tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post116146028097829619..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: Bush administration violates the separation of powers, issues fiat robbing court of judicial powerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167645646761155672007-01-01T02:00:00.000-08:002007-01-01T02:00:00.000-08:00Welcome back, Gracie and Dante...Here`s the correc...Welcome back, Gracie and Dante...<BR/><BR/>Here`s the correct link to: <A HREF="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1650822,00.html" REL="nofollow">Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’</A> An excerpt: <BR/><BR/>"MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal."<BR/><BR/>The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier."<BR/><BR/>The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal."<BR/><BR/>In other words, Bush and Blair are war criminals. These violations of the Nuremberg Principles are prohibited by <A HREF="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=18&sec=2441" REL="nofollow">US Codes, Section 2441</A> which prescribes the death penalty for war crimes resulting in death.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167600391033718612006-12-31T13:26:00.000-08:002006-12-31T13:26:00.000-08:00Hey Len,Stopping by to wish you a Happy New Year! ...Hey Len,<BR/><BR/>Stopping by to wish you a Happy New Year! Be safe.<BR/><BR/>Peace!Graciehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01863671580176900686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167592012624138312006-12-31T11:06:00.000-08:002006-12-31T11:06:00.000-08:00WWJH?WWJH?Sebastien Parmentierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14510809227926364827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167586179150314002006-12-31T09:29:00.000-08:002006-12-31T09:29:00.000-08:00Dante, you are correct. Bush brought SOMETHING to ...Dante, you are correct. Bush brought SOMETHING to Iraq ...but it was not justice nor was it Democracy. The fix was in. A dead Hussein cannot further implicate the Bush crime family and the various American oil "capitalists". Clearly --things in Iraq are worse under Bush than under Saddam, where, at least, there was water and lights. As I recall, most people could go to work without fearing being shot dead or blown up in the streets. <BR/><BR/>You are correct, Dante. The history books have already noticed. Bush hopes to salvage his dubious legacy with a "surge". The "surge", however, will confirm the verdict that`s already. Bush is a war criminal who has himself escaped prosecution because he is protected by a modern day Praetorian guard. Part of Bush`s horrible legacy is that while subverting American democractic ideals, i.e. those of our founders, he has vindicated a notorious Nazi: Hermann Goering. <BR/><BR/>In the meantime, the execution of Saddam Hussein has proven to the Sunnis that Bush has already taken sides in the civil war that the Bush has denied is going on. It can only make matters worse by further exacerbating the sectarian nature of Irai violence. Moreover, efforts by the right wing to blame Iraqis is not merely ludicrous and stupid, it`s a cynical, right wing spin not based on fact. It is the ghost of of Karl Rove, typical of the right wing "blame the victim" mentality that has all but poisoned American politics. Iraqi citizens did not ask America to bomb the hell outo f them, destroy their infrastrusture, poison the water supply, loot the museum, and, in other ways, murder at least 600,000 civilians in a war of naked aggression. <BR/><BR/>check out <A HREF="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_carol_wo_061230_psychiatrist_says_bu.htm" REL="nofollow">Psychiatrist says Bush needs to be impeached for the good of "we the people".</A>.<BR/><BR/>Also --do a google and check out the comments of Zbigniew Brzezinski on CNN with Wolf Blitzer. Brzezinski says that Bush is delusional.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167506627828090472006-12-30T11:23:00.000-08:002006-12-30T11:23:00.000-08:00Talk about an amazing justice system we've just ex...Talk about an amazing justice system we've just exported to Iraq!<BR/>Instead of waiting for all the cases against Saddam Hussein to be finalized and wrapped before carrying any sentencing,<BR/>Saddam Hussein is quickly executed for the case in which he ordered the execution of 148 Shiites... leaving the Anfa case unresolved and finalaly close forever. This is the case where Saddam gassed Kurdes with American made weapons, with the green light of Papa Bush.<BR/>Ooooh, that would be too much to disclose in the front of the world's camera! Quick: let's hang him before he can slip something devastating to the Bush Family!<BR/><BR/>Trust me: History books will notice.<BR/><BR/>And also, my cartoon (and article) blog address has changed:<BR/>My blog is now called "Bouche a Bush" at:<BR/>http://boucheabush.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>Thank you for paying a visit there!<BR/><BR/>And happy new year to you all.Sebastien Parmentierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14510809227926364827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167504385933490002006-12-30T10:46:00.000-08:002006-12-30T10:46:00.000-08:00From an excellent article by Robert Fisk: "what ab...From an excellent article by <A HREF="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2112555.ece" REL="nofollow">Robert Fisk</A>: <BR/><BR/>"what about the other guilty men?"<BR/><BR/>"No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don't gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn't invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead - and thousands of Western troops are dead - because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality."<BR/><BR/>"In the aftermath of the international crimes against humanity of 2001 we have tortured, we have murdered, we have brutalised and killed the innocent - we have even added our shame at Abu Ghraib to Saddam's shame at Abu Ghraib - and yet we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created."<BR/><BR/>"Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls?"<BR/><BR/>The hypocrisy referred to by Fisk is nothing less than Herman Goering`s "victor`s justice"! Bush is Goering`s vengence, proving the cynical position that only the strong can proscecute the defeated while the strong escape prosecution for having committed the same crimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167425491249012852006-12-29T12:51:00.000-08:002006-12-29T12:51:00.000-08:00As I write this, various news outlets are saying t...As I write this, various news outlets are saying that the Americans have already turned Saddam over for an "imminent" execution. It`s hard to imagine how executing anyone convicted by a kangaroo court advances the cause of justice. It`s hard to imagine how anything good can come of this travesty of a "trial". There may have been a legitimate case against Saddam. There may have been legitimate accusations. But they were not heard in this court where the rules of evidence clearly did not apply, where the presumption of innocence was abandoned, where defense objections were dismissed out of hand, where the fix was in. <BR/><BR/>From <A HREF="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10691.htm" REL="nofollow">Information Clearing House</A>:<BR/><BR/>"Saddam Hussein was a secular leader and a staunch friend of India, who consistently supported India on Kashmir and other issues. US corporate and British government media outlets have already tried to convict Saddam by playing up the Halabja massacres and other accusations which are not even part of this trial. When unsubstantiated allegations were made that Iraq was behind the plot to kill former US President George H.W Bush in Kuwait , father of the current US President in 1993 , President Bill Clinton had hit Iraq with missiles. Why no charges against him!"<BR/><BR/>Swiss legal expert Prof Marc Henzelin, Professor of international law at Geneva University had declined to defend Saddam Hussein. He put it this way in the same article: "Wonderful material for a US television series but nothing to do with a fair trial. I think it is all about justifying the United States' invasion of Iraq and to string Saddam Hussein up sooner rather than later without asking too many questions.” <BR/><BR/>The nature of the war --called illegal by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan --raises doubts about the legitimacy of Saddam`s trial itself --let alone the suspicious conduct of it. When Saddam --guilty or not --is executed by the illegitimate government of Jawad al Maliki, the US will have committed another war crime in a string of war crimes not matched since Adolph Hitler.<BR/><BR/>Is subverting the very concepts of western justice what Bush meant when he said that we were fighting for Democracy in Iraq? Of the many lies told by Bush to justify his war of naked aggression, this must surely be the most egregrious. America, under Bush`s criminal regime, proves itself not merely incapable but unwilling to support the very ideals of our founding.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167407422272750032006-12-29T07:50:00.000-08:002006-12-29T07:50:00.000-08:00Indeed, sad! The assassination of JFK was clearly ...Indeed, sad! The assassination of JFK was clearly the beginning of the weird stuff for America. Nixon`s resignation --back in the news with Ford`s passing --was another watershed event. The cast of characters around both events is very, very weird and beyond coincidence. Without going into the specifics of multifarious conspiracy theories, it is fair to conclude that the right over the years became increasing reactionary, leaning more and more toward totalitarianism and the dicatatorship of the corporate state. Magic bullet and jet effects, my ass!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167401909705914162006-12-29T06:18:00.000-08:002006-12-29T06:18:00.000-08:00Amazing that they would even try to sell something...Amazing that they would even try to sell something as clearly poppycock as the Magic Bullet Theory, as divorced from common sense as the virgin birth and God creating the universe in seven days. I was convinced by Zapruder as well, and the fact that the rifle supposedly used had an inconveniently long cycle time from taking one shot to chambering another round and being ready to fire again. That didn't even take into account the added time needed to reaquire the target and take aim. I believe the fatal shot was probably fired at close range from a pistol disguised by the CIA to look like a movie camera. The shots fired by Oswald were just to get everybody either ducking for cover or looking the other way.SadButTruehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977090207448656065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167330537011585232006-12-28T10:28:00.000-08:002006-12-28T10:28:00.000-08:00Thanks for the links, Damien. I suggest that reade...Thanks for the links, Damien. I suggest that readers here follow them up. It is indeed, as you suggest, a tangled web. <BR/><BR/>More links. There`s more to Ford`s legacy than the Nixon Pardon, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. This link deals specifically with Ford`s personal involvement with what remains, arguably, the most blatant cover up and white wash in history: The Warren Commission Report. Here`s the link from Attytood: <A HREF="http://www.attytood.com/2006/12/gerald_fords_other_contributio_1.html" REL="nofollow">Gerald Ford's other contribution to American history: The single bullet theory</A> . <BR/><BR/>An excerpt: "In the non-stop roller coaster ride that is <A HREF="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/12/27/ford-coverage-nixon-che_e_37200.html" REL="nofollow">the media's coverage of the death of Gerald Ford</A>, our 38th president, it is amazing what still gets left behind. For example, <A HREF="http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/index.php?p=310" REL="nofollow">this interesting post</A> shows how Ford -- overridden, thank God -- vetoed the Freedom of Information Act, at the urging of three guys who you may have heard of, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Antonin Scalia. <BR/><BR/>But amazingly. not one article has mentioned the contribution of Gerald Ford that still resonates today, more so than his "<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip_Inflation_Now" REL="nofollow">Whip Inflation Now</A>" buttons or his <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayag%C3%BCez_incident" REL="nofollow">military triumph over Cambodia</A>. It was ultimately Ford's handiwork, on the 1964 Warren Commission, that gave us <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_bullet_theory" REL="nofollow">the single bullet theory</A>, the last line of defense for the belief that President John F. Kennedy had been killed not by a conspiracy, but by a lone nut. <BR/><BR/>To be sure, as most Pennsylvanians, Attytood readers and <A HREF="http://www.jfk-online.com/jfk100sbt.html" REL="nofollow">Oliver Stone fans</A><BR/>know, it was another prominent politician, Sen. Arlen Specter, a staff attorney for the Warren Commission, who developed the idea -- also known as "the magic bullet" -- that one bullet caused seven different wounds in the president and Texas Gov. John Connally and still ended up on a hospital stretcher in pristine condition. If Kennedy and Connally had been struck by separate bullets, there would not have been enough time for just one gunman to have fired all of the shots in Dealey Plaza that day."<BR/><BR/>Because of the GOP the old scandals are covered up or spun while new ones are spawned. There is a body of evidence to indicate that Bush and Blair deliberately schemed to make legal --after the fact --the aggressive war against Iraq. The following link, however, may be as close to a smoking gun as one is likely to find: <A HREF="" REL="nofollow">Ministers were told of need for Gulf war ‘excuse’</A>.<BR/><BR/>An excerpt: <BR/><BR/>"MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal. <BR/><BR/>The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.<BR/><BR/>The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal.<BR/> <BR/>This was required because, even if ministers decided Britain should not take part in an invasion, the American military would be<BR/>using British bases. This would automatically make Britain complicit in any illegal US action."<BR/><BR/>My own comment on the "single bullet" theory: utter nonsense!! Anyone who has seen the Zapruder film must conclude that the fatal bullet came from the front. See frame 313! So much for the Warren report. Posner tried to explain frame 313 away by claiming a "jet effect" caused by an exiting bullet caused JFK`s head to fall backward. Nonesense! Anyone who has ever shot anything --animal or human --knows that whatever is shot falls away from the source of the shot. <BR/><BR/>Moreover, there are to be found on the internet, aerial black and white photos of Dealy Square on November 22, 1963. A couple of observations. Oswald never had a clear shot. By the time JFK was hit by the fatal bullet on frame 313, Oswald`s view of JFK was almost completely obscured; he did not have a clear shot. Secondly, by that time, he was perhaps three times the distance from JFK than would have been a shooter firing from behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll. Check out <A HFREF="http://www.assassinationscience.com/johncostella/jfk/intro/wound.html">frame 313</A>. There is no jet effect as Posner had said. JFK has slumped forward before the fatal shot on frame 313. The head is driven backward by the dramatic and gory hit on frame 313. <BR/><BR/>JFK was murdered. The idea that it was the work of a lone hit man is absurd and just downright stupid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167285324758969692006-12-27T21:55:00.000-08:002006-12-27T21:55:00.000-08:00Sorry guys... corrected link here.Sorry guys... corrected link <A HREF="http://www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/res/papers/Dunlop_Rapporteur_Report.pdf" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167284158442765782006-12-27T21:35:00.000-08:002006-12-27T21:35:00.000-08:00Thanks for the links, Len. I'll follow them up. I ...Thanks for the links, Len. I'll follow them up. I pointed <A HREF="http://lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/global-drug.htm" REL="nofollow">previously</A> to Peter Dale Scott's article about organised drug and arms trafficking with a company Far West having ties to Haliburton. Now Joseph Cannon has found links between Far West, and Alexander Litvinenko. (<A HREF="http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/litvinenko-and-family.html" REL="nofollow">here</A> and <A HREF="http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/res/papers/Dunlop_paper.pdf" REL="nofollow">here</A>) Mohammed Atta and Adnan Khashoggi are involved! There's a way to go on this but it is fascinating to note the essentially criminal nature of the upper echelons of US and Russian politics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167154631871347682006-12-26T09:37:00.000-08:002006-12-26T09:37:00.000-08:00An expose of just one of the Bush admin`s many mem...An expose of just one of the Bush admin`s many memory holes:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/9364.html" REL="nofollow">Keeping Iraq attack numbers under wraps</A><BR/><BR/>Still another:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-border24dec24,0,1969856.story?coll=la-home-headlines" REL="nofollow">On the trail of the Taliban's support</A> <BR/><BR/>Obviously, the Taliban was never really defeated. Bush blunders again...and lying about it. <BR/><BR/>You won`t hear the Bushies bragging about this one. <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-border24dec24,0,1969856.story?coll=la-home-headlines" REL="nofollow">On the trail of the Taliban's supportSome 12,000 Iraqi policemen have been killed since the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the country's interior minister said Sunday, as "clashes, a suicide bomber and weekend explosions killed more than a dozen Iraqi officers and six American soldiers."</A> <BR/><BR/>And on a completely different topic --it is not only Bush who has busy rewriting history, it`s also the Christian Right. Check out a recent issue of Harper`s. In a sentence, the RR is trying to write everyone else OUT of history. In their version, Thomas Jefferson`s "wall of separation" between church and state is but a "one way wall" from which the religious right can meddle and dominate the secular affairs of state but government may not prohibit them from doing so. God, of course, is on their side. See: How the Christian Right is Reinventing U.S. History, Harper`s, Dec 2006. Also see: <BR/><A HREF="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061121085819AAqXfDg" REL="nofollow">Why are atheists becoming revisionists?</A> in which the recent religious fallacies with regard to our nation`s founding are thoroughly refuted. For example: "...the federal constitution is nonetheless quite secular." Another great source of refutation is E.L. Doctorow`s <A HREF="http://www.enotes.com/salem-lit/jack-london-hemingway-constitution" REL="nofollow">Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays</A> ...In his essay on the Constitution, Doctorow makes the irrefutable point that the Constition never uses the word "God". Nor does it use the name of any other deity. The US Constitution was and remains an utterly secular instrument.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167147601821653052006-12-26T07:40:00.000-08:002006-12-26T07:40:00.000-08:00If George W. Bush expects you to believe that thou...If George W. Bush expects you to believe that thousands of American troops who have died in Iraq have done so in order to bring "democracy" to what is left of that nation, he is as stupid as he looks. And he looks stupid. See: <A HREF="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/26/iraq/main2295358.shtml" REL="nofollow">U.S. Troop Deaths In Iraq Exceed 9/11 Toll</A>. <BR/><BR/>What kind of "democracy" has Bush brought to Iraq? Saddam Hussein will now hang in about thirty days --his appeal having been rejected out of hand. What democracy? What justice? Is this what US troops --more Americans than died in 911 --have died for in the deserts of Iraq? Saddam may or may not be guilty of the crimes charged him, but the kangaroo court that convicted had its mind made up from the get go. The kangaroo court, presided over by idiots and partisans, does not know the meaning of justice. The trial, the conviction, and now the sentencing of Saddam Hussein has further made a mockery of every ideal that the US has said it upholds. <BR/><BR/>What a kangaroo court! What a travesty of justice! What a farce! What biased justices!<BR/><BR/>I know of at least one would-be world dictator who has blood on his hands, who has flouted international law, who has cynically used up for venal ends the lives of US soldiers. Why has he not been charged, arrested, tried and sentenced? Bush, rather, has proven Hermann Goering correct; Saddam`s trial is mere victor`s vengence; it is NOT justice. And proving Goering correct should be, in itself, a heinous crime.<BR/><BR/>I still support the ideals of Nuremberg. And may a dank cell await EVERY war criminal --not just those disliked by oil barrons like Bush. Sen. Chris Dodd, meanwhile, says that the US should withdraw from Iraq. See: <A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061224/ap_on_el_pr/on_the2008_trail" REL="nofollow">Sen. Dodd argues for Iraq withdrawal</A> DoDD, by the way, is the son of Thomas Dodd who help Justice Robert Jackson prosecute Nuremberg. See: <A HREF="http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/findaids/Dodd_Thomas/MSS19940065.html" REL="nofollow">Thomas J. Dodd Papers</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167088431337844752006-12-25T15:13:00.000-08:002006-12-25T15:13:00.000-08:00Great posts all! Fuzzflash, I share your aspiratio...Great posts all! Fuzzflash, I share your aspirations for 2007. We know that Bush and company have deliberately created chaos in Iraq, though I suspect that the theft of Iraqi oil might have been done without the chaos, without destabilizing the entire Middle East and possibly the world. <BR/><BR/>I am again thinking of the Roman Empire. It was Tiberius, I believe, who ruled the empire during the time of Christ. Over the next 200 years, the new religion would oppose the evil empire itself. It was Rome which was "the Beast". By the time Constantine inherited an endangered and over-stretched empire, Christianity itself posed the greatest "internal+ threat. Constantine, ruthless and political, very nearly neutralized the church by legalizing the new religion. Smart move. As it turns out in retrospect, having made of Christianity a "Roman" institution, the Church of Rome remaains the most enduring, viable relic of the Roman empire. <BR/><BR/>Bush, by contrast, is no Constantine but, like Constantine, he leads an "evil empire". Bush has, rather, ensured the continued demise of American interests throughout the world. His hamfisted handling of Iraq will prove to have unintended consequences. Iraqi oil might have been stolen the old fashioned way --not that I would advocate that for one moment. Instead, even NEOCONS now rue the day they advocated such global grand larceny and mass murder. Instead of gaining all, they will lose all. Now witness the slow slide into oblivion that characterizes the decline and fall of empire. <BR/><BR/>Dante wrote: "...len deseparatly waited for his CPU to be shipped from Terrrras..." Indeed --something so simple has become so complex. You have no idea. Still --I see light at the end of the tunnel. <BR/><BR/>Welcome back, benmerc and thanks for the very kind comments. I will work hard over the next year to restore the Cowboy and make it once again worthy of all the wonderful regulars who grace this comments section. <BR/><BR/>Hope everyone had a happy holiday and will embark upon a happier New Year free of war criminals out to take over the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1167060833237445622006-12-25T07:33:00.000-08:002006-12-25T07:33:00.000-08:00Hope you all are doing well here at the Cowboy. My...Hope you all are doing well here at the Cowboy. My job and my music have drawn down on my time online, but I shall certainly be around to some degree.<BR/><BR/>Best wishes and Holiday Spirit to everyone this new year, it was great to hear all the voices and have this outlet to share and learn from. Thanks Len, and to all the insightful regulars and co-horts that have offered their ideas and dialog. Have a good Holidays all; Damien, Dante Lee, Sad, Fuzz, Vierotchka & others.benmerchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05822419839573670413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1166925935668239142006-12-23T18:05:00.000-08:002006-12-23T18:05:00.000-08:00Merry Christmas to you as well, Fuzz, and to all o...Merry Christmas to you as well, Fuzz, and to all of you, Damien, Vierotchka, SadButTrue, Bemerc and the anonyms who have taken turn in giving the bouche a' bouche to the cowboy while len deseparatly waited for his CPU to be shipped from Terrrras...<BR/><BR/>I can't wait for Len to be back on board, I know it will be soon.<BR/><BR/>For now May Santa plant a massive reindeer turd under Bush's Christmas tree and may peace chose Earth as a vacation spot for 2007.<BR/><BR/>Love'y'all.Sebastien Parmentierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14510809227926364827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1166874657305574152006-12-23T03:50:00.000-08:002006-12-23T03:50:00.000-08:00Thanks, Damien. I do believe the world is growing ...Thanks, Damien. I do believe the world is growing wise to Bush. Here`s an interesting excerpt from Buzzflash`s review of a great new book:<BR/><BR/>"What is Bush's "free trade?" It's an economic model that argues that by removing restrictions on multinational corporations, these companies will be freed to become engines of economic growth in countries around the world, but in fact bring vast wealth of a small number of global elites while entire populations suffer dislocation, poverty and violence, creating a perfect Petri dish for breeding terrorists. The instruments for this takeover include such corporations as Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, ChevronTexaco, Halliburton, and many others." --Buzzflash review of <I><A HREF="http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/440" REL="nofollow">The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time</I></A><BR/><BR/>In other words, the chaos in Iraq is deliberate. It`s a part of the Bush plan to make of the entire world a fascist empire benefiting Bush cronies, robber barons and other GOP co-conspirators. <BR/><BR/>Thanks again to Damien for the good wishes ...and may I join him in extending those good wishes to all. This is, indeed, a Christmas quite unlike any in recent memory. Nevertheless, we must not merely wish for "peace on Earth", we must work for it daily. The future of the entire world depends upon it. The very survival of millions, perhaps billions depend upon the removal of GWB from office followed swiftly by war crimes prosecutions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1166838111786859652006-12-22T17:41:00.000-08:002006-12-22T17:41:00.000-08:00There's also an addendum on Iran.There's also an addendum on <A HREF="http://coalition-criminals.blogspot.com/2006/12/iran-2007.html" REL="nofollow">Iran</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1166834435109251312006-12-22T16:40:00.000-08:002006-12-22T16:40:00.000-08:00Len, thank you for your effort to wise up the USA ...Len, thank you for your effort to wise up the USA - and the rest of the world. Your posts are too good, so I steal them all the time (but I always give credit!) Thank you especially for extending to me the opportunity to post here, especially since I hit on a range of topics. It's appreciated. To all those here who have given me such pleasure and shared company this year I send my warmest regards. To Len, Fuzzflash, Dante Lee, Vierotchka, SadButTrue, Benmerc and all the others - and to your families! - have a very happy Christmas!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1166828652568023252006-12-22T15:04:00.000-08:002006-12-22T15:04:00.000-08:00Bush is delusional....(click the link)Scarborough ...Bush is delusional....(click the link)<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://movies.crooksandliars.com/SC-Bush-GeneralsGetLost.wmv" REL="nofollow">Scarborough Sees The Light—Barnicle: “Bush is delusional”</A> (WMV)<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://movies.crooksandliars.com/SC-Bush-GeneralsGetLost.mov" REL="nofollow">Scarborough Sees The Light—Barnicle: “Bush is delusional”</A> (QT)<BR/><BR/>At last --the mainstream seems to have come around to what this blog and its contributors have been saying for quite some time now. Bush is out of control; he`s certifiably insane, delusional and dangerous. These are dark days not just for America but darker still for the innocent people of Iraq and the entire world. <BR/><BR/>A mad man occupies the White House having brought America to its nadir.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1166805604749695302006-12-22T08:40:00.000-08:002006-12-22T08:40:00.000-08:00Upstaged by the ISG: Eye on Iraq: The other Iraq r...Upstaged by the ISG: <A HREF="http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061218-024118-5015r" REL="nofollow">Eye on Iraq: The other Iraq report</A><BR/><BR/>An excerpt from UPI: <BR/><BR/>"Ever since Shiite militias across Iraq erupted into a frenzy of retaliatory random killings of Sunnis following the bombing of the al-Askariya, or Golden Mosque in Samara -- a cherished Shiite shrine -- on Feb. 22, 2006, we have charted and predicted in these columns the California-sized nation of 28 million people's rapid descent into a state of violent chaos. In the words of the great 17th century English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes, life in Iraq has become nasty, brutish and short."<BR/><BR/>The new report, entitled "Iraq's Sectarian and Ethnic Violence and Evolving Insurgency: Developments through mid-December 2006" is by Anthony H. Cordesman, who holds the Arleigh A. Burke chair in strategy at the center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank."<BR/><BR/>Cordesman is often seen as a talking head on cable, PBS, et al.<BR/><BR/>We can only hope for sanity in these strange times. +Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1166800624518517592006-12-22T07:17:00.000-08:002006-12-22T07:17:00.000-08:00Shane, there has been no new article for some two ...Shane, there has been no new article for some two months because I had underestimated what was involved in relocating to a new continent. I have access to a computer until my own arrives, but, somehow in the mad melee, I had lost my cookies et al. I can make comments from this `puter but until my own arrives, I cannot post full articles. I am, essentially, locked out of my own blog. All will be well soon. And the Cowboy will be updated. In the meantime, however, I have made some interesting friends in Europe. I also hope that some of the regular contributors to the comments section will agree to have their articles spotlighted. Please stay tuned, shane. The Cowboy will one day be better than ever. <BR/><BR/>Fuzzflash, thanks for the kind words...and, of course, your observation: "When US forces inevitably leave Iraq, like the Greeks and the Ottomans and the British and all the other loco conquistadors before them, the Eagle will become an Albatross..." Indeed, Fuzz, fallen empires are like Norma Desmond waiting in vain for another close up. (See: <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/quotes" REL="nofollow">Memorable Quotes from Sunset Blvd</A>) It will be sad to watch America don a cheap wig, paint her thinning lips, descend the stairs and declare pathetically, in the dark: "I'm ready for my close-up."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1166763507557555302006-12-21T20:58:00.000-08:002006-12-21T20:58:00.000-08:00“I’ve had Bin Laden inside my scope!”<A HREF="http://cartoonbydantelee.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">“I’ve had Bin Laden inside my scope!”</A>Sebastien Parmentierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14510809227926364827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-1166747651824288462006-12-21T16:34:00.000-08:002006-12-21T16:34:00.000-08:00While I am only an intermittent reader of this sit...While I am only an intermittent reader of this site, I do read with interest most of what's posted here in the comments. But can anyone tell me why there hasn't been a new post in two months? I guess I'm out of the loop, but I'm curious as to what's going on.<BR/>Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com