The Crooks in the Military are Judging themselves Innocent

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday October 20, 2006 · 2:59 AM PDT

2006/10/20 · 02:59

Who else can proclaim they have investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong?

Remember when the US military was caught redhanded planting Pro-US propaganda in the Free Iraqi media?

An unclassified summary of results of the inspector general's probe, released on Thursday, said:
"We concluded that the Multi-National Force-Iraq and Multi-National Corps-Iraq complied with applicable laws and regulations in their use of a contractor to conduct Psychological Operations and their use of newspapers as a way to disseminate information."

Yes it's official. Our current military leaders are not only fucking idiots, but as thick in the slime of corruption as their political counterparts.

I was wrong. And I'm happy to admit it

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday October 11, 2006 · 10:43 PM PDT

2006/10/11 · 22:43

On a prior diary I wrote out my belief that the North Korea nuclear testing would change the dynamics of the upcoming elections by sucking all of the media oxygen from the Foley scandal and the various Republican breakdowns in progress.

I am now happy to report that I was wrong. In addition to the test being an apparent dud, the story itself seems to have been a one shot wonder even here in Hawaii where we are in range of Korean missiles. To my relieved astonishment, the additional revelations of more GOP coverup and lurid details from the Foley case has been the main focus. It seems the public really doesn't care about issues when you wave a juicy sex scandal in their face.

And on a sadder note, the carnage from Iraq is coming back from the page A9 footnote into A3 articles precisely because the violence has gotten so bad that the reports are newsworthy again. Not enough to sway the die hard kool aid swilling sheep of course (does anything?) but it's more ammo to fire into the teetering walking corpse of the GOP.

No Quarter, No Mercy. Let's end the Republican Tyranny.

Elections Imperiled. North Korea makes it a Whole New BallGame

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday October 08, 2006 · 10:19 PM PDT

2006/10/08 · 22:19

We are in big trouble.

North Korea's nuclear test is going to blow the Foley Scandal right out of the water and set the Republican Incompetence on a backburner.Yes, even though it is Republican's fault on NK they're going to get away scott clean in the MSM as the chickenshit 'reporters' focus on that holy grail of Republican cocksucking.

National Security.

Iraq Reconstruction Funds Have Been Pissed Away

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday January 29, 2006 · 8:28 PM PST

2006/01/29 · 20:28

Outrage is too mild a word for this.

"Those deficiencies were so significant that we were precluded from accomplishing our stated objectives," the auditors said of U.S. officials in Hillah being unable to account for $97 million of the $120 million in Iraqi oil revenues earmarked for rebuilding projects.

This is the face of Republican run warfare. Corruption, war profiteering, tax cuts, troop levels being slashed, and incompetence on a level that is beyond terrifying. Bush's appointed idiots in charge run things like a third world country. What they don't steal, they break. What they don't break, they simply can't find.

Onwards to the flipside. Read More

How Can Republicans Profit from Katrina Misery?

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday September 03, 2005 · 2:45 PM PDT

2005/09/03 · 14:45

While browsing through the many diaries and blogs on Katrina, the news stories, the televised suffering on the television, and the selfless efforts by many to help the victims, one troubling question keeps popping up over and over again in my admittedly pessimistic mind.

What do the Republicans get out of this?

We all saw how they started exploiting 9/11 almost before the last bodies were carried away, and I saw no reason to believe they would not stay true to form now.

There was the Roberts stealth nomination of course, the inheritance tax repeal, tax cuts, even padding the Justice department with a few more torture apologists.

But what else could we have missed? Read More

Bush takes Advantage of Focus on Katrina Coverage

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday September 02, 2005 · 2:19 PM PDT

2005/09/02 · 14:19

The Son of a Bitch never met a Disaster he couldn't exploit.

Bush used a "recess appointment" Wednesday to name Alice S. Fisher to lead the agency's criminal division. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., had blocked the nomination because he wants to talk to an agent who named Fisher in an e-mail about allegedly abusive interrogations at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo.

And nothing can be done about it now because everyone with a heart is too busy helping out Katrina victims. Which leaves PLENTY of free time for Republicans to plot and sneak through the shit that would normally be highlighted by the opposition.

Don't Politicize Katrina?

Too late, folks. The Republicans have already started before the dead bodies are even cold.

Frist Determined to Make American Kids Stupid

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday August 19, 2005 · 5:49 PM PDT

2005/08/19 · 17:49

The only person less intelligent then Frist are the people who vote for and support him

"I think today a pluralistic society should have access to a broad range of fact, of science, including faith," Frist said.
Frist, a doctor who graduated from Harvard Medical School, said exposing children to both evolution and intelligent design "doesn't force any particular theory on anyone. I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future."

How about some good old fashioned Aztec explanations of how the world and everything in it was formed? About the only thing I can see getting these damn nutcases to back off the Bible-Thumping is the reminder that everyone ELSE could start teaching their kids about NON-Christian creationism.

Religious science, isn't. And employers don't care about 'fairness in education', either you know the facts or you don't. This idiotic suggestion to dumb down the classroom does nothing to help American kids prepare for the harsh reality of the working world....unless Frist intends them all to serve as Pope to the Catholic Church.

Talk about an obvious attempt to change the subject

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday August 19, 2005 · 1:49 AM PDT

2005/08/19 · 01:49

Does the timing of this released document strike anyone else as 'convienient'?

The title:

U.S. Held Meetings With Taliban in 2000

Uh huh. Tell us something we didn't already know.

U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan William B. Milam held a secret meeting with an unidentified senior Taliban official in September 2000 and assured him that international sanctions on the Taliban would end if bin Laden were expelled from Afghanistan, newly declassified documents show.

$10 says dumb right-wingers rush to put this article on their blogs and cut-and-paste message boards. Yes, never mind that Clinton was trying to hinder Osama, never mind that Bush kept up the contacts up to the attack on Afghanistan, it must be snark Clinton's fault /snark.

Is there no low Bush-supporters will not sink to?

Lost in the News II: Rumsfield gives Congress the Bird on Iraq Yet Again

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday July 21, 2005 · 3:50 AM PDT

2005/07/21 · 03:50

Simply freaking unbelievable.

10 days later and that required report to Congress still not delivered. Between Rove and the Supreme Court it looks like Congress really can't chew bubble gum and walk at the same time.

Rumsfeld said information about the readiness and performance of U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces -- one of the most telling measures of progress -- would be included in a classified annex to the report but not made public.

Clever little shithead, isn't he? Not only does Rummy prevent John Q Public from finding out just how little there actually is to the 'Iraqi fighting forces', but Democratic Members of Congress who try to complain about it will be cited with 'revealing classified information' if they attempt to use the actual numbers from the report to back up their arguments. This has Rove's grubby fingerprints all over it. Damned if you do, look like an idiot if you don't.

Sadly, that's not the worst of it. Read More

Lost in the News: Pentagon just defied Congress on Iraq!

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday July 13, 2005 · 12:49 AM PDT

2005/07/13 · 00:49

That's the trouble with big stories like Rove, things like this get lost in the frenzy.

The report to Congress, due yesterday, was required under the $80 billion war spending legislation approved in May. It is intended to help answer one of the most pressing questions hanging over the American-led occupation: when the United States might be able to begin drawing down the estimated 140,000 forces in Iraq.(emphasis mine)

This is the kind of thing that can bring down ruling parties. Not as splashy as outright treason, but just as able to get the job done.

Its Official, Bush didn't get the New Talking Points from Rove

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday July 09, 2005 · 2:29 PM PDT

2005/07/09 · 14:29

You just can't make this shit up. Seriously.

Bush said the London attacks were a reminder of the "evil" of the Sept. 11 attacks and underscored that the United States and its allies were fighting a "global war on terror."
"We will stay on the offense, fighting the terrorists abroad so we do not have to face them at home," Bush said.

Yeah, I couldn't believe it either when I saw this.

"I expect he will talk about the strategy for winning the war on terrorism," McClellan said. "He'll talk about (how) in the short term, it's taking the fight to the enemy abroad and in the long term it's spreading freedom and democracy to defeat the extremist ideology of hatred and oppression."

Somebody get McClellan a dictionary. That's not strategy, that's a pipe dream. Looks like the White House is finally slipping on message.

Idiot Military Officer Alienates Non-hostile Iraqis in Iraq

RangerShade

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday June 30, 2005 · 2:15 AM PDT

2005/06/30 · 02:15

"If you're not my friend, you're my enemy in this war," the officer told Fahd sternly. "I am very disappointed in this conversation. I came here today with hope, but now I will treat you, your family and the al-Ghrirs differently."

"I am so sad that you're disappointed," Fahd answered. "But there is nothing that I can do. I don't have your guns and armor, what can I do?"

The officer replied: "I don't want you to fight. I want you to organize the al-Ghrirs and take a stand against the insurgents and your fear."

"Please be sure that I will always be your friend and I will not hesitate to help you if I can. Do you accept my friendship?" asked Fahd.

"No," Brown snapped.

Newer
Older

RSS