Speaking of things launched from banks of rivers, I’m reminded that back in 2003, vigilant Thais trapped the spirit of George W Bush in a clay pot, gave it a cursing it won’t soon forget, and then flung it into a river in Northern Thailand.

Sadly, it apparently didn’t take; Bush’s evil spirit still moves among us.

So my question is, why is Vanity Fair (of all sources) the only one that reports this kind of stuff? My only answer is they are the independently owned media.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/halliburton200711

In the midday heat of June 16, 2003, Conyers was summoned to fix a broken refrigerated truck—a “reefer,” in contractor parlance—at Log Base Seitz, on the edge of Baghdad’s airport. He and his colleagues had barely begun to inspect the sealed trailer when they found themselves reeling from a nauseating stench. The freezer was powered by the engine, and only after they got it running again, several hours later, did they dare open the doors.

The trailer, unit number R-89, had been lying idle for two weeks, Conyers says, in temperatures that daily reached 120 degrees. “Inside, there were 15 human bodies,” he recalls. “A lot of liquid stuff had just seeped out. There were body parts on the floor: eyes, fingers. The goo started seeping toward us. Boom! We shut the doors again.” The corpses were Iraqis, who had been placed in the truck by a U.S. Army mortuary unit that was operating in the area. That evening, Conyers’s colleague Wallace R. Wynia filed an official report: “On account of the heat the bodies were decomposing rapidly.… The inside of the trailer was awful.”

I Survived Blackwater

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-gans6oct06,0,1155563.story?coll=la-opinion-center

Hey it’s just taxpayers money – there’s plenty more where it came from…I know – let’s go ask Congress for another $500 billion!

It doesn’t get any better than this!

If you need a door hung, a piece of wire pulled in a conduit or pipe installed so that the poop runs downhill, you have to import the skill set. Usually from India or Pakistan.

The indignous people certainly know how to extract a bribe from Brits/Frenchmen/Gringoes or whichever Conquistadors du Jour appear, but get any work done?

Not so much, Sports Fans…

My schdenfreude is hoping that they thoroughly screw the Chinese, too, when it becomes Beijing’s turn to be Masters of the Universe.

And one Chiclet, the GI equivalent of One Hand Clapping.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071007/NATION/710070331/1020/rss09

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/05/iraq.embassy.ap/

I say they better hurry up so King George can be properly executed er I mean enthroned in it prior to Jan 2009 or better yet just wait until after Hillary is sworn in and she can name King George as Ambassador to Iraq to thank him for all he has done for our Iraq invasion er I mean Iraq mission he accomplished.

I do need to watch my tongue and show proper respect for our dictator in…i mean commander in chief…there I go again…showing no respect… what has gotten into me??

Other quotes about the Imperial Palace built on the backs of Iraqi people er.I mean built on the banks of the Tigris River…..some of these which I swear I didn’t make up make you want to puke or laugh hysterically or both.

“Although the U.S. government regularly proclaims confidence in Iraq’s democratic future, the United States has designed an embassy that conveys no confidence in Iraqis and little hope for their future,” historian Jane Loeffler writes in the current issue of Foreign Policy magazine.” (NO DUH)

“Instead, the United States has built a fortress capable of sustaining a massive, long-term presence in the face of continued violence.”(WHERE DID SHE PULL THAT ONE OUT OF?)

“Loeffler didn’t dispute the need for tight security in Baghdad. But she sees the Iraqi project as just one example of a disturbing trend in U.S. embassy construction worldwide — places so isolated and impenetrable that they make it harder for the United States to develop good relations with host countries.” (NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!!)

“Another expert says Iraq presented unique challenges in embassy design because the country has been in a state of war for years and is apt to be so for the indefinite future.” (REALLY? INDEFINITELY??????)

Stephen Biddle, an expert on national security policy at the Council on Foreign Relations says

“As for the danger U.S. diplomats will become too isolated, “that could certainly happen if everybody is just sitting around in the embassy. “On the other hand, one would certainly hope that if the embassy is doing its business properly, it’s pushing its diplomats out to make contact with Iraqis”. (CAN’T YOU JUST IMAGINE A DIPLOMAT IN FULL PROTECTIVE GEAR ACCOMPANIED BY 10 BLACKWATER CHOPPERS TEN TRUCKS OF BLACKWATER MERCS, AND GOD KNOWS WHO ELSE WALKING UP TO AN IRAQI MERCHANT IN THE JOHN MC SAFE MARKET AND SAYING…….

HI I’M DONNY DIPLOMAT AND THIS IS MY GUARD BLACKWATER AND THIS IS MY OTHER GUARD BLACKWATER!!!!!)

“Biddle says the embassy’s nearly $600-million cost is not that outlandish given total U.S. spending in Iraq — $450-billion so far and climbing”. (NOT OUTLANDISH IS HE FUCKING CRAZY OR WHAT????)

Still, $600-million buys a lot of comfort in a place where millions of people are living in such desperate circumstances, Loeffler says: (WHO IS SHE FUCKING KIDDING?? COMFORT FOR WHO??)

And now for the last comment and you all know you always save the best for last, I will even put it in caps……..

Finally Loeffler says

“IF ANOTHER COUNTRY WAS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CLAIMED NOT TO BE AND OCCUP YING FORCE AND HAD EVERYTHING I DIDN’T HAVE, IT CERTAINLY WOULD DISTURB ME AS A CITIZEN.”

ARGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!

LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY’RE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY HAHA THEY’RE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY HAHA………………

PS the full article from which the above quotes were taken is at this url…

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/30/Worldandnation/New_US_Embassy_a_city.shtml

So, I can imagine Mr. Wilson’s ears perking up when Robert Novak mentioned the name “Valerie Plame” in their conversation, at which time Mr. Wilson tried to divert Novak’s inquiry, as softly as possible, to Valerie Plame Wilson’s status as “Valerie Wilson,” while not saying anything that might compromise her “Valerie Plame” covert CIA identity, or at least not compromise it anymore than Novak’s questioning already indicated that her covert CIA identity had been compromised.

Then, a CIA official also tries to “softly” warn Novak off running any story about “Valerie Plame,” but Novak didn’t take the hint, making him complicit in the outing of the identity of a covert CIA NOC officer, which led to the disclosure of Brewster Jennings being a covert CIA front company, compromising who knows how many other CIA operatives.

Valerie Plame Wilson, as did her husband, kept their end of the bargain with the U.S. government, as did these other CIA operatives, while Robert Novak and a bunch of Bush administration officials ratted them all out, thus endangering our national security, and the lives of all U.S. citizens, in the process.

So, my dear Novak, no number of apologies from you or Bush administration officials will ever be able to wipe off this stain on your reputation, or their’s.

Oh, wait, all of these people attended the Rush Limbaugh School of Non-apology Apologies, where people learn to apologize as self-anointed proxies for the people they’ve wronged, but never for themselves and their criminal or highly questionable, unethical and un-American acts.