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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (45634)	10/21/2005 12:51:27 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

West Wing is being referred to as "death row" these days. Rove is said to look "terrible", and Andy card is "burned out", while Dumbya goes around cussing anybody that gets near him. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of cowardly bastages.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (45634)	10/21/2005 1:08:28 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Is Dumbya incompetent and ignorant? Or an evil Sith Lord? So, is this the "Brownie" that was doing a "heck of a job", eh? This is the experience of FEMA official Bahamonde, the first FEMA official to arrive in New Orleans after the hurricane struck : On Aug. 31, Bahamonde e-mailed Brown to tell him that thousands of evacuees were gathering in the streets with no food or water and that "estimates are many will die within hours." "Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical," Bahamonde wrote. "The sooner we can get the medical patients out, the sooner we can get them out." A short time later, Brown's press secretary, Sharon Worthy, wrote to colleagues, in an e-mail containing numerous misspellings, to complain that the FEMA director needed more time to eat dinner at a Baton Rouge restaurant that evening. "He needs much more that 20 or 30 minutes," Worthy wrote. "Restaurants are getting busy," she said. "We now have traffic to encounter to get to and from a location of his choise, followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you." "OH MY GOD!!!!!!!" Bahamonde messaged a co-worker. "I just ate an MRE [military rations] and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants."

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (45634)	10/21/2005 1:17:12 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Number of US soldiers killed in Iraq from Jan to Oct 2004 : 639 Number of US soldiers killed in Iraq from Jan to Oct 2005 (upto October 21) : 658 Looks like the Iraqi resistance didn't get the message, huh? Maybe we should send our jokers Rummy and Cheney to the Iraqi resistance fighters so they can tell them personally that they are "dead enders" who are supposed to be in their "last throes"?! LOL! LOL! ROTFLMAO!

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (45634)	10/21/2005 4:56:04 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Robert Fisk, one of the few journalists in Iraq not engaged in "hotel journalism" a la Fox, CNN, MSNBC etc. says how Iraq is getting more and more chaotic with each passing day : ‘Mouse journalism’ is the only way we can report on Iraq — Fisk Published: Thursday, October 13, 2005 By Matthew Lewin The Independent's famously intrepid Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk has revealed that the situation in Iraq is now so dangerous that he doesn't know whether he can go on reporting from the country. Fisk, who has previously accused colleagues of practising "hotel journalism" in Iraq, said that "mouse journalism" is now the best he can do in the country. Fisk, whose new history of the Middle East, The Great War for Civilisation, has just been published, described mouse journalism as the practice of popping up at the scene of an event and staying just long enough to get the story, before the men with guns arrive. Speaking at a bookshop in Golders Green, he said: "You cannot imagine just how bad things are in Iraq. "A few weeks ago, I went to see a man whose son was killed by the Americans, and I was in his house for five minutes before armed men turned up in the street outside. "He had to go and reason with them not to take me away. And this was an ordinary Baghdad suburb, not the Sunni Triangle or Fallujah. "It has got to the stage where, for example, when I went to have a look at the scene of a huge bomb in a bus station, I jumped out of the car and took two pictures before I was surrounded by a crowd of enraged Iraqis. "I jumped back in the car and fled. I call that ‘mouse journalism' — and that's all we can do now. "If I go to see someone in any particular location, I give myself 12 minutes, because that is how long I reckon it takes a man with a mobile phone to summon gunmen to the scene in a car. "So, after 10 minutes I am out. Don't be greedy. That's what reporting is like in Iraq." He continued: "This country is now hell — a disaster. You cannot imagine how bad it is. Nothing of the reporting I see generally, except The Guardian and Patrick Cockburn in The Independent, really conveys the absolute agony and distress of Iraq. "The Ministry of Health, which is partly run by Americans, will not give out any figures for civilian casualties; staff are just not allowed to give us these figures. "When I went to the city morgue in Baghdad one day nearly four weeks ago, I arrived at 9am and there were nineviolent death corpses there. "By midday there were 26 corpses. When I managed to get access to the computer system of the mortuary, I discovered that in July 1,100 Iraqis had been killed in Baghdad alone. "Multiply that across Iraq and you are talking about 3,000 a month or more, which means 36,000 a year. "So these figures claiming 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties are not necessarily conservative at all. But no-one wants to report on this. "One of the delights of the occupying powers is that the journalists cannot move. When I travel outside Baghdad by road it takes me two weeks to plan it, because the roads are infested with insurgents, checkpoints, hooded men and throat-cutters. That's what it's like. "It is almost impossible to get access to free information outside Baghdad or Basra. Most of the reporters who can travel are doing so as members of military convoys with armour to protect them. "The last time I travelled to Najaf, the road was littered with burned-out American vehicles, smashed police vehicles, abandoned checkpoints and armed men. That's Iraq today — it's in a state of anarchy, and many areas of Baghdad are in fact now in insurgent hands." He added: "This is a war the like of which I have never reported before. Over and over again, we are escaping with our lives because we are lucky. And it is getting much worse, not better — don't believe what Blair is telling you. "It is very sad to have to say that I don't know if we can go on reporting in Iraq. I don't know if I can personally keep on going back. "This last trip there was so dangerous and frightening, I actually said to some people that we were going to have to debate whether the risks are worth it all.