And we have pursued the war on terror in Iraq. Our coalition (sic) enforced the demands of the U.N. Security Council, in one of the swiftest and most humane(sic)military campaigns in history. Because of our military, catastrophic weapons will no longer be in the hands of a reckless dictator. not that they ever were, at least not here. Now North Korea, that’s another story.(Applause.)

Because of our military, Middle Eastern countries no longer fear subversion and attack by Saddam Hussein. Because of our military, the torture chambers in Iraq are closed except for the ones we’re operating and people who speak their minds need not fear execution. Because of our military, the people of Iraq are free or dead. (Applause.)

Number of people fired at CBS for airing a story based on false information: 4
Number of people fired from the Bush administration for going to war where over 1200 Americans and countless Iraqis have died based on false information: 0 (unless you count Chalabi–then 1).
Am I making a bigger deal out of this than it is?

Somehow I doubt that your suggestions worked their way into the mix, though, Adam.

First off, he could start by looking in a mirror. Second, there were no foul-ups. The Bush league deliberately either altered or ignored the facts to justify what they wanted to do. The CIA could have said that Hussein had converted his weapons systems to gardening tools and the admin would have changed it to say that Saddam was farming out weapons. W’s conscience is clean but only because to have one requires a soul. The ends justified the means, and by ends I mean assholes.

You know, I still hear from people in my neck of the woods about how we HAD to go into Iraq because of 9-11. I know it’s nowhere near what Murray has to put with, but for a college town it makes me want to pound some people’s faces in when I hear it.

“The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to oil profits. NO! peace. Iraq has answered a decade of U.N. demands with a decade of defiance that really wasn’t defiant at all. More like a grudging teenager. Heh, heh. Those twins really are somethin’. All the world now faces a standardized test foisted on you by the “No nation left behind” act, and the United Nations a (sic) difficult and defining moment. Goddammit, can’t my speechifiers even get it right in print? Oh, sorry. Where was I? Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence like that one I made over New Year’s to stop eating pretzels? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant like Dade county?”

I continue to be both appalled and amazed at Bush’s arrogance. He must be inhuman. What kind of psychological defect does it take to be so lacking in human decency that the man cannot admit that he made a mistake? And what the hell is wrong with his so-called advisors (toadies, really) who fall all over themselves to tell Bush what he wants to know? Are there really that many defective people, and are they really running our country?

Someone wake me up, please!

But what the sexual intercourse is that supposed to mean? How can a missson which is over, which has been discontinued, which has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile, is an ex-mission, now be focused elsewhere?