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Mission accomplished

By Mike Luckovich | Saturday, April 28, 2007, 05:22 PM

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By Mrs. Godzilla

April 30, 2007 8:06 AM | Link to this

Osama Been Hiding continues to make the Bush Administration look foolish.

First we want him dead or alive.

Then we hear the President doesn’t really give him that much thought.

Now Mitt Romney looks at the cost and decides it’s too pricey to get just that one guy.

Peace.

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this

SAW THIS AND THOUGHT OF LUCKDULL

A new way to deal with our trolls

By georgia 74

April 30, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this

Tenet sure has the snakes squirming this morning. Nothing will get done at the White House today, thanks George.

By Mike

April 30, 2007 8:13 AM | Link to this

Gee I wonder if Mikey will ever draw Bin-Laden in a critical light. Of course that would require Mikey to love his country more than he hates Bush, so it will never happen.

Wouldn’t it be great if American cartoonists like Mikey EVER criticized terrorists?

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 8:14 AM | Link to this

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 289

By Truthsayer

April 30, 2007 8:18 AM | Link to this

Another cartoon in very poor taste, congratulations, you continue to be outrageous and vapid Mike.

IN THE NEWS - I would give you a link for the top 10 liberal idiots, but I don’t think that it can be narrowed down so much. You see, to be an American liberal, you have to be a fool. The two go together like peanut butter and jelly.

By DebbieDoRight

April 30, 2007 8:19 AM | Link to this

So sad and so true. Great toon Mike.

By wildbillhiltner

April 30, 2007 8:24 AM | Link to this

Hey Mike, you forgot to show the MSM celebrating OBL’s victory and OBL reciprocating by thanking the MSM for providing the blueprint and resources needed to break the US public’s resolve so that Al Quaeda could win.

By gttim

April 30, 2007 8:28 AM | Link to this

Excellent! You nailed it Mike! Sadly, the Bush administration has played right into OBL’s plans. He has an unintelligent President destroying the American way of life, and the Constitution.

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 8:31 AM | Link to this

THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO BE A WAR PROFITEER

George Tenet Cashes in on the Iraq War

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 8:40 AM | Link to this

IN REGARDS TO GEORGE TENET

DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN ???

””“Government policy experience: Director of Central Intelligence (1997-present); Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (1995-1997); special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs, National Security Council (1993-1995); director, oversight of arms control negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States, then staff director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1986-1993); legislative assistant and legislative director, Senator John Heinz (1982-1985)

DEM OR REP _ HE”S A TRAITOR

By Buy Danish

April 30, 2007 8:40 AM | Link to this

I look forward to the “scientists” like rushncap explaining this away. Maybe they’ll claim that CO2 emissions from Earth drift to Mars. They sure can’t blame it on Hummers and flatulent livestock:

[Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.//Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.//Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece

By georgia 74

April 30, 2007 8:43 AM | Link to this

The spin and character assination has begun, good luck Bushies, but Tenet’s tough and remember he one of ya’ll. Mission Accomplished!

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 8:46 AM | Link to this

I look forward to the “bushies” explaining this away.

[Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on Election Night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush’s re-election?](http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2553

By Buy Danish

April 30, 2007 8:47 AM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS,

Your evidence is not too convincing, but I’ll revise my comment to:

Never let anyone that was hired by a Democrat Administration remain in office. If a Democrat thought they were worth hiring the odds are they are incompetent and congenital liars.

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 8:49 AM | Link to this

Bush’s abstinence chief busted for prostitution

By N-GA

April 30, 2007 8:51 AM | Link to this

Van Morrison was great on Saturday night. What many don’t remember is that his old hit song “Brown Eyed Girl” had to be released in the USA with two different versions.

The 45rpm disc had the song on both sides…one version was suitable for radio play and the other was not allowed to be aired publicly.

Does anyone want to guess what the is that was not allowed?

BTW, he sang the banned version Saturday. And the speech police didn’t arrest him.

By @@

April 30, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

Damn ml, you’re drawing the anti-war liberals “short” this morning?

The comments in the “left” frame!!! If I’ve read them once I’ve read them a gazillion times here. The liberal “echo chamber”.

I wonder how they feel “fetching” for Osama?

Better make that a “space suit” Bin Laden. Bush and the conservatives want to send you into outer space, but for now Iraq will do. Our military is waiting for them.

Internal squabbling between the Taliban and al-Qaeda and exploited by Pakistan forced many al-Qaeda leaders to move from the tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan to Iraq in search of new headquarters from which to operate.

(((This was intolerable for operators such as Hadi, and dozens of them began the move to Iraq from Waziristan and Afghanistan. And Islamabad swooped on the chance when its intelligence learned of Hadi’s movements and passed on the information to the US, thereby closing a powerful chapter of al-Qaeda’s operations.)))

War is messy. The liberals need to clean up their act.

Fetch!!!!!

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 9:03 AM | Link to this

This dude’s fight suit has a bulls eye emblazoned on it.

Put it on and prance around your cave.

Make the pinko®s happy.

Coward.

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From a Man on the ground, not some lib cartoonist in his sheltered political world:

al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is terrified of a democratic country in their midst, and is still brutally attacking Iraqi civilians. But we are implementing a steady buildup of Iraqi military and police and seeing the rewards of having worked with the Iraqis in a cooperative way, often at increased risked to our soldiers. Simultaneously the extremists are learning the consequences of having bombed the Iraqi civilians for the past 4 years. Sunni Sheiks are joining together to fight them, proving AQI’s strategy is a short term one that is unsustainable during years of political progress.

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{{{Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake. Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.}}}

Similar to Earth’s warming, huh, gee. What do Earth and Mars have in common? Haliburton? Nope. Sheryl Crow? Maybe. The Sun?

Duh.

Cowards.

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{{{However, despite all of the negatives, the overwhelming consensus among those with whom I have spoken to this point is not a belief that we have done everything we can here, and should therefore leave. The belief amongst the troops here, as exemplified by the aforementioned infantry Captain’s statement, is that these people deserve a chance at a better way of life, and that, rather than abandon them to a fate of certain death at the hands of ruthless sectarians, insurgents, and terrorists, we should continue to do everything we can to help rebuild and secure this nation, and to smash those who would destroy what the Iraqi people are building before they can be successful in doing so.}}}

You know, do the right, courageous thing.

Not the Cowardly thing.

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By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 9:04 AM | Link to this

{{{The smartest woman in America, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., declared that she was wrong to believe “the president when he said he would go to the United Nations and put inspectors into Iraq to determine whether they had WMD.” That’s odd because the congressional resolution for which she voted in October 2002 didn’t promise to send inspectors to Iraq. A small hint that the resolution was not about inspections can be found in its title, “Joint Resolution for the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq.”}}}

This idiot has no idea what she voted for.

Great.

Lucky for us, I remember:

{{{Today we are asked whether to give the President of the United States authority to use force in Iraq should diplomatic efforts fail to dismantle Saddam Hussein’s chemical and biological weapons and his nuclear program. Now, I believe the facts that have brought us to this fateful vote are not in doubt. Saddam Hussein is a tyrant who has tortured and killed his own people, even his own family members, to maintain his iron grip on power. He used chemical weapons on Iraqi Kurds and on Iranians, killing over 20 thousand people.-Oct 10, 2002}}}

Has it been that long?

Does she not write the important stuff down?

Are her followers a bunch of slam idiots that will believe anything that she says no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary?<———————-!!!!

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Huh, I didn’t think fire could melt steel:

{{{A heavily traveled section of freeway that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed early Sunday after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and erupted into flames, authorities said.}}}

Kinda makes all you 9/11 conspiracy theorists look like a bunch of moonbat cranks, don’t it?

Cowards.

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{{{OUR OPINIONS: Shame on Atlanta- Killing of Kathryn Johnston exposes rot in police ranks that must continue to be investigated.}}}

Not one mention of Shirley Franklin’s “war on drugs” in the whole article.

It’s almost like she’s not in charge, has anyone checked to see if she’s still the mayor?

Oh, wait a minute, she’s a liberal. That means it’s the cops fault and Franklin gets a pass.

Like Bush never does.

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By Jesus

April 30, 2007 9:10 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 9:14 AM | Link to this

Today’s cartoon that doesn’t suck like I do

By @@

April 30, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

Brown-eyed Girl?

I love that song.

I think they should have left it as it was.

Sanitized version:

“Sometimes I’m overcome just thinkin’ about slippin’ and a-slidin’ all along the waterfall with you.”

Hmmmmmmmmm???

Original version:

“Sometimes I’m overcome just thinkin’ about making love in the green grass, behind the stadium with you.”

The original version was sweet and innocent.

The sanitized version opens the door to all sorts of euphemisms.

By Paul

April 30, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this

G’mornin’ N-GA

Wasn’t it something about runnin’ and laughin’ and makin’ love in the green grass? Different generation then - even some 14 and 15-year-olds were clueless -

By Paul

April 30, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this

LuckoDull

A followup from Friday - I saw a video of Hillary giving her “America’s ready for a multilingual President” regarding her “southern” (?) accent that comes and goes depending on who she’s talking to. I have to say, given the manner in which she said it, her expression and the audience reaction, I’ll have to put it in the “making a joke” category (same as with Sen McCain).

By Truthsayer

April 30, 2007 9:27 AM | Link to this

I believe in being fair. This is joke that I received the other day via e-mail.

Chelsea Clinton is talking to a soldier who has been fighting in Iraq. She asks him if he is scared of anything. He replies: Yes! Osama, Obama and Yo Mamma!

Although mildly amusing as a lame rhyme, it is offensive because although I am no fan of either Hillary Clinton or Barak Obama, I think that to put any American politician in the same catagory, even Harry Reid, is just too over the top and WRONG. You liberals need to remember that as well.

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this

BUSH IDEA OF ENERGY ALTERNATIVES???

U.S. Proposal Would Allow Oil Drilling Off Virginia Five-Year Plan Would Also Open Alaskan, Gulf Waters

By Truthsayer

April 30, 2007 9:35 AM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS - What alternatives that are IMMEDIATELY available on a large scale would you propose? You libs have a lot in common with Ross Perot - long on identifying problems and short on real solutions.

By Scooter

April 30, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this

Yeah ml, ridding a country of a tyrant, allowing the country to then decide and vote on their rulers, then leaving before those peoples’ newly elected government is capable of defending itself should do a great service to end terrorism.

‘But your most disgraceful case was in Somalia; where- after vigorous propaganda about the power of the USA and its post cold war leadership of the new world order- you moved tens of thousands of international force, including twenty eight thousands American solders into Somalia. However, when tens of your solders were killed in minor battles and one American Pilot was dragged in the streets of Mogadishu you left the area carrying disappointment, humiliation, defeat and your dead with you. Clinton appeared in front of the whole world threatening and promising revenge , but these threats were merely a preparation for withdrawal. You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew; the extent of your impotence and weaknesses became very clear.

You elected it America, now our patriotic leaders will insist on limiting the War on Terrorism to one front. One might say Al-Qaeda doesn’t have the command structure to manage two fronts and Iraq is serving three goals; establishing representative governments in a region in which hopelessness and despair breed terrorist, ridding the world of a man who’s intentions were evil and never cooperated with the UN, and forcing Al-Qaeda to fight on two fronts while not allowing them to choose the battle field.

But what do I know, I stopped drawing cartoons when I was in grade school.

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this

[We agree with you that Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials took the United States to war for flimsy reasons. We agree that the war of choice in Iraq was ill-advised and wrong headed. But your lament that you are a victim in a process you helped direct is self-serving, misleading and, as head of the intelligence community, an admission of failed leadership. You were not a victim. You were a willing participant in a poorly considered policy to start an unnecessary war and you share culpability with Dick Cheney and George Bush for the debacle in Iraq.] (http://noquarter.typepad.com/myweblog/2007/04/letterto_georg.html)

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

NO DUH

Time to Outlaw Paperless Electronic

By mike

April 30, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

Lets see..the war is the fault of the liberals. the mayor is the blame for the APD narco squad murdering an old woman. what a great place to live among all the knuckledraggers who just cant get it right.

By Buy Danish

April 30, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

{{{The 45rpm disc had the song on both sides…one version was suitable for radio play and the other was not allowed to be aired publicly.}}}

N-GA, As usual you don’t know what you’re talking about.

ONE:

As background to the song title, here’s a quote from Van from Into The Music, the 1975 Ritchie Yorke biography: They put out publicity around that time to the fact that it was written specifically about somebody I knew, but it wasn’t. Originally, it was called “Brown Skinned Girl” when I wrote the song. I just thought “Brown Eyed Girl” sounded better or something. I guess it really wouldn’t have made much difference, but “Brown Skinned Girl” was the original title. After we’d recorded it, I looked at the tape box and didn’t even notice that I’d changed the title. That’s how spaced out it was. I looked at the box where I laid it down with my guitar and it said “Brown Eyed Girl” on the tape box. It’s just one of those things that happen.”

TWO:

Record companies always released 2 versions of every Single - one for DJs that has the same song on both sides (the edited version of a Single for radio only ), and the Commercial version which has an A side and a B side.

I know, it’s so much better to contrive some racist conspiracy.

By getalife

April 30, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this

A new way to deal with our trolls: Hug A Hater

Warning: some harsh language.

By Erik

April 30, 2007 9:49 AM | Link to this

The right-wingers who are attacking this cartoon aren’t too bright. The point is that George W. Bush has done more to help Osama bin Laden than anyone in America. If the right-wingers had a clue, they would be incredibly angry, not at Mr. Lukovich, but at their beloved President who has done more to hurt America, its troops, and the anti-terrorism cause than all the liberals in America put together.

By JP

April 30, 2007 9:51 AM | Link to this

Great one, mike!

Mike: “Gee I wonder if Mikey will ever draw Bin-Laden in a critical light. Of course that would require Mikey to love his country more than he hates Bush, so it will never happen.”

No liberals I know deny that Bin Laden is an evil ba$$ard who should be found and brought to justice. In fact, the liberals I know are more adamant about that than George Bush! Why do Righties blast liberals for not being harsh enough on Bin Laden, but they give Bush a pass for dropping the ball on catching him?

Can you say “we should have finished the job at Tora Bora before getting distracted by Iraq”? I knew you could!

Food for thought: 9/11 attacks were appalling, but they don’t pose the existential threat politicians make them out to be.

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this

{{{By mike April 30, 2007 9:43 AM Lets see..the war is the fault of the liberals.}}}

Who the F said that?

If we SURRENDER then it will be the fault of the liberals.

Coward.

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By JP

April 30, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this

wildbillhiltner: Before you congratulate the MSM for helping break Americans’ will, shouldn’t you cast a critical eye on the administration for not clearly explaining from the beginning the kind of war they were planning to get us into? This nonsense about “oh yeah, by the way, this is a LONG WAR..now shut up and be supportive!” is just that: NONSENSE.

Bush Co’s failure to harness the bipartisan resolve we had just after 9/11—in fact, their squandering of it by launching an attack on Iraq—does not have any bearing on the Americans who weren’t mobilized for a long difficult fight.

Remember Dick “6 weeks, I doubt 6 months” Rumsfeld? How about finding out who decided to try to sell the war as a short, easy conflict? Start with the source.

By Buy Danish

April 30, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

Scooter,

Great post. Thanks for reminding these monkeys of Bin Laden’s own words.

Erik,

My interpretation of the cartoon is that if the Defeatocrats get their way with their Rapid Surrender Plan, Bin Laden will be able to claim “Mission Accomplished”.

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

{{{By getalife April 30, 2007 9:48 AM A new way to deal with our trolls: Hug A Hater}}}

Before you pinko®s get too warm to this theme:

{{{In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who intentionally posts derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages about sensitive topics in an established online community such as an online discussion forum to bait users into responding.}}}

Uh, huh:

{{{By LuckoDull April 30, 2007 9:14 AM Today’s cartoon that doesn’t suck like I do}}}

You libs are the trolls here, name jacking Cowards.

Conservatives tell the truth.

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By getalife

April 30, 2007 9:59 AM | Link to this

It is not a war.

It is a fraud occupation.

Pay attention the the Waxman hearings and you will see the proof.

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

What a clown:

{{{By Erik April 30, 2007 9:49 AM The right-wingers who are attacking this cartoon aren’t too bright. The point is that George W. Bush has done more to help Osama bin Laden than anyone in America.}}}

Yes, Erik, we have conclusive proof of your crackpot theory by all the successful attacks Al Qaeda has had on the United States since 9/11.

Duh.

Only with the loony left is no more attacks seen as a strength…. for Al Qaeda.

What a wanker, you libs are the ones building them up into some freaking boogy man.

Bush is killing there as-ses by the boatload.

Who is the one that is hiding in a cave, numbnuts?

Coward.

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By getalife

April 30, 2007 10:05 AM | Link to this

Andy,

This is the American people’s blog and you are a troll.

You just need a hug.

Bwa.

By JNH

April 30, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

Hey IN THE NEWS. Loved the links 8:08AM and 8:14AM! Where’s the outrage regarding Romney’s stupid comment?? I suppose the aliens kidnapped that ‘liberal media.’

By RW-(the original)

April 30, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this

It’s great to see that Tony Snow is back at work this morning.

Any thoughts from the Defeatocrats?

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 10:31 AM | Link to this

Let’s Debunk Some Myths Regarding Impeachment

By RW-(the original)

April 30, 2007 10:34 AM | Link to this

JNH is IN THE NEWS

What an absolute bottom feeding loser.

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 10:36 AM | Link to this

RW WRONG AS USUAL

LA LA LA

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By getalife

April 30, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

Its corporate media.

How do you surrender a fraud occupation?

Turn yourself in?

Geez.

By RW-(the original)

April 30, 2007 10:37 AM | Link to this

Methinks IN THE NEWS doth protest too much. Your thoughts JNH?

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

LA LA LA LA

PROTEST PROTEST PROTEST

BUT ME IN A FREE SPEECH ZONE!!!

LA LA LA METHINKS YOU DONT_THINKS!

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

[Months after dogs and cats started dropping dead of renal failure from melamine-tainted pet food, American consumers are beginning to learn how long and how wide this contaminant has also poisoned the human food supply. Last week, as California officials revealed that at least 45 people are known to have eaten tainted pork, the USDA announced that it would pay farmers millions of dollars to destroy and dispose of thousands of hogs fed “salvaged” pet food. But this is just the tip of the iceberg

By RW-(the original)

April 30, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

LOCK YOURSELF UP. IT”S DEMOCRATS THAT PUT PROTESTERS IN A FREE SPEECH CAGE.

Your thoughts JNH?

By w00t

April 30, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

Doesn’t bushy tail always say that thde troops want to stay and finish the so called “job”?

Seventy two percent of U.S. troops in Iraq believe the United States should pull out within one year, a column by Nicholas Kristof in Tuesday’s New York Times reveals. The poll was conducted by Zogby International and is the first poll to examine the attitudes of those currently serving in the wartorn nation.

We have this and several general’s saying we need to get out of there. Who exactly is bush listening too?

If the people of this county, the troops, and the commanders want out of this mess, why does bush keep us there?

Bush needs to let go of his personal pride and self centered ego, and do the right thing by pulling the troops out.

By JNH

April 30, 2007 10:57 AM | Link to this

No RW (original). JNH is not IN THE NEWS.

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

Bush Zones Go National

By RW-(the original)

April 30, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this

NOT CONVINCING, JNH.

Your thoughts, IN THE NEWS?

getalife,

Why won’t Brian Ross release the entire DC madam list? Must be slam full of Democrats so he has to be very selective in what he reports.

By IN THE NEWS

April 30, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

RW IS LUCKO DULL

RW IS BUY DANISH,

RW IS @@

RW IS TRUTHSAYER< EDWIN< OLD FUDDY DUDDY

RW IS RANDY

RW _ PLEASE KEEP YOUR “”“THOUGHTS”“” TO YOURSELF

By @@

April 30, 2007 11:06 AM | Link to this

I was gonna ask if the liberals here were an extension of Google.

(((So al Qaeda, lacking any concrete achievements, tries to at least gather more mentions in the media. Google is keeping score for the terrorists, and that may be good for the soul, but it won’t take you anywhere else.)))

Dark souls you liberals are. Aiding the enemy with your constant reporting of Al Qaeda’s successes.

You liberals have got these vivid imaginations that won’t allow any “positives” to intrude. Thankfully, our military is inspired by the “positives”, by the “possibilities”.

I always liked what Oriana Fallaci had to say about “imagination”.

“With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.”

Liberals….”tedious Goobers”, errrr Googlers.

Outta here!

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this

{{{By w00t April 30, 2007 10:46 AM Doesn’t bushy tail always say that thde troops want to stay and finish the so called “job”?}}}

Hey woosie, where you been?

Ever wonder why Zogby won’t ask the troops if they want to win the war or do you want to lose the war?

You wouldn’t be able to cherry pick and distort the answers from that question.

Let’s see what else the troops thought, taken directly from YOUR link:

{{{Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11, most don’t blame Iraqi public for insurgent attacks.}}}

So they think they are fighting Al Qaeda and that Saddam helped them with 9/11.

Yes, let’s believe everything the troops say.

Dullard.

Coward.

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By RW-(the original)

April 30, 2007 11:10 AM | Link to this

SORRY STALIN, IT”S A PUBLIC FORUM.

Where is that “truther” moron, Will Jones, when you need him? I want to know why Bush blew up the Bay Bridge and blamed it on a tanker truck. Is the Global War on Tanker Trucks about to begin or is Cheney secretly invested in a new oil transport company?

Your thoughts, Rosie?

By rushncap

April 30, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

So let’s see: it’s been 4 years since the start of the war. Several months since the much-ballyhooed “surge”. So in April we have lost (so far) 117 soldiers. That’s the second highest single month total to date, and third-highest per day average to date (after April 2004 and March 2003 when we actually invaded). Meanwhile Tenet seems to have gotten fed up with being the scapegoat for everything, and is starting to bite back the hand that sodomizes him. Bush’s AG more than embarrassed himself in front of Congress. Can someone tell me a single positive thing this administration has demonstrably done?

Meanwhile idiots like @@, RW, Muffin and all the others on this blog keep up the drumbeat of “Bush is the greatest thing since sliced bread”. What retards.

By RW-(the original)

April 30, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

rushncap,

Before sliced bread what was the greatest thing?

By the way, when you take the battle to the enemy in a serious way your casualty count is sadly going to go up, but it’s the only real way to defeat them unless you want to kill the entire civilian population too.

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

{{{By trying to again empower the government to regulate broadcasting, illiberals reveal their lack of confidence in their ability to compete in the marketplace of ideas, and their disdain for consumer sovereignty—and hence for the public.}}}

They can’t think on their own in other words.

Plus we smoke them out of their ivory tower Coward hideouts and expose them for the mindless gasbags that they really are.

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By Randy

April 30, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

George Tenet is your typical whiney-a* liberal. He was the director of the CIA for chrissake. Now he wants to blame the administration for feeding him false intelligence?

WTF was his job anyway? Wasn’t he the DIRECTOR of the CIA?

What a moron! Does he know how stupid that sounds?

Whining because somebody leaked his SLAM DUNK and destroyed his career.

WhyTF do the libs always look for someone else to put their blame on.

Frvcking losers.

By rushncap

April 30, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this

No, no, RW, I understand. More Americans dying is a sign of progress. Brilliant!

By Buy Danish

April 30, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this

{{{Meanwhile Tenet seems to have gotten fed up with being the scapegoat for everything, and is starting to bite back the hand that sodomizes him.}}}

Is is just me, or is that a very bizarre analogy, that only a deviant like rushncap could think up.

By Soothsayer

April 30, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this

The tiger kills the elephant by biting it once a day. We learned this lesson in Vietnam but have forgotten it since. We unfortunately are having to relearn it today. Rule of thumb: don’t enter a war where the other side doesn’t wear uniforms.

By rushncap

April 30, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

It’s just you, Muffin. It’s just you.

By RW-(the original)

April 30, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

It does tell us what rushncap does with his off hand when he visits his “productivity” sites.

EWWWWWWWWW…….

rushncap,

Were the D-Day landings a sign of progress?

By rushncap

April 30, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

Yes, D Day was a sign of progress. I guess in your mind so was V Tech. And I guess scum like you is rooting for us to make twice as much “progress” next month.

BTW, RW, I know you can’t answer this, but I still thought I’d ask: other than our soldiers dying by the dozens, do you have any benchmarks for our “progress” in Iraq? Or the death toll sufficient?

By JNH

April 30, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH - 10:30AM. What’s the point? Without the right to free speech and to protest (within appropriate guidelines), we will cease to be a democracy. If you disagre with a protestor’s point of view, get over it!!!

By RW-(the original)

April 30, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

D-Day is like a mass murder at V-Tech????

rushncap,

Are you toasted this morning? And I can answer your silly a-ss question, but I already have about twenty thousand times on this board so I’ll have to deduce that you don’t like the answer.

By Buy Danish

April 30, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

RW,

Speaking of D-Day, I was just about to post this, to put the casualties in Iraq in perspective:

World War II was the single deadliest conflict the world has ever seen, causing many tens of millions of deaths. The tables below provide a detailed country-by-country count of death by side.

Freakoid rushncap,

They’re your words - You own them. Although in all fairness the use of the word “bite” could have been written by or about Bill Clinton too, so you’re not alone. Maybe there’s a Deviants Anonymous group you could join. Or if nothing like this exists, maybe you could be a pioneer in this area and start one up.

By w00t

April 30, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

D-day was a ONE event. Yes it is understood that a great loss of life occurred.

However, the troop death count in Iraq has been on an upward trend. You would expect, after you have defeated the army and killed it’s leaders, that troops deaths would go down. However, this is not the case. After four years, Iraq should be a much more stable country than it currently is.

This is also very true for the deaths Iraqi people. I would hope that everyone could agree that they would expect to see progress in a country where “Major Military Operations have ended” after almost four years. Where people are rebuilding their lives and infrastructure is rebuilt. You can’t just decided and say, “we’ll decide that progress will start from here” You don’t get a “do-over”, or a free pass. The clock starts the day you enter the country.

By Paul

April 30, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this

One thing I haven’t heard commented on by the group (although they’re not all here) who tend to repeat “Bush lied about WMDs to invade Iraq”: Tenet said, from the Clinton administration through the invasion, that he was convinced Iraq had WMDs. He also said there was a very real fear that those WMDs (100-500 tons of chemical and biological agents) could make their way to terrorist groups.

Doesn’t do much for “Bush lied” when the Director, Central Intelligence Agency tells the President Iraq possessed WMDs, does it?

By RW-(the original)

April 30, 2007 11:49 AM | Link to this

wOOt,

We aren’t fighting against Iraq now. Try to keep up. It’s a new war in the old location, k?

Buy Danish,

Thanks for the perspective. I’ve got some errands to run so I’ll “see” you guys later. I’m still absolutely astonished that rushnacap thinks WWII was as senseless as the V-Tech murders, but I guess it’s because his side lost.

Later!

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 11:50 AM | Link to this

{{{By Randy April 30, 2007 11:29 AM George Tenet is your typical whiney-a* liberal. He was the director of the CIA for chrissake. Now he wants to blame the administration for feeding him false intelligence? What a moron! Does he know how stupid that sounds?}}}

Randy: The liberals, being the childlike creatures that they are, think this is a wonderful defense and have set about attacking the Bush administration for not telling his intelligence agency what was going on in the world. (If you could only see all the pinko®s blinking right now, boy, would we laugh.)

Tenet’s fall back position is “you believed what I told you?”

Ridiculous, isn’t it?

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By getalife

April 30, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

Ah, the trolls are spinning what Tenet said as usual.

The fact of the matter is he was dead wrong.

He is pimping at the wrong time and would not be surprised if he testifies after Condi in the Waxman hearing on this subject.

He should worry about his reputation and his freedom after he testifies under oath.

By rushncap

April 30, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this

Muffin, I don’t care a jot for your sensibilities. If you are so touchy, leave.

RW, your only landmark for anything seems to be that more Americans are dying. As I said, by that logic V Tech provides the best education amongst American universities. You cannot point to a single sign of progress in Iraq, there is NOTHING positive coming out of there. Nothing. At all. The country is in shambles, no one knows what to do about it, and your idiotic “we mustn’t tell the truth because it hurts morale” is not doing anyone any good. This administration is the worst thing in at least a century, and probably significantly more than that.

By getalife

April 30, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

BTW Paul,

We already know the claim by w in the SOTU address about the Niger bs was a lie.

Joe Wilson is credible.

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

How about this summation, to give you the full extent of what is so wrong about George Tenet, the CIA and some of the most massive intelligence failures in history, 9/11 comes to mind, consider that Valerie Plame was employed as a “weapons of mass destruction” analyst.

It’s all starting to come together, ain’t it?

Rumsfeld, knowing full well that he couldn’t trust what the CIA was telling him, started his own intelligence service.

Yes, you libs got us this time, jeez.

Don’t you ever get tired of being the fools?

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By Right-wing nut job in full glory

April 30, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this

I agree with Paul that those commie pinkos are wrong when that say that Bush lied, but you want to talk about a real lib conspiracy look up the definition of ‘lie’ in the dictionary. It says that a lie includes just being wrong without knowing it:

LIE:

1 a : an assertion of something known or believed by the speaker to be untrue with intent to deceive b : an untrue or inaccurate statement that may or may not be believed true by the speaker 2 : something that misleads or deceives

So under the lib, pinko, commie, won’t kill a Muslim for fun, definition of lie, Bush lied. Maybe english has a liberal bias.

RWNJIFG

By bon scott

April 30, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this

By RW-(the original) - April 30, 2007 11:00 AM - getalife, Why won’t Brian Ross release the entire DC madam list? Must be slam full of Democrats so he has to be very selective in what he reports.

Forgive me, O great self anointed blog moderator, for answering a question addressed to someone else. Nah, don’t forgive me. Like most little despots, you’re very sensitive to criticism.

You must have missed that class on “innocent until proven guilty”.

Hey, remember Richard Jewell, the prime suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing? Hounded by the authorities and the press until the anti-abortionist crowd’s favorite pyrotechnics hobbyist, Eric Rudolph, confessed to the crime.

Just how many innocent (Democratic) lives do you want ruined by pushing the release of a list from a w******* queen whom I wouldn’t trust with my trash.

The truth will come out. Be patient, my son. Be patient. And keep in mind that Brian Ross, a veteran investigative reporter for NBC and then ABC for decades, who wears his impartiality like a glove, doesn’t pillory anyone without solid evidence from multiple sources.

Unlike “news” outlets like Fox, who have made jumping to conclusions on the flimsiest of evidence corporate policy.

By Buy Danish

April 30, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

{{{By rushncap

April 30, 2007 11:59 AM |

Muffin, I don’t care a jot for your sensibilities. If you are so touchy, leave.}}}

rushncap,

Awwwww. It appears that I have struck a nerve and in predictable deviant moonbat fashion you are projecting your “touchiness” on to me.

It just so happens that I am leaving, but not because of you.

I’ll be back later!

By Right-wing nut job in full glory

April 30, 2007 12:10 PM | Link to this

Somebody was talking about keeping libs in intelligence jobs look what Reagan’s NSA director says:

“To put this in a simple army metaphor, the Commander-in-Chief seems to have gone AWOL, that is ‘absent without leave.’ He neither acts nor talks as though he is in charge. Rather, he engages in t**-for-tat games…I hope the President seizes this moment for a basic change in course and signs the bill the Congress has sent him. I will respect him greatly for such a rare act of courage, and so too, I suspect, will most Americans.” - Lieutenant General William E. Odom

How do pinkos get to be Generals anyway? How did he sneak by Reagan’s commie radar? I guess all you can say is that these Leninists are a clever bunch.

RWNJIFG

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

{{{By rushncap April 30, 2007 11:59 AM You cannot point to a single sign of progress in Iraq, there is NOTHING positive coming out of there. Nothing. At all.}}}

rushncrap: When RW says he’s leaving that means that RW is leaving.

It figures a Coward like you would take the opportunity to sling some Bullsh-it arrows in his absence, you didn’t count on me stepping in, did you?

When the Sunnis in Anbar take up arms against their former “allies” Al Qaeda, not only is this good news, it’s a sign that this war is fixing to come to a successful conclusion. For America.

{{{By bonnie scott April 30, 2007 12:05 PM Just how many innocent (Democratic) lives do you want ruined by pushing the release of a list from a w* queen whom I wouldn’t trust with my trash.}}}

Uh, oh, looks like finchie’s name just might be on that list.

And I’ll bet she drives a….. Maserati!

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By Buy Danish

April 30, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

Now Sybil Bon Scott imagines that RW is his son. What a psycho.

Bon Scott,

Was it Fox News that led the public to believe that Richard Jewell was guilty?

Bonus question: Who was in the White House at that time.

I’ll check in later to see if you’ve managed to summon up the brain cells to respond.

By Paul

April 30, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

getalife 12:01

I’d rather not rehash the Wilson credibility thing (lots of repeats - almost all has been said) - but what the Tenet interview on 60 Minutes showed was that the reference had been dropped twice in the rough draft stage. When Tenet got the third draft he didn’t read it - passed it to his exec with the “let me know if anything’s wrong” charge. Evidently the exec didn’t read it, either (or if he did, was incredibly dense) so that was another example of passing off a job he should have done. It was for the State of the Union, for pete’s sake.

Right Wing 12:05

Most people put the “intent/knowledge” elements in the definition. By the other definition, nearly every scientist and doctor in the world are liars.

By Buy Danish

April 30, 2007 12:19 PM | Link to this

LuckoDull,

Great point about finch being on that list! Didn’t he live in the DC area at one time?

Bwahahahahahaha.

Later…

By Right-wing nut job in full glory

April 30, 2007 12:19 PM | Link to this

If you think Tenet is a lefty jerk, apparently he is a moderate relative to some others at CIA:

(“In fall of 2002, [Tenet] was told specifically that there was a high level source in Saddam’s government that was saying, ‘We don’t have WMD,’ ” Johnson said. “George Tenet’s hands are just as bloody as everybody else in this administration in helping gin up what was an unfounded case for war.”

Johnson is a registered Republican who voted for Bush in 2000.)

I can’t believe this commie had the foresight to vote for Bush so that he could claim to be a God-Fearing, America- Loving, Bush fellating, Republican later on. He doesn’t fool me though.

RWNJIFG

By LuckoDull

April 30, 2007 12:23 PM | Link to this

{{{By nut job April 30, 2007 12:10 PM blah, blah, blah I hope the President seizes this moment for a basic change in course and signs the bill the Congress has sent him. I will respect him greatly for such a rare act of courage, and so too, I suspect, will most Americans.” - Lieutenant General William E. Odom}}}

Nut hugger: This General Odom?-

{{{What’s Wrong With Cutting and Running? by Gen. (ret.) William E. Odom}}}

Cowards.

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By Paul

April 30, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

getalife

Reference my 12:01 - a good question is why the reference kept getting reinserted after it had been dropped after the first charge was rejected on advise of CIA. Someone wanted it in there - so it was either being pushed or there was data that led to other conclusions. Still and all - it was the wrong conclusion.

By getalife

April 30, 2007 12:26 PM | Link to this

Of course you don’t Paul, it is a losing argument.

May I suggest you stick to the the pathetic strawman bs like the rest of the trolls.

By Right-wing nut job in full glory