Ted Rall kicks * in the balls

[CatWoman]

I apologize if anyone's balls are offended by my title :D

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This bizarro Administration does everything bass-ackwards. The recession is hardest on the poor and middle-class, so Bush gives tax cuts to the rich. When an overwhelming invasion force was needed to secure Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Iraq (news - web sites), Rumsfeld sent in a skeleton crew. Now that the citizens of those countries want us to go home, Gen. Tommy Franks has announced that our 148,000-man, $5 billion-a-month occupation army will get bigger and stick around until whenever.

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Little things hook big fish: tax evasion for Al Capone, a minor stock trade for Martha Stewart (news - web sites), a sexual dalliance for Bill Clinton (news - web sites). So it is with George W. Bush: whether or not the man who conned us into two wars ends up sharing a cage with Khalid Sheikh Mohammad could come down to this line from the 2003 State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

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Lying about Niger yellowcake pales next to Bush's other evil chicanery: hobbling the U.S. economy with debt, feeding corporate corruption, opening concentration camps for Muslims and bombing thousands of people to death. But those acts are almost too monstrous to comprehend. Americans easily understand the myriad of little lies--the faked Jessica Lynch "rescue," the phony Saddam statue toppling and now the Niger uranium story--and how they add up to the character of a man unworthy of the office he holds.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=%2F030716%2F7%2F4pblk.html

[dand]

1. *'s balls need kicking

LMAO, thanks for the great article.

[rasputin1952]

2. Hi Catwoman!...

Isn't it nice to know 'dignity was restored to the White House'?


:hi:

[CatWoman]

3. Hi, Rasp!!!!

:hi:

don't forget the honor.

Gots to have the honor, too :D

[Ekaterina]

4. whooo hooo

BURN BABY BURN

:bounce:

[RedSox02]

5. We're "United not divided"

Just as * promised during his campaign whenever he couldn't answer a tough question. He's right. He did unite the world agaisnt us. I hated listening to this guy always say "Hey look, I may not know anything, or have any business being President, but I'm a uniter, not a divider. Gosh darn it peopel will like me".

[Atlant]

6. * has balls? (NT)

[CatWoman]

7. I think that's what the socks he stuck down in his crotch

when he was on the Lincoln was supposed to represent :D

[Sophree]

8. And this

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Almost immediately after receiving it from the British, CIA (news - web sites) analysts determined that the Niger info was probably bogus. According to The New York Times, CIA director George Tenet then personally met with Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley--Condi Rice's right-hand man--to make sure Bush didn't mention Niger uranium ore anymore. The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency went further, determining that Iraq simply didn't have a nuke program. Based on these facts, "The reference was omitted when Mr. Bush gave speech in Cincinnati on October 7." And it stayed out of Bush's talks until it suddenly popped up in the State of the Union--despite more CIA warnings. Even then, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) refused to use it in his presentation to the UN a week later. "It was not standing the test of time," said a squeamish Powell.


Behold Slaughtergate's smoking gun: Not only had the CIA had told the White House about the Niger forgery in October 2002, the White House had gotten the message. Nonetheless Bush, after months of excising that argument from his speeches, revived it in January 2003 for use in what is traditionally the most widely watched TV appearance a president makes each year.