Afghan Justice

Trying and executing people because they have given up their religion; what a concept! I'll bet the Christian extremists here are looking wistfully to Afghanistan. Here in the U.S. the only thing they can do is promise that you'll spend eternity burning in Hell.

Meanwhile, here is an excerpt from the above link:

"What is wrong with Islam that he should want to convert?" asks an agitated Abdul Zahid Payman.

"The courts should punish him and he should be put to death."

With all due respect to the agitated Abdul Zahid Payman, the fact that the court should punish him and he should be put to death could be construed by many as one tiny flaw in Islam, or at least that brand of Islam.

Kill the Messenger

If things are really going as well in Iraq as President Pinocchio says they are, why are we years away from a pullout so long after the mission was declared accomplished? The administration continues to use its familiar (and rather successful) technique of discrediting the messenger rather than the facts.

No President Wants To Go To War?

That's what President Bush told Helen Thomas in a news conference this morning. Does he think that the world has amnesia? Hell yes he wanted to go to war. He was dying to go to war. If I remember correctly he said that he was sick and tired of waiting to go to war. HE DESPARATELY WANTED TO GO TO WAR.

He lied to the world so he could go to war. That, by the way, was what Helen Thomas's question was really about: the false pretenses that were used to justify going to war. No matter how many times the reasons changed, they all turned out to be false. So, finally he switched to platitudes, like defending our freedom and other assorted bullshitisms.

Helen Thomas has more integrity and intelligence in one fingernail than Bush has in his whole body. I wish she could have nailed him with the truth in a setting that he couldn't control.

The Nuclear Club

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth. How many steps away from that is George W. Bush reading a list of nations that he has declared axes of evil? We worry about a country like Iran possessing a nuclear weapon, yet our country has set the precedent of a pre-emptive strike under false premises. If there were a club leader, i think that we would have been thrown out.

Three Years...

Three years into this ego-driven war and it's all about to fall apart like wet bread. Despite the spin that the administration puts on it, Iraq is and has been on the verge of civil war.

Rummy was warned in the earliest stages of the war that we would be fighting an insurgency, not an army. Yet he bullheadedly pushed on with his ill-conceived strategy. Amazingly, he still has his job, which proves that the only one more bullheaded than he is his boss.

The Iraqi welcoming committee fantasy that our president had, never fully materialized. Perhaps if his P.R. department had designed a banner like the one that said Mission Accomplished, he might have convinced a few more people that it was really happening.

Some of this might be forgiveable had he not dragged us into this debacle to satisfy his own juvenile ego. And yet, his approval rating is still in the low 30s when it should be zero.

White House Defends Team After Calls for Change

Even Republicans are asking Bush to replace some of his senior advisers. Not surprisingly, the administration describes them as "a smart, capable and experienced team." If we were to listen to them, they would have us believe that everything is going well and has been all along. Any impression to the contrary is the fault of the media and, by the way, Scott McClellan is getting "tired of questions" about replacements of members of Team Bush.

Here's a short list of other things only small child or idiot (sorry, kids) would believe:

1) the Tooth Fairy
2) fairies in general
3) mission accomplished

Bush's Approval Rating

It's at 36% and, I assume, falling. That still seems high to me. How many major events has he not bungled? Short list, eh? Mostly he's being nailed for his handling of the Iraq War, but he can never be hammered enough for purposely misleading his sheep and getting us there in the first place.

Just who is the enemy?

VP Cheney has said that some Democrats in Congress have decided that Bush is the enemy. While technically he might not be the enemy, he has inflicted more damage on this country than any of our real enemies have. He deserves more than censure.

Milosevic Dies of Heart Attack

I predict the same thing will happen during Saddam's trial, except that it will be the judge.

India Approves of Bush

I understand that Bush's approval rating in India is more than 70%. Maybe he could outsource the polls and do better than the dismal numbers that come from the people who know him.

Who knew?

When Bush said that no one had anticipated the breaching of the levees, I think he meant that no one had anticipated the releasing of the briefing tapes.