What do Rick Perry and Sarah Palin share in common other than the fact both are right wing extremists with an abundance of hair?
There are plenty of shared commonalities between them but the most important is obviously glaring. The governors of the states of Texas and Alaska speak from both sides of their mouths. And both think no one is paying attention.
In other words, Rick and Sarah are lying hypocrites who believe their constituents are stupid.
As I mentioned in my diary Why Texans Deserve Far Better than John Cornyn, Part I, I asserted that rubber stamp for W. and war hawk Cornyn shirked military service during the Vietnam War when he had every opportunity to serve. While a college student, he had drawn a very low draft lottery number and yet he somehow managed to hide behind a student deferment when such were not supposed to be available at the time. Senator Cornyn likes to talk big and tall about a global war on terror as long as he and his don't do the fighting.
Part II discloses information on draft dodging Cornyn's rather interesting rise to political power in Texas. The way I see it, Cornyn's candidacies were essentially both enabled and purchased by a group of the Texas GOP rich, politically connected and very powerful people.
Noam Chomsky has done it again! I recommend everyone to read the full article on Mother Jones.
Doubtless Iran's government merits harsh condemnation, including for its recent actions that have inflamed the crisis. It is, however, useful to ask how we would act if Iran had invaded and occupied Canada and Mexico and was arresting U.S. government representatives there on the grounds that they were resisting the Iranian occupation (called "liberation," of course). Imagine as well that Iran was deploying massive naval forces in the Caribbean and issuing credible threats to launch a wave of attacks against a vast range of sites -- nuclear and otherwise -- in the United States, if the U.S. government did not immediately terminate all its nuclear energy programs (and, naturally, dismantle all its nuclear weapons). Suppose that all of this happened after Iran had overthrown the government of the U.S. and installed a vicious tyrant (as the US did to Iran in 1953), then later supported a Russian invasion of the U.S. that killed millions of people (just as the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran in 1980, killing hundreds of thousands of Iranians, a figure comparable to millions of Americans). Would we watch quietly?
(Bush has increased terrorism by a factor of 7. Amazing. - promoted by krazypuppy)
A new report has been recently released by Mother Jones, entitled "Iraq 101: Aftermath, Long Term Thinking" (Part 4) This in-depth, 5-part study was led by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, research fellows at the Center on Law and Security at NYU's School of Law.
According to the study, Bush has been insisting that fighting terrorists "over there" means we don't have to fight them "over here." When Rumsfeld has been asked if the war has created more terrorism, he would routinely reply "No one knows. The world doesn't know." The report reveals that until now, no one has ever done a statistical analysis of the effects of the war in Iraq on terrorism.
Bergen and Cruickshank's report give us crystal clear look at a Bush's GOP work in abysmal and profound failure, the death of hundreds of thousands, devastating human suffering both at home and in Iraq, a nightmare of regional migration displacement, gross corruption and the squandering and depletion of U.S. treasure. As if this personal, social, military, geopolitical and national calamity isn't horrible enough, Bush & Co. seriously compromised our security and safety by opening Pandora's Box of terrorism.
