Iraq is the war Bush admitted we could not win. He still believes that, but Cheney and Rove won’t let him say so (Rove took away his Bud and Pretzels for a week over that one). Instead the Rebublicans continue to spew propaganda to justify their childish rush to take over the sandbox of the world.

Straight off whitehouse.gov we have a full paragraph of Bush’s speech, “Through our history, America has gone to war reluctantly, because we have known the costs of war. And the war on terror we’re fighting today has brought great costs of its own. Since the hour this nation was attacked, we have seen the character of the men and women who wear our country’s uniform. In places like Kabul and Kandahar, in Mosul and Baghdad, we have seen their decency and their brave spirit. Because of their fierce courage, America is safer, two terror regimes are gone forever, and more than 50 million souls now live in freedom.”

One reads that, thinks, then sees “I know you don’t want war, but since we were atacked we must go to war. There is no difference between Iraq and Afganistan. America is safer because of the war (this is why I can’t take nail clippers on an airplane flight). We have toppled all of the evildoer regimes (mission accomplished), but we still have to stay because we are not done yet. Of course a Democratic reads that and thinks “How long did Bushie have to practice saying Kandahar?”

What? We’re not done? What are we waiting for? Perhaps the day Halliburton bleeds the county dry, loses interest, packs up, and leaves.

Bush then went on to imply that pulling out of Iraq now would make the deaths of soldiers worthless because one would experience “the feeling of sadness over an unfinished life”. He has the gall to use letters from dead soldiers to make his point. Just like the Army has lied about Pat Tillman’s cause of death, so do they threaten soldiers with an inevitable feeling of worthlessness if we do not stay and fight the county that tried to kill his daddy.

OK, I gave the big guys a chance to report this, but alas they are afraid. Once again it is left to the tiny, internet blogs to propogate the truth. In a nutshell this memo proves Bush was determined to invade Iraq…regardless of the WMD outcome.

The date of the memo is July 23, 2002. From David Manning, at the time the Foreign Policy Advisor to Blair, from Matthew Rycroft, a foreign policy aide. On a side note, Manning is now UK ambassador to the US. It appears the USA is not the only country that promotes incompetence.

The memo outlines the US intentions to wage war on Iraq. “Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” reported the memo.

The date of the infamous “decapitation strike” ordered by the Bush crime family was 3/19/03. One month earlier, on February 20, 2003, CBS reported that UN inspectors reported US tips about WMD locations in Iraq to be “garbage”. That leaves about 7 months in which Bush knew he wanted to invade, versus the time he let the inspectors do their thing. How much patience can a man have?

Bush used his power to wage a war on a country that had no capacity to harm the USA. He knew it, and he intended to do it. Is this worse than letting Monica do her deeds on the president? You bet. Impeach the greedy Republican Whore and turn the whole lot of them over to the World Court for crimes against humanity.

Let’s put this in terms the Radical, right-wing Republicans can understand. Karl Rove is the devil. Rove is the personification of the wickedness that abides in the world. Ezekiel 28 discusses the slander and gossip satan used to recruit good angels to the dark side. The Bible implies Satan (eg, Rove, eg the devil - only Mick Jagger know how many names for sure), through his lying and gossip, turned one-third of the angelic host against God (Rev. 12:3-4).

This is kind of like Rove roaming around Texas looking for angels on the fence, looking to build support for his contention. He would offer them things and expect payback later. Priscilla Owen is one of his recruited angels. Her record shows she has been performing well for him.

Priscilla Owen, a Texas Supreme Court justice, is one of the first judicial nominees Bush sent to the Senatein May 2001, renominated in January 2005. She is 50, divorced, no children, and a sunday school teacher. If she were a Democrate nominee, Congress would ask her if she masterbates.

Owens favored an interpretation of a Texas parental notification law for teen abortions that the Legislature doesn’t seem to have written into the statute. In other words, she brough it on herself to make up new law at the bench.

In 1994, she paid Karl Rove $250,000 to serve as a consultant in her 1994 judicial campaign. Her investment paid off many times receiving contributions from Enron and Halliburton. While serving on the bench, Owens refused to recuse herself on cases involving Enron and Halliburton. In all cases, she issued decisions which were in favor of her campaign contributors.

At her first confirmation hearing, senators said she took a year and a half to issue an opinion that involved a young man injured in a truck accident. The man, who was on a respirator, died when the family could not afford nursing care because the appeal delayed the multimillion-dollar verdict. In her response at the time, Justice Owen did not address the delay but told senators, "There are a lot of cases that tug at the heartstrings, but I have to follow the law." What a gal.

Owens is just another way for the power-hungry republican whores to take more control of the government and kill the checks and balances of the past. Pleased to meet you, hope you catch my name.

According to the New York Times, the Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is aggressively pressing public television to correct what he and other conservatives at PBS consider liberal bias. Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, said Republican, is mistakenly confusing a liberal bias with conservative malfeasance.

Without the knowledge of his board, chairman Tomlinson contracted last year with an outside consultant to keep track of the guests’ political leanings on one program, “Now With Bill Moyers.” The exact tracking criteria was not released, but they did investigate the bias of the bumperstickers and t-shirts owned by each guest.

Mr. Tomlinson fired PBS president and CEO, Cathleen Cox, in order to replace her with Patrician Harrison. Although there is a national search firm looking into her replacement, Tomlinson has made clear to the board that his choice is Harrison, a former co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee who is now an assistant secretary of state.

Tomlinson has repeatedly criticized public television programs as too liberal overall, and said in a NYTimes interview, “I frankly feel at PBS headquarters there is a tone deafness to issues of tone and balance.” Perhaps it is all the gunfire over in Iraq that has deadened his ear drums.