Who Really Hates Our Troops?

Will Durst puts it exactly right:

Okay, get this and get this straight. Criticizing our Government is not the same as criticizing our armed forces. Okay? The same way that criticizing our Government is not the same as criticizing our postal workers. Or criticizing our zoo keepers or our ceramic mosaic tile grout installers. And let me make this clear, I am not in any way suggesting that any of these groups be criticized. Especially the postal workers.

Furthermore, telling the press that you are disgusted by reports of torture does not endanger our troops. You're all so fired up desperate to know what does endangers our troops; I'll tell you what endangers our troops: Greedy, cretinous toad leaders who send them 12,000 miles away to a desert to fight a war based on lies. Lies about the threat, and lies about a phantom desire to negotiate. That's who is responsible for putting our troops in harm's way. The idiots who sent them into this -- and yes, its time to say it out loud -- this quagmire.

Now go read the rest of it, then have a beer (Pilsner Urquell for me) and have a great weekend. Try to have some fun because liberals enjoying themselves in America really pisses off the theo-fascists and neocon shitheads. In fact, see if you can get the phone numbers of some Republican activists in your town, and when you're really feeling good, call some up and tell them how happy it makes you that they are destroying themselves by tying their fortunes to Team Bushit. Those motherfuckers are going down, and going down hard. The right wing is, to paraphrase Dick "Evil but Stupid" Cheney, in its death throes.

See you Monday.

Chickenshit Republicans

The label is fitting if you are a Republican, support the war, but refuse to donate your body or the body of a loved one to be an instrument of the military in fighting the Global War on Terror in Iraq. Not that you don't have a rich tradition of cowardice, allowing others to fight your battles whenever you can. Let's review:

1. George W. Bush - escaped duty in Vietnam by mincing into Texas Air National Guard thanks to daddy's connections; failed to finish service. Wasted a substantial investment in his training when he stopped flying for unspecified reasons. Unexplained absence from duty.

2. Karl Rove - Avoided service to his country through numerous student deferments, but never completed a degree.

3. Dick Cheney - married to avoid draft, then fathered a daughter to avoid draft, used grad school deferment, claiming he "had other priorities." Still using wife and daughter to protect his sorry ass.

4. Donald Rumsfeld - hid from service in Korea by staying in school playing in ROTC. However, unlike most chickenhawks, he actually served on active duty for a while. In spite of this, they let him join the neocon cabal. Has more than earned his stripes by destroying the US Army and Marine Corps.

5. Former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft - received deferment to teach at SW Missouri State in business education.

6. Paul Wolfowitz, did not serve
7. Richard Perle, did not serve
8. Bill Kristol, did not serve
9. House Majority Leader Tom "Giant Flying Cockroach "Delay - avoided the draft, claiming that minorities "had all the good jobs" in the army.
10. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not serve.
11. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve.
12. Rick "Man on Dog Sex" Santorum, R-PA, third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve
13. Jeb Bush, Florida Governor - did not serve.
14. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve but still defends Vietnam action.
15. Rush "Hillbilly Heroin Homeboy" Limbaugh - used his anal cyst to escape service during Vietnam and still relies on it as the source of his lying, vitriolic radio presence which has proven popular with similarly afflicted, i.e. shit-for-brains, Americans

You get the idea. For a more complete list visit Chickenhawk Central.

Jonah Goldberg of The National Review is the poster boy for today's chickenhawks. He wrote,

I think that war with Iraq is necessary to save lives in the long run. I think that those who are opposed to toppling Saddam are risking American (and Arab and Israeli) lives too.

Soldiers will die in any war, that's why they call it war.

Then he wrote, without the slightest shame,

As for why my sorry ass isn't in the kill zone, lots of people think this is a searingly pertinent question. No answer I could give -- I'm 35 years old, my family couldn't afford the lost income, I have a baby daughter, my ass is, er, sorry, are a few -- ever seem to suffice.

Yes, that's so sad, Jonah. God knows that no men or women in their thirties who can't afford lost income or have kids are in the military.

So you've got plenty of support and solidarity with your leadership, and from the accounts I've heard, Operation Yellow Elephant has yielded no volunteers for Iraq from all you College Republicans, so I applaud your consistency in cowardice and hypocrisy.

Chimpie, Karl and Rush are so proud of you for not showing them up as the big yellow 'fraidy cats that they are. Cowardice--a proud and continuing neocon tradition.

Alternative Service for Republican Warriors

All right, I know that despite your tough talk, some of you are frightened little squirrels, so I want to give all of you Young Republicans and College Republicans who just can't bring yourselves to tangibly contribute to the Global War on Terror by actually signing up for the military a different option: Just take a one-month vacation to Iraq outside the so-called "Green Zone." You don't have to go through basic training, or advanced infantry training, don't have to get your head shaved, don't have to wear fatigues or obey orders. Just take a 30-day tour of Iraq. Based on Dick Cheney's knowing affirmation of the last throes of the insurgency, by the time you get there, it should be the great undiscovered cool locale for swinging right-wingers. Be a trendsetter!

Your president is triumphal in his optimism, and it is more than two years since "Mission Accomplished," so you should book now to get the exit row seat. You can make reservations at Air Gorilla.

Good Job, Chimpie! Making America Safer, part 73

I can't wait to hear the rightwing nutfucks rationalize or refute this:

The CIA believes the Iraq insurgency poses an international threat and may produce better-trained Islamic terrorists than the 1980s Afghanistan war that gave rise to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on Wednesday.

Comforting, no? El Presidente Chimpie has managed to make the world less safe and the US less safe while bankrupting the treasury and getting America's best killed for no good reason. The little deserter chimp, the self-proclaimedd "war president" (that rancid ejaculation swallowed like a good whore should by Tim Russert on Meet the Press), the "Mission Accomplished" dress-up artist with the potato in the crotch of his flight suit, this inbred cretin has managed to make every goddamned thing worse.

But with one exception. I do want to be fair. The "No-Call" legislation, banning unlimited phone solicitation, did pass on his watch. Good job.

How many ways can you spell "failure"?

The Free Ride Is Over, Young Republicans

If you voted for Chimpie and you're between the ages of 18 and 39, then your country needs you right now! I won't quibble about which branch of the service you choose, unlike Jesus' General who thinks you all should join the infantry, but you do need to sign up.

Yes, I know Chimpie is your hero, but just because he deserted his post in Alabama doesn't mean it's right. Get your ass down to the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard recruiter right this minute, or you forever forfeit your right to claim to be a patriot. Real patriots aren't afraid to lay their own lives on the line, unlike your current heroes, for example, Dick "I had other priorities" Cheney, Tom "the minorities had all slots" DeLay, and Rush "What do you mean you can't tell where my anal cyst ends and I begin?" Limbaugh.

And yes, I'm a vet, assholes, 1971-74, so my money is where my mouth is. Trust me, you will make those recruiters so very happy and you'll get to play with the latest in weaponry and maybe even kill some non-Christians! Doesn't that make your little soldier stand at attention?

Chimpie: Addicted to Lies

Bush is out on the road now, trying to do for his criminal Iraq war what he imagined he could do for Social Security destruction, and probably with the same result. That is, he is going to lie his ass off even as it contradicts his own words. This is what he said in his radio address this weekend:

"We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

Now you'll note that Karl Rove has Chimpie do a smart thing here. He doesn't say "Iraq" even though that's exactly what he means, because if he's challenged by the kneepad press (unlikely) he can say, "What I meant was we went to war in Afghanistan because we were attacked." But of course what the presidential monkey's handlers want is that the Americans who haven't yet found out that there was no connection between 9/11 and Iraq will once again go to the mat on that mistaken and, frankly, boneheaded belief. But that's how the Bushits got into power--by playing to the dumbest fucks in the country. If any of you dumbfucks are reading this (doubtful, since most are illiterates, apparently) please read the following words from George W. Bush himself, and then burn them into your fucking forearm so you won't forget. This is from Septermber 18, 2003, okay? Got it? Pay attention. Now move your lips along if you have to.

President Bush said there has been no evidence that Iraq's Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, disavowing a link that had been hinted at previously by his administration.

"No, we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th," the president said yesterday after a meeting at the White House with lawmakers.

In the following paragraph from the same Washington Post article, we are reminded of the fact that this conflation of 9/11 and Iraq is an old tactic.

In stating that position, Bush clarified an issue that has long been left vague by his administration. On Sunday, Vice President Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that success in Iraq means "we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11."

A Washington Post poll last month found that 69 percent of Americans thought it at least likely that Hussein had a role in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Polling experts said Americans held that view mostly because of an instinctive suspicion of Hussein, but Democrats and some public opinion experts said Bush and his aides exploited that impression by implying a link.

Yes, at one point 69 percent of the American public swallowed that fucking lie, and now how many additional unnecessary deaths have there been because of it? How many impeachments? How many of these criminal motherfuckers under war crimes tribunal in the Hague? And is Bush backing off one bit, admitting a mistake, shifting policy? No, he's trotting out the same line of argument and hoping that his blowjob friends in the mainstream media will once again repeat the words without question, analysis, or really any rational and responsible journalistic investigation at all.

Fools, fools, and fools. It makes me want to puke. Because in this report, we just get the White House lies, with no goddamn refutation of the facts that Bush once again hopes he can obscure by just lying and lying and lying.

These people have no honor, no shame, no scruples and no crime is too large for them to commit to hold onto power. History will record this as a dark age in American history, when evil men held sway over a gullible people to commit one of the great crimes of modern history, all in the name of power and oil and a tiny elite of cronies who should spend eternity twisting on a spit over Satan's barbecue.

Yet still I have hope that ultimately justice will be done and these bastards will be known for the scum that they are for all time and generations to come.