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Tuesday, Sep 30, 2003
Dr. Paul, your OCD is showing
At the New Yorker Festival Paul Wolfowitz raised the specter of September 11th on at least eleven occasions in remarks which were principally about Iraq.
This is either a mantra, or a symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder.
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Carol Moseley Braun from the recent debate of presidential candidates at Pace University.
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Saturday, Sep 27, 2003
Cribbed from Ted Rall.
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Friday, Sep 26, 2003
Powell the Inscrutable
That was then ...
Secretary Powell: ... We had a good discussion, the Foreign Minister and I and the President and I, had a good discussion about the nature of the sanctions -- the fact that the sanctions exist -- not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction. We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they are directed toward that purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was ten years ago when we began it. And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq, and these are policies that we are going to keep in place, but we are always willing to review them to make sure that they are being carried out in a way that does not affect the Iraqi people but does affect the Iraqi regime's ambitions and the ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and we had a good conversation on this issue.Secretary of State Colin Powell, US Department of State, Press Remarks with Foreign Minister of Egypt Amre Moussa, February 24, 2001
This is now ...
Dave: If it turns out now that there is no tangible evidence of weapons of mass destruction, is this a breach of faith to take this country into war, on the part of the administration?Late Show with David Letterman, September 25, 2003
Colin: No, I think there will be tangible evidence. And we have to remember that it's not just the United States claiming he had weapons of mass destruction. The whole world acknowledged this over a period of twelve years.
Cowboys [Real Ones] and a Personal Comment on Bush -- The So-Called, by Hunterbear.
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Republican Wives PR Blitz
The Republicans have been sending their women to the chat shows this week. Nancy Reagan appeared on This Week to promote Ronnie's new book. Lynn Cheney marketed her book on Dave's show. Laura "Pickles" Bush put in an appearance on "Good Morning America". And tonight, Dave hosts Colin Powell. -- Oh no you di'nnt.
On the WMD front, Colin had nothing to say about recent "discoveries", but cited an alleged chemical weapon attack by Saddam against the Kurds in 1988. Hey Dave, cue that video of merchant of death Donald Rumsfeld sucking up to Saddam in 1983. How's that for a "Stupid Human Trick"?
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Thursday, Sep 25, 2003
Gubernatorial
I'm watching the California gubernatorial debate. (We put the Goober in gubernatorial!), Not the 90 candidate version that Leno did, but the smaller version with the 5 leading candidates.
Thank MPEG for Tivo, because I can't get through this whole thing in one sitting. My stomach isn't that strong.
I'm really not excited about any of them. Bustamante (D) is annoying, patronizing and too often allowed others to talk over him. McClintock (R) is a good, solid cracker Republican. Schwarzenegger (R) is rude, smug, ignorant, negative, an unrepentant misogynist, did I mention ignorant?, and a truly odious individual. Camejo (G) has some good things to say, but doesn't have a fiscal story that hangs together, and isn't electable. And then there's Huffington (I). Her checkered past is troubling. Her combativeness is good television, but I don't know that she could govern effectively.
So how am I voting? First: No on this fucking circus. Second: If Bustamante needs help to win, he gets my vote. If he doesn't need help, then heads it's Camejo, tails it's Huffington.
Did I mention that Schwarzenegger is vile?
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Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003
Privatize Dubya/Dick '04
Branding
The Economist has an interesting article on the application of marketing arts to protest, and cites an hilarious "Make Tea, Not War" poster developed by an ad agency.
Also of note is the overall level of civility of the pro-war crowd at the economist. The tone in the WSJ, Weekly Standard, W. Safire in the NYT is ugly. Reeks of contempt. Or do I smell desperation?
Liars and Thieves
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Sunday, Sep 07, 2003
The Stench of Failure
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Heard on Comedy Central's The Daily Show.
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Saturday, Sep 06, 2003
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Friday, Sep 05, 2003
www.newamericancentury.org
The Marxist Right
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Dubya's Mass Deception
Once upon a time it was "Weapons of Mass Destruction". Then it was "Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction". Now it's "Desire for the Capability to have Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction." Thanks for clearing that up, Neo-Comrade Bolton.
"The issue I think has been the capability that Iraq sought to have ... WMD programs," [undersecretary of state for arms control John] Bolton said at the U.S. Embassy in Paris.
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Letterman Sold His Soul
Dave had many opportunities to toss Tommy Franks a funny/sarcastic/probing question. I came up with at least a half a dozen, and I'm not even a big time TV dude. We had to stay up late watching a Daria and an Enterprise because D. was just beside herself after the interview.
I'll have more to say later. The show is waiting for further review on my tivo.
Dr. Paul, now you're finally talking some sense!
Okay, I will ...
Hey, troops! What up? Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but you are the tools of both an Arab-American petroleum plutocracy and a cabal of neocons with vainglorious aspirations of empire. And don't forget the chicken-hawk shit-for-brains. You are a PR tool for his re-election campaign.
Here in the US of A our ports are unprotected. Osama is somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan. The 9/11 hijackers were from and were funded by Saudi Arabia. And the UN already did a pretty good job disarming Saddam, which is why you did not encounter NBC weapons -- at all. None. Bupkiss.
You're in the wrong fucking country, dudes!
Sorry. I tried to warn you a few months ago.
The full text.
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Sucking the Cocks of the House of Saud
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Tip o' the hat to Dr. D.
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Thursday, Sep 04, 2003
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Bush-Cheney '04, Inc. is trying to reach out to the bilingual demographic. For those rusty in their Spanish slang, "pendejo" translates quite well as "dick weed."
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Might have heard this on the Daily Show?
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Copy cribbed from Disinfotainment Today. (Gratuitous audio alert.)
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Copy cribbed from Disinfotainment Today. (Gratuitous audio alert.)
Graphic cribbed from Bush-Cheney '04, Inc. using Adobe Illustrator 8.0, a mighty fine product.
This is not a Bush-Cheney '04, Inc. officially licensed bumpersticker.
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Monday, Sep 01, 2003
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