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Rove to Gonzales: Stop Email on Illegal Projects

by Scott Ott · 69 Comments

(2007-03-19) — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove today instructed U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to order Justice Department staff to stop using email when communicating about illegal or unethical “secret projects“, like the Bush administration’s firing of eight U.S. attorneys for political purposes.

In a brief email to Mr. Gonzales, leaked to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy by an unnamed source on Mr. Rove’s “cc:” list, the president’s closest adviser reminded the attorney general that email is “notoriously easy to track and not a good way to maintain operational security on projects that we don’t want the whole world to know about…if you get my drift. Hello!”

Mr. Rove expressed surprise that “our primary federal criminal investigation agency would still think that email is private…Duh!”

“You’re just reinforcing the public perception that President Bush is a stupid, evil genius,” Mr. Rove wrote, ending his terse note with instructions to “delete this email after you read it.”

“Whatever you do Al,” Mr. Rove wrote, “don’t forward it to your buddy list. Some liberal mole is bound to leak it to the media and make it look like I’m the puppet master behind the scenes controlling everything that happens in this administration.”

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69 responses so far ↓

  • 1 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:27 am

    God Bless America

  • 2 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:30 am

    “…..stupid, evil genius…..” indeed!

    That’s how the enemy thinks.

  • 3 Shelly // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:42 am

    Oh my goodness, Rove is advising the President again? Hasn’t he learned that Congress is going to jump all over him if he thinks his role as Advisor involves advising? That’s almost as bad as replacing political appointees for political reasons. “Serve at the pleasure of the President” means they are guaranteed that position regardless of performance - unless Clinton is President, in which case he can fire more than ten times as many prosecutors without criticism. Haven’t the Dems made all of this clear?

  • 4 conserve-a-tips // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:43 am

    Rove and Gonzales invented the “Eavesdropping” scandal regarding phone calls and emails…you would think they would know better!

  • 5 seneuba // Mar 19, 2007 at 8:05 am

    Everyone knows that voicemail is much more secure.

  • 6 RedPepper // Mar 19, 2007 at 8:07 am

    Gee, isn’t the entire Bush presidency an “illegal and unethical secret project”, according to Senator Patrick Leahy, (Д,VT)?

  • 7 Fred Sinclair // Mar 19, 2007 at 8:10 am

    off topic and forwarded from last thread -

    “To be fair, 26% of Americans would prefer Saddam Hussein to George Bush”.
    Comment by Effeminem — March 18, 2007 @ 2:34 pm

    Being totally fair, Effeminem, I’m sure that, 26% of Americans would prefer Saddam Hussein to George Washington.
    And given their druthers, that same 26% would probably prefer Adolph Hitler to George Bush.
    Facing the reality - I’m sure that at any given time there is probably a quarter of the population suffering from (or enjoying) serious brain damage and/or serious genetic defects.
    I personally believe that libralism is not a choice but rather a defective gene pool. Along the line of inbreeding - it produces defectives who seek each other out to produce more of the same.
    Since it would be an impossibility for any rational, thinking, sane mind to deliberately breed itself out of existence by way of homosexuality and abortion. The proof of this stands on it’s own lack of merit.

    Heirborn Ranger

  • 8 conserve-a-tips // Mar 19, 2007 at 8:55 am

    Well, since The Great Santini is missing, I thought that I would offer my sad, but diligent attempt at parody. And so we have Carl Rove singing to Joe Cocker’s tune The Letter. Give me a ‘G’, boys…..

    ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪
    I don’t care how much I have to say,
    The AG just keeps gettin’ in my way.
    Secrecy is gaw-awn.
    Controversy spaw-awnd.
    The AG wrote me some letters.

    Give me a ticket for my double-park.
    It ain’t nothin’ like the pain this sparked.
    I will have his he-ead.
    His career is de-ead.
    The AG wrote me some letters.

    Well, he wrote me some letters.
    Cuz I didn’t want those attorneys no more.
    Listen, AG, can’t you see
    You can’t leave paper trails like this anymore.
    Anywayyyyy….

    Demmis think they have another case.
    Trying to call this George’s Watergate.
    They don’t have a clu-ue.
    Clinton did it too-oo.
    And his AG, wrote him some letters.

    Well, Gonz wrote me some letters.
    ‘Cause I didn’t want those attorneys no more.
    Listen, AG, can’t you see
    You can’t leave paper trails like this anymore.
    Anywayyyyy….

    I don’t know what all the fuss is ‘bout.
    We all know I’m the one with clout.
    I will have his he-ead.
    His career is de-ead.
    Cuz that AG wrote me some letters.

    That Gonzy wrote me some letters.
    That AG wrote me some letters.
    I don’t like getting’ them letters……….♪

    Thenk yew. Thenk yew berry mudge.

  • 9 Rock Slatestone // Mar 19, 2007 at 9:02 am

    Too bad scientists are still working on those self-distructing emails. They would come in handy at times like these.

  • 10 Shelly // Mar 19, 2007 at 9:04 am

    Finely done, c-a-t!

    Now to jump off topic as fast as I can, please everyone visit Michelle’s site. She has fabulous coverage, and many, many links to other fabulous coverage, of the Gathering of Eagles in DC. It’s about a five hour drive for me, but next year I’d like to go myself if the moonbats are still marching to protest American troops and support protecting terrorists.

  • 11 mig // Mar 19, 2007 at 9:28 am

    Live Pentagon feed

  • 12 Just Ranting // Mar 19, 2007 at 10:56 am

    Is it just my impression, or does the Democrat controlled legislature look like one long bad episode of Pink and the Brain?

    Harry Reid: “Well, what are we going to do tonight, Brain?”

    Nancy Pelosi: “The same thing we do every night, Pinky. First, take away all the powers of the Executive branch, and then TAKE OVER THE WORLD!”

    Harry Reid: “SNARF!!!”

  • 13 Just Ranting // Mar 19, 2007 at 11:04 am

    Well done c-a-t. Santini would be proud.

  • 14 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 19, 2007 at 11:27 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpajamasmedia%2Ecom%2F

    If you don’t look at another link today, make sure you rethink that thought and spend 3 minutes watching this. No surprise-but it tells the whole story on what stupid is.

    Thank you

  • 15 conserve-a-tips // Mar 19, 2007 at 11:33 am

    I loved that clip, Ms Rightwing, Ink. I had received it by email last week and just had to chuckle. Again, I am torn whether I should send it to my liberal family. I think not. They won’t get it.

  • 16 mig // Mar 19, 2007 at 11:52 am

    Anonymous said… (about the Gathering of Eagles)
    I would have loved to have been there, problem is… I’m in Baghdad at the moment. Working as a DOD contractor at a power plant outside the I.Z. Great essay, great pix. And if anyone thinks the troop surge isn’t working, they aren’t in Daura. After our guys swept through here, the mortar & SAF attacks decreased dramatically. God Bless our Troops. God Bless our President.

    Mon Mar 19, 09:33:00 AM 2007

  • 17 boberinyetagain // Mar 19, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    c-a-t, nicely done indeed!

    The Democrats are making themsleves look more foolish with each passing day, didn’t think that was possible but they are managing it all the same.

    Mind you, the Republican agenda is scary, the Dem’s just look foolish. Foolish is better than scary but between the 2 it’s just pitiful…

    Now what???????????

  • 18 conserve-a-tips // Mar 19, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    I just saw this YouTube and thought that the rest of you would enjoy it.

  • 19 da Bunny // Mar 19, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    If I see Chuck Schumer on TV one more time whining about the “political firings” of these U.S. Attorneys, I’m gonna throw up!! Everything the demoncrats DO is politically motivated. Everything the Clintons have EVER done, has been politically motivated. Slicko FIRED ALL 93 US Attorneys at once during his “reign”…and not a peep from the LSM at the time, nor are they reporting it now, while raking the Bush administration over the coals. Schumer, himself, has no ethics, nor does he require ethics from his buddies the Clintons, but he’s all over Bush’s removal of these 8 political appointees! Why, oh why, must we be constantly subjected to the rank, unrestrained hypocrisy of these insane fools on the left?

  • 20 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 19, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    conserve-a-tips

    I checked the Internet. It would cost me $300 round trip to come and sample your scones. sigh. I used to hitch hike in the 60’s all over the country. I wonder….?

  • 21 conserve-a-tips // Mar 19, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    Oh noooo. No hitchhiking, MsRightwing, Ink. Too many crazies out there today. What about the bus?

  • 22 Deerslayer // Mar 19, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    Re:#19 Congress = NO ethics…One wonders why congress has ethic committees and what do they do? Looks like a possible budget cut to me.

  • 23 Beerme // Mar 19, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    c-a-t,

    Bravo! Whoo-hoo!
    As fine a song parody as I’ve seen on here in awhile! I dug it. It had a good beat and you could dance to it, too.

  • 24 Shelly // Mar 19, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    GREAT links! I’m crying!

  • 25 Hawkeye // Mar 19, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    Well, I’m off to donate blood in a few minutes. That’ll be my birthday present to those in need.

    Regards all…

  • 26 Darthmeister // Mar 19, 2007 at 3:16 pm

    Tips straight from jihadi websites on How To Influence Weak-Minded Americans … and trolls.

  • 27 Anonymous // Mar 19, 2007 at 3:32 pm

    To see a tongue-in-cheek visual of Alberto & Karl starring in the new White House presentation of “Justice Is Served”…link here:

    www.thoughttheater.com

  • 28 onlineanalyst // Mar 19, 2007 at 4:09 pm

    Happy birthday, Hawkeye!

    Great parody, c-a-t!

    Informative link (#26), Darthmeister- as if we didn’t know this campaign of jihadist propaganda and disinformation hasn’t been going on all along. Now, if we can wake up the LSM and the tools/useful idiots on the Left, perhaps we can unite as a country to defeat and enemy that intends to defeat us.

  • 29 conserve-a-tips // Mar 19, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    Hawkeye, sorry that I haven’t wished you Happy Birthday yet!

    So Happy Birthday :lol:

  • 30 Fred Sinclair // Mar 19, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    Not so much of what I hear and read but more important is what I don’t hear and read. The effect is as if the muzzle has been put on the conservative’s mouths. The silence is like a deafening roar. Where o where is (other than Hunter and Thompson) the voice of a leader?

    Heirborn Ranger

  • 31 kajun // Mar 19, 2007 at 6:12 pm

    #11 mig

    What are you feeding The Pentagon?

  • 32 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 19, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    Recently I found out (not sure where, might have been here?) about this web site, Unity ‘08, but, anyway, Sam Waterston sent me an email today asking me to help spread the word. If you’re interested.

    I’m on board with them so far; time will tell.

  • 33 RedPepper // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    Obama the “Magic Negro” .

    The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. “He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,” reads the description on Wikipedia .

    This is a useful line of thinking, and deserves to be pursued further, IMHO. It occurred to me after reading this piece that Sen. John McCain is also a “magic” figure - the Magic Vietnam Veteran! No, not one of those icky, raping, pillaging, electro-torturing warriors of John Kerry’s tales, but a noble, manly, silent-suffering victim of captivity and abuse! His “magical” status causes the draft-dodging wusses of the MSM (such as Chris Matthews, for instance …) to prostrate themselves before him, kowtowing and moaning “We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!” , while simultaneously wallowing in waves of overwhelming gratitude because he refrains from reviling them as a gaggle of candy-[bleep!]ed cowards!

    It’s all crystal-clear to me now!

  • 34 Beerme // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:13 pm

    kajun,

    What else but pork? After all, an army moves on it’s stomach.

  • 35 Beerme // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:14 pm

    pushing…

  • 36 Beerme // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    huh?
    Is this thing on?

  • 37 Beerme // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    RedPepper,

    That was a most profound description of John McCain’s allure to the libs! I prostrate myself at your erudite feet!

    But magic negro just sounds wrong, somehow…

  • 38 Beerme // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    OK, Scrappleface is just plain messing with me, now! =(

  • 39 Beerme // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:20 pm

    At this rate I’ll have more posts per hour than anyone since Ranbutan (pbuh).

  • 40 Beerme // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    OK, I give up…

  • 41 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Just rub his head for luck (McCain’s, that is)…..
    :shock:

  • 42 Darthmeister // Mar 19, 2007 at 7:52 pm

    OT … The Truth About Semi-Auto vs. True Assault Rifles

    Good videoclip primer.

  • 43 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 19, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    Duncuan Hunter at Captain’s Quarters.

  • 44 conserve-a-tips // Mar 19, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    Darthmeister, that was quite a brilliant observation. McCain is the Magic VietNam Veteran…

    Your realize that you are too smart for your own good, right?

    But Obama is the Magic Negro? Somehow it makes me think of a black man in tights with a flowing cape, legs planted firmly on the ground, slightly apart, arms akimbo with fists clenched and resting on his hips, and eyes darting back and forth to take in any evil being committed by white men.

    ∞∞ Faster then Algore on a jet plane (can’t use speeding bullet because of gun control, y’know), more powerful then the Oil lobby. Able to jump through hoops for Moveon.org in a single bound..Look - up in the sky! It’s his word! It’s his fame! It’s Magic Negro.

    Yes, it’s Magic Negro, strange Senator from another country who came to the US with powers and abilities far beyond mortal Hillary; Who can change the course of American History, bend the Republicans with his bare stands for abortion? And who, disguised as Barak Obama - mild mannered, big-eared Senator in Washington - fights a never-ending battle to prove that he is really black to Al Sharpton (who thinks that He is the only Truth, Justice and the American Way!)

    And now another exciting episode of The Adventures of Magic Negro!

    Rush Limbaugh is gonna have a ball with that.

  • 45 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 19, 2007 at 9:23 pm

    Yeah, but…..
    Can he tap dance?

  • 46 Beerme // Mar 19, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    As far as the news media and popular opinion goes, I just bought a nice assault pistol. 1911, .45 and a humdinger of a handgun! I still like my Super Blackhawk .44 better but this one may grow on me…

  • 47 Fred Sinclair // Mar 19, 2007 at 11:36 pm

    off topic:

    Perhaps they can redeploy the Texas Border Patrol (which is currently banned from patrolling the border and enforcing immigration laws) to become the Texas cigarette Gestapo, they can imprison and torture or shoot and kill anyone seen with a cigarette in their hand. Convicted cigarette offenders can be forced to have special “I am a convicted cigarette offender” license plates on their vehicles and wear the dreaded “YELLOW CIGARETTE” patch plainly on their clothing when in public.
    Help keep those BP agents busy! Click on -
    Texas :: Press Release: Smoking Bans Limit Freedom and Prosperity; Citizen Group Oppose

    Heirborn Ranger

  • 48 Fred Sinclair // Mar 19, 2007 at 11:42 pm

    oops - should read -

    Click here: Americans for Prosperity - Texas :: Press Release: Smoking Bans Limit Freedom and Prosperity; Citizen Group Oppose

    Heirborn Ranger

  • 49 myword // Mar 20, 2007 at 12:02 am

    JL3rd Re #32 Unity ‘08

    I received that also. I’m thinking it’s a plot to peel off
    Conservative votes to a third party. I’m not buying
    into it.

    Letty

  • 50 camojack // Mar 20, 2007 at 2:50 am

    Maybe we should start an email petition to protest…

  • 51 Hawkeye // Mar 20, 2007 at 7:21 am

    OLA & C-A-T,

    (:D) Thanks!

  • 52 Darthmeister // Mar 20, 2007 at 7:57 am

    Lamestream media at it again. USA Today takes the same poll that it headlined on its front page YESTERDAY but this time recycles it under the banner: “Democracy’s Support (In Iraq) Sinks.”

    These news media people know no shame, particularly when the surge is working with only two out of five brigades having even started supporting Iraqi security forces in Baghdad. Pretty soon the lamestream media will start reporting traffic fatalities as proof of how Iraq is failing as a democracy.

  • 53 da Bunny // Mar 20, 2007 at 10:00 am

    c-a-t, in #44, you forgot to mention that “Magic Negro” is also “clean and articulate.” And, as far as Rush’s show, I can’t wait for the Shanklin parody that’s sure to come out on this subject! :lol:

  • 54 Darthmeister // Mar 20, 2007 at 10:24 am

    In the words of Iraqi Mohammad Fadhil:

    With the constant force buildup many streets now host multiple checkpoints, both fixed and mobile. …

    As the operations continue, the interior ministry is introducing new identification measures for vehicles used by its personnel. The new armored vehicles are unique and leave no room for confusion, while the SUV’s are getting new light-green paint with the words ‘National Police’ well visible on the sides.

    From my personal experience I can tell that the men staffing the checkpoints do not take their job lightly. One can feel that a long month of hard work did not exhaust them, and I am awed by the courage of those soldiers and policemen. … I can’t imagine myself in a position where my job requires I open dozens of trunks every day and each one of those moments might be the end of my life and those of the people around me. The physical and psychological pressure is enormous, yet those brave men continue to be our shield.

    I was listening to the radio this morning and the first headline was ‘Policeman killed in an explosion south of Baghdad’. The story later explains that ‘south of Baghdad’ actually meant Babil. Babil is actually 60 miles away from Baghdad. The misleading headline underscored again how most media try to associate every piece of bad news with Baghdad to maintain the image of violence associated with the city.

    You look around in Baghdad now and see hundreds of men working in the streets to pick up garbage; to plant flowers and paint the blast walls in joyful colors. Many of Baghdad’s squares are becoming green and clean. The picture isn’t perfect, but it’s a clear attempt to beat violence and ease pain through giving the spring a chance to shine. …

    When Arabs or westerners ask me about the situation and I answer that hope remains and that we’re looking forward to a better future most would say ‘Are you living in this world?’ I answer, ‘Yes, it’s you who live in the parallel world the media built for you with images of only death and destruction’.

    Just as free birds would never return to the cage, we don’t want to return to the days of the tyrant. Birds do not care that beasts roam outside and would not feel nostalgic for a home or meal mixed with humiliation.

    All that a free bird cares about is to spread wings and fly as it pleases.

  • 55 Hawkeye // Mar 20, 2007 at 11:00 am

    Darth #54,

    I’ll bet the LLL’s just squirm when they read that kinda stuff… serves ‘em right.

    (:D) Regards…

  • 56 boberinyetagain // Mar 20, 2007 at 11:25 am

    Poll: Iraqis’ hopes fallingWASHINGTON - The optimism that helped sustain Iraqis during the first few years of the war has dissolved into widespread fear, anger and distress amid unrelenting violence, a survey found. The poll is the third in Iraq since early 2004 by ABC News and media partners.
    Among the findings of this survey for ABC News, USA Today, the BBC and ARD German TV:

    _ The number of Iraqis who say their own lives are going well has dipped from 71 percent in November 2005 to 39 percent.

    _ About three-fourths of Iraqis report feelings of anger, depression and difficulty concentrating.

    _ More than half of Iraqis have curtailed activities like going to markets, or even going out of their homes.

    _ Only 18 percent of Iraqis have confidence in U.S. and coalition troops, and 86 percent are concerned that someone in their household will be a victim of violence. *

    - Associated Press

    Reality bites……………

  • 57 boberinyetagain // Mar 20, 2007 at 11:26 am

    the good news is that half of them do actually leave their homes, nice for them….

  • 58 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 20, 2007 at 11:36 am

    What really “bites” is that anyone would take a poll by such shady characters seriously.

  • 59 RedPepper // Mar 20, 2007 at 11:39 am

    Hey, Beerme, Darth & the rest of you blood-thirsty right-wing gun nuts ! Did y’all happen to catch this article?

    Signs of Life in the Second Amendment .

    “For nearly 70 years, the Second Amendment has been the Jimmy Hoffa of constitutional provisions — missing, its whereabouts unknown, and presumed dead. The right to keep and bear arms, though treasured by many Americans, was a complete stranger to the Supreme Court. But recently, a federal appeals court did something no federal court had ever done before: It struck down a gun control law as a violation of the Second Amendment.”

    Eeeeek !

    :twisted:

  • 60 Darthmeister // Mar 20, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    Still drinking that liberal media kool-aid, eh bober? Didn’t you see the link to the O.R.B. poll that undercuts the liberal media narrative?

    The poll you are embracing interviewed only 2,200 Iraqis mostly from the Anbar region. The more comprehensive O.R.B. poll interviewed 5,015 Iraqis throughout the nation and it showed a surprising resiliency and optimism among Shias, Sunnis and particularly the Kurds.

    I guess I shouldn’t be surprised anymore how you reflexively swill the lamestream media’s negativism based on a questionable poll, a poll which we Scrapplers have already noted and rejected as misleading on earlier threads. You’re a day late and a dollar short … as usual, bober. You need to read the link I posted at #26 about weak-minded Americans. Don’t be a tool.

    44% SAY POST-WAR LIFE IS WORST! … No, not Iraqis but rather Europeans!

  • 61 mig // Mar 20, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    Assumming that the misery is REAL… here is another distortion… Money for Climate

  • 62 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 20, 2007 at 12:57 pm

    uggghh, good morning. sigh, some days it takes a mountain to move a woman. need a shower and get off the bed. sigh, need some spring tonic-quick

  • 63 mig // Mar 20, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    Trying again Climate Swindle

  • 64 mig // Mar 20, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    Oh there it is. See, its’ worth watching twice just incase you get the urge….

  • 65 boberinyetagain // Mar 20, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    hank, the beat goes on…
    on any subject under the sun you can find good news and bad news, polls showing that things have never been better, never been worse. you believe the good ones and make fun of me for giving some credence to the not so good ones.
    i admire your ability to find the bright side of war, i almost envy it.
    any day that finds our best and brightest being killed in order to maintain those Iraqis ablility to bitch about our presence there is a bad day in my opinion but not in yours, so it goes.
    I still love you though

  • 66 Fred Sinclair // Mar 20, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    NOTICE: Reports of the new pill are false! There is no magic pill available that can cure the disease of Liberalism. Like cancer and chemotherapy; the cancer of Liberalism cannot thrive when treated with massive doses of Conservatism i.e. - Three hours, five days a week of Rush Limbaugh treatments. In conjunction with daily doses of Scott Ott’s “ScrappleFace and schoolbooks by Ann Coulter, Mark Steyn and Peter Schwweizer. The only instant cure for liberalism known, is a personal relationship with Jesus, the Christ, known for bringing about an instant conversion to conservatism.

    Heirborn Ranger

  • 67 Darthmeister // Mar 20, 2007 at 3:40 pm

    Exactly bober. So why are you always negative? Didn’t your momma teach you if you didn’t have good things to say about people then keep you big trap shut? Ever since 9/11 all I’ve heard out of the mouths of people on your side of the aisle is negative, negative, negative - Bush equals Hilter, Gitmo equals Gulag, the war is illegal and immoral, America equals evil, blah, blah, blah.

    When it comes to engaging an enemy which poses a very real threat to this country I prefer to take the more conventional and sane route which is to SIDE WITH YOUR COUNTRY. Mistakes happen, wars never go the way one likes, but don’t use these realities to take cheap shots at your president and your country. If you want to criticize the Bush Administration for not conducting a war in an aggressive enough manner which results in more Islamofascist deaths … fine by me. At least he’s doing something that neither Clinton, Gore or Kerry would have had the cojones to do for fear of political backlash.

    BTW bober, you’re right, it is people’s nature to complain. The soldier complains he never has enough good-tasting food, comfortable enough quarters, armor protection, their tour of duty is too long … and their complaints are probably justified but certainly not surprising. THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE. You think American soldiers in either the European or Pacific theaters during WWII liked being there for two or three years? If you aren’t wounded seriously enough (like losing a limb or being blinded) you were patched right back up and sent to the frontlines again?

    The conquered peoples always complain about the occupation, not enough security, heavy-handed tactics by conquering forces, not rebuilding fast enough, not enough freedom, blah, blah, blah. That’s why polls about people bitching never impress me but you sure glom onto them for some twisted reason. How about supporting your president and country for once. No such thing as a perfect war.

  • 68 boberinyetagain // Mar 20, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    Side with my country?

    Tell me again what threat Iraq or Saddam was to the US of A? If we didn’t fight them there they were going to come here and plant road side bombs? That was/is/will be for any forseeable future the best weapons they have/had/will have. Now they put some ammonia in there too, woo hoo.
    We attacked sand fleas and it turns out they were more troublesome than we ever imagined but ONLY because we are there.
    They didn’t come here, were not about to. Saddam was a mean man, the world still teams with mean men that we mysteriously leave alone and, those folks haven’t come here/aren’t about to. Imagine that, they/Saddam have their hands full/minds on other things.
    We lost 3000 folks to others, have mostly left the other alone but have surely lost more than 300o++ more (let’s not discuss the 10x more that are grievously wounded eh? why bother with them?)

    Do we feel better yet? Will we soon??
    Keep taking your shoes off at the airport and telling yourself we are now “safe”.
    How comforting, really

  • 69 Anonymous // Mar 22, 2007 at 11:37 pm

    So just today Alberto Gonzales said he is working tirelessly to be sure he has every American’s back covered…

    I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve always been suspicious of the guy that seems to go out of his way to tell you he’s “got your back covered”.

    See a sarcastic visual that demonstrates how many Americans feel when the Attorney General reassures us that he’s got our backs covered…here:

    www.thoughttheater.com

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