I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Frist
Boobies.
Third
Home.
Fourth..
Heh.
So close
with all due respenct to leninsky... mitt is actually the poster boy for the rightwingwhackjobs... too bad he's mormon. cannabalism will occur sooner than later. implosion is a less harsh word for what is about to happen to them. oy.
Heh indeedy.
*Gomez strutting like rooster*
sometimes i just hate being right...
I wonder if Vitter ever rode on the roof of Mitt's family truckster.
The threat of cartoon penises is elevated.
even more sheets above.
or, do i???
no Republicans and a wee smattering of Democrats are antiwar
Let's remember that the vote wasn't whether to go to war -- it was whether to let Bush decide by himself if he should go to war in a situation of no immediate threat. No member of Congress, ever, should vote yes on such an authorization. This was a betrayal of the Constitution, which puts the power of war in Congress because of the dangers of allowing an executive to aggrandize himself with war powers. Everything that has followed in the movement towards a dictatorship was warned about in the Federalist Papers.
The argument that it was all right to give Bush the power because it seemed like a good political calculation essentially says that a politician has made the most serious decision a government can make on self-interested grounds.
Was the vote OK? No. There are only two acceptable statements a member of Congress can make now: either "I voted no" or "I was wrong".
Brilliant essay but one that leaves the stomach a bit queasy.
Americans were uncertain about the war in 200-2003 and relied on some firm hand to guide us. We were failed by the pols, the Powells, the Friedmans but what about the Intellegence Committee DEMs privy to the classified intellegence?
Do you sit back and allow the lies to take us forward?
When Bush's approval dropped to a record low of about 27% the other day, I hunted around to see what the record high was. I found some news thing saying it was 90% about a month after 9/11/01. Support for war in Iraq was about that too. I was in the 10, for both, but I was pretty chicken about saying so, so I can't skate either. It's revisionist history to say most Dems were opposed or uncertain, but to caveat I didn't look up the stats right before the war started.
I think it was about 10 - 15% opposed, 10 - 15% conflicted, and the rest were in support of this illegal and immoral war.
How anyone could ever see it as otherwise is something I totally fail to understand.
Pollack and Friedman were always wrong about Iraq, including in the early 1990's. How anyone believed them is also beyond me.
It was easy to debunk Powell's presentation at the UN, and the European press it is swiftly.
Friedman and Powell are the worst. Can't they just go away?
Blame Colin. The man could have been president and he hitched his gravitas wagon to the idiot boy. Then the boys Uncle Dick proceeded to humiliate and emasculate him for four years while we decended into this foreign policy and domestic political nightmare, and he went along.
Without Powell at Bush's side Bush never gets elected. Without Colin being a spineless Quesling the war doesn't happen.
Powell is directly responsible for our entire situation. And for what? There is no accoutning for his odd story. Let me say again, he could have been president on a Democratic ticket.
See Pollack, Ken.
Friedman is captivated by violence and threats of violence. He's itching for an attack on Iran.
I blame Joe Lieberman. If he hadnt rolled over and played dead when he debated Cheney, then even worse, not step up to the plate and be the pitbull during the recount in Florida, none of the last 6 years would have happened like this.
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