Capital Games: The Latest Bush Gang Whoppers. Cheney misleads, Rumsfeld overstates, Wolfowitz retreats (sort of). [The Nation Weblogs]

The Big Lie is alive and well. No one can believe that anyone would continue to go on TV and state that Saddam had Al Quida ties unless it was true. But it is not true, or at least there is no more evidence that it is true than there is that little green men inhabit the moon. No matter how much you want to take the evidence that we can not prove there are not LGM on the moon and twist that into positive evidence that there are, it is wrong and misleading. The fact that these high government officials continue to out right lie is the scariest thing about them. The only trucks that can be used to make biological weapons are the ones we have created ourselves, not the ones in Iraq.  10:19:27 PM    

Daily Outrage: Eight Dollars Per Day. That's what we collect--aggressively--from wounded soldiers for their hospital food. [The Nation Weblogs]

Well, I guess this is just one more reason not to get wounded. Whoever thought that some wounded soldier was going to get blown up by a grenade just so they could double-dip the $8.10 provided daily for food should be made to hold a hand grenade, then spend some time in an Army hospital getting their arm amputated before getting dunning notices stating that their food bll has been sent to a collection agency. It is not enough that our government send these young men to fight its political battles, but it tries to screw them also. (This is a policy that has been around since 1981 but why has nothing been done by the 3 republicans and 1 Democrat since then?)  10:15:47 PM