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Cheney creates his own reality: U.S. 'succeeded' in Iraq Former Vice President Dick Cheney said in his first television interview since leaving office that the Iraq invasion was "worth doing" and the U.S. succeeded with its goals - a view that is shared by few others. Comment: No doubt he refers to the minority of pathological individuals who consider success the over one million dead Iraqis, almost five thousand dead US troops and the complete destruction of an entire country. "I think it was absolutely the right thing to do and I think when history reviews this period 10 or 20 years hence, what will be significant was that we did, in fact, accomplish what we set out to do," he said. "The other things are interesting and important but, you know, they're secondary to the basic result." Cheney said on CNN's "State of the Union with John King": "We have succeeded in creating, in the heart of the Middle East, a democratic...

There's one thing I hate. Just one. I don't hate anyone outright... it takes too much energy (unless it's Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh. et al) but this covers that. I HATE LIARS. People who lie. People who twist history, time, the truth and manipulate the good hearts & minds of others. Liars. Liars who lie to cover up their misdeeds, lie to smear others and just lie for the hell of it. I HATE LIARS. REMEMBER, THEY ARE LIARS by William Rivers Pitt "No one is such a liar as the indignant man." - Friedrich Nietzsche George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, along with a slew of administration underlings and a revolving-door cavalcade of brass hats from the Pentagon, have been making claims regarding Iraq for many years now. They claimed Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, "enough to kill several million people," according to a page on the White House web site titled Disarm Saddam Hussein....

Since the only political news anyone is paying any attention to this week involves hookers or orgies... Didn't this moron say he'd "bring dignity back the White House"? Feh!! Now we just have to decide who is going to get the task of cleaning up after him... George Bush has been tied to a prostitution ring involving as many as 50,000 women and girls. The prostitutes, some as young as 13, are among the 1.2 million desperate Iraqis who fled to Syria after Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to the U.K. Independent. Bush's invasion destroyed the Iraqi government and unleashed a wave of political and sectarian violence that has killed over 1 million Iraqis and forced 4 million to become refugees, according to the UN. Facing starvation, as many as 50,000 women and girls have been forced into prostitution in Syria alone, according to Hana Ibrahim of the Women's Will Association. "70 percent to 80 percent of the girls working this business in Damas...

STEPFORD REPUBLICANS All Caught on Tape! by Jeff Cohen "The Stepford Wives" tells the chilling story of once smart, independent women who get abducted and turned into tamed, mindless robots. I have a theory about a similarly subversive process that turns grown men once capable of independent and reasoned thought into robotic extremists. Call them Stepford Republicans. The nefarious transformation always occurs before the individual gets close to becoming a Republican president or vice president. Stepford Wives become robotically subservient only to their husbands; they pose no threat to the rest of us. But Stepford Republicans become subservient to right-wing forces of corporatism, war and prejudice. Once converted into mindless ideologues, Stepford Republicans are a threat to us all. The prototype of a Stepford Republican is PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN. After his apparent abduction and alteration, he became an instrument of corporate power in the White House: union-busting, down...

Good Riddance To Them All by Joseph L. Galloway There was little for the unindicted co-conspirators of the Bush administration to give thanks for this week as the clock winds down on the 14 months they have left in power. With former White House press secretary Scott McClellan spilling the beans on who told him to lie to the American people and cover up the White House’s responsibility for the criminal act of revealing the identity of a covert CIA officer, it clearly was time for some folks to begin drafting their requests for presidential pardons. McClellan, in a forthcoming book that will tell some, if not all, reveals that his 2003 statements absolving top White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of any involvement in leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame were untrue - and that the orders to make those statements came from President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, White House chief of staff Andrew Card, Rove and Libby. McClellan’s revelation makes it ab...

FUNDAMENTAL BETRAYAL ACCORDING TO THE 'JERK AT THE PODIUM' Is this news to anyone? Really? If it is than either you are in total denial or have been confined to a cave since 2000. I hope Valerie Plame-Wilson will finally get some justice, too. Scott McClellan in Upcoming Book Ties Bush to CIA Leak Case -- Dodd Calls for Probe To no one's surprise in a world where top White House aides with any president eventually write a book about it, former Press Secretary Scott McClellan will be coming out with his volume in April. It's called "What Happened" and its publisher, Public Affairs, at its Web site now carries this brief excerpt -- which set off a media firestorm on Tuesday. It also led to a call for a full probe by a top U.S. senator and condemnation from former CIA agent Valerie Plame. E&P was first mainstream news outlet to report on Monday night that the McClellan excerpt reads: "The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on ...

Bush Pays Surprise Visit to Reality (A little 'hump day' levity) President Calls Two-Hour Stop in Real World ‘Informative’ President George W. Bush departed from his planned itinerary this past Labor Day to make a surprise visit to reality, later calling the two-hour stop in the real world “informative.” For Mr. Bush, the visit to reality, while brief, was still significant because it represented his first visit to the real world since being elected President in 2000. “The President has not visited reality the entire time he’s been in the White House,” one aide said. “The closest he’s come is watching ‘Survivor.’” Mr. Bush touched down in the real world a little after dawn, delivering a brief address on the airport runway in which he attempted to put the best face on his relationship with reality, a relationship which has been frayed in recent years. But beneath the smiles and positive statements, Mr. Bush’s aides seemed well aware that the President’s relationship with reality...

THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE HIM AWAY! Since 2000, I have been telling people something is seriously wrong with George W. Bush. At first he just seemed stupid. A man running the country who can't string a coherent sentence together or conjugate a verb. Then he seemed narcissistic. Well, he still does. Dr. Justin Frank in BUSH ON THE COUCH would agree with me. My choice would be something on the Cluster B spectrum. Dr. Frank even goes so far as to say that Bush suffers from ADHD. I have an ADD child so frankly, I question that. While I am not a doctor, I think Bush suffers from carte blanche-itis, getting away with it and too much overgrown frat-boy who put a heck of a lot of liquor down his throat and probably white stuff up his nose. Can't you just see the guy leaning out of a pick-up truck with steer horn on the hood screaming "yeeeee haaaaawwww"? Even Laura's gone batty, though I can't see how she was supposed to hold it together married to The Shrub...

AN APPEAL FOR TRUTH The Cry of a Wolf By Monica Benderman We can say with little doubt that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were part of a greater conspiracy to strike fear in the hearts and minds of the American public; enough fear to set off a reaction of anger and rage which was destined to initiate a war we had no business fighting. We can say with little doubt that it was a group of terrorists who established the organization which planned and executed an attack on our country leaving over 3,000 American civilians dead, thousands more seriously injured and divided this country in ways we could not see coming. We can say with little doubt that the acts of terror continue, both on our soil and against American citizens now wearing our nation’s uniform in countries half a world away. We can say with little doubt that the acts of terror were like a universal fuse for the grand finale of a massive fireworks display, setting off a reactionary anger which began with sparks over a tiny ...

DICK'S STILL SINGING THE SAME TIRED SONG When I was a teenager many radio stations started using a computer fed format. It did away with the need for disc jockeys. A predictable pattern of tunes was programmed onto a computer and the sequence varied every few hours until the whole thing was reprogrammed with the latest top 40 hits or new releases. And so it goes with the Vice President. Apparently this man either doesn't get out much or is locked into a cycle of "this fear-mongering worked before so it should work again" mentality. This particular cycle still has him trying to link Al-Queda to the war in Iraq. The PNAC kool-aid. This link has been debunked so many times, its almost pathetic that these West Point grads had to sit and listen to this. The war had just started when they enrolled and now at graduation they have to listen to the Vice President who swore in April 2003 that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. So, when some of these cadets are d...

DICK'S A JOHN? Can we get a collective EEEEEEWWWWWW! And pardon me while I lose my lunch and a few other things. (did I mention how I loathe liars?) May 8, 2007 -- Cheney on DC Madam's list . Yesterday, WMR reported on the DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey's list: " WMR has been informed that the CEO of a major corporation is a former CEO but, nonetheless, the aforementioned extremely high-level official of the Bush administration. The individual, who is definitely "newsworthy," reportedly engaged the services of Palfrey's escort firm while he was the CEO and maintained a residence off Chain Bridge Road in the Ballantrae neighborhood in McLean, Virginia, a few blocks from the headquarters of the CIA." Cheney "X'd" off the DC Madam's list by ABC/Disney. WMR has confirmed with extremely knowledgeable CIA and Pentagon sources that the former CEO who is on Deborah Jeane Palfrey's list is Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney was CE...

Instability, Chaos, Violence Born of Unstable, Irresponsible, and Dangerous Leaders In light of current events I felt these to articles went together... like peas in an 'article' pod. And one of the most profound quotes I have read recently is in the second article. It refers to physical wounds but I know for a fact it applies to mental & emotional wounds as well: Your body forms a cocoon, so it will always be part of you, but it won't hurt. Yes, whatever has happened to us and to them - will always be a part of all of us. by Christopher Brauchli Blessings are upon the head of the just; but violence Covereth the mouth of the wicked. -The Proverbs In his April 21 radio address to the nation (inspired by the violence at Virginia Tech earlier in the week) George Bush announced that he has directed federal officials to conduct a national inquiry into how to prevent violence by dangerously unstable people. It is a worthy endeavor. The news from Darfur (as well as...