Thursday, August 19, 2004
Who you callin 'hippie' now?
Two Year Ago: “ The Disarmament of Iraq has Begun!”
Remember when people first started speaking out against the war? Remember "but we have to support our President right or wrong" or "if you don't like it leave" comments? How about the whole argument about why we went there in the first place, "we have to stop these dangerous Weapons of Mass Destruction, Saddam needs to be disarmed".
Anyone who spoke out against the war was labeled a hippie or "liberal" (as if that was a bad thing, or not their right as Americans). Now that we have found no Weapons of Mass Destruction, and troops are dying by the dozens with no apparent reason or mission insight, people are not so excited.
There are still those misinformed and misguided people who are trusting in George Bush and his war but every day new people are realizing his lies.
Today: “A Dangerous, costly mess.”
A top Republican congressman has broken from his party, saying he believes the U.S. military assault on Iraq was unjustified and the situation there has deteriorated into "a dangerous, costly mess". "I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action," Rep. Doug Bereuter wrote in a letter to his constituents. "Left unresolved for now is whether intelligence was intentionally misconstrued to justify military action," he said. Bereuter is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee and vice chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
The only thing I disagree with is the " unresolved" part: it's not unresolved George Bush and his cronies lied to the American people and put troops in harm's way for ideology and personal gain. Period.
Church and State
A U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin violated Pentagon rules by failing to properly clear speeches in which he described the war on terror as a Christian battle against Satan and should be punished, according to an inspector general's report obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. The Department of Defense's watchdog agency said Boykin, a top-ranking intelligence officer, used official data in some of the 23 religious-oriented speeches he gave after January 2002 which should have been cleared. Freedom of speech is great. We should also have the freedom to beat the ass of idiots like this jackass, or at least fire them.
¶ 9:21 AM
Remember when people first started speaking out against the war? Remember "but we have to support our President right or wrong" or "if you don't like it leave" comments? How about the whole argument about why we went there in the first place, "we have to stop these dangerous Weapons of Mass Destruction, Saddam needs to be disarmed".
Anyone who spoke out against the war was labeled a hippie or "liberal" (as if that was a bad thing, or not their right as Americans). Now that we have found no Weapons of Mass Destruction, and troops are dying by the dozens with no apparent reason or mission insight, people are not so excited.
There are still those misinformed and misguided people who are trusting in George Bush and his war but every day new people are realizing his lies.
Today: “A Dangerous, costly mess.”
A top Republican congressman has broken from his party, saying he believes the U.S. military assault on Iraq was unjustified and the situation there has deteriorated into "a dangerous, costly mess". "I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action," Rep. Doug Bereuter wrote in a letter to his constituents. "Left unresolved for now is whether intelligence was intentionally misconstrued to justify military action," he said. Bereuter is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee and vice chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
The only thing I disagree with is the " unresolved" part: it's not unresolved George Bush and his cronies lied to the American people and put troops in harm's way for ideology and personal gain. Period.
Church and State
A U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin violated Pentagon rules by failing to properly clear speeches in which he described the war on terror as a Christian battle against Satan and should be punished, according to an inspector general's report obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. The Department of Defense's watchdog agency said Boykin, a top-ranking intelligence officer, used official data in some of the 23 religious-oriented speeches he gave after January 2002 which should have been cleared. Freedom of speech is great. We should also have the freedom to beat the ass of idiots like this jackass, or at least fire them.
¶ 9:21 AM
