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Pluto isn't a planet? My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies! Are you telling me there's no pie? This is bogus...

John Fund Vs. Paul Wolfowitz

From Media Matters: Talking about Al Qaida on Hardball John Fund said:

So they presumed that maybe, if we had a cataclysmic terrorist attack, we might just pull our horns out of the Middle East. And that was ultimately -- or Saudi Arabia, at least. Getting our troops out of Saudi Arabia would have been a signal victory for them. I don't think they anticipated the extent of the attack because our previous responses were so weak.

Of course he was wrong on the facts. Now here's Paul Wolfowitz from his famous Vanity Fair interview on the same subject:

There are a lot of things that are different now, and one that has gone by almost unnoticed--but it's huge--is that by complete mutual agreement between the U.S. and the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It's been a huge recruiting device for al Qaeda. In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader forces on the holy land, Mecca and Medina. I think just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door to other positive things.

We have done the exact thing and for the very purpose that John Fund calls capitulation, that John Fund says Osama Bin Laden wanted us to do. Maybe someone will point this out to John Fund?

Bush Blames the Victims

From the NY Times:

More generally, the participants said, the president expressed frustration that Iraqis had not come to appreciate the sacrifices the United States had made in Iraq, and was puzzled as to how a recent anti-American rally in support of Hezbollah in Baghdad could draw such a large crowd. “I do think he was frustrated about why 10,000 Shiites would go into the streets and demonstrate against the United States,” said another person who attended.

Bush made his comments over lunch. I wonder if he blamed the Iraqi people (who are dying by the thousands in Baghdad) for his own failures with food in his mouth?

Yet Another Mission Accomplished!

Hezbollah has been defeated. Or is it that they can't be defeated? Mummon has it here.

Say It Ain't So: Papa Bear slams Baby Bear.

O'Reilly blasts "smear merchants" and "vampires" criticizing Mel Gibson; Rivera smears Olbermann, Stewart, and Colbert

Summary: On his Fox News program, Bill O'Reilly called Mel Gibson's recent anti-Semitic comments "inexcusable," but said it is "more important" to discuss the "point where the media and individual Americans start to enjoy the suffering of rich and powerful people." Guest Geraldo Rivera later suggested that O'Reilly refer to "that schmuck from MSNBC," apparently MSNBC host Keith Olbermann; Rivera added that the "schmuck from MSNBC" is a "lowlife." Rivera also asserted that Comedy Central hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert "make a living putting on video of old ladies slipping on ice and people laughing" and that they "exist in a small little place where they count for nothing."

Media Matter has the video too...

Wikipedia Smacks Colbert Down!

Read all about it here.