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by Steven D
Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:05:54 PM EST

Tired of Clinton's death march to Denver? Me too. besides, there are lots of other news items flying under the radar which deserve some attention. Here are just a few that caught my eye today:

General Petraeus to be the new CENTCOM commander, replacing Admiral Fallon, the former commander who ~~was fired~~ resigned because of policy differences with the Bush administration over Iraq and Iran. So now we have General Pretty Boy in charge of our wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. You know, the guy who blames Iran for the violence in Iraq? Isn't that just special?

Israeli spy in America caught. What did he give to Israel? Just America's nuclear secrets is all.

We didn't just use torture against the detainees in Gitmo and elsewhere. Apparently American interrogators also drugged them to obtain confessions to terrorist activities which likely had no basis in reality. Isn't that just loverly?

Did you know being gay is the equivalent to an addiction to crack or alcoholism? (h/t to Pam Spaulding)

Progressive infrastructure? What progressive infrastructure? (h/t to Dave Johnson).

Guess who's going to give George W. Bush $170,000,000,000 or so to play around with in Iraq and Afghanistan, no strings attached? Our lap dog Congress that's who!

Bilal Hussein, an alleged Iraqi terrorist who worked as a Pulitzer prize winning photographer for the AP is released by the US Military after they held him in custody for two years, after an Iraqi court exonerated him of all charges. What do the war bloggers like Michelle Malkin and The Jawa Report have to say about his release by our military after they promoted this story so strongly, convinced that they personally had brought a terrorist to justice and exposed the AP as a traitorous organization that wants America to lose the war in Iraq? Crickets. (h/t to Eric Boelert at Media Matters)

Damn! Two people throw whipped cream pies at Iraqi war cheerleader Thomas Friedman and but do little damage. Oh well . . .

And finally, John McCain is a really friendly guy if you're a wealthy real estate developer who needs a big favor. (h/t to Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast)

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all kinds of stuff going on out the in BushWorld™, none of it positive:

DHS is scrapping the $20m "virtual fence" that Boeing just finished, but it's a not a failure..."the Government Accountability Office reported that Project 28 does not fully meet users' needs."

what's another $8b among friends.

and CONdi's having problems with the truth again:

Carter says Secretary Rice "not telling truth"
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of not telling the truth about warnings she said her department gave Carter not to speak to Hamas before a Middle East trip.

and LIEerman and his RATpub comrades can't resist taking a cheap shot at carter over the hamas chat:

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., told FOX News that "at best, President Carter is being naive" in trying to negotiate with avowed terrorists. "There is a long list of people who thought they could reason with dictators and killers, going back to Neville Chamberlain and Hitler in the 1930s, but it has been shown to be absolutely wrong."
Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., told FOX News that she advocates revoking Carter's passport and supports a measure to withdraw all federal funding from his Georgia-based institution, the Carter Center.

asshats.

and finally, you'd think she, and that bunch of troglodytes at state, would know better than to play another round of "bring it on" in iraq:

Rice Calls Sadr a "Coward"; Echoes "Brin'em On" worked so fucking well the last time, eh.

she should just STFU.

jan 2009 can't come fast enough.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 05:03:17 PM EST

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But this is all good news...

by BooMan on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:09:10 PM EST

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Yes indeed! Especially if you are a bitter, gun loving sort of guy.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:12:57 PM EST
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Geez, I thought they had the old man slated for appointment to NATO from all the rumblings I read a few months ago... guess other ppl's had to change dubya's mind. :o)

by BrendaStewart (stormyweather1@hotmail.com) on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:22:21 PM EST

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Question, do you think that the old man is going to centcom to run the war of Iran?

by BrendaStewart (stormyweather1@hotmail.com) on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:24:07 PM EST
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Let's hope not. But rest assured, if Dubya should ever have an "accident" or need surgery Cheney would order the attack within 24 hours.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:36:58 PM EST
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From the Friedman comments (none / 0)

A college campus is a place reserved explicitly for the freedom of thought, expression, speech, learning, and debate. That the most cogent, cohesive, and well-reasoned argument a student could make against someone with opposing beliefs is to throw a pie in their face is not only pathetic, but alarming. This sort of juvenile stunt is all too common, and whether students do it for humor, attention, or to actually make a political statement is irrelevant -- the behavior is obscene and inexcusable.
I weep for the future.
Chris | April 23, 2008 12:27 PM link

by BooMan on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:29:40 PM EST

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I think they ought to convict those pie throwers as the anti-American terrorists they really are. Gitmo is too good for criminals such as these. Can you imagine the damage they could have done to Friedman's $2000 suit if their aim had been just a little more accurate?

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 04:35:05 PM EST
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Greg Palast is reporting that Bush is in New Orleans meeting with Canadian MP and Mexican President to harmonize some issues of NAFTA. Meetings also include the reps of 30 major corporations. The fascist corporate take over of North America is well under way.

As far little Tommy, too bad it wasn't a horseshit pie.

by mikefromtexas on Wed Apr 23rd, 2008 at 07:31:10 PM EST

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