Perhaps some hundreds or thousands of these scattered around Bagdad and environs will protect Americans and Iraqis from the hell that dick and george have created:
These things are apparently sprouting up in Beijing:
Evidently a necessary invention in a world filled with terror, the structure is not only bulletproof, but can withstand a 15 ton blast as well.
Are the Chinese expecting something?
Henley is not the last to blog about the mighty USDA propaganda machine.
If you are as out of touch as i’ve obviously been do take a few minutes to go read about your USDA’s role in taking it to those pesky terrorists and assisting the great nation of Iran. karl and company have even prepared the words for these esteemed public servants:
Several topics I’d like to talk to you about today–Farm Bill, trade with Japan, WTO, avian flu, animal ID–but before I do, let me touch on a subject people always ask about….progress in Iraq.
Just the question that would be on my front burner if I actually went through the effort to go hear one of these folks make a presentation about something. There is much, much more.
Oh yea, Henley is looking for related jokes.
Greg Palast says that the aircraft carrier message was right on and that The Mission Was Indeed Accomplished:
Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush’s incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong.
On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq’s border, most of the 59 million Homer Simpsons who voted for Bush are beginning to doubt if his mission was accomplished.
But don’t kid yourself — Bush and his co-conspirator, Dick Cheney, accomplished exactly what they set out to do. In case you’ve forgotten what their real mission was, let me remind you of White House spokesman Ari Fleisher’s original announcement, three years ago, launching of what he called,
“Operation
Iraqi
Liberation.”
O.I.L. How droll of them, how cute. Then, Karl Rove made the giggling boys in the White House change it to “OIF” — Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the 101st Airborne wasn’t sent to Basra to get its hands on Iraq’s OIF.
Go read on…
Via The Sideshow.
It looks like mcain may be reaching an unacceptable compromise with bush regarding exemption language in his amemdment barring inhumane or degrading treatment of prisoners:
Instead, he has offered to include some language, modeled after military standards, under which soldiers can provide a defense if a “reasonable” person could have concluded that he or she was following a lawful order about how to treat prisoners.
Hopefully this is not the case. pace got it right a few days ago:
“It is the absolute responsibility of every U.S. service member, if they see inhumane treatment being conducted, to intervene, to stop it,” the general said.
Rumsfeld interjected: “I don’t think you mean they have an obligation to physically stop it; it’s to report it.”
But Pace meant what he said. “If they are physically present when inhumane treatment is taking place, sir, they have an obligation to try to stop it,” he said, firmly.
This damn well better apply to every human being no matter who they work for.
Following orders is never an excuse for for inhumane behavior. Though it might be possible to consider a slightly less excruciating punishment for a perpetrator following orders than that given to one acting on their own or to the one who gave the orders.
Via Talkleft.