Bush Supporters: Seeing the World in Black and White

It's easy to understand the world when there are only 2 sides of black and white. To Bush supporters politics is just a game. It's a professional wrestling match where the sides are clearly defined and all you have to do is sit with your popcorn and cheer. It's a ridiculous way to think but many, many have been fooled and our corporate media plays to these black and whites because that's what elicits the strongest emotional response and hence, ratings.

One has to dig to learn the nuances of the deeper story and attempt to uncover facts no matter if they support or go against what you believe. From what I've seen the Bush supporters just don't have it in them to do this. Too many are gift wrapped obvious facts that don't tend to support their BELIEFS but since that would mean "their side is losing" in their minds they just shut their eyes to the facts and yell Liberal like it is some magic word that will change the reality of things.

No WMD, SS Raided, nation building, environmentally negative legislation, huge deficits, government intervention in private matters, cover ups, deceit, propaganda, whoring themselves out to corporations, taking the country to war based on lies. This is what the Bush administration is but Bush supporters just keep on ignoring that because they think their "side" is winning but sadly it is America that is losing.

It's Time To Leave Iraq

If you can read this headline:

45% Of Iraqi Citizens Think Suicide Attacks Against US, Brits Justified

and still think that being in Iraq is a good idea and will end successfully for the US you should seek professional help RIGHT NOW.

The chance for the US to make any real progress has long been lost. It was lost in the torture rooms of Abu Ghraib. It was lost in the rubble of bombed out schools in Fallujah. It was lost in the newly filled graveyards of Tikrit. The hearts and minds of the Iraqi people are long lost and so is any opportunity for the US to actually achieve anything meaningful in Iraq.

• Forty-five per cent of Iraqis believe attacks against British and American troops are justified - rising to 65 per cent in the British-controlled Maysan province;

• 82 per cent are "strongly opposed" to the presence of coalition troops;

• less than one per cent of the population believes coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in security;

• 67 per cent of Iraqis feel less secure because of the occupation;

• 43 per cent of Iraqis believe conditions for peace and stability have worsened;

• 72 per cent do not have confidence in the multi-national forces.

The numbers don't lie. It's time to leave Iraq. Invading was a mistake. Having no plan for occupation was a mistake. And allowing the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people to slip away was the biggest mistake of all because once lost they can NEVER be regained.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

It's time to leave Iraq.

More GOP Hypocrisy

Here's an interesting quote from Republican Senator Kay Hutchison on Meet The Press

MR. RUSSERT: Senator Hutchison, you think those comments from the White House are credible?

SEN. HUTCHISON: "Tim, you know, I think we have to remember something here. An indictment of any kind is not a guilty verdict, and I do think we have in this country the right to go to court and have due process and be innocent until proven guilty. And secondly, I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars...."

Gee kinda like someone lying about a blow job? That wasn't such a technicality for the likes of the GOP when they were pursuing their witch hunt against Clinton. Perjury is only a "technicality" when the person perjuring themselves is a Republican?

How convenient.

If the GOP feels perjuring oneself about a blow job between two consenting adults needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law then shouldn't perjury charges related to the outing of a CIA agent, that endangered people's lives and damaged national security, be pursued with at least the same amount of vigor?

Oh and Sen. Hutchinson you might want to try to be consistent so people won't bring up stuff like THIS and throw it in your hypocritical face...

"If there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality."
-- Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, 10/23/05

VERSUS

"Something needs to be said that is a clear message that our rule of law is intact and the standards for perjury and obstruction of justice are not gray...And I don’t want there to be any lessening of the standard. Because our system of criminal justice depends on people telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That is the lynch pin of our criminal justice system and I don’t want it to be faded in any way."
-- Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, 2/2/99

The Corporate Welfare Energy Bill: See Who the Sellouts Are

$14.5 billion for an Energy Bill that, according to the Dubya, does NOTHING to help the energy crisis and doesn't do a damn thing to reduce our dependence on foreign oil or lower gas prices. The Energy Bill, legislation written by energy and oil companies, gives them $9 Billion in tax cuts while they are posting record profits. Exxon alone made 10 BILLION last QUARTER (a record). It's unavoidably obvious that we need a real policy of energy conservation. But President Bush can barely choke out the word "conservation." And can you imagine Dick Cheney, who has already denounced conservation as a "personal virtue" irrelevant to national policy, now leading such a campaign or confronting oil companies for price gouging?

The Energy Bill is a travesty.

The bill never should have been passed and for anyone out there reading this, please consider voting your senator out of office if they voted for this bill. To see how your Senator voted go "here"

Grouped By Vote Position YEAs ---74
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

NAYs ---26
Biden (D-DE)
Boxer (D-CA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sununu (R-NH)
Wyden (D-OR)

P.S. Both of my Senators voted AGAINST this bill.

Harriet Miers Must Have Lived in a Cave With Mongoloids Her Whole life.

What the National Review’s David Frum had to say about Miers:

In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met.

What???!!! Dubya???!!! This is a man that if you wanted to assasinate him all you'd have to do is put a scratch-n-sniff sticker on the bottom of his swimming pool and wait.

Lies, Damn Lies, & Whatever Dubya Says

"At this moment, more than a dozen Iraqi battalions have completed training and are conducting anti-terrorist operations in Ramadi and Fallujah. More than 20 battalions are operating in Baghdad. And some have taken the lead in operations in major sectors of the city. In total, more than 100 battalions are operating throughout Iraq. Our commanders report that the Iraqi forces are operating with increasing effectiveness."
-- President Bush, 9/28/05

VERSUS

"The number of Iraqi battalions capable of combat without U.S. support has dropped from three to one, the top American commander in Iraq told Congress Thursday."
-- Associated Press, 9/29/05

Bush's Veil Over History

SECRECY has been perhaps the most consistent trait of the George W. Bush presidency. Whether it involves refusing to provide the names of oil executives who advised Vice President Dick Cheney on energy policy, prohibiting photographs of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq, or forbidding the release of files pertaining to Chief Justice John Roberts's tenure in the Justice Department, President Bush seems determined to control what the public is permitted to know. And he has been spectacularly effective, making Richard Nixon look almost transparent.

But perhaps the most egregious example occurred on Nov. 1, 2001, when President Bush signed Executive Order 13233, under which a former president's private papers can be released only with the approval of both that former president (or his heirs) and the current one.

Before that executive order, the National Archives had controlled the release of documents under the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which stipulated that all papers, except those pertaining to national security, had to be made available 12 years after a president left office.

Now, however, Mr. Bush can prevent the public from knowing not only what he did in office, but what Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan did in the name of democracy. (Although Mr. Reagan's term ended more than 12 years before the executive order, the Bush administration had filed paperwork in early 2001 to stop the clock, and thus his papers fall under it.)

Bill Clinton publicly objected to the executive order, saying he wanted all his papers open. Yet the Bush administration has nonetheless denied access to documents surrounding the 177 pardons President Clinton granted in the last days of his presidency. Coming without explanation, this action raised questions and fueled conspiracy theories: Is there something to hide? Is there more to know about the controversial pardon of the fugitive financier Marc Rich? Is there a quid pro quo between Bill Clinton and the Bushes? Is the current president laying a secrecy precedent for pardons he intends to grant?

The administration's effort to grandfather the Reagan papers under the act also raised a red flag. President Bush's signature stopped the National Archives from a planned release of documents from the Reagan era, some of which might have shed light on the Iran-contra scandal and illuminated the role played by the vice president at the time, George H. W. Bush.

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So When Iraqis Steal It's Illegal...

and people are arrested but when Americans steal 9 times as much it's not illegal and no one is arrested?? That's some "logic".

In any case there is now approximately $10 Billion in American taxpayer money now missing in Iraq.

Ex-Iraqi Officials Sought in $1B Theft

Iraq has issued arrest warrants against the defense minister and 27 other officials from the U.S.-backed government of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi over the alleged disappearance or misappropriation of $1 billion in military procurement funds, officials said Monday.

**VERSUS**

$8.8 Billion Missing In Iraq

An audit by the Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction found that the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), under the leadership of L. Paul Bremer, cannot account for nearly $9 billion of U.S. taxpayers' money.

Your Tax Dollars at Work....

91,000 tons of ice to cool food, medicine and victims of Katrina costing taxpayers over $100 Million, most of it never delivered.

Cheney: How long will it be before we hear that Hallibuton received those NO BID ice storing contracts?

Bush: Did they lose the recipe for ice? That's some tricky stuff. Makin' ice is hard work.

Brownie: It's everyone else's fault but mine.

Frist: Quick sell my ice related stocks...but keep it quiet.

DeLay: You need someone to money launder that $100 million? I know some guys.

Rove: It's Clinton's fault and the fault of all these undercover CIA agents whose names are...

Rumsfeld: We know where the ice trucks are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat. Oh wait I already used that lie...ummmm...errrr...no comment.