Current Events

Number of deaths since our May 2nd victory: 96.
Number killed today: 1.

Top ten conservative idiots of the week, courtesy of the Democratic Underground.

Basically, Tony Blair’s office wanted to claim that Iraq had WMD that they could deploy in 45 minutes against the United States. British Intelligence knew that claim was untrue. Blair claimed it anyway. The BBC caught on that the claim (and many others including the one that showed up in Bush’s State of the Union) was false. David Kelley was one of several British scientists that revealed to the BBC that the claim was false and that the report had been “sexed up” to make the Iraq threat seem greater than it was. Kelley apparently committed suicide, possibly because he feared that he would be revealed as one of the BBC sources of information.

Several of the soldiers who spoke out will lose their careers for airing their feelings in public.
You can imagine how the soldiers in Ward 57 of the Walter Reed hospital might feel about that, since many of them have no legs.
Also, we’re about to send more troops to Iraq, including 1st Cav, 25th Infantry Division. Why is that significant? Because they’re the Division that has trained to fight in Korea since the end of the Vietnam War. redeploying them to Iraq leaves us vulnerable in Korea, which is a hot spot right now, in case you haven’t been paying attention. Which means that we must be seriously over-committed.

Apparently the White House was so angered by the ABC News report I mentioned below, the one in which soldiers ask Rumsfeld to resign, that they leaked some news about the reporter who presented the story: He’s Canadian. And also he’s gay. Shocking!! Apparently gay canadians are not allowed to report the news here in America. Only those good patriotic, American Hets are allowed to run news stories. Like the folks at Faux News.

From CNN — “We have actually, since this deployment began, we have decided that we will no longer be in the army.”
HEMMER: Oh, he’s getting out after this tour of duty in Iraq? How do feel about that?
HAMILTON: Yes, yes. He can’t stand for it.
HEMMER: Why is that?
HAMILTON: I support him 100 percent.
HEMMER: Why do you say he can’t stand it?
HAMILTON: It’s hard on the families, it’s hard on the soldiers, and it’s especially hard to know that you put your faith and trust into a president, and they continue to lie to you, they break promises, and it’s hard to fight for somebody like that.