Asshole Ari
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In a liar, lying beomes truth.
One of the most dumb-shit items to come along in this horror is the formation of “Freedom Watch,” a right-wing nutwad of bozos trying to spend $15 million to bolster Decider George’s continued disaster in Iraq. And the mouthpiece for this bunch of shit is Ari Fleischer, Decider George’s former mouthpiece and the chief White House spokesman during the run up to invasion. And all the lies needed to get war going.
And from all indications, Ari indeed is an asshole. And able to tell a lie without a whisper of truth.
In doing research for this post, we at Compatible Creatures ran across tons of information on Asshole Ari, and almost all of it bad.
In an analysis piece for The New Republic, dated May 30, 2002, Jonathan Chait wrote: “Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, is famous. But I knew him back when he was merely infamous, as the chief Republican spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee. He spoke with a cool, quick certainty, unhindered by any sense of conscience. A profile in GQ (Gentleman’s Quarterly) — not many Hill staffers receive such attention — dubbed him the “flack out of hell.”
In a more updated version of Asshole Ari, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough held a telephone interview with him Thursday morning and more shit bubbled forth.
“When we see all the missteps (in Iraq)…it makes it harder, does it not, for the American people to trust this administration moving forward?” Scarborough asked Ari.
And the shit-spin answer: “Look at the other side,” Ari said. “I could blame Jimmy Carter for creating the mullahs and the ayatollahs in Iran.”
What a total crock of cat and dog poo poo.
The day before, on MSNBC’s Hardball, Ari had spewed forth more shit. After a clip was run of Freedom Watch’s first TV ad, Ari was unable to name double-amputee, Sgt. John Kriesel, who is shown in the ad trying to bolster support for the war by continuing the lying claim that Saddam was involved with 9/11.
After Ari departed the TV screen, Hardball talked to Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, who dumped on the little shit.
“What bothered me most is that Ari Fleischer didn’t even know the guy’s name. He’s willing to run a multi-million dollar campaign utilizing the personal story of a soldier, and he couldn’t tell you on national TV what that soldier’s name is. It’s a problematic trend. People on both sides of the aisle but especially the president and this administration have continued to use troops as a prop, as a backdrop for political rhetoric. … Our troops are not political props and they’re not chew toys.”
And this from Tom Matzzie, Washington director of moveon.org: “The White House running an ad campaign is a sign of desperation, and Ari Fleischer’s emergence is so ironic since he’s the guy that pitched the lies that got us into the war in the first place.”
The big question: Will the American people continue to pay attention to Decider George and his lying, warmongering people?
As we always say: Beware of assholes bearing shit.
Muqtada’s Moment
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And from the mouth of babes.
In a pop-up case for getting’ the shit out of Dodge, one angle opened this week for ending the horrifying escapade in Iraq. The problem, though, is Decider George’s inability to decipher right from wrong.
Popular Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reportedly told a newspaper from the UK he would “support the UN if it comes and replaces the American and British occupiers.” An open plum of an invitation.
The remarks about the UN have practically gone unnoticed from the interview, published Monday by The Guardian, with the focus in the media al-Sadr’s words about Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Al-Sadr, who looks like a thick-bearded, baby-faced Jack Black on Quaaludes, is quoted as putting a bad-mouthing on al-Maliki, claiming his days are numbered. (we here at Compatible Creatures, though wishing to be absolutely accurate as passable, tire easily from the continous use of “al” before names, i.e., al-Sadr, al-Maliki, so we will call them Muqtada and Nuri, respectively).
Although both are Shiites and have cooperated in various ways with each other the last couple of years, Muqtada broke with Nuri last April and pulled his five guys out of the Iraqi cabinet in protest when the prime minister wouldn’t set a timetable for the US to get the shit out of their country.
“Al-Maliki’s government will not survive because he has proven that he will not work with important elements of the Iraqi people,” Muqtada told the Guardian this week. “The prime minister is a tool for the Americans, and people see that clearly. It will probably be the Americans who decide to change him when they realize he has failed. We don’t have a democracy here, we have a foreign occupation.”
Muqtada is dead right about the Americans. Decider George, Demos and the like are calling for Nuri’s head. Democrat Carl Levin and Republican John Warner issued a joint statement that “time has run out” for the prime minister. And Decider George hisself, speaking Tuesday: “If the government doesn’t respond to the demands of the people, they will replace the government. That’s up to the Iraqis to make that decision, not American politicians.”
Yeah, right! Quick-witted Decider George back pedaled 24 hours later and during a speech at a VFW convention in Missouri, called Nuri a “good guy,” who just needs some time to get his shit right.
In that speech to the vets group, Decider George also waded into some deep, misguided historical shit in comparing leaving Iraq with the US departure from Vietnam and the killing fields he claims will occur once the Americans leave.
However, major problems there, asshole! Not that simple. And the shitheads who wrote the speech failed to mention “blowback.”
In a New York Times analysis piece today, the newspaper cites David C. Hendrickson, a specialist on the history of American foreign policy at Colorado College in Colorado Springs: “It is undoubtedly true that America’s failure in Vietnam led to catastrophic consequences in the region, especially in Cambodia, but there are a couple of further points that need weighing. One is that the Khmer Rouge would never have come to power in the absence of the war in Vietnam — this dark force arose out of the circumstances of the war, was in a deep sense created by the war. The same thing has happened in the Middle East today. Foreign occupation of Iraq has created far more terrorists than it has deterred.”
How does Decider George and his entire bunch of hardcase cowboys keep doing it? Do they seriously think the American public is going to buy this load of shit?
- Just for damn instance: A compartment of the White House, entitled the White House Office of Administration, is the designated spot to place requests for material under the Freedom of Information Act. However, this week Decider George’s lawyers argued in court hoping to stop all those emails about fired US attorneys from being unearthed, claimed the before mentioned Office of Adminstration is not subject to the FOIA, so therefore…what?
Any US civics or history teacher worth his salt at all, in schools across this country, should be every day engaged in serious discussions and lessons about how this republic should be functioning, using Decider George and his gosh-awful acts as teaching aids.
Decider George heaved-up misleading nuggets from US history on a day a helicopter crash in Iraq was reported, killing all 14 US servicemen aboard and the latest National Intelligence Estimate, yeah, the famous NIE, was leaked to the press which noted military authorities in Iraq are worried about a possible “mini Tet” offensive from insurgents. The early 1968 series of attacks during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops, though they were defeated and driven back, became a decisive turning point with the US public against the war.
This same NIE also reported Nuri is not the man for the job, although Decider George said last November when the two met in Jordan how truly Nuri was the man: The main man, the only man.
Yeah, right! In days past, people like Nuri — trying to not appear to be a “puppet” while being propped up by a US military — usually end up in some real-bad shit and are hanged, blown to bits or forced to make an extremely-quick flight from the country.
However, the media has seemingly failed to pick up on Muqtada’s remarks about the United Nations taking part in Iraq, and, the assurance his forces would assist the UN in bring some order to the chaos there in place of US and UK troops.
“If the UN comes here to truly help the Iraqi people, they will receive our help in their work. I would ask my followers to support the UN as long as it is here to help us rebuild our country,” Muqtada told the Guardian, adding an ominous note: “They must not just be another face of the American occupation.”
Baby-faced Muqtada might have created a path to getting US kids out of Iraq.
Virtually unknown outside Iraq prior to the US invasion, Muqtada, believed to be in his early 30s, is widely popular with the Shiite masses and comes from a big-time Islamic religious family. Youngest son of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Al-Sadr, assassinated in February 1999, reportedly by Saddam’s hit guys, he is also the nephew of Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir Al-Sadr, a co-founder in the late 1950s of the Islamic political movement in Iraq.
Young Moqtada has lately come into his own.
After the fall of Baghdad and in response to the apparent lack of any kind of guidance by the US, Muqtada formed his Mahdi Army militia, which also immediately started to distribute food to an enormous, slum area called Sadr City, but quickly came into direct conflict with US authorities.
Truth of the matter, the clash between the Mahdi army and US troops was to Muqtada just a seemingly necessary counter to the dumb-shit direction of Decider George’s dumb-shit people in control of Iraq just following the photogenic “shock and awe.” He has been tied with Iran and was believed to have been hiding there earlier this year, though he has denied it.
Muqtada is as much a political animal as his counterparts in the West (maybe not as heartless as the current US administration) and could bring about an organized, decent withdrawal of US troops out of Iraq.
The United Nations, which hasn’t been a factor since the August 2003 bombing of its headquarters in Baghdad, could return and be the focal point for engineering the change from US occupation to Iraqi control. Under UN auspices, the nightmare of two million misplace Iraqis refugees could also be dealt with and at least a small step forward could be taken.
And to add fuel to the UN engine: The unlikely French reversed course about Iraq this week and made it known they’d like to get involved with solving Decider George’s mess. The French could serve in number of capacities, from infrastructure rebuilding to public health.
A bloodbath aftermath? Most likely, but the Shiites and Sunnis are already wading around in a bloodbath and will have to play their horror story out even if the US stays for another 20 years.
The big factor is how serious anyone else besides those souls here at Compatible Creatures take young Muqtada’s outstretched idea? Decider George? Duh! Of course not! He’s working his freakin’ ass off trying to keep the war going and is just a heartbeat away from bombing the livin’ shit out of Iran!
Get freakin’ serious.
We seize therefore upon a John Lennon phrase: ‘Give Muqtada A Chance’
Nobody Don’t Know Dick
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Thirteen years ago, Vice President Dufus Dick Cheney, then just a former secretary of defense, draft dodger and general asshole guy, said a military adventure into Iraq would be a very stupid, dumb-shit thing to do.
“How many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? It’s a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq,” so said Dufus Dick in a conversation by C-Span April 15, 1994, as part of its American Profiles series. Decider George’s people either are completely clueless to the function of modern media — to garble a Jon Stewart phrase: “Don’t they know we’re recording this?” — or they just don’t care. Bottom line: Whether thick-witted or cold-hearted, it’s still all lies.
In response, a Dufus Dick flak muttered: “He was not vice president at the time. It was after he was secretary of defense.” Huh? What does that have to do with anything? Why can’t they tell something the world doesn’t already know!
Earlier this year, Dufus Dick told ABC News how his stance has changed since the first Gulf War: “Well, I stand by what I said in ‘91, but look what happened since then – we had 9/11.” Hey, Dufus Dick! The sonofabitch still clings to the old Osama/Saddam connection, a stance full of wind.
Apparently, this adminstration does not seem to realize everything they say shortly thereafter become unbelievable.
For instance, take AG Alberto “Don’t Recall” Gonzales (we here at Compatible Creatures do strongly wish someone would take the little shit). Notes from FBI Director Robert Mueller released this week seem to counter Don’t Recall’s recollection of a hospital visit with former AG John Ashcroft a couple of years ago to circumvent procedure and get an OK for an eavesdropping program. Don’t Recall Gonzales behaves as if he can’t hear. Or if he does, he really just doesn’t give a fat rat’s ass.
The emotion presented by the entire West Wing bunch and all their operatives is disdain for the law: Bubba Karl Rove is leaving at the end of this month with a couple of Congessional subpoenas on his ass, two former White House aides have been legally sought by Senate committees and even Don’t Recall has been called to testify to counter his lying testimony from previous attempts. The entire executive branch is a haven for liars.
And the lying, evasive concepts continue. Despite the engulfing chaos in the Middle East, Decider George’s people have been putting a delightful spin on the definitive Iraq war report expected by Gen. David Petraeus next month, even attempting to kind of sweep the event under the rug. Adminstration peoples slipped out a feeler last week that Petraeus and US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker might give testimony in closed, private sessions instead of the long-anticipated public Congessional hearings. And then it was discovered the White House would write the report, not Petraeus, and Secretary of State Condi Rice and Defense Secretary Bob Gates would appear before Congress, not the general. All contrary to a measure signed by Decider George last spring.
The whole idea hit the shit fan and the White House backed down. A Decider George flak retorted: “I mean, I think everyone expects Ambassador Crocker and General Petraeus to offer a very candid assessment of the situation on the ground in Iraq. I know that’s what President Bush expects. It’s what the American people expect. And so, no, I don’t think there will be any constraints on their testimony whatsoever.”
A wad of bullshit! These people don’t know dick!
Conscripted Bubba
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“I hate it when they say, ‘He gave his life for his country.’ Nobody gives their life for anything. We steal the lives of these kids. We take it away from them. They don’t die for the honor and glory of their country. We kill them.”
Admiral Gene LaRocque
Dog-tired days of summer: Five US soldiers died Saturday south of Baghdad in what was described as a “complicated” trap sprung after a sniper shot and killed one GI, then led his company into a booty-trapped house, where a pressure-triggered bomb killed four others. Another four were wounded. Details haven’t been released, but odds are most were under age 25.
US military officials said the scheme employed was relatively new for Iraq, and blamed Al-Qaeda, but the ages-old bait and lure tactic has been a factor in guerrilla/insurgent maneuvers an extremely long time. Just ask the joyous, party-loving Trojans. Or an arrogant, blood-lust-filled Custer at the Little Big Horn.
In Iraq, though, this “new” and intricate operation could be way aided by the startling physical and psychological fatigue of US troops in a conflict now longer than the entire first world war and longer than US involvement in the second. This war is a twisted, horror tale.
Three percent of US causalities has been through suicide. Although Decider George in practice doesn’t seem to care, his little military adventure has become unlike all others in its continuing intensity and its “blowback” on the GI. A major medical problem arising in Iraq is sleep-related disorders.
An alarming article posted this past Sunday at observer.guardian.co.uk/world reflected a cruel, historical-Twilight Zone-type effect taking shape in Iraq among the rank and file where the war zone has become a center-of-the universe reality with days on patrol facilitated by Red Bull. The real-reality of freakin’ boots on the ground.
The reporter, Peter Beaumont, illustrated an overwhelming fatigue: “A whole army is exhausted and worn out. You see the young soldiers washed up like driftwood at Baghdad’s international airport, waiting to go on leave or returning to their units, sleeping on their body armour on floors and in the dust.”
In another part of the story and in another part of Iraq, a soldier married to a soldier told Beaumont: “My husband was injured here. He hit an improvised explosive device. He already had a spinal injury. The blast shook out the plates. He’s home now and has serious issues adapting. But I’m not allowed to go back home to see him. If I wanted to see him I’d have to take leave time (two weeks). And the army counts it.”
And elsewhere: “A week later, in the northern city of Mosul, an officer talks privately. ‘We’re plodding through this,’ he says after another patrol and another ambush in the city centre. ‘I don’t know how much more plodding we’ve got left in us.’“
The Guardian piece just demonstrates an US military spread so thin and weakened by such terrible direction what will happen when it breaks? Helicopters lifting off the roof of the US embassy in Baghdad? A disastrous, Napoleon-like retreat into Kuwait?
Decider George for sure needs more cannon fodder. He required direction last fall (the shithead really could have used an ass-kicking-direction as far back as the early 1970s) and sought to appoint a kind of “war czar,” who would oversee the ongoing nightmares in Iraq and Afghanistan. After several retired generals turned down the job — who would want to be captain of the Titanic after it struck the ‘berg — Decider George eventually gave the spot to Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute. Last Friday, Lute gave his first interview since he got the nod. He told National Public Radio a military draft is possible if the two-front war continues unabated.
Although Lute said it would be a “major policy shift” for Decider George to field a conscripted army, “I think it makes sense to certainly consider it. And I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table. But ultimately, this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation’s security by one means or another.”
Open mouth, insert poo-poo. On Monday, the Pentagon said Lute was full of shit, and a return to the military draft has not always been “an option on the table.”
Military flak Bryan Whitman retorted: “I can tell you emphatically that there is absolutely no consideration being given to reinstituting the draft. The all-volunteer force has surpassed all expectations of its founders.”
Dipshit! The problem is not an all-volunteer force. The crisis comes from direction and sense. Since seemingly everybody from Decider George’s backers, Demos and GOPers running for president, anyone with a mouth in Washington, contend a serious US military presence in Iraq is required for years to come, from where will the needed troops come?
Certainly, not from the loins of Decider George, Dufus Dick Chaney, AG Alberto “Don’t Recall” Gonzales and a over-extended number of others, including Bubba Karl Rove. And freakin’ speakin’ of the Bubba: So long and fare thee well.
He quietly gave a resignation scoop to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday and now the guy who practically invented “dirty tricks” in politics will be able to spend some quality time with his family, write a few books and teach.
Ain’t that so freakin’ sweet.
If the sonofabitch wasn’t a war criminal, liar and arrogant asshole who has been throwing dirty bombs on the American people since the late 1960s, we here at Compatible Creatures might be inclined to be nice to the asshole.
Bubba Karl and Decider George have been big butts together since the mid-1970s when Bush senior introduced his useless, cocaine-addled son to the budding dirty-propagandist. Now more than 30 years later, they’ve nearly destroyed the US Constitution and created a bloody, endless worldwide catastrophe.
Two arrogant butt-hole clowns. Bubba buddies.
‘Bad Actors’ Armed To The Teeth
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Shit floats! Or does it if ten pounds is ass-pressed into a five-pound bag?
Last week, in order to flame the burning fires and keep the killing shit flowing, Secretary of State Condi Rice and Defense Secretary Bob Gates made trips to the Mid East to chat up Decider George’s plan for a $43 billion military hardware deal to a handful of Persian Gulf states.
Cool Condi babbled the deal would send a direct message to US enemies: “This effort will bolster forces of moderation and support a broader strategy to counter the negative influences of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran.”
Decider George hisself with an idiot, smarty-pants smirk, has called the war-machine transaction not only a message to the pure evil, but also a high-five to “our friends in the region.”
A place so inundated with weaponry, adding a few more tons won’t hurt: Version of the old 10 pounds of terrible, foul-smelling shit into the easily-torn five-pound bag.
Actually, the whole deal is just a continuance of a continuing arms-deal policy Decider George with expert guidance from his VP Dufus Dick Chaney has sustained with zest the last six years. The so-called “arms for allies” plan has been operational for more than a decade
Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) would get $13 billion in aid over 10 years along with some $20 billion in new arms, including satellite-guided bombs, missile defenses and upgrades for its U.S.-made fighter-jets.
- Arms going to some not real-friendly folks. According to worldpolicy.org:
“In 2003, more than half of the top 25 recipients of U.S. arms transfers in the developing world (13 of 25) were defined as undemocratic by the U.S. State Department’s Human Rights Report: in the sense that “citizens do not have the right to change their own government” or that right was seriously abridged. These 13 nations received over $2.7 billion in U.S. arms transfers under the Foreign Military Sales and Commercial Sales programs in 2003, with the top recipients including Saudi Arabia ($1.1 billion), Egypt ($1.0 billion), Kuwait ($153 million), the United Arab Emirates ($110 million) and Uzbekistan ($33 million).When countries designated by the State Department’s Human Rights Report to have poor human rights records or serious patterns of abuse are factored in, 20 of the top 25 U.S. arms clients in the developing world in 2003– a full 80%– were either undemocratic regimes or governments with records of major human rights abuses. This report demonstrates that under President Bush’s leadership, this trend has accelerated and freedom and democracy have suffered as a result.”
So all Decider George and his war-crazed buddies are doing is enflaming an already-flaming part of the earth. And doing it as liars and hypocrites.
In an ironic, terrifyingly-moronic arms deal, the Government Accountability Office reported the US military has lost track of 190,00 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols supposedly given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005.The Washington Post on Monday said the GAO indicated US military officials in Iraq can’t account for 30 percent of the weapons. According to the GAO, the US has spent $19.2 billion since 2003 on trying to develop some kind of Iraqi security system. And not only has the operation completely failed, but weapons are now apparently going to insurgents.
Yes! That figure was indeed $19.2 billion. The Post story also carried some comments worth noting from Rachel Stohl, a senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information. “They really have no idea where they are,” said Stohl on the missing guns. “It likely seems that the United States is unintentionally providing weapons to bad actors.”
Of course, the “bad actors” are the all-kinds and types of insurgents killing US troops. And in another irony, the weapons weren’t even US issue, but the worldwide revolutionary/insurgent gun of choice: the old Soviet-block-manufactured AK-47.
And who the livin’ shit was running the security training when all these weapons were supposedly distributed? Gen. David Petraeus, that’s who the fuck who!
Petraeus was dumped-up to overall commander late last year as a dead-end, straw-vote/yes man for Decider George’s ludicrous, horrific “surge.” And now, seemingly the entire Iraq picture hinges on a report due next month from this same guy who lost a shitload of weapons on his watch.
How the livin’ hell did the US get into such an untenable, box-canyon-like situation.
In Decider George’s world: War and strife is the only way to power, and once with the power, use military might to keep it.
Unfortunately, he’s not the first of such peoples. In the biblical book of Genesis there’s mentioned a guy named Nimrod, a grandson of Noah. Nimrod got the killing shit going from his hometown of Babel. And as so-called “civilization” moved from the Mesopotamia valley, the making of war to advance and expand has guided history. Apparently, the killing fields has made the historical full circle in a return to its roots with Decider George’s Iraqi bullshit. Nimrod in reality, however, was probably a fairly-competent physical warrior, but due to “advances” in weaponry over the centuries, leaders have decayed into such phony, despicable characters as Decider George.
Machines of war have always amazed those here at Compatible Creatures, although those devices we knew created great revulsion. In youth, the attraction was probably the intense, creative-equipment function: Chariots, catapults, early tanks and aircraft — mostly junk before computers. Only later in life would the immense physical evil of these machines be truly understood.
One well-noted set of images came from Director Richard Attenborough’s well-executed WWII movie, A Bridge Too Far, released in 1977 and concerned an ill-fated Allied operation to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine River into Germany. A lion’s share of major stars of the day starred, from Robert Redford to Michael Caine and Sean Connery.
In the film, the big-screen camera pans along an extended line of what appeared to be 75 mm field-cannon firing salvos to soften-up German battlements as the operation begins. The guns, with crews of four or five working feverishly, were placed across a green, wide and park-like meadow. Only sounds during the sequence were a deep, bellow thump and the hollow, metal-pang of spent shells being ejected into a growing pile: A poetic singsong of war machines in operation.
Meanwhile, near 10,000-yards down range, the camera has suddenly picked up on the receiving end of this lyrical glow, now a loud, horror of a nightmare: Screaming, mangled body parts grinding into mush, mingling human flesh with other war machines, trees, rocks and great chunks of earth.
Just like we always say (and we do), you can’t put 10-lbs. of shit into a 5-lb. container and not expect, no, fully realize, the bag will eventually explode, exposing all that shit to the waiting, swirling fan.