Mike Luckovich

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

Mr. Reid, for example, accused Mr. Rumsfeld of “lashing out at political enemies” in his speech, while the Los Angeles Times editorialized that Mr. Rumsfeld’s criticism of a “Blame America First” mindset was a “canard.” But the truth is that Mr. Rumsfeld never mentioned the Democrats in his speech.-WashingtonTimes

If the shoe fits, wear it, huh, democrats?

Y’all were awful quick attaching that label to yourselves.

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The Israelis may feel the effects of this propaganda war more intently — because they are closer to the problem — at least for now. But Rumsfeld’s assessment is a dire warning to all of us: “The enemy is so much better at communicating. I wish we were better at countering that because the constant drumbeat of things they say — all of which are not true — is harmful. It’s cumulative. It weakens people’s will and lessens their determination, and raises questions in their minds as to whether the cost is worth it.”-TownHall

Hey! That’s the same strategy as the drive by media. They’re on the same page as Al Qaeda.

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The article of next month:

Besides, the Bush-bashers have lost credibility. The most delicious example came this week when it was finally revealed that Colin Powell’s oak-necked majordomo Richard Armitage - and not some star-chamber neocon - “outed” Valerie Plame, the spousal prop of Washington’s biggest ham, Joe Wilson. Now it turns out that instead of “Bush blows CIA agent’s cover to silence a brave dissenter” - as Wilson practices saying into the mirror every morning - the story is, “One Bush enemy inadvertently taken out by another’s friendly fire.”-TownHall

Same article, slightly different topic:

The Mississippi coast was hit harder by Katrina than New Orleans was. And although New Orleans’ levee failure was a unique problem - one the local leadership ignored for decades - the devastation in Mississippi was in many respects more se

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

Me and Kathleen Parker, heh, go figure:

What’s perfectly clear is that video is the new weapon of mass destruction. A billion people manipulated into religious frenzy is a formidable force. It is also clear that the West’s continued existence — at least from the perspective of Islamist militants — depends upon our willingness to bow to Islam. Let me be clear: I don’t think they were cowards. But those who are willing to strap explosives to their bodies — or enlist their children to become suicide bombers — surely see them, and us, that way. It is easy to imagine that rancorous Muslims are as attuned to the video as we are, watching replay after replay in the smug satisfaction that they have scored another victory against the infidel and the Great Satan. Those few minutes of choreographed horror affirm for the Islamic world that Westerners are weak, while they reiterate the jihadist’s message to the West. Convert to Islam — or die.-RealClearPolitics

It would have been the ultimate act to have resisted that video, I agree. But 2750 soldiers have sacrificed themselves in the ultimate act, unquestioning, duty bound, to protect us.

And we honor their sacrifice and their memory by scampering off to safety at the first sign of danger.

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So, what if Messrs. Centanni and Wiig “revert” to their non-Muslim identities? Would such “apostasy” sentence them to death? (Leaving Islam is a capital crime under Islamic law.) Shocking thought. Of course, there’s something even more shocking to the story than the religious charade itself…. Who or what is served by shutting up? Only forces of coercion — a word which, after all, implies the nullification of individual will. Which means this is one case where silence isn’t golden and ignorance isn’t bliss. They are dangerous and dumb.-WashingtonTimes

By THOMAS JEFFERSON

September 1, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

I said it before, and I’ll say it again…. “DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM”

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 08:04 AM | Link to this

The Lebanese know that Israel bombed easy-to-repair airport runways when it could have destroyed the new airport terminal and set Lebanon back 10 years. The Lebanese know that Israel attacked the Hezbollah TV towers when it could have pulverized Beirut’s power grid, a billion-dollar reconstruction. The Lebanese know that next time Israel’s leadership will hardly be as hesitant and restrained. Hezbollah dares not risk that next time.RealClearPolitics

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Such talk is off limits because it offends the appeasers, who, by the way, deny they’re appeasers, insisting they’re “tough and smart” scavengers on the hunt for the only terrorist on the planet, Osama bin Laden. His capture or death, they imply, will shut down terrorism in its tracks like a redheaded stepchild and put an end to this reckless, recreational neoconservative global gallivanting.-TownHall

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There have been quite a few “never mind” media opportunites during the Bush years. They range in significance from such incorrect stories as that of the plastic Thanksgiving turkey in Baghdad, to stories such as those of widespread rape and murder in the Superdome following Hurricane Katrina. Actually we have not gotten a “never mind” out of the mainstream media yet in the case of Valerie Plame. The mainstream media will probably never tell the true story behind Joe’s grand frog marching fantasy. It is an incredible story really — amazing that so many in the media regurgitated Wilson’s conspiracy theories as if they were fact.

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If I remember, I will try to offer an alternative political cartoon everyday, one that doesn’t suck:

Fooled Again-EricAllie

By Galileo

September 1, 2006 08:06 AM | Link to this

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has untended us to forego their use”

By Ken Mehlman loves Andie

September 1, 2006 08:10 AM | Link to this

And Andie loves Ken Mehlman!

Kisses, little buddy.

Love, Ken

By Teddy Roosevelt

September 1, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this

“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole.”

By Andie, You're a Fine Girl

September 1, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this

and I love playing the sailor with you.

Love,

John Mark

By WWJD (What Would Jenna Drink)

September 1, 2006 08:13 AM | Link to this

I don’t get it.

By w00t

September 1, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

Andy, do you really think anyone reads that crap? Why even spam the blog with it?

Hypocrite

By George

September 1, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

Sorry Galileo, people like Andy are part of the sheeple mass and Sheeples just expect you to be one to. Just believe like he does and you won’t get hurt.

By candide

September 1, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

Ken Mehlman is one of the more obnoxious of a very obnoxious group: the neocon Zionists.

By candide

September 1, 2006 08:19 AM | Link to this

As a Bush Jenna would drink anything but a broccoli shake.

The reason Bush 41 hated broccoli is that he came from a background where healthful living and eating were stressed. He rebelled against this. His son Dubya rebelled even more — against reason and common sense.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 08:25 AM | Link to this

Not T.R.,

You may disagree with Bush on “the issues” but there is no way in hell that you can point to bad conduct, or question his loyalty to this country and it’s citizens.

Bad conduct would be going to Argentina to smooch with Chavez and calling Bush a terrorist, or spending 8 years warning the world about Saddam Hussein and then pretending that he wasn’t really a threat when a new administration takes office.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 08:27 AM | Link to this

Cut off from #1:

Same article, slightly different topic:

The Mississippi coast was hit harder by Katrina than New Orleans was. And although New Orleans’ levee failure was a unique problem - one the local leadership ignored for decades - the devastation in Mississippi was in many respects more severe. And you know what? Mississippi has the same federal government as Louisiana, and reconstruction there is going gangbusters while, after more than $120 billion in federal spending, New Orleans remains a basket case. Here’s a wacky idea: Maybe it’s not all Bush’s fault.

w00t: They comment on it all day long, don’t they?

Are you some sort of mental gimp or what?

Full of these stupid moonbat liberal questions with the dam-n answers right in front of you.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

September 1, 2006 08:38 AM | Link to this

What gets really tedious is the almost daily criticism of cartoonists for never presenting “the other point of view” when they draw their panels. These hollow pleas are tedious because because they almost always come from persons who support the party that did away with the fairness doctrine in the broadcast media, paving the way for Rush seeded hate radio under the guise of “entertainment”. You had fair. Bush appointee to the FCC Michael Powell struck the regulation. The Bush appointee said the regulation was too burdensome to broadcasters. It’s unrealistic to think print media would contend that fair is any less burdensome.

By King George the Dope Dealers Best Buddy

September 1, 2006 08:40 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - The U.S.-backed strategy to fight Afghanistan’s massive drug trade has been unsuccessful in stemming opium cultivation, which is expected to hit record levels this year, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.

King George must really be a great businessman. He occupies Afghanistan and increases opium and heroin production several fold. What a monumental leap forward in efficiency. Way to go Georgie, mission accomplished.

If King george can’t even control poppy cultivation, which is done in wide open fields, why in the world should we believe him when he says he can make any military headway against Islamic patriots (how they view themselves) who hide in caves and maintain a sophisticated cell structure to safegaurd their organization. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that the Republicans are lying through their slimy moss covered teeth once again ! ! !

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 08:42 AM | Link to this

Andy,

Thanks for your early morning posts. WooT, the clueless useful idiot that he is, thinks that he represents the rest of us. Actually taking the time to read what you’ve posted is too exhausting a proposition for someone who wants us to go the the Middle East and ask then what they want from us and then—————-compromise -which I guess means converting to Islam en masse, but holding off on the burkas until the all world’s seamstresses can get the job done with Allah’s help.

I agree with the Washington Times piece and have already expressed similar sentiments here.

I still disagree with you and Kathleen Parker. A video of a beheading of infidels is every bit as alluring (and dare I say a fine recruitment tool) as a video of a phony conversion.

What is missing is correcting the record in a completely unconciliatory “straight arrow” manner. This needs to be shouted from the rooftops with all the fervor of their captives - and then some.

By Mayor Rocky Anderson

September 1, 2006 08:43 AM | Link to this

Who among you loves your country so much that you have come here today to raise your voice out of deep concern for our nation - and for our world?

And who among you loves your country so much that you insist that our nation’s leaders tell us the truth? Let’s hear it: “Give us the truth! Give us the truth! Give us the truth!”

Let no one deny we are patriots. We love our country, we hold dear the values upon which our nation was founded, and we are distressed at what our President, his administration, and our Congress are doing to, and in the name of, our great nation. Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.

By rushncap

September 1, 2006 08:48 AM | Link to this

Dennis the Menace, just like Mike Luckovich, is right on target.

By Same Republican Rhetoric That Got Us Where We Are Today

September 1, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this

SALT LAKE CITY - President Bush said Thursday the war against Islamic militants was like last century’s fight against Nazis and communists and that a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would lead to its conquest by America’s worst enemies.

The Iraq quagmire is certainly a bag of worms no one would wish on their worst enemy, isn’t it? What a blessing if only we COULD give Iraq to our worst enemy, if only we could ! ! !

By Thomas Jefferson

September 1, 2006 08:52 AM | Link to this

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

By w00t

September 1, 2006 08:56 AM | Link to this

Yes, because I’m going to read such an unbiased new story. They really set the fact straight for me. (Heavy Sarcasm)

By rushncap

September 1, 2006 09:00 AM | Link to this

Great quote from Teddy. Thanks! Too bad modern Republicans place blind, servile obedience to anything the the President says or does at the top of their list of human virtues.

By Founding Fathers

September 1, 2006 09:08 AM | Link to this

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

By Writing on the wall

September 1, 2006 09:09 AM | Link to this

Same old crap from the BUsh RepubliThugs and their “Fearless Leader”…

Iraq isn’t, and never was the fulcrum of Muslim terrorism. It is a black hole. A money pit (unless you’re Halliburton and friends) and a blood pit.

The White House cabal’s attempts to “bait and switch” Americans is now being met with Bronx cheers. We’re not being fooled.

Bush’s refusal to confront the REAL terrorists will haunt the US and the West for decades.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 09:11 AM | Link to this

TEX,

Sigh. We don’t want the freaking government making rules about “fairness” and mandating that by some magic OZ formula for every “right wing” viewpoint we must have a corresponding “left wing” one.

We are merely pointing out how one-sided the self-described “moderate Democrat” cartoon boy is, using rational arguments backed up with facts and information. Not a one of us are sqawking like psychotic parrots and demanding that the Fairness Kommisars artificially level the playing field.

Freaking Idiot.

By The candy man can

September 1, 2006 09:12 AM | Link to this

rushncap you are deluded. You need to get your head out of Howard Dean’s behind.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 09:13 AM | Link to this

By King George the Dope Dealers Best Buddy September 1, 2006 08:40 AM WASHINGTON - The U.S.-backed strategy to fight Afghanistan’s massive drug trade has been unsuccessful in stemming opium cultivation, which is expected to hit record levels this year, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.

The results of Freedom.

I guess the noisy little dic-khead prefers Islamic religious rule over drug use.

Huh. Interesting stand for a pinko liberal.

Kind of reeks of hypocrisy.

By Republican Values

September 1, 2006 09:16 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will probably be fined and have to make up for failing to do continuing medical education that Tennessee requires of doctors with active licenses.

In a license renewal form filed with the board earlier this year, Frist certified he had met the state’s continuing education requirement — 40 hours over the previous two years.

Republicans told us that they were following a high code of moral values by impeaching Clinton when he lied. They should certainly be anxious to now impeach Frist (that is if they truely do have the ‘values’ they claim) who is now being fined by the Tennessee Medical Board for LYING.

Don’t hold your breath, though. Republicans truley have no values at all. Frist is proving beyond any doubt that ‘values’ is just another Republican scam ! ! !

By Dr.Joseph Warren

September 1, 2006 09:20 AM | Link to this

“Free America”

That seat of science Athens, And earth’s proud mistress, Rome, Where now are all their glories We scarce can find a tomb. Then guard your rights, Americans, Nor stoop to lawless sway, Oppose, oppose, oppose, oppose For North America.

Proud Albion bow’d to Caesar, And numerous lords before, To Picts, to Danes, to Normans, And many masters more; But we can boast Americans Have never fall’n a prey, Huzza, huzza, huzza, huzza For Free America.

We led fair Freedom hither, And lo, the desert smiled, A paradise of pleasure New opened in the wild; Your harvest, bold Americans, No power shall snatch away, Preserve, preserve, preserve your rights In Free America.

Torn from a world of tyrants Beneath this western sky We formed a new dominion, A land of liberty; The world shall own we’re freemen here, And such will ever be, Huzza, huzza, huzza, huzza For love and liberty.

God bless this maiden climate, And through her vast domain May hosts of heroes cluster That scorn to wear a chain. And blast the venal sycophants Who dare our rights betray; Assert yourselves, yourselves, yourselves For brave America,

Lift up your hearts, my heroes, And swear with proud disdain, The wretch that would ensnare you Shall spread his net in vain; Should Europe empty all her force, We’d meet them in array, And shout huzza, huzza, huzza For brave America.

The land where freedom reigns shall still Be masters of the main, In giving laws and freedom To subject France and Spain; And all the isles o’er ocean spread Shall tremble and obey, The prince who rules by Freedom’s laws In North America.

By Republican One Voice

September 1, 2006 09:26 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - The head of the House Middle East subcommittee protested on Wednesday the Bush administration’s decision to let former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami visit the United States for speeches and conferences.

“It is mystifying that we would roll out the red carpet to a person who has incited violence against civilians and who has expressed incendiary rhetoric against the United States and our allies,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.

Yup, the Republicans certainly ‘speak with one voice’, the insurrgents are in their ‘last throes’, and the cow jumped over the moon ! ! ! Anybody want to listen to any more Republican fairy tales ? ? ?

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 09:29 AM | Link to this

“Too bad modern Republicans place blind, servile obedience to anything the the President says or does at the top of their list of human virtues.”

rushncap,

You mean like Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller? What happens to Democrats who don’t toe the party line 100%? Lieberman supports every single Dem issue except its (constantly wavering) position on the Iraq War and look what happened to him.

Republicans and many Democrats support the President on foreign policy issues, which includes the Iraq War, The Patriot Act, NSA spying programs, et cetera.

Many of us do NOT agree with his stand on vital domestic issues such as immigration and domestic spending because they are too far to the left of conservative principles.

Lest you think that his less than stellar “approval rating” translates into approval of Leftist causes, think again.

By Republican Last Throes

September 1, 2006 09:32 AM | Link to this

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rescue crews pulled bodies from the rubble of bombed buildings Friday after a barrage of coordinated attacks across eastern Baghdad neighborhoods killed at least 64 people and wounded more than 280 within half an hour, police said.

Yup, insurrgents are in their last throes and Americans are safer today than before the Republicans took office…… and if you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that you might be interested in buying.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 09:37 AM | Link to this

Moron WooT,

If you actually read the Kathleen Parker WaPo piece and the Washington Times piece, which are thoughtful opinion pieces derived from news stories, you would see that they come to slightly different conclusions.

Both require one to THINK on THE most important issue of our time. Neither demands subservience to their viewpoint.

Why don’t you try weighing in on the issue of gunpoint conversions instead of just crying “why why why”?

By Republican Pay Offs

September 1, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. government should have been quicker to employ local firms to help rebuild Iraq instead of relying on U.S. corporations whose contracts gave them no incentive to minimize costs, a U.S. official said on Thursday.

But how would the Republicans have ‘paid off’ their many big-industry/big-government campaign supporters unless it was with pillfered war bucks ? ? ?

By Dusty

September 1, 2006 09:44 AM | Link to this

A statement Thomas Jefferson NEVER made.

DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM SO USE IT TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY.

Something Benjamin Franklin NEVER did.

“LITTLE RICHARD’s ALMANAC” NEVER COPIED THE WORK OF SOMEONE ELSE TO MAKE A POINT. (Like Luckovich copying Dennis the Menace in case you didn’t get it.)

Something George Washington NEVER did.

CUT’N’RUN.

By Pete

September 1, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this

Bye Swedish, Andy, and RW dont get read by anyone but themselves. They post critiques of their comments with aliases pretending to show discussion. (stupid pet-troll tricks)

The scary part is that they do this all day long every day, 365/yr.

Trolls are the legacy of all chatrooms. They think they’re anonymous, but you know what? They always go too far, and they are always one subpoena away from exposure and a courtroom.

Who would bother? other trolls. They usually cancel each other out.

Luckovich’s cartoon today was very good. Once the American people dicover that when our Army fights against the Mahdi Army, they are fighting against the arm of the very Shia we just provided elections for.

Iran’s debate with Bush is just one sentence: “Thank you, Mr Bush for putting our friends in power in Iraq”. Period. Debate over. It’s true. and you pathetic fools dont even know it.

That’s what scary: I have to share this country with fools.

By getalife

September 1, 2006 09:55 AM | Link to this

Rummy the menace. Great toon Mike.

Appeasers and Al Qaeda types have shown all they have to sale is fear.

How pathetic of people like crusty the clown supporting these name calling idiots to to try desperately to stay in power.

Real Americans are not buying this bs, it is backfiring and making the American voters very angry.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

September 1, 2006 09:56 AM | Link to this

ho hum And what really makes me want understand you is when you call me names. Didums need a little Advil today? Feeling a little bloated? Feet a bit swollen?

By getalife

September 1, 2006 09:57 AM | Link to this

Well said Pete.

By Pete

September 1, 2006 10:03 AM | Link to this

The #1 question: Is Iraq a valid front in the global war on terrorism?

Drink the Caliph-aid. It’s good.

Caliph-aid, Caliph-aid, tastes great, gotta invade Baghdad, Boom! too late.

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By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this

“Trolls are the legacy of all chatrooms. They think they’re anonymous, but you know what? They always go too far, and they are always one subpoena away from exposure and a courtroom.”

You mean “Trolls” like “Second string” Pervert Pete who makes not too subtle threats to those who expose him for being a disgusting and obsessed pervert?

Have RPV and OOTMVOD risen from the ashes?

By rushncap

September 1, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this

Danish, Zell Miller was a Democrat only because he was too lazy to go and switch parties. It’s hard to argue someone is a Democrat when he is one of the keynote speakers at the Republican convention. That’s like calling someone who preaches at mosques a Hindu.

Lieberman lost because he supported an indefensible war. Voters looked at his track record and decided they can do better. They actually QUESTIONED what he did, and why, and got rid of him. You will never ever question Bush (along with the 25% or so of ever-loyal nitwits), no matter what he does. He could disembowel and eat a kitten on national TV in front of a room full of deaf orphans, and your only response would be “well, he’s visiting an orphanage to give these kids hope”. Your blind loyalty is disgusting. As Democratic voters of Connecticut demonstrated, not all are willing to give their leaders a free pass to do whatever they want to simply because they hapen to be in power.

By Republican Liberal Activist Judge

September 1, 2006 10:07 AM | Link to this

MONTPELIER, Vt. - A judge who sparked outrage when he sentenced a repeat sex offender to two months in jail said Friday he will retire.

Vermont District Court Judge Edward Cashman didn’t mention the case that had made him a target of heated criticism from lawmakers, editorial writers and national cable news commentators. Cashman was appointed to the bench in 1982.

Ronald Reagan, US President 1981-1989

Reagan appointee, Edward Cashman, another Republican liberal activist judge bites the dust. Isn’t it funny how Republicans always stand up for the sex offenders and perverts? Birds of a feather…..

By Republican Liberal Pervert Judges Here to Stay

September 1, 2006 10:11 AM | Link to this

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - In a move to satisfy the GOP’s most conservative supporters, President Bush on Wednesday nominated five people as appeals court judges

Never fear, for every Cashman that the Democrats ferret out, King George has 5 more Cashman’s waiting in the wings ! ! !

By CREEPS seeking missle

September 1, 2006 10:24 AM | Link to this

Bush and Rumsfeld (where’s Cheney?) press ahead with their Big Lie.

Happily, most Americans are greeting attempts to make the Iraq invasion a necessary centerpiece in the war on “terra” and “unified Islamofascism” with derision and scorn. We know better.

There are at least three pieces of falsely based rhetoric from Republicans that are beginning to emerge in the fall political campaign that need to be put into context now.

The first of these is that any American who does not believe that the United States should stay in Iraq, to pursue President Bush’s vanity war is somehow not only wrongheaded but also a traitor who does not really love freedom.

A second, very misleading, line is that America’s current war is against “Islamic fascism.” This concept is inaccurate and unhelpful to the United States in both of its words. Anyone with half a brain can see that Islam is by no means unified or unanimous in its support of al-Qaida, terrorism or even Hezbollah and Hamas. Think of the leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Or think of Indonesia, Bangladesh and Malaysia, majority Islamic countries that have offered troops to the United Nations to stand between Hezbollah and the Israeli Defense Forces in defending the integrity of southern Lebanon.

The third lie is comparing criticism of the Iraq War to the “appeasement” of Hitler. The two situations have nothing whatsoever in common.

Feeding lies into the system — with claims that advocacy of withdrawal is disloyalty, “Islamic fascism” is the problem or the situation in the Middle East is like that in 1930s Europe — is stupid and counterproductive.

But just what you’d expect from an administration that embraces the Pee-Wee Herman philosophy. When confronted with the aftermath of horrible mistakes, look haughty and defensive and answer…

“I meant to do that.”

By Dusty

September 1, 2006 10:34 AM | Link to this

Poor old Pete,

Over on this blog telling conservatives they are trolls and he is sorry he has to share the country with them.

Nobody is keeping you here, Pete. Head over to Hartsfield-Jackson and take your pick of far off places.

Before you go, don’t forget to stop by Wooten’s blog and tell some more dirty jokes. That’s your specialty. Now have a good trip.

By w00t

September 1, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish, I at least have the guts to ask questions about my Government. I’m not afraid to find fault with them like you are. You seem to think that they are not accountable for anything they say or do. When they are caught in a lie, you seem to think its ok, ignore it, and go on with their next talking point or rationale. Instead of calling me a moron or an idiot, why don’t you answer my questions that I post here, or try to explain to me your position without having to link to several “news stories” to prove your point.

I think the point is, you’re afraid to answer my questions like many of the others here. Because answering those questions would make you question your party and your own beliefs.

By Republican Family Values

September 1, 2006 10:42 AM | Link to this

Buy ‘Anything but American’- I’m always here sweetie ready to whisk you away in one of those pesky hillarycopters you Republicans fear so much.

By CREEPS seeking missle

September 1, 2006 10:55 AM | Link to this

Scream a lie often, and use identical buzzwords to panic the people. That’s the agenda of the BushBots and their neocon supporters in the media:

WASHINGTON - The aggressive new campaign by the administration of President George W Bush to depict US foes in the Middle East as “fascists” and its domestic critics as “appeasers” owes a great deal to steadily intensifying efforts by the right-wing press over the past several months to draw the same comparison.

The Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News Network and the Weekly Standard, as well as the Washington Times, which is controlled by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, and the neo-conservative New York Sun, have consistently and with increasing frequency framed the challenges faced by Washington in the region in the context of the rise of fascism and Nazism in the 1930s, according to a search of the Nexis database.

More pap from the “don’t confuse them with facts” crowd, spiced up with liberal doses of false patriotism and xenophobia, and passed along and regurgitated by sheeple like Mr. Cracker, who favors using suicide bombers against “Islamic fascists”.

The neocons think Americans are stupid. We’ll hear Bush and his robots compare the Mideast and Persian Gulf of today with 1930s Europe and we’ll nod our heads in unison. Ain’t happening.

Which reminds me… how’s plans for that one way trip to Baghdad goin’, Andy? Can I help you pack?

By Huge

September 1, 2006 11:00 AM | Link to this

I see people throw about certain words or phrases incorrectly, all the time, but this one really caught my eye. At 9:44, “DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM SO USE IT TO BETRAY YOUR COUNTRY.”

So, I decided to look up the meaning of the word betray. The first definition follows:

To deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.

Now can someone tell me if they have any specific, verifiable examples of this happening in today’s America, (other than a John Lindh Walker) as it regards to the war in Iraq, etc…? Or the mosre obvious loose lips sink ships kind of thing. And if so, how are those connected to dissent?

The following definiton is probably much more in-line with the intended usage:

To disappoint the hopes or expectations of; be disloyal to: to betray one’s friends.

So, in this instance isn’t the use of the word, although technically correct, absolutely wrong in it’s intention? So the author is disappointed in her fellow Americans? And that is enough to be considered betrayal? Oh well, why use words carefully when you can just over-dramatize everything and talk in sound bites…

By candide

September 1, 2006 11:03 AM | Link to this

Charles II told his unpopular brother James, Duke of York: “No one will kill me to make you king.”

Do you think anyone would kill Bush to make Cheney president?

By Goldie

September 1, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this

If all Americans “got behind its president” as suggested by the neo-con trolls who posted here day after day, how would America be any different than the citizens of Germany who “got behind” their president in the 1930’s? They were doing their patriotic duty as Germans, and doing as they were told by their “leaders” at the time…

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 11:48 AM | Link to this

Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame’s CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming — falsely, as it turned out — that he had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his report had circulated to senior administration officials. He ought to have expected that both those officials and journalists such as Mr. Novak would ask why a retired ambassador would have been sent on such a mission and that the answer would point to his wife. He diverted responsibility from himself and his false charges by claiming that President Bush’s closest aides had engaged in an illegal conspiracy. ——>It’s unfortunate that so many people took him seriously<——-.-WashingtonPost

Yeah, like the Washington Post took him seriously.

Hypocrites.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 11:52 AM | Link to this

Victor Davis Hansen, winning a great big ole place in my heart:

But does anyone remember that bin Laden quip, four years before 9/11, when Mr. Bush was still governor of Texas: “Mentioning the name of Clinton or the American government provokes disgust and revulsion.”

Right about the same time planning for 9/11 began.

Nice to get that straight.

By Goldie

September 1, 2006 11:52 AM | Link to this

One of the quotes I like best about patriotism comes from Teddy Roosevelt:

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiently or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”

HA— and he was a member of the Repugnant Party at one time? No wonder he had to switch parties!

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 11:54 AM | Link to this

Some cling to the notion that Islamic rage is not the manifestation of an elemental hatred, but is merely about land. That’s about what bin Laden said in ——>1998<—— when he urged all Muslims to murder all the Americans: “to kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military — is an obligation incumbent upon every Muslim who can do it and in any country — this until the Asqa Mosque (Jerusalem) and the Holy Mosque (Mecca) are liberated from their grip.”-NationalReview

Hehehehehe.

By Dusty

September 1, 2006 12:02 PM | Link to this

Poor Huge,

Had to run to the dictionary to make his point.

Yes, I am disappointed in American citizens who continually undermine this country by claiming every move this administration makes is wrong. Does not matter that it is successful and truthful. It is WRONG.

There seems to be a political movement that cares nothing about the country, only their party. And that party is Democratic.

Every ignorant name, accusation and ugly drawing of our elected president is declared as truth. Everything from suggested assassinations to out right lies are thrown out and printed every day.

I call that disloyal. Yes, even betrayal of this country because it certainly is not support or truth.

The President is the leader of this country and is known as our representative around the world. Everytime you present lies and exaggerations about him you make a terrorist happy.

That to me is not only betrayal of our country as a whole but specificly undermines our military who are battling for us at this moment.

Go to your dictionary, Huge, and look up LOYAL. Perhaps you and others have forgotten the meaning of THAT word .

By Goldie

September 1, 2006 12:03 PM | Link to this

Andy/Whiner— you’re absolutely right that Rummy did not mention Dems in his speech… he was actually referring to the 62% of all Americans who no longer support Dubya’s war in Iraq. So that would have to include many Repugnants who also oppose what Dubya has done and would be the main reason that his approval rating sucks so bad now.

By Goldie

September 1, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this

Cute ‘toon, Lucko— I like that arrow sticking in Mr. Wilson’s nose! A good representation of the quagmire that Dubya’s lack of planning for the occupation of Iraq has caused…

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 12:08 PM | Link to this

TEX,

Ho-hum is right. Let’s cut to the chase - YOU want the Federal government to mandate “fairness” through something called the “Fairness Doctrine” which is nothing but government mandated speech*.

YOU want the Federal Government to decide what is “fair”. YOU want some bureaucrat to run talk radio and television and take the place of producers and hire a “FAIR” balance of guests and pundits.

Do I have it right?

Oh, and the “freaking idiot” part? I stand by my statement because clearly YOU are one of these foot soldiers for Islam

Sorry you take offense. The truth hurts, don’t it?

*rushncap - where do you stand on this issue? Hmmmmm? Is it okay with the ACLU to let the government decide, or should we leave these decisions to the American people when they shop freely at the marketplace of ideas?

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 12:10 PM | Link to this

Rushncap,

Maybe it’s because the Democrat Party is not what it was, say during JFK’s time when national security and rising tides lifting boats were not incompatible ideas?

Maybe that’s why DEMOCRATS LIKE ME left?

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this

By Peterhead September 1, 2006 09:53 AM Bye Swedish, Andy, and RW dont get read by anyone but themselves. Blah, blah, blah.

Yep:

By Goldilocks and the 3 Wankers September 1, 2006 12:03 PM Andy/Whiner— you’re absolutely right that Rummy did not mention Dems in his speech…

O.K. Goldilocks, subtract the word “democrats” and insert “spineless pervert metrosexuals.”

My bad.

I’m mean really, look at who’s objecting to Rumsfeld’s speech, they’re all perverts^^, haha.

By Goldie

September 1, 2006 12:14 PM | Link to this

Also included in your WaPost link was this, Andy/Whiner:

“That’s not to say that Mr. Libby and other White House officials are blameless. As prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has reported, when Mr. Wilson charged that intelligence about Iraq had been twisted to make a case for war, Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney reacted by inquiring about Ms. Plame’s role in recommending Mr. Wilson for a CIA-sponsored trip to Niger, where he investigated reports that Iraq had sought to purchase uranium. Mr. Libby then allegedly disclosed Ms. Plame’s identity to journalists and lied to a grand jury when he said he had learned of her identity from one of those reporters. Mr. Libby and his boss, Mr. Cheney, were trying to discredit Mr. Wilson; if Mr. Fitzgerald’s account is correct, they were careless about handling information that was classified.”

Not only were Cheney and Libby “careless”, but in some circles their acts have been referred to as “treasonous”… we’ll see what the November elections and Libby’s trial brings, won’t we?

By Goldie

September 1, 2006 12:21 PM | Link to this

And of course the great quote by Herr Joseph Goebbels about patriotism and adopted as part the the Repugnants policy:

“…voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

Are you neo-con trolls here on the blog genetically connected to Herr Goebbels, or is it just too much of the bad Kool-Aid from the Repugnants that you’ve been drinking?

By CREEPS seeking missle

September 1, 2006 12:25 PM | Link to this

So our resident Idiot posts a link to an article by one Richard Davis Hansen that “illuminates” the threat from a unified “Islamofascism”.

And who does Hansen illuminate in his rant as the ideologues whose words and deeds direct and motivate this terror movement?

Why, it’s Al Qaeda co-founders Osama bin Laden and Aymin al-Zawahiri!

And where are these Pied Pipers of Muslim terrorists? The inspirations of plotters in Britain, Pakistan, Spain, Canada and the US? The 9/11 masterminds? The murderers of thousands of Americans?

Here’s a hint. They aren’t in Iraq. Neither are their top lieutenauts. Nowhere near Iraq.

Morans.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 12:25 PM | Link to this

{{Even as we split hairs over whether terrorists flocked to, or were created by, Iraq, the jihadists make no such distinctions between their theaters of operation. Listen to al Qaeda’s Aymin al-Zawahiri: “The Jihad movement is growing and rising. It reached its peak with the two blessed raids on New York and Washington. And now it is waging a great heroic battle in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and even within the Crusaders’ own homes.”}}

WhyWhyWhy WooT,

You want to phone up Al Zawahiri and ask him what HE wants? Maybe come to a compromise?

Save your dime. There’s your answer^^.

By Reverend John Mark Karr

September 1, 2006 12:26 PM | Link to this

Looking forward to meeting Andie at my church this weekend - wear your hair like Jon Benet so I recognize you, Andiekins.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 12:27 PM | Link to this

Goldilocks,

Question for you:

What is the single greatest threat facing our country and all of Western Civilization?

By candide

September 1, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this

I have often thought that the Republican playbook comes straight out of Joseph Goebbels. The Fascists we have to worry about are called Republicans here.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

The fact that Huge has to use a dictionary to make sense of this topic BETRAYS his stupidity.

By Goldie

September 1, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this

So let’s all remember to give thanks to our American labor unions this Labor Day weekend — otherwise we’d still be under the tyranny of big corporations with their 16-hour workdays and child slavery conditions.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 12:46 PM | Link to this

Candide,

Cut the crap dude. You’re the ones who want “Fairness Doctrines”.

You’re the ones who are putting pressure on ABC THIS VERY MINUTE to stop them from running a docudrama scheduled to air on 9/10 and 9/11, a story which is based on the 9/11 Commission findings and a book by John Miller, because it shows what an utter failure Bill Clinton was.

You’re the ones who went after local advertisers in Portland, Maine and threatened to close down their businesses if they agreed to advertise on a show scheduled to run on a Sinclair Television station that told the truth about what an utter fraud John Kerry was.

You’re the ones who turn your backs on John McCain when he tries to speak at NYU, heckle 9/11 commission hearings and throw pies at speakers you disagree with.

You’re the ones who put writers like Orianna Fallaci on trial for blasphemy.

You’re the ones who invented polically correct speech codes.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 12:49 PM | Link to this

By Peterhead September 1, 2006 09:53 AM Bye Swedish, Andy, and RW dont get read by anyone but themselves. Blah, blah, blah.

Yep:

By CREEPY September 1, 2006 12:25 PM So our resident Idiot posts a link to an article by one Richard Davis Hansen that “illuminates” the threat from a unified “Islamofascism”. Why, it’s Al Qaeda co-founders Osama bin Laden and Aymin al-Zawahiri!

Quotes from the very same article, I guess creepy is an AJC editoralist, using just what will score pinko points:

{{{{Hezbollah’s black-clad legions goose-step and stiff-arm salute in parade, apparently eager to convey both the zeal and militarism of their religious fascism.}}}}

{{{{Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad trumps that Hitlerian nihilism by reassuring the poor, maltreated Germans that there was no real Holocaust.}}}}

{{{{Islamic fascism is already the creed of the government of an oil-rich and soon to be nuclear Iran. Secular authoritarians like Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf could easily fall}}}}

You’re absolutely right once again wanker.

Where is Osama?

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 01:00 PM | Link to this

Sure thing Goldie, after you answer my question.

I repeat:

What is the single greatest threat facing our country and all of Western Civilization?

Hint: It is not “child slavery” in the United States. Yet.

By rushncap

September 1, 2006 01:02 PM | Link to this

Danish, I have no idea what you’re referring to with your “you want the government to decide…”, so I cannot answer your question.

The Democratic Party is not what it was during Kennedy’s times. Neither is the Republican. If Kennedy was President today you’d have him shipped out of town on the railroad for daring to have sex with someone other than Jackie. THEN you would have started a nuke war with the USSR so as not to “lose face” in Cuba.

By @@

September 1, 2006 01:12 PM | Link to this

Since I’m seeing a lot of Roosevelt today, I thought I’d drop these off. It’s that moment in time thing. I wonder what circumstance provoked Teddy to share this wisdom?

“The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” — Theodore Roosevelt

ml:

I liked the Eric Allie cartoon Andy linked better than yours today. Are you sure that’s your work? It doesn’t look anything like what I’m accustomed to seeing. Artistically speaking that is….

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 01:15 PM | Link to this

Andy,

Don’t you just love the way CREEP finch ignores Al Zawahiri’s own statement about why THEY are in Iraq?

Not to mention ignoring 8 years of statements from the Clinton Administration about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein from WMDs blah blah blah.

Freaking turncoats.

By Edwin Williams

September 1, 2006 01:17 PM | Link to this

Mr. Luckovich, you really are a twit, aren’t you?

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 01:28 PM | Link to this

rushncap,

Why don’t you go back and read the Articles of Impeachment against Bill Clinton.

Anything in there about having a mistress on the side?

I guess that makes you a ….liar*? You and the entire Democratic Party who have been peddling this LIE for a very long time now.

*rushncap’s favorite word

By Midori

September 1, 2006 01:29 PM | Link to this

I’m quite sure that Mike L is all choked up and feeling defeating just because @@ doesn’t like his toon.

Yet she shows up here on this blog every single day. I wonder why?

By Edward R. Murrow

September 1, 2006 01:30 PM | Link to this

“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility.”

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 01:36 PM | Link to this

By Midori September 1, 2006 01:29 PM I’m quite sure that Mike L is all choked up and feeling defeating just because @@ doesn’t like his toon. Yet she shows up here on this blog every single day. I wonder why?

To shine the light of truth and wisdom on cacophony of left wing anti American filth and lies?

She is good at it.

By Midori

September 1, 2006 01:43 PM | Link to this

Andy,

You’ve confirmed my suspicions: she’s every bit as ignorant and clueless as you.

Only morons cheer one another on.

thanks for the confirmation.

By rushncap

September 1, 2006 01:44 PM | Link to this

The articles of impeachment deal with Clinton lying about having a mistress during an investigation which had nothing to do with his extra-marital affairs. He was impeached because he got a BJ and then lied about it. Considering that your boy Shrubby lied about Iraq, got 3,000 soldiers killed, and is still in office, Clinton’s is not just minor, it’s absolutely irrelevant. Lying about sex is not an impeachable offense. Period. Thankfully the Senate was slightly less insane.

By Huge

September 1, 2006 01:51 PM | Link to this

“Yes, I am disappointed in American citizens who continually undermine this country…”

Wow! What a shocker!

I guess when you’re such an obvious master of semantics, you don’t need any tools. Then again, maybe that explains the “advanced” level of writing and analysis skills that you have consistently displayed here. Then again, it’s probably more likely you’re just a close-minded ideologue who sees no value in opinions other than your own and those exactly mirroring them.

“There seems to be a political movement that cares nothing about the country, only their party. And that party is Democratic.”

AND Republican. Are you really so simple and blind as to see only one and not the other? Never mind, it’s a rhetorical question. Based on your never-ending use of silly slogans and almost everything else you “contribute” here, most here already know the answer to that.

How terribly arrogant and delusional that you seem to truly believe that your opinions are facts. That is your problem. You make it mine when you question my loyalty to this nation. I question your maturity. Get some help, or just grow up.

By rushncap

September 1, 2006 01:59 PM | Link to this

Danish — there are a few huge threats to the world. Number one is overpopulation. Number 2 is religious extremism, especially Islamic extremism in the Middle East and Christian extremism in the United States. Number 3 I would say is the destruction of the ocean / rain forrest, which produce the vast majority of our oxygen.

By Jesus

September 1, 2006 02:03 PM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By CREEPS seeking missle

September 1, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this

So let me get this straight.

Both the Resident Idiot (Andy) and his mental concubine (BD) post rants and links about that madman Aymin al-Zawahiri, an Islamofascist leader, co-founder of Al Qaeda and the threat he and his disciples pose to the US and the West.

And then they use this to conclude that Bush is absolutely RIGHT to stay the course in Iraq!

Where neither al-Zawahiri or his mentor Osama bin Laden, masterminds of 9/11 and killers of thousands of innocent Americans happen to be.

You can’t fake delusions this deep and insipid.

Morans.

By getalife

September 1, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this

@@,

Here is a quote for you:

“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.” — Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

By Huge

September 1, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this

Rushncap,

Re your 1:59

None of those problems are even on her radar screen, therefore they are not even problems.

Wars come and go, and there will always be armed conflicts! And yes, someday these war whores, occidental and oriental, may all kill everyone. But greedy and science-hating idiots trying their absolute damdest to kill this planet and everything and everyone on it doesn’t mean didley squat to her.

She professes love for her child, yet she seems extremely happy to leave him to a polluted, ravaged and utterly depleted world, with the growth of destruction and misuse growing exponentially. Why deal with problems when you can just stick your head in the proverbial oil-rich sand.

“The fact that Huge has to use a dictionary to make sense of this topic BETRAYS his stupidity.”

What an absolutely brilliant and enlightened statement! In some ways, it says it all…

By Get Out the Vote

September 1, 2006 02:25 PM | Link to this

I completed canvassing one low-income apartment complex in my hometown a couple of months ago. I found that 96% of the residents were not registered to vote. That figure is now only 12% after the residents (elderly and disabled) were provided transportation to the county clerk’s office, help securing birth certificates, State ID cards at the DMV (free for low income), and copies of documents proving county residency.

I encourage everyone to get up off your keisters and help the unregistered get registered to vote. Let’s make sure that everyone has their voice heard this election cycle whether they might be Independent, Democrat or Republican. If you can find anybody at Country Club of the South who needs transportation, by all means give it to them. I think they are probably covered all ready but give it a shot if that is your stomping ground. You can always find plenty of potential registrations at low and middle income apartment complexes in my experience. They are usually very grateful just to have someone take up a little time with them. Invest in some shoe leather for the good of your country.

Keep a list and in November, organize some friends to provide carpooling for those that you have registered in order to finish the job right! Stop talking and start acting if you really want the November elections to yield a true representation of the views of all the people. There isn’t much time left and actions speak louder than words.

By getalife

September 1, 2006 02:28 PM | Link to this

@@,

The best part of the nazi quote is what they are doing today:

“That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”

It is easy for gullible Americans who never ask why?

By More lies from the Right

September 1, 2006 02:33 PM | Link to this

Republican party activists try again to answer the challenge, “How low can you go?”

The Repugs apparently didn’t like the fact that MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann received such huge support for his commentary expressing contempt for the Bush cabal’s attempt to compare foes of the Iraq war with Hitler’s appeasers. So over at YouTube they’ve set up a fake group claiming it is a Democratic group for sharing favorite videos.

It calls itself “A place for Democrats to collect and share videos” with all the videos now added this morning. It’s agit-prop misinformation. The ones there include a montage of US troops being killed and a smear on the US Marine Corps using Nazi imagery and calling them morons.

One could call this a new low. But I’m sure the die-hard 30 percenters who think Bush and his Iraq fiasco should be defended at all costs, even sacrificing the truth, will soon outdo themselves.

They are the real traitors.

By Pete

September 1, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

Please stop trotting out that stupid nazi quote, in fact, I’m declaring all Hitler analogies off base and innappropriate from now on.

Is Iraq the front in the war on terror?

By getalife

September 1, 2006 02:46 PM | Link to this

Here is a history lesson from a great American hero

By What Iraqis Really Think

September 1, 2006 02:47 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - Sectarian violence is spreading in Iraq, reflecting the most complex security challenges since the U.S. invasion in 2003, the Pentagon said Friday.

When asked whether they believe “things will be better” in the future, the percentage of Iraqis responding positively has dropped fairly consistently over the past year — whether they were asked to look ahead six months, one year or five years — according to polling data cited in the report.

Quick somebody, tell the Iraqis that King George said things were going great in Iraq and the insurrgents are in their ‘last throes’. They ain’t got the message yet ! ! !

By V

September 1, 2006 02:53 PM | Link to this

“But again, if truth be told… if you are looking for the guilty, you need only look in the mirror.”

“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

By getalife

September 1, 2006 03:05 PM | Link to this

How about this one Pete:

“When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

Sinclair Lewis

By Liberal Texas Democrat

September 1, 2006 03:05 PM | Link to this

I’m sorry, were you speaking to me? When one publishes their opinion as to preclude civil discussion on a topic I find further correspondence with that individual to be as useful an endeavor as nailing Jell-O to a tree. And that would include my response so run along now, your friends are waiting for you by the sand box.

By What American Soldiers Really Think

September 1, 2006 03:06 PM | Link to this

KILLEEN, Texas - A year and a half after going AWOL before his second deployment to Iraq, a soldier surrendered at Fort Hood on Thursday with a dozen war protesters by his side.

“I just could not in good conscience go back to a war I felt was wrong,” Wilkerson, 22, of Colorado Springs, Colo., said.

Wilkerson went to Iraq at the start of the March 2003 invasion and returned to the U.S. a year later. He said his views of the war changed, so he applied for conscientious objector status a few months before finding out his unit would return to Iraq.

His request was denied and he was told his appeal would not be considered until his unit came back. He said he then fled during a two-week leave before the January 2005 deployment.

In a similar case in North Carolina, A Fort Bragg paratrooper who left his post last year because he objected to the war will face a desertion charge, his lawyer said Thursday.

Sgt. Ricky Clousing, 24, who left his barracks in June 2005, turned himself over in August to military authorities in Seattle.

Republicans don’t want you to know how many of our troops really DO NOT support military action in Iraq. Instead they keep dissenters in the ranks to spread dissent. Genius, pure genius ! ! !

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 03:06 PM | Link to this

By getagrip September 1, 2006 02:28 PM @@,The best part of the nazi quote is what they are doing today: “That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”

I tell you what, looney tunes, I’d love for you to show us where America has Auschwitz set up like Germany did.

Let me guess, Club Gitmo?

By Dusty

September 1, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this

Huge, poor baby,

This is an opinion blog and if you don’t like my opinion, THEN DON’T READ IT.

If I didn’t think what I was saying was accurate, I wouldn’t say it. I don’t furnish links which you can find to justify almost any opinion. I get information from a lot of sources.

If I say I believe people who undermine this country are betraying it, that is what I mean. If you want to include yourself, that is your business. Don’t get angry with me if you fit in that category.

Go back and read some of @@’s quotations. She had some good ones which you might enjoy while getting over your ….. indignation and frantic semantics.

By Elephant Jenkins

September 1, 2006 03:25 PM | Link to this

Everybody that voted yes in this poll will have their cell phones tapped, their email read and their gay brother-in-law arrested for child molestation.

By Huge

September 1, 2006 04:12 PM | Link to this

“Go to your dictionary, Huge, and look up LOYAL. Perhaps YOU (I capitalized it for effect and to make sure you didn’t misss it, yet again) and others have forgotten the meaning of THAT word.”

“If I say I believe people who undermine this country are betraying it, that is what I mean. If you want to include YOURSELF, that is your business.”

(If you’re like the two bigots, I know you’re going to try and dance around with first using the term Loyal and then substituting Undermine. When caught in a lie, they’ll try a variety of tricks.)

Are you just so dense that you can’t remember from one post to the next what you write?

Like some of your favorite extremist brethren on this blog, you have demonstrated an astounding and consistent lack of the basic ability to keep your sh!t straight. Unlike them, you have not shown yourself to be a liar. Until now. I repeat, grow up.

By What civil war?

September 1, 2006 04:15 PM | Link to this

I forget which one of the wingnuts here said yesterday that sectarian violence and civilian deaths have been dropping in Iraq since February’s bombing of the Al-Askariya “Golden Mosque” in Samarra.

So much for that little neocon fantasy.

WASHINGTON - (September 1) - In a dismal assessment, the Pentagon reported to Congress today that the number of attacks and civilian casualties in Iraq have risen sharply in recent months — with deaths increasing by 1,000 a month — as sectarian violence has engulfed larger areas of the country.

Wrong war. Wrong place. Wrong time. Wrong leader. We’re not winning the war we never needed to fight, and we aren’t fighting the war that we need to win.

Where’s Osama?

By Goldie

September 1, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this

“Is Iraq the front in the war on terror?”

Pete— no, the “war on terrrrrr” is a global issue and it has grown exponentially due to your guy Dubya’s policy of WAR, WAR, WAR! The terrorists are everywhere now, including in our backyards here in America. We need to be doing more to protect America here at home— not fighting a civil war between religious sects in the Middle East… our job there is done!

By Dusty

September 1, 2006 04:28 PM | Link to this

So What American Soldiers Really Think posts this remarkable piece of information.

He/she found the story of TWO deserters and implies that desertion is TRUE for the WHOLE military.

How about THAT??? The WHOLE MILITARY!

If we can find a story about a guard dog at Guantanamo who refuses to bark, that will be the next chapter on refusal of duty and dissent. Now that’s a bone to chew on. Indeed!!

By Even Former Republicans Can Learn From Their Mistakes

September 1, 2006 04:32 PM | Link to this

The number of Americans calling themselves Republican has fallen to its lowest level in more than two-and-a-half years. Just 31.9% of American adults now say they’re affiliated with the GOP. That’s down from 37.2% in October 2004 and 34.5% at the beginning of 2006. These results come from Rasmussen Reports tracking surveys of 15,000 voters per month and have a margin of sampling error smaller than a percentage point.

Welcome back to sanity all you ex-Republicans. Don’t worry, we all make mistakes. Real men and women learn from their mistakes and move on. Only dummies who haven’t the mental ability to tell when they’ve been hornswoggled keep making the same mistake over and over again.

By @@

September 1, 2006 04:33 PM | Link to this

Midori:

Do you wanna get a “thang going on” with ml? I simply said I preferred one over the other. In your little world where everybody is a victim, you read that to mean I didn’t like ml’s toon?

And you show up here everyday to offer what?

Oh yea….SQUAAAAAAWWWWWKK, SQUAAAAAAAWWWWKK, SQUAAAAAWWWWKK for your audience.

A psychotic parrot that squawks, LOL’s & RIFLOL when you’re not RIFLYFAO.

Thanks for your inpoot. How could we get along without it?

Getalife:

Nobody “told” me we were being attacked, I saw it with my own two eyes. Seeing is believing and reading radical left-wing blogsites will warp your thinking.

BTW, ml’s artwork today is better than it has been, the context still sux though.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 04:35 PM | Link to this

The question was too tough for Goldilocks, but I see that rushncap took the bait and now Huge Loser is chirping in with a predictable yet still frighteningly clueless response -

Q: What is the greatest threat to the United States and Western Civilization?

A: {{By rushncap September 1, 2006 01:59 PM | Link to this Danish — there are a few huge threats to the world. Number one is overpopulation. Number 2 is religious extremism, especially Islamic extremism in the Middle East and Christian extremism in the United States. Number 3 I would say is the destruction of the ocean / rain forrest, which produce the vast majority of our oxygen.}}

Well, at least he didn’t come right out and say “George Bush”.

The answer is the ideology and practices of Islamofascism. Period.

But, hey don’t worry rushncap. If the Mullahs take over that little population problem might get nipped in the bud. They are their are right here on our shores in places like Dearbornistan but unfortunately your address is one of the first one’s they’re going to go looking for.

And frankly I doubt that they will give a damn about the rain forest or the oceans or anything that takes place on this Earth. Why? Because they don’t care about LIFE they only care about DEATH.

Huge Hysteric,

You must live in some garbage dump to have the view of the world that you’re peddling.

You may want to read some of this Then move on to anything by Steve Emerson. These people have both been on the inside. Ignore them at your peril.

By Dusty

September 1, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this

Now, now Huge,

Don’t get all excited. If two different words confuse you, I’m sorry. But watch your language. Your mother will be washing out your mouth with soap.

Sorry I can’t stay and console you. But I have to leave. Relax now and take a deep breath.

By Goldie

September 1, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this

“Please stop trotting out that stupid nazi quote, in fact, I’m declaring all Hitler analogies off base and innappropriate from now on.”

Pete— you might want to start with your own guy’s administration, if your tired of the Nazi analogies being thrown around. Of course, Dubya knows of what he speaks: his grandfather Prescott Bush was “an appeaser”, so it’s obviously something weighing heavy on his mind.

By Huge

September 1, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this

“Wrong war. Wrong place. Wrong time. Wrong leader. We’re not winning the war we never needed to fight, and we aren’t fighting the war that we need to win.”

Well put.

When 9/11 happened, I, like most Anmericans, I’m sure, had a wide variety of feelings; intense sadness, rage, a deep sense of loss and of course, retribution.

But then it occurred to me, Oh no! Not now! Especially not now! Not with THIS man in the white house! Until that point I had been struck by how big a mess this guy was making of things, on a variety of fronts, domestic and foreign. And his choices for his staff were, IMO, some of the very worst. (Well at least since Nixon’s band of thugs.)

He was bound to screw this up. He has a long history of doing such, even before his political career. And his military “career” was not exactly reassuring either.

And yet he started out so good! I was so thankful, he wasn’t killed that day. It would have been a thousand times worse had that happened. (I don’t hate him, I just hate his policies.) And in those first days, he really did did a fantastic job of rallying us ALL. Who will ever forget (or admit that they didn’t cry when they saw his speech at the National Cathedral.)

And then he kicked some serious Taliban a* in Afghanistan! To quote Bill and Ted, that was most excellent! But then… Cooking the books to go into Iraq and save Daddy’s reputation will remain his legacy forever.

By Midori

September 1, 2006 04:44 PM | Link to this

Dusty and her patented “hit and runs”.

Huge kicks your butt constantly, and all you do is come back with a stupid comment, and then announce you have to leave.

No wonder you’ve been dubbed “Crusty”.

By Goldie

September 1, 2006 04:49 PM | Link to this

“Because they don’t care about LIFE they only care about DEATH.”

A great summation of the War Party’s approach to problem-solving.

I’m outta here, too — happy Labor Union Day weekend everyone!

By getalife

September 1, 2006 04:53 PM | Link to this

“I hear you, and instead of vengeance I’m going to cut & run on Al Qaeda so we can invade Iraq and steal their oil!”

w standing on the rubble of 9/11 with the bullhorn (revised history).

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 04:54 PM | Link to this

A CNN poll in August found that 69 percent of Americans oppose withdrawing American troops by the end of the year, and 66 percent believe that we can win the war there.-NationalReview

Hehehehehehe.

Squawk, squawk Midori, want a cracker?

By Huge

September 1, 2006 04:58 PM | Link to this

“You must live in some garbage dump to have the view of the world that you’re peddling.”

No, I just choose to see beyond my nice little neighborhood. Because your limited and incredibly stubborn world view will not allow you to see the realities of man’s negative impact on this planet, doesn’t mean it is not happening.

Our resources are already strained enormously. And there are going to more and more and more constraints in the next 50 years. And I’m not talking about oil! I’m talking about food and clean water. I’m talking about air fit to breathe. Look out your window at the Atlanta haze. Can you see it, BD? Or is it just a figment of a bunch of people’s imaginations?

As Americans we have led the parade in both directions. Our efforts to reduce environmental damage have paid very handsome returns over the past thirty years. And yet, by our example, we show the undeveloped world that’s it’s just hunky dorey to be completely irresponsible in this area. (One of W’s very first acts was to reneg on Kyoto. Not because it was the right thing to do, but becasue it was too expensive!)

And I know, that you’re not very interested in anyone non-American, (and not even that many of us) but I’m talking about one world. We all sink or swim together on this issue.

Fortunately the tide is turning. For everyone of you who refuses to acknowledge the problem and it’s dire consequences, there are many who are becoming enlightened and staring to try and make a difference.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 04:59 PM | Link to this

The new attorney for Joseph and Valerie Wilson says the Wilsons do not plan to add former State Department official Richard Armitage to their lawsuit against top Bush administration officials.-NationalReview

So the leak, which Armitage is the only one who did, must not be a big deal anymore.

But, haha, they’re still suing Bush for it, hahaha, what a trip.

Hell, Bush didn’t even know, Powell wouldn’t “leak” it to him, hahaha.

By Fox News Alert

September 1, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this

This just in….

National Review column distorts CNN survey results.

August 9, 2006 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sixty percent of Americans oppose the U.S. war in Iraq and a majority would support a partial withdrawal of troops by year’s end, a CNN poll said on Wednesday.

It was the CNN poll’s highest number opposing the war since fighting began in March 2003, a figure that has risen steadily since then, according to the Opinion Research Corp. survey conducted last week on behalf of the cable network.

The poll showed 36 percent of respondents said they were in favor of the war — half the peak 72 percent who supported the war as it began, said the poll of 1,047 Americans.

The telephone survey, which had an error margin of 3 percentage points, showed 61 percent believed at least some U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2006.

Andy, do us all a favor, put your money where your mouth is, fly to Baghdad, pose as a reporter, and blow yourself up.

By Huge

September 1, 2006 05:05 PM | Link to this

A CNN poll in August found that 69 percent of Americans oppose withdrawing American troops by the end of the year, and 66 percent believe that we can win the war there.-NationalReview

Hehehehehehe.

Isn’t it amazing that when the polls are against someone’s position, person, etc…, they will completely discount it.

But when the opposite occurs, they will quote it like scripture!

Who cares what the polls EVER say? Think for yourselves and quit trying to find solace in numbers…

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 05:07 PM | Link to this

By Huge September 1, 2006 04:58 PM (One of W’s very first acts was to reneg on Kyoto. Not because it was the right thing to do, but becasue it was too expensive!)

Oh, Bullsh-it.

Even King Blo-wjob wouldn’t sign Kyoto.

Silly freaking liberal sitting there raging at capitalism, lying his a-ss off, trying to score some stupid socialist agenda, hoping to wreck our economy.

Pis-s off.

By RE

September 1, 2006 05:08 PM | Link to this

yeah andy, anyword yet on if you want me to book those tickets for you, I need to fly you out to JFK on saturday or early sunday.

If not there is another flight later in the week

I admire your bravery

By Huge

September 1, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this

By You’re Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 05:07 PM

Patently stupid positions don’t merit serious consideration.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 05:23 PM | Link to this

Huge Hysteric,

You know if you libs had just stuck to issues like water and air pollution you might have some credibility. The problem is you have thrown all your eggs in the global warming basket, and saving furbish loutwort, as only people with the hubris to think they can control nature are capable of doing.

My father was one of the early advocates of pollution control and worked tirelessly (and pro bono) for foundations that were dedicated to those issues. My cousin serves on the Hudson River Conservancy Board. My mother worked in similar endeavors. I am proud of their efforts and when contributions can be made to groups that aren’t infested with radical leftist hysterics I support them.

Great progress has been made, but all you see is a great big trash dump where mankind, the Big Polluter, is the enemy. Meanwhile you call me a bigot for pointing out the truth about Dearbornistan which is an clear and present danger.

Grow up.

By Huge

September 1, 2006 05:27 PM | Link to this

Hey! Any big plans for the pinko holiday lil’ andykins? Maybe some well deserved down time from that taxing job of yours? Oh BTW, what exactly is your job again? Career knucklehead?

By RE

September 1, 2006 05:30 PM | Link to this

From Andy yesterday: “If the journalists would have nutted up and said, and don’t get me wrong I know full well that we are talking about elite liberals here, Fox News or not, that Jesus Christ Died for me on the Cross and so I shall die for Him, the terrorists would have stopped the filming and scampered away back to their ratholes.

Or they would have sawed their heads off.

But, either way, word would have gotten out that the Americans may not really be the weak, spineless, sex obsessed perverts that they think we are.

And maybe the next hostage, what ever unlucky soul that may be, might have been spared the same ordeal.”

I thought you had a great idea and I am just trying to help you defeat the terrorists. Are you telling me you don’t want to go to baghdad anymore?

By Republicans Anonymous

September 1, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

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The Twelve Steps of Republicans Anonymous

1.) We admitted we were powerless over Republicanism — that our lives had become unmanageable.

2.) Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3.) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4.) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5.) Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our Republicanism.

6.) Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7.) Humbly asked Him to remove our Republicanism.

8.) Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.

9.) Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10.) Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.

11.) Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12.) Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive Republicans and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 05:34 PM | Link to this

Andy,

Isn’t it amazing how Huge Brainwashed College Student thinks that he thinks for himself?

Arguably the greatest “polluter” in history was the former Soviet Union. China under Mao was an ecological disaster with virtually every limb and branch of every tree destroyed to use for his glorious dream of producing Steel.

Does he reject the tenets of Socialism? Heck no, he embraces them tenderly.

By rushncap

September 1, 2006 05:35 PM | Link to this

Danish’s lone skill in life seems to be the amazing ability to be related to people who actually do something: her son, father, cousin, etc.

Come to think of it, a trait like that can take one to the White House. Just ask the present occupant…

By Huge

September 1, 2006 05:36 PM | Link to this

Bigoted Dane,

I thought your entire family went to Harvard, except for a bro who went to Stanford?! Just kidding, I know that was one of those mean nasty name jackers.

Even still, what the h&ll happened to you? Whay are you so stuck in the past in this regard. Can you honestly acknowledge that there is a might serious problem here? It won’t kill you.

“…and when contributions can be made to groups that aren’t infested with radical leftist hysterics I support them.”

Probably just a fancy way of saying once every never…

“Great progress has been made,” (Hmmm. Seems like I said the exact same thing) but all you see is a great big trash dump where mankind, the Big Polluter, is the enemy.

How many times am I going to have to call you on your inane attempts to overdramatize and spin words to your own liking? How many times?!!

I see a world of beauty and hope, sometimes marred by incompetent morons who care not one wit for that beauty. Better?

Go to school and learn how to read.

By Nucular

September 1, 2006 05:36 PM | Link to this

Fascinating brilliance. The same old out of touch Bushista fascists are now heroically and patriotically fighting against our enemy, the brand new Islamic Fascists. Wow. Old Glory - long will she …sag. God bless Murcuh!!

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 05:43 PM | Link to this

I find it quite revealing that CNN and Boston.com only pick and choose from their poll results but won’t post the poll itself:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/09/iraq.poll/index.html

Therefore, I believe what National Review said.

Blow me.

RE: You know, homey, if you weren’t such a blooming idiot, you would realize that you are ridiculing a lot of great Americans that have selflessly given their lives for pieces of sh-it like you.

No one can say would they would do in that situation but I know for a fking fact that America is not free because of wasted perverts like you.

By Huge

September 1, 2006 05:46 PM | Link to this

“Does he reject the tenets of Socialism? Heck no, he embraces them tenderly.”

Mind showing us all where you came up with that one, oh mental midget? Any verifiable evidence or just more mere hunches?

Patently stupid positions don’t merit serious consideration.

“Danish’s lone skill in life seems to be the amazing ability to be related to people who actually do something: her son, father, cousin, etc.”

“Come to think of it, a trait like that can take one to the White House. Just ask the present occupant…”

Excellent point, rushncap! I thought the exact same thing but refrained from saying as much!

I recently read some info about Jeb Bush and compared to W the guy is a rocket scientist!

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this

Oh, and RE, I like the admission from you that, at the first sign of danger you would wet your pants and flee in terror, leaving the woman and children to fend for themselves.

The mere thought of being brave makes you giggle, that’s funny.

By getalife

September 1, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this

Yep, the Pentagon report is ugly but Andy could change the course if he would go over there and give them the pep talk he does here.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 06:01 PM | Link to this

By getalife September 1, 2006 05:50 PM Yep, the Pentagon report is ugly but Andy could change the course if he would go over there and give them the pep talk he does here.

See, even the most insane among us can be lucid every now and again.

They can hear my pep talk loud and clear.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 06:02 PM | Link to this

Huge,

Err, you see a world of hope and beauty?

Like here? -

“She professes love for her child, yet she seems extremely happy to leave him to a polluted, ravaged and utterly depleted world, with the growth of destruction and misuse growing exponentially.”

You miserable libs are amazing. That^^is how you define “hope and beauty”.

rushncap,

Anyone who professes that overpopulation is the greatest threat facing Western Civilization is a moonbat. Thanks for putting it into such a nice package for us.

By Fox News Alert

September 1, 2006 06:15 PM | Link to this

Real fun is proving that the National Review misrepresents a poll and ANdy swallows it hool line and sinker.

There’s no denying that the survey shows most Americans think the Iraq war was a mistake and most Americans want out.

No, I’m not gonna blow you. Get BD to do it. Peas in a pod…

By getalife

September 1, 2006 06:18 PM | Link to this

Andy,

Insane is reading the NRO and thinking it is the news.

By @@

September 1, 2006 06:22 PM | Link to this

WCW?:

I was the one who linked the number of deaths decreasing in August. I’m still getting different reports on deaths in Iraq. The link I gave yesterday clearly indicated that there were many different sources from which they draw their totals and therefore the differing totals. There’s an admission that sometimes the numbers are too high and other times they’re too low.

But I guess we can agree that the Pentagon does not withhold information no matter how discouraging it may be.

I did see some encouraging comments in your link.

I’ll leave you with this. It’s not all about death and destruction. Pick a story, any story. You’ll find that they acknowledge the violence, but they also see things we don’t.

I’m behind them and their efforts 100%.

Maybe you should try it sometime.

By Huge

September 1, 2006 06:33 PM | Link to this

“But I guess we can agree that the Pentagon does not withhold information no matter how discouraging it may be.”

@@, are you kidding me?!!! That would be a negative, Houston! Just ask Pat Tillman’s family about the Pentagon’s “truthfulness”. I’m sure I could find many other examples. Anyone who buys what the Pentagon is selling without serious reservations is damn naive…

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 06:35 PM | Link to this

By Fox News Alert September 1, 2006 06:15 PM Real fun is proving that the National Review misrepresents a poll and ANdy swallows it hool line and sinker.

When are you going to do that^^?

If you think Boston.com is some media authority now then you are even more deranged than getalife.

When you going to show me the actual poll? Or can you?

Pi-ss off.

By Fox News Alert

September 1, 2006 06:52 PM | Link to this

Numbnuts, you were kind enough to post the poll… which shows that most Americans think Iraq was a mistake and we should leave.

Now bugger off.

By getalife

September 1, 2006 07:06 PM | Link to this

Deranged? I must be because they are still talking about me at the lgf

LOL.

By @@

September 1, 2006 07:07 PM | Link to this

Huge:

WCW? is the one who revealed the pentagon report, confirming all the bad news you so desperately need to make it through your day. Why did they choose to reveal it when it would have served their purpose to do otherwise.

Find all the examples you want. You’re an expert at looking for bad news. Problem is, you’ll need solid evidence that the information is, in fact, true.

See what I mean?

My husband receives e-mails from fellow employees who are reservists serving in Iraq. Encouraging news.

A friend of mine works closely with the military in Iraq. Her company handles shipments for the military. She gets good reports from her contacts there.

It really is funny…she’s on her cellphone to Baghdad while we walk every morning.

They all agree, the good news doesn’t often make it into the media but it’s there if anybody wants to read it. I guess you’d rather not.

Not my problem…..yours.

By Pete

September 1, 2006 07:26 PM | Link to this

Andy is coming out with an unplugged box set of himself lip synching to plucked strings……ew.

Andy, just stop spamming. You’re quite mad, you know.

You’ve ruined this blog for everyone. Just ruined it. Day after day all day long with your nonsense.

Shame sir. I SAID SHAME!

By Huge

September 1, 2006 07:26 PM | Link to this

“Find all the examples you want. You’re an expert at looking for bad news. (You mean I’m an expert at searching for the truth no matter where it lies or how uncomfortable it might be?) Problem is, you’ll need solid evidence that the information is, in fact, true.” Like the example you completely and utterly disregarded involving a true American hero, Pat Tillman? Why don’t you phone his parents for some encouraging news about the Pentagon’s lies and cover ups?

Nobody doubts reports of lots of great stuff happening in Baghdad. But explain to us, what the h&ll does that have to do with Pentagon lies? I’ll handle that one. Not one single solitary thing. Are you familiar with the concept of a red herring? I’ll handle that one, as well; it’s something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand.

You’re starting to sound a whole lot like Dusty. Just wave old glory and pretend EVERYTHING is fine. Our “leaders” will handle all of that other unpleasant stuff.

Wake up and smell the freaking coffee!

See what I mean?

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 1, 2006 07:44 PM | Link to this

By Peterhead September 1, 2006 07:26 PM You’ve ruined this blog for everyone. Just ruined it. Day after day all day long with your nonsense.

Mission Accomplished!

By RW-(the original)

September 1, 2006 09:21 PM | Link to this

By Republican Liberal Activist Judge September 1, 2006 10:07 AM | Link to this MONTPELIER, Vt. - A judge who sparked outrage when he sentenced a repeat sex offender to two months in jail said Friday he will retire.

Vermont District Court Judge Edward Cashman didn’t mention the case that had made him a target of heated criticism from lawmakers, editorial writers and national cable news commentators. Cashman was appointed to the bench in 1982.

Ronald Reagan, US President 1981-1989

Reagan appointee, Edward Cashman, another Republican liberal activist judge bites the dust. Isn’t it funny how Republicans always stand up for the sex offenders and perverts? Birds of a feather

Cashman is a VERMONT STATE COURT JUDGE you freaking moron. Want to try again? While you’re at it how about an apology for Ronald Reagan?

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 09:52 PM | Link to this

Huge Liar,

Okay, maybe I erred in saying that you embrace the tenets of Socialism “tenderly”.

You take embrace it, take advantage of it, tell it to “put some ice on it”, and then indignantly disavow any relationship with it.

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 09:55 PM | Link to this

TEX,

Is this how you would apply the “Fairness Doctrine”?

By Buy Danish

September 1, 2006 10:10 PM | Link to this

The World According to Huge -

“If these projections become a reality, our children face living in an Australia with no Barrier Reef, no Kakadu wetlands and a Murray River reduced to a trickle.”

Of course this fact does not dissuade people like Huge Doomsayer:

{{A recent Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics report on the cost of cutting greenhouse gas emissions estimated Australians would incur a fall in real wages of about 20 per cent if the nation was to unilaterally cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050.}}

It’s perfect! They can destroy the economy for no reason and then turn around and b*itch that there are no jobs.

By Huge

September 1, 2006 10:59 PM | Link to this

Your 10:10 finally proved my point. For you, it’s all about the money (just like somebody else here). Nothing else.

Go ahead, rationalize the problem away all you can with your speculations and your nit-picking and your Australian dollars. Sure, you can find unscrupulous people and incorrect theories, and many other wrong or bone-headed things for that matter. But it doesn’t change the over arching and supreme facts. Yet you still refuse to even admit there is a problem with CO2 and we’ve caused it.

You will be very, very late to the party, if you EVER show. Fortunately the I care about this world enough to actually admit there are daunting problems that we created and we will resolve crowd will be dancing without you.

You choose to see me as sharing the same belief of your almost christian prophesiers and end-of-the-world doomsayer heroes. Why? I’m not sure. But I think they’re all completely nuts and their beliefs about a rapture are pretty implausible.

I have great hope for the future. Although things appear to be getting constantly worse, no one seems to talk about the idea that they are also getting constantly better. Being kind, just, moderate and peaceful isn’t as sexy as murder and mayhem. And certainly doesn’t sell well on talk radio.

“You take embrace it (socialism),…”

First, let me be the first to wish you a pleasant and safe long pinko holiday weekend.

You really are a nasty woman if you are intimating what it appears with that icing reference, BTW. I pray it’s not from personal experience.

But still absolutely no evidence to support your repeated fantasies as to my socialist bent? Hmmm… Not surprising.

You know, being a neo-con/conservative/republican/right wing/whatever must be a drag. In some ways, you’ve not evolved one iota since Hollywood was investigated for commie lovers in the 40’s and 50’s. Your mentor is just lost on this whole red scare issue, but you faithfully follow him down pinko road. Go ahead, sh!t your pants because China, NK and Cuba are the latest version of your commie fears. You see them everywhere and in everybody. Do you have nightmares about them and mushroom clouds? You’re living in the past. And you’re living with way too much fear.

Here’s one little teaser for you to ponder, Danish. I own a small business, and therfore by defin

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 2, 2006 06:51 AM | Link to this

But then, these same critics seem to think it’s perfectly fine for Dick Durbin, Illinois Democrat, to compare U.S. soldiers guarding detainees at Guantanamo to Nazis. Do they really think it’s alright to compare American soldiers to Nazis, but not terrorist fanatics?-WashingtonTimes

Cut

First, the new data show that the bottom 50% of Americans in income—U.S. households with an income below the median of $44,389—paid a smaller share of total income taxes in 2004 (3.3%) than in Bill Clinton’s last year in office (3.9%). That 3.3% is the lowest share of total income taxes paid by the bottom half of earners in at least 30 years, and probably ever. The majority of American families with an income below $40,000 pay no income tax at all today, and many of them also get a welfare subsidy from the Earned Income Tax Credit that effectively offsets much of what they pay in payroll taxes. By contrast, Americans with an income in the top 1% paid 36.9% of all federal income taxes in 2004, down slightly from 37.4% at what was the height of the dot-com boom in 2000. But the top 5% and 10% of earners saw an increase in their tax share over that same period, with the top 5%’s share rising to 57.1% in 2004 from 56.5% in 2000.-OpinionJournal

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Contemporary politics is less about ideas and more about destroying one’s opponent; less about honest debate and more about getting one’s simplistic talking points across; less about substance and more about physical appearance; less about challenging the audience to think and more about affirming the current views, prejudices and lower nature of “the base.”-RealClearPolitics

By Buy Danish

September 2, 2006 01:23 PM | Link to this

Huge Gas Bag,

Since you are unwilling to admit that you are a stone cold Socialist, you should know that The Kyoto Treaty is endorsed by virtually every Socialist organization on the planet.

It would decimate the U.S. economy while strengthening the European economies and others like China (who is exempt by the rules)at our expense. Only a Socialist or a Useful Idiot would endorse our participation in this treaty.

You may want to think about how decimating our economy would help reduce CO2 emissions. Does poverty help or harm the environment? Are more or fewer taxpayer dollars available to “invest” in technologies that help the environment during dire economic times? If unemployment lines are stretching around the block how does that help create “hope and beauty”?

Having come of age when the hand-wringing was about the coming Ice Age you’ll forgive my skepticism of the prognostications of agenda-driven “scientists”.

Oh, and “put some ice on it” does not come from my personal experience - that would be Juanita Broderick’s story. I was making the point that your insistence that you are not a Socialist is about as convincing as “I did not have sex with that woman”.

By Republican Liberal Activist Judge

September 2, 2006 01:34 PM | Link to this

^^^Ahm so sorry RW got it’s panties in a wad so I guess I’d betta apologize. Ahm truley remorseful that Ronald Reagan (‘81-‘89) was another lying Republican sack of shiite that oversaw the appointment of Vermont DISTRICT Court Judge Cashman (1982) and that his appointee betrayed a sex offender’s victim by giving the Republican pervert a 2 month jail sentence.

Vermont Governor Jim Douglas(Republican for the past 30 years) and the rest of Vermont Republicans were really proud of this purely Republican work. To be fair, Republican liberal activist judges aren’t soft on all crime, just the really sick perverted sex stuff that Republicans identify with most.

Apology tendered and I’m LOL that Republicans hate to see their own reflection so much. Is that some kind of blood sucking vampire affliction that big, big, big, big government Republiholics have ? ? ? Could it be that Count RW & his dark mistress Andyrella would like to help King George and the other Republiscum perverts suck more blood from your wallet to fund more Republican big, big, big, big government ? ? ?

By RW-(the original)

September 2, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this

Idiot at 1:34,

Do you know the difference between a State DISTRICT court and a Federal DISTRICT court? I didn’t think so.

Here’s a little help

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 2, 2006 06:53 PM | Link to this

Not everyone got the story wrong. The Senate Intelligence Committee questioned Wilson under oath. It found that, contrary to his claims, his wife had indeed arranged for the CIA to send him to Niger in 2002. It found that his findings had not, contrary to Wilson’s claim, circulated at the highest levels of the administration. And Bush’s 16 words in the State of the Union to the effect that British intelligence believed Saddam had sought uranium in Africa—words Wilson insisted were fictitious—had been twice confirmed as true by none other than the British government.-WeeklyStandard

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After three years of investigations into the leak of CIA employee Valerie Plame’s name in connection with a suspected conspiracy by the White House to mislead the nation in the war in Iraq, it is now apparent that the White House had absolutely nothing to do with the leak, which was published by Robert Novak in a 2003 column. There goes another campaign issue for Democrats._humanEvents

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Palestinian terrorists who held two Fox News journalists hostage for almost two weeks threatened in an online message to abduct non-Muslims visiting the Palestinian territories and kill them unless their demands were met. The statement, posted Saturday in the name of the Holy Jihad Brigades on a Web site frequently used by militants, said the group would kill any hostages it takes unless they converted to Islam, paid a ransom or Muslim prisoners were exchanged for their release.-JerusalemPost

It looks like it’s gotten good to them.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 2, 2006 06:54 PM | Link to this

Lifetime Democratic contributors have made good on their threat to stop giving money to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) so long as Howard Dean is its chairman.-RealClearPolitics

Aaaaaaaaeeeeeeyyyyyaaaaagggggggeeeeeeeee!!!!!

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Only a dyed-in-the-wool leftist would think to label CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the three major networks, as the mainstream media. Only liberals who are so delusional as to regard their politics as middle of the road could be that mistaken. Normal people are aware of the fact that these news outlets are not only not mainstream, but are clear out of the water and perched on the far left bank. However, those of the liberal persuasion have repeated that lie so often and for so long, I’m afraid they’ve actually come to take it as gospel.-TownHall

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Yeah, Jesus is seen in certain sectors of emasculated evangelicalism and in some spiritually castrated Catholic circles as an altruistic bearded lady who traipsed around Israel spitting out courteous clichés and nifty narratives like an over-medicated Garrison Keillor.-TownHall

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Today’s Cartoon that doesn’t suck!

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 3, 2006 08:00 AM | Link to this

One wonders if Queen Pinko took Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld’s “Iraq commitment” speeches just a bit personal:

Vice President Dick Cheney, meanwhile, still inhabits a lonely planet on which the Iraqis love us.-AJC

If we are going to use the deaths of Iraqi citizens as a benchmark for success or failure,

Given that most of the Iraqi deaths over the past several months have been the result of sectarian conflict, would “victory” require U.S. troops to intervene in a civil war?

then given the fact that more of them died under Saddam’s rule, we’ve already won the war, no?

“Marines are stuck in a quagmire.” Blah, blah, “I think it is only a matter of time before there is a draft,” blah, blah, Our military is overextended, and there is no plan for victory in Iraq.” Blah, blah

Like a hysterical liberal robutt, wind it up and hear democrat election season talking points.

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CAIRO — An American who has become a sometime-spokesman for al Qaeda appeared in a videotape with the terror group’s deputy leader yesterday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam and {{{for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars.}}}-WashingtonTimes

“allah willing, may you remove your foot from our as-ses, pretty please?”

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The U.S. invasion of Iraq opened fresh opportunities for Iranian troublemaking. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and its intelligence services flooded Shi’ite Iraq with agents of influence and subversion, funding and arming powerful militias — e.g., the Badr Brigade and the Mahdi Army — that are paving the way for what Tehran hopes will be a humiliating, Vietnamlike U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.-WashingtonTimes

Funny, I thought Iran had no part of the Iraqi war.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 3, 2006 08:01 AM | Link to this

Getting the old culture of corruption back into business:

Indeed, the general greasing of Iran’s important U.N. connections is already well advanced. Much as Saddam fought sanctions by dangling fat oil development deals and doling out lucrative Oil for Food contracts to win friends and influence politicians, Tehran has already cultivated a global web of current and prospective business partners. Were Iran a more benign energy-rich state, such activity might pass for nothing more than normal enterprise. But under U.N. sanctions, this setup would translate into a constant fount of pro-Iranian lobbying pressure, and incentives to cheat, within a slew of U.N. member states.-OpinionJournal

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Clinton’s war drags on:

Seven years have passed since the U.N. took control of the Serbian province of Kosovo, and it will soon be time to make a permanent decision concerning its indeterminate status.-WashingtonTimes

I guess Bush will have to go accomplish that mission.

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It is time for the United States to give hope to Vietnam’s embattled Montagnard population, its former ally, and to give hope to all Vietnamese citizens. Engagement yes, but not appeasement. The old chain-smoking communists in power in Hanoi know how to {{{play the West}}} and will resist and lie all the way. They will never change, they will only die off.-WashingtonTimes

30 years later they still oppress their people, communist utopia, eh?

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 3, 2006 08:02 AM | Link to this

The national impact (Katrina on natural gas/oil production) wouldn’t have been so severe if it hadn’t hit the only offshore area with extensive oil and natural-gas production. The Pacific, Atlantic and eastern Gulf of Mexico also have substantial oil and gas resources. And many onshore areas, including Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), hold substantial untapped reserves as well. But federal restrictions have placed many of these areas off-limits to energy exploration and drilling. Politics, not geology, is the reason America has concentrated so many energy eggs into one hurricane-prone basket off Louisiana and Texas.-WashingtonTimes

So you pay 3 dollars for a one dollar product for absolutely no good reason at all.

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AFL-CIO President John Sweeney signaled last week just how big a role get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts will play in this fall’s elections. He announced at a press conference that he is committing tens of millions of dollars of union members’ money, which the AFL-CIO will spend {{{exclusively on behalf of the Democratic Party.}}} “We’ll spend $40 million in this election cycle — the largest ever in a midterm election,” Mr. Sweeney pledged.-WashingtonTimes

Thank you for smearing Walmart for us!! Kisses!

By Buy Danish

September 3, 2006 09:23 AM | Link to this

Andy,

Thanks for the news updates. The 8:01 about the Montagnards in Vietman creates an opportunity to seque to this:

Mao Disappears in Chinese Textbooks

I wonder if North Korea has been expurgated from the textbooks too?

BTW, I loved this Doug Giles column you posted yesterday abut Jesus and Just Wars. It has “special delivery to Goldie” written all over it.

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 3, 2006 12:45 PM | Link to this

Danish: My favorite this morning is Queen Pinko, Cynthia Tucker, I figure she’s knocking down about 180K a year, all that she has to do for it is disgorge and string together some democrat talking points once a week.

No thought required.

She’s probably got all 50 columns for this coming year wrote already.

Haha.

By George

September 3, 2006 02:24 PM | Link to this

*My favorite this morning is Queen Pinko, Cynthia Tucker, I figure she�s knocking down about 180K a year, all that she has to do for it is disgorge and string together some democrat talking points once a week.

No thought required.*

Andy, you should talk since all you do is disgorge and string together some Republican talking points once a day.

No thought required either. The RNC does your thinking for you and you just cut and paste whatever fits their talking points.

By Ya Gotta Love the Smell of Roast Uber-Pigs in November

September 3, 2006 03:31 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats enter the fall campaign with a clear edge in the high-stakes fight for control of the U.S. Congress, riding a wave of momentum that has them positioned to retake the U.S. House of Representatives and make significant gains in the Senate.

“It’s too late to fix the national mood — it’s not going to be fixed,” said Republican pollster Frank Luntz. “The major issues are not playing well for Republicans this year, and Republicans are not playing well with America this year.”

History is also with Democrats — the party holding the White House traditionally loses seats in a president’s sixth year. The modern exception was 1998, when public unhappiness over the Republican-led impeachment of President Bill Clinton helped Democrats gain five House seats.

“This looks like a classic sixth-year election,” said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, who called the president’s low approval ratings, hovering at about 40 percent, “the single best indicator for any mid-term election.” In other words, when Republicans are wearing their a$$ for a hat in November they can blame King George and the rest of the extreme uber-right pestilence they have allowed to infest their party.

A Democratic majority in even one chamber of Congress would slam the brakes on what is left of Bush’s second-term legislative agenda and hasten his descent into lame-duck status in the final two years of his presidency.

It also would give Democrats an opportunity to hold hearings and investigate many of the administration’s more controversial foreign, military and energy policy decisions. Don’t count on King George being held accountable for his actions, though…Democrats have way more class than Republicans do ! ! !

Democrats may be scumbags, but they are definitely the lesser of two scumbags ! ! !

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 3, 2006 07:34 PM | Link to this

But that’s not how the al-Jazeera audience sees it. If you’re a Muslim, the (“conversion”) video is anything but meaningless. Not even the dumbest jihadist believes these infidels are suddenly true believers. Rather, it confirms the central truth Osama and the mullahs have been peddling — that the West is weak, that there’s nothing — no core, no bedrock — nothing it’s not willing to trade.-ChicagoSunTimes

That would be Mark Steyn, agreeing with me:

It doesn’t matter how “understandable” Centanni and Wiig’s actions are to us, what the target audience understands is quite different: that there is nothing we’re willing to die for. And, to the Islamist mind, a society with nothing to die for is already dead.

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After my meeting with al-Soudi on campus, I ran into a group of Arab students eager to share their views on the Jewish state. “Israel is not justified. It is something put in the whole Arab world to serve the colonial powers,” explained one, Omar al-Hinfi. His solution is to dismantle Israel and give its land to the Palestinians, sending the Jews “back” to Poland and Germany.-NYPost

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Israel: Was not pushed into the sea. Is engaged in the usual post-modern self-flagellation by which western nations try to seize defeat from the jaws of victory. Observers note the Yom Kippur and Six-Day wars also were viewed as failures in the immediate aftermath. This time, the world admitted Israel was right, and Europe committed troops to a Lebanese buffer zone. Ehud Olmert, catching it at home over the pullout, is taking a hard line on Hezbollah compliance and just got a boost from Nasrallah’s “oops.”-BostonHerald

By You're Right, Where Is Osama?

September 3, 2006 07:37 PM | Link to this

That choice remains the only one available today. Contrary to what Peter Taylor suggests on this page, no negotiation is possible with al-Qaeda or the fanatical Islamist organisations affiliated to it. Their goal is to destroy liberal, tolerant, secular society in all its forms, and replace it with a rigid theocratic dictatorship that enforces a medieval interpretation of the most barbaric elements of Islamic law.-Telegraph

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Now that the top deputy to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell has admitted he was the source of the revelation that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA, the case against Lewis “Scooter” Libby has become too trivial to pursue.-BostonHerald

Oh, isn’t that sad, it’s not any fun anymore.

President Bush should pardon Libby, who was chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney until he was indicted on charges that he misled investigators and a grand jury about his conversations with reporters on the Plame story.

Yea, as soon as Bush does that, you’ll smear his a-ss as corrupt.

Fitzie should drop the charges like a man.

Admit he’s wrong.

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On second thought: Rep. Christopher Shays: ‘I Support the War in Iraq’ A Republican lawmaker fighting for re-election said Sunday he has not turned against President Bush’s Iraq policy but called for a withdrawal timetable to light a fire under the Iraqi government.-NewsMax

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Today’s cartoon that doesn’t suck!

By RW-(the original)

September 4, 2006 02:33 AM | Link to this

Crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin, dead at 44. What a crying shame. Rest in peace, Steve and God bless.

By Mary

September 4, 2006 08:31 AM | Link to this

Glad to know that he didn’t take his baby along for a P.R. stunt.

By Cindy

September 4, 2006 01:29 PM | Link to this

LOL! Great toon Mike! Straight to the heart; rummy can’t get it right so he attacks the critics.