Excuse my language, but it's about fucking time.
Where have these people been over the last several hundred hours of testimony? What were they thinking as they poured over reams of documents, acres of photographs, and miles of video and audio tape?
John F. Lehman, a Reagan-era GOP defense official told NBC's "Meet the Press" that documents captured in Iraq "indicate that there is at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant colonel, who was a very prominent member of al Qaida."
Oh? Really? Are you sure? I mean, this is counter to what both of those fine and upstanding gentlemen, currently guests of the US, stated to you previously. Are you saying they may have *gasp* Lied?
"Shakir is a pretty common name," said terrorism analyst and author Peter Bergen, "and even if the two names refer to the same person, there might be a number of other explanations. Perhaps al-Qaida had penetrated Saddam's security apparatus."
The rest of this needs to be read to be believed. I'm just too pissed and too tired to deal with it tonight. I'm sick of the spinning, sick of the refusal to look at the facts, sick of people dashing lemming-like into the abyss of self-loathing at the expense of the truth, and sick of the "Blame ME" crowd.
Yeah, I blame you. Not the euphamistic you that includes us all as citizens of America. You personally, for your comtempt of those who try to protect your sorry, worthless lives, and do so because that's what people do for each other. You personally, because you spew lies and half-truths for no other reason than vanity and avarice, class envy and standard, run of the mill jealousy.
Not to mention because you give voice to all that is repugnant and vile with your constant little digs and dirty tricks. You think the Nixon era Whitehouse was the epicenter of Dirty Tricks? You haven't been watching network news lately, or read the NYTimes.
Here's a corker:
Commission Vice Chairman Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana, played down the differences between the commission's view and that of the administration. "When you begin to use words like 'relationship' and 'ties' and 'connections' and 'contacts,'" he told ABC's "This Week," "everybody has a little different view of what those words mean. But if you look at the core statements that we made ... I don't think there's a difference of opinion with regard to those statements."If there is, it has to be spelled out to me. "
Kinda like trying to decide exactly what the definition of "is" is.
Go follow this link and read this for yourself. Grandstanding to the end. An embarrassment to us all.
Private aside to the Commission: Don't you fools realize that your audience, the one that really counts, is not the domestic audience? Don't you have half a clue that your purpose is not to play patty-fingers with each other, but to get at the facts of September 11, 2001? Last time I checked, as of that date there was no Al Quaida link to either the Republican or Democrat party, so politics should have been officially off the table. Today, however, I could almost prove a link. And you, Ladies and Gentlemen, provided your own self incrimination.
Posted by Mamamontezz at June 21, 2004 12:29 AM
Talk about political bias and partisan agendas.
What has happened in the past 3 years has clinched it for me. Our president has been fighting a war of obstruction, slander and filibuster from the opposition party that has been a severe detriment to the welfare of this country both domestically and abroad. The Tom D'Asshole's, Toad Kennedy's, Kerry's, Byrds on and on ad ifinitem, who constantly berate and belittle and undermine this presidency and it's efforts toward security, peace and economy go far beyond any checks and balances provided by a democratic system. Direct subversive obstructionism has cheated this administration of the ability to fill critical positions in the Juditial branch of government and they have the gall to talk of right wing conspiracies. They and their communist allies being under constitutional protection and skewed judicial decisions are being allowed to place this nation in jeapardy on an increasingly dangerous level. As a political party they have put their political agenda above their constitutional obligation to protect this country from all threats foreign and domestic. They do not and will not get my vote - ever.
I was going to post about this but you did such a much better job than I would have. All I could think of was to spit and scream...I think I need to go back to some personal posts...some of these people's idiocy is riling me up far too much.
Posted by: Serenity at June 21, 2004 05:48 PM