Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
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More on the fool from the left coast:
While no cameras recorded the event, a stenographer took down every word Stark uttered. Republican Rep. Kenny Hulshof recited them back on the House floor.
“‘You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake, I said you are a fruitcake,'” Hulshof, R-Mo., read from the unofficial transcript.
Stark directed the word
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I could handle this news:
U.S. government officials said today they are “reasonably optimistic” that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay were among four people killed during a firefight with American troops in Mosul. “We are reasonably certain they could have met their maker,” one U.S. official told CNN. “We didn’t just stumble across them.”
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This is pretty funny:
The Bush administration should move rapidly to bring other countries into the postwar occupation of Iraq to take the focus off American troops, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Sunday.
“We have to diffuse the perception in reality of American occupation,” Kerry, one of nine candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, said on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
“The obligation of the United States government is to rapidly internationalize the effort in Iraq, get the target off of American troops, bring other people, particularly Muslim-speaking and Arab-speaking Muslim troops, into the region,” Kerry said.
I have always wanted to speak Muslim.
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A few days ago I blogged about a David Corn column in The Nation in which he suggested that the White House had exposed Joseph Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA operative in order to discredit Wilson himself. But Corn’s column was hedged and it was unclear exactly who exposed Plame and exactly what Plame’s role at the CIA was. Today, Wilson provides some additional information:
In an NBC News exclusive, Wilson says his family is the subject of a smear campaign. Wilson tells NBC News the White House deliberately leaked his wife
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Henry Hanks has a new home. Drop by and say hello.
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This is a beauty. I guess the new Democrat leisure activity is to take everything Bush has said over the past three years and to distort it or parse it for the most ridiculous meaning. For example, try this one on for size from the Calpundit:
QUESTION: Sir, why should we be more worried about Saddam Hussein, who has no nuclear weapons, than Kim Chong-il, who is unstable and does have nuclear weapons?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, I think it’s important to remember that Saddam Hussein was close to having a nuclear weapon. We don’t know whether or not he has a nuclear weapon. We do expect him to disarm his weapons of mass destruction, that’s what we expect.
To which the Calpundit states: Nobody
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I was thinking the other day, and one of the issues that I kept chewing on was that what the Iraqi people really need right now are some help forming labor unions and keeping an eye on Halliburton and the Becthel Corporation. Actually, I am just kidding. But that is what these deranged peaceniks think the Iraqi people really need:
Some of the same peace activists who protested the U.S. invasion of Iraq have now set up camp in Baghdad, determined to scrutinize a military operation they couldn’t prevent.
Their new International Occupation Watch Center, which opened last week in Iraq’s chaotic capital, will keep a skeptical eye on the activities of U.S. troops and officials.
Its four-member staff will shadow U.S. companies Bechtel Corp. and Halliburton, whose role in Iraq’s reconstruction provoked protests at home.
More to the point, the center will actively oppose the occupation itself and call for its swift end. Its views, to be published in newsletters printed in English and Arabic, will probe the occupiers’ tolerance for dissent.
“This is a test of our rights — of freedom of speech, freedom of the press,
freedom of assembly — and we’ll press those rights to the full extent,” said San Francisco activist Medea Benjamin in an interview from Baghdad.
It is a shame these guys got scared and fled Baghdad before the War and didn’t get to live up to their lifelong dreams of being Human Shields for a brutal dictator. Then there would have been fewer of them to hassle the newly liberated Iraqi public. Maybe if they are lucky, they can hook up with some misogynistic anti-American mullahs and really foment some good old-fashioned Viet Nam era civil disobedience. That will help matters- and if we are lucky, the soldiers who have to put up with them might be able to shoot them in the ass with rubber bullets. Fair trade, I guess.
C’mon lefties. Someone come defend these losers. And if you guys ever wanted to know who right wingers were talking about when they mention the “Blame America First Crowd,” here is your answer. I am filing this under General Stupidity because these people are probably Nader supporters- but I am sure they have their sympathizers and supporters at the DU and among the Atriettes and the fringe that reads the Daily Kos.