Cool post and great content as always. Thanks for sharing.

I love your site. They really look very nice. The articles provided are long enough to provide great content but not so long as to be totally engrossing, if you know what I mean.

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

Can it be that your server is infected with a virus – I get an Virus warning when I open your site with Firefox – Just for your Info.

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

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I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I enjoyed reading your blog. It is so interesting reading other peoples personal take on a subject.

I enjoyed reading your blog. It is so interesting reading other peoples personal take on a subject.

I read the “full accounting” but still don’t see his violation of federal law — IF something like the Hatch Act was violated, then I would agree that Mr. Rove should be prosecuted — until then, all’s fair in love and politics.

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What’s really weird is when I worked for the investment banking firm it was on financing of coal mines in Pennsylvania. And projects were financed by General Electric Credit Corportation with the same parent company as NBC. Which is why the trolls talking about the liberal media makes me crazy.

If people would realize that even reality television is cast with actors and scripted they would realize that nothing is as it seems. Everything Bush and his people do or talk about is completely orchestrated so as to manipulate us into submission.

Progressives seem to grasp this fact, trolls on the other hand are completely deluded by the dog and pony show

Comment by teak

Teak, I suspect it’s because the Dems don’t have the votes to do it until enough Repubs find their moral cores and come over… to… the… Light.

As long as Repub Reps and Sens don’t want to admit how badly their Pres and side in general has screwed the pooch over the last 6.5 yrs, they can pretty much bolix any impeachment attempt by the Dems for obstinence’s sake alone.

However, if the Pres continues to stay the course and establish ever newer lows for bad performance on the job, we may get there yet.

What happened to political discourse? If religion is where your heart is, go elsewhere.

We’ve got soldiers dying and democracy at risk . . . it may be Saturday night, but . . . .Think . . .

Fiasco, by Thomas E. Ricks, p. 102

. . . Garner was looking for someone who had assembled the facts and knew all the players in the U.S.government community, and international organizations, and had considered the second- and third-order consequences of possible actions. While everyone else was struggling for the facts, he had a dozen binders, tabbed and indexed, on every aspect of Iraqi society, from how electricity was generated to how the poor of Basra refugee community, someone from the Iraqi refugee community, operated, recalled other participants.
. . . .
“How do you know all this?” Garner asked.

“I’ve been working on it for years,” Warwick said.

“Come to work for me on Monday, “ Garner said. Warrick did.

“But it wouldn’t be easy to keep him.”
….

A FEW DAYS LATER:

[Rumsfield, according to Garner] . . . “You’ve got two people working for you, – Warrick and [Meghan] O’Sullivan – that you must get rid of.” (Id., p.l 103).

“Rumsfield said it was out to his hands. ‘This comes from such a level that I can’t do anything about it.,” he said according to Garner. That could mean only one thing: The purge had been ordered by someone at the White House, and not just from some underling of the staff of the National Security Counsel. . . .“

“When Powell got word of the ouster of Warrick and O’Sullivan, he called Rumsfield and asked ‘What the hell is going on?’ Rumsfield responded that the work of post war planning had to be done by people devoted to the task who supported the policy.”

[Next subchapter: “Garner tyo Feith: Shut up or Fire Me” p. 104]

“On March 11, . . .We intend to immediately start turning things over . . . As for the Iraqi military, ‘a good portion’ would be useful to work in the reconstruction of the country.’ ‘Using army allows us to not to demobilize . . . and put a lot of people on the street.’

. . . The undersecretary of defense for policy was livid with him afterwards for his attitude towards Chalabi

[March 12] Rumsfield asks Garner “What are you going to do for de-Bathication?”

Long story short. . . discussions w/in a couple of weeks w/Ryan Henry:

‘’’The whole damn list is a glitch’, snarled Garner.”

“”’Well, the White House wants to put in some of their own people,’ Henry said, according to Garner.”
. . . .
“. . . ‘Look’ Hughes said, ‘This is the good, the bad and the ugly.’ The good is what Garner’s group had done. The bad was that there was going to be a war.’ But the ugly is the shenanigans that are going on inside the Beltway between State and Defense.’ [Di Rita denies the conversation].

****Prescient comment]

p. 111, 2

. . . Because it so underestimated the task at hand, it didn’t send a well-trained, coherent team of professionals, but rather an odd collection of youthful Republican campaign workers and other novices. . . . . .

“

Fiasco, by Thomas E. Ricks, p. 102

. . . Garner was looking for someone who had assembled the facts and knew all the players in the U.S.government community, and international organizations, and had considered the second- and third-order consequences of possible actions. While everyone else was struggling for the facts, he had a dozen binders, tabbed and indexed, on every aspect of Iraqi society, from how electricity was generated to how the poor of Basra refugee community, someone from the Iraqi refugee community, operated, recalled other participants.
. . . .
“How do you know all this?” Garner asked.

“I’ve been working on it for years,” Warwick said.

“Come to work for me on Monday, “ Garner said. Warrick did.

“But it wouldn’t be easy to keep him.”
….

A FEW DAYS LATER:

[Rumsfield, according to Garner] . . . “You’ve got two people working for you, – Warrick and [Meghan] O’Sullivan – that you must get rid of.” (Id., p.l 103).

“Rumsfield said it was out to his hands. ‘This comes from such a level that I can’t do anything about it.,” he said according to Garner. That could mean only one thing: The purge had been ordered by someone at the White House, and not just from some underling of the staff of the National Security Counsel. . . .“

“When Powell got word of the ouster of Warrick and O’Sullivan, he called Rumsfield and asked ‘What the hell is going on?’ Rumsfield responded that the work of post war planning had to be done by people devoted to the task who supported the policy.”

[Next subchapter: “Garner tyo Feith: Shut up or Fire Me” p. 104]

“On March 11, . . .We intend to immediately start turning things over . . . As for the Iraqi military, ‘a good portion’ would be useful to work in the reconstruction of the country.’ ‘Using army allows us to not to demobilize . . . and put a lot of people on the street.’

. . . The undersecretary of defense for policy was livid with him afterwards for his attitude towards Chalabi

[March 12] Rumsfield asks Garner “What are you going to do for de-Bathication?”

Long story short. . . discussions w/in a couple of weeks w/Ryan Henry:

‘’’The whole damn list is a glitch’, snarled Garner.”

“”’Well, the White House wants to put in some of their own people,’ Henry said, according to Garner.”
. . . .
“. . . ‘Look’ Hughes said, ‘This is the good, the bad and the ugly.’ The good is what Garner’s group had done. The bad was that there was going to be a war.’ But the ugly is the shenanigans that are going on inside the Beltway between State and Defense.’ [Di Rita denies the conversation].

****Prescient comment]

p. 111, 2

. . . Because it so underestimated the task at hand, it didn’t send a well-trained, coherent team of professionals, but rather an odd collection of youthful Republican campaign workers and other novices. . . . . .

“

Fiasco, by Thomas E. Ricks, p. 102

. . . Garner was looking for someone who had assembled the facts and knew all the players in the U.S.government community, and international organizations, and had considered the second- and third-order consequences of possible actions. While everyone else was struggling for the facts, he had a dozen binders, tabbed and indexed, on every aspect of Iraqi society, from how electricity was generated to how the poor of Basra refugee community, someone from the Iraqi refugee community, operated, recalled other participants.
. . . .
“How do you know all this?” Garner asked.

“I’ve been working on it for years,” Warwick said.

“Come to work for me on Monday, “ Garner said. Warrick did.

“But it wouldn’t be easy to keep him.”
….

A FEW DAYS LATER:

[Rumsfield, according to Garner] . . . “You’ve got two people working for you, – Warrick and [Meghan] O’Sullivan – that you must get rid of.” (Id., p.l 103).

“Rumsfield said it was out to his hands. ‘This comes from such a level that I can’t do anything about it.,” he said according to Garner. That could mean only one thing: The purge had been ordered by someone at the White House, and not just from some underling of the staff of the National Security Counsel. . . .“

“When Powell got word of the ouster of Warrick and O’Sullivan, he called Rumsfield and asked ‘What the hell is going on?’ Rumsfield responded that the work of post war planning had to be done by people devoted to the task who supported the policy.”

[Next subchapter: “Garner tyo Feith: Shut up or Fire Me” p. 104]

“On March 11, . . .We intend to immediately start turning things over . . . As for the Iraqi military, ‘a good portion’ would be useful to work in the reconstruction of the country.’ ‘Using army allows us to not to demobilize . . . and put a lot of people on the street.’

. . . The undersecretary of defense for policy was livid with him afterwards for his attitude towards Chalabi

[March 12] Rumsfield asks Garner “What are you going to do for de-Bathication?”

Long story short. . . discussions w/in a couple of weeks w/Ryan Henry:

‘’’The whole damn list is a glitch’, snarled Garner.”

“”’Well, the White House wants to put in some of their own people,’ Henry said, according to Garner.”
. . . .
“. . . ‘Look’ Hughes said, ‘This is the good, the bad and the ugly.’ The good is what Garner’s group had done. The bad was that there was going to be a war.’ But the ugly is the shenanigans that are going on inside the Beltway between State and Defense.’ [Di Rita denies the conversation].

****Prescient comment]

p. 111, 2

. . . Because it so underestimated the task at hand, it didn’t send a well-trained, coherent team of professionals, but rather