“The /Washington Post/ story on BENT SPEAR may have actually been an effort in damage control by the Bush administration. WMR has been informed by a knowledgeable source that one of the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles was, and may still be, unaccounted for. In that case, the nuclear reporting incident would have gone far beyond BENT SPEAR to a National Command Authority alert known as EMPTY QUIVER, with the special classification of PINNACLE.”

Comment by margaret — October 9, 2007 @ 1:00 pm

This is very frightening.

With our almost entirely worthless corporate media in charge, it is hardly surprising that our daily pablum of OJ, Brangelina, etc. doesn’t include such indigestibles as BENT SPEARs, BROKEN ARROWs and EMPTY QUIVERs.

As the CIA black sites and illegal NSA domestic surveillance stories all show, the President and his amen corner are quick to call for the prosecution of those who reveal White House criminality. But when Bush and his GOP allies through political calculation or just sheer incompetence release national security secrets, that’s another matter altogether.

For the details, see:
“Leaked Bin Laden Tape Shows GOP Double Standard.”

There’s the irony…another liberal smear that backfired.

Comment by O. Bigfoot

“Backfired” as in letting the American people what kind of troop-hating hypocrite he was?

In that context, that yeah, it backfired bigtime- and Rush was caught in the backblast.

Only a fool would tell the enemy that we can track his communications. This is exactly why these idiots will never caught that killer Bin Laden. Because they are too stupid to keep their big mouths shut long enought to catch him. If there weren’t playing politics over what is a life and death struggle we would have captured or killed him years ago. If they gave me the billions of dollars they are wasting, I could take bin laden out in six months. Hey, how about sending Blackwater after him, they like killing people?

No, he hasn’t. The warrantless wiretapping program was labeled by many, including at least two Republican members of Congress with a law background, as being illegal. Bush himself personally blocked an investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility in the Justice Department — the office “responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct involving Department attorneys” — who repeatedly attempted to investigate whether DOJ lawyers acted improperly concerning their role in the President’s warrantless eavesdropping program. Thus, you cannot say that the program was legal because Bush himself wouldn’t let anyone talk.

Besides, the administration had the opportunity to go to Congress and get the law changed BEFORE they started the program, but declined because…ummm…something about it being unconstitutional. Yet Bush proceeded anyway.

And, the Bush administration to this day has been unable to explain why it takes so damn long to go to the FISA court for a warrant to monitor an international call, but it’s oh so easy to go to the court for a domestic call.

Previous Presidents who used the same power and authority haven’t bothered much with legal status of their actions.

Name those presidents, and name the actions they took in which they were not concerned with legalities.

Democrats say it would be better for the United States if the U.S. lost the war in Iraq.

Umm, no. The poll asked if it would be better for the world if the U.S. lost the war, not if it would be better for the U.S.

Anyway…

Wow. 900 respondents. Did you catch the rest of the poll results??? A majority of respondents listed themselves as Democrats, which probably skewed the results a bit. And apparently only one poll — from Fox News (surprise) — asking this very question.

It also reveals that 5% of Republicans said the same thing. It also reveals that more Democrats than Republicans have prayed for the Iraq War to end.

You got reference to any other poll which reveals the same thing? The first 2 pages of the Google results only linked to the Fox poll.

Besides…what wasn’t revealed was the context when considering the answer. Fox didn’t bother asking that. You know…why would the world be a better place?

Here’s a poll for you, O.B.: would you support bringing the troops home if it resulted in fewer terrorist attacks around the world?

If you say “no,” then I can spin that to say that you want more terrorist attacks.

If you say “yes” then I can say that you don’t care about Iraq falling into the hands of Iran (a popular argument of the Right). I can also say that you don’t care about the Middle East becoming destabilized. I can also say that you don’t care about democracy finding its way throughout the region.

It’s amazing how poll results can be spun to promote a certain viewpoint, isn’t it?

and I kindly again accept your defeat with not being able to provide facts for your argument.

Have a wonderful day!

hell, i’m no idiot and it annoys ME…

makes this place look and sound stupid too…

see yas…

Big. Steaming. Pound. Of. Bull. Shit.

Remember the Anthrax attacks?

Great, now we can leave that God forsaken country. On to Iran, they should be pushovers.

Comment by O. Bigfoot

(St. Alphonso’s, just in time for the pancake breakfast.)

thanks! … you too!…

out to the garden for a while…
g’day all…

“and when i get back that mess better be cleaned up!”
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Comment by O. Bigfoot

This comes from the guy who parroted the now-debunked “republicans honor our soldiers’ sacrifice” – meme, the day before Rush made his phony soldiers comments?

The irony is sweet.

Don’t argue with idiots, it wastes your time and annoys the idiot

I accept your defeat in not providing proof that 1 in 5 Democrats say it would be better for the United States if the U.S. lost the war in Iraq,

and just to further embarrass you, please explain how the U.S. would lose a war that has been declared Mission Accomplished?

Sadly, he is just one of the 30%ers still out there, and they will be like the Japanese in the caves after WWII, still yammering away after their big defeat in 08.

1) The mythical war on terror now only includes foreigners? Thus a citizen of the United States can not terrorize?

2) Please provide proof that the Anthrax terror was not “foreign”. Do you know something about these terrorist attacks?