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Kool-aid drinking underlings, like where Rummy and Dicky came from (Nixon), and the other "chums" from Bush I.
That's why we need investigations. To shine the light on these scum so they can't reincarnate in a future Republican administration.
-6.5, -7.59. John McSame - running for Bush's third term. We can't afford it.
by DrWolfy on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 06:03:27 AM PDT
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...and the other "chums" from Bush I.
Ha, and, now again where's Paul Wolfowitz?
by Phil S 33 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 07:12:29 AM PDT
This is just fucking incredible.
Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank--amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend--he's in line to return to public service. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters. The 18-member panel, which has access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters. "We think he is well suited and will do an excellent job," said one senior official.
We're pro-choice on everything! - Libertarian slogan
by CA Libertarian on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 08:42:46 AM PDT
I wonder if Dems would actually allow him to do this?
Can anyone tell me what's "centrist" about using the Constitution to wipe your ass? - ActivistGuy
by billlaurelMD on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 08:48:54 AM PDT
Be serious - Wolfowitz could never get through confirmation hearings.
by CA Libertarian on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 08:50:16 AM PDT
...although I can confirm that this man wouldn't know an WMD if it bit him on the ass.
Please don't tell me you feel sorry for Ben. Ben is a well cared for dalmatian and has not been harmed by my political views.
by Bensdad on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 01:03:27 PM PDT
like Wolfie could find a way to make an honest living.
Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on earth. ~Stephen Hawking
by Executive Odor on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 06:25:57 PM PDT
Names must be written down so that BushCo's minions don't get a job in any administration in the future. I don't think it would be "beneath" them join a Democrat's admin just to try to get some legit credentials for later on.
Rather than arrest illegal aliens, what say we arrest the people who are hiring them?
by PatsBard on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 07:18:20 AM PDT
retreads bush was bringing into his administration. he would just sit there shaking his head.
by stodghie on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 07:48:03 AM PDT
that was the Nixon administration. I mean these f*ckers are bad bad bad to the bone. And not in a good way like the song implies. These guys are 100% pure distilled evil. Ccncentrated goofiness. High octane insanity. Plain old batshit crazy.
by Hard to Port on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 05:14:12 PM PDT
to get to the bottom of this as well as set the stage for impeachment. This is something that is as simple as lying about sex. People can understand this. Doesn't take too long an attention span.
Does Cheney call all of the shots and did not allow this to get to the chimpster? We already know that he controls the flow of information and has his spies everywhere.
If so, Cheney would be a goner. Then the whole idea of having a Neocon Vice President having the President dance while he ground out the tune and jerked on his chain is just the perfect meme for the Republican tough guys. They have been jerking off and swooning to the likes of a chimp for seven years. They will run in droves not to be heard too much from for a week or two at least.
And best of all we will have this to hang around their not so manly necks for many, many years to come. Oh the Joy of what we have know for so long becoming common knowledge.
by philipogog on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 10:12:59 AM PDT
to not prosecute these criminals. Now he hobnobs with Bush Sr. It stinks. They should have been in jail. Read anything by Robert Parry:
Despite exposure of the lies that had surrounded the Iran-Contra Affair, Hamilton's Task Force didn't want to believe that George H.W. Bush and other Republicans had begun those contacts six years earlier by undercutting President Jimmy Carter's negotiations to free 52 Americans held hostage in Iran in 1980. By the early 1990s, the climate in Washington also was extremely hostile to the 1980 October Surprise allegations. They had been denounced by Republicans and attacked by influential journals, such as the neoconservative New Republic. The very idea that then-President Bush would exploit the national humiliation of that earlier hostage crisis for political gain was unthinkable to many Washington insiders. Plus, in December 1992, after Clinton had defeated George Bush Sr., the Democrats saw little reason to pursue divisive allegations dating back a dozen years that also would tarnish the legacy of the well-liked Ronald Reagan. It was feared, too, that exposing these old crimes might engender more partisan bitterness and poison the political climate as a new President, Bill Clinton, was taking office. At that naïve moment - 14 years ago - Democrats felt it made sense to bargain away a few seemingly unimportant historical facts for a chance at better cooperation with Republicans on domestic issues that Clinton held dear, like the budget and health care.
Despite exposure of the lies that had surrounded the Iran-Contra Affair, Hamilton's Task Force didn't want to believe that George H.W. Bush and other Republicans had begun those contacts six years earlier by undercutting President Jimmy Carter's negotiations to free 52 Americans held hostage in Iran in 1980.
By the early 1990s, the climate in Washington also was extremely hostile to the 1980 October Surprise allegations. They had been denounced by Republicans and attacked by influential journals, such as the neoconservative New Republic. The very idea that then-President Bush would exploit the national humiliation of that earlier hostage crisis for political gain was unthinkable to many Washington insiders.
Plus, in December 1992, after Clinton had defeated George Bush Sr., the Democrats saw little reason to pursue divisive allegations dating back a dozen years that also would tarnish the legacy of the well-liked Ronald Reagan. It was feared, too, that exposing these old crimes might engender more partisan bitterness and poison the political climate as a new President, Bill Clinton, was taking office.
At that naïve moment - 14 years ago - Democrats felt it made sense to bargain away a few seemingly unimportant historical facts for a chance at better cooperation with Republicans on domestic issues that Clinton held dear, like the budget and health care.
"It is not be cause things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." Seneca
by MontanaMaven on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 06:08:32 PM PDT
Democrats felt it made sense to bargain away a few seemingly unimportant historical facts for a chance at better cooperation with Republicans on domestic issues that Clinton held dear, like the budget and health care.
seems to still be the CW in DC. Problem is, it's not working because the Republicans have no desire to work with us.
by DrWolfy on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 08:40:20 PM PDT
for the republicans and the democrats that enable them.
surf putah, your friendly neighborhood central valley samizdat
by wu ming on Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 12:43:07 AM PDT
wide narrow
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