So, as we all have known, Dick Cheney has been our pResident, and all the while, had his hand up Bush's ass.
Bush runs this Country based on "instincts" and "gut" feelings. Well, why let information and facts clutter your mind when all you need is guts and instincts to be President.
Meanwhile, little Hitler struts around with a pole up his ass, and keeps that smug grin on his face, while Cheney whispers through the transmitter on his back.
We have lost our collective fucking minds. This Country has gone insane.
The new Iraq state flag will be a chimp pissing $100 bills with dead soldiers rising to heaven in the background. In the foreground, after his fatal heart attack, will be Cheney going in the opposite direction.
Posted by TIKI AL at June 21, 2006 01:24 AM"All right. You've covered your ass, now."
Those are the words of someone with absolute contempt for anyone with expertise or for anyone who might contradict his ideological assumptions about the world. Classic Bush.
He's in his sixth year. Has he learned anything yet?
Posted by Craig at June 21, 2006 02:20 AMDick "Fatty" Cheney was roaming the USA in the final years of the Clinton administration giving speeches about the USA and "peak oil."
Peak oil is a term coined by the PNACers and is largely considered to be the main tenet of their agenda. It meant: how and where would the USA get their paws on huge amount of reliable oil in the 21st century?
In the summer of 1999, all the Beltway buzz said Bush had all but selected Tommy Thompson to be his Vice President. Somewhere between the summer and fall of 1999, GHWB stepped in and put the kabosh on his son's choice and replaced Thompson with Cheney.
It's significant that both Cheney and GHWB are founding PNAC members, so it didn't really come as a surprise to most of us who followed this rightwing think tank when the Bush administration began fanning the flames of war with Iraq.
Plus, Cheney was and is, the perfect babysitter for Little Boots, who has an attention span even shorter than his cock and can't be bothered with all those pesky details that come with the job of being president.
The heavy lifting was handed off to Cheney.
Posted by Christopher at June 21, 2006 05:21 AMAnother great post.
Suskin was also fabulous on the PBS Frontline "Dark Side" edition last night.
I agree that the only other motivation for the invasion of Iraq is the "make an example" theory, which appears to be advanced more fully than ever in Suskind's new book. It's definitely part of the Iraq story.
But as Christopher observes, you can NEVER get away from the oil factor, and Cheney's obsession with it, and with benefiting the American oil team.
One quibble, Christopher: "peak oil" was a theory advanced and propounded by eminent geophysicist and professor King Hubbert, not the imbecilic PNAC crowd, although they certainly agree with it to advance their bellicose agenda.
Instead of using the peak oil theory to advance needed conservation and energy independence, PNAC used it to advance more US military involvment in the hospitable climes of the Middle East.
Great judgement. Such insane "politics" and "policy" really ought to be a crime.
Posted by euzoius at June 21, 2006 05:54 AMSaw the Suskind interview at the gym last night, bought the book on the way home. "Dark Side" was fantastic. I think that when historians look back at this period in American politics, it will be with an even more jaded eye than how we view the Nixon era. Every year, we learn more, find out about what is really going on inside of BushCo, and it's really, really ugly.
Posted by ann at June 21, 2006 06:13 AMThis should be the book that finally destroys the Beltway Media and GOP's illusion of Bush as John Wayne and Churchill rolled into one person. It will be interesting to see how the two newspapers who ran these reviews will treat this story. Yawn. We already know. Next story: How about those treasonous Democrats not supporting our sainted leader and his war in Iraq against terra.
Posted by Phil from New York at June 21, 2006 06:17 AMI assume Tenet's book release will suffer some "typical" delays so it does not arrive on the shelves prior to the second week in November.
Posted by T2 at June 21, 2006 06:31 AMeuzoius,
No doubt PNAC borrowed the term from Hubbert and ran with it. The people who founded PNAC aren't exactly orignal thinkers.
Posted by Christopher at June 21, 2006 06:35 AMThe Dark Side last night detailed Cheney's actions and orders on that day. For instance, it was Cheney not Bush who ordered that hijacked commercial airliners be shot down before reaching the terrorists' targets. Excuse me, but isn't that an order that falls to the President after consultation? I suppose Little Boots was in Crawford hidding in the closet in the fetal postion. What a hero.
"That day" being 9/11.
Posted by Judith at June 21, 2006 07:08 AMJudith,
Many people have questioned what the hell happened to NORAD that fateful day as well.
Think about it: 4 commercial airliners, flying off their flightplan, with hijackers onboard, and no military action was taken?
It's as if Team Bush wanted the scenario to play out the way it did for political gain.
insane ... how true. it's good to see some momentum growing in the msm but, the damage done, there is no way to right this course. they have never tried to mask there intentions in service to greed and power. the nation is to fault. do i have the courage to change ? or do i take up my buddies offer to oversee his H-1B sceem in india and become one of them ?
Posted by mark miller at June 21, 2006 07:25 AMscheme ? sorry ....
Posted by mark miller at June 21, 2006 07:30 AMyeah Christopher, as if...
Posted by John B. at June 21, 2006 08:18 AM"momentum in the msm" Wake up! the MSM is nothing more that giant Corporations run by GOP friendy congomerates. They cannot allow "momentum". What they will do, is a head fake once in a while to keep people thinking that maybe things are turning around. But things won't turn around, and when the facts hit the fan, the so-called MSM will continue to shield the GOP, Bush Admin, PNAC and the rest from the brutal scrutiny they deserve. In short, it's rigged.
Posted by T2 at June 21, 2006 08:44 AM"All right. You've covered your ass, now."
--Bush’s reaction to the August 6, 2001 President’s Daily Brief and the Agency staffer who delivered it to him.
Why is this not on the front page of every paper in the country and 'Breaking News' on CNN? If this doesn't cause such outrage that Bush is dragged out of the White House and pummelled, I will never understand it. There must be a way to force the MSM to face the truth and report it. It is maddening to me to read the progressive blogs and then see nothing about these stories in the mainstream. How the hell are we going to change direction in this country without an informed electorate? Don't misunderstand me, I believe that the internet is the future, but so many people still form their opinions from CNN and MSNBC. I can't even bear to mention the other one. If we don't address this issue the country is lost, I fear.
Posted by Via at June 21, 2006 09:00 AMHey T2, ran across this...remember our conversation about who owns all of the media? (PDF)
'Tis rather telling.
Posted by Anjha at June 21, 2006 09:12 AMOT - More than 100 Iraqis employed by the ministry of industry kidnapped.
No missions to provide security for these government workers? I guess your on your own while we occupy you!
T2, i missed my point, it's about path i take ... how do i make my living ... (i have a high-end cabinet shop, i build shit for these fucks)
Posted by mark miller at June 21, 2006 10:15 AMmark miller millwork: I feel for your no win situation:
1.outsource to India
2.hire illegal aliens
3.hire Americans, pay them a decent wage, give them benefits, throw them a nice Christmas party, go broke, get divorced and jump out of a skyscraper window.(3 summersalts and a splat)
Anyone else notice that neocons seem to be incapable of writing about Iraq and especially Iran without invoking WWII, Hitler and the now beatified Winston Churchill? They seem to operate using unvarying rhetoric targeted at a "Greatest Generation" prepped audience. The question is, do they really believe it themselves? I dont think so. This is Straussian propaganda-for-the-unwashed 101. Regime change or bust.
Posted by jondee at June 21, 2006 01:44 PM..... splat ! (that's great)
Posted by mark miller at June 21, 2006 02:33 PMClimate change could bring about a new dark age.
Posted by herbal tee at June 21, 2006 02:53 PMit's a natural association, the yellow ribbon has replaced the swastika. i thought the goal was to ensure america's "only super power" status ? look to the eventual fall of all great imperialist powers. standing with this foreign policy is digging your own grave, if they don't get you killed first.
Posted by mark miller at June 21, 2006 03:03 PMjondee: I agree it was a Dramamine moment when that Churchill speech spewed out on the floor of the Senate. Winston is giving Warner the finger from his grave.
Santorum just said he has learned that the weapons of mass deception are on the black market. Am I watching C-Span 2 or SNL?
mark: ever built a coffered ceiling? (I have)
Posted by TIKI AL at June 21, 2006 04:12 PM"Santorum just said he has learned that the weapons of mass deception are on the black market. Am I watching C-Span 2 or SNL?"
TIKI AL, they are on Ebay right now under Garden Tools. teehee
Posted by Judith at June 21, 2006 04:46 PMa small one (9x15 three story center-hall) i didn't catch the speech but did churchill loose his seat over his diplomacy in the middle east post "the war to end all wars" ? (ah ... ol' bones of of caucasian ancestry rattle'n in the breeze)
Posted by mark miller at June 21, 2006 05:43 PMJudith: I never bought a hoe in my life.
mark: Though I am 6 foot 7, I don't like heights. No 3 story coffered ceilings for me.
Posted by TIKI AL at June 22, 2006 07:35 PM