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 Nelson Mandela is not Dead

By Wise 1 - 9/25/2007 ()

bush and mandela together even though mandela is dead

You know, you really gotta hand it to good ol’ President Bush. Just when you think he can’t make any more of an ass out of himself, he tops his earlier efforts, each time, with actions that reach stunning new heights of idiocy.

In case you haven’t seen it, President Bush not only mistakenly proclaimed that Nelson Mandela was “dead", he attributed his death to Saddam Hussein!

bush and mandela together even though mandela is dead

You can see the bit on the Daily Show, the only news agency to cover the story. Check out the whole Daily Show clip over at ifilm.

Well, if John Stewart’s call did not convince you, lol, then check here at the Nobel Prize website, or this story, one of the few agencies to even cover the story (ironically the government owned Voice of America), in which the Mandela foundation fires back. Nelson Mandela was not indeed killed by Saddam Hussein, nor was he killed at all. He’s alive, old but still ticking, and still involved in political life, although he is retired. He …

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 The Politics of Calling Politics, Politics

By Wise 1 - 9/20/2007 ()

know your politician they're all scumSenate Republicans killed a measure led by Jim Webb, Virginia Democrat and father of a U.S. Soldier in Iraq, that would have required the armed services to give a soldier more time to recover after serving a tour of duty. The amount of time at home would have been equal to the amount of time served in a combat theater. Republicans claimed that the strategy would have forced a draw down of troop deployments and that ultimately Democrats were just playing politics with our soldiers. The same message has been echoed by the White House for just about every issue from Iraq right on down to investigations of the Bush White House itself. It is after all, politics, to criticize politicians for being politicians.

“They’re just playing politics” is a familiar cry. Former Attorney General “Gonzo” Gonzalez said the attacks levied against him were all politically motivated, that the simple fact he led the Department of Justice to what has been called the worst period in it’s history with the lowest morale, was just not enough to motivate Democrats. As long as Republicans went along with defending Gonzo, even …

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 Blackwater Poisons Iraq

By Wise 1 - 9/18/2007 ()

Blackwater private security force in Iraq

Today Blackwater got banned from Iraq. What is Blackwater you might ask? Good question. Short answer: A private security company hired by the U.S. to “defend” high value targets like Ambassador Crocker. The long answer, includes a company known for pulling the trigger more often than it should and is basically a private mercenary army that is not accountable to the Iraqi government, nor the United States.

Here is an in depth expose in print to bring you up to snuff. Frontline also did an excellent program on these guys, as well as KBR, Halliburton’s old detachment. The entire show is available online for viewing.

The nation also did a short clip available on YouTube. click here if video does not show

So what does it mean that Blackwater got banned? A whole lot more than Bush wants you to know. Blackwater has been used by the U.S. as a back channel black ops force. I mean, these are the guys that guarded Iraq Chief Paul Bremmer, and now Ambassador Crocker. They are very influential. …

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 Idiot in Chief

By Wise 1 - 9/7/2007 ()

bush with the upside down book, bush is a moron Comedian Leslie Neilson, of Naked Gun fame, could not play a better idiot than the character current President, George W. Bush plays every day. At the recent APEC summit, ol’ W. lived up to his reputation as idiot in chief by first referring to the APEC summit as the “OPEC” summit, then calling Australian troops “Austrian”.

I mean I know we all make mistakes, we all blunder sometimes. Slick Willie Clinton even f’d up a few times once in the State of the Union saying he wanted to make our neighborhoods more liberal instead of livable. Kerry’s botched joke was also a colossal blunder.

However, these guys have nothing on Bush, who is the reigning champion of engaging the mouth without proper coordination of the brain. We can’t forget his being caught on mic once talking smack about a NY Times reporter, the time he got caught on mic at the G-8 acting the fool and of course my personal favorite, the time he told a group of Japanese investors he planned to devalue the Yen instead of deflate it. The gaffe cost the Japanese stock …

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