State Dept. happy that Pakistan is distracting the public.
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State Dept. happy that Pakistan is distracting the public.
Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s decision to suspend the constitution, seize emergency power, and round up leading opposition figures is bringing quiet joy to the State Department. “Thank heavens for small favors,” an aide to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, referring to Musharraf’s actions. Compared to Pakistan, “Iraq looks pretty good.”
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Like tuberculosis is better than cancer. There are no real humans in the Bush government, they’re all pod people.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:23 pmSo one more thing has come unglued as Condi Rice does her best energizer battery bunny spin moves. She just keeps going and going and going but with no apparent purpose while everything falls apart around her.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:29 pmThe Bush crime family members, Republicans in Congress, and their media supporters and enablers are all totally insane, insane with fascism, insane with torture, insane with greed, insane with stupidity, insane with treason and insane with insanity (if such a thing is possible…).
November 4th, 2007 at 6:32 pmCompared to Pakistan, “Iraq looks pretty good.â€
that must be why we’re hearing so much about it…
distract! distract!
but, oh! the choices! … yeesh…
November 4th, 2007 at 6:32 pm…
Compared to Musharraf Bush looks pretty good. Well maybe not so good if one looks close.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:34 pmCompared to Pakistan, “Iraq looks pretty good.”
So does Iran, yes Iran you neocon bastards!!!!
BTW, The cheif advisor to Musharraf is none other than DICK(HEAD) CHENEY!!! They are BFF!!!!
IMPEACH CHENEY NOW!!!!
November 4th, 2007 at 6:39 pmtsk, its all about THEM & they can only view the world thru how it works for THEM POLITICALLY.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:41 pmto paraphrase Babs Bush, “this is working out well for them”
November 4th, 2007 at 6:42 pmThese are the kinds of comments that used to come out years and years later and infuriate the public and media. Why is it that nowadays we know these things NOW yet it’s only us here in places like this that care.
WHERE IS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC? What happened to right and wrong?
November 4th, 2007 at 6:43 pmI bet they are wondering how many troops they can dig up to keep their pet dictator in place. Who knows, if Bush sends in U.S. troops, then attacks Iran, he will be in the running for most illegal invasions ever!
November 4th, 2007 at 6:49 pmState Dept: Now that my hair’s on fire, no one seems seems to notice the smoke coming out of my ass.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:50 pmWhat happened to right and wrong?
Comment by deezero — November 4, 2007 @ 6:43 pm
“Right” has been suspended so that they can explore the limits of “wrong”.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:51 pmSure, compared with being murdered, torture looks good, too. So what does this newsflash from Cartoon Condi mean? This is a case of lesser of two evils and a typical distraction tactic by this administration.
Do they supply matching shoes for Condi to go with her orange jumpsuit? Jus’ wondering…
November 4th, 2007 at 6:55 pmCompared to Pakistan’s soon-to-be rogue nukes, Hiroshima looks pretty good.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:57 pmRice: “Hey, look over there… Something more fcked up than my pile of sh!t. No don’t look here, look over there…. Isn’t that some messed up Shi… No, don’t look here…”
November 4th, 2007 at 6:58 pmWe all need to re-read 1984 if you want to have a few grins. Back when I read it, it all seemed so implausible and science fiction-ey. Now in rereading it, it’s not only plausible for a good portion of the scenario has occurred. What’s going on in Pakistan is right out of Orwell’s plot and I suspect the plot here will not be far behind.
Observation of Pakistan is “breaking us in” for what’s to come next with this crime cabal and hired hitmen.
I suspect that martial law will be enforced here within the next year – maybe following some false flag with the missing nuke?? Just last week Chimp thumped his chest and vowed to take action if Israel was attacked….er….like in a false flag with a missing nuke-type attack?? Then martial law will be called and suspension of the election will occur.
Could it be that this election hype will turn out to be “much ado about nothing”?
November 4th, 2007 at 6:59 pmPurchasing property in Canada is beginning to look awfully good to some people. But then Bush’s new highway linking Canada/US/Mexico may ruin even that idea.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:01 pmWayne: It’s comparing $hit with $shit – one may be more viscous than another and it all comes down to descriptive adjectives and semantics. They’re trying to polish a turd and it’s not working.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:02 pmIf you’re not up to re-reading Orwell’s novel, the cliff notes are worth finding. Oceania’s like a model for the new US.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:03 pm.
LOL…
The US State Department, keeping things hopping in them parts of the world.
10-1 Bush will send troops into Pakistan in a TWO FOLD mission, similar to the one he’s maintaining in Afghanistan and Iraq. Part One: To support the government of Pakistan. Part Two: To fight the insurgents of AQP(al-CIAda in Pakistan) and the Taliban. Once that happens, drafting our son’s and daughter’s will become necessary. Then Bush will strike Iran. This way, Bush will have more bodies to throw into Iraq to defend against the onslaught of Iranian insurgents seeking revenge.
p.s.
Google Chernobyl.
One well positioned military strike could be as damaging to that region as Chernobyl continues to be to the Ukraine region 20 years later… and counting. Our so-called “Leaders” wish for at least this much to be done to Iran. It would be genocidal, yet hardly none care. Why is this?
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November 4th, 2007 at 7:04 pmWhile 1984 has proven more prophetic than we would like, I suggest reading the Wikiquote entry for James Madison. He saw the possibilities, for a Bushco, that are in the system he helped design. More of us should have been able to sense how dangerous these (bleeps) are. I fear it will be all we can do to avoid bloodshed dragging them out of office.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:05 pmWhite on Rice is an evil, evil woman. Her parents (may they rest in peace) would be so ashamed of her. I knew Bush was going to be bad, and I knew when he picked Cheney for VP that we were in VERY, VERY BIG TROUBLE., but honestly I did not think it would be this bad. I have read that Cheney is behind pushing Musaref’s decision…I hope we make it to 2008 = but I fear THESE MONSTERS are planning ANOTHER REICHSTAG FIRE to suspend our civil rights here and suspend the 2008 election. I work in New York City. I am getting very scared. On 9/11/01, my husb and I were going to visit relatives and our Path Station stop was formerly Cortlandt Street. Right under the towers. I also did some work with Code Pink/ why were others thrown out, at the White on Rice hearing? Welcome to Germany Redux
November 4th, 2007 at 7:07 pmI bet these people would like O.J. Simpson story to re surface again and take over all day and night news by television networks.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:08 pmNichole Simpson death story was a big hit for these people,the ultimate distraction,that’s when the media went frenzy over the story.
CNN said today that bin Ladin has 50% favorability in Pakistan while Musharref is in single digits.
Bin Laden and his men have been sitting in Pakistan for about six years, but then Bush “doesn’t really think that much about him”!
November 4th, 2007 at 7:12 pmyes, i cant wait to hear difi voice her support for cheney’s martial law.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:14 pmSuspend the constitution and seize emergency power…Hmm, sounds vaguely familiar.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:24 pmYes, this ‘Spreading of Democracy’ is working out quite well (for the terrorists).
Musharraf just needs to pass the Pakistan Patriot Act and give retroactive immunity and keep all the high level positions for his cronies. Then he’d have a ‘democracy’ just like ours.
Let’s see, Musharraf falls, and suddenly a fundamentalis Islamic regime sits there in possession of nukes compllete with missiles.
And the thing that the Bushies are moaning and groaning about in re Iran, has suddenly happened. And the Bushies did nothing to stop it.
It’s just like all their other fake arguments: Saddam Hussein is a bad, bad man! (but Kim Jong Il is worse, and we negotiate with him.)
We must bring democracy to the Middle East! (though Afghanistan, whose government we roppled, doesn’t seem to have thatje ne sais quoi for nation building…)
We must be eternally vigilant against terrorisy attacks (but not to the point of guarding our chemical plants, or train shipments of lethal chemicals, or inspect container shipping coming in to the country.)
A fundamentalist Islamic nation with nuclear weapons is utterly unthinkable, so we must bomb Iran! (but Pakistan? well, uh….)
November 4th, 2007 at 7:32 pmPakistan isn’t a distraction, it’s all part of the same shit. The bush administration has destabilized the whole region. The problem is, is the virus that started with Iraq keeps expanding.
Heck of a job bush, You’ve not only fu ked up the Middle East, you’ve fu ked up this country as well. No doubt about it, you’re going down as the worst president in this country’s history.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:34 pmRICE – The enabler of Armageddon:
Secretary of State Rice’s response to the disaster in New Orleans was: “The Lord Jesus Christ is going to come on time.” She added: “If we just wait.” “On time”? How does Rice know the exact time Armageddon starts? “If we just waitâ€? That means in her, that is our, lifetime!
By using NSA intelligence to set an invisible tripwire, the Bush administration is laying the condition for regional conflagration with untold consequences — from Pakistan to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Israel. Secretly devising a scheme that might thrust Israel into a ring of fire cannot be construed as a blunder. It is a deliberate, calculated and methodical plot.
In order to try to understand the neoconservative road map, senior national security professionals have begun circulating among themselves a 1996 neocon manifesto against the Middle East peace process. Titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” its half-dozen authors included neoconservatives highly influential with the Bush administration — Richard Perle, first-term chairman of the Defense Policy Board; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense; and David Wurmser, Cheney’s chief Middle East aide.
Richard Haass, the Middle East advisor on the elder Bush’s National Security Council and President Bush’s first-term State Department policy planning director, and now president of the Council on Foreign Relations, openly scoffed at Bush’s Middle East policy in an interview on July 30 in the Washington Post:
“The arrows are all pointing in the wrong direction. The biggest danger in the short run is it just increases frustration and alienation from the United States in the Arab world. Not just the Arab world, but in Europe and around the world. People will get a daily drumbeat of suffering in Lebanon and this will just drive up anti-Americanism to new heights.” When asked about the president’s optimism, he replied, “An opportunity? Lord, spare me. I don’t laugh a lot. That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. If this is an opportunity, what’s Iraq? A once-in-a-lifetime chance?”
It is a deliberate, calculated and methodical plot.
“A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”
Meyrav Wurmser was its author.
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/salon027.html
November 4th, 2007 at 7:53 pmRichard Clark described his own intelligence peers as “running around with our hair on fire” in the weeks preceeding the 9/11 attack. Now Tenant has told you specifically why. They wanted to take OFFENSIVE / PREEMPTIVE ACTION in Afghanistan to prevent 9/11 from occuring.
In the exact same time frame, you had The President telling the FBI to back off its investigations and tracking of the Bin Laden Family, and the demand that Able Danger be shut down:
Mr. Speaker, I rise because information has come to my attention over the past several months that is very disturbing. I have learned that, in fact, one of our Federal agencies had, in fact, identified the major New York cell of Mohamed Atta prior to 9/11; and I have learned, Mr. Speaker, that in September of 2000, that Federal agency actually was prepared to bring the FBI in and prepared to work with the FBI to take down the cell that Mohamed Atta was involved in New York City, along with two of the other terrorists. I have also learned, Mr. Speaker, that when that recommendation was discussed within that Federal agency, the lawyers in the administration at that time said, you cannot pursue contact with the FBI against that cell. Mohamed Atta is in the U.S. on a green card, and we are fearful of the fallout from the Waco incident. So we did not allow that Federal agency to proceed.[4]
Rep. Weldon later reiterated these concerns during news conferences on February 14, 2006. He stated that Able Danger identified Mohamed Atta 13 separate times prior to 9/11 and that the unit also identified a potential problem in Yemen two weeks prior to the 12 October 2000 attack on the USS Cole.[5] The Pentagon released a statement in response, stating that they wished to address these issues during a congressional hearing before a House Armed Services subcommittee scheduled for Wednesday, February 15, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Danger
There remains no god damn question that 9/11 was ALLOWED TO HAPPEN ON PURPOSE in order to fulfill the globalist’s PNAC/Zionist wet dream.
The Conspiracy Theorists have had it right.
http://plungerspeaks.blogspot.com
It’s the Coincidence Theorists that are just getting the picture.
Time to apologize for getting it wrong – and impeach these bastards.
Put them ALL UNDER OATH – or waterboard them at Gitmo.
The entire Congress knows the truth.
After all, they’re the ones who decided that torture is a legitimate means of extracting information where urgent matters of our national security are concerned.
As Brian Williams informed you by asking the question…two US cities are targeted for nuclear attack. Cheney has told you that when it comes, he will order an immediate nuclear strike against Iran, regardless of who was actually responsible.
Is your hair on fire yet?
What’s it going to take, America?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:54 pmI fear it will be all we can do to avoid bloodshed dragging them out of office.
Comment by pete
Oh, oh, I vote for bloodshed…theirs.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:22 pmWhat a world we live in when suspending the rule of law in a country run by a military dictator is better than what is happening in that wonderful, peaceful place called Iraq! The State Department seems to be going the same way as the Gonzalez Justice Department. We must start impeachment proceedings just to keep these war criminals from doing even more damage.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:36 pmCouldn’t have said it better. Stupid or evil? Who cares. They suck.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:40 pmA fake story about a nonexistent quote from an “anonymous source.†Don’t get too excited.
Comment by TCDon — November 4, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
Wasn’t that all your “evidence” for the necessity of invading Iraq?
November 4th, 2007 at 8:40 pmShould the State Department be concerned…hummm…. Iraq, no weapons of mass destruction; Pakistan, yes, nuclear weapons of mass destruction. No confusion here. Be concerned, be very concerned. Osama BinLaden is close to getting his hands on nuclear weapons. Must have been part of Bush’s plan all along otherwise he would have stayed focused on capturing BinLaden and would not have wasted lives and tax dollars on an illegal war in Iraq.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:46 pmWhen you look at the three options open to Bushies one almost begins to pity them, The little ones anyway.
Option One: Lie. Always the first, and often only, option.
Option Two: Tell the truth “off the record”. This only happens when they are able to overcome their fear of knowledge. George keeps telling them “knowledge is dangerous”.
Option Three: Be labeled a “Traitorous, Anti-American, Coward”. This has never been good for a career in politics.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:47 pmAnd Saeed Sheikh was definitely a major paymaster for the 9/11 hijackers AND Pakistani Intelligence (ISI). This was even in the Mainstream media soon after 9/11, but has since been disappeared like Winston Smith working for the Ministry of Truth.
Go to: cooperativeresearch.org for much information.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:51 pmPakistan has been the country that worried me more all along. Unlike Syria and Iran, Pakistan already HAS nukes. This is very, very, very bad.
November 4th, 2007 at 9:12 pmsuspend the constitution, seize emergency power, and round up leading opposition figures
Sounds a lot like something that may be happening here soon.
November 4th, 2007 at 9:16 pmBush’s flunkies are just like Bush. Always find a bigger loser and then hold yourself to that low standard.
The soft bigotry of low expectations is the new motto in Bush’s America.
-GSD
November 4th, 2007 at 9:17 pmBush’s themesong too!
Dedicated to the blubbering, weepy, Poppy Bush.
-GSD
November 4th, 2007 at 9:18 pmThanx GSD! As hard as it is to laugh at the shrub, it still feels good.
November 4th, 2007 at 9:31 pmSounds a lot like something that may be happening here soon.
Comment by bilbobaggins — November 4, 2007 @ 9:16 pm
Unfortunately, given the new, secret-top-secret-super-duper-super powers Il Buschi granted himself a while back, you may be right.
November 4th, 2007 at 9:54 pmPakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s decision to suspend the constitution, seize emergency power, and round up leading opposition figures is bringing quiet joy to the State Department. “Thank heavens for small favors,†an aide to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, referring to Musharraf’s actions. Compared to Pakistan, “Iraq looks pretty good.â€
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Further evidence of just how thoroughly corrupt, callous, twisted, and dysfunctional this administration is — that the United States getting itself trapped in a (to all appearances) hopeless Catch-22 with a military dictator is a good thing, for no other reason than it distracts the attention of the American people away from the quagmire which Iraq has become. No concern whatsoever over the arrest and detention of the opposition, the censorship of the media, the suspension of liberties (such as they are) until further notice, or the possibility of even further damage to our credibility both in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. This is far from being a favor or a blessing from heaven — personally, I wouldn’t entirely rule out the possibility that this is heaven’s curse sent to punish us for our arrogance and our stubborn insistence on exploiting other countries for our own purposes without giving a thought for the consequences for them and for us.
Either way, this doesn’t look good for us. If the Bush administration decides to continue its support for Musharaff more or less unabated, that puts us in bed with a dictator who has deprived his own people of the freedoms which we claim to hold dear — something for which we have pointed the finger of condemnation against other world leaders — and makes us hypocrites in the eyes not only of the Pakistani people, but of the entire world. However, if the Bush administration decides not to support Musharaff and his opponents succeed in removing him from power, it leaves the door open to the possibility of Pakistan and its nuclear weapons falling into the hands of religious extremists — at least some of whom are sympathetic to al-Qaeda. We’re quite possibly trapped between a rock and a hard place — and it’s largely if not entirely all our own fault.
November 4th, 2007 at 10:18 pmWasn’t that all your “evidence†for the necessity of invading Iraq?
Comment by Keith
OWNED.
November 4th, 2007 at 10:30 pmA fake story about a nonexistent quote from an “anonymous source.†Don’t get too excited.
Comment by TCDon — November 4, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
Wasn’t that all your “evidence†for the necessity of invading Iraq?
Comment by Keith — November 4, 2007 @ 8:40 pm
anybody catch 60 MINUTES tonight?
November 4th, 2007 at 11:10 pmgood “investigative reporting”… about “CURVE BALL”…
5 YEARS LATE.
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Admittedly, I want to see a more concrete reference. But I fail to see how Pakistan going to hell in a handbasket (apologies to the person who uses that moniker) in any way excuses the problems in Iraq. If anything, it is further condemnation of the Shrub Doctrine as he bet all his chips on Iraq and forgot the problems in Pakistan.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:47 pmComment by katy — November 4, 2007 @ 11:10 pm
Yeah, I saw it. 60 Minutes said the weapons inspectors proved three weeks before the invasion that everything Curveball said was a lie.
26-year CIA senior analyst Tyler Drumheller said, “If they had not had Curve Ball they would have probably found something else. ‘Cause there was a great determination to do it….”
People ought to go to their site and read or watch it.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:09 amState Dept: Now that my hair’s on fire, no one seems seems to notice the smoke coming out of my ass.
Comment by Marcus Aurelius — November 4, 2007 @ 6:50 pm
NICE one!
November 5th, 2007 at 6:31 am“Pretty good”? A collapsed infrastructure, severely degraded environment, several civil wars. That’s pretty good? Talk about low expectations!
November 5th, 2007 at 7:23 amIs it just me ooes anyone else see any similarities between Bush and Musharraf’s recent actions in Pakistan?
Nah, I didn’t think so, either.
November 5th, 2007 at 8:07 amWhat is the worst thing that could happen to the US?
The bottom dropping out of the dollar.
Where is the dollar today?
Up. Thanks to Pakistan.
Just think, if the dollar collapsed, we couldn’t pay all those contractors and we’d have to leave Iraq. Of course they like what is happening in Pakistan.
November 5th, 2007 at 1:45 pmAnother reason they’re so overjoyed: They now have a nice, by-the-numbers how-to for our own country for next November!
November 5th, 2007 at 3:25 pm