Politics

Unelectable.
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Vast right-wing conspiracy.

“The Pentagon will bar companies from France, Germany, Russia and other countries that opposed the war in Iraq from bidding on $18.6 billion in prime contracts for reconstruction of the country, according to a memo released yesterday.”
Of course, it’s okay that we’re asking these countries to send soldiers to die in Iraq, but they don’t get any money from it… only American companies. But that’s hardly surprising, since we went to war specifically to give these American companies money, not to “free the Iraqis” or to “rid the world of Saddam Hussein” or to “find weapons of mass destruction” or, wait what was the original reason we went to war? Oh, yeah… to “prevent terrorist activity.”

Woo hoo! I guess Lieberman was a little pissed off. Poor Joe. Now the speculation is… who will be Dean’s VP? I like Clark, but speculation is that it will have to be someone with experience in Washington (Edwards?) because Dean doesn’t have any. Evan Bayh, anyone?

Broadcast on national television. Because it’s true. And god forbid we tell the truth about Iraq.

Old Fashioned Patriot has succeeded in one of his web projects… getting bloggers all over the web to link to George W. Bush’s white house biography using the term Miserable Failure as the link, so that eventually, when one searches for “Miserable Failure” on Google, the bio is the first thing that pops up. Way to Google hack!

“The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.”
— Source: The American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright � 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Notice that the object of terrorist activity is “people or property” — people typically meaning unarmed citizens, not members of the military or of the government. My point here is that the word terrorism has been thrown around a lot over the past several years to describe actions that are not really terrorism, most notably anything that has happened in Iraq since we declared war on them.

This weeks edition looks at George’s visit to England, where he had to cancel an address to the British Parliament because his handlers found out that some British lawmakers planned on heckling his speech. On camera. Also, the conservative new outlets are thrilled about Michael Jackson’s arrest because it took over the news.