Cracks are beginning to surface in the shiny armor of the evil Gang of Four.
For too long the corporate media has given these swindlers a free ride through their carnival of war, repression and scumbaggery. The people of the United States are slowly realizing their plans for endless warfare and global domination. Faced with this growing resistance at home The Gang of Four are prepared to fight back with a bold public relations offensive against the forces of truth, justice and good.
Republican operatives and spinmeisters are ready at their battle stations. The Democrats are disorganized and clueless as ever. The bloggers and the pranksters faithfully stand at the front-lines ready to combat the lies and misinformation emitted by the Bush juggernaut.
Rummy The Philosophical Warrior
Donald Rumsfeld, the ubiquitous Cold War dinosaur and crack-pipe philosopher, who said that the Iraq War would be easily won in several months has now admitted that the insurgency may last until 2017. According to Rummy the insurgency is getting desperate, and the more desperate they become, the more violence they will unleash on the people of Iraq. The "last throes" of the Iraqi insurgency will take approximately 12 years to subside.
Cheney The Doomsday Executive
The Vice President scared the American people with Grimm Fairy Tales of Saddam Hussein's desire to attack the United States with nuclear-tipped missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles filled with biological weapons. While not scaring people out on the stump he spent his time at the CIA badgering intelligence officials to ensure that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
Condi The Defender
It's ironic how Condoleezza Rice has gone from chief defender of the Bush war plans as National Security Adviser in the first term, to the chief diplomat in the State Department during the second term. I guess kissing her husband's president's ass for four years paid off well. Now she is George's Evita, traveling the world, singing the virtues of democracy and freedom to the unenlightened Middle Eastern world. Although she may act as Miss USA now, let us not forget her dire warnings about the smoking gun a.k.a. the mushroom cloud.
Dubya The Salesman
Tomorrow in a prime-time press conference, the boy king is prepared to serve up the American people a piping hot plate of endless war. Will the people fall for his used-car salesman technique or will they see through his repetitive messaging and and reject the soft bigotry of low expectations?
The Daily Howler has an excellent piece on Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack and how it has been used to bolster our pimping wise leader who consults with God on which countries to annihilate. Ever since reading Plan of Attack last year, it was clear to me that the Iraq War was strategically grown, planned and initiated based on phony intelligence. However, the book seems to place the blame on George Tenet and his slam-dunking CIA. Tenet is portrayed as the fall guy whereas Bush walks away scot-free.
So, they duped the American people. What else is new?
It turns out that the Iraq War had secretly begun in 2002 while Bu$hCo was fixing the facts and massaging the intelligence (with happy ending, of course). From yesterday's London Times:
Addressing a briefing on lessons learnt from the Iraq war Lieutenant-General Michael Moseley said that in 2002 and early 2003 allied aircraft flew 21,736 sorties, dropping more than 600 bombs on 391 “carefully selected targets” before the war officially started.
The nine months of allied raids “laid the foundations” for the allied victory, Moseley said. They ensured that allied forces did not have to start the war with a protracted bombardment of Iraqi positions.
No wonder coalition troops were able to sack Baghdad in only three weeks in March 2003. They had already destroyed most of Saddam's defenses the year before.
Major props go out to the British press for publishing the Downing Street memos and following this developing story. The American press needs to learn from their friends across the pond and grow some balls.
Other BBA members weigh in on the Downing Street Story:
Shakespeare's Sister The Heretik Why Are We Back in Iraq?
Not only does the U.S. government have plans to build a Star Wars-style Death Star but they are now constructing a giant laser. Having thousands of nuclear bombs which could blow up the planet hundreds of times over is not enough to satisfy the insatiable Rumsfelds of the world. Now we need to have a laser that can simulate a nuclear bomb. 
