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Wednesday, June 02, 2004



Why Oh Why Are We Ruled by These Liars?.

They really do lie about everything. And rely on the press being too stupid to notice. Don't they?

From Atrios:

Eschaton: Flopped

Reader r writes in:

George W. Bush last Feburary, on Meet The Press (emphasis added):

Russert: If the Iraqis choose, however, an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be better for the United States than Saddam Hussein?

President Bush: They're not going to develop that. And the reason I can say that is because I'm very aware of this basic law they're writing. They're not going to develop that because right here in the Oval Office I sat down with Mr. Pachachi and Chalabi and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made the firm commitment, that they want a constitution eventually written that recognizes minority rights and freedom of religion.

George W. Bush yesterday , Rose Garden press conference:

Q Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that's fallen out of favor within your administration. I'm wondering if you feel that he provided any false information, or are you particularly --

THE PRESIDENT: Chalabi?

Q Yes, with Chalabi.

THE PRESIDENT: My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.

Q I guess I'm asking, do you feel like he misled your administration, in terms of what the expectations were going to be going into Iraq?

THE PRESIDENT: I don't remember anybody walking into my office saying, Chalabi says this is the way it's going to be in Iraq.

...here's Bush with Chalabi on Turkee Day:

Story: President Bush says he had a "good talk" for about 30 minutes November 27 with four members of Iraq's Governing Council at Baghdad International Airport, following his surprise meeting with U.S. troops there.

Briefing the White House press pool accompanying him on Air Force One as he returned to the United States after the two-and-one-half-hour stop in Baghdad, Bush said he and L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, met with Jalal Talibani, the current president of the council, Raja Habib Khuzaii, Ahmed Chalabi, and Mowaffak Rubaie.

[Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)]
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G.O.P. Seeking Congregations for Bush Effort. nytimes.com - Jun 3 2004 7:30:29 GMT [All Headline News - Top News and Headlines]

Why doesn't the Republican Party just come out and rename itself Hezbollah? After all "hezbollah" means "Party of God."

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Proof, Negative. The Justice Department's triumphant victory over the Constitution. [Slate Magazine]
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One year after Saddam, who has won and who has lost? (by Fred Haliday). There is no doubt as to which country heads the list of those who think they have won in the current climate. This is the country which has had for 3,000 years a hegemonic political and cultural relationship with Iraq; which commands some cultural if not political respect from 60% of the Iraqi population; and which has fought two inter-state wars with Iraq in recent decades - both the devastating 1980-88 conflict in which it lost a million people, and the less recognised but still decisive border and subversion war of 1969-75.

That country is Iran, whose political and media establishment is highly encouraged by what has happened. The United States has destroyed Iran’s arch enemy, while itself doing great damage to its own credibility in the region; Iran's own political allies in Iraq, among Kurds and Shi'a, are integrated into the new government structure and have never been stronger; and the country is now poised to play a major, if not decisive, role in the formation of any new Iraqi political and social system. By hoder(hoder@hoder.com). [iranFilter]
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Dubya, Explained. The pretzel behind the Bush Doctrine. [Slate Magazine]
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SS1 Flight Plans

From Space Today, word that Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, will fly into space for the first time on Monday, June 21. Very exciting stuff! Best of luck to them.

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Christopher Allen is working on an Edit This Page capability for PHP. [Scripting News]
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Just what Bush needed -- more bad news about his beleaguered Medicare plan. Bush's Medicare scheme has quickly become the biggest domestic debacle of his presidency. There's the illegal bribe offers to lawmakers, the illegal silencing of administration officials, and the probably illegal refusals to share relevant cost information with Congress. And now the Center for American Progress has discovered more bad news. In a report published today, CAP notes that 20 of the companies the White House approved to participate in its drug-car program have been charged at the federal and/or state level with fraud. Complicating matters, these 20 companies have given... [The Carpetbagger Report]
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Bush Attacks On Kerry Unpresedented [Easter Lemming Liberal News]

And so far, they haven't made much headway. So look for them to get a lot worse. The next 5 months are going to get very very ugly, then the right will start it's real down and dirty fighting. How long before they try to impeach President Kerry?


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