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Rove Lies, But That's Not The Point

Normally I might would jump into the fray like everyone else about Tom Brokaw and Karl Rove butting heads this morning , over whether or not the Bush administration had suggested that sharing oil revenue would eventually help pay for the war in Iraq. Which, of course, the Bush bunch did; and which, of course, Rove said did not because he's a lying fat piece of shit . Sort of like when I myself used to deny ever having put on a dress and make-up, despite Polaroids proving a different truth. My gripe is more to the point of why this turd is even allowed air time lying about it in the first place, being off the hook when he and the rest of them should be in jail instead. To even be discussing the issue of the cost of the war in Iraq is absurd and implies justification for the U.S. illegal invasion. But that's just my opinion, and no network's program manager ever once consulted me about their lineups for today. Fatty McGoo got his C&C book plug in anyway, just another one...

Getting Off, American Style

"It feels like the weight of the world has been lifted off his shoulders. Here's a guy that's a decorated war hero who we maintain should never have been charged in the first place," so says the lawyer for one of the five Blackwater guards gotten off scot free from mowing down 17 Iraqi civilians for no reason, back in 2007. Stupid ass remark. Decorated or undecorated, war hero or antihero, since when that justified one beating the rap I don't know. Timothy McVeigh was a decorated war veteran , Bronze Star amongst other military bling, didn't seem to sanction absolution there. Vets gone bad, it happens, so that comment alone pissed me off. I digress. Back to the letting off the whole of the Blackwater bad guys. In his ruling dismissing the case against them, the judge had nothing to say about the massacring they pulled off whatsoever. Instead he dropped the case on the grounds that the five had had their constitutional rights violated by being threatened wit...