Monday, November 02, 2015

Remember when Cranky Clinton attacked women on public assistance?

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

CRANKY CLINTON'S PAST IS COMING BACK TO HAUNT HER.

NO, NOT EARLY DRUG USE OR ANYTHING FROM HER TEEN YEARS.

CRANKY'S PAST REMARKS ATTACKING WOMEN ON FEDERAL ASSISTANCE ("DEADBEATS" WHO WERE "SITTING AROUND THE HOUSE DOING NOTHING").

THIS IS A FEMINIST?

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

The silence is deafening.

More war is declared and the so-called leaders of what was once a peace movement are playing duck-and-cover to avoid standing up.

The New York Daily News declares, "Mark another awkward milestone in President Obama’s foreign policy: The United States of America has kind of, sort of backed into combat operations in Syria and Iraq." Trevor Timm (Guardian) goes further:

In 2012, Obama unequivocally said he would end the war in Afghanistan, and chided Mitt Romney the Republican nominee for not promising that. In 2013, Obama said: “I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria.” In 2014, Obama said: “We will not be sending US troops back into combat in Iraq”. At this point, all of those promises have been completely broken.
Worse, the Obama administration has effectively removed the democratic process (and Congress) from any decision making on whether to go to war. We now have ground troops inside Syria without any sort of legal authorization from Congress. Obama explicitly campaigned in 2012 on ending the Afghanistan war, which he has now extended beyond his term. The Obama administration also went into Libya and removed Muammar Gaddafi, despite the House voting against it beforehand.

The war against the Islamic State is morphing yet again despite Operation Inherent Failure's lack of measurable success. Bill van Auken (WSWS) reminds:

When ISIS headed eastward from Syria and overran roughly a third of Iraq, including its third-largest city, Mosul, the Obama administration launched its direct intervention in both countries, conducting air strikes and redeploying some 3,500 US troops to Iraq. Now the intervention has morphed into a war against ISIS dubbed “Operation Inherent Resolve.”
More than a year after that “war” was launched, the grip of ISIS over large swathes of both Iraq and Syria remains virtually unchanged. The desultory character of the US campaign is explicable only from the standpoint that Washington has no desire to destroy the Islamist militia, which it still counts as one of the main fighting forces in the war for regime change, which remains the principal US objective.

The White House announced troops would be sent into Syria.

Repeating, the White House announced troops would be sent into Syria.

Barack declared, "I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria."

But, too bad, that was September 10, 2013.

So many broken promises.

And all those promises
that you made me from the start
were filled with emptiness
from the desert of your heart
Every sweet caress
was just your second best
Broken promises

Baby, I'm amazed
at how long I still believed
How many lies it takes
before someone like me sees
All the tears you cried
They never could deny
that you made love a lie
All those tears you cried
They never could deny
that you made love a lie
-- "All Those Promises," written by Janis Ian, first appears on her album Folk Is The New Black

It's as though Janis composed the theme song for the deprogrammed members of The Cult of St. Barack.

Dan Roberts (Guardian) explains the pretzel 'logic' liars now find themselves in:

Administration officials were left squirming on Friday to explain how sending special forces to work alongside Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State was compatible with Obama’s earlier promises not to “put boots on the ground” in Syria or “engage in combat operations” against Isis.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest claimed there was still a difference of “night and day” compared with the Bush administration’s invasions, but in the space of a few short weeks a central promise of Obama’s presidential campaign has been undermined: first by conceding that he will not meet his pledge of removing troops from Afghanistan before he leaves office and now by acknowledging a long-term ground presence is necessary not just in Iraq, but Syria too.
Earnest would not say whether the deployments were permanent or would be bolstered, insisting: “I don’t want to try to predict the future here.”

Yet arguably that was exactly what Obama claimed he could do when he ran for office promising to bring US troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

In light of all this, all the broken promises, all the wars, Tom Hayden Tweeted:

Oh, that wasn't in response to that.

The old drunk couldn't Tweet in response to the White House plans because he's never had the spine to stand up to anyone. He's just an ugly gigolo who took his second wife for all the millions he could -- despite his non-stop cheating -- and now bills himself as the "leader of sixties peace, justice and environmental movement."

That's hilarious.

His colleague Katrina vanden Heuvel also couldn't call out Barack.

What of 'brave' Ruth Conniff, the editor of The Progressive?

The woman, the trash, that once bragged on KPFA's The Morning Show that no one she knew had been touched by the Iraq War managed to Tweet or re-Tweet 37 times during the CNBC GOP presidential aspirants debate but on Iraq and Syria on Friday or even today . . .

That's right, boys and girls, zero.

Zilch.

Nada.

Remember: No one she knows was touched by the Iraq War.

Jill Stein's a liar. She's a lot of things but mainly she's a liar. October saw Amy Goodman again announce Jill's appearance in the NYC studio of Democracy Now -- with Goodman hailing her as the Green Party's 2016 nominee.

For Jill's failure to correct that -- repeatedly, she's failed with every media outlet -- the Green Party should select someone else . . . when they pick a presidential candidate in August 2016.

Jill Stein is a liar.

She's not the Green Party's presidential candidate.

Goody Whore and her ilk get so upset when the press does something like this -- the real press, not the beggar media crying "send money!" -- but they have no ethics themselves.

Nor does Jill.

When she started campaigning for the nomination (2016 nomination) we noted her silence on Iraq here and that prompted her to pretend she cared.

But we were right: She doesn't.

And if you doubt it grasp that she's been Tweeting but has nothing to say about Iraq or Syria.

This is an alternative to Democratic Party candidates?

The person who should be the nominee noted:

Cynthia may run for the Green Party's 2016 presidential nomination.

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Sunday, November 01, 2015

Cranky's thugs go after a woman artist

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

DOUG HENWOOD IS GETTING SLAMMED FOR HIS NEW BOOK ON CRANKY CLINTON ENTITLED "MY TURN" -- OR RATHER FOR THE COVER OF THE BOOK WHICH HAS LED SUCH WELL KNOWN NIT-WITS AS JOAN WALSH TO DECRY THE COVER ILLUSTRATION AS SEXIST.

NEVER ONE TO LET WIT INTERFERE WITH HER NIT, JOAN DIDN'T BOTHER TO LEARN THAT THE COVER WAS (A) A PIECE OF ART CREATED BY A WOMAN, SARAH SOLE, OR THAT (B) SOLE IS A LONG TIME HILLARY SUPPORTER WHO LOOKS FORWARD TO VOTING FOR HILLARY.

REACHED FOR COMMENT, JOAN WALSH REPLIED, "HUH? WHAT? WRITING IS HARD. WHEN I WAS AT SALON I COULD MAKE UP ANYTHING I WANTED. IT'S NOT FAIR TO EXPECT ME TO WRITE AND TO BE FACTUAL!"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

In Iraq, there's been another attack on Iranian dissidents.

UNHCR issued the following statement:

UNHCR statement on today's attack on vicinity of Baghdad International Airport, including Camp Liberty, in Iraq

News Stories, 29 October 2015

UNHCR strongly condemns today's rocket attacks in the vicinity of Baghdad International Airport, which have also hit adjacent Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), reportedly causing injuries to dozens of people of concern and some 20 deaths.
Camp Liberty is home to around 2,200 people of concern to the Office. The authorities have evacuated the injured to Baghdad hospitals. The full extent of the casualties and damage to the camp is still being ascertained.
"This is a most deplorable act, and I am greatly concerned at the harm that has been inflicted on those living at Camp Liberty," said High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres. "Every effort must continue to be made for the injured and to identify and bring to account those responsible."
The residents of Camp Liberty previously lived at Camp Ashraf.

For more information on this topic, please contact:

Adrian Edward in Geneva, on mobile +41 79 557 9120
Ariane Rummery in Geneva, on mobile +41 79 200 7617

This attack was on the Ashraf community. Background: As of September 2013, Camp Ashraf in Iraq is empty. All remaining members of the community have been moved to Camp Hurriya (also known as Camp Liberty). Camp Ashraf housed a group of Iranian dissidents who were welcomed to Iraq by Saddam Hussein in 1986 and he gave them Camp Ashraf and six other parcels that they could utilize. In 2003, the US invaded Iraq.The US government had the US military lead negotiations with the residents of Camp Ashraf. The US government wanted the residents to disarm and the US promised protections to the point that US actions turned the residents of Camp Ashraf into protected person under the Geneva Conventions. This is key and demands the US defend the Ashraf community in Iraq from attacks. The Bully Boy Bush administration grasped that -- they were ignorant of every other law on the books but they grasped that one. As 2008 drew to a close, the Bush administration was given assurances from the Iraqi government that they would protect the residents. Yet Nouri al-Maliki ordered the camp repeatedly attacked after Barack Obama was sworn in as US President. July 28, 2009 Nouri launched an attack (while then-US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was on the ground in Iraq). In a report released this summer entitled "Iraqi government must respect and protect rights of Camp Ashraf residents," Amnesty International described this assault, "Barely a month later, on 28-29 July 2009, Iraqi security forces stormed into the camp; at least nine residents were killed and many more were injured. Thirty-six residents who were detained were allegedly tortured and beaten. They were eventually released on 7 October 2009; by then they were in poor health after going on hunger strike." April 8, 2011, Nouri again ordered an assault on Camp Ashraf (then-US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was again on the ground in Iraq when the assault took place). Amnesty International described the assault this way, "Earlier this year, on 8 April, Iraqi troops took up positions within the camp using excessive, including lethal, force against residents who tried to resist them. Troops used live ammunition and by the end of the operation some 36 residents, including eight women, were dead and more than 300 others had been wounded. Following international and other protests, the Iraqi government announced that it had appointed a committee to investigate the attack and the killings; however, as on other occasions when the government has announced investigations into allegations of serious human rights violations by its forces, the authorities have yet to disclose the outcome, prompting questions whether any investigation was, in fact, carried out." Those weren't the last attacks. They were the last attacks while the residents were labeled as terrorists by the US State Dept. (September 28, 2012, the designation was changed.) In spite of this labeling, Mohammed Tawfeeq (CNN) observed that "since 2004, the United States has considered the residents of Camp Ashraf 'noncombatants' and 'protected persons' under the Geneva Conventions." So the US has an obligation to protect the residents. 3,300 are no longer at Camp Ashraf. They have moved to Camp Hurriyah for the most part. A tiny number has received asylum in other countries. Approximately 100 were still at Camp Ashraf when it was attacked. That was the second attack of 2013. February 9th of 2013, the Ashraf residents were again attacked, this time the ones who had been relocated to Camp Hurriyah. Trend News Agency counted 10 dead and over one hundred injured. Prensa Latina reported, " A rain of self-propelled Katyusha missiles hit a provisional camp of Iraqi opposition Mujahedin-e Khalk, an organization Tehran calls terrorists, causing seven fatalities plus 50 wounded, according to an Iraqi official release." They were attacked again September 1, 2013 -- two years ago. Adam Schreck (AP) reported back then that the United Nations was able to confirm the deaths of 52 Ashraf residents.

This is a travesty, the latest attack.

The State Dept did respond with something more than their usual 'we call on both sides' b.s. They issued the following:

Press Statement

John Kerry

Washington, DC

October 29, 2015

The United States strongly condemns today’s brutal, senseless terrorist attack on Camp Hurriya that killed and injured camp residents. Our condolences go out to the families of the victims, and we hope for the swift recovery of those injured.
We have been in touch with senior Iraqi officials to ensure that the Government of Iraq renders all possible medical and emergency assistance to the victims. We also urge the Government of Iraq to provide additional security for the camp’s residents and to find the perpetrators and hold them accountable for the attack, consistent with its obligations under the December 25, 2011 agreement with the United Nations.
We are consulting with the Government of Iraq to ascertain the full extent of this unprovoked attack.
No matter the circumstances, on this point we remain absolute: the United States remains committed to assisting the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the relocation of all Camp Hurriya residents to a permanent and safe location outside of Iraq. We call on more countries to assist in responding to this urgent humanitarian situation by welcoming camp residents for relocation and by contributing to the fund established by the United Nations to support their resettlement. The Department, through its Senior Advisor for MEK Resettlement, will remain actively engaged in the international effort to relocate the residents of Camp Hurriya to safe, permanent locations as soon as possible.

The US government needed to make that statement and they need to do a great deal more. This was addressed in the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing of October 7th (covered in the October 10th snapshot). We'll note this exchange:

Senator Angus King: Several times you gentlemen used the term "the US made assurances," the term "solemn promise,""guarantee," and Col Martin, you mentioned a card. What did that card say? I'd like to know specifically: what assurances were delivered, by whom and when?

Colonel Wesley Martin [Retired]: Yes, sir. This was the protected persons status under the Geneva Convention. And I have a copy of it. If you give me a second, I can find it real quick.

Senator Angus King: Well I'd like to know what is says.

Colonel Wesley Martin: Okay.

Senator Angus King: What I'm searching for here is what are the assurances specifically and who delivered them and when. I think that's a fair question given that seems to be the premise of this discussion.

Colonel Wesley Martin: "This card holder is protected person under the agreement of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Should the assigned person" uh, it's a little blurry "should an incident occur, we request that the person contact the [US] military police brigade." And then it goes on the agreement that they made: "You are being offered your release from control and protection in exchange for your promise to comply with certain regulations." And it clearly states they are protected, they will not be -- they will not be arrested, they will not be harmed.

Senator Angus King: What did they have to do?

Colonel Wesley Martin: And what they had to do, sir, is go ahead and sign an agreement --

Senator Angus King: That's when they were moved from Ashraf to Liberty?

Colonel Wesley Martin: No, sir. That was a whole set of different promises. If I may, sir, Senator McCain, [holding clipped stack of papers], if I could, I'd like to make this submitted for the record.

Senator Angus King: Well you can make it for the record but I want to know who made assurances --

Colonel Wesley Martin: Yes, sir.

Senator Angus King (Con't): -- and what those assurances were. And saying they were protected person under the Geneva Convention isn't a promise that the US will take you in. I just want to understand what the promise is that we're being urged to honor.

Colonel Wesley Martin: Yes, sir. I understand. The first one is they would be protected and they would remain at Camp Ashraf. That was 2004. That was with the US State Dept in agreement with the United States Dept of Defense and [then-Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld was the person that finally approved it -- but working with the State Dept. The person that issued those cards, working with the Embassy, was US Brigadier General David Phillips [. . .]

The US government made a promise and it has refused to honor it.

The Ashraf community could be resettled from Camp Liberty to outside Iraq in the blink of an eye.

At one point, John Kerry had tasked his friend with this assignment.

Despite holding the post for over a year, his friend didn't do anything but sit on his ass and collect a check.

Resettling less than 4,000 people does not require a year or even six months.

If the White House had the will, the desire, to resettle the Ashraf community, they would have been re-settled some time ago.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Mistress Hillary

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

CRANKY CLINTON MADE NICE WITH CAPON STEPHEN COLBERT ON HIS SAD SHOW TUESDAY NIGHT.

BY FAILING TO BITE THE HEAD OFF ANY AUDIENCE MEMBER, CRANKY'S APPEARANCE WAS HAILED AS A "TRIUMPH" BY HER LEATHER CROWD IN THE MEDIA.

"THE THING ABOUT S&M," CRANKY EXPLAINED TO THESE REPORTERS, "YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PRETTY TO BE A GOOD MISTRESS. YOU JUST HAVE TO INFLICT PAIN. BILL CAN TELL YOU I KNOW HOW TO DO THAT AND, SOON, AMERICA WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO AS WELL."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Starting with news of even more war, Missy Ryan and Greg Jaffe (Washington Post) report,

The president’s most senior national security advisers have recommended measures that would move U.S. troops closer to the front lines in Iraq and Syria, officials said, a sign of mounting White House dissatisfaction with progress against the Islamic State and a renewed Pentagon push to expand military involvement in long-running conflicts overseas.

Kristina Wong (The Hill) adds:

U.S. military commanders have forwarded several options to the Defense Department in the last few weeks, the officials told The Hill, as part of a mounting push within the administration to more aggressively target the terrorist group.

One of the options presented was embedding U.S. troops with Iraqi security forces; they would have the ability to call in airstrikes, a step that would bring American forces to the front line.

RT speaks with Phyllis Bennis:

RT: Can the Pentagon still realistically maintain its 'no boots on the ground' stance given that an American soldier has been killed apparently in action?

Phyllis Bennis: I think the question of US boots on the ground has been true for over a year now. We’ve had at least 35,000 troops in Iraq that went back last year and I don’t think most people in this [US] country recognize the difference any more than they would in Russia if and when Russian troops or volunteers are sent to Syria; if somebody tries to claim they are not combat troops, nobody would believe that either. These are troops engaged in combat. They are advising, they are supporting, they are arming, they are training and they are fighting with forces on the ground. So, the notion that there are ‘no boots’ is simply not the case. We also know that besides 35,000 US troops on the ground in Iraq there are an unknown number of other Special Forces and CIA forces on the ground. Maybe they wear sneakers rather than boots. But there is no question that US forces have been fighting directly in Iraq for more than a year now.

I think Isaiah captured the absurdity better back on October 26, 2014 26th "Barack Prepares:"

In the comic above, a confused White House spokesperson Josh Earnest asks, "What's he doing?" Valerie Jarrett explains, "Ballet slippers on the ground are not boots on the ground."

Why today's talk?

Possibly because . . .

Thursday saw the combat death of 39-year-old Master Sgt Joshua L. Wheeler in Iraq.

And possibly because of the silence that greeted this death.

Silence?

Press TV notes Noam Chomsky can talk about Iraq today:

Prominent American author and linguist Noam Chomsky has blasted the US foreign policy, calling Washington's 2003 invasion of Iraq “the worst crime of this century.”

“What right do we have to kill somebody in some other country who we don't like,” Chomsky told teleSUR on Monday.

Calling the US-led invasion of Iraq “the worst crime of this century,” the renowned scholar and intellectual said, “Suppose it had worked... it's still a major crime, why do we have the right to invade another country?”

But sadly not everyone can follow Noam's example.

Take two of our 'great' rags on the left: The Progressive and The Nation.

The Progressive ignored the death and its implication.

Remember, editor Ruth Conniff bragged on KPFA that she didn't know anyone who'd been touched by the war.

How very nice for her and the other racists in the gated community she lives in.

Then there's The Nation magazine.

Anyone remember their November 10, 2005 editorial?

It started on the cover and continued inside the rag.

They insisted they "wound only support candidates who made a speedy end to this [Iraq] war a major campaign issue."

Ignoring the combat death, ignoring the ongoing war, let's them pretend like they ever fulfilled that promise.

Just like they pretend the Iraq War ended.

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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Macho Cranky

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

CRANKY CLINTON, FRESH OFF HER LATEST MACHO, MANLY EXPLOITS, TOOK THE DAY TO BOAST OF HERSELF.

"YEAH," SHE INSISTED AS SHE GRABBED HER CROTCH, "I RANG CIRCLES AROUND THOSE JERKS. BENGHAZI? MORE LIKE FERNGULLY AFTER I GOT THROUGH DANCING ACROSS THEIR HEADS."

WITH THAT, CRANKY LIFTED UP HER LEFT LEG, FARTED AND WALKED OFF YELLING, "FORGET THE VILLAGE, IT JUST TAKES ME!"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Staying with CNN, Barbara Starr reports:

The information still coming in, very sketchy, but a short time ago, a US official directly familiar with the information told CNN there has been one US military fatality in this hostage mission overnight in Iraq. Apparently US Special Operations Forces were ordered into this mission to rescue a number of Kurdish hostages. We're told the estimate is that some 70 Kurdish hostages were rescued. The Kurds, of course, are in northern Iraq. This is a group that the US has -- the US military has especially been working very closely with. I think it is safe to assume that there were some Kurdish elements there on the ground with the US troops -- they do work hand in hand. But this would be, to the best of our knowledge, the first US combat fatality on the ground in the war against ISIS. US troops are not on the ground in combat under President Obama's orders. They have gone in a couple of times into Syria on the ground for hostage rescue missions, for capturing high value targets, but this is not something that we have yet seen -- a US service member potentially killed on the ground in this war against ISIS.

James Rosen and Mitchell Prothero (McClatchy Newspapers) add, "It was also the first time that American combat troops have undertaken a ground mission in Iraq since President Obama sent the first of 3,000 troops back there 16 months ago with orders that limited their activities to training, advising and equipping Iraqi soldiers." Missy Ryan, Mustafa Salim and Thomas Gibbons-Neff (Washington Post) report, "In a pre-dawn operation, soldiers from the Army’s Delta Force, supporting a team of elite Kurdish soldiers, descended on a militant compound in the town of Hawijah, where officials believed that dozens of Kurdish fighters known as peshmerga were being held captive." DoD noted:

U.S. Special Forces supported an Iraqi peshmerga operation earlier today to rescue about 70 hostages from an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant prison near Hawijah, Iraq, Defense Department Press Secretary Peter Cook told reporters at the Pentagon this afternoon.

American Special Forces personnel carried out the planned operation at the request of the Kurdistan regional government after learning through intelligence sources that the hostages faced imminent mass execution, Cook said.

The Special Forces mission was consistent with Operation Inherent Resolve’s counter-ISIL efforts to train, advise, and assist Iraqi forces, he emphasized.

One U.S. service member and four peshmerga soldiers were wounded when ISIL extremists fired on U.S. and Iraqi forces during the rescue, he said, adding the U.S. service member was medically treated but later died.

The recovered hostages were placed with the Kurdistan Regional government, Cook said, adding that no hostages died during the rescue to his knowledge.

Richard Sisk (Military.com) observes, "The death of the American, whose service branch was not immediately disclosed, was the first combat fatality suffered by the U.S. in the campaign against ISIS and as such raised questions about the U.S. mission in Iraq and President Obama's pledge not to commit 'boots on the ground' to the fight."

The death was raised at today's US State Dept press briefing. It so unnerves the State Dept that they made an error in their transcript (first "MR TONER" below should actually be "QUESTION"):

MR TONER: I just wondered if you have anything on the operation – rescue operation happened in Hawija by – in cooperation with the Kurdish special forces. Were there any American hostages rescued there?

MR TONER: Well, you’re talking about, of course, the rescue mission that took place – right, exactly – on the ISIL prison in Hawija, Iraq. My counterpart, Peter Cook, I think is briefing on this shortly or if not concurrently. But in answer to – specific answer to your question, no, I’m not aware that there were any U.S. citizens, which I think you were asking about. Now, understanding was that it was about 70 hostages, 20 of them were members of, we believe, Iraqi Security Forces, and that’s as much information as I have.

QUESTION: Right. If you have any information on that, was that the first rescue mission operations being conducted by United States forces in cooperation with Iraq? Is that the one – first one in Iraq, I believe?

MR TONER: I believe it is the first – you’re saying hostage rescue?

QUESTION: Yes.

MR TONER: I believe it is, but defer to others who know more about that. But I think that’s correct.

Mark C. Toner had nothing to offer.

But how could he?

Isn't this the start -- or at least the public recognition -- of the mission creep so many warned about when Barack began sending US troops into Iraq as 'trainers' in August of last year?

The Iraq War has not ended.

Barack Obama will leave the White House in January 2017 with the Iraq War still going.

This despite his portraying himself as against the Iraq War (only before it started -- check the public record) and thundering "We want to end the war" to the Cult of St Barack over and over in 2007 and 2008.

"We" apparently didn't include him.

He had the power to end it.

He chose not to.

The Iraq War continues.

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Thursday, October 22, 2015

She lives to stalk another day

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

THE HILDABEAST ROAMS THE PRAiRIE FOR ANOTHER DAY STALKING ITS PREY.

EVEN U.S. VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN SHIED AWAY FROM TAKING ON CRANKY CLINTON -- ONE OF D.C.'S MOST VILE AND TOXIC BY PRODUCTS.

REACHED FOR COMMENT, CRANKY TOLD THESE REPORTERS, "YOU CAN'T TOUCH THIS."

SHE THEN ATTEMPTED TO DO IT HAMMER TIME BUT TRIPPED, FELL FLAT ON HER FACE, FARTED AND SIGHED, "COULD YOU JUST SHOW YOURSELVES OUT?"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Let's start with politics.

‏@CNN

#TrumpOnCNN, "We made a mistake going into Iraq" and weighs in on the war in Afghanistan: http://cnn.it/1GfOUPW

117 retweets 121 favorites

I know Donald Trump. I don't like Donald Trump. I'm not voting for Donald Trump.

But I find it hilarious how so many on the centrist-left side -- not real leftists, just whores for the Democratic Party -- are obsessed over when Trump was against the Iraq War. Was it before the illegal war started (March 2003) or, as the public record seems to indicate, some time in 2004?

While the whores rush to attack him, does anyone bother to register Hillary Clinton?

She 'regrets' her vote authorizing the Iraq War (mainly because it's the one mess she hasn't been able to lie herself out of). It was a "mistake."

Where's her statement on Iraq?

Where's her statement on anything other than her own narcissistic self?

The worthless might consider that but then if the likes of Kevin Drum were honest or ethical, instead of challenging Trump or anyone else, they'd be taking a vow of public silence because it's trash like (and including) Kevin Drum that pimped the Iraq War to begin with.

It's a sign of how craven the Kevin Drums are -- and how craven their candidate Hillary is -- that they need to attack someone for decrying the Iraq War.

While the US election is a year away, Canada's held their election.

The loser?

Stephen Harper. The War Hawk who persecutes war resisters has been prime minister of Canada since February 2006.

Thanks to the election, he's out and Justin Trudeau is in. Trudeau will not only become Canada's next prime minister, he'll become the second in his family. He's the son of the late Pierre Trudeau whose name has been raised repeatedly over the last years as people noted that, during Vietnam, Canada was a refuge for war resisters while, under Harper, it became known for kicking them out of the country.

Australia's ABC reports:

Canada's prime minister-elect Justin Trudeau has told US president Barack Obama that Canadian fighter jets will withdraw from fighting the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria.

Mr Trudeau told a press conference that, while Canada remains "a strong member of the coalition against ISIL", he had commitments to end the combat mission.

June 19, 2014, Barack declared the only answer to Iraq's various crises was a political solution. But in the months that followed, he didn't work on a political solution, he worked on building a group of countries that would agree to bomb the already war-torn Iraq.

The bombings have not been successful.

Civilians have been killed and wounded.

Any 'militants' killed?

The bombings have been a great recruiting tool for the Islamic State.

Barack's 'plan' is a failure, Operation Inherent Failure.

And now Canada plans to walk away from the bombings.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Who knew she was such a reader?

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

WHEN NOT FERRYING IN DRUGS FROM MENA, ARK. OR EATING THE HEADS OF SMALL CHILDREN, CRANKY CLINTON CAN BE FOUND IN BROOKLYN AT A COMPUTER HUB WHERE SHE -- THE ULTIMATE SOCK PUPPET -- LEAVES HUNDREDS OF NEGATIVE REVIEWS ON ANY BOOK THAT DARES TO SUGGEST CANKLES ARE NOT THE NEW BOOTY.

REACHED FOR COMMENT, CRANKY USED A STEAK KNIFE TO REMOVE SCRAPS STUCK IN HER TEETH AND SNARLED, "I AM LEGEND!"

NO, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SHE MEANT EITHER.

BUT WHEN SHE BARES HER FANGS, YOU JUST NOD QUICKLY AS YOU BACK SLOWLY AWAY.

SLOWLY.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Jon Stone (Independent) reports that Andrew MacKinlay, Labour MP during the lead up to the Iraq War, has declared himself "ashamed" for having faith in Tony Blair:

Andrew MacKinlay, who sat on the foreign affairs select committee in the run-up to the war, told LBC Radio that a new memo shows Tony Blair “duped” him along with the rest of the country.

“Looking at this these documents this morning and everything else that has gone before we know that this was a complete and utter deceit to me and to others,” he said.

What's he talking about?

Telesur notes, "A 2002 memo from former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to President George Bush suggests that then-U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair had already committed support for an invasion of Iraq – almost 1 year before the invasion took place.

News of the agreement surfaced Saturday.

Sunday saw a denial on behalf of Blair. Olivia Goldhill (Quarts) reports:

A spokeswoman from Tony Blair’s office said in an email to Quartz that the memo did not contradict what Blair has said in public. “This story is nothing new. The memo is consistent with what Mr. Blair was saying publicly at the time and with Mr. Blair’s evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry,” she said, referring to Britain’s public inquiry into the Iraq war.

But others aren't so quick to buy that spin. Rowena Mason (Guardian) reports:

Alex Salmond, the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesman and Scotland’s former first minister, said “the net was now closing” around Blair and added to concern over Chilcot’s conduct.
“The memo contradicts claims from Mr Blair that all that time he had been seeking diplomatic ways to avoid an invasion. It also adds weight to the evidence given by Sir Christopher Meyer, the former UK ambassador to the United States – to the Chilcot inquiry – that the military timetable and preparation for invasion took precedence over any diplomacy and specifically over the timetable for the weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix,” Salmond said.

And BBC News notes, "BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said the document appeared to offer a revealing insight into how Mr Blair was perceived at the very highest level in Washington, in the year before the Iraq War." Samuel Osborne (Independent) adds, "Mr Blair, who served as prime minister between 1997 and 2007, has repeatedly denied rushing to war in Iraq."

What stood out most about the story this morning is how it echoed The Downing Street Memo in that major American outlets avoided it. This morning, the only US outlet covering it seriously was the Associated Press (click here for Danica Kirka's story).

Since then?

Global Research has covered the story. Dissident Voice carries a serious examination by Felicity Arbuthnot which ties up many ends and also notes:

Also notable is that so keen was Tony Blair to ally George W. Bush in invasion-plotting that he left the UK during the ten days national mourning for Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The longest living member of the Royal family had died on March 30, 2002. Queues lined to pay their last respects as she lay in state in Westminster Abbey, the Monarchy grieved and Her Majesty’s Prime Minister, Blair, boarded a ‘plane to the US.

Jennifer Deutschmann covers the subject for Inquisitr. Sophia Tesfaye publicly embarrasses herself (it's all about the GOP race for president!!!!!) at Salon but Salon's where all the non-thinkers go. That said, she should be greeted with rotten fruit wherever she dares to show her face after taking the revelations and trying to turn them into whore points for the Democratic Party. She's a real piece of trash so it's good that she works at a garbage dump. For an example of crazy on the right-wing side of the spectrum, you can check out the loony tunes Michael Rubin serves up at Commentary.

And what of 'brave' McClatchy Newspapers?

As we've long noted, McClatchy didn't do a damn thing to report the truth in the lead up to the Iraq War.

Knight-Ridder did.

And McClatchy purchased the Knight-Ridder chain in June of 2006.

But McClatchy was as cowardly as most other outlets -- cowardly and craven -- in 2002 and 2003.

They remain so today.

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