Thursday, December 21, 2006

The NeoCons are at it again!


Blumenthal has some interesting insights into what's really happening at the W.H.

Seems the NeoCons have no plans to slink off in shame, as they should, never to be heard from again, after engineering the horrendous debacle in Iraq.

Oh, no. They have the ear of an idiot and intend to keep yapping until everything is a complete train wreck.

I would suggest deportng their asses but, apparently, their bretheren are already in damned near every country in the world.

They are not going to shut the hell up and go away until they pay for their crimes. So we have another reason to start the investigations of the little fish.

Behind Bush's "new way forward" Salon.com:

Dec. 20, 2006 'We're going to win,' President Bush told a guest at a White House Christmas party. Another guest, ingratiating himself with his host, urged him to ignore the report of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by James Baker, the former secretary of state and his father's close associate, which described the crisis in Iraq as 'grave and deteriorating,' and offered 79 recommendations for diplomacy, transferring responsibility to the Iraqi government and withdrawing nearly all U.S. troops by 2008. 'The president chuckled,' according to an account in the neoconservative Weekly Standard, 'and said he'd made his position clear when he appeared with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The report had never mentioned the possibility of American victory. Bush's goal in Iraq, he said at the photo op with Blair, is 'victory.'' Bush reasserted his belief that 'victory in Iraq is achievable' at his Wednesday press conference.

Two members of the ISG were responsible for George W. Bush's becoming president. Baker had maneuvered through the thicket of the 2000 Florida contest, finally bringing Bush v. Gore before the Supreme Court, where Sandra Day O'Connor was the deciding vote. (Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reported that she had complained before hearing the case that she wanted to retire but did not want a Democrat to appoint her replacement.) Through the Iraq Study Group Baker and O'Connor were attempting to salvage what they had made possible in Bush v. Gore. Upon Bush's receipt of the report, a White House spokesman told the press, 'Jim Baker can go back to his day job.'

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