Slam Dunk

George Tenet, the former CIA Director, has published a book describing what went on during the planning stages of the Iraq war. Tenet is notorious for his certainty of Iraq possessing WMD, saying it was a "slam dunk."


When I first learned that Tenet was publishing a book I wondered how he could possibly defend his accusations of Iraq, I thought he would just go hide in the shadows with Colin Powell (who I still think should run for president).



Like a true politician, Tenet says his "slam dunk" accusation was taken out of context. Thanks for clearing that up...4 years later.


Maybe he should have told President Bush that he "suspected" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Not that it was a slam dunk! I just don't see how this can be taken out of context. This is simply the easy way out. Anything can be taken out of context, hell the word the can be taken out of context!


I also find it hard to believe that the director of the CIA, whose information is life or death in deciding to go to war, did not make himself clear to the president when he was deciding to invade a country! Give me a break Tenet!

It was extremely bad intelligence, or the weapons were moved before we got there. Its not like the Iraqis didn't know we were coming!


Tenet also discusses how there was little to no planning of the Iraq war. How gullible are we to believe this? Because we do believe it. Now a days we are looking for anything to make it seem that this whole war was one man's decision, when in fact it was not. Bush is not Napoleon.

Maybe when Bush is out of office he will take a page out of Tenet's (I refuse to say I'm wrong) book and say that he didn't actually order the Iraq war. His intentions were just taken out of context.

Congress to pass Iraq timetable bill

Today Senate majority leader Harry Reid said that Congress will send a bill to the president that would require a timetable for the withdrawal of troops out of Iraq.

The do-nothing Congress continues. Yes, President Bush has not used many vetoes during his administration, probably less than any other president, but he has PROMISED to veto this bill. Congress does not have the 2/3 majority in order to overwrite the presidential veto. What do they think Bush is going to do? Suddenly say, "Oh, you are right. Everything I have done and said in the past four years was wrong, my bad!"

This bill has been in the works by the Democrats for some time now and is nothing more than a colossal waste of time. Not to mention it is a stupid bill, a timetable for withdrawal only serves as an attack date for insurgents. There is no upside to this bill and its impending veto.

As usual, the only reason why the Democrats are pursuing this bill is because it makes them "look good" on election day. During their next campaign they can say that they did try to end the war, even though they actually had no more progress ending the war than the homeless guy who digs through my dumpster did.

Some would say that the Democrats are doing what their constituents want because they voted them into power to end the Iraq war. OK, well end it. Every single US Congressperson knows that this bill WILL NOT end the war. Then why pursue it?

How about actually compromising with the president? Come up with some sort of legislation that everyone will sign. Sounds impossible? Well it's not, and it is what the voters want the Democrats to do with their new "power."It sure as hell beats spending months on a bill that is guaranteed to be vetoed will still in the hands of the messenger boy!

John, you make this too easy

I don't want this to become a Doolittle bashing blog, although that would bring in the readers and raise my revenue. But he just makes it so damn easy!!

Today he gave up his seat in the Appropriations Committee amid his three millionth day of "alleged" scandal allegations. Basically this means that the little he was getting done (for his rich friends) he won't even be able to do now. He was elected to pass laws, he now has no pull to pass anything because of these scandals that were known about at election time.

He should resign his seat and let someone fill it that his peers will respect. This has been a wasted seat in Congress for years, and now it is simply worthless with Doolittle there.

He was only elected (besides because he is a Republican in a gerrymandered Republican stronghold) because of his "experience." Well his experience is now worthless because nobody in Congress respects him, nor do his constituents.

I have a feeling that news like this from Doolittle will keep coming for a few more days, stop, then pile on a few months from now...

Miller 2008!

Doolittle home raided in Virginia

I love this guy, it never stops! Yesterday Rep. John Doolittle's (seen here with his wife) Virginia home was raided by the FBI in connection with lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Why did anyone vote for this guy last November?

This guy "represents" the district where I grew up, and where I am still registered to vote. I made it a point to drive up there last November to vote AGAINST him. This guy does nothing productive in the House and the only time we hear about him is when his homes get raided by the FBI.

This guy is just a prime example of how gerrymandering has destroyed free elections in this country. Voters had no reason to vote for this guy, but he still won.

Doolittle (if you're gonna be a politician, change your name...) said that he hopes the truth will prevail, yea so do I. This guy is more guilty than OJ, and the allegations just keeping piling on top of each other.

I can already see candidates licking their chops for the next time this guy is up for reelection. Hell, if I was 25 last November I would have ran against him!

Virginia Tech

This is obviously a horrific unthinkable tragedy. Unfortunately news media companies just can't get enough of it. Just as they do with terrorist attacks, they are glorifying this murderer.

On the front page of the New York Times today was a picture of the killer that he mailed to NBC News. He also mailed numerous other pictures and videos that are now being aired on TV every 3 seconds.

Why would he mail all that stuff to NBC News? Because he wanted to be on the front page and all over the news. We are giving this guy exactly what he wanted, and even though he was deranged he knew that the news companies could not resist putting his sickening images and words in front of millions of people all over the world.

We must stop this sort of glorifying. All that this does is show other mentally unstable individuals that if they do this they will be all over the news and on the front page!

If we want things like this to stop happening we need to focus the news coverage not on the killer, but on the victims. If the news coverage was focused on the lives on the victims and not glorifying the killer, other deranged would-be killers will see the human faces of this tragedy and not inside the mind of a killer. They would also see that it would get them nowhere to do such things.

Unfortunately right now, all that would-be killers see is that if they do things like this they will become famous, and that is a tragedy in itself.

Raising money Obama dominates Clinton

The New York Times published the results of first quarter fundraising by presidential candidates...Obama is winning.

A few weeks ago when Obama's numbers were not in Clinton had a huge lead over all Democratic hopefuls, now we have a new leader. Sen. Obama has raised $24.8 million for the primary with $19.2 million in the bank. Sen. Clinton has around $24 million for the primary.

The biggest component to this story is that former supporters of Bill Clinton, many of who were close enough to the Clinton's to stay in the Lincoln bedroom, are now supporting Sen. Obama's campaign.

All Hillary has is the loyal base of supporters resulting from the political machine assembled by her husband, the little qualifying experience she has is a direct result of her husband's popularity. Nobody is electing a simple lawyer with no experience to the Senate, let alone make her a leading candidate for president.

If she can't rely on her "loyal base" she has a snowball's chance in hell at getting the nomination.

Iran continues...

Iran's "president" has announced that Iran can now enrich uranium on a large scale (it is not really a large scale, and would take years to become any type of threat). Regardless of how primitive their nuclear technologies are, this is just dumb.

They are now defying two more UN resolutions, and are going to be subject of even more sanctions.

With Iran's "technology" they won't be able to make a bomb for 15 more years, but by then this "president" will have been removed from office by his own people because they won't be able to import anything because of his stupidity.

This is just another stupid move by a man with a history of doing little else.

Obama/Clinton 08'?

Or would it be Clinton/Obama 08'? Or would it be...

On David Letterman Sen. Obama was asked about a potential Obama/Clinton ticket. Obama replied that it would be a powerful ticket, but which order would it be in?

Honestly I think that Obama will get the nomination and he will choose Clinton or Edwards as his running-mate. I would prefer it if he chose McCain, but ehhhh yea I know...