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21
Mar 03
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Chronicling
the new Empire of America, the uber-Bully.
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Turd of the Week Rummy's fave Muppet Ahmad Chalabi's mouth moves, and words emerge claiming the United Nations no longer has the credibility to be deeply engaged in nation building. Wow, you can't even see Rummy's lips moving... |
Free Speech Erupts
in Baghdad... Whoops! This embarrassing display for the Bush Regime certainly presents an ugly backdrop against which the statue topplement seems a bit tainted. Better get some CIA guys into those crowds to disperse things quickly while Chalabi polishes his crown, or the world will find out the depths of our imperialism. |
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Our Terrorism
is Good Terrorism But is terror any different if it's dropped from 10,000 feet from a $2,000,000,000 stealth fighter than dynamite strapped to someone's chest in a marketplace? Some would argue that the intention to harm civilians is the difference. Despite the whole road to hell metaphor, let us not forget that the Bush regime knew full well that civilian casualties would result, so their civilian kills cannot be described as truly unintentional. Until we hear from the White House that the current civilian death toll is unacceptably high, we can assume the Bush Regime feels the civilian death toll is within their comfort zone. Now that the civilian deaths due directly to American munitions (not counting the thousands and thousands who have died and will die indirectly from American incursion, including disease borne of chaos and lack of availability of proper emergency infrastructure) in Iraq and Afghanistan have far surpassed Sept 11th deaths, the issue of whose terrorism is more effective seems pretty moot. Just for kicks, here's an excerpt from the Macmillan Encyclopedia which contains their definition of terrorism: The use of violence and intimidation to achieve an objective that is usually, but not always, political. This may involve the capture or assassination of members of a government or organization who are known to be antagonistic to the terrorists' cause. Discuss. |
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Battle Over the
Airwaves In another ironic turn of events, the first printed publication of mass distribution (save our leafleting the entire nation) is the Iraqi Communist Party News, which is being snapped up by Iraqis by the thousands as they seek any alternative to American media. The ICP, which of course was outlawed for years by Saddam, is taking advantage of the chaos by providing anti-Saddam, anti-American news in a bid to get early attention from the recently-liberated-yet-not-killed-by-a-stray-smart-bomb. Other interest groups are similarly competing for Iraqi attention despite the fact none of these groups has the resources of the American war machine. As the Crap Sickened Pundit's Eternal Life Partner put it, "it's like vultures circling a carcass." Speaking of slanted media, Rupert Murdoch, whose despicability is tempered only by his long-standing commitment to airing The Simpsons, is at it again. This time he is trying to buy DirectTV. This acquisition would give him enormous leverage to force Time Warner and various small cable companies to provide Fox programming, including the deplorable Fox"News" to viewers across the country and the world. With the ascension of Fox"News" as the image manipulator of choice during the war on Iraq, it is chilling to think of the programming once Rupe has beaten all alternative news providers into right wing acquiescence. Remember Rupe is the guy who signs Geraldo's paycheck. There's journalistic objectivity for ya'. |
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How 'bout Rebuilding
Infrastructure and Promoting Democracy at Home? His dismantling of America's safety nets, his support of incarceration without due process and his active neglect of America's disenfranchised would certainly be easier to take if he would just tell the truth. Something to the effect of "America is doing too much to help those who have fallen through the cracks. Conversely, America has not done enough to assist the privileged. My administration seeks to change that." Added bonus would be something along the lines of "We will change prevailing policies through tax cuts which favor the rich, spending cuts which target the poor and fiscal policies which reward political cronies, while provide no hope for a balanced budget for decades into the future." Instead, we get a President who lies to us about the intent of his administration, tells us fantasies we want to hear about taxes and spending while seeking power through appeals to fear, greed and hatred. |
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Disney Diversion We are a hideously fat bunch of people. At 6'2" and 188#, the CSP is no hummingbird feather to behold, but our party felt absolutely anorexic compared to the grotesquely misshapen beings that waddled, and in far too many cases to be attributable to spinal injury, actually had to use electric carts to ambulate between food courts. By and large (sic) the thin folks had nice shoes and odd accents, indicating their foreign tourist-ness. We love our convenience. Everything you need is within credit card's distance. The blurring of boundaries between entertainment and gift shop was masterful. And of course, every stray piece of garbage was quickly snapped up just like in Switzerland. Patriotic Mouse combination iconography is big. What could be a more intriguing blend than Mickey swaddled in old glory? The spectacle of American power-leisure is certainly an amazing thing to behold. |
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Sanctions Lifted? So America is in an awkward place. If we push for sanctions removal, we must claim there are no weapons of mass destruction, which would utterly undercut our raison d'whoopass. Of course, America will get her way, but it's an interesting predicament. As for the WoMD, this pundit believes they probably exist, but one would have expected the discovery by now of a substantial cache of naughtiness. With the growing backlash in Iraq and the rest of the Arab world, the "coalition" better come up with some goodies soon, not that Americans care, but there's the little issue of global credibility which is the greatest casualty of Operation "sixteen hundred innocent casualties is a small price to pay for my reelection." |
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While You Weren't
Looking... Don't expect a fuss from Capital Hill. In the entire House and Senate there is only one representative who has a child in the service. |
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The
Price Paid The pundits of Sick of this Crap deeply regrets the loss of: |
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JAMES F. ADAMOUSKI THOMAS MULLIN ADAMS JAMAAL R. ADDISON TRISTAN N. AITKEN STEPHEN JOHN ALLBUTT SAPPER LUKE ALLSOPP BRIAN E. ANDERSON JAY AUBIN ANDREW JULIAN AVILES CHAD E. BALES STEVE BALLARD RYAN BEAUPRE WILFRED D. BELLARD MICHAEL E. BITZ THOMAS A. BLAIR JEFFREY E. BOHR, JR STEVON A. BOOKER MATHEW G. BOULE SHAUN ANDREW BRIERLEY HENRY L. BROWN JOHN E. BROWN LARRY K. BROWN BRIAN RORY BUESING GEORGE EDWARD BUGGS TAMARIO D. BURKETT JACOB L. BUTLER JAMES W. CAWLEY JOHN CECIL KEMAPHOOM A. CHANAWONG THERREL S. CHILDERS DAVID JEFFREY CLARKE DONALD J. CLINE JR. AARON J. CONTRERAS SIMON CULLINGWORTH DANIEL FRANCIS J. CUNNINGHAM MICHAEL EDWARD CURTIN ERIC B. DAS WILBERT DAVIS ROBERT J. DOWDY RUBEN ESTRELLA-SOTO LLYWELYN KARL EVANS MARK A. EVNIN GEORGE A. FERNANDEZ THOMAS A. FOLEY III TRAVIS A. FORD DAVID K. FRIBLEY JOSE A. GARIBAY JUAN GUADALUPE GARZA JR. JONATHAN L. GIFFORD ARMANDO ARIEL GONZALEZ JESUS A. GONZALEZ JORGE A. GONZALEZ BERNARD G. GOODEN RICHARD A. GOWARD PHILIP D GREEN CHRISTIAN D. GURTNER JOSE GUTIERREZ PHILIP STUART GUY ERIK A. HALVORSEN SHOLTO HEDENSKOG LES HEHIR TERRY W. HEMINGWAY NICHOLAS M. HODSON LINCOLN D. HOLLINSAID MATTY HULL NOLEN R. HUTCHINGS GREGORY P. HUXLEY, JR. SCOTT JAMAR EVAN T. JAMES WILLIAM A. JEFFRIES HOWARD JOHNSON II MICHAEL VANN JOHNHNSON JR. DEVON D. JONES PHILLIP A. JORDAN JEFFREY J. KAYLOR BRIAN KENNEDY JAMES M. KIEHL ANTONY KING EDWARD J. KORN BRADLEY S. KORTHAUS MICHAEL V. LALUSH MARC A. LAWRENCE NINO D. LIVAUDAIS RYAN P. LONG CHRISTOPHER R MADDISON JOSEPH B. MAGLIONE KEVIN BARRY MAIN IAN KEITH MALONE JOHN W. MARSHALL FRANCISCO A. MARTINEZ FLORES JOHNNY VILLAREAL MATA DONALD C. MAY, JR. JOSEPH P. MAYEK BRIAN D. MCGINNIS BRIAN M. MCPHILLIPS JESUS MARTIN ANTONIO MEDELLIN JOSEPH MENUSA GIL MERCADO JASON M. MEYER JASON DAVID MILEO ANTHONY S. MILLER GEORGE A. MITCHELL CHRIS MUIR PIPER CHRISTOPHER MUZVURU KEVIN G. NAVE PATRICK R. NIXON DONALD S. OAKS JR. PATRICK T. O'DAY ERIC J. ORLOWSKI DAVID EDWARD OWENS JR. FERNANDO PADILLA-RAMIREZ MICHAEL F. PEDERSEN LORI PIESTEWA FREDERICK E. POKORNEY JR KELLEY S. PREWITT RANDALL S. REHN BRENDON C. REISS DIEGO FERNANDO RINCON DUANE R. RIOS RUSSELL B. RIPPETOE JOHN T. RIVERO TODD J. ROBBINS STEVEN MARK ROBERTS ROBERT M. RODRIGUEZ RANDAL KENT ROSACKER BRANDON J. ROWE BENJAMIN W. SAMMIS GREGORY P. SANDERS SCOTT D. SATHER CHRISTOPHER SCOTT SEIFERT IAN SEYMOUR KARL SHEARER ERIK H. SILVA BRANDON SLOAN THOMAS J. SLOCUM EDWARD SMITH ERIC A. SMITH PAUL R. SMITH JESUS A. SUAREZ DEL SOLAR RODERIC A. SOLOMON BARRY 'BAZ' STEPHEN ROBERT A. STEVER GREGORY STONE MARK STRATFORD RIAYAN A. TEJEDA BRANDON S. TOBLER KELAN JOHN TURRINGTON DONALD WALTERS JASON WARD KENDALL DAMON WATERS-BEY MICHAEL RUSSELL CREIGHTON WELDON PHILIP WEST NATHAN D. WHITE WILLIAM W. WHITE DAVID RHYS WILLIAMS EUGENE WILLIAMS JAMES WILLIAMS MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS ANDREW S. WILSON |
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...who are the Allied known fatalities to date (04/21/03). We also mourn the untold Iraqi dead whom we won't likely have names of ever, although thanks to the Iraqbodycount.net, we know the numbers to between the two figures of . |
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