DIRTY RICE IS BACK!
SUSAN RICE CALLED A SOLDIER BARRY O TRADED 5 TALIBAN FOR "HONORABLE" DESPITE ASSERTIONS HE HAD DESERTED.
INSTEAD OF ACKNOWLEDGING HER SCREW UP, SHE TRIED TO REDEFINE REALITY.
AND DIRTY RICE HAS YET AGAIN SPOKEN WRONGLY.
POOR DIRTY RICE, A HORSE FACE AND A MOUTH THAT CAN'T STOP LYING.
REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS TODAY, DIRTY RICE SWORE SHE WOULD REFRAIN FROM FUTURE MISTAKES BUT THAT SHE WAS LATE FOR A CEREMONY WHERE SHE WOULD BE PRAISING LT. GEN. THOMAS GAGE.
"HE WAS THE BRITISH COMMANDER IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR!" RICE EXCLAIMED WITH A BIG SMILE. "I CAN'T WAIT TO PRAISE HIS SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY!"
FROM THE TCI WIRE:
Moving over to conspiracy theories, nut job
MJ Rosenberg (MWD) froths:
The Bergdahl frenzy is the phoniest pretense for Obama bashing since Benghazi. But that does not mean it won't succeed.
In fact, I think it is possible that a Republican Congress will
impeach Obama over one or both of those issues (ike President Clinton,
he would not be convicted because even a GOP Senate could not muster 67
votes for conviction.)
Is that what you think, you raving nut job conspiracy theorist?
MJ Rosenberg is a graduate of Media Matters which means he majored in
sexism and minored in delusion. He lets the crazy run free because
that's what Professor David Brock taught -- carrier monkey that he is.
Excuse me, diseased carrier monkey that he is bringing all of his
unethical methods over to the left from the right after he'd burned his
bridges there.
Taught by the master teacher in deception and lies, David Brock, a
student can learn to make up any lie in the world and pimp it. That's
what the disgraced David Brock did to Anita Hill, after all. A cheap
little liar who has never made amends.
MJ Rosenberg studied under a quack and a liar so he is what he was taught.
But in the real world, there are many reasons to be upset with Barack
surrendering 5 prisoners from Guantanamo for one US soldier.
1) The Congress wasn't informed. First and foremost -- though a
'graduate' from Media Matters would never understand this, those who
train under David Brock don't learn the Constitution -- this is a
democracy, this is not a monarchy. Senator Dianne Feinstein is offended
by the lack of notification to Congress. I've known Dianne for years.
I'll say about 20% of her being offended is personal as a member of
Congress who should have been notified. But the other 80%? That's
Dianne being offended -- rightly -- because of her role. It's not about
her. It's about America's representatives. That's what Dianne is,
she's in the Senate to represent the people of California -- so is
Senator Barbara Boxer. And whatever other faults I have with them, both
women do grasp the importance of their roles. I would argue that's
true of other senators as well. Senator Al Franken takes it so
seriously it's almost an obsession. (And that's a great obsession to
have, trying to represent the people of your state.) Those are just
Democrats but there are Republicans -- many -- in the Senate who take
this role and this obligation seriously. We have a system of checks and
balances. We do not have a king in the US.
Glenn Greenwald:
But as even stalwart Obama defenders
such as
Jeffery Toobin admit, Obama “clearly broke the
law” by
releasing those detainees without providing Congress
the 30-day notice required by
the 2014 defense authorization statute (law
professor Jonathan Turley
similarly observed that Obama’s lawbreaking here
was clear and virtually undebatable).
2)
Glenn Greenwald has made this very clear:
By ignoring Congress to release the 5 from Guantanamo, Barack has made
it clear that he thinks he could have released everyone there and closed
it. So why hasn't he? He swore he'd do it if elected. Then he got
sworn in (January 2009) and broke his promise. As Glenn has noted, this
is a rather big point of the story.
Mike weighed in on that point earlier this week.
3) Any soldier rescued would raise questions. Jessica Lynch never lied
about what happened to her. I'm really tired of the dicks -- including
Rachel Maddow and her phantom penis -- who try to lie about Jessica
Lynch or use her name as a punchline. When she spoke, she spoke the
truth. She was not responsible for the lies and the spin created by an
administration trying to rally support for their illegal war. My point
here is that even when the spin was that she was being tortured or
harmed, there were still some who wondered why a rescue mission was
being carried out for her? (There was no rescue mission. She was being
cared for -- as she herself notes -- in an Iraqi hospital. She was not
a prisoner.) Even at the height of the administration propaganda, there
were people who questioned whether Jessica was 'worth' a rescue. And,
guess what, in a democracy that's allowed. In a democracy, people
discuss issues and find the point where everyone can agree. That's what
self-rule is. So the US soldier who was released in exchange for the
five prisoners Barack surrendered, he was always going to be a question
mark.
4) Find a better family spokesperson. I saw that crap this morning.
Good talking points. Some of them cribbed from here. But he should
have stuck to what the White House told him. I picked up the phone
while that nonsense was airing and asked, "You didn't tell him to talk
about the mom did you?" Don't talk about the mom. She may be
wonderful, she may be awful. But she's married to the father and the
father has been a bad image on this story since Saturday. He needs to
shave his beard immediately and appear in public and if anyone doesn't
like that, my response is, "Grow up, this isn't about him. This is
about his son." You better believe if one of my children were in
trouble, I would change anything -- hair, clothes, whatever -- to lessen
any hostility towards one of my children. This isn't about your right
to grow a beard. No one questions that right. This is about you
getting off your ass and helping your son. Shave the damn beard.
(FYI, when I saw the photos Saturday, I called an administration friend
to ask why the hell the father didn't shave before appearing with
Barack. That bushy crap -- not shaped, not styled -- was disrespectful
to the office of the president. Worse than that, it fed into the image
of 'these are strange people.' Shave the damn beard.)
5) The White House has offered an ever changing storyline. That doesn't
help. Each day is a new day for the novelist. At this point, this
late in the game, stop changing the story. It makes the White House
look dishonest. Bite the bullet and own the decision or continue to
have this dominate the news cycle. See Frank James' "
Explaining The Bergdahl Swap Hasn't Been Obama's Finest Hour" (NPR).
6) The terms of the deal have been criticized. The US got one person, the Taliban got five.
Elise Labott (CNN) noted earlier this week:
While secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was skeptical of early plans to trade Taliban prisoners for American captive Bowe Bergdahl, former officials involved in the process told CNN on Tuesday.
Clinton pushed for a much
tougher deal than the one with Qatar that secured the Army sergeant's
release in exchange for five terror detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, they said.
Josh Rogin (Daily Beast) reports:
Despite that the White House’s claim this week that the United States
did not negotiate “directly” with the Taliban to secure the Bergdahl
swap, the State Department, Defense Department, and White House
officials did meet several times
with Taliban leaders in 2011 and 2012 to discuss the deal. The
negotiations, held in in Munich and Doha, fell apart in early 2012. But
before they did, Clinton had a framework deal drawn up that was much
tougher on the Taliban than what ultimately got done two years later.
Three
former administration officials who were involved in the process told
The Daily Beast that Clinton was worried about the ability to enforce
the deal and disinclined to trust the Taliban or the Haqqani network in
Pakistan, which held Bergdahl until this weekend. Clinton was so
concerned, the former officials added, that she may not have even signed
off if the negotiations had succeeded.
In Barack's administration, Leon Panetta headed the CIA and later was Secretary of Defense.
David Conti (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) reported Wednesday:
“I don't fault the administration for
wanting to get him back. I do question whether the conditions are in
place to make sure these terrorists don't go back into battle,” former
CIA director and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told a gas industry
gathering in Pittsburgh.
Panetta, who was in the Cabinet for four of
the five years Bergdahl spent in Taliban custody, said he opposed a swap
for the terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when he was Defense
secretary.
“I said, ‘Wait, I have an obligation under
the law,'” Panetta said during a lunchtime address at the Hart Energy
Developing Unconventionals DUG East conference at the David L. Lawrence
Convention Center, Downtown. “If I send prisoners from Guantanamo, they
have to guarantee they don't go back to the battlefield. I had serious
concerns.”
That's two people who were in the administration and they're not rushing
to dance in the streets. If members of the administration were
skeptical are you really surprised that there are Americans who would be
as well?
7)
CBS News reports Hillary writes in her book (which is officially released Tuesday) on negotiating with the Talbian:
I acknowledged, as I had many times before, that opening the door to
negotiations with the Taliban would be hard to swallow for many
Americans after so many years of war,
Wow, is Hillary a psychic?
No, she's just got more common sense than MJ Rosenberg.
8) The soldier is a 'deserter' in the eyes of many. If he self-checked
out and had he gone public, we would have covered him here. We cover
war resisters. I find MJ Rosenberg's sudden concern for war resisters
to be suspect. First off, he only applies it to one person.
We cover war resisters. We used to cover them all the time, for years
and years. There's just not enough information to cover them as much as
we used to. But we covered them and I know the hate mail that came in
for that. I personally support war resisters. You don't have to agree
with me on that. But to be so outraged that they were even mentioned?
They are part of history. They are news.
This is from the
April 17, 2007 snapshot:
Starting with war resister news, Ehren Watada's father, Bob Watada, shared Saturday of how his son's struggle has inspired him. Ehren Watada,
in June 2006, became the first officer to publicly refuse to deploy to
Iraq. In February 2006, his court-martial ended a mistrial and his next
court-martial is scheduled for July 16th. Brian Charlton (AP) reports
that Bob Watada spoke Saturday at a Honolulu meeting of the Society of
Professional Journalists where he explained, "It was because of him
that I've gone out and educated myself." Charlton notes the stroke Rosa
Sakanishi (Ehren's step-mother) suffered. That was in January at the
rally in DC, shortly after Bob Watada spoke. Ann Wright managed to
catch Sakanishi as she was falling.
There are many lessons to be learned from Watada and other war resisters. Ehren Watada
is part of a movement of war resistance within the military that also
includes Dean Walcott, Linjamin Mull, Justin Colby, Camilo Mejia, Robert
Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder , Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Joshua Key, Ricky Clousing, Mark Wilkerson, Agustin Aguayo, Camilo
Mejia, Patrick Hart, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl
Webb, Jeremy Hinzman, Stephen Funk, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon
Hughey, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Katherine Jashinski, Chris
Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake
and Kevin Benderman. In total, thirty-eight US war resisters in Canada
have applied for asylum.
That second paragraph? It appeared daily in every snapshot for about two years. Maybe longer.
When a non-war resister in Canada attacked me online, we continued to
cover war resisters. When a name mentioned in the list had a freak-fest
in the e-mail, we continued to cover war resisters. (And I continued
to cover him.) We covered them because their stands are important. We
also covered them because of the hate mail from people who were outraged
that we would cover war resisters. There were tons of e-mails every
week expressing hate and threats. I don't back down in the face of
threats, I never have. Threats usually make me determined to continue
to do something.
The Iraq War is illegal (it's also ongoing though people in this country
don't want to admit that either). I do not slam anyone for deploying
to Iraq. I also do not slam anyone for refusing to deploy to Iraq (or
redeploy). My non-slam policy does not extend to those who planned and
started the illegal war. But I don't condemn those who served or those
who resisted -- I do condemn those who gave the orders for war and
those who continued the war -- that includes liars in the press, cowards
and liars in the Congress, it's a long, long list which includes
President Barack Obama and former Oval Office Occupant Bully Boy Bush.
Jim Acosta (CNN -- link is text and video) reports on National Security Advisor Susan Rice:
Susan Rice, who on Sunday
said Bergdahl served the United States with "honor and distinction,"
told CNN in an interview that she was speaking about the fact the Idaho
native enlisted and went to Afghanistan in the service of his country.
"I realize there has been
lots of discussion and controversy around this," Rice said. "But what I
was referring to was the fact that this was a young man who volunteered
to serve his country in uniform at a time of war. That, in and of
itself, is a very honorable thing."
Great, Susan. So you'll now praise Joshua Key for doing "a very
honorable thing" since he enlisted and deployed to Iraq? He
self-checked out as the press insists Bergdahl did. Will you take the
time to say he served with "honor and distinction"? What about Camilo
Mejia or Kyle Snyder -- both of whom served in Iraq and then
self-checked out?
No, you wouldn't, Susan. You're a hypocrite just like the goons of MSNBC or, for that matter, Media Matters.
I defend war resisters. I am very aware that many others do not. So MJ
Rosenberg needs to stop his whoring and his hypocrisy. There is no
real caring on his part for war resisters. He's whoring to protect
Barack.
9) This is not the first time Barack has released killers in US custody. That was the whole point of
"Now you're outraged by negotiations with terrorists."
Barack entered into negotiations with the terrorist group the League
of Righteous. That group killed and kidnapped many foreigners in Iraq
-- including US service members. Barack released their leaders -- who
had been in US military custody -- to Nouri. And did so over vocal
opposition in the Senate. He insisted that they would be held in
prisons by Iraqis but instead they walked -- on all the charges, they
walked. Nouri set them free. Now he arms them and gives them uniforms
so they can terrorize Sunnis in Iraq.
MJ Rosenberg is an
unethical hypocrite. Those are only nine things about the deal which
might trouble Americans. If it does trouble them, they need to address
it, the media needs to address it, it needs to be part of a national
conversation. That's what happens in a democracy.
I can be mature enough to know that as much as I support war resisters,
there are Americans who never will. That's their right. They need to
be true to their beliefs just as I need to be true to mine. The
expression of their beliefs and their objections does not mean they hate
Barack, they want to impeach him or any thing else. But conspiracy
theorists like MJ Rosenberg have to see hate everywhere.
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