BartCop's most recent rants - Political Humor and Commentary, August 16-17, 2005, Volume 1602 - Brett Walden, Iraq War's Two Constants, Freeway Blogger in news, Gas prices up again, Gun blast jars Camp Casey, Cindy Sheehan's victory, Pirro no GOP favorite, Soldier tribute destroyed, Pirro and Johnny Sac, Charlize Theron to wed

"It is not clear that W. has any better notion of a victory strategy in Iraq than
LBJ did in Vietnam. Conservative supporters of this President should cease their
cheerleading and begin realizing that the war is being lost by a gang of incompetents..."
-- Bull Moose, Link

Iraq War's Two Constants
by Robert Parry on consortiumnews.com

Link

Excerpt:
The Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq War has had two constants – deception and wishful thinking
– a dangerous mix of falsehoods used to justify the conflict and unrealistic expectations about success.

This pairing has brought the United States one of the most unnecessary military disasters in its history.
Yet the Bush administration is sticking with the same tactics, more deceptions and more wishful thinking
– from claims that the Iraq War has reduced terror threats worldwide to optimistic talk about upcoming
troop withdrawals.

But a difference between now and earlier in the war is that the spin is growing more obvious as Americans catch on
to the tricks that have led to the deaths of more than 1,850 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

Bush's black-and-white analysis sets up a framework that offers little choice but to battle to the death in
an apocalyptic war between good “democrats” and evil “terrorists.” If Bush’s analysis is correct, American
troops will be fighting and dying in Iraq and around the Islamic world for generations.

"Judith Miller has spent 41 days in jail. It should be clear after 41 days that Ms. Miller
is not going to change her mind. It's time for the judge and the prosecutor to let Ms. Miller go."
-- the whores at the NY Times, protecting the guilty as usual, Link

"Number of days Susan McDougal spent in prison for contempt? About 540.
Number of New York times editorial board pieces suggesting she be let go?
According to a variety of Nexis searches I've done, approximately 0."
--Atrios, more honest than the New York Whore Times, Link

Freeway Blogger in UK news
Bush had support for his bloody war,
but now The Freeway Blogger speaks out

Excerpt:
Feel like getting something off your chest against that iniquitous warmonger in the White House?
Well, you can write a letter to your newspaper, tune in to liberal talk radio, or click to a reliably leftie website.
Alternatively, you can take a drive on the highways of the United States.

These are the domain of the freeway bloggers, a breed that have invented a tangible concrete and
tarmac version of the internet to make their feelings known about George Bush. The messages,
posted from overpasses, bridges and verges, are short, pithy and very, very rude.

Bart; a shot of Chinaco to my brother, Army Sgt 1st Class and Green Beret, Brett Walden.
I would appreciate links to the better associations of soldiers' families against the war.
Hobson Walden

Link

Excerpt:
Army Spc. First Class Brett E. Walden, 40, died in Rubiah, Iraq, on Aug. 5, according to the Department of Defense.
Walden and another solider, Sgt. 1st Class Robert V. Derenda, 42, of Ledbetter, Ky., died while on a convoy mission
after a fuel truck collided with their armored Humvee.

Walden is survived by this wife, Autumn, and their 12-year-old daughter, Alexandria.
The couple had been married 15 years and purchased a Dover Township farm last month.
Walden was a decorated soldier who won numerous honors, including the Combat Infantry Badge,
the Expert Infantry Badge, the Bronze Star, the Army Commendation Medal and the Army Achievement Medal.

Gas Prices Set Another Record
President Oil Puppet is doing his job well

Excerpt:
Retail gas prices hit another record high over the past three weeks, proving that oil company greed in insatiable,
according to a nationwide survey released Sunday.The average price for all three grades rose nearly 20 cents to $2.53.

"I'm feeling it," said driver Adolfo Fernandez, a Los Angeles resident who was filling his BMW Sunday with
premium unleaded at a cost of $2.97 per gallon. "I feel sorry for the people who really feel it and can't afford it."

Gas prices will stay high until people start complaining about it.
Then the oilers will get pressure from Bush - but they're not getting any now.

Cost under Clinton: $20/barrel (gas $1.00/gal)
Cost of "war fear": $10/barrel
Cost of extra Oil Co. profits: $10/barrel

Notice that this adds up to $40/barrel (gasoline cost of ~$1.45/gal)
The rest comes from the dollar's unprecedented decline against other
standard currencies, which has been 40%. That raises the expected
price of oil to $67/barrel and the expected cost of gas to $2.40/gal.

Now, some say we can't attribute this to Bush. OK, that's true.
We can only attribute 58% of the cost of gasoline and 70% of the cost of oil directly to his actions.

Black's not even a has-been; he's a never was.
What's the matter? Couldn't the pro-war crew get a REAL country star?
I guess Toby Keith or Charlie Daniels wasn't available.

Oh, by the way - doesn't it strike the Bushtards a little strange that you have to register
- and give out all sorts of personal information - in order to participate in a FREEDOM walk?
Terry C in NJ

Not sure, but if it's a cure for Parkinson's
Bush will make it illegal to breed them.

"And Senator Clinton is not the only Clinton engaging Mr. Murdoch. In September, Bill Clinton
will hold the Clinton Global Initiative conference, aimed at entertaining questions of poverty,
corruption, climate change and religious and ethnic reconciliation. Tellingly, Mr. Murdoch will be
one of two media executives in attendance, along with the Time Warner's Richard Parsons.
In June, Mr. Clinton gave Roger Ailes, the mastermind of Fox News, a recorded tribute at
the television executive's birthday party."...Sunday, August 14, 2005, NYT.

Bart, what would have to happen for you to stop supporting Bill & Hil?
I'm just curious.

I don't know how to answer that.
I think Hillary and Clark are the best we have and I want the BFEE gone.
Why would I dump them when there's no alternative?

Was it the peace or the prosperity that turned you against the Clintons?

"Like the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day,
Bush may be the last American to learn that the war in Iraq is over."
-- Frank Rich, a non-whore at the NYWTimes, Link

Comments?

Excerpt:
Pirro's gaffe-marred announcement and her emphasis on liberal social positions
has led to new unrest in some quarters of the state GOP, party insiders say.

"A lot of people were unhappy with her boatload of mistakes, and they're starting to take
another look at Ed Cox," who hopes to challenge Pirro in the primary to run against Hillary.

Long also said he was struck by Pirro's "awesome mistake" of saying she was "blue" on social issues
like abortion and stem-cell research, "killing any opportunity of reaching the strong conservative base."

Damn, I hope she doesn't quit right away.
I'm looking forward to beating her up for the next 15 months.

Excerpt:
Republican senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro said yesterday she would decide "case by case"
whether to return several campaign donations linked to the mob.

Pirro, the Westchester District Attorney, was responding to a Daily News story revealing
that six donors with ties to organized crime gave her campaign $12,000 since 2003.

"We will take a look at the facts and make the appropriate decisions on a case-by-case basis,"
said Pirro spokesman Mike McKeon.

He declined to elaborate, but he said he believed the mob information was"leaked" by Hillary's people.

Mick says "Sweet Neo-Con" is not about Bush.
Mick is in the Rolling Stones.
The latest Rolling Stones tour is sponsored by Ameriquest, which is a predatory mortgage lender.
Ameriquest's CEO was named ambassador to The Netherlands by Bush.

Therefore, Mick got the gag order.

Mark

"We are now at war with those very people that we set out to liberate.
I keep asking people how they would be acting if Iraqi tanks were
running up and down the streets of America."
-- Bill Mitchell, who lost a son in Iraq, Link

Excerpt:
The incident occurred Sunday as peace activists gathered for a prayer in the tent village
set up by Cindy Sheehan. On the other side of Prairie Chapel Road, Larry Mattlage hopped
into his pickup, barreled across his pasture and pulled up to a fence within a few hundred feet
of the protesters. He climbed out of the cab, retrieved a shotgun from the back and fired at
least one blast into the air.

Mattlage said the activists had worn out their welcome, and he wanted them to go away.

Shes a disgrace to the memory of her fine son.
Maybe her son went to Iraq to get away from his mom who has severe mental issues?

When her 3 minutes of fame are over, what is this nutcase going to do?
Maybe someone should suggest to her a razor blade and a bathtub?

Obviously she is clueless to the big picture why America isnt anyones bitch
and we are kicking islamic xxxxxx asses.

JMagiera, do you hate all military families?
Or just the ones who've lost a son?

It ain't much, but here's a 10 spot for your sign campaign from the redder than redneck South.
We're not all Monkeyboys down here. We're just drawn that way.

Cindy's victory
by William Rivers Pitt

Link

Excerpt:
Cindy Sheehan and her ever-growing band of supporters intend to stay in those ditches outside
Bush's "ranch" until he comes out to talk or until August 31st, whichever comes first. If he does not
come out by the end of the month, she intends to follow him to Washington and camp out in front of
the White House. She and the others have been there for more than a week now, garnering more and
more attention from the national and international press. Yes, they are tired. Yes, they are uncomfortable.
Yes, they have already won.

The nearly 2,000 crosses, crescents and Stars of David that make up the Arlington West cemetery,
erected by the demonstrators a few days ago to represent all the fallen American soldiers in Iraq,
stretch almost a mile down the country road. Bush had to drive past that on Friday when he went to
his fundraising shindig at the Broken Spoke Ranch. 54 crosses have been added to the cemetery
since he first showed up for his vacation at the beginning of August. It takes a while to drive past
them all. This man, who cannot abide hearing or seeing anything in the way of dissent or disagreement,
saw those crosses whistle past his window. That is a victory.

Excerpt:
Russell Crowe is reportedly planning to cough up more than $15 million to a hotel porter
he allegedly hit when he threw the telephone in a fit of rage.

Crowe, 41, was arrested and charged on June 6 with second-degree assault after throwing
a telephone at Nestor Estrada and hitting him in the face, police said at the time.

Now he is expected to pay £6 million ($15.61 million) to Mr Estrada in a deal to stop the
case going to court next month, British newspaper The Daily Mail reported this weekend.

Mr Estrada, 28, suffered a cut cheek after Crowe threw the telephone, frustrated at not
being able to get an outside line to call his wife.

Excerpt:
When it was revealed that Robert had flown to Florida on his own dollar to "volunteer advice" to
Jeb and George I just assumed that howls of outrage would follow from the Democratic camp
and that this nominee's hopes would sink beneath the horizon.

But I forgot, of course, that I was still in George Bush's America. The information about Roberts' trip
slipped like a thief in the night onto the inside pages of our newspapers -- on July 21st. Now here we are,
much later, with the story quietly widening, amid a remarkable hush on the subject. It's as if, when it comes
to this nomination, we're in a house of worship where it's distinctly impolite for anyone to raise his or her voice.

Comments?

WaHoPo backs out of Bush Lovefest
Shamed into action by bartcop.com?

Link

Excerpt:
The Washington Whore Post is withdrawing its offer of free advertising for an event organized by the
Defense Department to send a false propaganda message about Godly Bush, the warring Monkey
mons

"History has shown that peaceful societies are those that are free,
that democratic neighbors don't war, that democracies promote peace."
-- America's murder Monkey Link

Vandal destroys salute to fallen soldiers
White crosses mowed down by GOP pickup truck

Excerpt:
A pickup truck tore through rows of white crosses last night near Bush's fake ranch,
where the mother of a fallen soldier has been protesting Bush's bloody quagmire.

The crosses bore the names of fallen U-S soldiers stretched along the road at Camp Casey.

The Secret Cervix has threatened to run over the peaceful protestors, one handjob
has fired a shotgun and now a Monkey behind the wheels destroys a salute to the troops.

Subject: liar!

Bart, I saw one of your LIAR placards being shown on CNN at Camp Casey!

Garbage playing Portland Sept 3
Garbage playing San Fran Sept 10th
Garbage playing Fresno Sept 11
Garbage playing Phoenix Sept 12
Garbage playing San Diego Sept 12
Garbage playing The Joint in Las Vegas Sept 15

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