FOX VS NYT

So here's something I found interesting. These two snapshots of my desktop were taken within seconds of each other.

One is the front page of FOXNEWS.com. FOX news is known throughout the world or liberals as Faux News or Fixed News and is the embodiment of the evil Bush empire.


The other is the front page of NYT.com. The New York Times is known throughout the conservative world as the liberal media and is the embodiment of all things godless.




The lead story of the NYT is about the deadly attack today in Iraq, the largest attack in months.

No where on the FOX page is there any mention of the attack.

Interesting.

5TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Today marks the 5th anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom. What do you get someone for a 5th anniversary? Paper? Silver? I think it's Body Armor.

Operation Iraqi Freedom.

What ever happened to Operation Get The Guys Who Attacked Us On 9/11? What ever happened to that Operation?

No, instead we celebrate a misguided, mishandled, and miscalculated war against Iraq.

There are some who will say (like the person who commented on The Phantom's blog but then removed it) "Yes, it's so disastrous not being attacked by madmen in jet airliners anymore."

Um...Iraq didn't attack us on 9/11. That little nugget of truth has been proven true time and time again, most recently by a Pentagon Study

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam, al Qaida.

That little 600,000 document study came out while Spitzer's strumpet was going down on him. So let me repeat it

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam, al Qaida

I'm not suggesting Saddam was a good guy. Far from it. But let's go after the guy who attacked us.

As we surpass the length of time the U.S. was involved in WWII and approach nearly a third of the time we were in Vietnam, I'd like to take a moment to reflect on

• the nearly 4,000 American men and women who gave their lives for this war.
  
• the 175 UK men and women who gave their lives for this war.
• the 133 other men and women of the Coalition who gave their lives for this war.
• the nearly 90,000 innocent Iraqis who were killed in this war.
• the more than two million Iraqis who have fled abroad because of this war
• the 1.5 million Iraqis who have sought safety elsewhere in Iraq because of this war.
  

Let's hope today is the last anniversary of this war.

AND BURIED IN THE NEWS...

What a news day: The Pope comes out with new deadly sins and Gov. Spitzer Swallows is caught in a prostitution ring. Surely some stories are going to get buried. Like this one -

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam, al Qaida

WASHINGTON — An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

Probably some left wing liberal media bias study.

The Pentagon-sponsored study of the Iraqi regime's archives found no documents indicating a "direct operational link" between Hussein's Iraq and al Qaida before the invasion.

Pentagon-sponsored!? Oooo, that can't be good. So much for Donald H. Rumsfeld's

"bulletproof" evidence.

So much for Bush tying al Qaida to the ongoing violence in Iraq.

"The same people that attacked us on September the 11th is a crowd that is now bombing people, killing innocent men, women and children, many of whom are Muslims."

And so much for The Short Fuse's assertion

"I have some news. Al Qaida is in Iraq."

And now, back to the whores!

W IS FOR WANKER

I've never been a fan of President W. He's a failed businessman and the poster child for "Opposites Day." (Whatever he does, do the opposite and you'll be successful). Among his many failures, he was also the only MLB owner to vote against the Wild Card, which has been wildly popular. When he was elected President, I told my wife he was going to ruin the U.S.

So imagine my non-surprise when it was reported at a congressional hearing last week that the oh so popular war we're in will cost U.S. taxpayers $2 trillion.

The committee was told, among many disquieting things, that tax cuts have never been made during a major war. But that didn't stop Wrong Way Dubya. Oh no.

Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, reported to the committee -

“Because the administration actually cut taxes as we went to war, when we were already running huge deficits, this war has, effectively, been entirely financed by deficits. The national debt has increased by some $2.5 trillion since the beginning of the war, and of this, almost $1 trillion is due directly to the war itself ... By 2017, we estimate that the national debt will have increased, just because of the war, by some $2 trillion.”

The cost of the war is appalling. The cost of American lives is unconscionable.

As Short-Fuse McCain all but wraps up the Republican nomination, I'm apprehensive of a potential President who says 100 years in Iraq is "fine with me."

INHUMAN MONSTERS

The two bomb blasts that shattered Baghdad's relative calm and killed dozens of people has taken a sadistic and repulsive turn. The two suicide bombers were women with Down Syndrome and most likely did not know they had explosives strapped to them. The bombs were then triggered by remote control.

It's hard to find the words to describe the people responsible for this inhuman act. They're barbaric, heartless, sadistic monsters. With any luck, they will soon be dead monsters.

UM -- WHAT I MEANT WAS --

Dubya, State of the Union Address, 2008 --

"The American and Iraqi surges have achieved results few of us could have imagined just one year ago. When we met last year, many said that containing the violence was impossible. A year later, high profile terrorist attacks are down, civilian deaths are down, sectarian killings are down."

NY Times, oh, a couple of days later, Feb. 1 -

BAGHDAD — Twin bombs struck two markets in central Baghdad on Friday, killing dozens in the worst attack in the Iraqi capital for many months.

Care to rephrase that, Dubya?

BUSH LIED!? WHAAAAAT!?

Some may call it beating a dead horse, but a new study has found that W and his minions lied to us about national security in the two-year run-up to the Iraq war. Shocking, I know. The study counted 935 -- 935!!?? -- lies (they call them false statements, I call them lies).

Other liars named along with W are Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Ari Fleischer, Scott McClellan, and of course, Vice-President Voldemort - the Dark Lord.

According to an AP report, the lies these liars told --

"were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."

"In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003."

W led all liars with 259 lies, while Colin Powell came in a close second with 244.

So job well done W and friends. You should be proud.