gonzales and bush feel the tough love…

March 29, 2007 by DJ Lanphier

reap, sow… and other foibles from the wingnut world.

The NY Daily News writes that it’s “open warfare” amongst the Gonzales crew at DOJ. The Carpetbagger Report has more… This little gem is worth noting:

White House officials have all but given up on their official email system, preferring private, un-archived, and unaccountable email addresses.

If true, it’s worth examining. If there is nothing to hide, you don’t hide. Of course, it could also mean that WH employs don’t feel secure communicating via email because of internal pressure and oversight. Both I suspect. But, this quote is certainly interesting:

“We just got a bit lazy,” said one aide. “We knew E-mails could be subpoenaed. We saw that with the Clintons but I don’t think anybody saw that we were doing anything wrong.”

Yes, power does that to people. “It’s not fascism when we do it.”

The Saudi’s back out of a state dinner at the Bush White House, which isn’t a good thing, a then comes this big news:

Saudi King Abdullah, whose country is a close US ally, on Wednesday slammed the “illegitimate foreign occupation” of Iraq in an opening speech to the annual Arab summit in Riyadh.

“In beloved Iraq, blood is being shed among brothers in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and ugly sectarianism threatens civil war,” Abdullah said.

He also said that Arab nations, which are planning to revive a five-year-old Middle East peace plan at the summit, would not allow any foreign force to decide the future of the region.

You gotta hand it to Dubya. When he fucks up, he does it full throttle.

The perpetually confused Confederate Yankee seems to think that enlisting in the military and requesting deployment in Iraq is the same as accepting an invitation from the Pentagon to visit Iraq. It is amusing to watch chickenhawks attempt to fend off the label whilst completely affirming it. Then again, if Confederate Yankee is saying that it is now so dangerous in Iraq that visiting is equal to being a soldier in the field, that’s another thing entirely. I doubt that the danger is that imminent to visitors in the Green Zone who venture out via secured areas rather than patrolled routes and known high risk zones. My hat is off to anyone who goes though. Good luck.

The big number… How many Iraqi’s have died because of the the US war in Iraq?