October 2005

October 25, 2005

The "Opposition" Party

Democrats say that if top Bush aides are indicted, they will use the fact that Plame's identity was leaked in connection with the drive to invade Iraq to intensify their criticism of Bush.

''We'll try to take it back to the president," one Senate Democratic leadership aide said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ''We'll call for a wholesale housecleaning in the White House, like Reagan did after Iran-Contra, and call on the president to put an end to this culture of corruption."

So after three years of kissing Bush's ass with regards to his depraved actions in Iraq (except if arguing that they're not depraved enough), if indictments are brought the lies that facilitated the invasion will have suddenly become a sign of "corruption". Uhhhhhh...

And, natch, once the White House has been "housecleaned", the Democrats can get back to calling for troop increases.

October 18, 2005

Who The Fuck Let Him Out Of The Asylum?

The world is watching to see whether China will chart a path towards a more open society, and wondering why it is concealing the pace of its military spending, U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday. [...]

Rumsfeld accused China of understating the scope of its Defence spending, and he said this is sowing suspicion about how China intends to use its growing military might.

In an interview aboard his plane en route from Washington, Rumsfeld questioned China's motives in underreporting its Defence spending. He mentioned no figures, but the Pentagon said last summer that China may be spending US$90 billion on Defence this year -- three times the announced total.

And about 20% of the U.S. total, with a population four times as large. If the "world" truly is more concerned with Chinese military than U.S. military spending and designs, then let's hear the World's heads of states say so with their own mouths. What, they're so terrified of the big bad Chinese that they need this kook to speak for them?

October 09, 2005

Trust Us: We're Incompetent Fucks

It appears that George Bush was lying when he touted the ten terrorist plots broken up by the "international community" since September 11.

But it's often fun, when dealing with the Bush Administration's lies, to play "What If He Were Telling The Truth?". So, what if Bush wasn't lying?

That means that the "international community" has broken up ten terrorist plots -- while being unable to foil an increasing and now record-number of major terrorist attacks. In just the last two years there were about 900 significant attacks -- including 200 in Iraq, which piece of real estate Dubya has claimed the "central front" in the "War On Terror".

Hundreds of billions of dollars spent, two countries bombed to hell and back -- and irretrievably poisoned by the United States' toxic weaponry, tens of thousands of civilians killed, a possible Administraiton-toppling scandal, a major American city ravaged while the Administration could do nothing but sit and watch because needed manpower was stuck in Iraq, American prestige (not to mention Bush's poll ratings) at an all-time low. And all so that Bush could, in an "unprecedented" speech concerning the "War On Terror", trumpet his Administration's skillz in turning back something on the order of one-half of one percent of would-be terrorist attacks.

That's if Bush had been telling the truth regarding those skillz -- which wasn't, in fact, the case. Who in hell writes Bush's scripts, anyway? Osama himself?

October 05, 2005

Some Things Never Change

Dick Cheney's head is still planted firmly up his own ass, for instance:

The Bush administration will aggressively pursue terrorism in Iraq and on "every other front," Vice President Cheney said Monday, asserting that the United States is now paying the price for two decades of weak responses to terrorist attacks.

Addressing Marines who have just returned from Iraq, Cheney said the failure of both Republican and Democratic administrations to retaliate decisively after terrorism incidents during the 1980s and 1990s led directly to the atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001.

"The terrorists came to believe that they could strike America without paying any price. And so they continued to wage those attacks, making the world less safe and eventually striking the United States on 9/11," Cheney said. [...]

"Time and time again, for the remainder of the 20th century, the terrorists hit America and America did not hit back hard enough," he said, rallying the crowd. "As President Bush has said, the only way the terrorists can win is if we lose our nerve and abandon our mission."

And if the frequency and magnitude of terrorist attacks has steadily increased since the Bush Administration began to "hit back" (at civilians and "terrorist suspects"), well, that only proves that:

A. The terrorists are getting desperate.
B. Al-Qaeda is in its last throes.
C. We aren't dropping enough bombs, torturing enough niggers, destroying enough houses, changing enough regimes, building enough bases. Spending as much on the military as the rest of the World combined won't cut the mustard -- we gotta spend even more (after all, we wouldn't want the President's Uncle Bucky to miss a mortgage payment for his new home).

October 04, 2005

Hamstrung

It's perhaps not polite to say, "I told you so." But a little less than a year ago, in "endorsing" George Dubya over John Kerry, this blogger predicted:

No American President since Eisenhower has completed a full eight-year Presidency without being waylaid by scandal during his second term. The opportunities for Bush to add another notch to this impressive record are many ... A second Bush Administration could well be too busy putting out fires to be able to concentrate on destroying the world.

To-day's events have been incubating for some time, of course. But a serendipitous trifecta it is: Shrub's Iraq-approval rating has dropped to 33%; Senate Republicans are said to be considering a filibuster of Bush's new Supreme Court nominee (while Dick Cheney is reduced to groveling at Rush Limbaugh's feet); and Tom DeLay (about whom we then wrote: (a spawn every bit as malevolent as -- and possibly even more powerful than -- his brethren in the Executive Branch) is time and again being called out for his ethical improprieties) has been bitch-slapped with a second indictment -- one that could land him in gaol for life (or at least see him scrubbing Martha Stewart's toilets for a few weeks).

Still to come may be some serious fucking at the hands of Plame Affair prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. All the while details of the magnitude of the sadistic horrors conducted at Abu Ghraib continue to leak, gas prices continue to rise, the deficit continues to explode, and the process of "standing up" the Iraqi Army continues to fail.

Perhaps it'll all blow over. But even if Dubya manages to escape tarring and feathering, do you really think he's going to be able to invade Syria and/or Iran any time soon? And when was the last time you heard any crap coming out of Dubya's hole with regards to privatising Social Security? The son of a bitch is the lamest of ducks.

Not that there's an opposition party ready to glide in and save the day -- the Democrats were all in hiding while Cindy Sheehan and co. were marching through the streets of DC. But shutting down the Bush Administration is a pretty good place to start, at least.