I guess this is saying “Pity the US is different from Britain when it comes to the same issue”.

Where did you find the information about states banning t-shirt designs?

I’ve tried to have a t-shirt printed with the Third Reich’s symbol and the words “mission Accomplished” but nobody will touch it.

Is this still America?

What have they given us that we can trust? Have any actions by the justice department been valid? Or have they all been geared towards furthering the political aims of the republican party? We know that at least for the last few years, this has been the case. Was Ashcroft fired for not signing off on the NSA spying? I would bet that he was. They say that the program is dead, but who really believes that it is being run in any manner other than the way they originally conceived it to run? And now that we know how fully they politicize everything, who thinks that they only target those suspected of terrorism and terrorist ties? Since day one I have thought that they used the program more to track political opponents, be they democrats, reporters who write unfavorable stories or private citizens who don’t side with them.

What other information and departments have been politicized? Are any economic figures untainted? Why would they not try to influence the economy. On a manufacturing level I don’t see the economy growing the way they say it has. Has this information been politicized?

At this point I have to be skeptical of everything they put out. If they say it is 12:00pm I will check my watch. If they say the sky is blue I must look up. If they say anything I am afraid I will have to verify this myself because they lost my trust and confidence long ago.

Comment by the Lone Voice of Reason — May 21, 2007 @ 10:14 am

I completely agree. I’ve thought for a long time now that the “incompetency” label was one that was more than acceptable to the Bush administration. It allowed them to hide what their true goals are. It also allowed them to put into “power” a person who is extraordinarily ambitious, vicious and totally irresponsible, while being intellectually lacking.

TP, this is a misprint. It should read “spring of 2010″, as it does in the linked article. After all, 12 months from now will be the summer of 2008. :-)

It should be a nonissue. The issue is that thousands of young men and women have died needlessly in a war fabricated by the neocons and the oil agenda.

The two assessments, titled “Principal Challenges in Post-Saddam Iraq” and “Regional Consequences of Regime Change in Iraq,” were produced by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and will be a major part of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s long-awaited Phase II report on prewar intelligence assessments about Iraq.

And there were the Army War College Reports, beginning in October 2002.

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB182.pdf

Bush & Company knew, but it’s damn hard to loot a country when it has a stable and functioning government.

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim has chosen to seek chemotherapy for his lung cancer in Iran rather than in the US. His condition was confirmed during a visit to a hospital in Houston this weekend. He is likely to be absent from Iraq in Iran for several months, and says he is going there so as to be closer to his family than he would be in the US.

Funny how EVERYONE seemed to know just what the consequences of this disastrous invasion and occupation would be, before it was even started.

Ask yourself: Could any administration be so clueless as to honestly think this would have gone well, despite the massive amount of information pointing solidly to the opposite conclusion?

Many people like to talk about how incompetent this administration is. The reality, however, is that this administration is one of the most competent we’ve ever seen…look at all they’ve managed to accomplish in just six short years:

# Centralizing power within the executive branch to an unprecedented degree
# Starting two major wars, one started with questionable intelligence and in a manner with which the military disagreed
# Placing on the Supreme Court two far-right justices, and stacking the lower federal courts with many more
# Cutting taxes during wartime, an unprecedented event
# Passing a number of controversial bills such as the PATRIOT Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, the Medicare Drug bill, the Bankruptcy bill and a number of massive tax cuts
# Rolling back and refusing to enforce a host of basic regulatory protections
# Appointing industry officials to oversee regulatory agencies
# Establishing a greater role for religion through faith-based initiatives
# Passing Orwellian-titled legislation assaulting the environment — “The Healthy Forests Act” and the “Clear Skies Initiative” — to deforest public lands, and put more pollution in our skies
# (etc., etc., etc.)

(List courtesy of the Rockridge Institute.)

It’s no secret that this administration lies to the American people, but the best lie they ever told…and one that is still blindly accepted as truth, is that their real goals are identical to their stated goals, and any failure to accomplish their stated goals is due to incompetence, rather than the simple reason that their actual goals – the ones they are having no trouble accomplishing – are fundamentally at odds with their stated goals.

Ron Paul, a Republican congressman running for president, is saying what needs to be said about the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq war. Clearly, his rivals and the news media can’t handle the truth.

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0705g.asp

Iraq’s Vice President has publicly opposed Iraq’s controversial Oil Law, saying it gives too many concessions to foreign oil companies. “We disagree with the production sharing agreement,” Tariq al-Hashemi told reporters yesterday.

“We want foreign oil companies, and we have to lure them into Iraq to learn from their expertise and acquire their technology, but we shouldn’t give them big privileges,” al-Hashemi said. Continue reading ‘Iraq’s VP Opposes Draft Oil Law’

Hmmm . . . getting GDumbya’s administration to intervene in Baghdad’s dysfunctional political order. Isn’t that kind of like having a peodophile in charge of security at the local grade school?

If GDumbya is going to rearrange any dysfunctional political order, I would suggest that he begin in the U.S. A good first step would be for him and Darth Cheney to resign.

The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official.

http://www.independent.co.uk/