Okay, I know Savage is like Howard Stern only more political and less intelligent, but when you’ve got one of the biggest anti-lib redcoats out there talking about how we should consider bringing Saddam back, that’s a hint.

SAVAGE: Maybe we should bring back Saddam, a Sunni, because he knows how to control the Shia.

CALLER: Yeah. Could be. And you got Syria –

SAVAGE: No. You can laugh all you want. He knew how to control them; he knew how to keep these maniacs under control.

I noted just last night that we’ve got a problem in the form of an Iran/Iraq alliance forming, which could be bad either with Iran getting involved in Iraq’s formation or Iraq backing Iran’s nuclear program (hell, both). And don’t forget that Saddam was supported in the 80’s BECAUSE of his position against Iran.

So what now, folks?

[tags]michael savage, media, radio, iraq, iran, saddam hussein, war[/tags]

Much as the redcoats try and paint this as a democrat/republican issue, it’s not. When you’ve got Colin “These are biological weapons labs” Powell and John McRage agreeing that Bush is just plain wrong on this, that’s an indication that mayyyyybe there’s some merit to the opposition.

“The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism,” said Powell, who served under Bush and is a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “To redefine Common Article 3 would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our own troops at risk.”

Bush has admitted to secret prisons but won’t say what they do there or why he needs to use them. At the same time, he’s again trying to create new legislature to make legal what he’s been secretly doing already.

Ours is a president who waits until his lawbreaking has been discovered to try and change the laws. He’ll secretly spy and torture for years, then as soon as someone finds out about it suddenly it’s a matter of national security to make some new laws. The fact that Bush proposes this legislature in 2006 and not 2002 only undermines his claim that he’s never broken a law.

Were these tools necessary, were they right, and were they tools he had not been illegally using already, he would have requested access to them as soon as the war on terror started. Instead he did them in secret, and was perfectly satisfied with keeping them secret. This is a dangerous president, who knows what else there is that we haven’t found out yet?

[tags]torture, bush, mccain, powell[/tags]

Ah yes, Iraq. We’re often told of all the progress going on, but it hardly seems that way when bodies are found all over Baghdad, and that’s just the one city.

Nearly all were shot in the head, had clear signs of torture, or were blindfolded, bound or gagged, and most were discovered in neighborhoods of western Baghdad with heavy Sunni Arab populations, he said. The other deaths reported by the ministry were in bombings and other attacks on Wednesday.

The US, of course, is denying the numbers given, but I’m going to go with what the morgue says since chances are they’re the most accurate. See, that’s what people forget. When Bush says “We’re going to stay the course” that’s just what he means. We’re going to keep up the pace of a few thousand deaths per month and no progress toward victory.

[tags]war, iraq, terrorism[/tags]

What’s the word on the primaries?

Oh boy. This is going to be interesting the more it develops. Apparently PM Maliki and Ahmadinejad met up yesterday to chat about Iraq’s future. So how’d that go?

“Iran will provide assistance to the Iraqi government to establish full security. We believe strengthening the Iraqi government is tantamount to promoting security, peace and friendship in that country,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.

Hm, it looks like Iran and Iraq are forming a union of some sort. That handshake seems to indicate that. Response, US and UK?

American and British officials have claimed that Iran is attempting to fan the flames of insecurity in Iraq, where the government is trying to promote national unity among Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds.

Of course. No surprises there. Regardless, it seems Maliki and AhmadineMichaelMoorejihad got along well, with Iran’s Pres claiming they have a “common stance on regional and international issues. Both sides are determined to consolidate brotherly ties.” I hate to say it, but this seems to indicate one thing: even when allowed to vote democratically, the Middle East drifts toward fundamentalist dictatorships.

[tags]iran, iraq, usa, war, politics, middle east[/tags]

Wow. Bush has gone from calling the War on Terror essential to America’s safety, to the equivalent of WWII, to the struggle for civilization itself, and now it’s the battle between good and evil. On a global scale.

President Bush said yesterday that he senses a “Third Awakening” of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation’s struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as “a confrontation between good and evil.”

Now it’s a religious matter. We aren’t just battling terrorists, we are fighting evil itself and only through the power of faith can we foil it. More than that, we have George Bush and George Bush alone who is capable of leading us through this period of great strife. Could this guy’s ego get ANY bigger? Damn. Here’s the really revealing part, though:

The White House did not release a transcript of Bush’s remarks, but National Review posted highlights on its Web site. On another topic, Bush rejected sending more troops to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border areas to find Osama bin Laden. “One hundred thousand troops there in Pakistan is not the answer. It’s someone saying ‘Guess what’ and then the kinetic action begins,” he said, meaning an informer disclosing bin Laden’s location.

Part one: no transcript on the White House’s website. That’s significant since almost everything he does is on that damn site. The bigger part is that he simply won’t put forth any effort to catch bin Laden. As per an earlier post, whether that means he’s already gone or he just doesn’t care is fairly is up for debate.

It’s fairly irrelevant though. The end message is that as of September 2006, Osama bin Laden is not a threat warranting any significant effort to capturing. “Guess what” indeed.

[tags]terrorism, iraq, war, bush, religion[/tags]