First, the quote, courtesy of the Boston Herald and the Associated Press:Condoleezza Rice branded anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr a coward yesterday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.Sadr is a thug and a murderer, as power-crazed as anyone...which begs the question.The U.S. secretary of state, on a surprise visit to tout security gains and what she calls an emerging political consensus, said al-Sadr is content to issue threats from the safety of Iran, where he is studying.
“I know he’s sitting in Iran,” Rice said dismissively when asked about al-Sadr’s latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. “I guess it’s all-out war for anybody but him,” Rice said. “I guess that’s the message; his followers can go to their deaths and he’s in Iran.”
What of George W. Bush, who: avoided service in Vietnam, in fact avoided even completing his Air National Guard Service; who landed on the U.S. Abraham Lincoln five years ago in fighter pilot costume to declared "Mission Accomplished"; who said "Bring it on"; who has presided over what is likely the greatest foreign policy disaster in our lifetimes, sacrificing over 4000 U.S. military personnel while he made jokes about weapons of mass destruction? This guy is a hero to 30% of the remaining right-wing dead-enders while he loiters in Washington or out in the weeds in Texas?
And Condi continues to serve him and praise him, without a hint of irony or shame.
Too bad she won't run accept McCain's over of the VP slot. Then we could have a full review of her "contribution" to the decline of America.
Of course, our intrepid mainstream media would do a thorough examination, right?
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Wouldn't it be great if we could drag the whole administration through the mud as a kind of "last hurrah" before they all go down in firey blazes?
Condi for Veep!
Our intrepid mainstream media missed this little quip. Not sure how.
'A moment I've been dreading. George brought his n'er-do-well son
around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the
political one who lives in Florida; the one who hangs around here all
the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already
almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over
at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a
contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work.'
From the REAGAN DIARIES------entry datedMay 17, 1986.
Holy shit! Well, nice of the MSM to make this well-known in time to see the ne'er-do-well son complete his total fucking up of the nation.
Of course, now I'm pissed if Michael Kinsley refused to give him a job. On the other hand, Kinsley is a good editor and writer and one sentence out of W's mouth and he would have known the idiot couldn't write to save his life, let alone oversee others.
But we gave him the keys to the kingdom...
Ah, dammit. Foiled again...maybe
http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/kinsley.asp
DDG, thanks for following up, which is something the MSM seems to do rather randomly. Remember the "I invented the Internet" business attributed to Gore which was also wholly false? See if, prior to the election of 2000, Wolf Blitzer or Chris "Tweety" Matthews or any of the other MSM weenies ever made that absolutely clear or corrected a Republican who reiterated the assertion.
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