First up is Army Chief of Staff General Peter Schoomaker who, at a speech last Friday, was asked about where the Army was in finding Osama bin Laden. The response of the highest ranking officer in the Army? "I don't know whether we'll find him," he said in a speech to the Rotary Club of Fort Worth. "I don't know that it's all that important, frankly."Great. That's just fucking great. I don't want to hear one more word from ANY conservatives about how the Democrats are weak on terror. You want to gripe about something? Start with this guy. And after that why don't you move on to President Bush and Drunken Shooter, who were both quoted over the weekend as saying that the United States will never bomb KNOWN Al Qaeda bases in Pakistan because they are our allies.
Hey, George and Dickhead, why don't you fly over there, help them put on their jammies, and give them a good night kiss...making sure they are comfortable, of course! Osama bin Laden is responsible for the 9-11 attacks. He is our nation's biggest threat. He is Number One on the FBI's most wanted list and the Army thinks he doesn't matter anymore? And Shooter wants to rely on Pakistan to help "root out Al Qaeda?" Right. Like that is going to happen. And somehow this is all OK ? Something is very, very wrong here people. The words coming out of these people's mouths....something stinks to high heaven and I smells me a rat.
Helping matters immensely as always, is our own resident moron, Michele Bachmann (R-MN, 6th District) who has been going around saying that she knows of a "secret Iranian plan" to partition Iraq into three parts and create a terrorist safe haven. "Half of Iraq, the Western and Northern Portion of Iraq, is going to be called the Iraq State of Islam, something like that. And I'm sorry, I don't have the official name, but it's meant to be the training grounds for terrorists, " she was quoted as saying.Um...what the fuck are you talking about Michele? First of all, Iran supports the US backed government because it is a Shiite led body. Second, the Northern part of Iraq is run by the Kurds, peacefully I might add, and have no love loss for Iran. In fact, they have been and are our strongest ally in the country. Third, most of the violence in Iraq is being carried out by Sunni extremists, who loathe Iran and have NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH AL QAEDA (aka the people who actually attacked us on 9-11).
None of what she is saying makes any sense to me but in this day and age of conservatives making up a bunch of shit based on their paranoid delusions, lying about it, and then playing into people's ignorant fears to gain votes, maybe by this time next week, the Bachman View on Iran will be gospel (pun fully intended).
For those of you who live in the Sixth District of Minnesota, your representative has taken leave of her senses and needs to be removed from office immediately. Please demand a recall vote and find someone who a). knows what they are talking about and b). is not completely full of shit. For more on this nausea, click here.
Thank goodness, though that we have the media, who can always be relied upon to report only the most important issues of the day. CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News are all bastions of democratic discourse and continually further our own intellectual.....wait, sorry, I have to stop typing because now I am the one that is completely full of shit.
For the last week, all three of the major news networks have been wall to wall Anna Nicole Smith and Brittany fucking Spears. This is news? Arguments over the body of dead woman? A spoiled bitch shaving her head is the lead story? Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, our own Star and Tribune ran a story about how Anna Nicole Smith "really wanted to be friends with Brittany." Really? (Giggle....) That's just so way cool important!!!I am sooooo happy (photo above fully conveys my message to all three networks) to see that we are right back where we were on September 10, 2001 when the most important news of the day were people being attacked by sharks. Do you want to know why Al Qaeda managed to attack us so easily? It's because of bullshit idiocy like all of the above.
Imagine being a family member of someone who died in the 9-11 attacks. You are now being told by your government that the person responsible for the attacks isn't that important. You have a member of Congress who was the emotional maturity of a thirteen year old girl and likes to make up stuff! Your media has completely and utterly failed you in being the public purveyor of important information.
How do you feel?
4 comments:
Hey Mark,
Funny you should mention that Schoomaker thing. My great aunt lives in Ft Worth and was that rotary club speech. When Gen Schoomaker said what he said about bin Laden, the room was dead silent. People were looking around like the misheard him or something. Most of the people there were older and reached for their hearing aides.
Our government has failed us. That's why we need less of it.
I don't have to imagine it. I know how it feels. I lost one of my good friends that day who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. I think that most of America has forgotten about him and all the others.
It pains me greatly to see that our own military doesn't care any more about al qaida. I still live in New York and have to live with the fact that we are probably going to be hit again. I really thought iraq was going to turn out differently but it has just made things worse.
I don't really have any solutions to offer but I just wanted to let everyone know that I wish something more serious could be done about al qaida and I haven't forgotten.
Michele Bachmann was incorrect in her assesment of Iran. I read later that she backed off of her comments and said they were "misconstrued."
You are correct in stating the northern parts of Iraq are being controlled by the Kurds. You left out the fact that the western part of Iraq, bordering Syria, is Sunni. Apparently Ms. Bachman has no understanding whatsoever of the various groups that are operating in Iraq because the Sunni in the Western provinces are being funded by Syria and Saudi Arabia.
I am sure it would be of interest to all of you that we give money on a regular basis to Syria in aid and billions of dollars to Saudi Arabia for oil. They take our money and then use it to fund the Sunni in Iraq who are attacking the Shiite as well as US Forces. There is little or no Al Qaida violence in Iraq as most of it is centered around the Sunni-Shiite civil war.
So, basically, we give dollars to the people that ultimately kill us. I am sure Iran is also selling weapons to some groups in Iraq but for the most part they are Shiite groups who have been told to stand down, for the time being, by al Sadr.
Hey Markadelpha,
Nice post. Thanks for finally not being so sensitive.
Check out my big hunk of burning man love's comments on Sec Rice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QukIuwe2uQ&mode=related&search=
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