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This is not a recent video, but it is still quite revealing.

Well… almost.

Once again the warmongering neocons in Bu$hCo seem to be using the NYT and the same “journalist” that collaborated with Judith Miller in the fabricated stories about WMDs in Iraq to beat the drums of war, this time with Iran.

I wrote yesterday about Thelma and Louise (cast this time by George and Dick), getting ready to take us over the cliff. Now we see the suckers in the traditional media repeating the misinformation campaign we saw before the Iraq war.

Remember this story?

Monday, September 9, 2002.

U.S.: Iraq Is Hunting for Nukes
By Michael Gordon and Judith Miller

WASHINGTON — More than a decade after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein agreed to give up weapons of mass destruction, Iraq has intensified its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb, U.S. officials said Saturday.

In the past 14 months, Iraq has tried to buy thousands of specially designed aluminum tubes, which American officials believe were intended as components of centrifuges to enrich uranium…

Now compare that story with this anonymously-sourced, completely un-substantiated and un-rebutted report on Iran supplying the “most lethal weapon directed against American troops in Iraq”.

Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, U.S. Says
By Michael Gordon

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 — The most lethal weapon directed against American troops in Iraq is an explosive-packed cylinder that United States intelligence asserts is being supplied by Iran.

The assertion of an Iranian role in supplying the device to Shiite militias reflects broad agreement among American intelligence agencies, although officials acknowledge that the picture is not entirely complete.

In interviews, civilian and military officials from a broad range of government agencies provided specific details to support what until now has been a more generally worded claim, in a new National Intelligence Estimate, that Iran is providing “lethal support” to Shiite militants in Iraq.

Did you notice that Michael Gordon is author of both reports?

If you read the whole story you will also notice the lack of any named source, other than “US Says”.

What credibility do these people have left that allows them to publish stuff like this in what is supposed to be one of the so-called “major newspapers” in the country, The New York Times? Or perhaps it is that the NYT are just suckers for anything Bu$hCo tells them to publish.

In any event, here is another story that appeared a couple of weeks ago in the LA Times this one from real journalists where we learn that there is “Scant evidence found of Iran-Iraq arms link” and that according to critics “U.S. warnings of advanced weaponry crossing the border are overstated”.

Keep your eyes on the ball. It’s Deja Vu all over again.

The fraudulent Iraq story repeats itself only now with Iran, and it features most of the same neocons and White House actors.

A couple of days ago I wrote about the “Stay the Course” Republican Senators who refused to debate the unpopular war in Iraq and voted to send thousands more young American men and women to die in a futile war.

MoveOn has a new ad that exposes these GOP Senators for what they are: a bunch of cowards.

The ad slams the Senators hard saying:

“They’re willing to send tens of thousands more troops to face danger in Iraq, but they don’t have the courage to face a vote.”

Don’t miss the video.

For all of you amigos out there who voted for this pig’s candidate and other republicans, I have a little sample here of the scum that dwells inside their rotten minds.

By the way, this comes not from a left-wing blogger but from National Review Online’s The Corner

According to a congressman’s wife who attended a Republican women’s luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president’s amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: “I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas.”

The racist snob appears to have offended even those who think like him

There should be no need to explain why this is an obscene statement coming from a leader in the party that promotes the virtues of hard work, thrift, and sobriety, a party whose demi-god actually split fence rails as a young man, a party where “respectable Republican cloth coat” once actually meant something. But it does seem to be necessary to explain.

Respectable republican? What an oxymoron!

Tom Engelhardt has an excellent article in TomDispatch about the delusional world in which Bush and Cheney live, and how these delusions will soon lead the American Empire to a disastrous war with Iran.
I highly recommend the article Over the Cliff with George and Dick? to everyone.

Here is a premium quote from the article:

Having long embraced a fantasy of victory, they (Bush and Cheney) now show every sign of wrapping their arms around their own Iraq defeat as if it were victory, and — with the enthusiasm of Thelma and Louise, trapped by all those cop cars — taking the only path that seems open to them. As the alternatives grow ever starker — surrender to all those “Democrat” electees, to the reporters and the critics, the cavilers and the antiwar demonstrators, the ragtag insurgents, the alien Mullahs, and even the panicked Republicans in their own ranks — what’s left but that liberating, exhilarating trip over the cliff?

Be scared, very scared!

The astute and enterprising journalists of Politicones.com today broke a fascinating story claiming for the first time that Tequila is not made of cuervo.

“Our sources and detailed analysis clearly confirm to us that contrary to common beliefs, Tequila is made of agave and not cuervo”,

said the acclaimed Pulidozer Prize winning journalist Josefina Herniada.

In a letter sent to all Hispanic journalists who recently claimed to have first written about the real inner composition of Tequila, Miss Herniada says

Subject: Tequila-cuervos story
From: “ Josefina Herniada”
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2007 16:24:40 -0500
To: [Redacted]

Hi all,

If you are working on a story about Tequila and cuervos, please credit Politicones.com for breaking the story.

Below I am including stories I have written over the past year on the Tequila-cuervos rift. They may be of use to you and other cabrones at AAA.

Thanks,

Josefina Herniada

PS. And I will like to remind you that, in the future, anytime you celebrate with Tequila you are not supposed to say ¡Salud! anymore. From now on, the correct celebratory expression adopted by Politicones.com will be ¡Que chule mi Josi!.

So now you know!

I can’t wait to learn what else our friends in Politicones.com will discover in a Margarita.

¡Que chule mi Josi!

While Bush and his propaganda machine continue to use any opportunity to push with the media the so called “surge” and at the same time blast anybody who opposes it, Sidney Blumenthal reports today in Salon that

“Deep within the bowels of the Pentagon, policy planners are conducting secret meetings to discuss what to do in the worst-case scenario in Iraq about a year from today if and when President Bush’s escalation of more than 20,000 troops fails, a participant in those discussions told me. None of those who are taking part in these exercises, shielded from the public view and the immediate scrutiny of the White House, believes that the so-called surge will succeed. On the contrary, everyone thinks it will not only fail to achieve its aims but also accelerate instability by providing a glaring example of U.S. incapacity and incompetence.”

In the meantime, while more American troops die everyday in Iraq, the democratic Senate continues to debate about when to start the debate about Iraq and useless non-binding resolutions.

Let’s remind our representatives that, once upon a time, the US Congress had an opportunity to confront Lyndon B. Johnson and cut funding for another unpopular and futile war. And that this opportunity came before 95% percent of the men and women whose names appear today in the Vietnam Memorial Wall were dead.
Congress missed that opportunity. Let’s hope it does not happen again.

Do you still remember Vietnam Senator Warner?

Senator John Warner’s resolution against military escalation in Iraq failed to go to debate and a vote after republican Senators decided to obstruct the measure.

Most republican Senators voted to filibuster the proposal and, therefore, voted to stay the course and support President Bush’s escalation in Iraq.

Only two GOP Senators up for reelection in 2008 voted for cloture and against the filibuster: Senators Susan Collins and Norm Coleman.

The following is the list of republican Senators up for reelection next year who voted to filibuster the measure — and hence voted to use the filibuster to in essence protect the President’s escalation policy:
Senator John Warner (R-VA)
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR)
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Senator Thad Cochran (R-MI)
Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM)
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO)
Senator David Vitter (R-LA)
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Senator Larry Craig (R-IO)
Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK)

GOPers John McCain and Mel Martinez missed the vote.

And by the way, “Independent” democratic Senator Joe Lieberman also voted to support President Bush’s escalation in Iraq.

This is the question that lingers in many people’s minds after hearing the pro-deportation statement made by her chief of staff Terry McAuliffe on a radio show.

This statement has caused major concern among many Hispanics who were considering Hillary Clinton as one of the potential favorites on the Democratic side for the 2008 presidential elections.

McAuliffe claims that his position is identical to that of the Clintons. Considering that most Hispanics rejected the Republicans in the past elections precisely because of this extreme position, Clinton and other Democrats may want to reconsider whether this is the face they want to present to the Hispanic electorate.

Most Americans support an immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship and reject pro-deportation policies that will tear apart families and cause enormous suffering to many immigrants and their families.

Is this really what Hillary stands for?

Hispanics around the country want to know before anyone will commit to supporting her candidacy.