Yes, Molly keep it up!
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Molly - you’ve got it all wrong:

1) How do you know our anti-missile defence concept doesn’t work, and can’t work?  Are you an expert in this field?

2) NK just fired their missile, so your apparent assertion that they weren’t really going to is… well… wrong.

3) “in the meantime, it [NK] has come to doubt U.S. sincerity on these pledges”.  How exactly do you know what’s going on in the mind of Kim Jong-Il?

4) You accuse the current policy of being a failure, when the failure was obviously of the previous policy, brokered by Carter for Clinton, which allowed NK to develop nuclear weapons under our nose.

Molly, although I like your approach to the neo-facist cabal(right-wing republican extremist) I respectfully must disagree with you. Your primis about the StarWars weapons systems is flawed. This is no fault of your own, but your information comes from the very source which wants to keep their new multi-billion dollar toys secret. All the information put out to the public about SDI is BS. It does work and has been in place since the early nineties according to my research. Don’t take my word for it. Do your own research. The US Armys website has info on “THEL” (Tatical High Energy Laser), and no, it is no longer in the test stages, it is a deployed weapon system built by the Rayethon Company. This is only one example of a deployed weapon system currently operating in the US military arsenal. There are a whole host of others. Microwaves, Scalar(http://WWW.CHENIERE.ORG),Partical Beam and Acoustic weapons. Some of the systems are already space-based and are in direct violation to several UN Treaties. So no idiot( including Kim Il Jung ) is going to shoot a tactical ICBM at the US, it will be in a cargo container or some other mudane form of transportation. When one discovers, as I have , the truth behind these weapon systems,and realizes that the systems leave ICBM’s completely useless, one must ask the question. What is the real reason for these systems?

So, “Kim Jong-Il is a nutcase”. That’s like the kettle calling the pot black ain’t it?

Interesting. $130 Billion, you say. Yikes!

Every policy this administration pursues is flawed and Unconstitutional.  They violate the 1st Amendment by forcing book outlets to stop stocking the book “America Deceived” by E.A. Blayre III and caging peaceful protestors.  They violate the 4th Amendment by illegally wire-tapping EVERYONE’s phones.  They violate the entire Consitution by starting illegal wars.  At least, their Korea policy is Constitutional, so far.
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The only solution is:
Paper Ballots, Hand Counted
Paper Ballots, Hand Counted
Paper Ballots, Hand Counted
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Paper Ballots, Hand Counted

Yell it far and wide until every one understands—there is a way out, legal, constitutional, and correct….we VOTE THEM OUT via

Paper Ballots, Hand Counted
Paper Ballots, Hand Counted
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Paper Ballots, Hand Counted

My answer to “Cut and Run”

Let’s’ CUT OFF the flow of greed, lying and corruption and RUN OFF the current Republican regime.

Racial supremicism is the central logic of the neocons. They have no ideology or religion,these are used only to rally support. This is why we see so much cronyism and corruption.The neocons have harnessed power to serve capital but only that of the correct races.

c u n d gulag

Well done dear son, twas welly done, we wish to say to thee kaer frum. Well done.

I have long believed that the real reason it takes so long to make good sense deals, is that the real government isn’t the dully elected democratic government that we believe we have.

Isn’t it strange that the boogie man of the day always appears as we are about get solutions to real problems, insuring that Congress will spend money on useless weapons systems for a strange war?

Dear uncle Tom,
If we carry on letting you grownups ‘handle things’. Petty soon there won’t be anywhere for us kids to play….or kids to play!

PB

So Tom, is it a grown up act to threaten everybody on the block? Don’t reasonable adults sit down and talk things out with out resorting to violence? Do adults play act out childish fantasies by dressing up as cowboys and fighter pilots? Isn’t it spoiled brats who get mad when they don’t get their way and throw a temper tantrum?
Yes, you on the right like to pretend that you’re the grown ups, but as of yet, you’re actions haven’t been successful in solving any problems, only creating more. And to continue on repeating the same actions over and over and expecting different results than the ones acheived is a sign of insanity.
Congratulations, you’re a nut job!

Sorry, a typo.  In order to keep the original plurals and rhyme, and to keep today’s venacular, it should have read:
“Beware the Jabbertalk, my son!
The sounds that bite, the talks that point!”

The defence system is really about fulfilling the neocon dream of an American twenty first century with the US dominating the world in every possible theatre

Mission Accomplished… Take a quick look at ‘pop’ culture worldwide. We (americans) have effectively subjugated the planet, if not militarily, at least socially.

We suck, and need to be collectively bitch-slapped back into reality.

We spend wayyy too much, and the deflating dollar resulting from Shrub’s penchant for imperialism will be just what we yanks needed…

Boy, go out and cut yerself a switch…

Hmm, brings to mind a little tiff between Truman and General Macarthur or Dug-out Doug as the WWII marines fighting in the Philippines liked to call him (for leaving the Philippines when the Japanese came for tea while leaving the marines to ask them one lump or two) when Macarthur wanted to flatten North Korea with nuclear bombs during the Korean war. Truman won, Macarthur lost. Of course Bush is no Truman.

It is good thing Bush is around to bring stability to the world eh? Right now Israel is bent on removing the Palestinian government and calling the Palestinian civilians they are now killing on wholesale basis terrorists. Want to kill people and look good? Why just kill a terrorist. Of course this certainly has echoes of a certain super power and Iraq with the removal of their government and a killing of terrorists. I guess we are setting new high standards as a responsible leader of the world.

I am racking my brain as to just which Bush policy has been successful. The policy of invading Iraq? Nope. Tax cuts to improve the economy? Nope. Insulting every country in the world? Nope. Come to think of it do we actually want Bush to fix anything? Nope.

Here are some suggestions of what Bush might do as president and not really hurt anything such as reading the news, learning how to tie his shoes, sitting quietly at home, getting lots of sleep and rest, setting his alarm clock and or eating a bowl of wheaties. I think these are within the range of some real possibilities of things Bush might accomplish with no harm done to him or the world.

No doubt our stellar success story in Iraq has convinced the Bush administration with all-stars like Rummy the grand strategist, Rice with her snap, crackle and pop, Cheney the historian and Mid-East expert that mindless aggression is a winner.

And how do Japan and China feel about all this? After all they are in hit and missile range of North Korea being intimate neighbors and all. Surly they must be so enthusiastic about Bush starting a war with North Korea and bringing stability to the world. Why don’t we ask the Japanese how they felt when North Korea popped a missile right over their heads? But that is the kind of thing that happens when you have leaders who think war is the first resort.

To paraphrase Denis Diderot:

“Americans will never be free until the last Republican is strangled with the entrails of the last Democrat.”

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Another cool article Molly.  Keep it up.

JABBERTALKY
With apologies to Lewis Carroll

`Twas brillig, and the slithy Roves
  Did Snow and Cheney on the tube:
All flimsy were the Neo-cons,
  And the George Wraths outgrave.

“Beware the Jabbertalk, my son!
  The sounds that bite, the talk that point!
Beware the Malkin bird and shun
  The frumious Coultersnatch!”

He took his Froomkin sword in hand:
  Long time the Factor foe he sought—
So rested he by the Dumbdumb tree,
  And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in Bushish thought he stood,
  The Jabbertalk, with tongues of flame,
Came Rushing through the TV wood,
  And Savaged as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
  The Froomkin blade went facty-fact!
He left it dead, and with its head
  He went galumphing back.

“And, has thou slain the Jabbertalk?
  Come to my arms, my webish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
  He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy Roves
  Did Snow and Cheney on the tube:
All flimsy were the Neo-cons,
  And the George Wraths outgrave.

We have bankrupted the Country,
  We have alienated our allies,
      We have broken the world.
  “Mission Accomplished”

I got an idea! Instead of starting wars we can’t finish, let’s try a 180 and start ending the ones we have on hand, Korea for example.  Better late than never, and we could send our 35,000 gravel agitators to Afganistan to warm up.

I suppose anyone with a past they’re ashamed or afraid of is good “loyalist” meat.  Politics is just blackmail by another name.

Plenty of beef on the hoof in Washington.

Response to Comment #12720 by Tom on 6/30 at 7:53 am:

Ooh boy, we can go back even further ... back beyond Albert Camus and the Theatre of the Absurd to Lewis Carroll’s (the pseudonym for Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson—isn’t that fun?) and “Through the Looking Glass” where “there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass

It seems to me—just your average citizen who voted for Nixon over Kennedy in 1960, by the way—that Jesus’s admonition to the stronger to make the overture of peace to the weaker is sorely lacking in the Neocon set of transcending ideals ... along with most of those set forth in our founding set of transcending ideals clearly stated in our Declaration of Independence.

Power is so damn useless when you’re lighting the fuse that blows everybody up, like in, “Take that you evil axis, you! Har har har! We showed them bastards.” [Fade to black]

So we should give in to North Korean demand and talk “one on one” with them?  Talk about giving in to the enemies.  I’m very happy you liberals aren’t running our foreign policy - for crying out loud, under Clinton you gave the North Koreans nuclear capability.

Let us grownups run things, you kids go play.

Bless you, Molly. As T-Bone Burnett sings on his latest cd: ‘when you get through all this confusion, you’ll probably need a soul transfusion.’ Amen…and God protect us from these jerks.

We should be grateful that the US missile defence system is as much a propaganda ploy as the North Korean rocket.  I have no doubt that the Bush admin (and probably some Dems as well) want to see a functioning “defence” as well as a whole arsenal of new nukes.  That the US intends to use nukes as soon as it can get away with it has already been signalled.  As soon as they can deploy missiles against “enemies” without having to fear retaliation, that is what they will do.  The defence system is really about fulfilling the neocon dream of an American twenty first century with the US dominating the world in every possible theatre, while protecting its own behind the anti missile missiles.  Long may the programme continue to fail, for once it starts working everyone will suffer.

Here’s a suggestion on how to deal with Korea: leave. Why are we there 55 years after the Korean War started. Koreans are grownups, and can handle their own problems. They are literally not going to nuke their own brothers.

By the way, it would save us lots of money, too.

William ‘The Conqueror’ Perry wants to shoot Kim’s missle on the ground- the same way Cheney hunts quail. Star Wars is a fitting analogy for this administration. They’ve all been seduced by the dark side. You’ve got Dubya as Darth Vader, Cheney as the Emporer and Sensenbrenner(sic)(sick) as Jabba the Hut. We all know that the Crawford ranch is a massive prop, and that W is equinaphobic. You’ve got the ghost of Ronnie the Rawhide as Obi Wan whispering to Arbusto, ‘Use the Horse’.

This truly is the theater of the absurd.  Bushco are small- time thugs who have been waiting in the wings of government for years, bereft of power, relegated to the side-lines as whackos, powerless and ridiculed. They’re still whackos, but now they’re in power, a power that they will not give up without a fight. Consumed by it, their decisions are based solely on maintaining it.  The question is how long will the American people support these demagogues whose only interest is maintaining their new-found power.

First off, I agree with you, Molly, that the Gang Who Can’t Shoot Straight will be able to use an insanity defense at their war crimes trials ... if we can ever get to that.

In the meantime, I would suggest that we consider their irrational behavior to be in the nature of theatre of the absurd ... designed to create the new Neocon un-reality, perpetuating them in power.

All these hoops and twists of illogic are meant to isolate the loyalists from the rationalists ... and document same for the future roundup of the “unpatriotic”. Or at it least that is what they WERE thinking ...

But now they have screwed things up so bad that the loyalist pool is shrinking to the point where they won’t be able to round up the rest of us ...

So these guys are going to have to do something really, really absurd to frighten the bejabbers out of us and get us back in line, or they’re gonna go to prison ...

These guys aren’t gonna go to prison, if they can help it ... not while they still have their finger on the button.

Keep in mind the Neocon dictums, “If you are not willing to use the power you have, you don’t deserve to have it.” and “Power is increased by creating loyalty to power.”

So, the Neocons use their power to build loyalty by crushing opposition, thereby increasing their power ...

Religion is the Neocons’ emotional glue for bonding people to their power.

What will save us in the end is that they really are the Gang Who Can’t Shoot Straight.