote the documentary, claimed that “No one has attacked us on the facts.” Despite the growing evidence that he’d been had, Rather also continued to defend the documentary — which is now part of CBS’s video history series on the Vietnam War.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:48 PM | Link to this

I’m posting stuff for you Wishin & Hopin’. Are you happy yet, or would you like me to continue?

I have a treasure trove to choose from.

By getalife

March 16, 2006 01:49 PM | Link to this

Y’all need to help your friend

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 01:49 PM | Link to this

One of the most ingrained stereotypes that plague the 3.3 million Americans who served in Vietnam is the tainted image of the Vietnam vet as scruffy, jobless, homeless, mentally unstable, addicted, suicidal, and stranded on the fringes of society. It is an image that has been reinforced by innumerable TV dramas, movies, and newscasts. It is also usually tied to stories about the horrors of war, atrocities, and other dark deeds that, allegedly, have caused these personal problems for the tragic vet.

The highly hyped 1988 CBS program, “The Wall Within,” purporting to tackle the issue of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is a perfect example of the lies and distortions about Vietnam that have been fed to three generations of Americans. The program profiled six pathetic victims who it claimed were “representative” of those who served in Vietnam. It claimed that the symptoms suffered by these men were shared by hundreds of thousands of other veterans. The Dan Rather “documentary” became part of the CBS video history series on Vietnam and is graced with a formal introduction by liberal-left one-worlder Walter Cronkite.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 01:50 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Phew! Only kidding. I think it must have something to do with style and content.

I’m having so much fun today. Thanks for joining me!

By getalife

March 16, 2006 01:52 PM | Link to this

Andy, she may be blonde but she is not dumb

D’oh!

By Like It Really Is

March 16, 2006 01:57 PM | Link to this

Please Danish, do continue. You’ll really enjoy the many letters from the families of American soldiers that were killed in action. You should have quite a blast making light of their sacrifices as well! Dusty, if you were ever any kind of soldier you would have respect for the sacrifices made by the familes of the dead, Sheehan or any other. Your dignity and honor are on a par with Danish’s, I see! Like It Really Is!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 01:57 PM | Link to this

March 16, 2006 Call for Censure Is Rallying Cry to Bush’s Base By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

WASHINGTON, March 15 — Republicans, worried that their conservative base lacks motivation to turn out for the fall elections, have found a new rallying cry in the dreams of liberals about censuring or impeaching President Bush.

The proposal this week by Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, to censure Mr. Bush over his domestic eavesdropping program cheered the left (moonbats). But it also dovetailed with conservatives’ plans to harness such attacks to their own ends.

Preciate it!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 02:00 PM | Link to this

getalife: “It just feels wrong,” one Simpson insider told Reuters on Wednesday, adding that the actress keeps her political views private. “She would love to meet the president and “talk” about Operation Smile … but she can’t do it at a fund-raiser for the Republican Party.”

She wants some private time (wink, wink) so she can “talk” with Bush.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this

Here’s another good one, which I’ll put in the “wee bit off predictions” category:

May 18, 2005 Dear VAIW,

Yes, Bring Home our Troops NOW!

This war simply can not be won. Billions more Arabs will pour over Iraq’s borders as their Iraqi “brothers” fall. Thank you for speaking out for you are the ones who can because you’ve fought in wars. Sarah

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 02:04 PM | Link to this

The letters that I have posted are from ordinary citizens like you, although some of them happen to be Canadian.

They just happen to be from the Cindy Sheehan Connection Website.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 02:06 PM | Link to this

Researcher Will Face Charges in Steele Case

By John Wagner Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 16, 2006; B04

Federal prosecutors have decided to bring charges against a Democratic researcher accused of fraudulently obtaining a credit report on Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, now a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.

Lauren B. Weiner, who has since resigned from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington, will be charged with obtaining the report without authorization, according to a letter sent to Steele by the U.S. attorney’s office in the District.

This is not proof of a crime nor is it an accusation that Mr. Weiner would be a criminal. He is fully due is constitutional right to a trial by a jury of his peers and the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven. This post is simply to point out that there sure are an awful lot of democrats getting brought up on charges of wrongdoing lately.

By Brian Curtis

March 16, 2006 02:08 PM | Link to this

So Cindy has “dishonored the country” now? How, exactly—by daring to disagree with Traitor Bush and his agenda? By speaking out against the unnecessary, illegal war that killed her son? By trying to spare other military families from experiencing the same senseless loss that she went through? By speaking about what she believes (as every good American always does)?

In what twisted neocon/fascist fantasy world is ANY of this “dishonoring the country”?

Bush isn’t America, folks, and his war isn’t the highest and noblest endeavor we’ve ever engaged in. Pointing out these simple facts is hardly treasonous—it’s a public service.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 02:09 PM | Link to this

Here’s one from Scotland! This one qualifies for both the “wee bit off” category and the “kook conspiracy” category:

May 11, 2005 Dear VAIW,

Hello. I live in the UK, Scotland Glasgow, where a lot of the British soldiers hail from. Just like America, we too have to endure our boys coming home in body bags, disfigured mentally and physically, and for what?

This is not a war against rogue states who threaten the world as a whole. if it was why aren’t we taking on Borth Korea, Zimbabwe, Yemen? These countries are a danger to the world in one way or another but we don’t attack them. Why? Because this is a war for oil and revenge. Saddam will never make it to trial. The United Kingdom and the United States amongst others can’t and won’t allow this to happen. Too many secrets that can’t be spoken We the British people as a whole are opposed to this illegal war. We the people of Earth are losing our youngest and brightest on both sides. I’m not naive, just heart sick of war.

I hope the powers that be listen to you and your site, but that is being naive. You as vets have seen the horrors of war. Maybe it’s time the politicians saw it first hand and not from their country clubs. Peace and unity, DES MacPHERSON

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this

LS&L,

I posted that Steele/Weiner story bright and early this morning. I wanted Kimberly’s opinion on whether or not using someone’s credit card files met the standard for “personal attack”.

I didn’t mention a thing about guilt or innocence either.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 02:18 PM | Link to this

Okay, I have to run and won’t be back until later tonight.

Thanks for sharing that VAIW website! I hope you all enjoyed the letters that I posted for you.

Have a nice day.

By Like It Really Is

March 16, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this

Looks like Danish hates those foreigners, even if they are soldiers of our allied powers who have fought and died alongside our own. How very nice that she demonstrates so eloquently exactly what kind of respect she and her mentors at the Whitehouse REALLY have for American and allied soldiers. Like It Really Is!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this

Like It Really Is: You “support” those same troops by calling for the abandonment of their mission and of the lives laid down for the freedom of the Iraqi people. With the “love” you show them, they probably welcome the “hate” of Buy Danish’s posts.

By Dusty

March 16, 2006 02:31 PM | Link to this

Brian Curtis,

May I HONOR you by calling you a traitor, an anti-war protestor during war time, a non-elected loser, a supporter of terrorists, a contributor to pro-communist dictators such as Castro and would-be Chavez, and a general parasite on our democratic government?

You don’t mind, do you? Just my right to speak out about what I don’t like. You know, kinda the way Cindy Sheehan “honors”America.

Please, no quotes from Thomas Jefferson. He loved and helped build this country. You fail in those respects.

By getalife

March 16, 2006 02:32 PM | Link to this

Andy,

In his dreams, but here is a better picture

More from Kos:

*FEINGOLD: It seems to me appropriate, when the spin machines are out there and people are using various language, to come out and reiterate my reasons for doing this. I think that the press decided immediately that somehow this was a bad thing for Democrats and a good thing for conservatives. The facts don’t bear it out. You don’t have the polls to prove it. The way my colleagues are responding to me suggests to me they’re thinking about this, that they feel that there has to be some accountability. So the instant decision about what the story is, actually, I think is going to backfire on those who made up the story. I don’t get the feeling that I had on Monday about this — yes, people were concerned — I’m not getting that. And if the right wing really believes in this country that — Rush Limbaugh and others — that they can somehow turn the president’s reputation around by saying, “You’re darn right he violated the law, and it’s a good thing,” I think they’re just as confused as they are about their Iraq politics. People aren’t buying it anymore. So not only do I not regret it, I felt an absolute obligation to do it.

Rush must have been rushing on them oxys. Remember Tom DeLay halting the censure for Clinton to proceed with the impeachment?

By Brian Curtis

March 16, 2006 02:44 PM | Link to this

BD, you can make those comments as much as you please—many do. This IS America, after all.

Of course, it’s not very productive to make them about me, since I’m not (ostensibly) running the country. Criticizing the actions of government is a far more valuable action from private citizens like you, me, and Cindy Sheehan.

And where do you get the silly notion that criticizing Bush has anything to do with loving, or not loving, America? I see it as quite the reverse; if you’re still a Bush supporter after all his crimes, YOUR patriotism, not mine, could be in question. Bush supporters sure don’t seem to have much regard for the Constitution, for example.

As a liberal, I love my country enough to recognize its flaws and work to correct them. You apparently love it enough to pretend those flaws don’t exist. Which attitude is more productive in the long run?

By Dusty

March 16, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

Better stick with the blonds. Feingold is a liberal loser trying to score points. Didn’t make it. Neither did Boxer. Didn’t your mother tell you not to get in with a “bad crowd”?

By Brian Curtis

March 16, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this

Sorry, that should have been to Dusty, not BD.

And Dusty: Again you’re confusing “honoring America” with criticizing Bush. Bush is NOT the same thing as America—in fact, he’s arguably the opposite.

By Like It Really Is

March 16, 2006 02:47 PM | Link to this

LS&L- I thank you for your demonstration of civility and respect for a differing opinion. Unlike Danish, who I perceive as simply self-serving and politically motivated, you do often back up your posts with data and I respect your opinion that people like me are unpatriotic. I can only answer that during the 4 years of my own service enlistment I was surely glad that there was someone other than the “politicians” back home looking after my welfare. The veteran dissidents were our only friends it seemed. Neither political party ever gives much of a hoot about the dog-face, I’m sure you know.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 02:55 PM | Link to this

getalife: Thanks for the deep belly laugh-

Third Democratic senator backs censure resolution

That’s 3 out of 100. 97 are not in favor.

That isn’t what I was laughing about, though. I can’t believe someone would take the daily kos seriously, that just blows my mind. Where do you kooks keep coming up with these conspiracy theories? Is there some moonbat factory hidden deep in the ground?

By George

March 16, 2006 02:59 PM | Link to this

Bush Approval Falls to 33%, Congress Earns Rare Praise Dubai Ports Fallout

Summary of Findings

In the aftermath of the Dubai ports deal, President Bush’s approval rating has hit a new low and his image for honesty and effectiveness has been damaged. Yet the public uncharacteristically has good things to say about the role that Congress played in this high-profile Washington controversy.

Most Americans (58%) believe Congress acted appropriately in strenuously opposing the deal, while just 24% say lawmakers made too much of the situation. While there is broad support for the way Congress handled the dispute, more Americans think Democratic leaders showed good judgment on the ports issue than say the same about GOP leaders by 30%-20%.

By Dusty

March 16, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this

Brian Curtis, just in case you are trying to tell me (not BD) something, would you first tell me what CRIMES our president has committed? What Convictions?

Why do you think FALSE accusations help the country or anybody else for that matter?

Our president has pulled us through some hard times from outside influences. Nobody said it was perfect. But we are safe and sound from terrorist attacks so far. He is trying to keep it that way.

You seem to have a personal agenda that does not include what is commonly recognized as patriotism. The President and Attorney General Gonzalez know more about the Constitution than you do. Guess you don’t want to recognize that fact.

It is almost 3 o’clock. I must say goodbye for now.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 03:03 PM | Link to this

Like It Really Is: I never asked for help, I knew what I volunteered for and was a man about it. I did it to protect our country not selfishly bleed it to death.

By Souldrift

March 16, 2006 03:07 PM | Link to this

LSAL - You don’t know they’re false, as the Bush admin squashes investigation and just tells you their programs are legal. Not good enough for me.

Blog and Tan

By finch

March 16, 2006 03:08 PM | Link to this

“I had at least a tiny bit of respect for f’k-face finch, not anymore.”

That is a stunning admission, Suck! I’m humbled! I eagerly await the return of all the other adjectives (oddball, gay, ho-mo) that you’ve used in place of rational arguments in your love-posts to me…

Don’t get smart, now! Stay just the way you are.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 03:11 PM | Link to this

Famous pinko saying, from way, way back, (just as a reminder!):

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

By getalife

March 16, 2006 03:12 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

She did but I did not listen.

Andy,

I do not take anything seriously. I try to find the humor in the madness. I am glad I got you to lighten up. The dems are thinking about it.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 03:17 PM | Link to this

Souldrift: What are you talking about?

finch: When buff was being mocked with his deceased father did you giggle right along with it? Did you think that was really neat?

By getalife

March 16, 2006 03:26 PM | Link to this

Souldrift,

Nice blog. “LSAL” is better known as “Andy”. For kicks Andy, tell him why you are here every day.

By eric deming

March 16, 2006 03:26 PM | Link to this

LSD / Andy - SHUT UP ABOUT BUFF! And you and your nobility, weren’t you the one talking about raping someone’s daughter who has MS, just a few weeks back? Hypocrite! Stop using his dad’s death, to make yourself feel like a better man.

By finch

March 16, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this

Here’s a shocker!

“Eighty-nine percent of those polled said oil companies deserve a great deal or some of the blame for current energy problems, compared to 81 percent who felt that way about Bush.”

May I please be allowed to slap all the Americans who think “energy problems” are due solely to Bush and Big Oil??

The energy problems are primarily due to the American people, who have been told by every President since Gerald Ford that we have a “problem”, and have done next to nothing about it. Unless you count “continuing to consume mass quantities” as doing something.

And, no. Dribbles of oil from ANWR and squirts of LNG piped from the Gulf coast or Savannah ain’t gonna solve the “problem”. You can’t cure cancer with a band-aid.

By Souldrift

March 16, 2006 03:35 PM | Link to this

LSAL, sorry - that was Dusty, I read down rather than Up. My error.

By getalife

March 16, 2006 03:42 PM | Link to this

finch,

I live down here in sugar cane country and am looking into this.

By Midori

March 16, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this

I’d like to dedicate this snippet to Dusty:

Dear 33%

I feel for you. I really do. I feel for anyone suffering from severe mental illness.

Now, now. Don’t get testy. I don’t mean it as snark. I mean it as fact. You truly are suffering from a mental illness — post-traumatic stress disorder. Yes, the same disorder our soldiers get in the field. Somehow you got it on 9/11.

I never realized how terrified that day made you, 33%. Yes, it was a horrible, scary day. I remember. But obviously much more frightening for you than for me. It scared you so much, your mind simply gave up rationality. We 67%ers know — we’ve listened to you. We’ve listened to you in one breath say that Saddam was a butcher and that this is a war to save innocent lives, and then just a few seconds later say Islam is inherently violent and all Muslims need to be targeted, surveilled, and destroyed. We’ve listened with pity as you described in ever more complete detail the architecture of your delusion, the monsters you fear will kill you. You tell us we have to fight them over there, so we don’t have to fight them over here, but then you tell us we must surrender all our rights because we are surrounded by your demons.

These are not the workings of a rational mind. Can you see that?

33%, you are sick. You need help.

You need treatment. A good liberal psychologist could help you work through your PTSD. Failing that, a good liberal friend. If you can’t find treatment on your own, let us know. Just ask 3 people for help — we’ll be two of them.

Love and hope for your recovery, 67%

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 03:48 PM | Link to this

eric deming: weren’t you the one talking about raping someone’s daughter who has MS- I said I would like to meet his daughter, a-sshole, and I did apologized for it. F’ck you too.

By finch

March 16, 2006 03:51 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Why not? At the rate oil prices are going up, ethanol from cane sugar, corn, sawgrass, old socks, whatever will be relatively cheap!

By Brian Curtis

March 16, 2006 03:56 PM | Link to this

Midori: Good stuff! Yes, we should pity the fearful few rather than just ranting at them.

Thankfully, more Americans are sick of the fear and hatred, and are rejoining us back in reality… where the President is not above the law, and where war and Constitution are NOT the only way to protect our nation (or even the best way).

By finch

March 16, 2006 03:56 PM | Link to this

Suck (and you really do… )

If you read the tribute to buff’s dad on getalife’s blog, lifted from this very website, you’ll see my kind words about him, along with a suggestion to buff that he go away.

So go F’ck yourself.

By eric deming

March 16, 2006 03:57 PM | Link to this

LSD / Andy - It’s archived dumba.ss

By N-GA

February 18, 2006 09:16 PM | Link to this

BTW, My daughter has Multiple Sclerosis. She is 37 years old, and her insurance plan is private (through a small privately-held company). The insurance company has tried every year to look for a way to cancel her policy. If they ever succeed, no one else will insure her…

He called you a “bed-wetter” and you:

By Andy

February 18, 2006 10:24 PM | Link to this

I’ll come by to help your daughter later, Sissy, after you fallen into a drunken stupor. She needs a real man, anyway.

So why dont you shut up.

By SS&S

March 16, 2006 03:57 PM | Link to this

Midori - I really don’t want to have to go back and pull up “several” days of your posts which clearly displayed your mental imbalance.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA DO YOU WANT MORE…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH TIRED YET…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You are an authority on mental illness because you define the word.

By eric deming

March 16, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this

Back to the NCAA’s!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 04:23 PM | Link to this

eric deming: You’re right duma-ss, I was wrong about saying I would like to meet her. I said I would help her, I stand corrected, I still don’t see the words “rape” anywhere, dic-khead.

finch: You are defending the people that mocked buff, you are too stupid to understand that, you are pitiful, without hope.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this

Let me help all of the mentally handicapped among us understand something:

*By finch

March 15, 2006 09:12 PM

Q: What do Suck and Bill O’Reilly have in common?

A: They both think they can use threats of attorneys and police to intimidate people who have the gall to call them idiots.

It isn’t about me, it has never been about me.

This is about honoring the dead, this is about making it clear to the Pieces Of S-hit in here that conduct like that will not be acceptable. I was sticking up for a friend and the loss that they have suffered.

What finch, little piece of s-hit, is trying to do is make it about me, so that he can cover up for the big Piece Of Sh-it.

Understand something here: The POS that do these kind of things are the same people that will cut into a funeral procession with their car, they will throw their trash out in the cemetery, they will ignore the stop sign on a school bus, they will push the elderly out of their way.

If you want to get on me because I have a problem with the POS, what does that make you?

By clark

March 16, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this

Suck&lies- It’s your ‘side’ who are the ones protesting at soldiers funerals, not the POS liberals.

By nucular

March 16, 2006 04:59 PM | Link to this

I’ve got an idea! Let’s send some more troops to Iraq! Declare a new “operation.” That always ups my image with the pretend patriots of which I r one. I need ta up my approval points too. Mocracy & Freedom r on thee march again! God bless you, mah fellow-Mercuns.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this

DAD: JESSICA (Simpson) ‘LOVES THE HECK OUT OF’ BUSH…

By JJG

March 16, 2006 05:09 PM | Link to this

More rocket science from BD: If necessary, is it easier to launch an invasion of Iran from right next door or not? Whadda think? I have no degree in military strategy, but something tells me that we’re in a good position to move expeditiously, and have better access to ground level intelligence. Tell me again how dumb Bush is. OK, you asked for it; Bush and you are both major-league dumb ases! You sound like a kid playing war-games! Obviously, you’ve never served in the US Armed Forces, or you’d realize this ain’t no f*king game! Idiots like your gutless commander-in-chump get thousands of people killed NEEDLESSLY because he doesn’t know much about military strategy either. He wouldn’t know real intelligence, if it hit him in the face with a mortar.

By Thomas

March 16, 2006 05:26 PM | Link to this

Dusty? == Are your really safe because of Bush? Are the terrorist truly gone? Was Bush the savior that made everything alright? personally I think we are quite due for another attack, but I refuse to live in fear of it. Not only is Bush a ChickenHawk, but he is also a Chicken Little yelling the sky is falling the sky terrorist are coming….

After 9/11 I think every american (even the liberals) sought answers to stop the Taliban insanity. Heck as a die hard Dem’ myself I knew the Taliban needed to be stopped when they started destroying ancient historical and religeous artifacts and the famous giant statues of Afghanistan. The Taliban is definity a fanatical insanity in my book.

The Constitution is the foundation of everything we hold dear in the USA, including it’s checks and balances to keep us working together despite our most extreme differences. It is not something you use as a rulebook or to go by to justify the letter of the laws in it’s wording. You must also respect it’s overall intent as well and what those words encompass as a whole document for a free people that controls the government and not the government controlling them.

Actually the President and his minions are changing and perverting the constitution to say ‘whatever they want it to say’ so they can continue their agenda without opposition or debate or oversight for that matter. At no time has he abided by the spirit of the constitution that states that “He The President” is suppose to represent all of the american people (that means liberals too). He only uses the constitution when it suits his PR machine to control the media and now all three branches of government. The whole war IS about money and Oil and thats why we are in Iraq and not some pitiful african country fighting dictators far worse than Saddam. If you follow the paper trail even a die hard Bushinite can see that is the real reason for Iraq, but they are blind to it as they raise their glorious Hitler on high. But since Bush is their Holy GOD now and Jesus is just a catchprase to use. (There’s no need to remember the liberal pacifist rhetoric that he taught, and his speaking of peace and love thy enemy, Just use his name when you want media attention).

I would say Bush is the true traitor as he weakens our economy into record breaking deficits and weakening our national defense in order to fuel his family controlled (conflict of interest) companies like Haliburton for personal gain with the cost of blood of our troops. He brings us Hitlerian propaganda, censorship, and population restrictions and controls (payperz Pleaze?). Good ol’ citizen tracking and eavesdropping all justified in the name of (ahem) protecting us!

But I’m not worried — (Just yet) — as like any rampant disregard to common reason like this tends to balance out anyway. We will soon run out of money to continue this war machine insanity. As it rolls carelessly along un-checked there will be a breaking point when even the most die hard bushinite will say Uh Oh? What do we do now?…. And then common sense will hopefully rise, or the insanity will take us into such a depraved nation that the constitution itself will be destroyed in the process. And if that happens then I truly say, May God save us all,,,!

If your truly a conservative.. then it’s time to be fiscally and morally responsible!.. Or the term conservative is just another media catchphrase that means nothing.

By I Know Andy

March 16, 2006 05:30 PM | Link to this

By Andy

February 18, 2006 10:24 PM | Link to this

I’ll come by to help your daughter later, Sissy, after you fallen into a drunken stupor. She needs a real man, anyway.

Andy, you’re gay. You can only help another man. By the way folks. Andy is the reciever.

By JJG

March 16, 2006 05:42 PM | Link to this

Yet more critical analysis skills from the far, far right: You’re the same useful idiot that would have been all freaked out over the 80,000 soldiers that were killed in the Battle of the Bulge Firstly, you’re a gutless coward to use their valiant deaths to make your stupid point. Anyone whose father had been killed in Belgium and read what you wrote, would probably love to find you and kick your sorry butt. Secondly, what a stupid comparison! My goodness, son, it is absolutely amazing that you apparently really believe that this fiasco-laden mess is somehow comparable to WWII?! Get this through your thick head, once and for all, and try to lose your ridiculous, romantic notions about King George saving the world.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 05:54 PM | Link to this

What’s a reciever? How would they know?

By Semper FI

March 16, 2006 06:11 PM | Link to this

Andy, I haven’t posted much lately and have only skimmed over the posts, but you have been doing a fine job fighting idiot liberals. Can’t believe you even read posts from Finch. I just skip over his and some others. Anyone one that thinks the ACLU is about protecting civil liberties is not worth listtening to. You’re the kind of ground pounder I would want in my squad.

Everyone, isn’t Bush doing a fine job? You got to love the guy.

By Liberals Suck and Lie

March 16, 2006 06:11 PM | Link to this

I know Andy,

Oh, you mean when I received those mens’ sexual organs in my digestive tract? Yes, yes that was me and I enjoyed it very much, you POS liberal.

By Liberals Suck and Lie

March 16, 2006 06:12 PM | Link to this

That comment at 5:54 was not me you POS liberals.

By JJG

March 16, 2006 06:15 PM | Link to this

Yet more malapropisms from the brainiac gang: Luckovich, leader of the anti-American Americans Somehow, it’s not terribly comforting to know that you reactionaries have the monopoly on patriotism. You truly have no credibility when you live in your little dream world, where you’re the only good guys left. This is going to be hard for you to grasp, so read slowly and carefully; real men and real patriots are not afraid of self-righteous mobs. They certainly are not ashamed of petitioning their government to do what they believe is moral and right. Yes, you would love to silence them and yes, you would love to eliminate them all but, guess what? YOU NEVER WILL! A couple of points for your elucidation: Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any public official… ~ Theodore Roosevelt We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. ~Edward R. Murrow

By Semper Fi

March 16, 2006 06:20 PM | Link to this

Andy,

I said, are you listtening to me? While we’re on the subject of recieving and pounding, I would like to ask you to be on my personal squad, just you and me pounding and pounding, rolling on the ground. Let me know. I’m off to read my soldier of fortune magazine and practice with my chinese throwing stars.

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 06:24 PM | Link to this

8 Trillion in debt. 6 Bilion a month in Iraq, 2 Billion borrowed daily from China, Bush has the economy on steriods. Suckers support Bush. “Troglodytes, morons and monkeys”. The Cato Institute has it right: “Inept, incompetent, vindictive and unconscionable”

By Bill O'Reilly

March 16, 2006 06:29 PM | Link to this

LS&L and Semper Fi,

Guys, you are real Americans! Never question the president, because trying to improve your country by attempting to keep people from screwing it up worse is unpatriotic. The mounds and mounds of evidence that support the fact that GW has made mistake after mistake and has been nothing but a failure are all part of politically motivated liberal stunts! Evidence is for sissies! Keep up the good work, fellas, and Semper, you keep pounding Andy’s digestive tract!

By DavidU

March 16, 2006 06:32 PM | Link to this

The U.S. Congress approved a $781 billion increase in the federal government’s debt limit, the fourth time lawmakers have raised the cap since President George W. Bush took office.

You have to love those conservative values, such as fiscal responsibility and small government. LOL

By Scooter

March 16, 2006 06:34 PM | Link to this

“The introduction of the Oil-For-Food program (OFF) in late 1996 was a key turning point for the Regime. OFF rescued Baghdad’s economy from a terminal decline created by sanctions. The Regime quickly came to see that OFF could be corrupted to acquire foreign exchange both to further undermine sanctions and to provide the means to enhance dual-use infrastructure and potential WMD-related development.”

By 2000-2001, Saddam had managed to mitigate many of the effects of sanctions and undermine their international support. Iraq was within striking distance of a de facto end to the sanctions regime, both in terms of oil exports and the trade embargo, by the end of 1999.

Yeah buddy, we should have left the UN in charge of handling Saddam. They had done such a bang up job over 13 years. Gotta love the UN. An organization where one of four major nations can veto the self defense of another nation. All hail the UN while we bury our heads in the sand… no worries the UN has our back?

By DavidU

March 16, 2006 06:36 PM | Link to this

The U.S. Congress approved a $781 billion increase in the federal government’s debt limit, the fourth time lawmakers have raised the cap since President George W. Bush took office.

You have to love those conservative values, such as fiscal responsibility and small government. LOL

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 06:40 PM | Link to this

Scooter: Snap out of it! You’re paying for health insurance for the Iraqi’s and don’t have any here in the good old US of A! You fund their fire dept., police, admin offices and garbage pick-up. The Bush crowd lost 7.8 Billion. Lost, man! Gone! I mean like, outta here. This was dough in 100 dollar bills on palletts. No body gives a flying f*ck about the UN. These bozo’s can’t clean up after Katrina and you’re whining about the UN.

By Scooter

March 16, 2006 06:44 PM | Link to this

I don’t call GW a conservative. he is a republicrat and I tell them that every time they call wanting money.

By Scooter

March 16, 2006 06:45 PM | Link to this

Yeah buddy, we obviously should have stepped in to deal with Saddam. I don’t know what we would have done right now if all those terrorists never filtered into Iraq, or if thousands of Iraqis had never turned into terrorists. We would probably be doing something meaningless, like actually tracking down Bin Laden. And what would we have done with all those extra billions of dollars we spent there? It had to go somewhere. We might as well send it to the middle east and/or Halitburton. How can you not see this whole thing was a great idea?

By Scooter

March 16, 2006 06:54 PM | Link to this

Cowardly jacker! Pecker weed

By Scooter

March 16, 2006 06:57 PM | Link to this

This little pecker weed jacker seems to think that we should have sent out military into the mountains of Afghanistan to look for UBL. I seem to remember that the Russians got pummeled in those mountains, but pecker weed knows it would have been better to turn UBL into a martyr.

By UNC-CH1795

March 16, 2006 07:01 PM | Link to this

All of Bush’s popularity problems are of his own making. Hindsight is 20/20 but looking back, Bush & Company should have just conducted a brief blanket bombing campaign by air instead of putting ground troops in Iraq. That way he would have eliminated any supposed immediate threat that Saddam Hussein posed and probably gotten at least a little more cooperation from the Baghdad Butcher on security and diplomacy matters instead of trying to have American troops run that animal house of a country.

Without that mess in Iraq and a better staff of White House aides, Bush could have probably gone down as one of the best, probably Top-five, Presidents in the history of the country. With the mess in Iraq looking like it’s threatening to turn into a civil war and an even more extensive training ground for Islamic terrorists from all walks of life in the Muslim world and an American media, liberal bias or not, that feels like its been ever-increasingly alienated by the White House since the lack of Weapons of Mass Destruction, just for starters, it’s unfortunately starting to look like Bush may go down as one of the worst Presidents in U.S. history.

If Bush stays on his current course of governance (Iraq mess, Katrina mess, Harriet Miers mess, Dubai ports mess, bloated budget deficits, bloated trade deficits, sky-high heating fuel costs, sky-high health care costs and hell, just too much to name) his legacy could be remembered as being one of the absolute worst Presidents of all time, probably BOTTOM THREE and the way things are spiraling out of control for him right now, that’s probably being optimistic.

BEWARE OF THE IDES OF MARCH! WARNING: If this sourness on the administration carries over into the November elections and the Republicans lose control of the House and the Senate and if the recent attempt at Censure is any indication, have no doubt that the Democrats will take their newly-elected majority in Congress and make it their absolute first order of business to try and impeach President Bush. Iraq is still perceived as being an absolute mess, Bush could have so little public support that he won’t be able to fight it off in the court of public opinion. W better make some changes for the better and fast or it looks like he’s gonna follow the same path as Richard Nixon (resigned with the threat of impeachment), Andrew Johnson (became a joke as President and was impeached in the post-Civil War period) and Lyndon Johnson (didn’t have enough support to run in ‘68, sullied his legacy by getting the U.S. Military knee-deep into the Vietnam quagmire). Maybe he can still savage part of his legacy so that he goes down in history like a Truman (considered be one of the Top-10 or 15 Presidents of all time, didn’t have enough support to run in the 1952 Election, dropped out because of sagging popularity because of rampant Washington corruption in his administration and because the Korean War wasn’t going very successfully at the time, most of the newspapers in his last year-and-a-half in office had front page headlines that read “THE MESS IN WASHINGTON”).

At this point in his Presidency, it isn’t about ideology or partisanship but about his legacy. How will the history books look back and view Bush’s time in office? How will his administration and leadership be viewed by future generations? What will be the historical legacy of President George W. Bush? I sure do hope that he’s seriously thinking about that because he’s staked his entire Presidency and historical legacy on how Iraq goes and right now, it doesn’t look like he has much, if any, control over how that turns out in history.

By Daniel

March 16, 2006 07:04 PM | Link to this

Scooter, Scootster: Think of our government like “Bonds or McGuire on Steroids”. Thses cheats stole from our children. Future generations of Americans will strive for the Mcguire and Bonds records. But, they will fall short. Beacuse they won’t cheat. So too, Bush is stealing from our children. Can we borrow and spend forever? Or, do we tolerate gross excess only when republicans are in power?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

March 16, 2006 07:08 PM | Link to this

Hi Midori, 6:20, et al: How are all of you doing?

By Scooter

March 16, 2006 07:17 PM | Link to this

Daniel, I heard that noise about Reagan’s defecits and how my kids were going to pay for it. Guess what all it took was a dot com boom and the replacement of the Glass Steagley Act so that major financial institutions (citigroup) to perform risk assesment, lending and brokerage.. A virtual one stop shopping.

Of course it also took cuts to the intelligence agencies, after 1993 WTC atack, and some tax increases and a looming recession. But hey blame the recession on Bush, we all know the massive US economy can turn on the head of a pin.

Yep that Glass Steagley Act was enacted after the Great Deppression, but Greenspan, and Robert Rueben didn’t see it as neceassary any longer.

And Daniel, I accept it when the republicrat is the only candidate that seems to be interested in protecting America with force, not negotiation and appeasement.

New toon’s up and I’m out.

By Susan

March 16, 2006 07:19 PM | Link to this

I keep reading snippets about someone using Buff’s deceased father’s name somehow. Would someone explain or say which date it was on. Thanks

By Semper FI

March 16, 2006 07:21 PM | Link to this

How Enron ‘Worked’ The President >

This is an interesting bit of information that you don’t hear much about.

A… Enron’s chairman did meet with the president and the vice president in the Oval Office.

B.. Enron gave $420,000 to the president’s party over three years.

C.. It donated $100,000 to the president’s inauguration festivities.

D.. The Enron chairman stayed at the White House 11 times.

E.. The corporation had access to the administration at its highest level and even enlisted the Commerce and State Departments to grease deals for it.

F.. The taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank subsidized Enron for more than $600 million in just one transaction. Scandalous!!

G.. BUT…the president under whom all this happened WASN’T George W. Bush.

SURPRISE ……… It was Bill Clinton!!

By DavidU

March 16, 2006 07:29 PM | Link to this

The U.S. military and Iraqi forces launched the largest helicopter assault in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion in a bid to root out insurgents hiding around Samarra….Operation Swarmer began early today with more than 1,500 U.S. and Iraqi troops, about 200 tactical vehicles and more than 50 helicopters, the U.S. military said in a statement e-mailed from Baghdad. Samarra is about 80 miles (125 kilometers) north of Baghdad on the Tigris River.

Shock and Awe part Duce? Sequels never produce the same results as the original version. By the way, I thought the situation in Iraq was ‘peachy’, guess that was just political spin.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 08:47 PM | Link to this

SUSAN,

You asked about the sick person who blogged using Buff’s dad (NeoReo’s)name? Here it is:

By NeoReo

March 10, 2006 06:42 PM |

Hi Buff, how’s things?

And only minutes later someone (the 6:42 poster?) hijacked my name and delivered this vile this message:

By Buy Danish March 10, 2006 07:05 PM | Link to this

Okay, I’ll confess. I am Ralph and NeoReo. Tonight I’m on nobody’s team. But thank you anyway RW. At least I’m getting under someone’s skin.

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 09:00 PM | Link to this

DavidU,

Come on. Nobody ever said it was “peachy”. It’s going to be a long, hard slog - remember?

By Buy Danish

March 16, 2006 09:07 PM | Link to this

your gutless commander-in-chump get thousands of people killed NEEDLESSLY because he doesn’t know much about military strategy either. He wouldn’t know real intelligence, if it hit him in the face with a mortar.

LLG,

Why are you so unglued, dude? The “needlessly” part is your opinion, and that “intelligence” was inherited from the Clinton Administration. BTW, He didn’t serve either.

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