The slavish Ms. Perrino states that "Mission Accomplished" might have been a little overstated."
Oh yeah? How about totally wrong, and a lie, to boot?
Rab
· 1 year ago
Yep, our leader wearing his fake flight suit, fake bravado, fake banner, fake war, based on lies, and the media joined right along with this fraud. MSM is a fake.
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
Rab ---------------------------------------------------------------- Perhaps our leader is a fake President? Oh, that's right, he is; wasn't it the Supreme Court who placed him in the slot they wanted?
How totally American of them!
kevinbgoode
· 1 year ago
The American people sold out their ownership of the public airwaves to a cabal of corporate blowhards and fantasy spinners - and then we wonder why people seem so willfully ignorant.
As long as we don't accept how important media reform is in this country, the conditions of our "free" nation will continue to deteriorate until, as Joplin once sang "freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose."
aarrgghh
· 1 year ago
of all the lies the bush administration has told (and continues to tell) about iraq, i must admit that this one has long been a personal favorite:
"in terms of the american taxpayers contribution, [$1.7 billion] is it for the us. the rest of the rebuilding of iraq will be done by other countries and iraqi oil revenues ... the american part of this will be 1.7 billion. we have no plans for any further-on funding for this." — usaid director andrew natsios, 4/23/03
Polly_Tics
· 1 year ago
kevinbgoode 2 minutes ago ------------------------------------------------------ I truly hate to say this, but who the heck is free these days?
We have no habeas corpus, no guarantee of non torture within capture, a breakdown of rules protecting the citizens from government intervention and a legal system that has been "FIXED".
None of this looks oh so FREE to me these days...
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
When they first started calling themselves "the media" instead of "the press" I knew they had no idea about what the First Amendment meant.
michaelt
· 1 year ago
on the lighter side, i quit smoking 5 months ago and i feel terrific!
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
They were mesmerized by Chimpy's Codpiece.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
O&W: but Ms. Perrino is so damn cute. i am not a sexist but sure have noticed how corporations fucking the planet or just plain consumers all use females as they believe women are more trusted not to lie and won't be questioned as deeply. I guess the part about lying is true with Perrino. Do these people make so much money and have so much power that the relish lying for the Bush Administration. It is bad enough for the leaders to lie directly to us, but, when their minions do it with impunity we need to take stock of what the hell this country is all about.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
heckuva job, president chimpy mcflightsuit, heckuva job. so much for being The War President.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
michaelt, congratulations! I've wanted to quit for a long time, but if I tried to at this point, I'd probably open a vein...maybe after Nov. when we elect President Obama and can see some light at the end of this interminable tunnel.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
scathing post by bill in portland maine at dkos on the talking heads drooling over commander codpiece 5 years ago... warning: if your gag reflex is strong, don't even bother...
I used to smoke as well, and heck, I still have "guilt" dreams of smoking...so it really does stick with you for years to come. But I stopped about 31 years ago and have been ciggie free ever since. It was a tough fight in the beginning, but it can be done!
cosanostradamus
· 1 year ago
. Wrong answer.
The "mission" was accomplished: We moved our rent-a-cops from the sacred soil of "Saudi" Arabia to the most convenient spot nearby, where they'll remain for a hundred years, always ready to prop up the somewhat shaky Royal House of Saud. And safeguard all that bloody oil for Dubya's buddies in the bidniz.
In trade for the new base, we're giving Iran the oil fields in southern Iraq. OK, maybe that wasn't part of the original mission, but you know how it is with mission creep. You know, like the Kurdish-Turkish war we're now a part of. And the whole enchilada we've helped roll in Pakistan. And the return of the poppy trade to Afghanistan. Lovely flowers. Cheaper heroin, too, lovely, lovely heroin.
And then there's the "Restart-The-Cold-War-With-Russia" part of the Mission. I'd say it has been a remarkably successful eight years for Bushco. This is MUCH better than the old cold war. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, military-industrial complex/ national security state!!! BOOO-YAH!!!
Oh, I almost forgot the $100+/gal gas part of the mission, a goal Dubya shares with his former (?) bidniz partner, Osama Bin Laden. So nice to see the boys cooperating on something again.
Dubya was a pilot, y'know. Yeah. Y'can tell by the way he flies the country. And the way he's completely co-opted and discredited the press. .
lynchie
· 1 year ago
U.S. government has Nelson Mandela on terrorists watch list.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation "embarrassing,
She vows to try to fix it. She is an incompetent boob. She is Secretary of State, phone Chertoff and tell him to take his name off the list are we so fucking incompetent as a government we need to pass special bills can't any of these people just do their jobs? I guess this answers my question.
TheLeftIsRight
· 1 year ago
You just gotta love the Bush administration. The latest spin on Bush's trip to the aircraft carrier 5 years ago is that the "Mission Accomplished" banner only applied to the mission performed by people on that ship, not the overall war. I guess that all the statements about how we are winning the war are also not "specific enough" and mean we are winning the war everywhere there is peace...
"President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said 'mission accomplished' for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission," White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. "And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner."
LeslieB
· 1 year ago
Gotta love how Bush says we're safer, while the State Dept. says we're not. Who's telling the truth...? [3 guesses and the first 2 don't count.]
So how many stories about Rev. Wright will the MSM do today?
cosanostradamus
· 1 year ago
. Oh yeah. Forgot the domestic part of the "Mission:" Shredding the Constitution, and making us love it! It's all good! .
This is how Bush / McCain plan to enslave you Americans.
The Bush administration is refusing to disclose internal e-mails, letters and notes showing contacts with major telecommunications companies over how to persuade Congress to back a controversial surveillance bill, according to recently disclosed court documents.
The existence of these documents surfaced only in recent days as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by a privacy group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The foundation (alerted to the issue in part by a NEWSWEEK story last fall) is seeking information about communications among administration officials, Congress and a battery of politically well-connected lawyers and lobbyists hired by such big telecom carriers as AT&T and Verizon. Court papers recently filed by government lawyers in the case confirm for the first time that since last fall unnamed representatives of the telecoms phoned and e-mailed administration officials to talk about ways to block more than 40 civil suits accusing the companies of privacy violations because of their participation in a secret post-9/11 surveillance program ordered by the White House.
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Oh yeah? How about totally wrong, and a lie, to boot?
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Perhaps our leader is a fake President? Oh, that's right, he is; wasn't it the Supreme Court who placed him in the slot they wanted?
How totally American of them!
As long as we don't accept how important media reform is in this country, the conditions of our "free" nation will continue to deteriorate until, as Joplin once sang "freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose."
"in terms of the american taxpayers contribution, [$1.7 billion] is it for the us. the rest of the rebuilding of iraq will be done by other countries and iraqi oil revenues ... the american part of this will be 1.7 billion. we have no plans for any further-on funding for this."
— usaid director andrew natsios, 4/23/03
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I truly hate to say this, but who the heck is free these days?
We have no habeas corpus, no guarantee of non torture within capture, a breakdown of rules protecting the citizens from government intervention and a legal system that has been "FIXED".
None of this looks oh so FREE to me these days...
so much for being The War President.
warning: if your gag reflex is strong, don't even bother...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/1/7385...
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CONGRATS!
I used to smoke as well, and heck, I still have "guilt" dreams of smoking...so it really does stick with you for years to come. But I stopped about 31 years ago and have been ciggie free ever since. It was a tough fight in the beginning, but it can be done!
Wrong answer.
The "mission" was accomplished: We moved our rent-a-cops from the sacred soil of "Saudi" Arabia to the most convenient spot nearby, where they'll remain for a hundred years, always ready to prop up the somewhat shaky Royal House of Saud. And safeguard all that bloody oil for Dubya's buddies in the bidniz.
In trade for the new base, we're giving Iran the oil fields in southern Iraq. OK, maybe that wasn't part of the original mission, but you know how it is with mission creep. You know, like the Kurdish-Turkish war we're now a part of. And the whole enchilada we've helped roll in Pakistan. And the return of the poppy trade to Afghanistan. Lovely flowers. Cheaper heroin, too, lovely, lovely heroin.
And then there's the "Restart-The-Cold-War-With-Russia" part of the Mission. I'd say it has been a remarkably successful eight years for Bushco. This is MUCH better than the old cold war. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, military-industrial complex/ national security state!!! BOOO-YAH!!!
Oh, I almost forgot the $100+/gal gas part of the mission, a goal Dubya shares with his former (?) bidniz partner, Osama Bin Laden. So nice to see the boys cooperating on something again.
Dubya was a pilot, y'know. Yeah. Y'can tell by the way he flies the country. And the way he's completely co-opted and discredited the press.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-30-w...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation "embarrassing,
She vows to try to fix it. She is an incompetent boob. She is Secretary of State, phone Chertoff and tell him to take his name off the list are we so fucking incompetent as a government we need to pass special bills can't any of these people just do their jobs? I guess this answers my question.
"President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said 'mission accomplished' for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission," White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. "And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner."
So how many stories about Rev. Wright will the MSM do today?
Oh yeah. Forgot the domestic part of the "Mission:" Shredding the Constitution, and making us love it! It's all good!
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Let's all sing the Internationale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOkSoQapeEM
ahhhh...
http://www.first-draft.com/2008/05/a-positive-n...
la la la...karl rove...la la la
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/30/don-si...
The Bush administration is refusing to disclose internal e-mails, letters and notes showing contacts with major telecommunications companies over how to persuade Congress to back a controversial surveillance bill, according to recently disclosed court documents.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/134930
The existence of these documents surfaced only in recent days as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by a privacy group called the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The foundation (alerted to the issue in part by a NEWSWEEK story last fall) is seeking information about communications among administration officials, Congress and a battery of politically well-connected lawyers and lobbyists hired by such big telecom carriers as AT&T and Verizon. Court papers recently filed by government lawyers in the case confirm for the first time that since last fall unnamed representatives of the telecoms phoned and e-mailed administration officials to talk about ways to block more than 40 civil suits accusing the companies of privacy violations because of their participation in a secret post-9/11 surveillance program ordered by the White House.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/134930