BUSH: “We have discovered the true enemy — that overwhelming majority of the Iraqi people who want US troops to leave immediately. They are a ruthless enemy, and we will not surrender until we have defeated them.”
Or at least that’s how I heard it.
Category Archives: Government
torture: it’s what’s for dinner
US PEOPLE: Torture is really really really really really bad, and we shouldn’t do it.
US GOVT: OK, makes sense. We’ll outlaw it from this day forward.
CHENEY: “Except when the CIA wants to do it”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102402051.html.
US GOVT: Yes, except when the CIA wants to do it.
US PEOPLE: Nooooo!
ORWELL: Oh, fer crissakes.
stupidity != security
US GOVT: We’ve decided to “protect” you by giving you a little dealy that “broadcasts your personal and sensitive information”:http://news.com.com/Passports+to+get+RFID+chip+implants/2100-7348_3-5913644.html?tag=nefd.top. What do you think? Great, huh?
US PEOPLE: Nooooo! That’s really stupid.
US GOVT: OK, maybe we won’t. Ask your opinion, that is.
US PEOPLE: Nooooo!
ORWELL: Oh, fer crissakes.
Iraq, revisited
Updates from my previous post, in case you’re still keeping score:
* Weapons of Mass Destruction found before invasion: 0
* Weapons of Mass Destruction declared by US before invasion: LOTS
* US Cost in dollars: 200,000,000,000
* US military deaths: 2,000
* Iraqi civilians killed: 26,690
* Weapons of Mass Destruction found after invasion: 0
* Iraqis who “strongly oppose” the continuing occupation: 82%
* Americans who think the U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq: 55%
* U.S. timeline to leave Iraq: NONE
rights down the tubes
I have no response to this. A high-school kid makes a protest poster as a civics project (to illustrate our right to dissent), and he gets visited by the Secret Service after being turned in by… Wal-Mart. Made up? Laughable? Something out of 1984 or Brazil? Nope, it’s the truth.