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Thursday, December 6, 2007
The lyingest liar
Monkey Boy stood there at that news conference with his face hangin' out and said that he'd learned about NIE only last week. "Last week" was not August, Gawge! August was when you were told.
Oh, but you were told in August only of a possible change, you say? So why, all of a sudden, did you change your emphasis to denying Iran the knowledge required to make a bomb from denying it actual possession of the bomb?
He even went so far to say that he didn't really pay it much mind in August. Nice try -- at least that one is believable!
But believable only for the short interval it takes to remember how thirsty this administration is for Persian blood. You'd better believe that George W. Bush was paying attention last August.
It's just that if he were to once tell the truth, he'd shatter like a rotten egg.
Oh, but you were told in August only of a possible change, you say? So why, all of a sudden, did you change your emphasis to denying Iran the knowledge required to make a bomb from denying it actual possession of the bomb?
He even went so far to say that he didn't really pay it much mind in August. Nice try -- at least that one is believable!
But believable only for the short interval it takes to remember how thirsty this administration is for Persian blood. You'd better believe that George W. Bush was paying attention last August.
It's just that if he were to once tell the truth, he'd shatter like a rotten egg.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
They just don't get it, do they?
First, there was Monkey Boy's press conference, in which he said the NIE was essentially meaningless. Then there was this, thanks to Salon's Tim Grieve:
Giuliani advisor: Doubt the NIE!
In an NPR radio debate going on right now, the Democratic candidates are taking turns explaining how the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran underscores the ways in which the Bush administration has failed the United States. "You cannot trust this president," Joe Biden says. "He is not trustworthy. He has undermined our security in the region. He has undermined our credibility in the world. He has made it more difficult to get cooperation from the rest of the world."
Norman Podhoretz has a different reaction. Podhoretz -- a "founding father of the neocon movement" who is currently serving as a senior advisor to Rudy Giuliani -- says the NIE is proof that we cannot trust ... the intelligence community.
As Think Progress reports, Podhoretz says he can't shake the suspicion 1) that the "intelligence community, having been excoriated for supporting the then universal belief that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, is now bending over backward to counter what has up to now been a similarly universal view ... that Iran is hell-bent on developing nuclear weapons"; 2) that "having been excoriated as well for minimizing the time it would take Saddam to add nuclear weapons to his arsenal, the intelligence community is now bending over backward to maximize the time it will take Iran to reach the same goal"; and 3) that "the intelligence community, which has for some years now been leaking material calculated to undermine George W. Bush, is doing it again."
"This time, the purpose is to head off the possibility that the president may order air strikes on the Iranian nuclear installations," Podhoretz writes.
If you're thinking that it would be a good thing to "head off" such airstrikes -- particularly if Iran is not, in fact, developing nuclear weapons -- well, you don't think like Podhoretz thinks. In an interview earlier this year, Podhoretz said that he hoped and prayed that the United States would bomb Iran -- really, he used those words, "hope" and "pray" -- even though doing so might "unleash a wave of anti-Americanism all over the world that will make the anti-Americanism we've experienced so far look like a lovefest."
Did we mention that Podhoretz is one of Giuliani's top advisors on foreign policy? Once Mitt Romney is done giving his "Mormonism" speech, perhaps Giuliani ought to be called on to give one on what Podhoretzianism means to him.
And, finally there was ol' lovable down-home Huckabee who didn't know anything at all about it.
What a world. Small wonder that, when asked whether he thought he had lost credibility with the American people, Monkey Boy replied, "I'm feeling pretty spirited, pretty good about life."
Giuliani advisor: Doubt the NIE!
In an NPR radio debate going on right now, the Democratic candidates are taking turns explaining how the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran underscores the ways in which the Bush administration has failed the United States. "You cannot trust this president," Joe Biden says. "He is not trustworthy. He has undermined our security in the region. He has undermined our credibility in the world. He has made it more difficult to get cooperation from the rest of the world."
Norman Podhoretz has a different reaction. Podhoretz -- a "founding father of the neocon movement" who is currently serving as a senior advisor to Rudy Giuliani -- says the NIE is proof that we cannot trust ... the intelligence community.
As Think Progress reports, Podhoretz says he can't shake the suspicion 1) that the "intelligence community, having been excoriated for supporting the then universal belief that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, is now bending over backward to counter what has up to now been a similarly universal view ... that Iran is hell-bent on developing nuclear weapons"; 2) that "having been excoriated as well for minimizing the time it would take Saddam to add nuclear weapons to his arsenal, the intelligence community is now bending over backward to maximize the time it will take Iran to reach the same goal"; and 3) that "the intelligence community, which has for some years now been leaking material calculated to undermine George W. Bush, is doing it again."
"This time, the purpose is to head off the possibility that the president may order air strikes on the Iranian nuclear installations," Podhoretz writes.
If you're thinking that it would be a good thing to "head off" such airstrikes -- particularly if Iran is not, in fact, developing nuclear weapons -- well, you don't think like Podhoretz thinks. In an interview earlier this year, Podhoretz said that he hoped and prayed that the United States would bomb Iran -- really, he used those words, "hope" and "pray" -- even though doing so might "unleash a wave of anti-Americanism all over the world that will make the anti-Americanism we've experienced so far look like a lovefest."
Did we mention that Podhoretz is one of Giuliani's top advisors on foreign policy? Once Mitt Romney is done giving his "Mormonism" speech, perhaps Giuliani ought to be called on to give one on what Podhoretzianism means to him.
And, finally there was ol' lovable down-home Huckabee who didn't know anything at all about it.
What a world. Small wonder that, when asked whether he thought he had lost credibility with the American people, Monkey Boy replied, "I'm feeling pretty spirited, pretty good about life."
Monday, December 3, 2007
Oh, yes; it could happen. We could go to war yet again . . . and we could put this one in the White House. A nation of sleep-walkers can do more amazing things than you can possibly imagine.
Take a good look at, and give a good listen to , Dennis Kucinich. Other things are possible if we could just wake up.
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/12/03/tomo/
Take a good look at, and give a good listen to , Dennis Kucinich. Other things are possible if we could just wake up.
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/12/03/tomo/
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