I am a muslim. I deeply believe that “Alqaeda” is a terrorist org. furthermore, I call for trying Bin ladin and the remaining criminals before islamic court and muslim Judges for two reasons:
1- Islamic law is so harsh in dealing with crimes like what those criminals were committing.
2- To show who Islam has nothing to do with their idelogy. They are no different than cheney, ramsfeld, richard berl, and the remaining bandits.

about the British conspiracy>>>>>>>>>>

they told us that they have been monitoring this blot for more than a year. Ok, good for them. But, why were they silent all this time and remembered finally that there is something they want to tell us about it? does this u[comming November have anything to interpret what we are being fed?

Whoa!!!!

I seem to have almost missed quite a dust up.

Let me just say this, about all of that….(LOL)

I don’t give a royal pig’s butt about liberal weenies or conservative constipation and hemorrhoids.

Don’t much care for republicans or democrats. Never have. The Nazis were a political party before they became mass murderers.

But…I despise a liar!!!! Especially one who lies to me, about something really important; like life and death, war and peace, crimes against humanity and such.

Bill Clinton lied to me, when he shook his finger in my face, on color TeeVee, and said that he had never had sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.

I knew he was lying, apprarently, unlike Dianne Feinstien, JoeMentum and numerous other paragons of virtue, who had a moralistic breakdown about it all. (My God, did anyone really believe him?)

The freakin’ flag was falling.

Editoral decisions were made!

“All Monica, all the time.” (Go ahead, goddamn-it, challenge me on that statement, MSNBCers. Hell, I would love a few extra bucks, when I get through suing your asses off)

There were numerous Americans who had no idea who Osaama bin Laden was on 9/11. Osama who? WTF?

Why did Americans not know? This strange dude had declared war on the U.S., had been publically accused of blowing up our embassies and a Naval vessel of ours, in the port of Yemen. ( The People of which, love Qat, I hear)

I will tell you why…...

Because the TeeVee news media, where most Americans still get their “news,” was freakin’ obsessed with Bill Clinton’s penis. Admittedly, it was the presidential penis and, apparently, quite a few members of Congress and the Supreme Court thought it was important in the extreme.

Maybe I am just a dumbass, but I did not consider the whole thing a onstitutional crisis.

Sometimes, I think my head will explode when I think about it.!

Hells bells, I think I could get into a fist fight. I just might.

What the hell is the Moon and Mars in?

Is there any such thing as a “citizen’s arrest” anymore?

Who has the net?

I am about to spin out of control!

Sleep, sleep, Ah, yes, that is the answer, for now.

Yuck, yuck, snark, snark….....

I’m glad you got that off your chest, Paul.

These days it’s hard to really know what being a liberal is all about. Afterall, Tricky Dickie would have to be considered a pinko!

I don’t think there are any true liberals or conservatives any more. I mean it is really hard to tell what’s going on. Conservatives used to be all about fiscal responsibility and against foreign adventurism afterall.

There was a lot of babble about fatherhood and penile dimensions in your post.  I’m not sure what to make of that. I’m not sure I want to know.

It’s just too bad that young George trashed that poor old Alabama lady’s house. Sheesh!

“The bedding had to be hauled out into the street,” says Jackson Stell, a friend of Pryor Smith. “Pryor said there must have been no sheets on the bed, the mattress was so horribly soiled.”

I’m sure with Laura there the White House’s is in much better shape!

Gee,John Earl (#1937),

How did I miss that one? You sure straightened me out!!  I’ll add your impressive Bush misdeed to my list right away, along with the comments from the other insipid weenies..I mean liberals…I mean thoughtful, objective, agenda-free academicians like yourself, who frequent this site. 

John Earl… you don’t mean to tell me that dastardly Bush actually partied (gasp!!!!—he didn’t??!!!) as a young man in the Guard??  How dare he???  As for me (Class of 68 at dear old Brown U), when evil George was at Yale, I relished it.  The Eli were the only team Brown could beat.  And there was no way Yale could drink us down, notwithstanding the considerable personal efforts George made to the contrary.  And we all know that it was Bush’s fault that Yale kept losing to Brunonia. 

Meaning no disrespect, John Earl, but I detect some envy of Mr. Bush on your part (and not penis envy, because one of your sophisticated comrades e-mailed me the small insight that George’s is only 1 inch—Barbara Striesand personally told him so).  And John Earl, we all know that as a liberal, your’s is over 11 inches—in its inert state.  Didn’t Jane Fonda once laud Slick Willie for having big hands?  I digress.  Back to your Bush envy, John Earl, You figure here’s this happy-go-lucky rich, Yale kid who drank away your tax dollars on Guard weekends, instead of disproving the Pythagorean Theorem like you did when you commanded five medal-earning, combat battalions during your active duty. And I don’t doubt, YOU saw action, just like John Kerry.  (an aide: as for me—I only went to Brown—not Harvard like you (you are a liberal, right?).  So, I only served as an enlisted man in the army during the Vietnam War).  Anyway, John Earl, I suspect it bothers you that W somehow actually flew fighter planes (and not just a Tom Crusin), even though your reliable Alabama sources “confirmed” that he never showed up.  This would make W the ultimate fast-learning quick-study!!!  And from Yale to boot!!  And that really bugs you, John Earl, cause we know liberal Harvard men can’t stand conservative Yalies.  Beyond this, though, you resent ole George because you actually had to practice when YOU learned to fly fighter planes.  What’s that you say, John Earl…beyond that, your Dad wasn’t rich and it’s just not fair!! WHAA…WHAAAAA….WHAAAAAA!!

Now, now, John Earl, calm down.  I know this is hard for you to take.  Stop your crying.  Here’s your bottle.  Open your mouth.  There, there. Suck on this.  Daddy will take care of you.  Feel better now?  Al Gore’s whimpering and whining aside, you know who your real Daddy is. Right, John Earl?  There you go, little guy.  Smile for Daddy.  That wasn’t so bad, was it.  You have to admit, W is a likeable, caring Daddy.  Bill may have been a big guy, but he never gave you the bottle—it all went to North Korea and China.  But W really does feel your pain AND, like a good Daddy, he cares for his CHILDREN—for his crying babies.  Make no mistake, John Earl, W’s your Daddy. And if you have any doubts, repeat several times after me: “Who’s in dee White House?? Bush….Bush…Bush, Bush.  Bush. 
Who’s in dee White House?  Bush…Bush, ... Bush, Bush.  You may not have majored in art history at Harvard (didn’t you do an independent study donating sperm to the U.N.‘s artificial insemination bank or was that Woody Allen?), but I know you get the picture. 

From the blog site you sent me to, I know you like to spend money, just not on wasteful things like defense or wild partying.  Didn’t I read on your site that W spent $100 of tax-payers money on booze one weekend? The nerve of that rich kid!!!  As a liberal, you like to spend on useful, more important endeavors.  Slick Willie was the same way.  As president, he did produce the dollars (the highest individual tax rate in our history).  Now, good-ole-boy Bill did something much more honorable than partying and he didn’t have sex (that we know because he told us so)—he gave our tax dollars to North Korea and China, our enemies, along with our nuclear weapon secrets.  What a guy!!!. 

I’m sure, John Earl that like W,  you too fly in Ivy League circles (what with the prowess of your…do I dare…insipid insights).  Actually I’m joking here, John Earl—you went to Harvard, not Brown, so I know you need a dictionary to look up “insipid.”  Your Harvard degree aside, I can tell you need a dictionary by merely reading the incredulousness of your comments.

As a liberal, left-leaning Harvard guy, you remind me of my very first victory over a liberal in 1966.  I am undefeated since then.  You and all your whining progressive, liberal readers will learn from this.  I went to a 1966 mixer in Cambridge, Mass., along with hundreds of New England college kids.  As a clean-cut, church-going, short-haired, blue-blazored, all-american economics major having traditional conservative values, I was talking with two very attractive co-eds.  One, a Radcliffe brunette and the other an extremely sensual Smith hippie.  If I do say so myself, I was scoring points on both fronts and making progress, despite the beating background pulse from Teddy and the Pandas playing “Ounce Upon a Time, number one in New England in 1966).  Along comes, a self-assured, even cocky Harvard , pardon me, snot (majoring in east asian art and minoring in middle eastern linguistics as I recall).  On top of all this, within 30 seconds he made it known that he was interning for good ole Teddy K.  Finally, this offensive, whining weenie, having a slight nasal twang or drip, was complaining about the paucity of attractive women at the mixer.  I thought to myself—bad judgment (he must be a liberal).  He’s saying this in the presence of two outright 10s.  He obviously is attempting to move in and reign on my parade.  He actually says to me in their presence, so you’re from Brown—is that in Providence (snicker)??  Then, his self-destruction begins.  Say when you chaps from Brown defecate, which hand do you use to wipe yourselves??  I said, excuse me??  He repeated the question.  The Smith hippie smiled a little.  I countered, which hand do you Hrvard guys use?  He responded—our left-hands—we’re from Harvard—we’re left-leaning.  Get it, Brownie?  The victory was mine.  Oh I get it asshole (I didn’t use that word in the co-ed’s presence).  You Harvard guys use your left-hand.  We Brown guys are in the right—we use toilet paper.  His silence was defeaning.  He was speechless.  The girls were on the floor laughing.  It was a devastating defeat for the left-leaner.  The Harvard guy, insipid, peacenik weenie that he was, immediately retreated into the woodwork, with his tail between his legs and his sinuses dripping.  The Cliffer said she thought he lived in Harvard’s only fag house (I think she was making that up).  I suspect he spent the rest of the evening alone in his room licking his wounds and bashing Barry Goldwater.  The hippie said he was an asshole anyway—serves him right.  I didn’t disagree.  Meanwhile, the girls were so impressed by the overwhelming victory of someone in the Right, that they eached grabbed an arm and we partied that night away and several others in Providence.  I’m fairly sure that out of the corner of my eye, I caught your Daddy in action—W in his blue blazor, surrounded by women having a good time. 

Learn from this.  You see, it’s easy to beat liberals—they self-destruct because their playbook is old and tired.  Putting the other side down gets old after a while.  After this initial victory in Cambridge, I’ve never looked back.  You folks are a piece of cake.  Liberals never know what to do when someone uses their own playbook on them.  It’s like taking candy from babies.  Watch what I mean.  Please print this and the watch for yourselves as you all self-destruct trying to put me down.  You’ll be crying and complaining, but offering no ideas of your own, other than you hate your Daddy.  And it’s W’s fault bthat you weren’t smart enough to get into Brown, Harvard or Yale.  Right?

Don’t forget Daddy W.

Paul White
In the Right

Paul White, In The Right,

I’m just sorry nothing was mentioned about Bush’s stay in Alabama!

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6487413/alabama_getaway

Mr. White -

Perhaps you failed to notice that after the arrests in England The President attempted to remove $6,000,000 from the budget that would have provided research funds to detect liquid explosives. It is my understanding that congress refused to go along with the cut.

Hay ! Paul Whitewash
You ought to research Marvin Bush on the 911 contracting black flag op.
Before you do—check these videos,know your enemy fool !
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/08/another-great-jon-stewart.html
http://brasscheck.com/videos/middleeast/me5.html

Mr. Scheer:

On August 15th , your title reads in part:“So why, all of a sudden, did Bush ban most liquids on flights?”

Well, Bob, do you think that it just possibly might have been because of the sudden uncovering of a near-term plot to blow up 10 USA planes?  DAHHH…..Do you think, Bob, that this real-life threat just might have had something to do with why action was taken when it was taken?”  Why weren’t you compalining about Bush’s inaction earlier???  I didn’t see any such pieces by you before August 15th on this website complaining that Bush was taking no action.  How come you chose to wait until after action was taken to “complain?”  Had the administration acted earlier (before the threat surfaced), you would have bashed him for violating rights.  Had John Kerry or Al Gore been elected, you would have praised them for taking swift action immediately after hearing of the threat.  Bob, we know what this is all about.  Anyone can summarize it in three words: liberals being liberals.

By the way, Bob, not to be technical, but, as you have written many times,  Bush (a mere Yale graduate and fighter pilot) is not smart enough himself to come up with such a logical action—banning liquids only after uncovering a real threat in order not to tip our hand to the enemy that we know what they are up to—he didn’t do the banning—his administration did.  Sorry, Bob.  But, in your defense, Bob, rotten Bush does hate babies, old people, minorities (except, of course, Jews), got all gentlemen C’s at Yale, has cut back social security, Medicare, Medicaid, is a terrorist (worse than Hitler and Sadam combined), has raised taxes, is illegtimate, stole the elction, knew there were no WMD in Iraq (but lied to us—John Kerry did not lie to us), etc., etc., etc.  Bob, did I leave any out?  Oh yes, he was responsible for your headache yesterday.  That should cover it. 

In the Right,

Paul White
Gibsonia, PA

As a European I was baffled and diapppointed when Bush got reelected; I can only hope Americans will finally see through his fear and doubt retory, which has made the USA so thoroughly unpopular outside it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5946593973848835726

Paranoia can destroy ya…

Dubya has no plans for giving up his presidency, he is on the verge of making himself a dictator much in the same way Julius Caesar did to change the Republic into an Empire. That’s why he doesn’t care about declining poll numbers and an uninformed public only helps him takeover with no opposition.

It’s hard to feel sorry for a country whose citizens are standing on their own weenies.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_
stephen__060818_wall_street_journal_.htm
You got to read this man’s article. Yes Jewish but a true American and he calls it as he sees it—-America Media and the Jewish establishment are liars. What is of interest is the commentary section—-still there is crazy Americians—too stupid to kinow better—they are used -like toilet paper. What’s the problem with America ?—read it !

New Poll
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081701484.html?referrer=email&referrer=email&referrer=email

Andrew Kohut, who directs the Pew poll, said the “negative impact of Iraq is hurting not only Bush but also the Republican Party as well.” No longer, Kohut said, is “terrorism alone enough to keep” married women and other voters in the GOP fold.

What? Are we ever to expect that the American people will wisen up? After being bamboozled by the Bush Cabal for 6 years, why would the American people suddenly, or even gradually, for that matter, learn the difference between a real security threat and a false flag operation?

Why should the American public begin to realize that the Cabal isn’t to be trusted with the Iraq War and the Terrorism Scare Machine alone, when they continuously believe the false sincerity of the Bush Cabal in its depiction of the WTC and Pentagon tragedies?

What most frightens the Cabal is the moment when the mainstream news carries stories about the 9/11 events as a precision, meticulously planned false flag operation, with just enough accuracy in covering up their participation to give creedence to the Big Lie, to marginalize those who critically view the official narration. If this moment ever arrives, and I hope it does, I want the cameras there, in the White House, as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice are dragged out the door by their collars and hauled off to the very detention centers that are being built for their political opponents.

I’m NOT afraid of Republicans - just VERY afraid of the small group of ultra-conservative, very Hawkish, Private-agenda Neo Cons in charge at the moment.  Middle of the road Republicanism is just all right with me, actually!  What ever happened to the old ‘Balanced Budget’discussion - the mainstay of Newt Gingrich’s reign?  Oh yeah, Dick Cheney told us deficits don’t matter anymore (maybe not to him).  And how about this “War for Peace”?  It doesn’t matter that those pesky little WMD’s never showed up! He’ll just keep spinning the “reasons” while he bides his time until the end of his term.  What’s a little (or a lot) of voter fraud in the grander scheme of things?  After all, none of this will matter when we’re left behind after all of G.W.‘s pals are raptured up to Billionaire’s Heaven!  No, I kind of miss the old Republican Party, really.  Sure hope they do something about the band of thugs who hijacked the party’s agenda, and then the entire Nation.  Looks like the Republicans who still have to earn a living after this administration are hoping he doesn’t come campaign for them - what’s that say?  It’s obvious to anyone watching that these guys in the White House don’t care two hoots about their own political party, once they’re out.  They might call themselves Republicans, but they’ve sure gone a long way away from the party I grew up with.  I’m certain, no matter how much of a mess they’ll leave behind - like a bad tenant in your rental house - it’s still better that they’re gone!!!

When the fear of using the word Jew is gone,America and UK will come to it’s sences.
  Referances from the 911 commision,can not be trusted. All members were appointed hacks.  Meger Funding and 6 month closure and set paremators,made the commision a big FARCE !
Notice,that 2 members have come out and written a book—-nice try scums,you were liaid to and you didn’t do a FKN thing about it. Now that,911 is being exposed as a USA/ Israel operation—-your running for cover. Bunch of scumbags !
When Bush was a teen,in his hometown, he took great delite and pleasure in inserting fire crackers in Frogs ares and watch them blow up with glee. And No-one cares—he is a mass killer. Sad, the Jews support him . But WHY ?

Bush Republicans are simply cowards. Afraid to venture outside their own shadow of an indignent righteous response for their unreasonable positions.

Its their true religion and its a cowardly core.

So present yourself again as “merely” defensive and never recognize the sanity of including those who see the truth through your lies.

We forgive you.

Afterall is said and spun, it will be us to heal this American land, to preserve the future justice for our children, to empower the Constitution and to eventually save even your own DETRIMENTAL skin.

The continued lies? The scheming? Working against your fellow americans? Thats your cross to bear.

Why are you ultra lefties so afraid of the Republicans and President Bush ????
What will you all do when the Republicans win in Nov??

Thanks Plenum for that link.  Does anyone wonder if there is some significance to the dynamic duo being on vacation when the “terrorist plot” hit the airwaves?  I know it’s subtle and Tony is certainly subtle (Georgie can’t pronounce the word so he can hardly be it) so there may be something to it - like, “our hands are clean, we were on vacation, already; we don’t know anymore about this than you do.”  Admittedly, it’s a pretty weak dodge for guys who make the Artful Dodger look like a rank amateur, but Tony originally postponed his vacation - the Lebanon thing - and then went ahead with it when the Lebanon thing was reaching a crisis.  Of course in the final analysis the “dodge” indicates there was something there TO dodge.

James Galbraith and William Greider share their opinion on the August 10 terrorist caper:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060828/groundhog_day

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/_by-greider

I’ve said to myself many times before that the administration was about to dissolve into chaos. And everytime I was wrong.  Until now.  What we see evidenced in Mr. Scheer’s article is a clear case of advanced paranoia. And others who have commented are also right when they say that Bushco has finally played the fear card once too often.

These people are not only dangerous, they are incompetent amateurs. Let’s keep up the drumbeat against these slugs. Let’s pound them till their heads throb and their brains burst.

Mr. Bush
Fool? uh, fool? fool me uh, uh, fool me uh!  Thers ah? a ah, a saying ah, in Texas ah, ah fool me ah, fool me once,  ah, ah, can’t ah fool ah, me ah, again! Maybe yah, ah, ah, yah ah, heard ah, heard it bee 4 huh?

The old saying “Troubles don’t make character, it merely brings it out” is in full view with our Administration these days - the more trouble they’re in - the less character they show.  Any moron can lie, cheat and steal - it takes a real man (something these dangerous little boys will never be) to tell the truth and stand behind it.
Why tell the truth? There’s no big-oil, war munitions, no-bid contracts,etc. in that, is there?
And the wonderfully complacent lapdogs known as the Media will cover it all up in whipped cream with a cherry on top, and George, Cheney,Rummy, Karl and Condi can all hope no one smells the shit underneath ‘til they’ve completely cleaned out the till and changed any laws that might be used to prosecute them later - talk about conflict of interest!!  They must think they can ride it all out when the excrement hits the whirling device - guess they haven’t figured out yet that it’s all one planet, dudes - even the guys on the space station have to get stuff shipped to them once in a while - there will be no where on the globe to escape the aftermath of these fool’s machinations - God help us (not Bush’s God,though - We’re not rich enough to get his attention, I think)

Thank you Mr. Scheer for your article.  Folks, it’s time to spread the word and sound the alarm.  Write letters.  Call Radio Stations. March in the Streets.  Turn off your televisions and pick up a book.
Talk to your neighbors, your child’s teacher, your grocery store clerk, your auto mechanic and your hair dresser. Spread the truth. It’s the only thing that will set this nation free.  Oh - and I’m standing up and running against a 36 year republican incumbent in Florida’s 10th Congressional District.  Send reinforcements.

I don’t think it’s going to work this time. Fear only works for so long, and then people get angry at the people who are manipulating them with fear. More and more of us are figuring out just who those people are, and they are a lot closer to home than Afghanistan.

Fear and anger, same brain chemical. Look out, once it flips.

The Rethugs are behaving in some fairly desperate ways. Let us not forget to be mindful of just how dangerous cornered rats can be.

I am not saying back down. Lord No! Press forward for truth and accountability. Still, it behooves us all not be in denial about what we may be facing.

These are the times that try the souls of human beings.

They lied in 2000; and stole an election.
They lied every day since then… but somehow (almost) everyone seems to think that on 9/11/2001 they managed, just for one day, to tell the truth.

Wake up sheeple.

AP rptoted that Bush “quietly” attempted to remove $6 million from efforts to find liquid explosives.

“...our capacity to not only protect the homeland, but I’m confident in our capacity to leave behind a better world….”. While the Iraqi death toll rose above 3,400 in July not included those who died unccounted for.

Viva king Gorge dynasty !

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The Bush Administration lies.  Of course they lie.  Truth isn’t important.  Only what they think in their head, only what concotions get brewed in their bunker-like mentality, seem to be “real” to them.  So why—why, indeed?—would anyone expect anything else from them?  Why, oh why, do you always seem to expect that they will (a) tell the truth, (b) play fair, (c) act responsibly?  It’s playing the victim, and that seems to be the role you’ve so many people have assigned themselves. There is no sense of reality here, only Republican “spin”. It will continue until the election and, if they prevail, we can expect it to continue unabated. So, please, don’t act surprised; and above all don’t act as if it won’t happen again and again.

Sy Hirsch is usually right on the money.  Everyone needs to read his latest in the New Yorker.

Look at all the happenings in the last week or so - oh yes - after Lieberman lost - 11 Egyptian students missing, the cell phone caper, threat of planes blowing up over the Atlantic, today a plane headed for Dulles diverted to Boston (seems a woman was having an axiety attack.) Are all of these events coincidental - I’m so skeptical at this point that I say probably NOT.

Think of it - if liquids are now banned from planes - WHY weren’t they just after 9/11 - dduhhhh.

Sad Memories
It must be years ago now that I read one of Robert Scheer’s columns, that I remember as saying, the sad reality about the invasion of Iraq is that we will inevitably leave the country in a state of civil war, if only that had not been true.
  I feel it is time to acknowledge, the illusive obvious, and that is that the great American lying machine needs to be recognized, for what it is and the lasting and devastating power that it has.
Take your pick, lies about, electric vehicles (“who killed the electric car”), the potential of wind generated power, (it is cheaper than coal) the efficacy of prescription drugs that later have to be taken off the market because even as they make billion dollar profits, the side effects kill people, lies about the dangers of marijuana and lies about a preemptive war about oil, billed as being about weapons of mass destruction, national security and the so called war on terror.
We need a truth machine of equivalent power and focus. The great American truth machine needs to ruthlessly rip the cover of the self serving bull shit of gutless media coverage and speech writers who shamelessly prostitute their craft selling out their language skills to politicians who could barely put together a coherent sentence without help.
The sad truth is that well crafted lies last for decades and even centuries. Lies that exploit the survival fears of American voters are used so extensively that they slip into the unconscious background of our daily life and do their damage largely unnoticed.
We need to accept that to live and breath on the planet is to be political, the karma of the nations foreign policy will come back to haunt us. Sleeping through current events will bring us back again and again to the sad and bewildering questions, why do they hate us, why are we suffering, and what can we do now, about the mess we’re in?
The big survival issue is how do we drill down into the data all around us and dig out the truth? Truth digging has got to be the ultimate adventure, common you guys let’s get it on; if we dare to take it, we still have the power.

Comment #18516 by Ricky on 8/16 at 4:54 am

Maybe in November Americans will show they don’t fall for the Bush administrations spin any longer.

Ricky From Omaha

I really hope you’re right. Something has to give soon. I cannot take much more of this administration and its lies and coverups. I just can’t believe that people still acutally support them.

Great article bob! I enjoyed your speech you gave 2 years ago at the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) conference 2 years ago or so. BI dont see how Bush’s new definition of a terrorist, anyone who opposses U.S. or Israeli interest any different than the policies of the Arab dictators! This administration is taking the American legacy down to a scornful path, im ashamed of America and this administration!

This is a fantastic article. Where are you, Robert Scheer, when we need you to beard the lion? Most of the thinking people I know cringe and close their eyes when Bush starts mouthing his names and cliches:“Islamofascist”, “trying to wipe out our way of life”, “democratic”(this word evokes grotesque, untrue, anti-popular images when spoken by Bush). Karl Rove must be in the White House, feverishly writing the key words for Bush’s next press conference, as for a Haiku contest. Is there some kind of collective loss of IQ among our voters when Bush speaks?

Isn’t this like the Goebbels drumbeat leading up to Hitler/s invasion of Poland? I would not be surprised if we took military action against either Syria or Iran or both. This would be tragic because with the debacle in Lebanon, we will soon have all the European powers with forces in this region. Syria and Iran(and Hezbollah) and various radical islamists in surrounding countries are not going to take defeat or insults passively. Remember, they revere crash and burn! If something started, we and the European powers would be pulled in, particularly if we or the Israelis were the instigators by bombing(or worse, nuking) Iran.
Russia would immediately be on Iran’s side, fearing US forces across a long perimeter near its Southern borders(they haven’t said too much about our infusion of power in the Central Asian republics and our bases in Romania on the shores of the Black Sea, once considered a Russian lake.
By the way, what ARE we doing in these places? Keeping the peace? On and on, my head hurts. Get out and vote in November, unless it is Tweedledum. What can we do to stop this juggernaut?

We have been awakened by the defeat of Lieberman
and the daily response to the terror alerts given
by the Homeland security chief. The only concerned
people are the ones who are flying. The rest of us
are getting ready to change the congress.

I know that Bush and Blair are both very concerned
as to how this election comes out. If it turns
the power back to the Demos, they know Indictment
not impeachment are coming. Supeonas will be the
unclassifying of the evidence that has been controlled by the Neocons.

It should be a very interesting Year ahead.

Mr. Scheer,
    As usual, you are “right on”. Why doesn’t the
“mainstream” media pick up on this (NY Times excepted)? I’ve written to the “Cafferty File” on CNN twice about this with no results. Keep up the good work.

The whole thing has Mossad smell and fingerprints on it!!!!

I also wanted to say thank you Mr Scheer for this and many fine articles. Best wishes.

Just when I think there is no sanity left in the world, I bring up Robert Scheer’s column and breath a sigh of relief.  From day one, I have known that all of this terrorist scare talk has been carefully timed to keep Americans frightened out of their wits.  Certainly, these so called London terrorists have been tagged years ago.  The October surprise just came a little early because GWB’s poll numbers are in a free fall.  Did Tony Blair and Bush sit down and plan the London outing during his last visit?  Sounds obivious to me. Mr. Blair hasn’t been doing so well either. Keep up the good work Mr. Scheer.  You are a much welcome voice in a news wasteland!

Thanks once again, Mr Scheer, for a focused, blistering exposition of the rogue US president, and his minions.  You know, sometimes you can’t help but feel discouraged.  I became a teenager in 1959 and so watched all of Vietnam on the 6 O’clock news like the rest of the world and all of the dirty little wars that have taken place since up to and including what is perhaps our most shameful SNAFU, the Iraq invasion.
I’m afraid that William Butler Yeats nailed it so long ago:
“Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare
Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery
Can leave the mother, murdered at her door,
To crawl in her own blood, and go scot-free;
The night can sweat with terror as before
We pieced our thoughts into philosophy,
And planned to bring the world under a rule,
Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.”
from Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen, William Butler Yeats, 1921.

Could Seymour Hersh be right in asserting that some people in the Bush administration saw Israel’s targeting of Lebanon as a test-run for a U.S. attack on Iran?
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060821fa_fact
Public ignorance is cultivated by the gang-that-couldn’t-shoot-straight in the White House.

Has anything substantial been done to curtail the potential use of air freight by terrorists? And, has screening of airport personnel been as vigilant as the screening of airline passengers? Or all the shoeless lines of air travelers and inspections of carry-on and checked luggage just window dressing for a public relations campaign to keep Americans constantly fearful? Maybe, the only thing we need to fear is fear itself.

In today’s OpEd section of the NY Times, Tom Friedman writes:

“Mr. Cheney, if we’re in a titanic struggle with Islamic fascists, why do you constantly use the “war on terrorism” as a wedge issue in domestic politics to frighten voters away from Democrats. How are we going to sustain such a large, long-term struggle if we are a divided country?

“Friends, we are on a losing trajectory in Iraq, and, as the latest London plot underscores, the wider war with radical Islam is only getting wider. We need to reassess everything we are doing in this “war on terrorism” and figure out what is worth continuing, what needs changing and what sacrifice we need to demand from every American to match our means with our ends. Yes, the Democrats could help by presenting a serious alternative. But unless the party in power for the next two and half years shakes free of its denial, we are in really, really big trouble.”

Big Talk, Little Will
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: August 16, 2006

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/opinion/16Friedman.htm

The whole piece is worth reading. Obviously the conventional wisdom of the oligarchy has swung around to that of the people ... and they are scurrying to get in front of the parade.

have a look at this week’s cover and issue of newsweek.
ALL TERROR ALL THE WAY THROUGH.

articles inside, especially the one by michael gerson, appalling.  gerson seems to be preparing us for the iran attack and seems to now be on the magazine’s staff.

have subscribed to newsweek for many years and wondered if it had been purchased by some old neo con.

Maybe in November Americans will show they don’t fall for the Bush administrations spin any longer.

Ricky From Omaha

It’s sad when a country’s leaders don’t get it and sadder when they don’t get that they don’t get it. It’s like when one is so incompetent he is too incompetent to know he is incompetent.

Hopefully people will start thinking for themselves especially when they can’t as easily get from point a to point b because gas prices are sky high.

If that’s what it takes, folks. Ignorance is only temporary bliss. At least that’s been my experience.

Great article, Rob…

This Bush Administration, I’m convinced, works for failure. 

Craig Murray, Britain’s outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, has an interesting, parallel analysis of the Liquid Bomb Plot. 

Take a look at: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14541.htm

Craig helped expose vicious human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov. He is now a prominent critic of Western policy in the region.

Best to all…

T his time Cheney -Bush won’t influence the public which has largely defected from them. Their arrogances are contemptuous of the law . Democrats want largely out of Iraq within a year. They doctored the pretext for the war:Congress did not see what they saw as they cherry picked what they gave it. They compose the ‘Big Lies” as Joe Conason titled his book.

As Göring told us, just (with the aid of complaisant media) keep the people sufficiently afraid, and the sky’s the limit !...

Yes! Yes!  Please may it be so!!  If enough Americans of all persuasions could finally see how hugely we’ve been bamboozled, cheated and flim-flammed by these neo-conmen - That will be a great day for America.  We need another Reagan-esque ‘mandate’, so those out-of-date and out-of-touch psychos up in D.C. MIGHT finally get it.  It isn’t just Joe Lieberman who doesn’t get it - the whole lot is so out of touch with the reality on the ground…in Iraq, hear at Home, in the World…it’s very frightening, really.
Reading and writing on this site, and others gives me hope - there does seem to be a lot of like-minded folks out there who are fed up with the B.S. - I guess we’ll have to be patient until the midterm elections and see how it all washes out -  I wonder how much ‘in depth’ investigations into the inevitable voter fraud and electronic voting machine errors will happen in our so called ‘Left wing media’ - what an oxymoronic label, if I’ve ever heard one! I think a lot of people are going to be watching these midterms, more than usual, and hopefully it will show that we’ve had enough of these wizards behind the curtain.  Just hope they’ve left us enough civil rights left to do something about it, ‘cause I don’t think they’ll give up the golden goose easily - they’ve got a taste for this stuff now, like a chicken-killing dog.

One can only hope.

Keep up the great fight for Truth.  I am reminded of the saying: None are so blind as those who will not see.  That Bush has 33% rating in the polls is an indication that 33% of the people in this country either fail to see or refuse to see the truth behind this nefarious, insidious and odious den of corrupt, opportunistic loons in the White House and the ignorant Christian fundamentals and the opportunistic NeoCons who support them.  The only greater nightmares that exist than the ones we currently are living in are: 1. going to war with Iran and 2. Bushevik III (Jeb Bush) is propelled into office due to electoral fraud like his brother, ‘Dubbya’ Bushevik II, and this ungodly nightmare lasts until 2012.

Another excellent article on the ignorance that is a pall in this country: 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14531.htm

Bob, once again, you said it more succinctly and impellingly than anyone else has.  I certainly hope you are correct, and Americans are starting to “wise up and think for themselves.”  I hope they are listening and learning from your writing, and that somewhere close by are candidates willing to stand up to Bush and Co. and help lead our country out of the desperate straits we-and the world - are in.