Comments on: The Barnacle Branch Still Evading Oversight

By: IntelVet

IntelVet — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:26:56 +0000

Perhaps we should put out our own terrorist’s pictures on playing cards and make a show of presenting the deck to bin Laden. You know, like Cheneys likeness on the ace of spades, Addington’s on the one-eyed jack of clubs, etc. and so on.

By: klynn

klynn — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:08:50 +0000

Looking forward to the post(s). I’ll save my comments and links until then.

By: Leen

Leen — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:57:16 +0000

But reason and logic do not seem to matter to Cheney.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:27:01 +0000

With the time remaining in the Bush junta, all Cheney can hope for is to take out the first page or two on his list - ignoring, of course, the evil that I think JFK pointed out, that what goes around comes around.

Cheney might destabilize Iran and keep Iraq in chaos (ignoring, for a moment, whether those working on his list speak Spanish as well as Arabic), but the result would be heightened chaos. Good for war profiteering, but not for the America he claims to serve and protect. He would assure nothing but yet higher oil price, higher spending on war, and easier recruitment for those bent on doing us harm.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:19:54 +0000

So, what’s Conyers going to do about being left out in the cold by his leadership? Buy a cigar and coat — or fight back?

By: Leen

Leen — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:19:02 +0000

Just how much money did Manucher Ghorbanifar ask for to undermine the Government of Iran? How soon after those secret meetings put together by the upstanding citizen Micheal “faster Please” Ledeen did Condi Rice ask Congress to shell out the dough to undermine the government of Iran?

What will ever come from those over due and delayed findings …. the SSCI Phase II?

By: Leen

Leen — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:56:41 +0000

And an immense amount of pressure from Aipac and other lobbying groups committed to attacking Iran

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:47:29 +0000

Exactly. Aided by hubris, incompetence, rigidity, bad intelligence, poor communications and a fatalistic sense that “this had to happen sooner or later – but we can control it.”

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:45:26 +0000

Problem with that is Conyers is among the people left out of the FISA capitulation. So why would they care what he thinks about a war on Iran?

By: bobschacht

bobschacht — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:44:27 +0000

Needless to say, [T]he kinds of clandestine operations cited here are traditionally regarded as Acts of War. The murder of a head of state or prime minister, for example, would probably justify all out war.

Wasn’t WW I started by just such an assassination?

Archduke Ferdinand comes to mind…

Bob in HI