Iraq - Success

Depends on how you define it, I suppose. Is it success when members of rival sectarian groups are blown to bits in the middle of a peace conference? Via Raw Story comes this report from AFP:

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque during a reconciliation meeting between two feared militias near Iraq's restive city of Baquba on Monday, killing at least nine people.

Another 15 people were wounded in the attack which killed seven police officers, including three high-ranking ones from Baquba police, a security official said.

The official said the reconciliation meeting was between the Shiite Mahdi Army militia and the Sunni insurgent group, the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution.

The governor and the police chief of Diyala province were at the event, which was the ceremonial evening meal marking the end of the day's fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It's not clear whether they were among the dead or wounded.

Meanwhile both the Iraqis and the Iranians are furious over the detention of an Iranian in Iraq, who was apparently there at the invitation of the Kurdish authorities as well as the Iraqi government. Jalal al-Talabani is having a fit, and the puppet nature of the Iraqi regime is finally seen in that they lack the authority to expel a bunch of murderous mercenaries who are killing their citizens from their own country.

So much for your purple fingers, Iraqi people. Blackwater and Bush give you a middle finger instead.

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Political Whore Of The Century

Pictured here getting a little tongue from his BFF

Joe Lieberman. There are whores and whores, and politics doth make whores of us all, but Lieberwhore belongs in his own category. There isn't a lickier lickspittle in all the world, nor yet in all the decades past and present.

Can you believe this shit?

I got yer harrassment right here, Joe. Sanctimonious, priggish buttcrumb. Ten whaps with the Mighty Bat of Clue, foo!

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Politics this week

How delusional can a person get? Condi Rice insists the coalition is intact in Iraq. Someone should point out to her that the British are pulling out nearly one quarter of their troops, and the Danish are pulling out all their troops. Who does that leave? The Australians and Poles? The Editors at The Poor Man Institute has the figures on who's pulled out and when.

Presidential hopeful John McCain is getting the respect that he deserves from Dick Cheney:

Karl: “You probably heard John McCain again come out and say that your friend Donald Rumsfeld is perhaps the worst secretary of defense ever. What do you make of that?"

Cheney: “I just fundamentally disagree with John. John said some nasty things about me the other day, and then next time he saw me, ran over to me and apologized. Maybe he'll apologize to Rumsfeld.”

Act like a lapdog, you get treated like a lapdog. "... ran over to me and apologized ...."? I guess even Dick can't bring himself to say "groveled and fawned over me till I slapped him down."

More here.

In other news, Stupie McChickenHawk's puppet government in Iraq appears to be calling him a liar. Wonder how he's going to respond.

The National Guard is falling apart, with insufficient equipment and manpower to handle any domestic crises, even as Bush prepares for a new war with Iran. Even as rumours start, again, that al Qaeda is planning an attack on American soil. Nasty sense of deja vu, no? This is exactly what happened the last time. Chatter picked up by intel about attack planned on American soil, Stupie McChimperson took a vacation, and voila! 9-11. While he's distracting us with Iran, sending troops, carriers, arms and equipment in that direction, al Qaeda is creeping in the back door, jackbooted foot aiming at our collective arse.

My prescription? Drink early and often. At least your muscles will be relaxed when whatever it is hits, and you'll do yourself less injury. Skoal!

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