Big Ol' Smitty

Racism. This isn't Bush per se, though. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1342051,00.html

Although I don't agree with INXS, that's a pretty lame way to refute his argument. No, it's a very solid refutation. If we're doing things for oil, explain why prices are so high. Explain why we support Israel over Arab countries that have oil. Explain why we're quite possibly the only country to boycott Iranian oil. -=Mike I don't think our involvement in the Middle East is totally oil-related for the record. Hell, Tom Delay and the rest of the Christian Right probably just want to speed along the apocalypse. However, by securing the flow of Iraqi oil, the US could break the Saudi's and OPEC's hold on the global oil market. The Bush energy policy is pretty oil-friendly.

Although I don't agree with INXS, that's a pretty lame way to refute his argument.

Yeah, I noticed that about it, too. Agreed. He was much more skeptical and didn't seem to buy into the whole neo-con "mideast sandbox" ideology. I guess he eventually came on board, though. His ill-fated UN speech would seem to indicate this, anyway.

Completely ignoring all the modifiers and warnings about stretching conclusions to fit their pre-programmed ideology, our intelligence services actually provided quite good intelligence - the bushies simply did not like what they were hearing, so they chose to ignore and conveniently leave out whole sections. Yellowcake. WMD. Aluminum tubes. Cakewalk w/flowers nonsense. The CIA had it correct.

With several Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Wolfowitz disses thrown in for good measure.

So are we at war with Eastasia or Eurasia right now?

Alas. The voice of reason is gone. Also, Cerebus, from watching the Frontline documentary on Rumsfeld I got the sense that Powell not only disliked the way the war was conducted, but the entire idea of the war.

What are you getting at, DDP?

White House Orders Purge of CIA 'Liberals,' Sources Say Agency officials believed to be disloyal to Bush are reportedly the targets by Knut Royce WASHINGTON - The White House has ordered the new CIA director, Porter J. Goss, to purge the agency of officers believed to have been disloyal to President Bush or of leaking damaging information to the media about the conduct of the Iraq war and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to knowledgeable sources. "The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda." One of the first casualties appears to be Stephen R. Kappes, deputy director of clandestine services, the CIA's most powerful division. The Washington Post reported yesterday that Kappes had tendered his resignation after a confrontation with Goss' chief of staff, Patrick Murray, but at the behest of the White House had agreed to delay his decision until tomorrow. But the former senior CIA official said that the White House "doesn't want Steve Kappes to reconsider his resignation. That might be the spin they put on it, but they want him out." He said the job had been offered to the former chief of the European Division who retired after a spat with then-CIA Director George Tenet. Another recently retired top CIA official said he was unsure Kappes had "officially resigned, but I do know he was unhappy." Without confirming or denying that the job offer had been made, a CIA spokesman asked Newsday to withhold naming the former officer because of his undercover role over the years. He said he had no comment about Goss' personnel plans, but he added that changes at the top are not unusual when new directors come in. On Friday John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year veteran of the intelligence division who served as acting CIA director before Goss took over, announced that he was retiring. The spokesman said that the retirement had been planned and was unrelated to the Kappes resignation or to other morale problems inside the CIA. It could not be learned yesterday whether the White House had identified Kappes, a respected operations officer, as one of the officials "disloyal" to Bush. "The president understands and appreciates the sacrifices made by the members of the intelligence community in the war against terrorism," said a White House official of the report that he was purging the CIA of "disloyal" officials. "The suggestion [that he ordered a purge] is inaccurate." Another former CIA official who retains good contacts within the agency said that Goss and his top aides, who served on his staff when Goss was chairman of the House intelligence committee, believe the agency had relied too much over the years on liaison work with foreign intelligence agencies and had not done enough to develop its own intelligence collection system. "Goss is not a believer in liaison work," said this retired official. But, he said, the CIA's "best intelligence really comes from liaison work. The CIA is simply not going to develop the assets [agents and case officers] that would meet the intelligence requirements." Tensions between the White House and the CIA have been the talk of Washington for at least a year, especially as leaks about the mishandling of the Iraq war have dominated front pages. Some of the most damaging leaks came from Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, who wrote a book anonymously called "Imperial Hubris" that criticized what he said was the administration's lack of resolve in tracking down the al-Qaida chieftain and the reallocation of intelligence and military manpower from the war on terrorism to the war in Iraq. Source: Baltimore Sun

That's an awful lot of blue in Utah, don't you think?...

Something else needs to be said...

I both like him and ask for his input.

11/14 4 mi. running on treadmill

Ridge '08. I'm on the bandwagon.

Yeeeeah. Recognize.

Also here.

Fuck that shit Yeah. Bitch ass ho's. I mean FUCK!

Liberals do it more freely.

Exactly. You're no competition for Banders.

Fascinating.

Here's another stupid ass map...

*rimshot*