Libby @ MindSay

As one who thinks those who do so much as a citizen of the US should be awarded, they should be given a freakin' medal. I don't think this shall be a weekly thing, but there will definitely be more of these coming.

ACEZ FREAKIN' MEDAL AWARD #1: Keith Olbermann

Act: Speaking out against the pardon of Scooter Libby soooo close to the 4^th

Thoughts: This guy has balls to say this on national TV. He has earned the ire of many conservatives, but has also earned my FREAKIN' MEDAL AWARD. Kudos to you, Mr. Olbermann.

Now, I don't have an image of the award, but I will try to make one on GIMP in the next few days. Seriously, this guy deserves one.

Bart said something along the lines of "I have a recurring nightmare that me and my family are all cartoon characters and our success leads to the building of a propoganda news channel called 'Fox'!"

hahaha, good one. Gotta love how Fox News spun the Libby verdict yesterday, calling the Jury 'hopelessly confused' and running along the bottom of their screen only 'Libby found not guilty of lying to federal investigators' (forget those other 4 charges).

I really am interested in reading the books that come from these jurors who have said they wish Rove and Cheney were on the stands - obviously the real culprits behind a smear campaign, and a glimpse into the true workings of this gestapo administration that some of  you nut-jobs call the 'leader of the free world'.

Ha. Keep taking your God-pills.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/06/breaking-libby-guilty-on-four-of-five-counts/

 

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER

1. He is five feet two, and he's six feet four, he fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen, 's been a soldier for a thousand years.

2. He's a Catholic, a Hindu, and atheist, a Jain, A Buddhist, and a Baptist, and a Jew. And he knows he shouldn't kill, and he knows he always will, kill you for me, my friend, and me for you.

3. And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France, he's fighting for the USA. And he's fighting for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan, and he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

4. And he's fighting for democracy, he's fighting for the Reds, he says, it's for the peace of all. He's the one who must decide, who's to live and who's to die, and he never sees the writing on the wall.

5. But without him how would Hitler have condemned them at Dachau, without him Caesar would have stood alone. He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war, and without him all this killing can't go on.

6. He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame, his orders come from far away no more, they come from here and there and you and me - and brothers, can't you see: this is not the way we put the end to war.

So I've been absent as of late. I shall confess that I have been preoccupied with other things, such as finishing school, dating again and socializing... basically trying to get as much out of my last semester of college as I can. But with an easy schedule, I'm finding myself with more free time, so I can write once more!

 

Thg big news out of Washington today is there will be no testimony from either Scooter Libby or Vice President Cheney in the trial of the former. Libby has made it clear he does not want to testify in his own defense and Libby's lawyer stated that Cheney would not be needed.

 

Is it a smart move? Having Libby or Cheney testify would have been a double-edged sword. On the plus side, Libby and Cheney could have proven that Libby was, as he claimed, busy with more pressing matters at the White House to get wrapped up in prewar intelligence and the identity of Valerie Plame. But having either men on the stand would have meant that they would have had to have answered truthfully (one would assume) about whether there was a plan to discredit Joe Wilson and silence the early critics of the Iraq invasion. While I can't speak for the jury that will ultimately decide what happens to Libby, I find it hard to believe that someone so closely connected to Cheney and thus the Powers That Be in the White House would simply forget about a smear campaign that was so blatantly illegal. Exposing the identity of a CIA agent just to safeguard your credibility would be the sort of thing to concern me, you know?

 

In other news, Comrade Obama recently had to apologize for a comment he made in Iowa over the weekend: "We now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted." Apparently Obama offended some people by implying that those 3,000+ Americans had wasted their lives by enlisting in the military.

 

I really getting sick and tired of people being so sensitive about this. No SANE person is going to criticize the troops when they criticize the war; the only person who ever came close to doing that was Donald Rumsfeld when he said "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had." I think pretty much everyone realizes that serving in the military means a great deal of sacrifice, in terms of time, effort and sometimes life. But what most people would hope for -- I think -- is that if those sacrifices are going to made, they're going to be made with a noble purpose in mind. There has been and never will be anything noble about Iraq. It was predicated on a lie and our occupation continues on a false hope that a fractured, divided country will somehow discover democracy and become a stable bastion of freedom in the Middle East. When a man or woman dies defeating a threat to the peace, protecting his homeland and his loved ones -- that is a tragic but noble sacrifice. But when it comes to Iraq, those lives HAVE been wasted.

The latest news in the the Scooter Libby leak case is that Bush approved the leak.
It goes to show that the ship of state is still the only one that leaks from the top.  It also shows that Bush's previous statements about finding the leaker is really silly.