Political Jackass

NEW YORK (CNN) — A Republican congressman from North Carolina told CNN on Wednesday that the “evidence is clear” that Iraq was involved in the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.

“Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11,” Rep. Robin Hayes said.

Told no investigation had ever found evidence to link Saddam and 9/11, Hayes responded, “I’m sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places.”

Hayes, the vice chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism, said legislators have access to evidence others do not.

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said that Saddam was a dangerous man, but when asked about Hayes’ statement, would not link the deposed Iraqi ruler to the terrorist attacks on New York, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania. Read More…

On 8 May, while driving home to Chicago from a trip to Canada, a Chicago businessman was held at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel border checkpoint by the Department of Homeland Security, where he says he was shackled to a chair for over three hours, repeatedly kicked while being searched, and isolated from his family for over six hours, over a case of mistaken identity. Read more…

After reading a transcript of Bush’s speech tonight, I decided to use a little bit of satire and poetic license by comparing this war with sports. Bush being the coach, the soldiers being the home team, and the Iraqi insurgents being the opposing team. And Bush’s speech tonight was a pep rally and nothing more. Here is the satirical version of the war on Iraq…

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Taken from Blogstadt

Family

Ahmadinejad: father was a blacksmith with no political connections

Bush: father was a congressman, Director of the CIA, Vice-President of the US, President of the US, and from established, wealthy, and politically connected family

Lifestyle

Ahmadinejad: as mayor of Tehran, decided not to move into mayor?s mansion,lived in his modest, working-class home among the people instead

Bush: lived in governor?s mansion in Texas and has never lived among the people as a politician

Outsourcing of Jobs

Ahmadinejad: believes Iran should keep jobs in Iran for Iranians

Bush: during his term, millions of jobs have been outsourced to offshore locations and there has been virtually no enforcement of the immigration law meant to protect the citizens and workers of America.

Nuclear Power

Ahmadinejad: Iran has a right to develop nuclear power

Bush: US has a right to both nuclear power and nuclear weapons, but says Iran?s nuclear program is meant for production of weapons of mass destruction ( nuclear weapons)

Workers and Big Business

Ahmadinejad: wants to help poor people, favors small businesses over big business

Bush: wants to help the rich get richer, favors big business over small business

Campaign Spending

Ahmadinejad: spent nothing on campaign

Bush: spent over $345 million dollars in last election, enough to feed a lot of people

Margin of Victory

Ahmadinejad: won by a huge margin

Bush: In terms of popular votes, Bush won by the smallest margin of any sitting president since Harry Truman, and in 2000 he received approximately 500,000 fewer popular votes than opponent Al Gore but won with the help of the same Supreme Court that recently ruled that cities may take your home away from you and give it to big business for the ?good of the people?.

Education

Ahmadinejad: Ph.D.

Bush: MBA

Interesting, don’t you think?

A few quick updates. Bush is bad and lies. 52% Now Say Bush “Intentionally Misled The American Public” Into Iraq War.

The Supreme Court (or the majority of) are treading that thin line of stupidity. Did they forget about the separation of church and state? Of course they said it is okay in some instances. What the hell is that? If this would have been the “sacred writings” of any other religion, then they would have never made it up on the walls to begin with. And what would they have been screaming the entire way? Separation of Church and State. It’s nice when you can adopt the Constitution to meet your needs and agenda isn’t it?

Chris Mooney has some thoughts on the GOP and their abuse of science.

Dick Cheney – “The insurgency in Iraq is in its last throes.”

Donald Rumsfeld – “The insurgency could go on for any number of years.”

And also…

Donald Rumsfeld – Meetings between U.S. representatives and insurgents “go on all the time.”

Army General George Casey – “Not yet,” on a question of whether U.S. forces had met with “known leaders of the insurgency.”

Bush’s revision to the Clean Air Act, which many scientists believe hurts the environment even more, is strengthened by the US Courts.

WASHINGTON, June 24 – A federal appeals court sided with the Bush administration on Friday, upholding its revisions of the Clean Air Act to allow plant operators to modernize without installing expensive new pollution control equipment. The ruling turned back challenges to the revisions by New York, California and a dozen other states. Read More…