J. McCutchen "JmacSF"

San Francisco. CA

Cheney knows where all the bodies are buried. He buried them.  Bush better let him do whatever in the hell he wants or else Democrats might start asking questions....no?

Why U.S. Intelligence Failed, Redux
By Robert Parry By Robert Parry


Paul Pillar, the CIA's senior intelligence analyst for the Middle East from 2000 to 2005, has written a critique of the Bush administration's handling of pre-war intelligence on Iraq that, in effect, corroborates the British “Downing Street Memo” in accusing the Bush administration of rigging the evidence to justify the invasion.
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Unlike the fictional president in Tom Clancy's “Sum of All Fears” – who was tricked into that “really bad information” – Bush and his team have actively sought out the bad information and assembled it as justification for going to war. This administration, which can sometimes act in a manner stranger-than-fiction, didn't just peer into the fog of war. It set up the fog machine. 

Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek.


Are the any who wonder why Pat Roberts tried to kill the Senate's investigation into Bush's use of intelligence - until the Democrats stopped the coverup, he almost suceeded.

I am not sure CheneyBush still won't. RU?  With oppositon like this, do they need friends like Pat Roberts?

If they're trying to hide something, they've something to hide

I want to know why it is acceptable for Cheney and Whittington to be able to run around on unofficial business at a ranch in Texas for weekends with two younger women who were not their wives? Different set of values I guess. Where was Mrs. Cheney? What were these geezers doing with these two women? Something isn't right with this picture.

Someone said a fool is someone who doesn't suspect himself.  Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld are fools.  They run all over the place creating havoc and destruction, devastation, disaster, catastrophe, and shambles and wonder what happen.  A fool is someone who doesn't suspect himself.

It will be interesting to see how Bush and Cheney respond now that the hunting accident has gotten serious--or now that the seriousness of the event has emerged.  Will Bush force Cheney to make a public "mea culpa"?  Cheney's behavior up to now suggests not, but perhaps his hangover will lift enough for him to see the incredible damage he's doing to their operation. 

The presidency has always seemd more like a triumvirate (Cheney-Rove-Bush) rather than a traditional presidency.  Bush seems happy just to have credit for being the president, while the other two enjoy wielding power behind the scenes. 

Both Cheney and Rove have gotten carried away with their power, but it's probably be too late for Bush to effectively assert dominance even if he wants to.  The White House is filled with blindered flunkies who can't really help him.  As JmacSF says, Cheney knows too much--they're all afraid to anger him.  Why, he could probably tell us the real story of Bush's astonishing pretzel incident.

Type <failure> into Google, and then press 'I feel Lucky' and see what you get.

Bush is a failure and just a carnival barker for a bunch of very sick people, neo-cons, Cheney et.al. Vonnegut calls them psychopathic personalities. They care not how many they kill or ruin, including the 78 year old in Texas or the charnel house of Iraq. Vonnegut compares them to Kenny Boy Lay, a man who can ruin a huge company and the livelihoods of tens of thousands of workers and investors, and show no remorse.