The real Swiftboating of Murtha has begun

There is nothing beneath these people.

The Agonist…

The real Swiftboating of Murtha has begun

Sears Tower Terror Plot Demolishes Bush Rationale For Iraq War

Great job by the FBI to grab these lunatics.

Peter Daou hits on a point that is important though:

“The notion that “we’re fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them here” has been nullified by the news that “a federal indictment against seven men revealed Friday details of what the government said was a plan to “kill all the devils we can” by blowing up Chicago’s Sears Tower.”…read on“

Sears Tower Terror Plot Demolishes Bush Rationale For Iraq War

Froomkin provides his usual excellent insight in to the minds of the Bush team today. He examines the fear that Cheney has of “weakness”: Vice President Cheney yesterday offered an unusually revealing glimpse of his worldview — one in which a withdrawal from Iraq may have less to do with Iraq, and more to do with the message it would send to the world about the limits of American power. In Cheney’s view, withdrawal from Iraq would first and foremost make the United States look weak. And that, in turn, would have cataclysmic domino-style effects across the globe: Afghanistan could fall, and so could Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The Iranians could get nukes. And the United States itself would become dramatically more vulnerable to attack, not to mention lose its ability to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests.Cheney’s fears of the United States looking weak have already been realized — and it’s because of the failed policies of the Bush/Cheney administration. The Iraq debacle and the actions of the past few weeks have reinforced that perception to the rest of the world. What does it say when the leaders of the world’s “lone superpower” (as Dan Bartlett described us repeatedly the other day on the Today Show) practically declared a national holiday because we killed one bad-ass terrorist? Al-zawqari was an extremely dangerous and bad man. He got what he deserved. But by making it seem like it took the entire concentration of the world’s “lone superpower” to take out one terror leader in a country we occupy, well, frankly, that made us look weak — and terrorists like Al-zarqawi strong. All this is set against the backdrop of a country that cannot locate the one terror leader, Osama Bin Laden, who killed Americans on American soil. Also, Bush’s secret photo op trip to was considered a great p.r. move here. Of course, it was viewed solely through a political lens. What message did it send to the rest of the world that the President of the U.S. had to sneak in to a country …American Weakness courtesy of Bush/Cheney

What were they thinking when they signed on in the first place? Either way, just another indication of how bad America’s image is during the Bush years.While I sympathize with Costa Rica

Battling the Ghosts of Vietnam

Arthur:

If you want to provoke an especially heated reaction from the supporters of our current foreign policy — those who proclaim that we must stay in Iraq for the indefinite future, and until an impossible series of events miraculously transforms a bloody, murderous failure into something they might finally dub a “success” — there is one guaranteed method of achieving that end: compare Iraq to Vietnam. Almost without exception, the hawks instantly burn with white-hot anger. Their moral outrage is palpable…read on“

Battling the Ghosts of Vietnam

Open Thread

Freaks

Open Thread

Not that there’s a trend or anything but 28,000 US Navy and family personal records, including Social Security numbers, has been posted online. Why does Rummy hate the military? Why does Rumsfeld hate America?Another day, another personal data story