"We didn't want the proof to be a mushroom cloud."

[WilliamPitt]

So it seems Messrs. Graham and McCain took to the Sunday morning Festival Of Televised Suck to talk about how ISIS was going to burn down an American city, which is why we should never have left Iraq.

We didn't want the proof to be a mushroom cloud.

Iraq had 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons of sarin, VX and mustard gas, uranium from Nigeria for use in a "robust" weapons program, mobile biological weapons labs, and connections to al Qaeda that led to 9/11...

...ALL BULLSHIT.

They also had these gliders that could strike the American mainland...

...MORE BULLSHIT.

7,000 ISIS dickheads 16,000 miles away don't frighten me about the safety of American cities.

People who allow themselves to be frightened by people like Lindsay Graham and John McCain frighten me.

"How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you?" - Harry S. Truman

[leftstreet]

1. Where is Colin Powell?

DURec

[WilliamPitt]

2. Snorting whatever is in that vial

and saying, "Why did I allow myself to get mixed up with these fuckwits?"

[navarth]

30. I'd really like to believe Colin Powell was lied to

...but I don't.

[rhett o rick]

50. Gen Powell was a product of authoritarian America. Following orders is more

important than principles. There are DU'ers that claim to be liberal that will toss their principles out the window to follow a leader that they think might save them. Their Christian upbringing to obey authority doesn't help.

[hibbing]

32. Yeah, where is the general?

All the other lying criminals have been out and about on the liberal media spouting their brilliant critiques of current foreign policy and saying they would have still started the war in Iraq. They can actually double down on that, it is amazing to me.

Peace

[SummerSnow]

42. Sitting at home knitting...lol

[47of74]

49. Gah.

Cannot Unsee!

[bigtree]

3. Lindsey Graham talking about cities in flames

read/watch clip: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/10/lindsey-graham-american-city-in-flames-obama-war-iraq/ …

rec

[2naSalit]

5. Ha!!

Those jokes simply write themselves!

(Disclaimer: I do not advocate the belittling of any group of persons who are in any way leaning toward or of any type of persuasion that others would choose to make fun of. That being said, those who would deny their true identities for political gain and are elected officials for personal gains deserve to be made fun of for those reasons.)

[bigtree]

8. I'm squirming on this

deleting the Rude Pundit header -

I apologize for my ignorance and insensitivity. It's a hurtful and unnecessary joke.

[2naSalit]

14. Well

if it helps any... Lindsey Graham IS a joke... a really bad joke.

[yeoman6987]

23. Where is his Democratic challenger?

Why can't the democratic nominees fight these GOP's? Do we want another 6 years of Lindsey?

[2naSalit]

31. That's what I wonder.

Glad I don't live there but at the same time, I can't be thrilled about the Senate folks in my state either. I didn't move here based on politics but it was a consideration and a small step up from where I had been for many years.

[beerandjesus]

53. His name is Brad Hutto

http://bradhutto.com/

...and he actually seems like a very good candidate. I will be voting *for* Hutto, not just against Lindsey.


I'm hopeful, but not optimistic.

[BobbyBoring]

16. What a load of shit!

Am I confused about something? Aren't these the rebels they wanted to arm? Most of the arms they have are ones that we've armed people with.
As far as their coming here, those Toyota pick ups are great sea going vessels.
Mc Cain and Graham need a nice cup of STFU!

[malletgirl02]

39. You are correct

They wanted to arm those rebels, in addition anyone who was against arming the rebels because they predicted what is happening now was called an Assad supporter.

[heaven05]

55. remember bin laden

and his brave fight against the soviets? We armed him for his brave fight.

[Voice for Peace]

20. oh my.. jon stewart is going to get the vapors again

[rickyhall]

43. I love it when Jon does Lindsay or is it Loonsay?

[Enthusiast]

47. I'm afraid Jon is going to die from them vapors.

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[SCVDem]

38. Hey Lindsey

Ever been To Detroit?

Why don't you give a shit about OUR cities killed by mismanagement and economic strife?

[beerandjesus]

54. Forget about Detroit.

Lindsey should check out North Charleston.

[lark]

58. Profits is why!!

Profits for the MIC are the end all be all for him. He could care less about anything else, so never discusses it and just uses vapid excuses for us to make war and more war and war all the time. How else is he going to keep his contributions so high?

[BlueJazz]

4. They are terrified to die. I truly believe that that's the basis for most of the right-wing lies.

The thought of the world "carrying on" with out their HUGE egos is just too much for them to handle.
In short> They're scared of not being here.

[2naSalit]

6. Too bad that

We have to suffer for their miseries.

[MisterP]

41. 50 years ago these people were worrying about Eye-talians and their strange food and churches

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Erect Bogeyman, wave flag, declare we need protection, give more money to the MIC.

Works every time.

[Maedhros]

9. Don't forget to use the term "genocide" as much as you can.

That way anyone who objects can be accused of "supporting genocide."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. And, grim looking generals in fatigues and a chorus of "God Bless America".

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Marie Beyle (Stendahl)

[Raster]

13. McCain and Lindsay have been water carriers and spokespersons for the MIC for a long time.

A very, very long time.

[tea and oranges]

10. This is all I can offer:

I'll be afraid of the terrorists we created in Iraq when the right wing worries publicly about climate change. Until then, I'm betting on the methane bubbles.

[Louisiana1976]

27. Good idea.

[KansDem]

12. They don't even try to hide it anymore...

"Gulf of Tonkin?" Could have happened. There was no reason to doubt it, I mean, why would they lie? We went into Vietnam after that and over 58,000 Americans died.

"LHO killed JFK?" Could have happened, although one wondered why Ruby gunned down LHO the very next day. And forget the Zapruder film: there was a magic bullet.

"9/11?" This summarizes my feelings--

The "official version" tells us that Bush "waited for more information." Never mind that there was no communication between Card and Bush. Absolutely none. So how did Bush's staff know he wanted to wait for more information? Oh, yeah, we are told after it happened. Don't believe your eyes!

And I'll never forget the video of Bush telling a room-full of folks that he saw the first plane hit while waiting outside the classroom. You know: the "Terrible pilot" story--

The "official version" tells us that Bush was "confused."

They don't even try to hide it, anymore. They lie and lie, but it's the "official report" that dominates the narrative, no matter how stupid and ridiculous it is. It's the "official story" we must accept, no matter how it contradicts the facts and hard evidence. And the media always reports the "official" story. The "Sunday morning Festival Of Televised Suck" always presents the "official" report.

Reminds me of this Monty Python skit--

[Maedhros]

24. A more apt Monty Python skit:

Mr. Neutron is Missing

Commander: Mr Neutron! Oh my God! OK - Surround the entire city! Send in four waves of armed paratroopers with full ground-to-air missile support! Alert all air bases! Destroy all roads! We'll bomb the town flat if we have to!

Carpenter: Sir! Sir! He's not in Washington, sir.

Commander: OK! Hold everything! Hold everything! Hold it! Lay off! Lay off... Where is he?

Carpenter: We don't know, sir ... all we know is he checked out of his hotel and took a bus to the airport.

Commander: All right! I want a full-scale Red Alert throughout the world! Surround everyone with everything we've got! Mobilize every fighting unit and every weapon we can lay our hands on! I want... I want three full-scale global nuclear alerts with every army, navy and air force unit on eternal standby!

Carpenter: Right, sir!

Commander: And introduce conscription!

Carpenter: Yes, sir!

Commander: Right!

Commander: Yes?

Carpenter: Captain Carpenter here, sir. We've been on red alert now for three days, sir, and still no sign of Mr Neutron.

Commander: Have we bombed anywhere? Have we shown 'em we got teeth?

Carpenter: Oh yes, sir. We've bombed a lot of places flat, sir.

Commander: Good. Good. We don't want anyone to think we're chicken.

Carpenter: Oh no! They don't think that, sir. Everyone's really scared of us, sir.

Commander: Of us?

Carpenter: Yes, sir.

Commander: (pleased) Of our power?

Carpenter: Oh yes, sir! They're really scared when they see those big planes come over.

Commander: Wow! I bet they are. I bet they are. I bet they're really scared.

Carpenter: Oh they are, sir.

Commander: Do we have any figures on how scared they are?

Carpenter: No ... no figures, sir. But they sure were scared.

[KansDem]

34. I hadn't seen that sketch...

More apt. Thanks!

Now we know where Donald Trump got his hair style...




Or is it the other way around?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. McCain and the Republicans are the terrorists....

You are supposed to respond to terrorism with brave indifference.

These idiots are encouraging Americans to crap their pants in fear.

[Johnny Noshoes]

17. Exactly...

Just when the hell did we become a nation of frightened 3 year olds, cowering in the corner, sucking our thumbs and clutching our red white and blue blankies. I mean seriously WTF!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. We had real enemies with real armies during WWII and real SPIES during the Cold War...

Now we are supposed to be scared by a bunch of guys in an old pickup truck.

Okay, so they captured a tank. One shot from the air these days.

What worries me is people like McCain deciding to do a false flag so they don't look like they're crying wolf.

[oberliner]

18. They're only killing brown people, right?

So why should we care?

As long as they aren't doing it with US weapons....oh wait...

[BlueCollar]

19. aluminum tubes....

You left out the aluminum tubes

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Botulism toxin also known as Botox

Maybe they planned to do a lot of cosmetic surgery?

[littlemissmartypants]

22. ...

[GeorgeGist]

26. Since NBC wants to replace David Gregory ...

why not McCain/Graham crackers. They're already regulars and on the payroll.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. Plus they're such a cute couple.

[sunnystarr]

28. I accidentally watched MTP on MSNBC

What can I say? I had the station on and there it was. I was transfixed and watched the whole thing and couldn't understand why it didn't say "brought to you by the Republican National Committee" at the end.

Filled with Rethugs, one of the highlights was Peter King who was on the "America will be attacked" talking point:

He did have Dick Durbin on so that he could attack everything he said about Obama's leadership.

In the Roundtable, one Democrat, I forget her name now was able to say like two sentences. As I watched her I realized that it seems every time they have a Dem on these stations, 9 out of 10 times it's an African American. I never realized it before today 'cause I don't view with color on the brain and it never registers. I don't believe this is accidental. Even the piece he had on about the political divide in a Wisconsin town featured white Rethugs and the Dem was an African American woman who owned a small business.

The whole conversation was about how unpopular our President is and how bad his foreign policy is and how his domestic policy is in shambles because of his stance on immigration.

We are being brainwashed by the media, the Rethugs, and their corporate masters. It was so depressing and I felt so dirty I had to take another shower.

[2naSalit]

33. Yeah...

"America will be attacked..." and they'll see to it just to make sure we are scared enough to swat at the next fly on "the list".

[ballyhoo]

35. Exactly. But those 7000 ISIS(ISIL,TIS) in

Iraq prove an excellent opportunity for those with an agenda whose name is usually given as an acronym. t

[CBHagman]

36. Graham was simply making things up as he went.

This part was particularly shameless:

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday-chris-wallace/2014/08/10/president-obama-doing-too-little-or-too-much-iraq[/url]

Three years ago, Mr. President, you were told by your national security team, get involved, armed the rebels because this problem will grow. You said no.

You made many, many bad bets. Your strategy is failing. You told us bin Laden is dead, we're safe.

Since bin Laden has died, there are more terrorist organizations with more safe havens, with more money, with more weapons, and more capabilities to attack the homeland than there was before 9/11.

Mr. President, if you don't adjust your strategy, these people are coming here.

And Graham does that even though anyone can look up both the transcript and the video of what President Obama said when bin Laden was killed, and it most certainly bore no resemblance to what Graham claimed.

[url]http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead[/url]

For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda’s leader and symbol, and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat al Qaeda.

Yet his death does not mark the end of our effort. There’s no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must –- and we will -- remain vigilant at home and abroad.

Just once I wish someone in the studio would say to Graham, McCain et al, "Come on! Don't give me that @#!!"

[pansypoo53219]

37. the rite's only way to win is by fear. fear of USSR, FEAR of socialists, fear of blacks, fear of

immigrants. fear fear fear. 9/11 was AWESOME for their side.

[BumRushDaShow]

44. Public Enemy said it best

almost 25 years ago...

[blkmusclmachine]

40. Operation: NORTHWOODS

U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba

In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.

The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662

[Liberal_Dog]

45. I Have No Idea Why Those Two Continously Get So Much Air Time

What do networks believe Graham and McCain contribute to the national discussion?

It is a total mystery to me.

[Enthusiast]

46. Kicked and recommended an entire shit load.

[PoutrageFatigue]

48. Gotta keep looking forward though... even if a few 'folks'...

... got tortured and stuff. ..

[jaxind]

51. Colin Powell

I keep thinking Colin Powell is the only Rethug out there that has some kind of conscience. I keep waiting of him to be eaten up inside by his own conscience, and it bothers him so much that he will finally get out there and talk and condemn the likes of Graham and McCain and Cheney and say something to the effect of "Who the hell are you to be out there giving any kind of advice on how we should be handling Iraq?"

[raouldukelives]

52. War and the fear of war provide so much cash to those invested in the MIC.

It only takes a little green fertilizer carefully shoveled into corporate political mouthpieces by them to spur another round of fear and arms build-up. All they have to do is frame it as protecting Americans and we can assist whatever indigenous population they say needs our special form of assistance.
Those "wars" are always about corporate financial interests and securing those interests to make them and the investors they represent happy. I can't imagine they have ever been happier.
Every body bag, every grieving mother, every shell providing a little extra retirement security to the financial backers and a lot more profit to the industries.

[cui bono]

56. There was actually a DU post a couple days ago that said

thank god Obama had the balls to bomb or ISIS would come here to kill us.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

57. [They're] Wrong - NOFX