The Senate passed a huge spending bill that includes billions of dollars requested by President Bush to continue the war in Iraq.

Or, more succinctly:

Senate Caves to Bush on Iraq Funding

Just another day at the office here in Bizzaro World-O-Democrats.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

They shot this dog because it attacked their dog? And, apparently, was slowing down their bomb-sniffing sweep?

That seems to be a metaphor for Blackwater - slow us down & we'll kill you. Not funny to me.

Still, I find them to be similar in outlook to one of the enlisted defendants at Abu Ghraib, Graner I think his name was - when I heard this guy was a civilian prison guard I knew it would be trouble, because I've heard guards at Folsom prison talk about how it would be "if they ran the show". I don't know if the job makes them into sadists or if it just brings the sadist out in these people, but it ain't pretty.

These guys at Blackwater are the stereotype of what happens when you let muzzle-monkeys run around unchecked. These idiots chafed under "Rules of Engagement" & are now demonstrating why those rules exist.

It is sad as hell when the lunatics run the asylum, but that has been the seven years.

I used to think that adult people as a whole could distinguish between reality & "the movies" - now I think I might have been terribly mistaken.

The Blackwater guy says that he got between TWO fighting snarling guard dogs?!?!!!!!

:pffffft:

What sane man, woman, or child gets between fighting dogs?  I suppose he'll say that he put his head in the jaws of death while trying to make peace between them.

Wasn't the Blackwater dog on a leash?  Why the hell not?  Even a long leash is enough to remind the dog that it is under control.

Did the NYT know that Blackwater was coming to do a security sweep or spy ops?  They do have telephones, don't they? If so, the NYT should have had their dog confined or leashed for the protection of expected guests.  If they didn't know, then Hentish was doing his duty by guarding the compound against armed intruders, and major apologies are in order for bringing a dog into another dog's area of patrol.

Hell, if Blackwater showed up on my doorstep, I'd expect my cat to pull out her claws and shred any snooping dog and ham-fisted goon-with-a-gun.

Or maybe what's "funny" is that the Times has any American reporters in Iraq at all since fax machines and emails work just fine in receiving the White House's and Pentagon's statements to be regurgitated in print.

Or maybe what's "funny" is that the name "Hentish" comes from the Old English word "hentan" which means "to hold or to seize".  

Or maybe what's "funny" is once again we go back to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to describe Iraq:

Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Who knows?

Pax

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