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Split personality disorder can be a terrible thing.
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December 20, 2006
WB: A Problem With Pronouns
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Watch it Billmon,
One post is too many and a thousand never enough!
Posted by: Iron butterfly | Dec 20 2006 16:49 utc | 1
Especially when there’s a simultaneous diagnosis of shit-personality disorder.
Posted by: American | Dec 20 2006 16:52 utc | 2
Revisionism from another stupid person:
Was Iraq a direct threat to UK?
Humphrys told her: “Carne Ross said at no time did her majesty’s government assess that Iraq’s WMD or any other capability posed a threat to the UK or its interests.”
Mrs Beckett replied: “No one put that argument. What we put was the argument that he [Saddam Hussein] was a threat to the region and that he had the ambition to be a threat to the wider world and Britain does have interests outside just our own shores.”
Analysis Mr Blair said several times in the run-up to the war that Iraq posed a direct threat to the UK and its interests. In a Commons statement on September 24 2002, to mark the publication of the government dossier Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, he said: “If people say, ‘Why should Britain care?’, I answer, ‘Because there is no way this man, in this region above all regions, could begin a conflict using such weapons and the consequences not engulf the whole world, including this country.”
The dossier included a map of potential targets Iraq could hit, including Cyprus, home of a sovereign British base.
In an interview with CNN on January 13 2003, Mr Blair was even more explicit. “I would never as British prime minister send British troops to war, unless I thought it was necessary, but there is a direct threat to British national security in the trade of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.”
Posted by: Cloned Poster | Dec 20 2006 17:19 utc | 4
well just to enter the delirium dialectics – what einsteinian notion bush is uttering today, “we are not winning, we are not losing” – & a commentary that calls it “interesting” – well we’re right there with socrates, with avicenne, with vico, with bruno & hegel
what minds – split or otherwise
what phenomenal intelligence – we are such little people when they have such brains & use words like ‘metrics’, “parse” & repeatedly too
such a grasp
such understanding of worlds
such a grip on what was once called language
such imagination
“we are nor winning, we are not losing”
whatever he means by a long war – you know with this butcher bush – he is so slow – that it really really will be long, i imagine much longer than he is thinking – if he is still capable of that process
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Dec 20 2006 17:37 utc | 5
Please forgive me,
I didn’t mean to provide an openning for the likes of #2 to wax scatological.
Posted by: Iron butterfly | Dec 20 2006 17:42 utc | 6
no no iron butterfly, it is my own foggy mornin brain that took the simultaneous diagnosis a bit too personally assuming it might have been us, the very patrons of this establishment (!) the american was referencing…naturally on second thought (of course it didn’t take me 1 1/2 years) realizing i had deficient reading comprehension skills and even less rationality lately which is why i have mainly practicing stfu around the bar.
carry on, never mind.. apologies American
(lets hope i recover some sense before hamburg)
Posted by: annie | Dec 20 2006 18:14 utc | 7
But the carnage goes on, and with no change in the levels of incompetence. For example, Bush has just sent 1,000 staff to work at a new embassy in Baghdad, only six of which speak Arabic. Somehow this is still better than the British effort, because at least the other 994 speak English, which appears to be something our Foreign Secretary can barely aspire to.
Posted by: Cloned Poster | Dec 20 2006 18:26 utc | 8
— and despite a so called Democratic takeover of the Congress, we have Harry Reid tacitly giving W the ok for more troops and the selection of an intelligence committee leader who cannot tell Sunni from Shia.
We are headed for the abyss with no leadership to stand up — to call out this gang of warlocks…
This nation is being destroyed — by who? — by we who will not stop it.
Posted by: Elie | Dec 20 2006 19:05 utc | 9
we have Harry Reid tacitly giving W the ok for more troops
he may have changed his tune.
Reid on the Surge
I don’t believe that more troops is the answer for Iraq. It’s a civil war and America should not be policing a Sunni-Shia conflict. In addition, we don’t have the additional forces to put in there.
Posted by: annie | Dec 20 2006 19:19 utc | 10
breaking news — the national review lies
and this, from yesterday’s wapo article on the liar-in-chief
Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell, a retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that “the active Army is about broken.”
…
Bush chose a different term than Powell. “I haven’t heard the word ‘broken,’ ” he said, “but I’ve heard the word, ‘stressed.’
same ole same ole
it’s like the weather…
we now return you to your today’s feature presentation, groundhog day
Posted by: b real | Dec 20 2006 20:23 utc | 11
not split personality, more like factions. but Steve Clemons says a non-Royal will be the new Saudi ambassador to the U.S.
a first.
he’s loyal to the king, apparently. maybe no Royal wants to be in the position when Bush attacks Iran.
from ArmyTimes via Raw Story
Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, has submitted plans to go ahead with a retirement that is months overdue, according to the U.S. Central Command.
And the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, has indicated in recent months that he also may not stay much longer than the end of this year.
Since they have opposed sending more troops to Iraq, their departures could make it easier for Bush and his new Defense Secretary Robert Gates to switch course in the troubled campaign, where they are considering a short-term surge in forces.
In the meantime, as the neo-cons declare an attack on Iran is justified b/c of the Iranian weapons program, remember they refused to negotiate a deal with Iran in 2003 (when the more reality-based Khatami was prez) over Iran’s nuclear weapons.
After the elections I thought it might be better, strategically, not to impeach, but now I think Cheney and Bush and all their ideological idiots advisors are too dangerous to be allowed to remain in office.
not that the dems will respect the will of the people and get the hell out of the middle east and create energy/jobs here. but at least they aren’t crazy.
Posted by: fauxreal | Dec 21 2006 3:20 utc | 12
Annie at # 10 —
I hope that you are right. Hearing Bush this am was chilling. If I were a duly elected representative of this nation, I would have heard the clarion – “time to step up to take a stand to call out”.
Bush and his folks are megalomaniacal…they will have to be purposely and directly stopped — not manipulated, cajoled or “warned” — directly, perhaps unceremoniously, perhaps physically stopped.
Meanwhile Howdy Doodie and the peanut gallery at the media and other representatives pretend nothing untoward is happening…
We are at the most dangerous period of this country’s history as a functioning democracy….
Posted by: Elie | Dec 21 2006 3:32 utc | 13
faux:
I think John Dean makes a lot of sense in
Refocusing the Impeachment Movement on Administration Officials Below the President and Vice-President:
Why Not Have A Realistic Debate, with Charges that Could Actually Result in Convictions?
Impeaching Bush and Cheney would take two years, and probably just provide the distraction from their otherwise open complicity with the Republicrats’ Middle Eastern Wars that the Demoplicans will be desperately seeking during that time.
If Eliot Abrams had been impeached rather than charged and pled, he would be in his political casket now, a stake driven through his heart, rather than flying about the Middle East after sundown, sucking the blood of innocents, again.
I can think of several off hand who need the staked heart treatment in this regime, Alberto Gonzalez tops my list.
Posted by: John Francis Lee | Dec 21 2006 3:42 utc | 14
elie, i am really hoping people will wake up and take notice. oddly enough 2 friends called me today about the surge. asking if i’d heard and what was up w/that. i think people who don’t normally follow politics are a little surprised. i think there is some anticipation after the election that things would improve. damn, i think we are in for it big time.
Posted by: annie | Dec 21 2006 6:04 utc | 15
Speaking of pronouns, a joke from the 1950s, brief version:
Lone Ranger: It looks like we’re in trouble, Tonto – we’re surrounded by hostile Indians.
Tonto: What you mean we, white man?
Posted by: mistah charley | Dec 21 2006 20:26 utc | 16