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Where do these Bushies come up with these fantastic ideas? Former UN Ambassador John Bolton discusses his desire to bomb training camps inside Iran, stating “This is entirely responsible on our part.”

Responsible? Yeah, like we’ve seen how ‘responsible’ the Bushies were when they bombed Iraq. There were so many WMDs in Iraq that they couldn’t find them after the dust settled. Yeah, real ‘responsible!’ Now there is speculation, at least according to Bolton, that Bush will bomb the training camps before the end of his term. Wonderful! Create another international incident by bombing the shit out of some rocks and sand in the Iranian desert somewhere to really, really leave your mark before leaving office!

I wonder if he realizes that the supposed training camps inside Iran that would be on his hit list are probably not close to any major populated cites or towns, but rather a few tents in the middle of somewhere close to nowhere in Iran. So Bush is planning on dropping a few bombs worth probably several million dollars on a few patches of desert that may or may not contain the training camps he thinks they contain, in hopes of destroying the camps’ infrastructure, causing it to cease to exist? Oh please!

The least the Bush Administration could do after the loving 7 year trusting relationship we’ve had together is give us a little more credit! Taking out a few tents in a desert somewhere is not what the plan is, but rather Iran’s nuclear facilities is! Unless, of course Iran’s nuclear facilities are enclosed in tents in the middle of a desert somewhere, in which case I stand corrected! The only reason he probably hasn’t already started the bombing is because we are waiting for China to take their lien off the bombs he wants to drop!

Besides Bush’s love for making things go “boom,” the other reason his approval ratings are so low is because he has hard time telling us the truth!

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What says “hey, I embrace the American way of life” more than Mickey Mouse and the Golden Arches? The money that is made by these brands that’s what.

Apparently times-a-wastin’ for American investors to make their mark, or rather to make their millions in Iraq. Basic necessities of life are still considered a luxury for citizens of Iraq, but that doesn’t bother Llewellyn Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms, who claims that all Baghdad needs to put an and to all it’s worries is an American-style amusement park!

The same firm that designed Disneyland has big plans for the “Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience,” including a skateboard park, rides, a concert theater and a museum. Werner’s firm is throwing millions of dollars into the project, saying:

The people need this kind of positive influence. It’s going to have a huge psychological impact.

I’m sure the Iraqis will be able to overlook the hardships of unreliable electricity, or running water when they know that they will have a shining beacon of American capitalism right in their very own city. Now that’s a psychological impact!

The project is estimated to cost $500 million dollars and will be manged by the Iraqis. See anything wrong with this picture already? Nothing screams “wasted money” more than when its followed by “managed by the Iraqis.” Lately all I see happening in the country of Iraq, besides the death and destruction of human lives, is the Iraqi Government’s bank accounts around bursting at the seams because of it’s oil revenues. The government is extremely wealthy thanks to it’s oil, but the country is still struggling to attain peace, let alone power and water on a reliable basis for it’s citizens.

It’s bad enough that the American government has built a monument to itself in the form of the US embassy in Baghdad, now we are giving them another US culture staple, the “theme park.” Those in Iraq that already detest out presence, and loathe our way of life, will really be impressed by this new venture!

“There goes the neighborhood!”

Tags: War in Iraq by vicezilla
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini, said on Sunday that an attack on Iran is unlikely because of the “disastrous situation” facing the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the U.S. domestic situation.

“We think it would be unlikely the Americans would take the decision to get themselves into a new fiasco, the consequences of which they themselves have acknowledged would be painful for the region and the world.”

Think again Mr. Hosseini. If he really thinks that the Iraq or Afghanistan quaqmires, OR concerns about trivial things like money will stop Bush from launching an attack on Iran, he is sadly mistaken. Bush has been beating the war drum for a while now trying to muster support for an attack on Iran. Like Iraq, he is doing his best to find excuses for an attack, and those that he can’t find, he is more than capable of making up.

So a warning to Iran, never ever underestimate the thinking of a man who is really past the point of giving a shit anymore!

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A Fort Bragg soldier’s father uploaded a YouTube video of photos he took of his son’s barracks earlier this month. The video shows the deplorable living conditions to which his son and the other soldiers of his unit in the 82nd Airborne Division returned after a 15-month-long deployment to Afghanistan.

This is absolutely disgusting, the conditions these men must endure when they return home! Our government should be thoroughly embarrassed by this video! The amount of money that Bush has asked for his wars has obviously not been spent on the conditions of soldiers quarters here at home.

File this under pitiful! No, disgraceful is a better description!

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What can I say, other than Sen. Mikulski (D-MD) has finally done what no other Democrat has dared to do in the past. She stood, and stood up loudly to Bush’s $108 billion emergency spending bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sen. Mikulski absolutely rips into White House budget director Jim Nussle over his responses to the Senators, and Bush’s lack of funding for this nation’s law enforcement officers. Bush has requested $603 billion to train Iraqi police, but has also cut state and local law enforcement programs at the Justice Department by 61%.

Shit, by him pouring this amount of money into Iraqi police programs, you would think that he lived there or something?

Either way, after Mikulki’s reaming of Nussle’s backside, it only leaves one question left to ask. Why in the hell hasn’t this kind of questioning taken place in the Senate and House about the Bush Administration’s war funding in the past? Every elected Representative and Senator should be taking this kind of attitude towards Bush’s war funding requests.

A big thank you to Senator Mikulski for taking a stand!

Full transcript at Think Progress

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