Poll: Dean's Support Jumps in New Hampshire
Howard Dean- 28%
John Kerry-21%
Dick Gephardt-10%
Joe Leberman- 4%
All results shown HERE
SEE HOWARD DEAN'S NEW SITE FOR YOUNG DEMOCRATS-- GENERATION DEAN --which seeks to reach out to and involve millions of young Americans who care passionately about changing their country.
See video of Dr. Dean's appearance at the Young Democrats of America National Convention in Buffalo, NY last Friday
JESUS, IT'S FALLING APART
IF WE AREN'T GOING TO MAKE AN IMMEDIATE PLEA TO THE UN FOR A NEW RESOLUTION AND ACCEPT WIDE UN INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING, THEN BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW
I think of the folly of this Iraq adventure, and I think of the lies we were told to enable a bunch of possibly well-intentioned (misled)--and definitely greedy megalomaniacs to plan and execute a new world order. I think of the way our unelected President is an ignorant and bitterly comical marionette for
these men in the shadows. I see that Saudis and other Middle-Eastern nationals are preparing for a holy war against our American troops in Iraq- with increasing numbers of Islamists crossing Iraq's borders in preparation for a jihad, or holy war. I read about the bombing at the site of UN Headquarters in Baghdad and think about the way Bush has stupidly and stubbornly refused to accept or promote wider international UN peacekeeping in Iraq. I read about at least one soldier dying each day. I read about soldiers dying of heatstroke...getting a rationed one MRE and limited water each day..they're in hell and fake-patriots drone on about supporting those abused troops.
I see the Abu-Hafs of AlQaeda bragging about tripping up our electrical grid, causing blackouts over the northeastern US last week. (Maybe true/maybe not). Yet all I recall is being "reassured" by Homeland Security within moments of the lights going out that was that this wasn't an act by terrorists. This is interesting since they still don't know what the hell happened five days later. Homeland Security is only a name for a newly overbloated federal bureaucracy.
And now AlQaeda avers they'll target the White House next.
Osama is out there free and plotting. Probably laughing about the Iraq diversion to which Bush drove us.
It strengthened the Taliban. It strengthened Osama. It strengthened Islamic fundamentalist determination to rid their lands of occupiers.
The international support we could have had after 9-11 has been squandered by a war-crazed Bush.
It's getting fucking ridiculous now.
Is anyone out there getting angry yet?
The entire Bush administration has failed us by bowing to the PNAC and their ilk.
I believe we should bring our troops home now.
Proper plans for war were not made. Our men and women overseas suffer and may die because of it.
No--I didn't say BRING THEM ON.
I said:
BRING THEM HOME.
LIAR-IN-CHIEF:
"Shucks--I didn't really mean 'Mission Accomplished'--but don't ya think I looked really cool at the time?"
President Bush, revising his earlier characterization of the fighting in Iraq, said in an interview released yesterday that combat operations are still underway in that country
PLEASE READ THIS BRIEF ARTICLE CAREFULLY.
THINK ABOUT IT.
THEN ASK YOURSELVES WHY THE PRESS NEVER "PRESSED" BUSH ON THIS STATEMENT.
WHY WAS THERE NO FOLLOW-UP ANALYSIS OF HIS INCREDIBLY FALSE ANSWER?
ARE MEMBERS OF TODAY'S PRESS THAT STUPID?
ARE THEY AFRAID OF LOSING THEIR JOBS IF THEY ASK FOR BASIC TRUTH?
IS THIS PRESIDENT SUCH A BUMBLER THAT THE PRESS SHIES AWAY FROM PRESSING HIM...THUS ALLOWING HIM TO GET AWAY WITH BOLD-FACED LIES?
Excerpt:
"On July 25, President George W. Bush made a truly staggering statement to the press after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: “The fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program?
And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow inspectors in, and he wouldn’t let them in. And therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region.”
This statement is worth reading carefully. The president of the United States has stated, in a public forum, that he invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein would not allow weapons inspectors back into his country.
So far as I am aware, this statement has not been the subject of any serious critical analysis in the mainstream American media......
SOME PEACE APOINTMENT!!
"Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene ...
...all immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most."
Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes...the warped bigot who's about to get a recess appointment to the board of directors/U. S. Institute of Peace from GW Bush...because he'd never EVER pass through any other way!
* Opposition to his nomination has come from a number of newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Dallas Morning News and the Chicago Tribune. Pipes' nomination also caused controversy within the Jewish community. The Christian Right loves him, though. Bush panders at the expense of world peace and national unity once again.
From The Crisis Papers:
Bernard Weiner looks at Post 9/11 America Two Years On
America Two Years after 9/11:
25 Things We Now Know
By Bernard Weiner
Co-Editor, "The Crisis Papers."
August 18, 2003
"....As the presidential election run-up approaches, and if we do our jobs correctly, more and more citizens will add up what has happened to their country since the terror attacks of two years ago, and decide that Bush&Co. has to go -- preferably by resignation, but, if not, by impeachment or by the voters."
Killing Saddam
The summer blockbuster to come
BY TOM HAYDEN
"....It has been a bad summer for the Pentagon and the White House, but Saddam's death could be their summer hit. Nothing the growing number of critics can say compares to the potential public gratification and fortification of righteousness that the White House hopes to generate by the coming assassination. That the administration lied, that the occupation costs $4-billion per month, that we have antagonized our allies, that thousands of Iraqis are collateral damage -- all these venial sins will be forgiven, they assume, when Saddam is dead and gone. To seal the victory, at some later date, weapons of mass destruction will be discovered, both Bush and Blair assure us. That prospect should finish off the lingering critics and set the stage for a triumphal November 2004.
But what if the master plan is left unfulfilled? It seems unlikely, but Saddam may elude the Delta posse or already be dead. Or what if the pursuit climaxes in Saddam's ritual death, but the chaos in Iraq continues unabated? What if Saddam, living or dead, is not the deux ex machina behind the daily shootings and woundings of American soldiers? What if the occupiers are facing a vengeful Iraqi nationalism, not the remnants of the old regime?
There is an opening for the peace movement here. If and when Saddam is killed the question becomes, "Why should American troops continue to die if the dictator is dead?" If the ritual symbolizes victory, why shouldn't the American troops come home and leave the rest to the Iraqis? Why shouldn't Paul Bremer III declare victory, set a date for a national Iraqi election and a parallel American troops withdrawal? Or are American troops dying for purposes other than overthrowing the dictatorship?"....
Foreign Policy:
George Will separates the Conservatives from the Neo-Conservatives
I think Mr. Will has done a very good job deconstructing Tony Blair's
neoconservative rhetoric here and reforming it in the light of reality.
THE FACE OF NEOCONSERVATISM
Excerpt:
"...Blair seems to think: Boston, Baghdad, Manchester, Monrovia -- what's the difference? Such thinking is dangerous. Blair's argument is true only if it is trivial: "Ordinary" people choose freedom, democracy and the rule of law because those who do not so choose prove thereby that they are not ordinary.
But there are a lot of them in the world. Some of them are waging guerrilla war against American forces in Iraq.
Blair's thinking is Bush's, too. "There is a value system that cannot be compromised, and that is the values we praise," the president says. "And if the values are good enough for our people, they ought to be good enough for others."
But one must compromise in the face of facts, those stubborn things. It is a fact that not everyone is inclined to praise "the values we praise." And not every society has the prerequisites -- of institutions (political parties, media) and manners (civility, acceptance of pluralism) -- of a free society.
Bush and Blair and many people called neoconservatives believe that moral objectives in politics are universally applicable imperatives. If so, then either national cultures do not significantly differ, or they do not matter or they are infinitely malleable under the touch of enlightened reformers. But all three propositions are false and antithetical to all that conservatism teaches about the importance of cultural inertia and historical circumstances."
Lessons in how to lie about Iraq
The problem is not propaganda but the relentless control of the kind of things we think about
Brian Eno
Sunday August 17, 2003
The Observer
"....When I first visited Russia, in 1986, I made friends with a musician whose father had been Brezhnev's personal doctor. One day we were talking about life during 'the period of stagnation' - the Brezhnev era. 'It must have been strange being so completely immersed in propaganda,' I said.
'Ah, but there is the difference. We knew it was propaganda,' replied Sacha...."
The Criminal Revenge Against The Wilson Family:
Will there be an investigation into whether Bush administration officials violated the law and undermined national security in order to mount a political vendetta?
by David Corn
"Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone with access to classified information to reveal intentionally the identity of an undercover intelligence officer."
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Just another reason to impeach the worst President in U.S. History.
*Which apparently doesn't happen anymore unless the President is Democrat who has an affair.
The GOP impeachers don't "do" criminal and totally unethical liars who are one of their own.*
Visit the
all-new
Pakistani-Fried
KFC!!
Hundreds of angry Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims went on a rampage in Karachi on Sunday, setting fire to a a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet.
"WE DO CHICKEN RIGHT BRIGHT"
Knock Knock!
Hundreds of insurgents in a convoy of trucks attacked a police
headquarters in southeastern Afghanistan yesterday, triggering a gunbattle
that killed 22 people.
www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/home.html
VP Dick Cheney took marching orders early in 2001 about how to handle the California crisis--
directly from Enron's Ken Lay.
"Nooo price caps, Dick.."
"Aye-Aye, Cap'n Enron!"
We have just witnessed the worst blackout in American history.
In the case of the northeast grid, which corporate-energy taskmaster will he now obey?
"The moral of the story? Don't have heartburn over those 16 words. Have it instead over the folks who’ve gotten our nation in a megamess that might cost hundreds more casualties and around $100 billion by Christmas, a figure this regime’s Liars Club is busy doing its best to hide. Judgment is the essence of leadership. It seems sorely lacking when it comes to the president’s Iraqi solution. "
David Hackworth
What happens when truths are laid out beautifully ......
"....whether you're a Democrat or a Republican -- or an Independent, a Libertarian, a Green or a Mugwump -- you've got a big stake in making sure that Representative Democracy works the way it is supposed to. And today, it just isn't working very well. We all need to figure out how to fix it because we simply cannot keep on making such bad decisions on the basis of false impressions and mistaken assumptions.
Earlier, I mentioned the feeling many have that something basic has gone wrong. Whatever it is, I think it has a lot to do with the way we seek the truth and try in good faith to use facts as the basis for debates about our future -- allowing for the unavoidable tendency we all have to get swept up in our enthusiasms........"
Al Gore
....and no one (if you watch TV or read newspapers) seems to be listening?
"......Al Gore slipped into Manhattan last week and gave a rousing speech downtown before a very young audience at New York University. He got some coverage, but Mr. Gore has never been mistaken for an entertainer. In the superamplified media din created by the likes of Arnold and Kobe and Ben and Jen, it's very difficult for the former vice president, a certified square, to break into the national conversation.
That says a lot about us and the direction we're headed in as a nation. You can agree with Mr. Gore's politics or not, but some of the points he's raising, especially with regard to President Bush's credibility on such crucial issues as war and terror and the troubled economy, deserve much closer attention....."
Bob Herbert/NY Times
..instead, on our TV screens, we are fed propped-up propaganda laced with Laci and cobbled up with Kobe. To boot, we get all that serious-sounding pumped-up epic-style music behind the repetitive 'slogan du jour' in big important-looking graphics.
The truth would make us too angry, so FOX, CNN, and MSNBC transmit the nearly-meaningless old fluff-n-hype 24/7.
FROM LE CIRQUE DU FLUFF-N-HYPE:
Spread it, baby.....
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From the speech: "We Stand Our Ground" by William Rivers Pitt:
"....If the American people fully knew what this war in Iraq was really about, if they fully knew what it means today to be a soldier in that part of the world, they would tear the White House apart brick by brick. If the people had but a taste of the horror and the lies, they would repudiate this administration and all it stands for. They don't know, because they have been fed a glutton's diet of misinformation and fraud. Changing that is why we are here...."
".... You will note that I did not name George W. Bush, for blaming Bush for the gross misadministration of this government is like blaming Mickey Mouse when Disney screws up. He is not in charge. Truman said "The buck stops here," and so we point to Bush as a symbol of all that has gone wrong. But he is not in charge. These other men, these New American Century men, have delivered us to this wretched estate, and by God in Heaven, there will be a reckoning for it....."
Quotes from William Rivers Pitt
*From a soldier's letter:
"... While the Army did a great in winning the war, what is not being covered is how broke the Army logistics system is and the damage it is doing to the long term readiness and moral of the Army. The Army seems to have this NTC rotation mentality, which consists of fuck it live in the dirt and filth you only have to be here for a month. That works at NTC, but it seems no one has thought of how to sustain an Army in the field for weeks and months at a time...."
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Paul Krugman wrote in one of his columns this week (entitled Thanks For The MREs):
"......Letters published in Stars and Stripes and e-mail published on the Web site of Col. David Hackworth (a decorated veteran and Pentagon critic) describe shortages of water. One writer reported that in his unit, "each soldier is limited to two 1.5-liter bottles a day," and that inadequate water rations were leading to "heat casualties." An American soldier died of heat stroke on Saturday; are poor supply and living conditions one reason why U.S. troops in Iraq are suffering such a high rate of noncombat deaths?
The U.S. military has always had superb logistics. What happened? The answer is a mix of penny-pinching and privatization — which makes our soldiers' discomfort a symptom of something more general.
Colonel Hackworth blames "dilettantes in the Pentagon" who "thought they could run a war and an occupation on the cheap." But the cheapness isn't restricted to Iraq. In general, the "support our troops" crowd draws the line when that support might actually cost something.
The usually conservative Army Times has run blistering editorials on this subject. Its June 30 blast, titled "Nothing but Lip Service," begins: "In recent months, President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have missed no opportunity to heap richly deserved praise on the military. But talk is cheap — and getting cheaper by the day, judging from the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately." The article goes on to detail a series of promises broken and benefits cut...."
ALSO-SEE: "Some Of Army's Civilian Contractors Are No-Shows In Iraq"
I found this blog entry by Demosthenes to be very interesting.
Excerpt:
"....Thus, 2004. If Dean gets the nomination, or even if he doesn't, there will be an army of politically activated, angry, and nearly fanatical Democrats with a single goal: get the pretender off the throne. There will also be an army of political activated, desperate, and nearly fanatical Republicans with a single goal: keep their man around for that all-important second term. They already loathe each other: the former believes the latter to be psychotic and megalomanaical warmongers and profiteers, and the latter believes the former to be treasonous socialists who want America to die in flames. Appeals to bi-partisan consensus will likely be offered by the Republicans, who will have both 2002 and Grover Norquist's "Bi-partisanship is date rape" line thrown back in their faces. The media will focus less on the rhetoric, and more on the war. Civility is out the window; Republican calls for it will likely be quickly rebutted as well by the "Bourgeous riot" of 2000, where the Republicans proved that they have little taste for civility where it doesn't benefit them. Dirty tricks are out of bound only insofar as they might be found out....."
HOW SAD
*and out of touch*
Establishment Washington Post is the most current apologist for the liar BUSH's war... virtually endorsing the Loserman..the most-booed candidate by members of his own party:
"....He's {Al Gore's} not the only Democrat who thinks he can have it both ways, pandering to anti-Bush passion while protecting his national-security flank. .......
Sen. Joe Lieberman has found plenty to criticize in the Bush administration foreign policy without abandoning his longstanding support of American strength and democracy promotion. It's an honorable position, and one that doesn't depend on portraying everyone else as poor saps duped by wizardly Bush propaganda...."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39381-2003Aug9.html
Wizardly Bush propaganda? How about incredibly misinformed and gullible Americans?
Has the Washington Post forgotten this?
I certainly haven't!
Many Misinformed About Iraq, Sept. 11 Attacks
June 15, 2003:
"...A third of the American public believes U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a recent poll. And 22 percent said Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons. Before the war, half of those polled in a survey said Iraqis were among the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001....."
...Meanwhile, George ("I once took the blame--along with everyone else but Bush") Tenet, smelly and filthy from the Iraq-war lead-up, is allowed four Washington Post pages to try to regain his dignity and reputation:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35443-2003Aug8.html
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