3 posts tagged “depression”
It seems like every time another scandal breaks with this administration, there is this hope that this one will be the one, the one so blatantly obscene that it cannot be denied or parsed, the one that will finally make this disgusting regime we find ourselves under fall. So let's recap. We've had:
1. The Downing Street Memo: no one gave a shit, no one paid attention.
2. Abu Ghraib: no one high up on the chain of command is punished. Rush Limbaugh says the soldiers were just having a good time
3. Katrina: Halliburton gets the rebuilding contract.Newt Gingrich blames the residents of the 9th Ward, for being too stupid to get out of the way of the hurricane.
4. The Plame Affair: Libby convicted, may or may not be pardoned by Bush. Oh, also Plame outed herself, the dumb bitch.
5. Walter Reed: It was all those slovenly veterans' fault.
6. The US Attorney Scandal: Clinton did it.
It is enough to make me want to bash my head against a brick wall. The Democrats have finally got the balls to subpoena the relevant parties but Bush will fight it allll the way to the Supreme Court. And you know what? He may win. And his supporters in the pundit world and in the blogosphere keep on tapdancing. I guess when you've gotten to the point where you're parsing the definition of torture you can justify anything. But the cognitive dissonance is maddening. This point has been made over and over and over and over and over again, but since Tony Snow is now attempting to eat his own words, I think it bears repeating. These were the same people who tried to impeach Clinton for getting a blowjob. Even thinking about it makes me want to scream. Can they just publicly clarify that Democrats and Republicans will have completely different legal standards applied to them from here on out.
I try to be optimistic, and tell myself that it is almost over. But I know it can still get worse, in so many ways. Bush has been the president since I was 15 years old. Half of highschool and all of college, I just tried not to think about it. Pondering it, for me, only leads to rage, and then sullenness and depression.
Sadly, No! has an excellent dissection of the so-called "Gathering of Eagles" : a bunch of pro-war demonstrators hanging out at the Vietnam Memorial to prevent it from being attacked by John Kerry and Jane Fonda.
I hate American politics.
Covert operation? What covert operation?
According to Iranian sources, several officers have been abducted in the past three months and the United States has drawn up a list of other targets to be seized with the aim of destabilising Tehran’s military command.
...The first sign of a possible campaign against high-ranking Iranian officers emerged earlier this month with the discovery that Ali Reza Asgari, former commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force in Lebanon and deputy defence minister, had vanished, apparently during a trip to Istanbul. Asgari’s disappearance shocked the Iranian regime as he is believed to possess some of its most closely guarded secrets. The Quds Force is responsible for operations outside Iran. Last week it was revealed that Colonel Amir Muhammed Shirazi, another high-ranking Revolutionary Guard officer, had disappeared, probably in Iraq.
Ohh, that.
"This is no longer a coincidence, but rather an orchestrated operation to shake the higher echelons of the Revolutionary Guard," an Israeli source told The Sunday Times of London newspaper. A U.S. official with knowledge of the operation said the kidnappings were "essential for our understanding of Iranian activity in Iraq," the report said.
In other words, these guys are going to be staying in an Uzbeki prison with electrodes hooked up to their genitals until they tell us if its safe.
Iran Claims Officers Abducted [UPI]
Run Up to WWIII Provides Opportunity for Dick Joke [Wonkette]
