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Wednesday, Sep 29, 2004
Heh
Some Guy With a Cartoon Strip ...
has a nice coda to memo-gate.
!Yoda
Ever notice how Baghdad Boosh is the opposite of Yoda?
Thursday, Sep 23, 2004
BC '04 Response to Latest Ad Flap
"Juvenile"? The word is "puerile".
at DKos
Now he admits it?!!
CIA was 'just guessing' in report on Iraq
Reuters via New Zealand Herald -- September 22, 2004
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O'Reilly Cracker
I just watched a re-run of last night's O'Reilly interview of Terry Gross. (Why do I do these things?) O'Reilly was such a santimonious prick. For him to badger and talk over Gross, while accusing Gross of giving an unfair interview, reveals the depth of his lack of self-awareness.
The money quote was O'Reilly wrapping up with, "You have a lot of courage coming on here .... I'm a lot bigger than you."
What a scrotum.
Bush has ‘traded a dictator for chaos’
Financial Times -- September 20, 2004
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Baghdad Bush Rides Again!*
*but not on a horse, cuz he's askered of anything bigger than a shetland pony
Baghdad Boosh
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While using google to spell check "incompetence" (because, you know, it would be bad to misspell that word), I ran across an article that helps me understand why Bush has so much swagger.
New York Times -- January 18, 2000
By ERICA GOODE
One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence.
The incompetent, therefore, suffer doubly, they suggested in a paper appearing in the December issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
"Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it," wrote Dr. Kruger, now an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, and Dr. Dunning.
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Deputy Doofus of Defense
How can one man be so deeply wrong so often? The notions that an invading force would be greeted as liberators, and that reconstruction on-the-cheap would result in a robust oil production capacity were simply daft.
LA Times -- September 18, 2004
Although record-high oil prices have helped compensate for the production decline, industry analysts expect Iraq to bring in far less oil revenue than the $15 billion previously projected for the year.
As a result, U.S. taxpayers may be forced to make up for shortages in revenue that Pentagon officials once promised would cover much of the reconstruction costs.
In an appearance before Congress in March 2003, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz said Iraqi oil revenue could bring in as much as $100 billion over two to three years.
As a bonus, there's the risk that the instability in Iraq could serve as a clinic for destabilization of Saudi oil production. From the same LA Times article ...
With 40% of the world's oil transported by pipelines and global demand at an all-time high, an outbreak of pipeline bombings could have disastrous economic consequences, analysts said. "The world can live with Iraq pumping 2 million barrels per day. The world cannot live with pipelines popping all over the place," Luft said.
U.S. and Iraqi officials have been at a loss to determine how to contain the damage.
Iraq's 14,000-man force dedicated to pipeline protection has neither enough people nor equipment to effectively monitor the country's 4,300 miles of pipelines, security experts say.
source of House testimony quotation: Rep. Ellen Tauscher Decries Logic Used by DOD Deputy Wolfowitz
Wolfowitz on Sky TV, February 25, 2003
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Sadly, No!
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Worst ... President ... Ever
Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale
The Guardian -- Thursday September 16, 2004
Sidney Blumenthal
Jeffrey Record, professor of strategy at the Air War College, said: "I see no ray of light on the horizon at all. The worst case has become true. There's no analogy whatsoever between the situation in Iraq and the advantages we had after the second world war in Germany and Japan."
[...]
"I see no exit," said Record. "We've been down that road before. It's called Vietnamisation. The idea that we're going to have an Iraqi force trained to defeat an enemy we can't defeat stretches the imagination. They will be tainted by their very association with the foreign occupier. In fact, we had more time and money in state building in Vietnam than in Iraq."
via bartcop.com
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I'm Tired of this Shyte Already, And I'm Not Even Getting Shot At
RUMSFELD: Thank you. We did lose lives during major combat operation. Major combat operation is just that — it involved the air and the land and the sea and it was opposing organized armies and elements of the Iraqi armed forces. That ended and major combat ended and what we have been in since that period has been an insurgency. And the reason it’s tough and the reason we’re losing lives is because an insurgency is an ugly business.
[ ... ]
I’m very encouraged about it. I think that the United States and the coalition countries, of course, unlike other countries we have no desire to stay there or to be there at all other than to help that country get on it’s feet. We’re in the processing of doing that and they’re making good progress politically. They’re making progress economically. The schools are open. The hospitals are open. They have a stock market functioning. They sent some teams to the Olympics. They have a symphony and at the same time, amidst all those good things that are happening, people are being killed. Iraqis are being killed, as they were yesterday and the day before. At some point the Iraqis will get tired of getting killed and we’ll have enough of the Iraqi security forces that they can take over responsibility for governing that country and we’ll be able to pare down the coalition security forces in the country.
Secretary Rumsfeld Media Availability at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
via Real Time with Bill Maher, who was quoting USA Today
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OWNED
PWN3D
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The Soft Fascism of Hair Pulling
AP via Rubber Nun
Thursday, Sep 09, 2004
Sometimes This Job is Easy
It's been a while since I did a Dr. Paul's Words of WisdomTM, so I did a quick google. I can't really improve on this headline.
Damn, they changed the headline already, but Google has the original ...
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Wednesday, Sep 08, 2004
The "Wrong" Meme
Kerry's showing a willingness to ... what's the word ... criticize.
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