Too bad you are not impartial, maybe then you could have given a response that was unbiased.
On Jan 19, 5:37 am, "\"Lone Wolf\"" <[email protected]> wrote: > It is patently obvious to the impartial observer that the only > difference between the GOP and the Dems is that of rhetoric and not > substance. Both parties are agreed that the US is justified in waging > genocidal wars of imperialist barbarism to maintain its tenuous grip > as the world’s hegemon due to the collapse of its economy and that > public spending must be slashed so trillions of taxpayers’ dollars can > be gifted to Wall St Criminals. > > The main concern of Liberals, just like their Conservatives nemesis, > is the restoration of the US to its former omnipotent position as the > benevolent overseer and maintainer of world peace and Democracy (as > opposed to a harbinger of death, misery and destruction)—and nothing > more. And just like Conservatives Liberals rejoice and worship in the > deceitful lies that their representatives spew out, just as blindly > and uncritically as Conservatives bathed in the filth spewed out by > their misanthropic representatives. > > In absolute terms Liberals will bear no small degree of responsibility > for the continuation of the death, destruction and misery that will > characterize the Obama presidency. It will be only a matter of months, > possibly weeks, before we will be confronted with the spectacle of > outraged Liberal media howling over the betrayals of Obama that will > be largely due to their own contemptible intellectual capitulation and > cowardice > > On Jan 19, 9:24 pm, VT Sean Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > UPDATE w/ comment from K.O.: Olbermann's Recap of the Bush Admin Must > > Not Be Missed > > by thereisnospoon > > Fri Jan 16, 2009 at 06:27:25 PM PST > > UPDATE: From Keith Olbermann himself, in the comments: > > > Nobody Likes Kudos Better Than I Do > > > But I'm passing all these on to my segment producer, Jonathan Larsen, > > with whom I've worked on and off since we were at CNN in 2001-02. He > > compiled and wrote this one; I honestly made about four small changes > > in it. > > > Monday we go gently after the Torture Prosecution... > > > Thanks to all, and to all a good night. > > > thereisnospoon's diary :: :: > > Offered with as little commentary as possible: the most astonishing > > and damning review of the Bush Administration ever seen, courtesy of > > Keith Olbermann. And half of the administration's morally negligent > > or even criminal activities didn't even make it into the 8-minute > > summary; much of the other half was mentioned only briefly. > > > Still, if you can bear to watch a replay of the misery through with we > > have suffered these last eight years, it has never been done better > > than this: > > > Transcript provided by TrueBlueMajority: > > > George Walker Bush. > > 43rd president of the United States. > > first ever with a criminal record. > > our third story tonight, > > his presidency: eight years in eight minutes. > > > early in 2001 the U.S. fingered Al Qaeda > > for the bombing of the USS Cole > > Bush counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke > > had a plan to take down Al Qaeda. > > instead by February the NSC > > had already discussed invading Iraq, > > and had a plan for post-Saddam Iraq. > > > by March 5 Bush had a map ready for Iraqi oil exploration > > and a list of companies. > > Al Qaeda? > > Rice told Clarke not to give Bush a lot of long memos. > > not a big reader. > > > August 6, 2001 > > a CIA analyst briefs Bush on vacation: > > "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S." > > Bush takes no action tells the briefer—quote > > all right, you've covered your ass now. > > > next month Clarke requests > > using new predator drones to kill Bin Laden > > the Pentagon and CIA > > say no. > > > September 11th > > Bush remains seated for several minutes > > to avoid scaring school children > > by getting up and leaving. > > he then flies around the country > > and promises quote a full scale investigation to find > > those folks who did it > > > Rumsfeld says Afghanistan does not have enough targets > > we've got to do Iraq. > > when the CIA traps Bin Laden at Tora Bora > > it asks for 800 rangers to cut off his escape > > Bush outsources the job to Pakistanis > > sympathetic to the Taliban > > Bin Laden > > gets away > > > in February General Tommy Franks tells a visiting Senator > > Bush is moving equipment out of Afghanistan > > so he can invade Iraq. > > one of the men who prepped Rice for her testimony > > that Bush did not ignore pre 9-11 warnings > > later explains quote we cherry picked things > > to make it look like the president > > had been actually concerned about Al Qaeda > > they didn't give a bleep about Al Qaeda > > > July and Britain's intel chief says Bush is > > fixing intelligence and facts around the policy to take out Saddam > > January 03 > > Bush and Blair agree to invade in March > > Mr. Bush still telling us he has not decided > > telling Blair they should paint an airplane in UN colors > > fly it over Iraq and provoke a response > > a pretext for invasion > > > the man who said it would take several hundred thousand troops > > fired > > the man who said it would cost more than a hundred billion > > fired > > the man who revealed Bush's yellowcake lie > > smeared > > his wife's covert status > > exposed > > the White House liars who did it > > and covered it up > > not fired > > one convicted > > Bush commutes his sentence > > > then in Iraq, stuff happens: > > Iraq's army, disbanded > > the government de-Baathified > > 200,000 weapons, billions of dollars just > > lost > > foreign mercenaries immunized from justice > > political hacks run the Green Zone > > religious cleansing forcing one out of six Iraqis from their homes > > Abu Ghraib > > the insurgency > > Al Qaeda in Iraq > > > other stuff does not happen: > > WMD > > post-war planning > > body armor > > vehicular armor > > > the payoff? > > oil > > and billions for Halliburton, Blackwater and other companies > > while Mr. Bush denies VA healthcare to 450,000 veterans > > tries to raise their healthcare fees > > blocks the new G.I. Bill > > and increases his own power with the USA PATRIOT Act > > with the Military Commissions Act > > public orders exempting himself from a thousand laws > > and secretly from the Presidential Records Act > > The Geneva Conventions > > FISA > > sparking a mass rebellion at the Justice Department > > > secret star chambers for terrorism suspects, > > overturned by Hamdan v Rumsfeld. > > denying habeas corpus, > > overturned by Boumediene v Bush. > > 200 renditionings > > sleep deprivation > > abuse > > > Rumsfeld warned in 2002 that he was torturing > > that it would jeopardize convictions > > out of 550 at Gitmo > > hundreds ultimately go free with no charges > > dozens are tortured > > eight fatally > > three are convicted > > > on U.S. soil twelve hundred immigrants rounded up > > without due process > > without bail > > without court dates > > without a single charge of terrorism > > > it wasn't just Mr. Bush no longer subject to the rule of law > > he slashed regulations on everyone from banks to mining companies > > appointed 98 lobbyists to oversee their own industries > > weakening emission standards for mercury > > and 650 different toxic chemicals > > regulators shared drugs > > and their beds > > with industry reps > > the Crandall Canyon mine owner told inspectors to back up > > because his buddy, Republican Mitch McConnell > > was sleeping with their boss > > McConnell's wife is Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao > > her agency overruled engineer concerns about Crandall Canyon > > and was found negligent > > after nine miners died in the collapse there > > > Mr. Bush's hands off > > as Enron blacks out California > > doubling electric bills > > after months of rejecting price caps Mr. Bush bows to pressure > > > the blackouts end > > > Mr. Bush further deregulates commodity futures > > midwifing the birth of unregulated oil markets > > which just like Enron jack up prices to an all time high > > until Congress and both presidential candidates call for > > regulations > > > and the prices fall > > > deregulating financial services and lax enforcement of remaining > > rules > > created a housing bubble > > creating the mortgage crisis > > creating then a credit crisis > > devastating industries that rely on credit > > from student loans to car dealers > > > firms that had survived the Great Depression could not survive > > Bush > > those that did got > > seven hundred billion dollars > > no strings, no transparency > > no idea whether it worked > > > unlike the auto bailout > > which cut workers' salaries. > > a GOP memo called it > > a chance to punish unions > > > but Bush failed even when his party and his patrons > > did not stand to profit > > investigators blamed management cost cutting communication > > for missed warnings about Columbia > > Bush administration convicts include > > sex offenders at Homeland Security > > convicted liars > > every kind of thief in the calendar > > and if you count things that were not prosecuted > > the vice president of the United States actually > > shot a man in the face > > > the man apologized. > > > Mr. Bush faked the truth > > with paid propaganda in Iraq > > on his education policy > > > tried to silence the truth about global > > ... > > read more »- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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