The Boy Who Cried Weapons Of Mass Destruction

They charge that liberals and the left are flip-floppers who change their views on an issue based on what's popular. Well, sometimes they do, but sometimes changing your views is warranted when it turns out you were wrong all along.
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Today we learned that Iran perhaps isn't as great a threat as the President had let us to believe. Are we supposed to be shocked? He insists they're still dangerous and still wants nukes, but his insinuations are just plain assumptions at this point. It is dangerous and counterproductive to make allegations based on assumptions. It destroys our credibility as a nation, not that we have any credibility anymore. We were wrong on Iraq, we were wrong on Iran. We are 0 and 2 in that region as of now.

Only six weeks ago, this President was invoking World War III, all the while his administration, and perhaps even the President himself. knew there was no immediate risk from that country. Europe, Russia and China aren't excited at all about pressuring an important oil producing country. They will be less so now it appears there is no immediate risk from Iran.

President Bush convinced us Iraq was an immediate threat. We went to war, a war we can't end, and we found out, everything was true. If not a liar, the President and his administration were incompetent and wrong. This is not the type of thing where an hypothesis is ok. We cannot run around being bellicose and threatening war because we have a hunch. The world is not going to stand besides a government that keeps overstating threats and is consistently wrong. How are we to be trusted? What happens when we're actually right? Will our allies around the world trust our judgment?

President Bush stands in front of the world today as the Boy who cried Weapons of Mass Destruction.

US Now Says No Nuke Program In Iran

Seriously, can this governmet make up their damn minds.

A US intelligence report now says the Iranian government halted nuclear development in 2003 and has not restarted a nuclear weapons program, despite what the Bush administration has been telling us.

The report concluded that Iran is at least three years away from developing the technology that could be used to enrich uranium and build a nuclear bomb.

The Bush Administration is not backing down on it's assesment that Iran is the boogey man of the world. National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley reiterated the administration's message that Iran's nuclear ambitions, which the NIE report says may not exist at all, is a serious risk.

Rove's Delusional Attempt To Shift Blame

See, Karl Rove's biggest problem is that he is no leader; when he's right, he wants to be praised like some God, when he's wrong, he wants someone else to take the blame. In his latest WTF moment, he blames Democrats in Congress for the Iraq war, trying to convince us that the President never wanted to go to the war in Iraq, but it was Tom Daschle and the Senate Democrats who pushed the President into the war.

On Fox News Sunday, Rove kept to his story, even as Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) countered his argument with a quote by former Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer;

"It was definitely the Bush administration that set it in motion and determined the timing, not the Congress. I think Karl in this instance just has his facts wrong."

Rove disagrees and one wonders...does he really believe the crap he says?

Got 'Em

I don't know if this will spark a censure or impeachment movement in Congress, but it's definitely not what this administration needs right now.

At this point, does it really matter...there's only 13 months, 29 days left of this administration

Bush Reminds Us Why We Elected Democrats

I don't understand George W. Bush.

I mean I do, but I don't.

He comes out today to take shots at the unpopular Congress, but did he deliver a death blow, or did he resuscitate life into Congress.

Bush says Congress is wasting it's time investigating his administration. American people overwhelmingly want investigations of his administration, even his own impeachment. The American people are angry at Congress for what they perceive is lack of accountability from the Democratic Congress. If Bush is upset over investigations, then I guess the Democratic Congress is holding him accountable after all.

Bush complains Congress is wasting it's time passing a SCHIP bill he's only going to veto and the House will only fail to override, but, the American people like this bill and want the Democratic Congress to pass it despite what Bush says. If Bush is upset, that means Congress is doing what the people want...forcing him to accept the SCHIP reauthorization.

Simply put, Congress is not unpopular because it hasn't gotten anything done. Congress is unpopular because they're seen as Bush lackeys who fail to end the Iraq war or hold the administration accountable. The President has a 25% approval rating, when he's unhappy with Congress, Congress wins.

Mukasey Nomination In Jeopardy?

Democrats seem to be lining up in opposition to the nomination of Michael Mukasey as Attorney General. Just a few weeks ago, Mukasey was thought to be breezing through the nomination process. Now? Not so much.

Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), Carl Levin (D-Michigan) and Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) have all announced their opposition to Mukasey because the nominee refuses to acknowledge the waterboarding is torture (which it is.)

I still think Mukasey will be confirmed, but the overwhelmingly confirmation the President wanted is not going to happen now.

Finally, Some Truth

I wish General Sanchez had told us this a little earlier...like say in 2003.

"failure of the national political leadership"
"living a nightmare with no end in sight."
"catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan" and denounced the current "surge" strategy as a "desperate" move that will not achieve long-term stability.
"Neglect and incompetence" by the National Security Council
the best the U.S. can do at this point is to "stave off defeat,"

Why General Sanchez, I didn't know you hated America and our freedoms so much? At least I assume you do, that's what people like Rush Limbaugh say about me and I agree 100% with you.

Fascist America, A Reality?

Naomi Wolf thinks so.

I do too. Sometimes, I wonder how many days are left in this democracy.

I'll keep blogging though, from here in New York...or in exile in Italy :-)

The Devils Leaves The West Wing

Karl Rove will resign at the end of the month.

He calls his term at the White House a "witness to history"

Then he cried.

Whatever will Bush do without his brain

Democrats Grow Some

And are ready to take the President on.

First Democratic Senators are asking for a special prosecutor to investigate whether or not the Attorney General committed perjury when testifying before the Judiciary Committee on the firing of the eight prosecutors last fall.

Then the House Judiciary Committee issued contempt citations to Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten for refusing to show up to hearings when subpoenaed.

Now, Congress had subpoenaed Karl Rove.

The White House calls the moves pathetic and continues to use their "they're trying to kick us when we're down" excuse. Of course they are, because that's what the American people want...to kick you now that you're down you lying, chauvenstic, xenophobic, war-loving, bible-thumping, gay-bashing, fascists

Bush Bans Torture

Well I'll be damned.

Is there anyone else who doesn't think what interrogation techniques that are staying secret are actually torture?

Why Is Bush A Failure?

Try and spin this to make him look like a success.

Absolutely Brillant

Washington, D.C. House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel issued the following statement regarding his amendment to cut funding for the Office of the Vice President from the bill that funds the executive branch. The legislation --the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill -- will be considered on the floor of the House of Representatives next week.

"The Vice President has a choice to make. If he believes his legal case, his office has no business being funded as part of the executive branch. However, if he demands executive branch funding he cannot ignore executive branch rules. At the very least, the Vice President should be consistent. This amendment will ensure that the Vice President's funding is consistent with his legal arguments. I have worked closely with my colleagues on this amendment and will continue to pursue this measure in the coming days."

When people act like children, you treat them like children

Bush: I Decide

The decider is deciding again;

"This is a little bit of a nonissue," [White House spokeswoman Dana] Perino said at a briefing dominated by the issue. Cheney is not subject to the executive order, she said, "because the president gets to decide whether or not he should be treated separately, and he's decided that he should."

oh how f%#$&ing convenient. Where's the checks and balances there?

Cheney: His Own Entity

His Royal Majesty Lord Dick Cheney won't listen to Congress or the people, and he won't even listen to the President either.

After throwing executive privlidge in the face of Congress, the Vice President decided that when the head of the executive branch makes the rules, he no longer has executive privlidge, he has Cheney privlidge.

Apparently our government now has four branches; Executive, Legislative, Judicial and Dick Cheney.

26%

Only Nixon was more unpopular...and he had to resign in disgrace.

He only gets the approval of 23% of Independents and 6% of Democrats

More importantly, only 60% of Republicans approve of President Bush.

Supporting Abbas

Suddenly when you're faced with the realization of a Hamas dictatorship in the land bordering Israel, the guy who took over for Arafat doesn't seem so bad anymore, does he?

Oh, and it's good to know that cutting off that aid to the Palestinian Government worked so well, I mean look how democracy flourished, electing terrorists who then go and stage a coup....fabulous.

Three snaps to the George W. Bush State Department

Powell: Close Gitmo

When the former Secretary of State blasts the administration he himself served in, it's a big deal.

Colin Powell may have lost much of his influence for his involvement in the run up and execution of the Iraq war, but still, when he says the Guantanamo Bay prison should be closed, you know Gitmo's days are numbered.

This Is A Doctor?

It's one thing to have your opinion, it's another to accept it as fact.

Especially when your asking to be the nation's top doctor

Libby Goes To Jail

Scooter Libby, the former cheif of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, convincted in March of two counts of perjury, one count of obstructing justice in a grand jury investigation, and one of the two counts of making false statements to federal investigators, will spent the next 30 months in jail.

I still think he's the fall guy and now he will be in the jail for as long as the people he fell for are in power.

Pathetic.