licentious radio

Monday, September 2, 2002
[8:14:05 PM]

WASHINGTON DC (Licentious) -- Licentious Radio has just learned of secret negotiations by the Bush administration to defray part of the cost of the war on Iraq through corporate sponsorships.

A highly placed White House source who spoke on condition of complete anonymity revealed this blockbuster strategy. "The first Gulf War was largely paid for by our allies. Unfortunately, a wave of pansy liberals has taken over key European and Asian governments, and we can't count on them to pony up.

"It's consistent with other privatization policies, after all. If corporations want environmental regulations to be voluntary, why not let them volunteer to pay for some of the war."

Among the corporations interested in buying war sponsorships are oil companies, energy speculation companies, and media companies.

"CNN actually brought the idea to us. For exclusive rights to military briefings and battlefields, they would pay for the whole strategic bombing campaign. Various oil companies are bidding on tactical air support, combat infantry, etc. The biggest money raiser looks to be renaming the carriers: our fighter-bomber pilots will soon be cheering "let's roll" as they take off from the USS Exxon, heading for Iraq to kill anything that moves."

A CNN spokesperson vehemently denied the story: "Absolutely false. What possible incentive would we have to help start another Gulf War?"

[3:29:23 PM]
Since I took the TV remote away from my parrot, he can't watch CNN, and he's stopped saying "Regime change in Iraq" all the time.

Now he's all like "Bring us their heads! Bring us their heads!"

"Hey, parrot!" I say. "Bush was up to his eyeballs in the Aloha scam."

"Bring us their heads! Brawk! Bring us their heads!"

[12:24:39 PM]
Somebody check Rumsfeld's meds! Maybe there's a nasty interaction with the alcohol?

The Munich Analogy Does Not Hold Up This Time [sltrib.com].

[12:16:38 PM]
"...the Cheney speech was a freelance job which had not been cleared with other agencies." [guardian.co.uk]

[12:11:37 PM]
Condition Red in Palestine for acts of terror by the Israeli army!

14 Palestinians slain in controversial circumstances in the last four days. [washingtonpost.com].

There was some small progress toward peace and cooperation with the Palestinians. Sharon and the IDF consistently respond to these potential outbreaks of peace with massace and assassination.

Joke of the day: "It's obvious Israel never intended to harm innocent civilians."

Summary of the problem: "Hamas and Sharon use each other's actions to escalate the situation and keep fighting, because neither wants the 1967 solution," said Mousa Abu Hashash, a researcher for the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem.

[11:59:06 AM]
Democrats should take back the leadership role in foreign policy. Democrats allow themselves to be painted as incompetent on foreign and security issues. Considering the preposterous bumbling of the Bushlettes (Cheney: war now; Powell: go for inspections, etc.), Democrats should force the issue of the incompetence of the current team, and the fundamentally wrong vision of the Republican foreign policy think tanks.

Democrats should certainly be more active in foreign policy than Clinton's early years, and should not pretend that there's a reason to continue Bush-family foreign debacles. Clinton should have withdrawn from Poppy's Somalia trap immediately. He should have stopped Milosevic immediately. He learned over time, and compared to Dim W. and Condi, became a master.