I'm talking Rovian toadies and "evangelicals" who are trying to speciously rush cockamamie new laws through Congress just so the prisoners in Guantanamo, Abu Graib and other hellholes may be mercilessly abused and debased again as soon as possible.
Or at least "tried" and guaranteed to be convicted, in the name of the lawd, Amen.
Why, George says over and over he'd like to close Guantanamo, but he doesn't know where to send the men now that he's made them mortal enemies of our Country.
This has been his favorite refrain since he stabbed all the World's citizens in the back in January, 2001 and reneged on the Kyoto Protocol. To paraphrase: "I wanna do it, but I haven't figured out a way t'do it yet."
Besides being spanked by the Supremes, something the White House Fascists never figured on, they and their cronies have been getting hit from all sides.
Not the first issue, but certainly one of the most outrageously contemptuous in terms of utter disregard for our military personnel and the taxpayers, was the no-bid contract slathered onto the coffers of Halliburton (the company presided over by one Dark Lord the Dick Cheney prior to the onset of the Millennium).
In the post-9/11 World, Halliburton has been paid $15 Billion for "services" rendered the Army. The original contract was a $100 Million deal over a 10-year period.
That's 150 times the business transacted in half the time the agreement would have lasted. Imagine, it all began immediately after tragic events occurred that have yet to be fully investigated or explained - less than one year after Bush, Cheney and Rove slithered into their West Wing offices, installed by the Rehnquist Federalist Supremes.
It would really be nice if all America got to see Dick and Lynne Cheney's Halliburton holdings, and the sum they will be collecting come January 21, 2009.
The possibility exists we just may get to see those holdings. Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson are suing the Fascist thugs, et al, who screwed them over as political retaliation for telling the truth about the Iraq WMD bullshit.
Something tells me that Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby are not going to play out as sympathetic characters in front of a jury of regular folks. It still amazes me that these schmucks, along with that man among men Bob Novak, were allowed to skate away free by Patrick Fitzgerald's Grand Jury, despite George H.W. Bush's own speech denouncing anyone who would leak the name of a CIA operative as a traitor. (The Wilson's have wisely used this as the opening statement in their suit.)
At present, I'm having sincere doubts about precisely where Mr. Fitzgerald stands. Prior to the Plame investigation he was sold to the public as a straight shooter, especially since he was in charge of prosecuting that no-good Republican Illinois Governor George Ryan. Although I was never a supporter of Ryan, as a resident of Illinois I do feel the man was railroaded.
Not being a "team player" like Denny Hastert and some of the other "connected" GOPers, Ryan operated by his own rules. Hell, unlike King George he detested killing people, to the point of ordering a moratorium on executions. And this George actually cared about and got things done for the people, such as infrastructure construction and repair, schools built, etc.
From an Illinois resident's view, the likelihood is that George Ryan may have been a fall guy, sacrificed to make Fitzgerald look tough on Republican screw-ups.
Bottom line on Ryan, however, was that he didn't do anything all that dastardly or greedy. But he's now looking to spend the rest of his life in a Federal pokey, thanks to being tried in a court situated in a Democratic city.
Meanwhile, all the King's men go free. It's a pretty good scam.
Or at least "tried" and guaranteed to be convicted, in the name of the lawd, Amen.
Why, George says over and over he'd like to close Guantanamo, but he doesn't know where to send the men now that he's made them mortal enemies of our Country.
This has been his favorite refrain since he stabbed all the World's citizens in the back in January, 2001 and reneged on the Kyoto Protocol. To paraphrase: "I wanna do it, but I haven't figured out a way t'do it yet."
Not the first issue, but certainly one of the most outrageously contemptuous in terms of utter disregard for our military personnel and the taxpayers, was the no-bid contract slathered onto the coffers of Halliburton (the company presided over by one Dark Lord the Dick Cheney prior to the onset of the Millennium).
In the post-9/11 World, Halliburton has been paid $15 Billion for "services" rendered the Army. The original contract was a $100 Million deal over a 10-year period.
That's 150 times the business transacted in half the time the agreement would have lasted. Imagine, it all began immediately after tragic events occurred that have yet to be fully investigated or explained - less than one year after Bush, Cheney and Rove slithered into their West Wing offices, installed by the Rehnquist Federalist Supremes.
It would really be nice if all America got to see Dick and Lynne Cheney's Halliburton holdings, and the sum they will be collecting come January 21, 2009.
The possibility exists we just may get to see those holdings. Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson are suing the Fascist thugs, et al, who screwed them over as political retaliation for telling the truth about the Iraq WMD bullshit.
Something tells me that Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby are not going to play out as sympathetic characters in front of a jury of regular folks. It still amazes me that these schmucks, along with that man among men Bob Novak, were allowed to skate away free by Patrick Fitzgerald's Grand Jury, despite George H.W. Bush's own speech denouncing anyone who would leak the name of a CIA operative as a traitor. (The Wilson's have wisely used this as the opening statement in their suit.)
At present, I'm having sincere doubts about precisely where Mr. Fitzgerald stands. Prior to the Plame investigation he was sold to the public as a straight shooter, especially since he was in charge of prosecuting that no-good Republican Illinois Governor George Ryan. Although I was never a supporter of Ryan, as a resident of Illinois I do feel the man was railroaded.
Not being a "team player" like Denny Hastert and some of the other "connected" GOPers, Ryan operated by his own rules. Hell, unlike King George he detested killing people, to the point of ordering a moratorium on executions. And this George actually cared about and got things done for the people, such as infrastructure construction and repair, schools built, etc.
From an Illinois resident's view, the likelihood is that George Ryan may have been a fall guy, sacrificed to make Fitzgerald look tough on Republican screw-ups.
Bottom line on Ryan, however, was that he didn't do anything all that dastardly or greedy. But he's now looking to spend the rest of his life in a Federal pokey, thanks to being tried in a court situated in a Democratic city.
Meanwhile, all the King's men go free. It's a pretty good scam.
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