Author: Cogitator

The Values of Condi Rice

The lies, half-truths and forsaken logic of Bush-apologist Condi Rice have been broadly displayed on various blogs and internet sites. But there is one specific example that hasn’r received the appropriate attention. Keep the following in mind as some yahoos bellow “Rice in 2008.” Christie Whitman doesn’t come off too well here either.

After more than 3,000 died and many more were wounded, the following vividly demonstrates the worth and value Rice and the rest of her ilk placed on human life in New York after 9/11. 2,000 dead soldiers, countless military members maimed, untold dead Iraqis–such is just the beginning of the toll on humanity on this Administration’s watch.

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Outsourcing Maher Arar

Imagine yourself being picked up by the authorities, questioned about your travels, sent overseas for some ‘bodywork’, kept in captivity for a year and then released without so much as an excuse, a reason or an apology. Not even an Emily Litella look-alike offering a “never mind.”

Sounds like a nightmare that would take place behind the old ‘Iron Curtain’ or some other fascist state.

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Scotty McClellan & Lawrence DeRita are conspicuously silent

According to multiple recent news reports, two Taliban soldiers were killed and their bodies eventually burned by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

These actions, an affront to the Muslim faith which prohibits cremation, were condemned by Afghan President Karzai.

Major concern has been expressed that these events will provide yet another major propaganda tool for jihadists around the world.

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This Explains George W. Bush

With the neos about to become cons and the shouts of “next year in Tehran” getting fainter and fainter, I’ve been trying to find a nugget that succinctly summarizes George Bush’s behavior throughout his life, I came across the following.

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Iraq Army as divided as the country

The grand strategy of the Iraqi Army assuming national security duties is the centerpiece of the Bush strategy (as it were) for eventual U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.

Unfortunately but realistically, when and if the Iraqi Army is supposedly ‘ready’ somewhere down the line, it appears that the absence of U.S. forces will faciliate an even greater debacle than the current Sunni-Shiite-Kurd blood bath.

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