BartCop's most recent rants - Political Humor and Commentary, August 26, 2005, Volume 1609 - Don't speak, al-Qaeda's Useful Idiot, Karpinski Fires Back, GOP: 'Gas killing us', Race war in Crawford?, Fred Phelps again, FCC after Stern again, Am. Legion screws up, Cindy channeling son, Jennifer Aniston stalker

"He keeps saying 'sacrifice' and the 'war on terror,'
...and he's in a field of poppies with Lance Armstrong."
-- Jon Stewart, on America's murder monkey

Is Bush al-Qaeda's 'Useful Idiot'?
by Robert Parry at consortiumnews.com

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Excerpt:
If Western intelligence agencies are right – that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the
two-year-plus military occupation have been recruiting boons for Islamic terrorism
– why is it logical to commit American troops to an indefinite deployment there?
Won’t that just create more terrorists?

Put differently, has George W. Bush’s Iraq policy done more to help than hurt al-Qaeda,
from Bush’s hasty decision to redirect U.S. military assets from Afghanistan to Iraq while
Osama bin-Laden was still at large, to the loose talks about an American “crusade,”
to supplanting Iraq’s secular government with one favoring Islamic fundamentalism?

In the 1980s, when I was covering the wars in Central America, neoconservative theorists
liked to call U.S. peace activists “useful idiots” because their opposition to the hard-line
Reagan administration was seen as unwittingly aiding and abetting communists and other
leftist enemies. In that vein, is Bush now al-Qaeda’s “useful idiot”?

"Bush and his right wing allies are responding to Cindy Sheehan and the military families’
vigil in Central Texas in the same way that they always respond to bad news –by unleashing
personal attacks and smears against her. This White House never wants an open public
discussion, and it certainly never wants to be told that it is wrong. It always tries to change
the message by attacking the messenger... To smear her rather than hear her is un-American
and undemocratic.”
-- Joe Wilson, who knows all about Bush's big media smear machine Link

Excerpt:
”It was a memorandum signed by Rumsfeld, authorizing a short list, maybe 6 or 8 techniques:
use of dogs; stress positions; loud music; deprivation of food; keeping the lights on, etc.,”
Karpinski said. “And then a handwritten message over to the side that appeared to be
Rumsfeld’s signature. And it said, ‘Make sure this happens’ with two exclamation points.
And that was the only thing they had. Everything else had been confiscated.”

Karpinski tried to get information, but “nobody knew anything, nobody – at least, that’s what
they were claiming. The Company Commander, Captain Reese, was tearful in my office and
repeatedly told me he knew nothing about it, knew nothing about it,” Karpinski said. But in a
later plea bargain he entered into after the Taguba Report came out, “Captain Reese said that
not only did he know about it, but he was told not to report it to his chain of command, and he
was told that by Colonel Pappas. And he claimed that he saw General Sanchez out there on
several occasions witnessing the torture of some of the security detainees.”

But they demoted Karpinkski because she's female.
That'll teach those bitches to get in a man's army.

Excerpt:
As consumers feel pain at the pump, record high gas prices are
registering as a political problem with congressional Republicans.

At a town hall meeting this week, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) wanted to talk
about Social Security and Medicare, but the session quickly turned to gas prices.

When Rep. Shelley Capito (R-WV.) toured a VA clinic, the first question put to her was:
"What are you going to do about the high price of gasoline?"

Republican candidates facing tough races in 2006 should be worried, said Tony Fabrizio,
a Republican political consultant.

"If I were a guy in a marginal race, I would be all over the oil companies," he said.
"I'd be getting ahead of the curve right now, hauling them before my committee, holding
hearings throughout my state — maybe introducing legislation to cap their CEO salaries."

Yes, that's what Democrats could be doing if they weren't quaking with fear.
Can the Democrats think of a way to make gas prices a part of their campaign?

Or will Bob Shrum advise them that that's a loser topic for Democrats?

"The trick is to surrender
...before you're asked."

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Excerpt:
McFact No. 2: McDonald's knew its coffee sometimes caused serious injuries - more than 700
incidents of scalding coffee burns in the past decade have been settled by the Corporation - and yet
they never so much as consulted a burn expert regarding the issue.

McFact No. 4: The woman, 81, had never before filed suit against anyone, said she wouldn't have
brought the lawsuit against McDonald's had they agreed to pay her medical bills.

We got into this because of that Crowe $15M scratch.
I have a question for those who disagree:
Should the day that phone hit the clerk be the luckiest day of his life?

"As long as the president, who sent him to die in a senseless war, is in Crawford,
that is where I belong. I came here two and a half weeks ago for one reason, to try
and see the president and get an answer to a very simple question: What is the
noble cause that he says my son died for? The answer to that question will not
bring my son back. But it may stop more meaningless deaths. Because every
death is now a meaningless one."
-- Cindy Sheehan, Link

Bart,

Your link to Feingold's talk: This is why a lot of us here
in Wisconsin would walk over broken glass on fire for him.

He may be the last man of honor in the Senate.

-Russ

Russ, you know me - never one to pick a fight -but where
has Feingold been during Bush's four-year rape and pillage spree?

Is he waiting for Bush to do something truly outrageous?

Race war this weekend in Crawford?
Stormfronters' Rally In Crawford, TX

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Excerpt:
I'm driving out to Crawford, Friday August 26th to help put up a White Nationalist voice
in the protest against Bush's War for Israel that was started by Cindy Sheehan.

We'll be uploading digital photos, and maybe video, from Crawford so that Stormfront's
58,000 Members (achieved today) and hundreds of thousands of Guests can follow the
events in Crawford from a White patriot perspective.

If you live anywhere within a driving distance that won't put you out too much,
would you please join us on Saturday and Sunday? That's August 27th and 28th.

That would be one way for the White House to make Cindy go away:
Start a race war and have the state police clear the area "for public safety."
You think Bush and Rove have any pull with the Texas state police?

Subject: President soldier killer

Bart, you're being too nice again. You wrote:

> "President Soldier killer is about to break the 1,900 mark."

If you add in the deaths from Afghanistan and the mercenaries, the toll is over 2,300.

Add in the ones from the "Coalition of the Willing" (remember that?) and it's over 2,500.
Zepp

Ever wished you had your own, private news service?
One that would cut out the crap and give you what you needed?

Excerpt:
The American Legion has declared war on antiwar protestors, and the media could be next.
Speaking at its national convention in Honolulu, the group's national commander called for
an end to all “public protests” and “media events” against the war.

They're calling for the end of the First Amendment.
What did Bush promise this group to get them to rescue him?

"The American Legion will stand against anyone and any group that would demoralize our troops,

Will you stand against anyone who would lie to start a war to steal $130M a day?

or worse, endanger their lives by encouraging terrorists to continue their cowardly attacks against
freedom-loving peoples," Thomas Cadmus, national commander, told delegates at the group's
national convention in Honolulu.

That underlined phrase?
It's impossible to define - so why are they using that in their threat?
Who's to say the failure of regular Americans to praise Bush at every opportunity
would not somehow be encouraging terrorists in the eyes of overzealous Republicans?

The delegates voted to use whatever means necessary to "ensure the united backing of the
American people to support our troops and the global war on terrorism."

No, you can't have that - are you crazy?

Besides that - you're cheating.
You're mixing Bush policies and the troops - just like the White House does.
By cheating, you're admitting you can't win if you play fair.
You position is so weak - you have to "sneak" your point past us?

"It would be tragic if the freedoms our veterans fought so valiantly to protect would be
used against their successors today as they battle terrorists bent on our destruction.”

No, tragic is America deciding to let one, old white republican take all our voices away.
You ask for too much - and you can't have it.

He explained, "No one respects the right to protest more than one who has fought for it, but....

but.... we hope that Americans will present their views in correspondence to their elected officials
(He means we can only complain secretly, because Godly Bush is above criticism) rather than
by public media events guaranteed to be picked up and used as tools of encouragement by our enemies."

Sir, it seems that having fewer dead soldiers is not one of your goals here.
Why are you looking the other way when you know Bush's lies have killed 1863 ...so far?

Like I say, I'm waiting for that retraction.

Comments?

"The American Legion will stand against anyone and any group that would
demoralize our troops, or worse, endanger their lives by encouraging terrorists
to continue their cowardly attacks against freedom-loving peoples,"

BUSH: "There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such
that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on."

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Note: We're gaining steam on the big protest march.
Watch here for important details soon!

Fred Phelps again

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Excerpt:
Anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps has caused an international royal gay flap over accusations that
Sweden's King Carl Gustaf is gay. Phelps, who runs the God Hates Fags website, makes the
allegations on his newest site - God Hates Sweden.

The preacher who built his reputation by picketing the funeral of gay college student Matthew Shepard
is angry over a Swedish court ruling that a fundamentalist minister broke that country's hate speech law
during a fiery speech against homosexuality.

Phelps' site calls Sweden "a land of sodomy, bestiality, and incest", and goes on to say:
"The King looks like an anal-copulator, & his grinning kids look slutty & gay."

Why do all Bush voters sound exactly the same?
Fred Phelps, Pat Robertson, the vulgar Pigboy, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage - the list is endless.
If you hate blacks and gays, people will send you lots of money to manufacture lies about them.

Playing to the base of all bases, they steal money from the ignorant, the bigoted and the scared.
They can't make money fairly - they have to trick the retarded southerners into giving them money.

Have you ever heard Rush brag about getting fired from seven or eight different jobs?
He couldn't hold a f-ing job - his whole life - until he stumbled upon ignorant hate radio.

That's taking advantage of the retarded.
He should be ashamed.

Comments?

Subject: I just subscribed

Bart,

Thank you sir.
I'm looking forward to many hours of your radio show.
I did three tours in Vietnam.
I think I can handle the "language involved".

Archie

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Click Here for Cindy Updates

His Private Idaho

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Excerpt:
The most rested president in American history headed West yesterday to get away
from his Western getaway - and the mushrooming Crawford Woodstock.
"I'm kind of hangin' loose..." he told reporters.

Bush is acting positively French in his love of le loafing, with 339 days at his ranch since
he took office - nearly a year out of his five. Most Americans, on the other hand, take fewer
vacations than anyone else in the developed world, averaging only 13 to 16 days off a year.

U.S. troop casualties in Iraq are at their highest levels since the invasion. So our overextended
troops must prepare for more forced rotations, while the president hangs loose.

I heard today that Bush's war approval rating is at 34 percent.
And he's always on vacation while his decisions are killing soldiers?

Can the Democrats think of a theme for the '06 campaign?

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Subject: Swift Boat Moms

Bart;

The GOP are trying to do a ‘Swift boat Moms’ opinion reversal,
in response to Cindy Sheenan’s recent war protest.

They gotta be kidding huh??

What kind of “Cold Blooded Wicked Evil Incarnates” are these women
who would support Bush’s war for oil over the lives of their own children?

Veterans in support of the war I could accept, but Mom’s against their very own children?
Give me a break!! Only the GOP could come up with something this stupid!
David W

David, they are devout Republicans.
Hell, you have to deny science and logic just to be a Republican.
Praising Dubya means more to them than their children's lives.

Praising Dubya, that's what they live for.
He is their one, true God.

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