Bill Hicks was right about everything II
I. All wars are crimes.
“Cut the crap about our good “hearts” Mr. Excuse-Maker-In-Chief. Nobody cares what’s in the heart of a torturer when he is sticking a cattle prod into your genitals. We are no more “moral” than the French in Algeria, the British in Northern Ireland, the Israelis on the West Bank, or our former selves in Vietnam. (Too bad you and Mr. Cheney were busy elsewhere during that one, sir.) War crimes are a part of war, especially guerrilla war. Buy one, get the other one free. (And by the way, these abuses could have been stopped a long time ago if anyone in the administration had cared. As the WSJ reported, the Red Cross informed the administration of these types of abuses over a year ago.)”
II: Quote for the day.
“You know, if you look at – if you, really, if you look at these pictures, I mean, I don’t know if it’s just me, but it looks just like anything you’d see Madonna, or Britney Spears do on stage. Maybe I’m – yeah. And get an NEA grant for something like this. I mean, this is something that you can see on stage at Lincoln Center from an NEA grant, maybe on Sex in the City – the movie. I mean, I don’t – it’s just me.”
–Rush Limbaugh
III. Bush says Rumsfeld is doing a superb job.
Cheney calls him the best defense secretary ever. It’s all here in this MSNBC.com story.
He’ll be gone by Saturday.
Unless they really can quell the rising tide of dissatisfaction, not just with the Muslim/Arab world, but with our allies and within this country as well, the vile Rumsfeld’s going to be the sacrifical lamb.
It’s just a gut feeling I have, combined with what happened a lot in the Reagan and first Bush administrations. When scandal erupts, support your guy until it becomes politically impossible to do so, and that’s what I think will happen with Rumsfeld.
IV. It probably won’t change anything.
But I think it’ll become clear that the hit they’ll take for leaving him in place will be more than they’ll take for replacing a defense secretary in the middle of an election about defense.
BTW, the MSNBC story is long but worth reading to the end for these two final paragraphs:
“An attorney for Pfc. Lynndie R. England, the Army reservist shown in photos smiling and gesturing at naked Iraqi prisoners, said Monday that she was taking the fall for military shortcomings that included a lack of troops. England, 21, of Fort Ashby, W.Va., was charged with mistreating prisoners. “We have generals and the secretary of defense hiding behind a 20-year-old farm girl from West Virginia who lives in a trailer park,” said the attorney, Giorgio Ra’Shadd of Denver.”
“The independent Army Times newspaper, which is read widely in the U.S. military, suggested Monday that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon civilian and military leaders should be removed for “a failure that ran straight to the top.” The same editorial was carried in the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps Times newspapers.”
