Oops

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The war in Iraq is a horror in which no US citizen is immune.

In a well-presented op/ed in the Los Angeles Times last week, Cy Bolton, a former TV news anchor and military affairs reporter, wrote of the lies Decider George and his cronies presented in getting the US involved in Iraq.
There is no ambiguity — no one else to blame for the fraud from the Oval Office:

Another example is the now infamous nuclear reference from Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address: “Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” Not only was this refuted twice in early 2002 — by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and by French intelligence — but the CIA’s National Intelligence Council investigated and told the White House four days before the address that “the Niger [Africa] story is baseless and should be laid to rest.” So the administration knew the claim was false, used it anyway and when caught, issued a collective “oops.” Although these speeches are vetted by Bush staffers, State, Defense, National Security and the CIA, it just slipped through. Riiiiight.
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Space constraints don’t allow for a refutation of all the lies the president told about Iraq’s threat, their weapons and their link to Osama bin Laden. However, consider this final point: Our government spent nearly tens of millions of dollars to try to impeach a president for lying about consensual sex between two adults. Compare that to this abomination: George W. Bush knowingly lied to the American people in selling his case for a war that has directly led to the deaths of more than 4,000 Americans. They are deaths brought about by his lies, deceit and deception. It is an American atrocity of monumental proportion, followed closely by the heinous fact that no one has held him accountable. Where is the outrage?

And the shit continues more than five years later.
A collective ‘oops’ for a nasty incident Friday which claimed the life of a relative of Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, and opened a tear in the wound of so-called Iraqi sovereignty:

Iraqi officials in Karbala said the operation began at dawn Friday, when U.S. aircraft delivered dozens of American troops to the rural Shiite Muslim town of Janaja, which is populated mostly by members of the Maliki tribe.
Raed Shakir Jowdet, the Iraqi military commander of Karbala operations, said that four Apache helicopters and a jet fighter soared over the area. About 60 U.S. soldiers then stormed the town, “terrifying the families,” he said.
Jowdet said that an unarmed civilian named Ali Abdulhussein was killed in his home. He added that the man detained in the operation, Hussein Nima, was visiting the area and didn’t reside in Karbala.
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(Oqeil al) Khazaali, the U.S.-allied governor, denounced the operation at a news conference, saying the U.S. military hadn’t coordinated in advance with Iraqi forces, who assumed control of Karbala security in October 2007. The governor said the raid set “a dangerous precedent” for areas ostensibly under full Iraqi control.
“The airdrop confuses the agreements, and America should answer for this violation,” Khazaali said.
Khazaali said the raid was based on false intelligence and that the U.S. military should “submit a report to clarify all the circumstances and to point out the killers and hand over the names of everyone who participated in the military operation in order for them to appear before the Iraqi judicial system.”

Decider George’s war is starting to completely unravel.
The Iraqis are also justifiably angered over an incident last Wednesday where three people described by the Interior Ministry as bank employees on their way to work were shot and killed near the Baghdad airport when they tried to pass an American convoy.
History will not be proud of the situation developing with Iraqi sentiment.

The reaction to the latest deaths signals that the Iraqi government is likely to push hard on the issue in the negotiations.
These two shootings “are a violation of the law and an encroachment on Iraqi sovereignty,” said a statement from the General Command of the Iraqi armed forces. “We demand the coalition force to arrest their employees and refer them to the judiciary because their crimes were committed in cold blood.”

That there is some pretty harsh language: “crimes committed in cold blood.”

Negotiations my ass.
Two different agreements between the US and the Iraqi government — one the so-called Status of Forces Agreement, and the second (though the both are security-tied together) a gigantic oil contract between the Oil Ministry and four huge oil companies, including Exxon-Mobil, headquartered in the US — are appearing to head south more and more in Iraq.
Just about everyone, from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani down to the guy walking (or running) around Baghdad, loathes the US — and from one Iraqi politician in Washington earlier this month that probably 70 percent of Iraqis want the US out.

oops.

Wrong Assumptions

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So Decider George wants a little history, huh?
He thinks the future will look more kindly on his tortured ass than folks do nowadays.
Wrong!

Never assume! It Makes An Ass Out of You and Me.
Wrong!

Even before being Decider George — back when he was just George Jr., back when he did nothing but have a damn-good time; he can’t remember if he’d ever done cocaine, “We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don’t remember” — he carried a personal history of being a fraud.
Check out some nut-case George Jr. shit here.

An accounting is coming quickly for Decider George, and all the horror he has created.
History for this sonofabitch is in the here and now.
Except in this instance it’s not just about drinking and snorting and breaking up the house, the crime is against the US nation’s army.

The New York Times reported yesterday, Saturday, of an US Army report scheduled to be released on Monday, which tears new assholes for Decider George’s main-culprit general, Tommy Franks, and his chief warrior, Damn-Dumb-nuts Don Rumsfeld.
In the Times‘ story on the report, the US Army reports on itself on how it performed after the fall of Baghdad, and the bottom line is not very good, not good at all.
Apparently. these Pentagon guys didn’t even have a clue.

Tommie Franks, with a push, shove and a kick from the White House, changed operation specifications:

The story of the American occupation of Iraq has been the subject of numerous books, studies and memoirs. But now the Army has waded into the highly charged debate with its own nearly 700-page account: “On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign.”
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The report focuses on the 18 months after President Bush’s May 2003 announcement that major combat operations in Iraq were over. It was a period when the Army took on unanticipated occupation duties and was forced to develop new intelligence-gathering techniques, armor its Humvees, revise its tactics and, after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, review its detention practices.
A big problem, the study says, was the lack of detailed plans before the war for the postwar phase, a deficiency that reflected the general optimism in the White House and in the Pentagon, led by then-Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, about Iraq’s future, and an assumption that civilian agencies would assume much of the burden.
“I can remember asking the question during our war gaming and the development of our plan, ‘O.K., we are in Baghdad, what next?’ No real good answers came forth,” Col. Thomas G. Torrance, the commander of the Third Infantry Division’s artillery, told Army historians.
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“We had the wrong assumptions and therefore we had the wrong plan to put into play,” said Gen. William S. Wallace, who led the V Corps during the invasion and currently leads the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command.

And then along comes the moron L. Paul Bremer, the US colonial viceroy who issued all kinds of decrees in the days following the fall of Saddam — especially disbanding the Iraqi army and banning former Baath Party members from working with the government — all just adding JP-4 jet fuel to a already kindled fire.
According to the Times, Bremer’s actions caught American field commanders “off guard” and, in their view, “created a pool of disaffected and unemployed Sunni Arabs” that the insurgency could draw on.

What a freakin’ bunch of assholes!
The ‘wrong assumptions’ led to the ‘wrong plan’ which all came from Decider George’s White House.

Assume what one will.
This president already has a legacy.

Asshole! Into a Looking Glass

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Vice President Dufus Dick Cheney is way-more than an asshole, more a liar, thoughtless and corrupt and yesterday a bit of this horror came out in spades.
Dufus Dick’s chief-of-ass-scratch, David Addington, paid a subpoeanaed visit to the US House Judiciary Committee and acted like his time was way-too precious to be wasted talking to Congress-people.

According to the Washington Post, Addington played the holier-than-the US Constitution, and being an asshole into one beautiful, turd-like turn:

There he sat, hunched and scowling, at the witness table in front of the House Judiciary Committee: the bearded, burly form of the chief of staff and alter ego to the vice president — Cheney’s Cheney, if you will — and the man most responsible for building President Bush’s notion of an imperial presidency.
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Could the president ever be justified in breaking the law? “I’m not going to answer a legal opinion on every imaginable set of facts any human being could think of,” Addington growled.
Did he consult Congress when interpreting torture laws?
“That’s irrelevant,” he barked.
Would it be legal to torture a detainee’s child?
“I’m not here to render legal advice to your committee,” he snarled. “You do have attorneys of your own.”
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And he showed abundant disdain for dissenters, such as Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), who asked whether Addington consulted lawmakers about anti-torture statutes.
“There is no reason their opinion on that would be relevant,” he answered.
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Cheney’s Cheney continued to dole out the scorn (“You asked that question earlier, today, and I’ll give you the same answer”) until Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), the last questioner, inquired about waterboarding. “I can’t talk to you — al-Qaeda may watch these meetings,” Addington said.
“I’m glad they finally have a chance to see you, Mr. Addington,” Delahunt joked.
“I’m sure you’re pleased,” Addington growled.

The photo that accompanied the Post article showed Addington, along with John Yoo, he of the infamous “torture memo,” smirking like of couple of loudmouth assholes in ninth grade after being hauled into the principal’s office.
Again to the piece in the Post:

After several such dances around the questions (whether, for example, the president could order somebody buried alive), Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) offered his grudging respect: “You guys are great on ‘Beat the Clock,’ ” he said.
“I don’t play basketball,” replied the 41-year-old Yoo.
“That was a game show,” Cohen explained.

This would be very funny, ‘Mad TV,’ or ‘SNL’ kind of shit, except the fate of the US republic rests on the assholes like Addington and Yoo.
Their performance before the committee displays the horror of the last near-eight years — way above the common man and stretched way into the dark of criminals.

The US peoples know, however:

WASHINGTON — Three out of four Americans, including large numbers of Republicans, blame President Bush’s economic policies for making the country worse off during the last eight years, according to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released Wednesday, reflecting a sharp increase in public pessimism during the last year.
Nine percent of respondents said the country’s economic condition had improved since Bush became president, compared with 75% who said conditions had worsened. Among Republicans, 42% said the country was worse off, while 26% said it was about the same, and 22% thought economic conditions had improved.
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Seventy percent of respondents said the rising cost of fuel had caused hardship for their families, and the pain appeared to be spread across all income groups: 79% of people with incomes of less than $40,000 a year said the higher prices were a hardship, but so did 55% of respondents with incomes above $100,000.
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All together, 82% of respondents said the economy was doing badly, compared with 71% who felt that way when the question was asked in February. And the pessimism has intensified: Fifty percent of respondents said the economy was doing “very badly,” compared with 38% in February.
The Times/Bloomberg poll, conducted June 19-23 under Pinkus’ supervision, interviewed 1,233 adults nationwide. The poll’s margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Assholes that mirror into a looking glass of arrogance.
One day, buddy boys, one day…

Fan belts and Alternators

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Any idiot general worth his star should have seen this coming.
Although a few military types did pipe up, they were shouted down by Decider George and his warrior-in-camp, Damn-Dumb Don Rumsfeld.
Now it’s broken-back, breakdown:

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon faces a more than $100 billion bill to repair and replace worn out or destroyed equipment, vehicles and weapons, officials and members of Congress say, but paying for it may endanger plans to boost the size of the military.
The military is scrambling to re-equip because the Pentagon failed to plan for the long and expensive war in Iraq, said Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who chairs the House panel that oversees military spending.
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More than five years of simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have ground down military equipment.
Humvees, for example, travel as much as 100,000 miles a year in Iraq, five times the peacetime rate. Heavy armor strains engines and axles.
Military operations have cost $572 billion since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Pentagon records show.
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Just how high the bill will go depends on when U.S. troops leave Iraq and how much equipment is upgraded rather than repaired, said Andrew Krepinevich, executive director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
– USA Today, (6/25/08)

Bad equipment and the dying continues.
Today in Iraq, three US Marines and two interpreters were killed in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad, in another one of those cross-fire suicide bombing intended for pro-US Iraqis during.
While yesterday, Wednesday, four US GIs were killed, three in Ninevah province and the fourth in an EFP attack in Baghdad.

And in Afghanistan, where the situation is getting worse, three US-led coalition soldiers and a local-national interpreter were killed in a roadside bomb, bringing the foreign forces killed there this month to 39, the highest monthly toll of the war there — about to enter its seventh year.

An informative insight into the attrition rate of US equipment in two very troublesome wars, especially in the area of fuel consumption, was given by Robert Bryce last March, published by The American Conservative.
Titled “Oil for War,” the article revealed what a shattering, ironic mess Decider George and his cronies have provoked.
Some snips:

Today the average American G.I. in Iraq uses about 20.5 gallons of fuel every day, more than double the daily volume consumed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq in 2004.
Thus, in order to secure the third-richest country on the planet, the U.S. military is burning enormous quantities of petroleum.
And nearly every drop of that fuel is imported into Iraq. These massive fuel requirements—just over 3 million gallons per day for Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to the Pentagon’s Defense Energy Support Center—are a key reason for the soaring cost of the war effort.
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In 2007 alone, the U.S. military in Iraq burned more than 1.1 billion gallons of fuel. (American Armed Forces generally use a blend of jet fuel known as JP-8 to propel both aircraft and automobiles.)
About 5,500 tanker trucks are involved in the Iraqi fuel-hauling effort. That fleet of trucks is enormously costly.
In November 2006, a study produced by the U.S. Military Academy estimated that delivering one gallon of fuel to U.S. soldiers in Iraq cost American taxpayers $42—and that didn’t include the cost of the fuel itself. At that rate, each U.S. soldier in Iraq is costing $840 per day in fuel delivery costs, and the U.S. is spending $923 million per week on fuel-related logistics in order to keep 157,000 G.I.s in Iraq.
Given that the Iraq War is now costing about $2.5 billion per week, petroleum costs alone currently account for about one-third of all U.S. military expenditure in Iraq.
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The MRAPs mean even greater demand for fuel from U.S. troops in Iraq.
An armored Humvee covers perhaps 8 miles per gallon of fuel.
One version of the MRAP, the Maxxpro, weighs about 40,000 pounds, and according to a source within the military, gets just 3 miles per gallon.
The increased demand for fuel for the MRAPs will come alongside the need for an entirely new set of tires, fan belts, windshields, alternators, and other gear.

And there’s no apparent end in sight.
Although this week a glimpse into something in the future.
The Task Force for a Responsible Withdrawal for Iraq, a 20-member committee which met last March, laid out a blueprint to pull the US ass out of a wringer.
Titled, “Quickly, Carefully, and Generously: The Necessary Steps for a Responsible Withdrawal from Iraq,” the committee’s report proposes a basis for a complete withdrawal of American forces within 12 to 18 months — starting first with a modified UN mandate for Iraqi aid and support in a gradual American troop draw-down.

A good look at the Task Force report is found here.

One knows, however, Decider George ain’t gonna go for it.
He ain’t pumped gas into a car in decades — has no idea where a fan belt or alternator would be located, and wouldn’t know the function of each.
And he won’t when he gets back to the ranch.

‘How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes’

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“This is your last chance.
After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes…
Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more…
Follow me…
Apoc, are we online?”
– The Matrix (1999)

Into the mists of war continues the US.
The self-defeating ‘Global War on Terror’ has created a rabbit hole of such depth and persuasion, Alice could never, ever find her way back to the surface again.
The US public is in the same boat as little Alice, and Neo.

Network TV — ABC, CBS and NBC — coverage of the Iraqi war has really dropped in the past year.
Even some TV journalists have reported on less reporting, making one, CBS chief foreign correspondent hottie Lara Logan to proclaim: “If I were to watch the news that you hear here in the United States, I would just blow my brains out because it would drive me nuts.”
CBS now has no full-time reporter in Iraq and no network TV news operation has a full-timer in Afghanistan.

The problem ends up not before the mass of the US public.
And this unseen trail is so littered with discarded and damaged shit, the general public has no clue of what’s really happening with their sons and daughters in far-off places.
Decider George and his cohorts have so muddied the waters, screwed-up every conceivable item on an seemingly unending agenda of disasters, that even if Barack Obama is elected president this fall, he will face what could easily be termed as an anti-Gordian Knot — no single, bold stroke will free this sonofabitch-entanglement.

Iraq and Afghanistan both are entering a new phase, or maybe just an acceleration of the last one.
In Iraq, it’s really the same old story, but getting closer to reality: Yesterday four Americans — two of whom were civilians — were killed in a Baghdad bomb blast, but with a new twist.
Instead of a roadside bomb, or sniper fire, it was as inadvertent do-gooding in the wrong place — a Sadr City council office.
The day before, on Monday, two US GIs were killed after leaving a local council office in Madaen, a city southeast of Baghdad.
Security within the ranks of the Iraqi security forces.
The blast in Baghdad carried an all-time favorite security concern: “…how a bomb hidden in a bag could get inside.”

As one of the soldiers unfurled photographs of the council members, an explosion ripped through the room, knocking one member, Qasim Abdul Zahra, to the floor. As he looked up, he could just make out the forms of bloodied Americans through the smoke, he said. Unwittingly, they had become human shields, he said.
“The explosion happened just outside the room, near the Americans,” who were standing by the door, he said. “They were the ones that received the most shrapnel; and that’s why we are still alive,” he said of himself and the three other council members who were present.
While the four Iraqi council members in the room survived, six Iraqis outside the room were killed by the blast.
– New York Times, (6/25/08)

And this from the Christian Science Monitor:

The brazen Tuesday morning bombing occurred in an Iraqi municipal council building within the section of Moqtada al-Sadr’s Shiite stronghold of Sadr City that is sealed off and guarded by American and Iraqi forces.
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What’s more, it brings into the forefront, yet again, serious doubts about the capabilities and even the loyalties of Iraqi forces. The Iraqi Army had prime responsibility for securing the building located behind a stretch of high walls and barbed wires. No civilian vehicles are allowed into this stretch and everyone coming in is supposed to be searched by the Iraqis.

And what’s the score on that so-called Iraqi surge — Decider George’s ‘New Way Forward’ from more than 18 months ago?
Security still ain’t secure:

While agreeing with the administration that violence has decreased sharply, a report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office concluded that many other goals Bush outlined a year and a half ago in the “New Way Forward” strategy remain unmet.
The report, after a bleak GAO assessment last summer, cited little improvement in the ability of Iraqi security forces to act independently of the U.S. military, and noted that key legislation passed by the Iraqi parliament had not been implemented while other crucial laws had not been passed
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In many respects, the two reports seemed to assess wholly different realities. The 74-page Pentagon document emphasized what it called the “negative role” in Iraqi security that Iran and Syria have played. The 94-page GAO report did not mention Iran and referred to Syria only in the context of Iraqi refugees who had settled there.
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In comments appended to the GAO report, the State, Treasury and Defense departments objected to its conclusions, especially the judgment that the administration needs to fashion a new strategy.
“We do not require a new strategic document,” the State Department wrote. The Pentagon said it “nonconcurs with the GAO recommendation” to update the strategy, adding that the “New Way Forward … remains valid.”
– San Francisco Chronicle, (6/24/08)

And what way forward in Afghanistan?
As in Iraq, it is hard to know your enemy.
The US might have a much bigger mess in Afghanistan than Iraq, but the scorecard is still security, security, security — but of who?

Along with the increasingly dangerous spark between Afghan and Pakistani border forces the last couple of weeks, now an assassination plot:

In a news conference in Kabul, Sayeed Ansari, the spokesman for the Afghan intelligence service, said Afghan authorities had evidence of the direct involvement of Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency, Inter-Service Intelligence, or ISI, in the assassination attempt.
He said the evidence was based on documents uncovered during the investigation into the assassination attempt, confessions from 16 suspects detained after the attack, and cellphone contacts. He gave no further details or specific names of officials within the Pakistani agency that may have been involved.
“Based on the investigation of the case and documents we found as well as confessions by suspects we arrested they show that the real schemers and organizers of the terrorist attack” on the celebratory parade on April 27 “is the intelligence organization of Pakistan, ISI, and its associates, which committed unforgivable crimes.”
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“We don’t guess about the involvement of ISI, we are saying it precisely,” he said. The well-coordinated assassination attempt against Mr. Karzai took place at the Afghan national day military parade in central Kabul. Mr. Karzai escaped unhurt but three people were killed in the assault, including a tribal chief and a member of Parliament who were in the reviewing stands near Mr. Karzai, and a 10-year-old boy.
– New York Times, (6/26/08)

And what about the US’s entire operation in Pakistan, supposedly a top US ally in the above-mentioned, great, whole-wide-world, “War on Terror” and all its counterparts.
A real big problem in the whole proceedings, of absolute course, is the US guy, Decider George, and the Pakistani guy, Pervez Musharraf, are complete assholes.
And corrupt assholes, as reported by the Washington Post:

The Bush administration has paid Pakistan more than $2 billion without adequate proof that the Pakistani government used the funds for their intended purpose of supporting U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, congressional auditors reported yesterday.
Their report concluded that more than a third of U.S. funds provided Pakistan since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were subject to accounting problems, including duplication and possible fraud.
The Pentagon paid about $20 million for army road construction and $15 million to build bunkers in Pakistan, but there is no evidence that the roads or bunkers were ever constructed, the Government Accountability Office reported.
Islamabad also billed Washington $200 million for an air defense radar system that may not have met a U.S. condition: that reimbursement cover combat or logistical costs supporting U.S. military operations against terrorism beyond what a country would spend on its own needs.
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“It seems as though the Pakistani military went on a spending spree with American taxpayers’ wallets and no one bothered to investigate the charges,” said Sen.Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “How hard would it have been to confirm that a road we paid $15 million for was ever built? It is appalling that the Defense Department did not send any embassy officials working in Pakistan to verify these enormous costs.”
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In one example, the report cited monthly payments averaging $19,000 per vehicle for 20 passenger vehicles used by the Pakistani navy that appeared to contain “duplicative charges,” the GAO said. The Pentagon often did not document its basis for evaluating claims and did not check Pakistan’s currency conversions, which could have led to overbilling, the report said.

The Musharraf nut don’t fall far from the Decider George tree.

And the matrix of shit-clinging horror and incompetence and greed created all over the world by Decider George is made worse by an Alice in chains.
As Morpheus explained, this Decider George shitfire can be felt “when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes.”
Down a deep, deep, dark rabbit hole.

Romance Redacted

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James Michener’s Caravans is a good-read, romantic novel set in an exotic 1950 Afghanistan.
The hero is a young, likable consulate worker with the American embassy in Kabul.
The plot: He’s called on to chase down and retrieve the free-spirited daughter of a US senator who has charged off with a local warlord into the Hindu Kush, the towering mountain range between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
As a numb-nutted 18-year-old high school senior in1967, we dreamed on Caravans in big, beautiful pictures of a Lawrence-of-Arabia-like world in Afghanistan, and extremely romantic, poetic.
If one wanted to form some view of current Afghan society, which apparently hasn’t changed much in near-60 years, Caravans is an excellent source.
Michener was an excellent locale writer, blending both a journalist view of different parts of the globe with a novelist’s craft — most of his titles are places, i.e Alaska, Texas, Iberia, Poland. Good reads: The Source, The Fires of Spring.
Of course, Michener’s version of Afghanistan was way before the Russians, before Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and the US.
Not so exotic any more, maybe way-more toxic and dangerous.

Maybe Decider George was waxing back to his own high school reading of Caravans when he blubbered to GIs a couple of months ago during a video conference about how “It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic…” to be fighting, and dying, or getting slaughtered in Afghanistan.
No, it was Decider George just being his normal, thoughtless, asshole self.

A woman and three children have been killed after rockets fired from Pakistan hit a residential area in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials say.
The four civilians were killed when rockets landed in the eastern town of Khost after being launched from about 300 metres inside Pakistani territory, Arsala Jamal, the governor of Khost province, said on Sunday.
Eight people, most of them women, were also wounded by the rocket fire – one of three cross-border raids that took place about the same time overnight.
Pakistani officials denied the allegations.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Athar Abbas, a Pakistani military spokesman, said: “[Pakistani forces] only fired at the militants who were observed in the border area, so I don’t know how they are claiming that we fired on the camps or the bases of Afghanistan.
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Dan Nolan, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Afghanistan, said there were definitely two rockets attacks on Khost.
One of those attacks killed three civilians; another attack targeting Nato and Afghan army bases killed one civilian, he said.
An Afghan defence ministry spokesperson told Al Jazeera that both the attacks came from the Pakistani side of the border.
– Al Jazeera English, (6/22/08)

Read the whole story here.

A stress pattern has developed along the Afghan/Pakistan border — not a good thing.
A good-pitched, nasty-little dust-up right there, and with the Taliban seemingly never ceasing, coalition forces, especially US GIs, will face a shitfire.
Apparently, the Taliban and some of the Pakistani border patrol have become partners:

The issue of the Taliban’s ability to cross and recross the border with Pakistan into that country’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas is becoming one of the most contentious issues of the war, with many – including Afghan President Hamid Karzai – insisting that his country is involved in a ‘regional conflict’ and threatening to send troops across the border.
The Pakistani Frontier Corps has been heavily infiltrated and influenced by Taliban militants, sometimes joining in attacks on coalition forces, according to classified US ‘after-action’ reports compiled following clashes on the border.
According to those familiar with the material, regarded as deeply sensitive by the Pentagon in view of America’s fragile relationship with Pakistan, there are ‘box loads’ of such reports at US bases along the length of the Pakistan-Afghan border. Details of the level of infiltration emerged yesterday on a day when five more US-led soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan. Four of the soldiers died in a bomb and gunfire attack outside the southern city of Kandahar.
Nato officials have reported a dramatic increase in cross-border incidents compared with the same period last year. The US documents describe the direct involvement of Frontier Corps troops in attacks on the Afghan National Army and coalition forces, and also detail attacks launched so close to Frontier Corps outposts that Pakistani co-operation with the Taliban is assumed.
The reality,’ said a source familiar with the situation on the ground, ‘is that there are units so opposed to what the coalition is doing and so friendly to the other side that when the opportunity comes up they will fire on Afghan and coalition troops. And this is not random. It can be exceptionally well co-ordinated.’
– The Observer, (6/22/08)

No Fear: The US-led coalition is here with the big-suck.
These big suck weapons are horrifyingly effective, and without all the radiation hangover from off a nuclear device.
These have been around awhile and were even used by the US in Vietnam.
The UK has re-introduced the munitions — with US guidance and aid, of course.

Apache attack helicopters have fired the thermobaric weapons against fighters in buildings and caves, to create a pressure wave that sucks the air out of victims, shreds their internal organs and crushes their bodies.
The Ministry of Defence has admitted to the use of the weapons, condemned by human rights groups as “brutal”, on several occasions, including against a cave complex.
The use of the Hellfire AGM-114N weapons had been deemed so successful they would now be fired from RAF Reaper unmanned drones controlled by “pilots” at Creech air force base in Nevada, an Defence Ministry spokesman added.
Thermobaric weapons, or vacuum bombs, were first combat-tested by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s and their use by Russia against civilians in Chechnya in the 1990s was condemned worldwide.
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Legal experts concerned that use of the weapons broke international law simply renamed them.
“We no longer accept the term thermobaric (for the AGM-114N) as there is no internationally agreed definition,” a ministry spokesman said.
“We call it an enhanced blast weapon.”
– The Australian, (6/23/08)

Does the entire thermobaric weapon situation sound familiar?
What constitutes torture? Or abuse?
What represents ‘Executive Privilege,’ really?

If legal problems arise, just redact the name.

What the hey! Thermobaric sounds too barbaric anyway.

Pisser

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The big, old fat “cakewalk” security agreement between the US and Iraq might be in for some very heavy lifting in the next few weeks.

BAGHDAD (AFP) – An Iraqi Shiite cleric on Friday denounced as “eternal slavery” a proposed security deal between Baghdad and Washington that outlines the long-term military presence of American forces in the country.
“The suspect pact would be an eternal slavery for Iraq. It is against the constitution,” said Sheikh Asad al-Nasri, a member of the movement led by radical anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.”The government has no right to sign the pact which has been rejected by every political party,” he told worshippers at prayer in the holy town of Kufa, adding that the no Iraqi would be able to agree to it.
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But criticism is rife in Iraq and neighbouring Iran over the agreement that would cover the rights and administration of foreign troops in Iraq after the UN mandate expires at the end of the year.”Political entities should stick to their stand of rejecting the pact,” Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalaei, a representative of Iraq’s most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said in Karbala on Friday.
– Agence France-Presse, (6/20/08)

Read the whole story here.

‘Eternal slavery’ is pretty much the words.
And before the Iraqis sign on the dotted line, they should ponder the history lesson obtained by Cuba and Colombia in agreeing with US interests — Guantanamo Bay and the Panama Canal.

And this piece of poop at The National Security Archive of George Washington University.
This so-called security agreement between the US and Iraq, this Status of Forces Agreement, this special “relationship” between the two countries — in the works since before the beginning.
We hadn’t seen this particular material, but knew the story:

Washington D.C., June 13, 2008 – Recently declassified documents show that the U.S. military has long sought an agreement with Baghdad that gives American forces virtually unfettered freedom of action, casting into doubt the Bush administration’s current claims that their demands are more limited in scope.
News reports have indicated that the Bush administration is exerting pressure on the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to accept a U.S.-Iraq security plan by the end of July 2008.
According to these accounts, the plan would give the U.S. more than 50 military bases in Iraq, provide complete freedom of action to conduct military operations, allow complete freedom to arrest and detain Iraqis, and grant U.S. forces and contractors total immunity from Iraqi law.
Growing awareness of the implications of the pact have fueled opposition by the Iraqi public – to the extent that Prime Minister al-Maliki announced today that discussions had deadlocked.
Documents obtained by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that the U.S. started drafting the agreement in November 2003.
While information available in the heavily redacted copies that were provided does not specifically address such hot-button, present-day issues as the number and location of bases, or control of airspace, these preliminary planning documents show that from the outset U.S. aspirations for conducting military operations based in Iraq were essentially without limit.
– http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB252/index.htm

The National Security Archive is a real-good background site: It’s found here.

And if Decider George’s little security agreement doesn’t come about, it would put in jeopardy the real intent for the entire Iraqi exercise — oil.
The agreement now in the final stages between the Iraq Oil Ministry and the big oil giants will hinge on security — how to get the shit out of the ground with AK-47s sniping at your ass.
The answer: One can’t.

That’d be a real pisser.

War Criminals

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In the 230-plus-year history of the US, it was bound to happen.
One as cynical as us might have figured it would happen before now, before communications opened up governmental processes to a more public scrutiny, yet no real real-ugly hi-jinks until this current administration jackbooted into power.
Dick Nixon was a Boy Scout compared to Decider George and his corrupted crowd of crooks.

“After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”
– Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba, (Ret.), brokenlives.info, (6/18/08)

Taguba’s remarks come from a preface for a report released this week which revealed the US had used torture in violation of international laws, the US Constitution and just plain human decency:

The first extensive medical examinations of former detainees in U.S. military jails offer corroboration for prisoners’ claims of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of their American captors, a Boston-based human rights group said in a report released yesterday.
The assessments of 11 men formerly held in U.S. detention camps overseas revealed scars and other injuries consistent with their accounts of beatings, electric shocks, shackling and, in at least one case, sodomy, according to the report by Physicians for Human Rights.
Most also had symptoms of long-term psychological damage, including post-traumatic stress disorder, the group said.
– Joby Warrick, washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article, (6/19/08)

Taguba, as we all know, led the Pentagon’s investigation into the abuses at Abu Ghraib — which is like the Mafia investigating itself.
However, Taguba turned the tables, he reported the truth of what he saw in a report of his inquiry, which was started in January 2004 and submitted the following March.
And it cost him his career.
The Pentagon tried to suppress Taguba’s report, but it was eventually leaked to the press, along with the now-infamous photos.

In June 2007, Taguba was interviewed by Seymour Hersh for The New Yorker.
The general described the first meeting in Damn-dumb Don Rumsfeld’s office:

“Here . . . comes . . . that famous General Taguba—of the Taguba report!” Rumsfeld declared, in a mocking voice.
The meeting was attended by Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld’s deputy; Stephen Cambone, the Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence; General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (J.C.S.); and General Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, along with Craddock and other officials.
Taguba, describing the moment nearly three years later, said, sadly, “I thought they wanted to know. I assumed they wanted to know. I was ignorant of the setting.”
In the meeting, the officials professed ignorance about Abu Ghraib.
“Could you tell us what happened?” Wolfowitz asked.
Someone else asked, “Is it abuse or torture?”
At that point, Taguba recalled, “I described a naked detainee lying on the wet floor, handcuffed, with an interrogator shoving things up his rectum, and said, ‘That’s not abuse. That’s torture.’
There was quiet.
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“The whole idea that Rumsfeld projects—‘We’re here to protect the nation from terrorism’—is an oxymoron,” Taguba said.
“He and his aides have abused their offices and have no idea of the values and high standards that are expected of them. And they’ve dragged a lot of officers with them.”
– Seymour Hersh, newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/25

And the horror keeps on a-coming:

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, now under investigation for allegedly politicizing the Justice Department, ousted a top lawyer for failing to adopt the administration’s position on torture and then promised him a position as a U.S. attorney to placate him, highly placed sources tell ABC News.
Gonzales, who was just taking over as attorney general, asked Justice Department lawyer Daniel Levin to leave in early 2005, shortly after Levin wrote a legal opinion that declared “torture is abhorrent” and limited the administration’s use of harsh interrogation techniques.
– Jan Crawford Greenburg & Ariane De Vogue, abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story, (6/19/08)

If one wanted to return to the good-old Nuremberg Trials episode after WWII, then Decider George, Rumsfeld, Dufus Dick Chaney and the whole host of parasitic, lying worms employed by this administration would be charged, tried and then executed if need be.
The legacy of Decider George is of criminals.

Maybe we should send all of them to Abu Ghraib — get a taste of what Dufus Dick means when they “take off the gloves.”

Real Deal — Oil and Permanence

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Up comes two seemingly unrelated, underhanded, heavy-handed deals, cutting like odorous, fart-splitting flatulence across the landscape, coupling together the future of Iraq to the entrails of the US.

War for oil.
Old fart-head Alan Greenspan should have stuck to his gumption.
He said last fall that Decider George went into Iraq for the Texas tea underneath. (The White House raised hell about it, and old Al back-tracked a bit).
Even before the 2003 ‘shock and awe’ invasion sequence was the quiet of surprise performed by US Navy SEALS in securing the Mina al-Bakr and Khor al-Amaya oil loading terminals in the Persian Gulf.
Even as the National Library of Iraq, the National Archives and the National Museum of Antiquities were looted and burned after the glorious US forces reached Baghdad, the oil ministry was safe and sound — secured by US GIs and equipment.

After no WMD and no democracy, Decider George decided to tell one-13th of the truth that the invasion of Iraq was indeed about the oil.
Blubbering out in an October 2006 press conference about some high-minded action to combat terrorism, Iraq “…in the heart of the Middle East with large oil reserves…” must be protected by US GIs and equipment.
No matter the cost to life and treasure.

A New York Times story set for publication on Thursday reports a contractual-agreement is near being completed between Iraq’s Oil Ministry and some giant oil companies from the west, including Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP.

This news about another no-bid contract sealed the deal.

The no-bid contracts are unusual for the industry, and the offers prevailed over others by more than 40 companies, including companies in Russia, China and India.
The contracts, which would run for one to two years and are relatively small by industry standards, would nonetheless give the companies an advantage in bidding on future contracts in a country that many experts consider to be the best hope for a large-scale increase in oil production.
There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth these contracts seek to extract.
The Bush administration has said that the war was necessary to combat terrorism. It is not clear what role the United States played in awarding the contracts; there are still American advisers to Iraq’s Oil Ministry.
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The Iraqi Oil Ministry, through a spokesman, said the no-bid contracts were a stop-gap measure to bring modern skills into the fields while the oil law was pending in Parliament.
It said the companies had been chosen because they had been advising the ministry without charge for two years before being awarded the contracts, and because these companies had the needed technology.
– Andrew E. Kramer, nytimes.com/2008/06/19/world/middleeast, (6/19/08)

The second deal, or maybe the first part of the whole deal, has been in the works since at least last fall, maybe longer.
Decider George and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki glad-handed each other at the great Annapolis summit in a special “relationship” to be bonded between the US and Iraq’s oil deposits.
And this “relationship” was part of oil security.
Also from the above Times story:

Any Western oil official who comes to Iraq would require heavy security, exposing the companies to all the same logistical nightmares that have hampered previous attempts, often undertaken at huge cost, to rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure.
And work in the deserts and swamps that contain much of Iraq’s oil reserves would be virtually impossible unless carried out solely by Iraqi subcontractors, who would likely be threatened by insurgents for cooperating with Western companies.

Nearly in secret, this “relationship” was in actual scroll a tax-payer security operation, and didn’t come to a real-bright light until just earlier this month in a report from probably the best foreign journalist covering Iraq, Patrick Cockburn of UK’s The Independent.
The so-called “status of forces agreement” was at first an open-ended deal to keep the status quo.
The US would operate out of 58 bases, move without legal repercussions from Iraqi law and the 160,00 private contractors, thousands of them armed-to-the-teeth security operatives would also continue to be immune to local law.
The negotiations hit a raw nerve, both in the US Congress and in Iraq.
Al-Maliki, after getting flak from his own countrymen about it, said last Friday the talks on the agreement were “at a dead end” because the sovereignty of Iraq was in dispute.

The prime minister, however, backtracked a bit as Cockburn reported today the US conceded private contractors would no longer operate outside Iraq law, which might gain some ground.
However, the Iraqi people want the US completely out as soon as possible.
Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has also been calling for boycotts, even creating a militia arm to fight only US troops.
The agreement might not take hold, and then again, it might.
This historical, and somewhat cynical assessment:

But Iraq is now so thoroughly broken that al-Maliki may not have any choice but to sign. It doesn’t matter what the Iraqi people might want, any more than it matters what the American people want.
“Do you know what you call a country in that part of the world with no real air force or army?” asks John Pike, a military expert with globalsecurity.org. “You call it a protectorate.
“Americans are the Republican Guard now,” says Pike, referring to the Iraqi special contingent that was responsible for protecting Saddam Hussein. “As long as they are in Baghdad, nobody is going to try to steal the government when no one is looking.
“How many fighter aircraft did Saddam have? Hundreds. How many does al-Maliki have? None. How many tanks did Saddam have? Thousands. How many does al-Maliki have? Dozens.”
To Pike, Iraqi unhappiness with the continuing American presence is very nearly irrelevant.
“They’re just going have to get used to it,” he says. “There’s a lot of people on this planet who’ve gotten used to a lot of things they didn’t like.”
– Neil MacDonald, CBC News, cbc.ca/world/story, (6/11/08)

Oil and a permanent US presence in Iraq: The Real Deal.

OPEN MOUTH — Insert feet, boots, beltbuckle, necktie, ass

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Life in a vacuum.

If one lives in a glass house, but can’t see the outside world — creepy.
From just about every angle, Decider George’s way-dangerous terms in office have been an unmitigated disaster.
The W’s administration portfolio and accompanying details could fill a city of libraries, and just about all of the material contained within would be negative, lame or criminal.
Nothing of any good — and take the literal definition of “nothing” — has come out of the last near-eight years.

Now he’s the intellectual:

Asked if he planned to pen his own book after leaving office in January, Bush said it was a possibility.
“I’m going to think about that, yes – writing a book,” Bush said in an interview with Britain’s Observer newspaper published on Sunday.
…
“I seriously don’t watch TV. You know, I watch sports, but I’d much rather read books.
“And I do. I read a lot,” he said according to a transcript released by the White House.
– news24.com/News24/World/News, (6/15/08)

A story about Decider George’s reading habits published Aug. 17, 2006, by US News & World Report seemed to suggest the sonofabitch’s head is in a book nearly all freakin’ day long.
The list was provided by White House staffers.
A note displayed before the article: Staffers say the president is actually engaged in an informal contest with White House senior adviser Karl Rove to see who can read more books this year. The latest score card has Bush ahead 60-50. A sampling of the president’s reading list so far this year, according to White House aides:

A list of books then followed (see entire piece at usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060817/17bushbooks.htm).

However, can one fully believe, or understand, or comprehend that Decider George had read 60 damn books in seven-and-a-half months?
About 30 weeks — two books a week?
This list in the US News story was not bush-league, but out of Bush’s league.
Along with some Lincoln histories, a couple sports books, there’s The Stranger by Albert Camus, and Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks.

One has to be shitting us.

And one also has to keep in mind about these so-called White House “staffers.”
According to Scott McClellan, these “staffers” are prone to lie at the drop of a book.

As Decider George lounged around the UK this past weekend, he was interviewed by Britain’s SkyNews.
Sky’s political editor, Adam Boulton, asked about whether the 2008 election will end the Bush family strangle-hold on the presidency:

President Bush was asked by a SkyNews correspondent whether the end of his term marked the end of the Bush presidential dynasty that began with his father’s Oval Office tenure 20 years ago.
In response, Bush singled out his brother, who has often been mentioned as a possible Republican presidential contender. “Well, we’ve got another one out there who did a fabulous job as governor of Florida, and that’s Jeb,” he said. “But you know, you better ask him whether or not he’s thinking of running. But he’d be a great president.”
– politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com, (6/16/08)

One has to be shitting us.

In that interview, however, Decider George really revealed his inner, most nothingness.
A delusion so great, a stress of zero-ness so massive, the tremor pinches the brain nerves so a pure, ugly bowel movement erupts from the lips:

BOULTON: There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom.
BUSH: Of course, if you want to slander America.
– thinkprogress.org, (6/16/08)

The man has no shame.
The US Supreme Court, international peace groups, US federal agencies, investigative journalists, even the US peoples, have shown their dislike for the policies of Decider George — in EVERY category — policies which have damaged the US far more than anything Osama bin Laden could have achieved.

A McClatchy investigation found that instead of confining terrorists, Guantanamo often produced more of them by rounding up common criminals, conscripts, low-level foot soldiers and men with no allegiance to radical Islam — thus inspiring a deep hatred of the United States in them — and then housing them in cells next to radical Islamists.
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Soldiers, guards or interrogators at the U.S. bases at Bagram or Kandahar in Afghanistan had abused many of the detainees, and they arrived at Guantanamo enraged at America.
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In a classified 2005 review of 35 detainees released from Guantanamo, Pakistani police intelligence concluded that the men — the majority of whom had been subjected to “severe mental and physical torture,” according to the report — had “extreme feelings of resentment and hatred against USA.”
The report warned that unless steps were taken to rehabilitate the men, they had the potential of “becoming another Abdullah Mehsud,” a former Guantanamo detainee who became a high-ranking Taliban commander in the Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Mehsud killed himself with a grenade last July to avoid being taken prisoner by Pakistani troops. “A lot of our friends are working against the Americans now, because if you torture someone without any reason, what do you expect?” Issa Khan, a Pakistani former detainee, said in an interview in Islamabad. “Many people who were in Guantanamo are now working with the Taliban.”
– Tom Lasseter, mcclatchydc.com/detainees/story, (6/17/08)

And these self-same Taliban are now on the move near Kandahar, getting ready to mount a major offensive.
Fueled by US hatred.

And Decider George has the unlearned, unmitigated gall to then himself “slander” America by opening his Texas-sized hole in the face and inserting Dufus Dick Cheney’s asshole.

One has truly got to be shitting us!

Nero Fiddles

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In an ugly sense of an unconscious daydream, another natural tragedy has struck the US with its leader again out to lunch, or in this case, dinner:

About 36,000 Iowans were evacuated because of statewide flooding, 24,000 of them in Cedar Rapids. The massive flooding has overwhelmed the city — which is in a 500-year flood plain, an area the federal government says has less than a 0.2 percent chance of flooding.
“It’s been compared to a 3,000-year flood,” Cedar Rapids police Detective Brad Novak said. “So something with that rarity of an event, there is no playbook to go by.”
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has declared 83 of the state’s 99 counties disaster areas. More than 3,300 Iowa National Guard troops have been deployed to help primarily with sandbagging and staging resources, Maj. Gen. Ron Dardis of the Iowa National Guard said Sunday. Another 700 troops were expected to join them Monday.
Culver estimates agricultural damage could reach $1 billion, exceeding the costs of the big flood in 1993.
– cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/16/iowa.floods, (6/16/08)

Instead of on a tarmac eating cake with Jackboot John McCain when Katrina slammed into New Orleans, Decider George dined with UK PM Gordon Brown and media moron Rupert Murdock in London while the heartland of America drowned.
The sumptuous cute little group had a nice time, despite all the noise and hubbub from outside:

But despite non-stop chants of his name, the star of the show made no appearance in front of the crowds. The fact that the chants were “George Bush terrorist” and “Arrest George Bush” may have had something to do with it. Certainly the noise was loud enough to be heard above the polite conversation 200 yards away at 10 Downing Street.
– guardian.co.uk/uk, (6/16/08)

Before Decider George leaves office in seven months, the crowds will be American and demonstrations will be all across the US.
This president is not only the most incompetent, corrupt one in US history, he is quickly becoming the most loathed.
He will leave office as probably the most-hated man on the planet.

OBL: Dead or Alive!

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In the few months left to him as king of the world, Decider George is seeking out his nemesis, the biggest bogeyman of them all — Osama bin Laden.

President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House.
Defence and intelligence sources in Washington and London confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the September 11 attacks.
“If he [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place,” said a US intelligence source.
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Intelligence on the whereabouts of Bin Laden is sketchy, but some analysts believe he is in the Bajaur tribal zone in northwest Pakistan. He has evaded capture for nearly seven years.
“Bush is swinging for the fences in the hope of scoring a home run,” said an intelligence source, using a baseball metaphor.
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“We don’t have a clue where he is or even may be,” a Western military analyst said. “We have had NO credible intelligence on OBL since 2001. All the rest is rumor and rubbish either whipped up by the media or churned out in the power corridors of western capitals.”
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A Pentagon source said US forces were rolling up Al-Qaeda’s network in Pakistan in the hope of pushing Bin Laden towards the Afghan border, where the US military and bombers with guided missiles were lying in wait.
“They are prepping for a major battle,” he said.
– timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us, (6/15/08)

Of course, most military types say Osama was cornered in late 2001 within caves of the Tora Bora Mountain range in eastern Afghanistan.
Also these same people say Decider George screwed-up big time by leaving that place and turning everything — eyes, ears, throat, asshole — into war in Iraq.

And the major battle in preparation might have to be fought against Pakistan.
They hate Decider George as much as the rest of the world, even more.

All we can say is — Cowboy Go Home!

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