Democratic Amnesia Won't Work...

Update - After reading about how President Bush is finally responding to his lying critics, scroll to the bottom of this post for a link leading to a description of a recent debate loaded with Leftist America Bashing... it's lying American political opponents of President Bush who ultimately make this sort of attack so easy for others to believe...

The Whitehouse is starting to respond to the politically motivated anti-war smears of Democrats...

Looks like President Bush isn't going to let this Democrat tactic of lying about their war record and votes fade. Finally!

"It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait."

- Scott McClellan, White House Press Secretary

Read the whole thing...

Here's the update link to the debate at Trinity College in Dublin...

Also, visit Gateway Pundit for more on the Bush Pushback...

Global Warming or a Repeating Cycle?

Welcome HuffPo readers! Scroll down for the post on "The Bush Defense". And take a look around with your usual openminded perspective...

For counterpoint to some extreme environmental views, an occasional visit to Patrick Moore's website is a brisk refreshment. Moore was a founder of Greenpeace and has a lot to say.

And here's a great piece on Julian Simon, who, though mocked by experts, repeatedly had the last laugh... Remember his 10 year bet with Paul Erlich? Simon won.

Also, scroll down to an informative post on Michael Crichton... is he a scary guy?

I've got a real case sending me mail today...

Anonymous said...

Actually, they don't want the Iraqi oil, yet.

The Saudis and their Houston brothtren did cartwheels when the Uberidiot was conned into the invasion of Iraq.

They knew, as anybody with half a brain knew, that the probable outcome would be an indeterminable period of lack of Iraq deliveries.

That meant, now watch close cause this is confusing, that oil that could be brought to market would go up in price.

You did notice that didn't you?

Now we're dealing with conspiracies... you are the living end...

Oil is, adjusted for inflation, cheaper now than in 1979... see InflationData.com

"...In other words, Oil would have to average $98.49 for the entire month to be as high as the price we saw in December of 1979. But we are "only" paying about 2/3rds of that amount.

Another factor that makes the Oil price worse in 1979 is the fact that back in '79 interest rates were two to three times higher than they are now, peaking in the high teens. Combine lower mortgage rates with lower taxes and the modern household actually has about $500 extra cash available each month... which will buy a lot of gasoline. But with interest rates rising and inflation climbing we are rapidly approaching 1979 levels..."

So, in the short term, they still aren't getting as much money for their oil as they did nearly 30 years ago. In the long term, of course, it will flow with the stable world price... so what the hell are you talking about? Now go away. But, first, remember, Bush did better in school than Gore AND Kerry [See, I can be asinine, too.].

We get mail...

Anonymous said...

"...Can anyone be so blind, deaf and dumb as to believe that the administration was speaking the whole truth when it claimed it had definitive proof of WMDs in Iraq? Of course Iraq had WMDs. It had the ones we sold them and the ones they developed but Iraq had nothing of consequence when Bush ordered the war to start. Worse yet, the administration knew that. Why else would it guard only the agency that dealt with oil while ignoring everything else in the country? It kept an eye on the prize, the prize it came to get..."

Well, I guess you didn't read the Podhoretz essay.

So, in brief, EVERYONE IN THE WORLD WAS AS BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB AS TO BELIEVE THAT IRAQ HAD WMD AND THAT INCLUDES BILL CLINTON, FRANCE, GERMANY, UK, JOHN KERRY, AL GORE, THE UN, etc.

As for BLOOD FOR OIL, if all we wanted was oil, all we needed to do was [now try to absorb this, please]:

PAY FOR IT ON THE WORLD MARKET.

Just like we're doing now and will do forever.

WE DON'T OWN THE IRAQ OIL.

That's not why we are there. It's cheaper and easier to just buy oil. Believe me, that's all we have to do... there's plenty out there to buy without lobbing bombs and deposing dictators to get it... buy it, use it, look the other way at the genocide.

I guess that's okay with you.

So maybe the President really wanted to do something about terrorism and democracy. Maybe the facts on the ground were wrong. But they were wrong for everyone. Everyone believed the same thing... Read Podhoretz... start over. Thank you.

I wish you people would get it straight.

Oy, vey! Barbra... Enough already, Darling...

Raise your hand if you want her to read the Podhoretz post?

Have you seen what she's saying now?

Finally! The Bush Defense!

UPDATE: 11/11/05 - President Bush has responded to his critics with a strong statement against their revisionist histrionics... Here's where it all began - The Podhoretz essay:

Yes, it's WMD time again... and this time...

It's POLITICS!

And as ususal, it stinks. Norman Podhoretz has analyzed the statements by eveyone involved, reviewed the timeline and has come to the following conclusion. EVERYONE who is smearing Bush today was WITH Bush in the runup to the Iraq War. His thesis:

Among the many distortions, misrepresentations, and outright falsifications that have emerged from the debate over Iraq, one in particular stands out above all others. This is the charge that George W. Bush misled us into an immoral and/or unnecessary war in Iraq by telling a series of lies that have now been definitively exposed.

What makes this charge so special is the amazing success it has enjoyed in getting itself established as a self-evident truth even though it has been refuted and discredited over and over again by evidence and argument alike. In this it resembles nothing so much as those animated cartoon characters who, after being flattened, blown up, or pushed over a cliff, always spring back to life with their bodies perfectly intact. Perhaps, like those cartoon characters, this allegation simply cannot be killed off, no matter what

Nevertheless, I want to take one more shot at exposing it for the lie that it itself really is. Although doing so will require going over ground that I and many others have covered before, I hope that revisiting this well-trodden terrain may also serve to refresh memories that have grown dim, to clarify thoughts that have grown confused, and to revive outrage that has grown commensurately dulled.

Here's a mild sample, referencing Joe Wilson...

...The liar here, then, was not Bush but Wilson. And Wilson also lied when he told the Washington Post that he had unmasked as forgeries certain documents given to American intelligence (by whom it is not yet clear) that supposedly contained additional evidence of Saddam's efforts to buy uranium from Niger...

...To top all this off, just as Cheney had nothing to do with the choice of Wilson for the mission to Niger, neither was it true that, as Wilson "confirmed" for a credulous New Republic reporter, "the CIA circulated [his] report to the Vice President's office, "thereby supposedly proving that Cheney and his staff "knew the Niger story was a flatout lie."

Yet - the mind reels - if Cheney had actually been briefed on Wilson's oral report to the CIA (which he was not), he would, like the CIA itself, have been more inclined to believe that Saddam had tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger.

So much for the author of the best-selling and much acclaimed book whose title alone - The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity - has set a new record for chutzpah...

"WHO IS LYING ABOUT IRAQ?" Read the whole thing...

No Justice, No Peace

Welcome HuffPo readers... start here and scroll down for the piece on Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson...

Chirac Attacked Over Handling of Crisis

By JAMEY KEATEN
Associated Press Writer

PARIS

French President Jacques Chirac's political rivals criticized his decision Tuesday to declare a state of emergency as ill-suited to quelling rioting. Others faulted Chirac for not taking a more prominent public role in managing the crisis.

Let's not forget: http://intomywoods.blogspot.com/2005/11/maidez-al-sharpton-maidez-jesse.html

UPDATE

Muslims more integrated in US than France

"...To identify as French you have to renounce your faith and have to renounce your previous identity as though your previous self didn't exist. In the US you don't have to," she said.... Arab Americans and Muslims are better educated and have a higher income than the national average, said Edina Lekovic, communications director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council."

"There's no clear connection between the European and the American Muslim experience," she said, explaining that Muslims in the United States are less isolated and homogeneous than their European counterpart..."

Looks like the sarcasm from The Seine is going to lighten up for a while... No more "America is a Third World Country" from the vast, left wing, racist, unemployed people of the Birthplace of Human Rights, eh?

Another Update

Victor Davis Hanson is commenting on the uprising in France...

"...VDH: Well, there's two messages. One, that we in America can see where an unassimilated un-integrated a population goes, and where that leads to, it leads to a sort of an apartheid. And two, we can see what happens with an EU that can't create real economic growth, and has high stagnant unemployment of 10%. And three, this is I think a little bit more controversial, that we can see what happens to a society that doesn't ask the immigrant to integrate, and the immigrant doesn't feel that he has to integrate, or to learn the language, or learn the traditions of the West. So you have this Orwellian situation when thousands of people are rioting, you want to say let me get this straight. You do not want to go back to the country, an hour or two away by air, that you praise in the abstract, but you surely want to stay in a country that you want to burn down to the concrete. It doesn't make any sense, other than this strong, psychological urges of envy, jealousy, wanting something you can't have. Then, besides all that landscape, you get the impression there's something very wrong in Europe that has high unemployement and generous joblessness benefits, so that it allows people not really to have to go look for a job, because there isn't any, but to stay home and sort of nurse these wounds, with enough money to survive..."

Read the whole thing

This is scary...

There's this woman. She says she wants to get married. She's selling her house and taking bids from potential suitors. She's got a publicist for TV appearances and as you can see... headshots.

Here's what she has to say:

The idea of "House With Bride" began while I was contemplating selling my house in Denver, Colorado. Although my company is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a few years ago I bought a house in Denver. My life in Albuquerque had solely revolved around my work, and I felt that I needed to make some changes to improve my social life and hopefully meet my "soul mate".

Advice to interested parties: Stay away... you're gonna get punked.