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"Harry Hope" |
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What Li'l Georgie AWOL Bush has "liberated" |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/on-liberating-something_b_8927.html
10.15.2005
On Liberating Something
It seems that our dear President needs smoke blown up his *****
regularly in order to maintain his fine swagger and *****-eating grin.
So much so -- and apparently with WHIG
http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal being effectively (and
thankfully) disbanded -- the ego dousing sessions now fall to our
combat weary troops (and one planted PR expert
http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/001948.php).
As though the horror of war were not enough, soldiers are gathered in
little groups and told to turn their frowns upside down in some
hallucination of reality and play nice for the cameras.
Even dressed, rehearsed, and provided with a hitchhikers guide to
staged events, our President could not remember the names of the
soldiers tasked with giving him the warm fuzzies, the questions he was
to ask or the satellite delay he needed to account for.
Say What?
Bush remembers the name of a gay male prostitute posing as journalist
to shill for the White House without a cheat sheet, but cannot even
remember the name of the PR plant among the soldiers he was rehearsed
to feign concern for?
What goes on here anyway?
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy to You
But our foggy-eyed prince seems lacking in his usual excited,
nonsensical, stuttering, jerky conversational style, missing that
fix-needing twitch of appreciation for bald men and small animals, and
no longer flexing his middle-finger in salute to good-old boy retro
chic.
Perhaps a nice reminder of his recent successes might do the trick in
cheering him up - especially that astonishingly shock-and-awe viral
form of liberty he launched, which is now marching around the globe
like a plague covered in stars and stripes and infecting innocent
civilians at gun point or, worse.
Liberating Liberation Damn It
To date, since being un-elected to office, Bush has been very
successful in setting free, releasing, emancipating, and unleashing
the following, some examples:
-America has been delivered from the cage of global respect and forced
adherence to a high standard of decency and can now be internationally
lawless, violent, chaotic, and lower than fleas on the backs of gnats
in all things respected.
-Money laundering to bribe members of Congress has been lifted from
the hate-machine of a “we the people” mentality, which held it captive
for far too long, and is now the work of honest, God fearing American
men (as the founding fathers had always intended it to be).
-New Orleans has finally been set free from the evil clutches of its
neighbor-states to start a fresh, underwater (all Atlantis-after-the-
fall like) - citizens and all.
-The national debt has been released to ascend sky-high, infinitely
free to rocket above the ether into imaginary numbers.
-Psychotic, inbred, Jesus hating, Christians are no longer
discriminated against in their pursuit of their God given right to
burn the Constitution while protecting the flag.
-American journalists have been released from their forced labor under
the dire conditions of standards and are finally free to create
reality out of thin air, made possible largely through the
intervention and kindness of the White House and the lovers of a good
piece of fiction who inhabit that dwelling.
-Corporations, those victimized, large-bodied legally defined
individuals, are now emancipated from the cumbersome and long suffered
shackles of law, ethics, decency, respect for human rights, worker
rights, and the health of a vibrant and thriving America.
-A once systematically murdered Poppy population, still mere
fledglings only hoping for their day to grow up and become Heroin, has
been released from the grasp of Afghan talons and is now able to enjoy
a non-passport travel policy to any nation and in large groups.
-Terrorists, that once smallish, disjointed, group of wing nuts seen
as, well, wing nuts and having little support, because they were seen
as wing nuts have now been liberated the world over to join together
as a nation (a crazed, ready-to-meet-their-maker, nuclear capable,
nation at that) fighting for a cause in large numbers and with
martyr-like respect.
-China has been set free from second-class super power status and
reunited with its global ideological sister, Russia, and together the
two have liberated Iran from ever having to be kept in check by any
mean imperialists, no matter how many nukes they have or don’t have.
-Prisoners of war have been emancipated from life, free to join God
and the angels.
-Halliburton has taken its rightful seat as the federal bank, no
longer having to steal in order to survive; it can now live long and
prosper.
This list of achievements in the most hallowed of endeavors - that of
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - should give cheer to our
dear leader, enough to last some time and free our soldiers from
puppet theater rotations.
Their boy king need not worry about ego stroking for now, as he should
be busy enough with dispatching our soldiers to folly, on whim and
through the worst kind of duplicity and bad faith, in the end
liberating them only from their God-given right to a decent and
honorable life on their own soil with their own families.
__________________________________________________________
1,975 American troops are dead, 14,903 have been wounded, tens of
thousands of innocent Iraqis are dead and wounded in deranged Bush's
insane war and the Chickenhawk criminals roam free.
Harry
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16 Oct 2005 06:46:55 PM |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml
Initial Results Point To Passage
Oct. 16, 2005
Said Ahmad Fliha, Iraqi voter
(CBS/AP) Iraq's landmark constitution seemed assured of passage after
initial results Sunday showed that a strong push by minority Sunni Arabs to
veto fell short - a major step in the attempt to establish a democratic
government that could set the stage for the eventual withdrawal of U.S.
troops.
Opponents failed to secure the necessary two-thirds "no" vote in any three
of Iraqi's 18 provinces, according to counts that local officials provided
to The Associated Press. In the crucial central provinces with mixed ethnic
and religious populations, enough Shiites and Kurds voted to stymie the
Sunni bid to reject the constitution.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani issued a decree setting Dec. 15 for Iraqis to
go to the polls again, this time to elect a new parliament. If the
constitution indeed passed, the first full-term parliament since Saddam
Hussein's fall in 2003 will install a new government by Dec. 31. If the
charter failed, the parliament will be temporary, tasked with drawing up a
new draft on which to vote.
But the outcome could further divide the nation, with many Sunnis fearing
the new decentralized government will deprive them of their fair share in
the country's vast oil wealth. Large numbers of Sunnis voted "no," and some
of their leaders were already rejecting the apparent result.
While a strong Sunni turnout in Saturday's referendum suggested a desire
among many to participate in Iraq's new political system, there were fears
that anger at being ruled under a constitution they oppose could push some
into supporting the Sunni-led insurgency.
"If the constitution was passed, the attacks will definitely rise against
the occupation forces, and the security situation is going to be worse,"
said Sheik Abdul-Salam al-Kubaisi, a prominent cleric with the influential
Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars, which government officials accuse of
links to the insurgency.
CBS News correspondent Allen Pizzey reports that even a positive result will
not necessarily mean that politics can prevail over bullets. There are signs
that Iraq is in the beginning stages of ethnic cleansing, as bodies of both
Shiites and Sunnis are regularly found (video).
Pizzey reports that in Baghdad's mixed neighborhoods, whoever is in the
minority is under pressure to leave.
In a sign of the relentless danger, five U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday
by a bomb in Ramadi, a hotbed of militants west of Baghdad, the military
announced. It was the deadliest attack on U.S. troops since a Sept. 29 bomb
blast in the same town also killed five soldiers.
The most recent deaths brought to at least 1,975 the number of U.S. service
members who have died since the war began in 2003, according to an AP count.
President Bush congratulated Iraqis on the referendum - which across the
country saw few attacks and no deaths of voters in violence - and said the
new constitution was a victory for opponents of terrorism.
"The vote today in Iraq is in stark contrast to the attitude, the philosophy
and strategy of al Qaeda, their terrorist friends and killers," Bush said.
The constitution is a crucial step in Iraq's transition to democracy after
two decades of dictatorship under Saddam. Washington was hoping it passes so
Iraqis can form a legitimate, representative government, tame the insurgency
and enable the 150,000 U.S. troops to begin withdrawing.
Lt. Todd Wood told CBS News correspondent Lara Logan that at 75 percent,
voter turnout in the Sunni heartland of Tikrit had exceeded their highest
expectations.
"Once they were convinced that the security was there and it was a safe
vote, then they started coming out in droves," Wood said.
Initial Results Point To Passage
(Page 2 of 2)
Oct. 16, 2005
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An Iraqi soldier loads ballot boxes in a truck before shipping them for vote
counting in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday. (AP)
(CBS/AP)
On Sunday, U.S. military helicopters, Humvees and armored vehicles were
helping transport the last ballot boxes from polling stations to counting
centers in the provincial capitals. Those centers were making initial
counts, then were to truck the ballots to Baghdad for the final tallying,
which was likely to begin on Monday and to last into Tuesday.
In Baghdad's main counting center, workers tallied votes from the region
around the capital. The center was shaken Sunday when militants fired two
mortars into the Green Zone, the heavily guarded district where the U.S.
Embassy, Iraqi government offices and the counting site are located. But the
mortars did not hit the center and caused no casualties or significant
damage.
Provinces in the south, where most of Iraq's Shiite majority are
concentrated, racked up big "yes" numbers - over 90 percent in favor in most
places. Results were not yet available from Kurdistan, but the Kurdish
community strongly supports the charter.
Still, despite a call by their top cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to
support the charter, Shiite participation in the south was far lower turnout
than parliament elections in January, when huge numbers of Shiite voters -
more than 80 percent - celebrated as they went to the polls to mark their
new dominance of the country.
Between 54 and 58 percent of voters showed up Saturday in most parts of the
south, according to U.N. elections chief Carina Perelli. The drop could
reflect a belief that the constitution's victory was a sure thing or a vein
of discontent among Shiites with their leaders in the government.
"Why should I care? Nothing has changed since we have elected this
government: no security, no electricity, no water," said Saad Ibrahim, a
Shiite resident of Baghdad's Karrada district who passed on voting. "The
constitution will not change that. The main issue is not getting this
constitution passed, but how to stop terrorism."
Although U.S. officials played an intense role in mediating negotiations
over the draft constitution, they had no role in the counting process, run
by an Iraqi elections commission.
Still, many Sunnis expressed helplessness in their new status as the weaker
party in a nation they once dominated under Saddam.
"Whatever happens or will happen in politics has nothing to do with the will
of the people. It comes from the political elite who run Iraq along with the
Americans out of the Green Zone in Baghdad," said Zuhair Qassam al-Khashab,
a mathematics professor in Mosul who voted "no."
Sunni Arabs turned out in force in some areas Saturday, a stark contrast to
January's elections, which they boycotted because they believed the
political process was giving unfair power to the Shiite majority. That move
cost them politically, leaving them with a minuscule presence in parliament.
One man who voted "yes" in Mosul said his fellow Sunnis should campaign hard
for the Dec. 15 vote.
"We have to move through this period to the next stage, and we can do it by
organized dialogue," said Ayad Abdul Razzaq, 45.
That is the reaction U.S. and Iraqi leaders are hoping for, and the
Shiite-dominated government insisted it would make room for the Sunnis.
"We know that there is a level of polarization," said Laith Kubba, the chief
government spokesman. "Iraq is one big family, and we know that if a part of
the family is not happy we cannot live in the same house."
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/on-liberating-something_b_8927.html
10.15.2005
On Liberating Something
It seems that our dear President needs smoke blown up his *****
regularly in order to maintain his fine swagger and *****-eating grin.
So much so -- and apparently with WHIG
http://www.thinkprogress.org/leak-scandal being effectively (and
thankfully) disbanded -- the ego dousing sessions now fall to our
combat weary troops (and one planted PR expert
http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/001948.php).
As though the horror of war were not enough, soldiers are gathered in
little groups and told to turn their frowns upside down in some
hallucination of reality and play nice for the cameras.
Even dressed, rehearsed, and provided with a hitchhikers guide to
staged events, our President could not remember the names of the
soldiers tasked with giving him the warm fuzzies, the questions he was
to ask or the satellite delay he needed to account for.
Say What?
Bush remembers the name of a gay male prostitute posing as journalist
to shill for the White House without a cheat sheet, but cannot even
remember the name of the PR plant among the soldiers he was rehearsed
to feign concern for?
What goes on here anyway?
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy to You
But our foggy-eyed prince seems lacking in his usual excited,
nonsensical, stuttering, jerky conversational style, missing that
fix-needing twitch of appreciation for bald men and small animals, and
no longer flexing his middle-finger in salute to good-old boy retro
chic.
Perhaps a nice reminder of his recent successes might do the trick in
cheering him up - especially that astonishingly shock-and-awe viral
form of liberty he launched, which is now marching around the globe
like a plague covered in stars and stripes and infecting innocent
civilians at gun point or, worse.
Liberating Liberation Damn It
To date, since being un-elected to office, Bush has been very
successful in setting free, releasing, emancipating, and unleashing
the following, some examples:
-America has been delivered from the cage of global respect and forced
adherence to a high standard of decency and can now be internationally
lawless, violent, chaotic, and lower than fleas on the backs of gnats
in all things respected.
-Money laundering to bribe members of Congress has been lifted from
the hate-machine of a "we the people" mentality, which held it captive
for far too long, and is now the work of honest, God fearing American
men (as the founding fathers had always intended it to be).
-New Orleans has finally been set free from the evil clutches of its
neighbor-states to start a fresh, underwater (all Atlantis-after-the-
fall like) - citizens and all.
-The national debt has been released to ascend sky-high, infinitely
free to rocket above the ether into imaginary numbers.
-Psychotic, inbred, Jesus hating, Christians are no longer
discriminated against in their pursuit of their God given right to
burn the Constitution while protecting the flag.
-American journalists have been released from their forced labor under
the dire conditions of standards and are finally free to create
reality out of thin air, made possible largely through the
intervention and kindness of the White House and the lovers of a good
piece of fiction who inhabit that dwelling.
-Corporations, those victimized, large-bodied legally defined
individuals, are now emancipated from the cumbersome and long suffered
shackles of law, ethics, decency, respect for human rights, worker
rights, and the health of a vibrant and thriving America.
-A once systematically murdered Poppy population, still mere
fledglings only hoping for their day to grow up and become Heroin, has
been released from the grasp of Afghan talons and is now able to enjoy
a non-passport travel policy to any nation and in large groups.
-Terrorists, that once smallish, disjointed, group of wing nuts seen
as, well, wing nuts and having little support, because they were seen
as wing nuts have now been liberated the world over to join together
as a nation (a crazed, ready-to-meet-their-maker, nuclear capable,
nation at that) fighting for a cause in large numbers and with
martyr-like respect.
-China has been set free from second-class super power status and
reunited with its global ideological sister, Russia, and together the
two have liberated Iran from ever having to be kept in check by any
mean imperialists, no matter how many nukes they have or don't have.
-Prisoners of war have been emancipated from life, free to join God
and the angels.
-Halliburton has taken its rightful seat as the federal bank, no
longer having to steal in order to survive; it can now live long and
prosper.
This list of achievements in the most hallowed of endeavors - that of
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - should give cheer to our
dear leader, enough to last some time and free our soldiers from
puppet theater rotations.
Their boy king need not worry about ego stroking for now, as he should
be busy enough with dispatching our soldiers to folly, on whim and
through the worst kind of duplicity and bad faith, in the end
liberating them only from their God-given right to a decent and
honorable life on their own soil with their own families.
__________________________________________________________
1,975 American troops are dead, 14,903 have been wounded, tens of
thousands of innocent Iraqis are dead and wounded in deranged Bush's
insane war and the Chickenhawk criminals roam free.
Harry
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17 Oct 2005 12:05:20 AM |
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:46:55 -0700, SHb wrote:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml
Initial Results Point To Passage
Similar to reports that Bush won in 2000 and 2004, it's all *****.
Iraq is erupting in the flames of an uncivil war and American soldiers are
caught in the middle, again, with virtual bullseyes painted on their
chests.
-- Regards, Curly
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| User: "Tempest" |
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17 Oct 2005 12:49:24 AM |
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Curly Surmudgeon wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:46:55 -0700, SHb wrote:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml
Initial Results Point To Passage
Similar to reports that Bush won in 2000 and 2004, it's all *****.
Iraq is erupting in the flames of an uncivil war and American soldiers are
caught in the middle, again, with virtual bullseyes painted on their
chests.
Former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi warned Sunday, October 16, that civil
war has already started in his country, accusing the incumbent
government of allowing Shiite militias to infiltrate security forces and
accentuating a spate of sectarian killings.
"This is one of the stages of civil war we are right in now," Allawi
told Britain's Sunday Telegraph.
Closely allied to the US and British governments, Allawi, 60, is the
most senior Iraqi politician to have said that civil war has become a
reality.
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-10/16/article03.shtml
--
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony, 1896
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