Plan C — Choke!

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In the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto’s killing, Decider George is still at a loss for action. What can he do about his old buddy and terror-fighter Pervez Musharraf? Apparently nothing.
As the new year quickly approaches, now only a matter of hours, Decider George is relaxing on his no-cattle, big-spread ranch in Crawford, Tex., and probably strumming away on his guitar like he did during Katrina.
Back in Washington, his handlers are quickly trying to forge some kind of reaction to the boiling-over of events in Pakistan. There is no alternative, no secondary approach to the current mess.

  • “Plan A still has to work. We all have to appeal to moderate forces to come together and carry the election and create a more solidly based government, then use that as a platform to fight the terrorists.”
    – Washington Post (12/30/07)

Decider George loves his vacations — he can’t get enough of ‘em. Since taking office, he has made 69 trips to Crawford for a total of 418 days of vacation time. (thanks:beggarscanbechoosers.com) And ready to beat out Ronald Reagan as the laziest president on record.
And like Forrest Gump’s momma said, Vacation is where you go and never come back.

Even as Pakistan erupts in total shit as national elections are scheduled for next week, news reports reveal election records in several places around the country have been destroyed during chaos and rioting. No way the election will stand, even if held.
Decider George’s ties with Mush-mouth Musharraf make it impossible to have a Plan B as millions of dollars in military aid have been squandered in Pakistan: Al-Quada and the Taliban have re-emerged in strength.
The disastrous war on terror has made a even-more disastrous turn.

And what does Decider George do? Lie about the economy.

  • “Some of you worry about your ability to afford health care coverage for your families. Some of you are concerned about meeting your monthly mortgage payments. Some of you worry about the impact of rising energy costs on fueling your cars and heating your homes. You expect your elected leaders in Washington to address these pressures. My resolution for the New Year is this: to work with Congress to keep our economy growing, to keep your tax burden low, and to ensure that the money you send to Washington is spent wisely — or not at all.”
    – Decider George in his weekly radio address Saturday, recorded at his Texas ranch, of freakin’ course!

Yet with the housing slump, the defeat of any kind of health care for uninsured Americans, the shrinking dollar, the $700 billion spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the actual slow down of money spent. Please, don’t count the millions and millions actually lost in Iraq, that’s a war zone; how about Katrina and FEMA, and the quiet billions spent on a real-stupid, long-running war on drugs, and let’s really not deal with the intangibles, like the Constitution and the US legal system. Tons and tons of money just whiffed away.

Decider George is the perfect ‘let them eat cake’ posterchild;

The bullshit doesn’t include dire warnings about the credit paralysis the world’s banks are trying to dislodge.

  • “The central banks are rapidly losing control. By not cutting interest rates nearly far enough or fast enough, they are allowing the money markets to dictate policy. We are long past worrying about moral hazard. They still have another couple of months before this starts imploding. Things are very unstable and can move incredibly fast. I don’t think the central banks are going to make a major policy error, but if they do, this could make 1929 look like a walk in the park.”
    – Peter Spencer, chief economist for the ITEM Club, telegraph.co.uk (12/29/07)

Happy New Year!

Cover Up the Curveball

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As in the recent disclosures on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, Decider George has been lying out of his ass for a long time. Probably once he discovered Santa Claus was a lie, he understood the need to continue the effort.

  • Asked if an inquiry would be held after British troops withdraw, David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, replied: “I am obsessed with the next five years in Iraq. And I think the best ‘inquiry’ is putting the best brains to think about how to make sure the next five years in Iraq get that combination of political reconstruction, economic reconstruction and security improvements that are so essential.”
    – news.independent.co.uk (12/26/07)

Although it’s been reported the Brits would launch an investigation into what made the UK follow Decider George into the inferno of Iraq, UK head Gordon Brown has backpedaled.
The Brits have moved this month from a fighting force to a support force. The UK has now about 9,500 troops in Iraq, mostly in the south and that total is supposed to be down to about 2,500 by this spring.

Decider George flunkie Tony Blair can sleep better (and as new Catholic, to boot!) now that the ugly mess of the Downing Street memo, other tibits of UK intel failures and the whole sordid mess would be eventually swept under the rug. Shades of Vietnam: No Being Accountable.

And if the UK don’t want to truth be told about Iraq, what about the US? The first half of the “Senate Report of Pre-War Intelligence on Iraq” was released in July 2004 by the US Senate Intelligence Committee. Pretty quick as the invasion was only a year earlier.
Now much later in the story, there’s still nothing about Decider George, his VP, Dufus Dick Chaney, and a retarded, but bloodthirsty host of others, who cooked the books.

  • “While it’s perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.”
    – Decider George, Veterans’ Day speech, 2005

Rewrite history? We don’t think so. What the US peoples demand is the truth. Not a lying curveball.

‘Mr. President, You Are Such A Man’

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Frances Townsend, Decider George’s homeland security advisor/mouthpiece is quitting. And it’s the same old bullshit, the same old line.

  • “I find it offensive and crippling. When both career people and political people are worried about getting subponaed, it’s hard to get a lot accomplished.”
    – Interview, The Washington Post (12/22/07)

Well, hell, Frances (can we call you, Fran?) as a hard-nosed, spit-in-your-eye, former mob prosecutor what happens when anyone attempts to break laws, defy Congress, circumvent the Constitution, lie about such things as Iraq, Katrina, global warming and a host of other things? Don’t you believe someone would want to find out the truth?
And when that someone continues to lie, pardons criminals and displays an arrogant disregard for anything resembling common decency, what is to be done?

Damn, Fran, that dog won’t hunt!

And in the three years Fran has been with Decider George some of his bullshit has clogged her mind, caused her to become another zombie, another power-lover, and another asshole who can relocate all kinds of words and redefine them.

  • “Well, I’m not sure — it’s a success that hasn’t occurred yet. I don’t know that I view that as a failure.”
    – CNN December 2006, on the ‘failure’ to capture, or even find Osama bin Laden.

One wonders if being around the most powerful asshole on earth can warp the sense of truth.

  • “In 1937, the playwright Maxwell Anderson wrote of President George Washington: ‘There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, til all men walk on higher ground in their lifetime.’ Mr. President, you are such a man.”
    – Townsend’s resignation letter to Decider George (12/19/07)

Yes, Fran, my dear, men will be walking on higher ground, but it won’t be by choice.

Dollars, Dollars, Where Them Dollars

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On Wednesday Congess approved an additonal $70 billion for the horror in Iraq and Afghanistan, knocking the total up to $700 billion.

  • “Using inflation-adjusted dollars the total cost of those wars has now surpassed the total cost of the Vietnam War (which ran to $670 billion). It’s also more than seven times larger than the Persian Gulf War ($94 billion) and more than twice the cost of the Korean War”
    – Travis Sharp of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Poliferation

Of course, the same old stories of the National Guard and other entities being used in the Middle East when they would come in handy fighting tramua in the US. The money goes further:

  • This year alone, US taxpayers spent $137.6 billion on the Iraq War. For the same amount of money, the government could have provided more than 39 million million people with health care, built one million units of affordable housing, or outfitted 142 million homes with renewable electricity sources.
    – National Priorities Project

And even more. The Pentagon is increasing the number of people at its Baghdad office of arms supply to the Iraq, from a squad of six, now to more than 70, including a couple of generals. This is the same outfit that allowed 190,000 weapons to come up missing two years ago. This is the same outfit that can’t keep books, can’t keep up with is dangerous inventory.

  • “For countries that are struggling with corruption, with internal violence, with threat of diverson or theft, is it the best policy to be funneling as many weapons to that country as possible? Or are there other things the United States could be doing first to strengthen democracy rather than just fueling the cycle.”
    – Richard Stohl, senior analyst, Center Defense Information

And what about Decider George, the creator of all this horror and all this mismanaged warfare:

  • “There is a funtioning government. Are we satisified with progress in Iraq? No.
    They’ve got a lot of work to do. Don’t get me wrong, you know, I mean, I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t, as a government, continue to press them.”
    – Decider George on Thursday

The asshole said it right. It’s the government, not the people. An overwhelming majority of US peoples want the US out of Iraq yesterday. And in the latest polls from Iraq, on the Iraqi people, there is even a much greater desire for the US occupation to end, maybe like last week.

As Decider George said: “Don’t get me wrong, you know, I mean…”

‘Storm clouds and concerns’

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  • “I hope you can tell I’m an optimistic fellow. We’ve been through a lot over the last seven years, we really have. But I’m absolutely convinced this country is strong and vibrant.”
    – US President George W. Bush on Monday

Decider George was blowing acrid smoke up some business asses as he blubbered to his kind of people: A Rotary Club gathering in Fredericksburg, Va.
The dipwad! As of early today the National Debt was at $9,177,254,271,467.77: Each US citizen’s share – $30,204.60
And continues to increase at $1.51 billion each and every day!

And he blubbers about “We’ve..” Decider George, of course, knows this whole situation is his making and he knows there’s no skin rubbed off his ass.
And off the collective asses of his friends. In a report by The New York Times earlier this year, families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop.
And the study, by the Congressional Budget Office, revealed tax rates for middle-income earners edged up in 2004, while rates for people at the very top continued to decline. The reason: Two measures, tax cuts on investment income and a steady reduction of estate taxes “overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest households.”

And along with the rich, human slaughter also is added to the bill. Last Friday, the Senate passed a defense policy bill for 2008: $696 billion for military spending, including $189 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan.
Decider George, despite all that, whined it won’t pay the bills: “It is time for Congress to support the troops with actual funding.”

Cost for the Iraq war: $1.2 trillion and climbing.

  • In the days before the war almost five years ago, the Pentagon estimated that it would cost about $50 billion. Democratic staff members in Congress largely agreed. Lawrence Lindsey, a White House economic advisor, was a bit more realistic, predicting that the cost could go as high as $200 billion, but President Bush fired him in part for saying so.
    – The New York Times (1/17/07)

So who are we going to believe? A natural-born liar?

  • “This economy is pretty good. There’s definitely some storm clouds and concerns, but the underpinning is good, and we’ll work our way through this period.”
    – Decider George’s speech to Rotarians on Monday.

We all can look forward to some real-bad shit hitting the fan real soon.

All of us: Be concerned, be very concerned.

‘Await Your Arrival With Simple Survival’

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“I have these moments all steady and strong
I’m feeling so holy and humble
The next thing I know I’m all worried and weak
And I feel myself starting to crumble
The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed
And you don’t know what you’re going to do next
You wait for the sun but it never quite comes
Some kind of message comes through
And it says to you…
Love when you can
Cry when you have to
Be who you must
That’s a part of the plan
Await your arrival with simple survival
And one day we’ll all understand
One day we’ll all understand
One day we’ll all understand”
– Part Of The Plan, Souvenirs

When we learned of Dan Fogelberg’s death yesterday from prostate cancer there was a small, silent sob from way back when.
Fogelberg was a true poet of the soul, at least on his early albums, a soft, warm voice that reached way down past the anixiety, the loneliness and the chaos of growing beyond the means.

The first three albums — Home Free (1972), Souvenirs (1974) and Captured Angel (1975) — were written just for us, a yearning for things not understood and love not found.
Although the music was still good, by the time Fogelberg recorded Twin Sons of Different Mothers (1978) with flute-great Tim Weisberg, the personal touch was gone.
Maybe it was us who had already departed that lonely stretch of road and entered a more-widespread, more-peopled avenue.

We hate to admit it, but some here at Compatible Creatures spent long hours crying to the sound of Fogelberg’s gentle, understanding voice, trying to make sense of a twisted, strange story that is life.
And feeling good about feeling bad.

“And my feelings have grown rigid like a wooden post
And my love is like a curtain that has been drawn closed
And my life just isn’t going the way I thought it was supposed to
And I’m crying and I find myself
Looking for a lady
I’m looking for a lady to change my night to day”
– Looking For A Lady, Home Free

Misplaced ‘the forgotten war’

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  • Deeply concerned about the prospect of failure in Afghanistan, the Bush administration and NATO have begun three top-to-bottom reviews of the entire mission, from security and counterterrorism to political consolidation and economic development, according to American and alliance officials.
    The reviews are an acknowledgement of the need to greater coordination in fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, halting the rising opium production and trafficking that finances the insurgency and helping the Kabul government extend its legitimacy and control.
    – The New York Times (12/16/07)

After more than six years, the mission to route out Osama and his boys has become another 1993 Somalia — failure to fully concentrate on the task at hand while launching a total, unmitigated disaster in Iraq.
The Times report concludes:

  • Julianne Smith, director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and Internation Studies, said the mission in Afghanistan was at risk of failure, as political support in European capitals strained NATO’s ability to sustain, let alone expand its effort there.
    “The mission in Afghanistan has been suffering from neglect on all sides,” she said.

Neglect is just another word for Iraq. The US now has about 26,000 troops in Afghanistan, out of about 40,000 total from a dwindling selection of countries. NATO has been in charge since last year. Meanwhile in Iraq, near 160,000 US troops are being ground down into fine powder.

When Decider George decided to go into Afghanistan in October 2001, the nation, the world, just about everybody was OK with the mission — the US was actually going after the culprits behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
And everything seemed to work, except by December in his first mission accomplished — not — Decider George gave Tommy Franks his marching orders for Iraq and Osama made an escape from Tora Bora. The entire Afghan scenerio then collasped.

Indeed the forgotton war. Iraq turned into a bloodfest and pulled the eyes of the world away from the original true mission — find Osama and his boys.

The attacks on 9/11/01 united the world. Even Iranians displayed sympathy for the first terrrorist attacks in the US in the modern era (excluding Wounded Knee and all those other unspecified slaughters against Native Americans) and the world, almost as one, were behind the project.

Decider George, however, couldn’t leave well enough alone. Although his main objective since he took office, he and his VP, Dufus Dick Chaney, wired up some real-dangerous people (Rumsfeld, Wolfawitz, et al) and set them loose on Iraq. The result is the worse, most-tangled up mess in US history, and pending an outcome, in all of world history.

Afghanistan will always be forgotten, just as Decider George’s bullshit-patriotic oratory in the days following 9/11 will be forgotten.

Damnit! George, why couldn’t you be fogotten.

Shredder Header

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Although Decider George’s horrifying time as chief asshole still has another year to run, all evidence of the lies, the backstabbing and dirty-tricks will apparently end up as recycled bits of confetti: Federal spending on paper shredding has increased more than 600 percent since he took office.

  • In 2000, the feds spent $452.807 to make unpleasant truths go away: by 2006, the “Cheney Effect” had bumped that number up to $2.9 million. And halfway through 2007, the feds almost matched that number, with $2.7 million and counting.
    – radaronline.com (12/14/07)

The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 allows citizens to view all federal-awarded contracts and one of those contracts was for paper shredding. The breakdown of the contract, though, does not reveal how much shredding was done by Vice President Dufus Dick Chaney, but one could bet the farm a shitload of paperwork has been destroyed.

According to records, Mid-Atlantic Shredding Services has made many trips to Dufus Dick’s compound at the Naval Observatory in DC. Dufus Dick has a lot of sordid secrets to confetti-nize.

And like CREEP (Committee to Re-elect the President — Dick Nixon’s 1972 organization) as the truth of Watergate began to boil over, a paper shredder was highly overworked to destroy anyone’s ability to “follow the money.”

In Dufus Dick’s case, it’s follow the lies.

And with a ‘hole lotta shreddin’ goin’ on, the trail will just blow in the wind.

Fifteen Percent Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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  • The president’s approval rating in the poll, conducted Dec. 6 through Sunday by Opinion Research Corporation, was 32 percent, tying his all-time low rating from June.
    Sixty-six percent disapproved of how Bush is handling his job, the poll found, about equal to the 65 percent early last month.
    Only 15 percent said they approved “strongly” of how the president is handling his job, while nearly half, 49 percent, disapproved “strongly.”
    – politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com (12/13/07)

The big question here, of course, is whether or not that 15 percent had recent brain scans.

  • Over the past four years, Inspector General Stuart W. Bowen Jr. and his staff have probed allegations of waste and fraud in the $22 billion US effort to rebuild Iraq. Their work has led to arrests, indictments and milions of dollars in fines. And it has earned Bowen, who has been a legal advisor to President Bush, many admirers among both parties on Capitol Hill for his efforts to identify overspending and mismanagement.
    But Bowen’s office has also been roiled by allegations of its own overspending and mismanagement. Current and former employees have complained about overtime policies that allowed 10 staff members to earn more than $250,000 each last year. They have questioned the oversight of a $3.5 million book project about Iraq’s reconstruction modeled after the 9/11 Commission report. And they have alleged that Bowen and his deputy have improperly snooped into their staff’s e-mail messages.
    – washingtonpost.com (12/14/07)

Four government investigations are therefore underway into the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, including one by the FBI, according to the Post story, and even federal presecutors have a grand jury in Virginia looking into the sordid, lying, and corrupt mess.

This is Decider George at his finest. Is he catering to a dwindling power base, now down to just 15 percent, who “strongly” think the shithead is doing a good job? One wonders at the total lack of insight in such people.

In this age of information, how could even 1 percent believe Decider George and his corrupt,  incompetent cronies, appointees and staffers are doing a good job. The list of the major problems created by this adminstration and its details could fill the freakin’ World Wide freakin’ Web!
Even the investigator investigating Karl Rove is himself under investigation. Scott Bloch, the Decider George-appointed head of the US Office of Special Counsel, is being probed for improper deletion of emails, one of the charges leveled at Uncle Karl.

Maybe it’s not a real-good idea to use the word “special” to describe some government functions.

Unless that 15 percent think they are indeed special: Mental hospitals usually have special wards for the real, crazied-assed patients, ones suffering from delusions, visions of grandeur and self-importance.

Only if Decider George and his bunch could be rounded up and locked away — oh, what a fairy-tale life this would be.

And it would make us all special.

‘Psychobabble’

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Hypocrisy in war is worse-case scenerio for horror.

In this Decider George’s terrifying war on terror (root of the word, “war”: wers from Indo-European, “to confuse, mix up”) nothing says shit better than the old boots on the ground.

On Monday, an US Army hearing officer advised that 1st Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside should not be court-martialed for breaking down under stress, including attempting suicide, while serving in Iraq.
According to The Washington Post:

  • The 25-year-old reservist, who led a small unit of medics based at the prison where Saddam Hussein and other top Iraqi figures were kept, suffered a mental breakdown on Jan. 1, possibly triggered by the stresses of war. An Army investigation also later found that her executive officer created a hostile work environment.

Not only being a reservist in a surreal, dangerous, twilight-zone environment, Whiteside’s boss apparently was an asshole, adding to the continued deathly chaos. And can you believe it: ..”possibly triggered by the stresses of war.”

Duh!

The US military has a mental health/suicide epidemic on its hand due to the botched butchery in Iraq and Afghanistan. Media reports indicate 6,256 US veterans (of all wars) took their lives in 2005 — an average of 17 a day — while of the 3,888 military deaths in Iraq since 2003, there’s 2.4 suicides a day.
The US Deapartment of Defense mental health system is innudated. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, in a report last month, among the 88,000 US GIs back from Iraq, 20 percent of all active duty soldiers, and 40 percent of all reservists were found on screenings to have a such mental health problems that they required treatment.

And what did tough-guy Decider George have to say? “Bring ‘em on!”

And The Washington Post story continued:

  • Once at Walter Reed, Whiteside was diagnosed with a severe mental disorder. The Army offered her a chance to resign under a status that would have given her no Army or veterans medical benefits. Whiteside’s seven years in the Army has been exemplary, according to her evaluations.
    An Army sanity board found her insane at the time of the shootings (Whiteside’s Iraqi episode). Whiteside’s commanders at Walter Reed, who first filed criminal charges against her, derided her psychological diagnosis and problems as “an excuse” for her actions. The Army prosecutor in the case, Maj. Stefan Wolfe, had warned Whiteside’s lawyer of the risk of using a “psychobabble” defense.

The heart of the so-called “psychobabble” comes from Decider George, blubbering in a well-set-up lie about World War III and Iran while crowing about supporting US troops in his created Middle Eastern inferno.

One false sonofabitch.

Losers Weepers…

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  • Tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, crates of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades are just a sampling of more than $1 billion in unaccounted for military equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces, according to a new report issued today by the Pentagon Inspector General and obtained exclusively by the CBS News investigative unit. Auditors for the Inspector General reviewed equipment contracts totaling $643 million but could only find an audit trail for $83 million.
    –cbsnews.com, (12/6/07)
  • “The bottom line in terms of the weapons — AK-47s and Glock pistols — is that there were about 190,000 that could not be accounted for,” said Joseph Christoff, author of the GAO report.
    – NPR, ‘Morning Edition, (8/17/07)
  • An audit of US reconstruction spending in Iraq has uncovered spectacular misuse of tens of millions of dollars in cash, including bundles of money stashed in filing cabinets, a US soldier who gambled aways thousands and stacks of newly minted notes distributed without receipts.
    – timesonline.co.uk, (1/26/06)

We sit and marvel at the incompetent display of Decider George and his selected minons in carrying out one of the greatest debacles in human history. These people can only be not trusted, but are lazy, shiftless, mean-spirited sonofabitches.
They lied about the reasons for going to war — and pol-hole Karl Rove continues the lie out of his ass-faced mouth — then couldn’t put together enough military sense to complete the mission, including the right equipment for US troops, and went so far as to just let dolts run the entire, mismanaged affair.

The legacy of Decider George will only be of repugnance.

NIE Means NUTS!

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“Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous, and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon. What’s to say they couldn’t start another covert nuclear weapons program?”
– Decider George on Tuesday

Yesterday, today and tomorrow, Decider George always decides what is right and wrong.

“The Iranians have a strategic choice to make. They can come clean with the international community about the scope of their nuclear activities, and fully accept the long-standing offer to suspend their enrichment program and come to the table and negotiate, or they can continue on a path of isolation.”
– Decider George on Wednesday

In the Rose Garden and in Nebraska, Decider George stammered, blubbered, and believe it not, still conducted hisself as an arrogant, hardcase asshole, as he tried to muster answers to the shitload of questions about his big mouth the last few months. Prime on his lips was the now-renown National Intelligence Estimate, the old NIE, which once again scorched his ass as it revealed Iran has no nuclear weapons program, and hasn’t since 2003.

In a kind of defense, Decider George told reporters Tuesday he’d only recently received the NIE report after getting a heads up on it last summer. “I was made aware of the NIE last week. In August, I think it was Mike McConnell (Director of National Intelligence) came in and said, ‘we have some new information.’ He didn’t tell me what the information was; he did tell me it was going to take a while to analyze…”

What a crock of shit.

In an interview with The Huffington Post, Ray McGovern, a former CIA official who gave daily intel briefings to Decider George’s daddy, was quoted as saying: “The notion that the head of National Intelligence whispered in Bush’s ear ‘I’ve got a surprise for you and it’s really important, but I’m not going to tell you about it until we check it out’ — The whole thing is preposterous.”

Yes, indeed. Many journalists knew the fireball NIE was in the works long ago. Inter Press Service reported last month the NIE was completed in the fall of 2006, but was rewritten three times under Vice President Dufus Dick Chaney’s hot glare. Long-time, noted veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh told CNN on Tuesday: “I think the vice president has kept his foot on the neck of that report…”

Dufus Dick did know. The bluster-faced shithead knows everything. In fact, he can read tea leaves. In an interview with politico.com this week, Dufus Dick said Iraq is going so well that it will become a certified nation by 2009: “I’m faily confident we’ll have (Iraq) in a good place, where we’ll be able to look back on it and say, ‘That was the right decision. It was a sound decision going into Iraq.’”
The Politico writer decribed Dufus Dick as relaxed for the meeting, in his shirt sleeves, leaning back in a big, lazy chair behind his much-cluttered desk (opposite of Decider George’s clean, empty Oval Office desktop), a Christmas tree all trimmed out.

What does he have to worry about, outside of a heart that could explode at any second? And to seriously think this cold-hearted asshole is just a heart beat away from really doing some damage.

A major element in this entire Iran bullshit is Iran. Not highly-publicized in the West, and hardly at all in the US, is how Iran is governed. Dufus Dick knew it, though, so did ‘Scooter’ Libby, Dandy Don Rumsfeld, Michael Bolton (Oops, sorry) John Bolton, Paul Wolfawitz, and an ugly host of others. They all knew Iranian President Muhmoud Ahmadinejad was just a figurehead. Did Decider George know? Intelligence is lost on some people.

Iran is a theocracy. Although Ahmadinejad gets all the headlines with his big mouth — a trait he and Decider George have very, very-much in common — the real power is the the hands of the religious people. Or should we say, just hand, as the big boy, the final-say guy, is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In early August 2005 — two years after they reportedly shut down their nuclear weapons program — Khamenei issued a fatwa, a religious rule/decree forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of those armaments.
The decree was unveiled at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and recalled the Christian US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Harry Truman said the bombs were just another weapon in the “arsenal of righteousness”). Khamenei’s statement begins:
“The savagery of the attack, the human sufering it caused, the scale of the civilian loss of life, turning individuals, old and young, into ashes in a split second, and maiming indefinitely those who survived should never be removed from our memory.”Â
Full text can be found at mathaba.net.

How about able leaders of the US? Anything poetic from their blubbering lips about the horrors of killing a whole shitload of people just to continue a false premise? Maybe they’re nuts and US voters need to know in advance about these evil, lying-ass-sonofabitches.

Decider George is certifiable. In his Rose Garden talk on Tuesday, one reporter apparently noticing his body language asked if the president wasn’t “dispirited.” Doug Thompson at capitolhillblue.com went a bit further when he wrote on Wednesday Decider George during the press conference acted like a cornered dog with “the eyes of a madman.”

Maybe a brain scan would help voters decide. Dr. Daniel Amen, a neuropsychiatrist and brain-imaging expert, told MSNBC this week technology should be used to cull unworthy presidential hopefuls.
“For years, what I have thought about, talked about, is we should be scanning the brains of presidential candidates, because a president with a bad brain can ruin life on earth…I’m sort of tired of presidents who’ve had a bad brain that are not leading the country in a good direction.”

Amen, Amen.

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