BartCop's most recent rants - Political Humor and Commentary, August 31, 2005, Volume 1612 - Monkey Heaven, My response to George, 695 Dead on Iraq bridge, The quagmire quagmire, Here's the funny part, A Higher Standard, Camp Casey reports, Bush hits new low, Why is W golfing?, Gwen Stefani Fashions

"We don't feel even anywhere close to the way she's trying to make the story out to be.
These boys all died for something, not just for pullout right now. It's a political maneuver
right now, that's all it is. You can't just let her get all the news coverage. And not all the news
are covering her - it's just your liberal news."
--Doug Smette, who lost a son in Iraq and thinks you should lose one, too Link

And if you think I'm too tough on Doug, remember this ain't fucking bean bag.
This is life and death and there's no logic in the decision making - so men are dying.
It all gets down to this: How many names do we want on the Iraqi War Memorial Wall?

My response to George
by Cindy Sheehan via buzzflash.com

Link

Excerpt:
Bringing our troops home from the quagmire that he has gotten us into will be weakening the
United States? George: even if you pretend you didn't know that Saddam did not have WMDs
and Iraq was not threat to the USA before you invaded -- Americans know differently.
We have read the reports and the Downing Street Memos. We know you "fit the intelligence
around the policy" of invading Iraq. I want to know what your real reasons were.

I will be back in Crawford George: Even closer to you now in Camp Casey II.
Why don't you channel some courage from my son and come down and face me?
Face the truth.

"It just offends me when people don't support the president."
--Lori Scheuring, offended by the First Amendment, offended by free speech Link

I'll bet she laughs the loudest each night when Jay and Dave do their super-stale Monica jokes.

695 Dead, 180 Hurt in Iraq Bridge Stampede
Life is great in Dubya's Paradise

Excerpt:
Panic engulfed thousands of Shiites marching across a bridge in a religious procession Wednesday after
rumors spread that a suicide bomber was about to attack, triggering a stampede that killed at least 695 people.
It was the single biggest confirmed loss of life in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion.

Scores jumped or were pushed to their deaths into the Tigris River, but many were crushed in the crowd,
which had jammed up at a security checkpoint on the bridge. Most of the dead were women and children.

Excerpt:
Bill Kristol's zeal for battle is truly inspiring. Maybe he should join the fight.
He could emulate Theodore Roosevelt, who proved his zeal for the Spanish-American War
by quitting his cushy desk job and organizing his own regiment to fight in Cuba. It was called
the Rough Riders. Kristol's regiment could include other war-hawk opinion slingers in the
Murdoch empire, guys like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. He could call it the Tough Talkers.

Subject: radio blowhards

I just felt compelled to mention some of the truly irresponsible comments made Monday
by several talk hosts. Actually it began Sunday night with Drudge ridiculing the National
Weather Service warnings of catastrophic consequences in New Orleans as a result of
breached levee flooding. To go on the air and proclaim these warnings as hyperbole might
have seemed to some as bold commentary, but I interpreted the NWS bulletins as
'worst case scneario' possibilities, to encourage evacuation.

Not only did Rush Limbaugh find these same "dire warnings" as 'over the top' during his
program Monday, but he also politicized the argument stating that some will criticize the
President for not doing enough, quickly enough. It also took Limbaugh less than 20 minutes
to mention Clinton.

I heard this stuff as really irresponsible in light of the unbelievably horrific video coming out of
the devastation. It's much worse today than it appeared yesterday...the levee has not held,
and it may end up as devastating as the NWS stated. Is there nothing that can be spared
from partisan analysis. Perhaps this appears as coming from someone on the Left, a liberal.
The fact is I'm disenchanted by the system, however the comments of Limbaugh, Drudge, etc.
seemed cavalier, hasty, inappropriate, and irresponsible.

Compelling radio? Innacurate reporting. The facts revealed today make everything he said
yesterday seem foolish. And if this is 'good radio'it's an example, along with Michael Savages
of the dial, of just how the medium has eroded.

" Bush says that he's met with the families of a lot of fallen soldiers and that Cindy
"doesn't represent the view of a lot" of them. We have no way of knowing, of course:
The meetings are closed to the press, so it's hard to know what family members have
told the president, let alone what they actually think. But it turns out that Cindy does indeed
"represent the view" of a lot of them. In a new poll, a majority of Americans say they
support what Cindy is doing in Crawford. The president can only dream about poll numbers
like hers. Americans support Cindy 53 to 42 percent and they disapprove of Bush's
mis- handling of Iraq by a margin of 58 to 37 percent. The demonization of Cindy is
working just about as well as the president's plan for Iraq."
--Tim Grieve, salon.com

Excerpt:
A syndicated cartoon that appeared in the New York Times earlier this month depicts a Republican
elephant protesting outside of Bush's fake ranch. The elephant is holding a sign that reads,
"End The War (Before The '06 Elections)." History may inevitably repeat itself, but it isn't supposed
to start showing reruns so quickly. Not even a year has passed since liberals failed to exploit
opposition to the Iraq war to defeat President Bush."

Will the Democrats be motivated to try in 2006?
Or will they just lay there and beg, "Please don't hurt me"
like they did in 2000, 2002 and 2004?

If they don't want to win, why don't they get the hell out of the way
and let some tequila-swilling blowhard from Oklahoma run the party?

When you're done laughing - ask your self:
Could Bart possibly do worse than the Democrats have the last three elections?

> Cindy Sheehan's critics have claimed her son, Casey,
> and other soldiers volunteered to fight of their own free will

Wasn't he in the National Guard?
Their mobilization to Iraq was hardly free will.

Remember the sign on the truck over there - One Weekend a Month My Ass!
Martha

I'm a Republican but I can't understand how Bush could spend the day golfing
while our city and our state are suffering such catastrophic conditions...

Our state's National Guard are dying for Iraqis instead of saving us from dying...

Bart, here is my humble donation of $10.00 for as many signs as it will buy.
I will probably not be able to make the Sept. 24th impeachment rally but I
will surely be there in spirit. I am an avid reader and I appreciate people like you
who have the testicular fortitide to do your job and do it with class.
Yours is a dangerous job and I wish you well.
Thanks for all you do.

Thanks to Duckfubya, who did a great job of blowing up the WPE.jpg
having it laminated, mounting it on a board, driving it to Crawford,
then taking and sending these pictures.

Here's the funny part
by William Rivers Pitt

..Link

Excerpt:
...there is nothing funny about any of this. The top leadership of this nation has gone barking mad,
has enwombed itself in a fantasy world where dead people don't hit the ground and where no plan
is the best plan, and that madness has trickled down over the rest of us.

George W. Bush coughed up his latest rationale for continuing the Iraq war - I think this is the fourth
or fifth one of these to this point - by saying that because so many American soldiers have been killed,
we have to keep sending American soldiers to get killed as a means of honoring the American soldiers
who have been killed. Big talk from a guy who spends more time on vacation than a French aristocrat.

Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star mother who lost her son in Iraq and who has spent the last month
perched outside the Crawford ranch like Poe's raven, almost sounds like she pities George in her
latest dispatch from Camp Casey. "Since the Freedom and Democracy thing is not going so well,"
writes Sheehan, "and the Iraqi parliament is having such a hard time writing their constitution, since
violence is mounting against Iraqis and Americans and since his poll numbers are going down every
day, he had to come up with something.

Comments?

Quotes

"Nothing to kill or die for,
and no religion too..."
-- John Lennon

Comments?

saw it on yellowcakewalk.net

Quotes

"Back home, I have no home, no job, and my commander in chief is on vacation.
In their fear to build relationships and get out of their hiding holes, the FOBbits
above me have fucked my friends and I. We've just completed the first 1/4 of our tour.
We've sent four of 24 members of this platoon home with injuries. Thankfully, we're
not like another who has sent eight home in body bags ... but we got 9 months to go."
--Tom Strickland, dead at 27 because his president is a greedy liar Link

Comments?

Subject: useless Democrats

I recently passed a lovely week with my conservative grandparents in Colorado
during which I was subjugated to the propaganda of the Republican party through
a small news station in Texas happilly paying respect to their commander by
unleashing Bill O'Reilly from the speakers of our car into the Texan air.

Reluctantly, I set down my CD walkman to catch a word from the whitest man on television
and now, the Texas radio. It was the point in Bill O'Reilly's show when the volume starts to
gradually lower because Bill's hot spit is drowning the microphone as he yells at a helpless
Democrat and then has the audacity to say that Liberals and Democrats need to abandon
their anger and be at peace with the Republicans.

At this point my grandfather in his wisdom then commented that the Democrats (and I quote)
"are a useless party who has no impact what so ever and wants everything done for them".
Later in the show, Bill O'Reilly himself admitted that the war in Iraq was a mistake.

These words from Irish Bill struck me like a bolt of lightning. Either Bill O'Reilly was at gunpoint
when he made this comment or it was in fact the "useless party who has no impact" who was slowly
cutting down the red-neck, lying, McDonald's eating conservative party's Nazified views...even that
of Fearless Leader Bill O'Reilly.

I think that it is protests like that of the 250,000 in New York who stood up during the 2004
campaigning and that of the angry mother Cindy Sheehan that are deteriorating the Republican party
and without a second thought I support your work and the thousands who will gather on September 24
to demand impeachment as advertised on your webiste.

Your angry Liberal friend,
-Max F

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