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The Cogitator Three Dot Lounge
... Here's some quick hits (and some will probably say misses!) on various recent events -- call it our Three Dot Lounge ...
... The recent detailing of the March 2004 drop-in by Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales to ailing Attorney General John Ahcroft in his hospital bed demonstrates yet again the pathetic but alarming lengths this current administration has gone to and continues to go in bulldozing American liberty. Please do not confuse this 'we-were-in-the-neighborhood' stopover with even the bizarrest version of "Amahl and the Night Visitors..."
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... "All I ever wanted to do was serve this president, this administration, this department," -- Monica Goodling tearfully telling a Justice official shortly before she quit.Ah yes, is this -- allegiance to the temporal above all else -- what is taught and is the 'backbone' at Regent University Law School? At Messiah College? Though the First Commandment has nuanced interpretations, it's accepted that something along the lines of “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” is the substance. Clearly, Monica places The Great Conflictor, the Great Conflictor's administration and Alberto Gonzales' and his plaything Department of Justice before anything else. Anything.
Isn't it reassuring to see that cultural relativism has no place in the minds of good Christians like Goodling? And that religious-run educational institutions are preparing their robots so well.
Let's give athiests a try in government ...
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... As for The Great Conflictor himself, with delicious but unintended irony, he recently whined that the uproar surrounding the behavior and actions of Alberto Gonzales and his Department of Justice (DOJ) henchmen/women is "politically driven."
I say, cringing with employing 70s speak, "right on."
You betcha it's politically driven--because that is exactly the charges being investigated. 'That' being the politically driven DOJ attorney firings, the politically driven DOJ attorney hirings, the politically driven DOJ subject matters of investigation, et al.
The Inspector General keeps getting forced to widen the investigation with each new 'bombshell,' thereby lengthening the time needed to complete the inquiry. I say order up a truckload of diapers for delivery to the White House because the infantile behavior of The Great Conflictor is going to be with us for some time ...
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... "I’m credible because I read the intelligence" is but one of the latest inanities falling from the mouth of The Great Conflictor. He was responding to a press cnferecne question regarding his credibility.
Now this utterance took place on May 24.
On May 25, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a report containing information that various U.S. intelligence Services had predicted the following would occur upon invading Iraq:
- Establishing "an Iraqi democracy would be a long, difficult and probably turbulent process, with potential for backsliding into Iraq's tradition of authoritarianism."
- Unless the occupying forces prevented it, "score settling would occur throughout Iraq between those associated with Saddam's regime and those who have suffered most under it."
- Among the majority Shiite population, which Saddam had kept out of power, a political form of Islam could take root, "particularly if economic recovery were slow and foreign troops remained in the country for a long period."
- Iran would probably try to shape the post-Hussein Iraq, in a bid to position itself as a regional power.
- Al Qaeda would probably take advantage of the war to increase its terrorist activities, and the lines between it and other terrorist groups "could become blurred."
One can only guess that The Great Conflictor didn't read this intelligence. Or maybe didn't understand it. Or didn't care. Or had brush to cut. Or it was nine o'clock and he had to choose between the going over important information and bedtime. Or ...
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