neoconstablishmentarianism

VOTE
* "But, in one of the greatest ironies of the U.S. intervention, Iraqis instead went to the polls and elected a government with a strong religious base -- and very close ties to the Islamic republic next door. It is the last thing the administration expected from its costly Iraq policy -- $300 billion and counting, U.S. and regional analysts say." ironing is dead. this meme fukking kills me. theres no irony here - even alanis morissette wouldnt mistake this for irony. either the ams invaded iraq for oil, or for wmd, or for some other stupid reason. it ceratinly wasnt to free iraq, or to impose secularity (which already existed). to suggest anything else is pure revisionism - and blinky parently doesnt like revisionism. and for pras the funnniest comment ever "For now, the United States appears prepared to accept the results -- in large part because it has no choice." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21679-2005Feb13.html


WAR
* "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has branded the United States a terrorist state"
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E903D3CD-F65A-45B8-91CE-9956EE5C0169.htm

* "Some current or former troops sent to Iraq claim that Lariam, the commercial name for the anti-malarial drug mefloquine, has provoked disturbing and dangerous behavior. The families of some troops blame the drug for the suicides of their loved ones.... the evidence is largely anecdotal..." lariam always reminds me of larramee (sp?) cigs. and ssris and the adhd drugs and vioxx et al and the anthrax shots and the mmr shots and GWS and all the other things that fuck with our brains and bodies that they *know* kill us but dont tell us that they know. "Further blurring the issue, the side effects associated with Lariam closely mirror symptoms of stress disorders related to combat, making diagnosis difficult." ummmm - how bout u ask a nonsoldier who has tried the stupid fucking drug. how long can the unhealth industry keep this shit under the covers? it drives me fucking mad. "severe anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations, depression and think about killing themselves." exactly. murder for $ - and all they have to do is spend lots on advertising and lobbying... sweet deal. if thats what you are into. and yep, you're damn right its personal. well - its not the anger that is personal (altho the experience is) - the anger is for everyone who has to go thru it, and for the family members they kill.
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-4/1108305059282270.xml&storylist=national and heres another example of how disgusting the whole situation is "The drug’s manufacturer warned of rare but severe side effects including paranoia and hallucinations. It became his defense: The pills made him snap." http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6947472/ frivolousjunklawsuits and that - its not that it 'became his defense', it was the probable cause - a normal person suddenly gets murderous, which is consistent with the side-effects of the drug, and it becomes 'his defense', not the reason. and we get the benign headline "Hallucinations linked to drug given to troops" - aka "Slaughter of families linked to drug given to troops"

* "Moscow Insists It Is ‘Close’ To Possessing Unique Nuclear Weapons... Analysts have also pointed out that Russia does not need more or better ballistic missiles as the United States is no longer an enemy of Moscow’s and such missiles will not solve the problems of fighting terrorism or separatism." awesome. only france and canada and venezuela and syria ought have any weapons from today forth. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8057.htm

* "The leader of a new Pentagon espionage unit (Strategic Support Branch ) has resigned his position, shortly after public disclosure that the Defense Department is expanding into clandestine operations traditionally undertaken by the CIA." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19785-2005Feb12.html this is very interesting - particularly the near zero coverage. http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&hl=en&ncl=http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-intel0213.artfeb13,0,3124113.story%3Fcoll%3Dhc-headlines-nationworld

* in case u missed it - those damning, authorative satellite pix on cnn of nukular plants in iran are exactly the same as those damning, authorative satellite pix on cnn of nukular plants in dprk. it looks like we'll have to call on powell's discerning judgement to ascertain what the faux pix really depict. these fucking people...

* the israel/palestine ceasefire thingy hasnt broken yet. fancy. who thinks ill be able to say the same on mar15?

* "ASIO has uncovered a sex spy ring in Canberra after tailing a diplomat and suspected agent from the Israeli Embassy." mcgreevey. gannon.... http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,12231663%255E911,00.html

* id forgotten that the great iraqiadventure was actually called Operation Iraqi Freedom/Liberation - from the beginning. didnt the fools invade cos there was an imminent wmd threat to the greatsatan? why call it O.I.F.? casus belli and all that...

* "America quickly pointed the finger at Syria, as did Israel, which was tantamount to convicting themselves because they are the only two countries that would gain by creating unrest in Lebanon." http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8060.htm

AMDOM
* "When it's personal, the right veers left" its funny cos its true. http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/columnists/ny-nyhen134144363feb13,0,3559742.column

* www.whitefeatherforjonah.com

* "Senator Barbara Boxer of California will receive a bouquet of almost 5,000 roses from supporters and constituents across the country on Valentine's Day, February 14th, as a loving thank you for her recent outstanding service in the Senate."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/13/192422/372

* btw - i bet tenet is itching to correct the record wrt to the 'slamdunk' comment.

* looks like we have a new gannon already. who'd have thought gannon1 was disposable? will gannon get suicided? to save his 'family'? http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=245

* in case u missed it - the jan01 not-a-plan memo from richardclarke to duckter rice about alq was just released. this bit struck me as odd for some reason "Mr. Clarke did not respond to a request for comment. " http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/12/politics/12clarke.html

* btw - i was just trying to check something and noticed that msnbc has scrubbed a page. heres the news.google reference "Detainees accuse female interrogators
MSNBC - Feb 9, 2005
Female interrogators repeatedly used sexually suggestive tactics to try to humiliate and pry information from devout Muslim men held at the US military prison ..." which is sposed to go to here, but comes up with an error http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6942867/

* theres this odd meme going round that bloggers like to get scalps - like theres some equivalence between churchill and jordan and notgannon and rather. heres the thing - patbuchanan said the same as churchill (without using the eichmann reference which apparently didnt pass the ADF hurdle), jordan said something that was probably largely true, and he apologised & clarified immediately, rather (et al) was possibly guilty of sloppy journalism but at worst we dont know that the dox were false, and some repug 'blogger' was seemingly fed the info beforehand, and the dox were probably fed to rather by rove, and notgannon was a whore (in about 3 different ways) who is probably a secretservice/cia plant who was probably blackmailing and/or being blackmailed who lied about everything and was within shooting range of the president (if only!) and who was a threat to nationalsecurity wrt plame and and and.
faux equivalence is not equivalent to equivalence. and if bloggers are playing a scalp collecting game - heres my (partial) list. blinky rumsfeld powell rice bolton feith perle leeden blair howard sharon miller (*2) ari2 franks gonzales chertoff delay hastert frist santorum allawi tenet cambone jonk cheney myers goldberg dobson

* atrios gets ungoogled. ive been saying for years that google is evil. the google search on my blog is absurd (not that i think *that* is malicious - im not even a cog) http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_02_13_atrios_archive.html#110843501331930548

* the foil4ood thing is extremely damaging to the UN, the head of the program may or may not have taken 2/3rds what armstrongwilliams took - over twice the period.

* for some reason everyones all surprised about modo's latest vday "Love Lit 101" missive. the only person who makes sense at the nyt is krugman. krugman is to the nyt as the simpsons is to fox. (apologies to bobherbert). (and stupid saffire is still writing for them)

* what if notgannon was a woman whore?
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