Pour It On!
A recent AP story lists a handful of the current items dogging the Bush administration - and, by extension, their campaign. Among them:
The neglected, 350 - 380 tons of explosives missing from the al Qaqaa site - and the lies from administration stooges including Condoleza Rice, who was among those giving out the message that the explosives might not have been there when US forces came into the region, this despite both corroboration from the Pentagon and a Minneapolis news station's video from a week after the invasion having been public knowledge for at least most of the day. Then there was a little inadvertent twist of the knife as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Bush supporter, said the troops in Iraq, not Bush, bore the responsibility for searching for the explosives. This despite the fact that the explosives were logged and locked down while the UN weapons inspectors were able to do their job. Good job, Rudy. Blame it on the troops instead of the moron behind the mission and his lack of adequate troop stength for this fool's errand.
An FBI probe of the process by which Haliburton was awarded their contracts.
Reports that as many more as 100,000 Iraqi deaths may have occurred in the 18 months since the invasion and occupation began. This is the figure that is above and beyond projected deaths for the same period based on the pre-invasion death rate in a country whose infrastructure had been so badly shattered over the years.
Then there's this gem, also in the piece, courtesy of Ken Khachigian, who worked in the Nixon and Reagan White Houses:
"You have to take the good with the bad," Khachigian said. "The good is, you're
the president of the United States, flying on Air Force One and military
helicopters. It's pretty impressive, and that's been helping the president."
It's flight suit dress-up time all over again, folks. And, just as before, we get to pay the cost (again and again) of all the staging to attempt to make this dangerous buffoon look presidential.
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