And The morning Paper Ran "One More Suicide"

So. It's becoming apparent that my blogging frequency is not what it was. I've been busy prick! Maybe not that busy... but when I get an extra couple hours at home, I tend to prefer not thinking and doing things like, well... nothing.

There's been so much talk about the CBS documents that show unequivocally that Bush didn't get into the Guard (or out) on his own merit. This should be common knowledge, after all, HW was a congressman in Texas at the time and Bush was a coke head who wanted to get high (get it, fly planes?). What is getting fairly good press is the questions as to who actually coordinated the release of the questionable documents. What's funny is the fact that no one has ever questioned the validity of the content of said documents... just the superscript.

Some people are saying that the documents are results of the dirty republican trickster Karl Rove's ruse. I bet that no one would put it past that evil fuck to do it, question is "can anyone prove it?"

Atrios compiled some great excerpts here.

For example:

“Will Ed Gillespie or the White House admit today what they know about Mr. Stone’s relationship with these forged documents? Will they unequivocally rule out Mr. Stone’s involvement? Or for that matter, others with a known history of dirty tricks, such as Karl Rove or Ralph Reed?”

from Disinfopedia:

Roger J. Stone, Jr. is a long-time Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000. He was also a campaign strategist during the presidential campaigns of Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush. He is the chairman of the Fort Hill Group, a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm.

President Bush was staying next door to my office because he was speaking at the United Nations yesterday. He was addressing the General Assembly as they reopened from a summer break. There were many good points in the speech, many lies, and countless ironies. One fact that I just read was that the only clapping during the speech was when it ended... after all, the audience was filled with polite diplomats ... polite diplomats that have been completely disregarded and ridiculed as irrelevant. The one line that stood out the most, "We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace." Right after he said this, there was audible cacking in the audience by the French, Germans, and the people next to them (everyone).

The thing that's been bugging me recently was the French and German bashing that happened during the time the Iraq Resolution was in front of the UN. It contained similar caveats as a precursor for war including ample time for inspections, reasonable deadlines, multilateral cooperation, and legitimate and indisputable proof of an imminent threat.

Ironically, none of these things happened. The resolutions that were approved by the US Senate and the UN General Assembly authorized the use of force as a last and final resort. The French and Germans probably had the insight to know that if you give a Bush a 'contingent OK' to do something, they'll fuck the contingency. Most Americans (the ones who Freedom Fried and boycotted wines) trusted a President with authority. Most Americans believed a President wouldn't rush to war on fluffed intelligence, a bad hunch and a vendetta.

Most Americans believed what they were told: we'd be welcomed as liberators; there were copious weapons of mass destruction; Iraq was part of the war on terror. Iraq, at that time, was not a front in the war on terror. Now it is.

The French distrusted President Bush. The Germans distrusted President Bush. New Yorkers distrusted President Bush, as did I.

As Big Bush spoke to the General Assembly, Kofi Annan sat in the audience.
Mr. Annan is the same guy that called the US's war in Iraq illegal, and he condemned the prisoner abuse in Iraq.

Last week, an anonymous US official disclosed that a highly classified National Intelligence Estimate, determined that a tenuous stability was possible, as was civil war.

It "would be fair" to call the document "pessimistic," the official added. But "the contents shouldn't come as a particular surprise to anyone who is following developments in Iraq. It encapsulates trends that are clearly apparent."

Bush responded yesterday after a meeting with Iraqi PM Allawi:

"The CIA laid out several scenarios. It said that life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like," he said. "The Iraq citizens are defying the pessimistic predictions."

The estimate appears to differ from the public comments of Bush and his senior aides who speak more optimistically about the prospects for a peaceful and free Iraq. "We're making progress on the ground," Bush said at his Texas ranch late last month.

In response to this exact quote, John Kerry said, "Ladies and gentlemen, does that make you feel safer? Does that give you confidence that this president knows what he's talking about?
"This is the president of the United States today standing in New York City where he was answering questions about Iraq and his speech to the United Nations," Kerry told thousands of supporters in a basketball arena. "And this what the president of the United States of America -- in the midst of a war at a moment of danger -- said."

Kerry has taken off the gloves and started to hit Bush where it hurts... the same place he thought would ice his reelection, Iraq. Kerry has called Bush unaccountable, in denial, someone who doesn't level with the American people, someone who doesn't trust Americans with the truth. Kerry said Bush has had "colossal failures of judgment," that he was living in a "different world of spin," and that he was a "false prophet."

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Cash-Strapped Pentagon Taps Emergency FundBy John Hendren Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — A relentless insurgency in Iraq (news - web sites) has prompted the Pentagon (news - web sites) to begin spending money from a $25-billion emergency fund that Bush administration officials had once said would not be needed this fiscal year, officials said Tuesday.
Unable to tap into regular 2005 funding until the Oct. 1 start of the new fiscal year, the Pentagon has already spent more than $2 billion from the emergency fund.
President Bush (news - web sites) requested the emergency funds from Congress in May to pay for a war that is longer and more violent than he and his Pentagon strategists had predicted.

If you remember, the Bush Administration did not want to get into this funding, or any other monies, until after the election. Looks like all the murder has finally gotten to them. I wonder what the neocon spin on this will be... stay tuned for the next Scott McClellan gaggle.