Comments on: Priorities http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:32:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: The Mahablog » Today’s Assignment http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-53916 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:28:43 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-53916 [...] Look also at this Washington Post editorial from a few weeks ago, discussed here. THE BUSH administration has pushed aggressively for expanded surveillance powers, military commissions and rough interrogation techniques. When it comes to fighting the war on terrorism, just about anything goes. Except, that is, those routine steps with no civil liberties implications at all that might significantly interrupt terrorism — such as, say, reading the mail of convicted terrorists housed in American prisons. The federal Bureau of Prisons, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine wrote, “does not read all the mail for terrorist and other high-risk inmates on its mail monitoring lists.” It is also “unable to effectively monitor high-risk inmates’ verbal communications,” including phone calls. So while the administration won’t reveal the circumstances under which it spies on innocent Americans, the communications of imprisoned terrorists, at least, appear sadly secure. [...] […] Look also at this Washington Post editorial from a few weeks ago, discussed here. THE BUSH administration has pushed aggressively for expanded surveillance powers, military commissions and rough interrogation techniques. When it comes to fighting the war on terrorism, just about anything goes. Except, that is, those routine steps with no civil liberties implications at all that might significantly interrupt terrorism — such as, say, reading the mail of convicted terrorists housed in American prisons. The federal Bureau of Prisons, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine wrote, “does not read all the mail for terrorist and other high-risk inmates on its mail monitoring lists.” It is also “unable to effectively monitor high-risk inmates’ verbal communications,” including phone calls. So while the administration won’t reveal the circumstances under which it spies on innocent Americans, the communications of imprisoned terrorists, at least, appear sadly secure. […]

]]> by: The Mahablog » Our Plan for Glorious Victory in Iraq http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-39523 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:48:41 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-39523 [...] And that is because, oh thou bleeping idiot Mr. Kagan, it is not up to “U.S. Central Command” to establish priorities. That’s the job of the damnfool civilians whose damnfool idea it was to invade Iraq to begin with. And chief among those is “The Decider,” George Bush. [...] […] And that is because, oh thou bleeping idiot Mr. Kagan, it is not up to “U.S. Central Command” to establish priorities. That’s the job of the damnfool civilians whose damnfool idea it was to invade Iraq to begin with. And chief among those is “The Decider,” George Bush. […]

]]> by: QrazyQat http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-37015 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 19:50:00 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-37015 Besides the oil fields themselves, the trrops were ordered to secure the Oil Ministry, which was one of the only, perhaps the only, government building in Baghdad which wasn't looted. Besides the oil fields themselves, the trrops were ordered to secure the Oil Ministry, which was one of the only, perhaps the only, government building in Baghdad which wasn’t looted.

]]> by: el kanuckistani http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36996 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:45:03 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36996 The $20 million party fund will probably just get picked up by one of the neocon theives and murders as they leave the White House (if they give it up). It seem very doubtful it will ever be used to celebrate a victory. Then again , who knows.......maybe bush will declare victory, as imagined in that hollow bone he has resting above his shoulders. The $20 million party fund will probably just get picked up by one of the neocon theives and murders as they leave the White House (if they give it up). It seem very doubtful it will ever be used to celebrate a victory. Then again , who knows…….maybe bush will declare victory, as imagined in that hollow bone he has resting above his shoulders.

]]> by: c u n d gulag http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36979 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:41:11 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36979 WTF indeed!!! This Codpiece Cowboy and his cronies couldn't run a small town Seven-Eleven, let alone a country, in the aftermath of what happened on 9/11. They can rob it, but they can't run it... Those of us who saw this coming are now being accused of "hindsight bias." It's not "bias" when it comes to knowing ones head from ones a$$! It's reason and logic. But maybe, finally, America is starting to wake up! It may be pulling its head up out of its a$$. Lied into a needless war? Little reaction from the public. The Iraq War is a fiasco? Nohin... Credit Card companies write bankruptcy bills? Nothin... Katrina? "Hey, hon, is my head up my a$$? No? Yes! A little? Really? OK." Warrantless monitoring of calls and the internet? Nothin... We gave up Habeus Corpus. Nothin... IM'ing a same-sex 16 year-old page!!! JESUS, wake up the MSM! We've got a full-blown (no pun intended) SEX SCANDAL on our hands!!! Hey, somebody, blow-dry 'Ol Wolf off! Give David Gregory's eyebrows a trim! Shave Katie Couric's legs for a glam shot! YEAH, we've got a SEX SCANDAL to cover!!! WTF happened to America? But, I'll take anything I can get at this point... America's Foley may yet save us from America's Folly. WTF indeed!!!
This Codpiece Cowboy and his cronies couldn’t run a small town Seven-Eleven, let alone a country, in the aftermath of what happened on 9/11. They can rob it, but they can’t run it…
Those of us who saw this coming are now being accused of “hindsight bias.” It’s not “bias” when it comes to knowing ones head from ones a$$! It’s reason and logic.
But maybe, finally, America is starting to wake up! It may be pulling its head up out of its a$$.
Lied into a needless war? Little reaction from the public.
The Iraq War is a fiasco? Nohin…
Credit Card companies write bankruptcy bills? Nothin…
Katrina? “Hey, hon, is my head up my a$$? No? Yes! A little? Really? OK.”
Warrantless monitoring of calls and the internet? Nothin…
We gave up Habeus Corpus. Nothin…
IM’ing a same-sex 16 year-old page!!! JESUS, wake up the MSM! We’ve got a full-blown (no pun intended) SEX SCANDAL on our hands!!!
Hey, somebody, blow-dry ‘Ol Wolf off! Give David Gregory’s eyebrows a trim! Shave Katie Couric’s legs for a glam shot!
YEAH, we’ve got a SEX SCANDAL to cover!!!
WTF happened to America?
But, I’ll take anything I can get at this point…
America’s Foley may yet save us from America’s Folly.

]]> by: Spades R. Spades http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36978 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:31:58 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36978 The truth is..."creative destruction" has been the not so subtle underlying agenda all along, but the 'leaders' of this criminal cabal could not sell THAT poisonous and preposterous program to anyone possessed of a shred of conscience so it had to be cloaked in lies and cliches about the 'Noble Cause'. The blind eye to all the warnings, unsecured mountains of high explosives, insuficient armor on Humvees, and on and on and on, does not demonstrate incompetence so much as it does the underlying intent to get the ball rolling and keep it that way no matter what the cost even to our own clealy expendable fodder units OR the 'security' of the country itself... and henceforth the more 'terra' that is subsequently engendered or threatened, the more reasonably 'justified' 'staying the course' somehow becomes for those who have lost sight of all the original lies and the more confusing the whole issue becomes for both parties and the American people on how to 'conduct' what has been basically a blatantly obvious deceptive and criminal enterprise from day one. Suits the perps just fine I should think.. The truth is…”creative destruction” has been the not so subtle underlying agenda all along, but the ‘leaders’ of this criminal cabal could not sell THAT poisonous and preposterous program to anyone possessed of a shred of conscience so it had to be cloaked in lies and cliches about the ‘Noble Cause’.
The blind eye to all the warnings, unsecured mountains of high explosives, insuficient armor on Humvees, and on and on and on, does not demonstrate incompetence so much as it does the underlying intent to get the ball rolling and keep it that way no matter what the cost even to our own clealy expendable fodder units OR the ’security’ of the country itself… and henceforth the more ‘terra’ that is subsequently engendered or threatened, the more reasonably ‘justified’ ’staying the course’ somehow becomes for those who have lost sight of all the original lies and the more confusing the whole issue becomes for both parties and the American people on how to ‘conduct’ what has been basically a blatantly obvious deceptive and criminal enterprise from day one.
Suits the perps just fine I should think..

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36941 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:48:08 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36941 Stay the course..Yeah. Bush is saying stay the course because he has no options other that to run down the clock and pass off his debacle to his successor. Like the inmates of Auschwitz who knew their only way out of the death camp was through the chimney; Bush's only way out of Iraq will be through defeat.. So, naturally he doesn't want to face the consequences of his failure. The funny part is that Bush had testosterone oozing out of his ears as the war time President/commander-in-chief when he charged into his folly, and now he's clinging desperately to bald face lies and rhetorical deceptions trying to stay ahead of his impotence. If his ears weren't filled he would have heard Saddam's warning not to invade. Stay the course..Yeah. Bush is saying stay the course because he has no options other that to run down the clock and pass off his debacle to his successor. Like the inmates of Auschwitz who knew their only way out of the death camp was through the chimney; Bush’s only way out of Iraq will be through defeat.. So, naturally he doesn’t want to face the consequences of his failure.
The funny part is that Bush had testosterone oozing out of his ears as the war time President/commander-in-chief when he charged into his folly, and now he’s clinging desperately to bald face lies and rhetorical deceptions trying to stay ahead of his impotence. If his ears weren’t filled he would have heard Saddam’s warning not to invade.

]]> by: Donna http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36932 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 03:16:28 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36932 Doug Hughes, you said it...."it's not our oil" Such a basic point means nothing to the 'power of oil' obsessives who are the very same folks who could care less about the human toll of their Iraq create-a-war.......well, it only means something to them in as far as they recognize the value of hiding their thieves' intent and actions behind sloganeering about 'war on terror', 'democracy building', and so forth. Every time I hear the phrase, "stay the course", I translate it to mean, "even if thousands are dying, even if the American public is turning deaf to our spin, we will 'stay the course' until we fulfill that golden dream of our oil buddies, the opportunity to pluck control of those Iraqi oil fields. Doug Hughes, you said it….”it’s not our oil” Such a basic point means nothing to the ‘power of oil’ obsessives who are the very same folks who could care less about the human toll of their Iraq create-a-war…….well, it only means something to them in as far as they recognize the value of hiding their thieves’ intent and actions behind sloganeering about ‘war on terror’, ‘democracy building’, and so forth.

Every time I hear the phrase, “stay the course”, I translate it to mean, “even if thousands are dying, even if the American public is turning deaf to our spin, we will ’stay the course’ until we fulfill that golden dream of our oil buddies, the opportunity to pluck control of those Iraqi oil fields.

]]> by: Baddkonig http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36928 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:15:10 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36928 TurdBlossom has to be crapping his panties about everything coming out the last two weeks. I would not doubt if he is ordering another 'terra' attack to get everyone good and scared, so we forget about Diebold changing/manipulating election results. TurdBlossom has to be crapping his panties about everything coming out the last two weeks. I would not doubt if he is ordering another ‘terra’ attack to get everyone good and scared, so we forget about Diebold changing/manipulating election results.

]]> by: Doug Hughes http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36920 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:47:58 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/10/06/priorities/#comment-36920 Somehow - we have to overcome the DESIRE by otherwise sane people to see Bush as a great leader - and Iraq as a noble conflict. We have made great strides- according to the polls, the average voter does separate the conflict in Iraq from the overall war on Islamic Fundamentalism. The BEST way out of Iraq - is to allow the people of that democracy to decide - in an election - that our assistance is no longer needed. To stay past that point makes our 'help' something different - occupation. The argument that the bad guys would get control of the oil, brings the motives of the administration into question. And it misses a major point. It's not our oil. Dare the administration to put our presence up to a popular vote!Will ANYONE believe that we don't want the oil - we are just protecting that wealth for the benefit of the poor Iraqi people????? Even after they have demanded in a free and fair election - that we get the hell out! The latest poll out of Iraq suggests that 60% think it's OK for militias to kill Americans in Iraq. There's not much doubt for anyone with his head out of - the sand - what the results of such an election would be. Somehow - we have to overcome the DESIRE by otherwise sane people to see Bush as a great leader - and Iraq as a noble conflict. We have made great strides- according to the polls, the average voter does separate the conflict in Iraq from the overall war on Islamic Fundamentalism.

The BEST way out of Iraq - is to allow the people of that democracy to decide - in an election - that our assistance is no longer needed. To stay past that point makes our ‘help’ something different - occupation. The argument that the bad guys would get control of the oil, brings the motives of the administration into question. And it misses a major point. It’s not our oil.

Dare the administration to put our presence up to a popular vote!Will ANYONE believe that we don’t want the oil - we are just protecting that wealth for the benefit of the poor Iraqi people????? Even after they have demanded in a free and fair election - that we get the hell out!

The latest poll out of Iraq suggests that 60% think it’s OK for militias to kill Americans in Iraq. There’s not much doubt for anyone with his head out of - the sand - what the results of such an election would be.

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