licentious radio

Friday, August 1, 2003
[4:02:03 PM]

I saw an idiot media whore interview a California Democrat. The guy was trying to get Feinstein or someone on the recall ballot. He claimed that would bring out more voters. Woodruff hadn't checked the way the law is written, so she couldn't nail him for the stupidness of his claim. She gets paid? And what's the guy's real story? Why does he want a Republican governor?

More interesting question: what happens if Davis resigns? Does the recall go away? If so, that might be the best thing to do.

[3:53:37 PM]
The real "WMD" scandal is not the phony evidence, or the sexed-up evidence. Within days of Powell's UN speech, much of his evidence had been discredited by journalists. Most of the sexed-up stuff was preposterous at face-value. (Consider the 45 minute bit: whether it was 45 minutes or two days wouldn't matter if Iraq attacked a neighboring country, so how fast they could launch would only matter if they were attacked -- which is hardly a reason to attack them.)

We say the real scandal is that the relentless pressure to prove Iraq had WMD led to our soldiers operating at a handicap in chemical weapons suits. How many of our soldiers were killed or wounded because they were in the extra gear isn't quanitifiable, but it would be completely irresponsible to send them into battle in those suits if they were unnecessary. Were our soldiers in the suits even an hour longer because of the hyped false evidence? The answer to that is surely, "yes". And the conclusion is these vile war mongers put our soldiers at greater risk because of evidence they knew was phony.

Now if you can articulate *that* in a way that a Senator can use during a committee hearing, you get twenty points.

[10:56:18 AM]
Today's New York Times article on soldiers getting killed in Iraq is most remarkable.

There was a "two-day stretch of relative quiet in which no soldiers had died." Were there still a dozen attacks on US soldiers each day, but no one happened to die from them?

The two recent deaths make for 19 killed in the las two weeks. Bad news for everyone.

Of the five innocent Iraqis shot dead by our supposedly elite "Task Force 20", General Sanchez in Iraq said, "It was panic," or a "judgment call". He also said, "We regret that, and we're working through those tactics."

licentious radio applauds the General for saying they are working through those tactics. We hope they *are* working through those tactics, but we're not very impressed that the general doesn't know whether it was panic or a judgment call.

But the funniest bit -- the real stand-up comedy line -- was when the general denied we were ever close to capturing Saddam, and said the story must have come from "some young uninformed" official. Ha ha. It came from Richard "DICK" Armitrage -- the whacko right-wing crank embedded by the Bushists at the State Department -- the number two guy there, according to the Times reporter.

The original story was great propaganda, though. The claim in the headlines was that we had just missed Saddam. But in the articles, we had just missed Saddam by 24 hours. The obvious missing element to the article was how we knew we had missed Saddam by 24 hours. And now it's pretty clear that Bush political hacks just made it up.

[10:13:08 AM]
Oh Pointy, Pointy....

The sacking of Poindexter is a moment to relish. It's not often that The Dimwit lets a treasonous criminal down, but if it happens once, it can happen again. Even if the programs Pointy-Pointy was instigating continue in stealth mode, we should be glad we're rid of him for a while.

We can hope for even more -- perhaps this will be another bit of impetous for the general discrediting of the Bushists. Maybe Democrats will pick up steam. Maybe there will be a domino effect. Maybe monkeys will fly out of Bush's butt.