Special Comment: Keith Blasts Bush Scapegoating: "This is <i>YOUR</i> War."
Tonight on Countdown, Keith delivered a powerful special comment about the leaked Bush Administration letter that blames Senator Hillary Clinton and all war dissenters for President Bush's own failures in Iraq.
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This, sir, is your war. Go to Baghdad now and fulfill, finally, your military service obligations.
Go there and fight, your war...yourself.
Transcripts below the fold...
Good evening from Los Angeles.
And we begin with a Special Comment, on this day's ominous, almost indescribable events.
It is one of the great, dark, evil lessons, of history.
A country -- a government -- a military machine -- can screw up a war seven-ways-to-Sunday... it can get thousands of its people killed... it can risk the safety of its citizens... it can destroy the fabric of its nation.
But as long as it can identify a scapegoat, it can regain... or even gain power.
The Bush Administration has, tonight, opened this Pandora's Box, about Iraq.
It has found its scapegoats -- Hillary Clinton -- and us.
The lies and terror-tactics with which it deluded this country into war -- they had nothing to do with the abomination that Iraq has become -- it isn't Mr. Bush's fault.
The selection of the wrong war, in the wrong time, in the wrong place -- the most disastrous a geo-political tactic since Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia in 1914 and destroyed itself in the process -- that had nothing to do with the overwhelming crisis Iraq has become -- it isn't Mr. Bush's fault.
The criminal lack of planning for the war -- the total "jump-off-a-bridge-and-hope-you-can-fly" tone to the failure to anticipate what would follow the deposing of Saddam Hussein -- that had nothing to do with the chaos in which Iraq has been enveloped -- it isn't Mr. Bush's fault.
The utter, blinkered idiocy of "staying the course" -- of sending Americans to Iraq, and sending them a second time, and a third, and a fourth, until they get killed or maimed -- the utter de-prioritization of human life, simply so a politician can avoid having to admit a mistake -- that had nothing to do with the tens of thousand individual tragedies darkening the lives of American families, forever -- it isn't Mr. Bush's fault.
The continuing, relentless, remorseless, corrupt and cynical insistence that this conflict somehow is defeating, or containing, or just engaging the people who attacked us on 9/11 -- the total "Alice Through The Looking Glass" quality that ignores that in Iraq, we have made the world safer for Al-Qaeda -- it isn't Mr. Bush's fault!
The fault, brought down -- as if a sermon from this mount of hypocrisy and slaughter, by a nearly anonymous Under-Secretary of Defense -- the fault has tonight been laid on the doorstep of Senator Hillary Clinton and, by extension, at the doorstep of every American -- the now vast majority of us -- who have dared to criticize this war, or protest it, or merely ask questions about it, or simply, plaintively, innocently, honestly, plead, "don't take my son; don't take my daughter."
Senator Clinton has been sent -- and someone has leaked to the Associated Press -- a letter, sent in reply to hers, asking if there exists, an actual plan for evacuating U.S. troops from Iraq.
This extraordinary document was written by an Under-Secretary of Defense named Eric Edelman.
"Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq," Edelman writes, "reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia." Edelman adds: "such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks."
A spokesman for the senator says Mr. Edelman's remarks are "at once both outrageous and dangerous" and those terms are entirely appropriate and may in fact understate the risk the Edelman letter poses to our way of life, and all that our fighting men and women are risking, have risked, and have lost, in Iraq.
After the South was defeated in our Civil War, the scapegoat was Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and the ideas of the "Lost Cause" and "Jim Crow" were born.
After the French were beaten by the Prussians in 1870 and 1871 -- it was the imaginary "Jewish influence" in the French Army General Staff, and there was born 30 years of self-destructive anti-Semitism, culminating in the horrific Dreyfus case.
After the Germans lost the First World War, it was the "back-stabbers and profiteers" at home, on whose lives the National Socialists rose to prominence in the succeeding decades, and whose accused membership eventually wound up in torture chambers and death camps.
And after the generation before ours, and leaders of both political parties, escalated and re-escalated, and carpet bombed and re-carpet bombed, Vietnam, it was the protest movement and Jane Fonda and as late as just three years ago Senator John Kerry, who were assigned the kind of blame with which no rational human being could concur, and yet which still, across vast sections of our political landscape, resonates, unchallenged, and accepted.
And now Mr. Bush, you have picked out your own Jefferson Davis, your own Dreyfus, your own "profiteer" -- your own scapegoat.
Not for the sake of this country...
Not for the sake of Iraq...
Not even for the sake of your own political party...
But for the sake of your own personal place in history.
But in reaching for that place, you have guaranteed yourself tonight, not honor, but infamy.
In fact, you have condemned yourself to a place among that remarkably small group of Americans whom Americans cannot forgive. Those who have sold this country out, and who have willingly declared their enmity to the people at whose pleasure they supposedly serve.
A scapegoat, sir, might be forgivable, if you hadn't just happened to choose a prospective presidential nominee of the opposition party. And the accusation of spreading "enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia," might be some day atoned for, if we all didn't know -- you included, and your generals, and the Iraqis -- that we are leaving Iraq, and sooner rather than later -- and we are doing it, even if to do so requires first, that you must be impeached and removed as President of the United States, sooner, rather than later.
You have set this government at war against its own people, and then blamed those very people when they say, "enough."
And thus it crystallizes, Mr. Bush.
When Civil War General Ambrose Burnside ordered a disastrous attack on Fredericksburg in which 12,000 of his men were killed, he had to be physically restrained from leading the next charge himself.
After the First Lord of the British Admiralty, Winston Churchill, authored and enabled the disastrous Gallipoli campaign that saw a quarter million Allied Soldiers cut down in the First World War, Churchill resigned his office and took a commisson as a front-line officer in the trenches of France.
Those are your new role models, Mr. Bush.
Let your minions try to spread the blame to the real patriots here, who have sought only to undo the horrors you have wrought since 2002.
Let them try it, until the end of time.
Though the words might be erased from a million books and a billion memories, though the world be covered knee-deep in your lies, the truth shall prevail.
This, sir, is your war.
Senator Clinton has reinforced enemy propaganda? Made it impossible for you to get your ego-driven, blood-steeped win in Iraq?
Then take it into your own hands, Mr. Bush.
Go to Baghdad now and fulfill, finally, your military service obligations.
Go there and fight, your war...yourself.
As much as I love Keith Olbermann, it's just a shame that he doesn't have the loyal viewership that others like O'Riley and Hannity have.
It's about time we call nazis nazis. Thank you Keith. You are a true patriot.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/19/clinton-edelman-iraq/
Anyone finding the video pretty slow on here today?
POWERFUL!! I sure hope nothing happens to stop Keith speaking truth to power. I am so tired of all this crud and the dirty games being played by this totally corrupt Administration. This has got to stop before we wake up and find ourselves in the 4th Reich.
O/T I just heard on Sirius radio that Jet Blue has dropped their sponsorship or Yearly Dos?!?!?!
Great Special Comment. This one will get a lot of views on the internets.
A major voice on the news channels comparing the actions of this administration to the Nazis, and mentioning impeachment favorably.
YAY!
youtube of this video as well
Correction: Yearly Kos
Olbermann is on fire! I also just heard a discussion about an executive order signed on the 17th just two days ago that we should all be aware of and wary of. Seek it out. Look it up and read it. It is very very disturbing.
Thanks for saying what needs to be said. Damn can you write a speech!!!!! Keep it up Keith! And tell Verizon FIOS Cable TV to carry MSNBC on Long Island, NY!!!! It's the only cable channel missing on the 300 channels!!!!! WTF!?
JustAGI @ 1:
Remember the story of the Tortoise and the Hare? Same thing. Olbermann will overcome and eventually win the race. His opening tonight was so spot on that it might be dangerous if too many Americans heard it at one time. Our country has been taken over by nothing less than a criminal enterprise. We're like someone waking up from a long coma....you gotta do it gradually.
[pure flamebaiting.]
I love keith!
Don't do it George Senior! Don't do it! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070718/bush-revolver/ Give the gun to your son and Dick Cheney.
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You need to take it one step more. The Jihadists just love Bush. He's their top recruiter, haven't you heard?
If there is one true patriot in the states that has the air time and can be seen and heard from around the globe , its Keith!
Folks here in germany love this man due to his stand up and dont take the same shit germany was forced to do in the 1930s when a little pecker head who served the army, and ended up being kicked out from it, had a hard on for every single blood cell in the country. You know whom iam talking about.
Skip 70 yrs later and well,, there we have it folks the same little pissed off man who ´´claimed´´ to serve his country , and hates anything and everything that goes against his ´´moral values´´!
GWB hates the military. He hates the fact he isint what the brave men and woman today and yesteryears are.
His poppy served, yet GWB took the easy way out.
Time and time again we see that sick twisted little bitch wearing a navy jacket, or army or marines. Yet all he could do was manage to ´´protect´´ the skies over texas from rice winged vietnam airplanes´´
KEITH; my hat is off to you sir.
Keith rocks, he is more truthful than anyone on T.V. it is definitely too bad that more people don't see him. Everyone should email his comment to all their friends so it goes across the country.
Carl @ 17:
Not clever, just honest. Seen their recruitment posters lately? You might be surprised.
Carl @ 12:
OK, OK, we get the point. You're a warmongering, cowardly Bush apologist who wants our troops to keep getting needlessly slaughtered in Iraq while you sit on your ass and cheer.
Carl @ 12:
If you would care to back that up with facts or somethin', it would be greatly appreciated.
What a treasure of a guy you are Keith, another powerful hit in bush's lunatic fringe.
I am so worried about Keith, though..there's talk about selling msnbc to the highest bidder at public auction, just to keep KEITH quiet.
Gee, Keith. You don't have to sugar-coat it or nuthin'. Just tell us how you REALLY feel! (And then feel free to repeat. Often.)
Carl @ 12:
Carl, you don't seem to realize that Bush has caused the horrible state of affairs in Iraq, him and his delusional, incompetent cronies tried to do this war on the cheap, lied to congress, the press and the American people while ignoring all the experts who predicted to a T the current outcome. This administration is the reason the war (it's an ocupation really) is going so badly. And like Keith told Bush, "go there and fight this war" Carl. If all of you armchair generals cowboyed up, grabbed an AK-47 and got your manly asses to Bagdad we would be outta there by Xmas, right? Line up, sign up and enlist today!
Our Voice, Keith Olbermann, was throwing FLAMES.
Thank God for him.
Carl @ 12:
He dislikes the enablers of the jihadists. You know the ones who forgot about Afghanistan so Al Qaeda could rebuild itself. Remember that thing called the NIE, which is a product of Bush's own security agencies, not the liberal media that you think exists.
It WAS his war. It's now bipartisan.
Carl@12, well then SIR, spare your tender sensibilities and go blog with your fellow meateaters at FOX. Attendance here is optional....,
sweetheart.
Bush propaganda TILLMAN TILLMAN TILLMAN TILLMAN gee does that make it better
Well, Carl, look at it this way. In the end, terrorists can only kill the body. Bush is killing the spirit of this country for the sake of his own power. So yes, he IS a greater threat to us then Al Qaeda.
Incredible comment Keith, I wonder is he has seen this?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html
AndyZ @ 2:
I have been saying this myself everywhere lately. When we are moderate and contained in our remarks, the O'lielly's of the world just get more rabid. Bush is a fascist assuming dictatorial powers as we speak. When we are in the camps, it will be too late to wake up and act.
President Bush Became Dictator July 17, 2007
Support the war or we take everything!
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 17, 2007
Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq
White House News
Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding International Emergency Economic Powers Act
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of November 29, 2004. I hereby order:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html
Is the bush administration afraid of Hillary Clinton? As Rumhead would say, "You bet!"
Let this be bush's legacy, crystallized in these words: You have set this government at war against its own people.
[...] What Hating It Tools! [...]
Oh hell yeah. Olbermann tells it like it is. We need more true patriots like Keith, instead of flag-waving, Archie-Bunker-esque Fox News lemmings like the remaining 30% of the nation who continue to give lip-service to the Oval Office Fraud.
Hey Carl, is your ass burning yet? Do you always piss off everybody at the party?
Sorry to interrupt, but am I the only one have great difficulty getting the videos to play and/or download?
[All four links worked for me-Sitemonitor]
videos play fine over here Isome says
Absolutely brilliant! KO makes my heart swell with hope and pride. We need thousands more like him!
Straight Shooter @ 33:
Its a threat to the congress to "stay away from my war"! According the the document above, if two people get together and discuss pulling out of Iraq, they can have all of their assets seized and become "non-persons".
Damnation.
Olbermann is pulling no punches.
Great panacea after a weak of feckless media idiocy.
[...] Keith is preaching, and you gotta hear what he has to say when he Blasts Bush Scapegoating: “This is YOUR War.” [...]
we'll see who gets bundled in under this new executive order--how convenient would it be to declare political foes "aiding the enemy" and freezing their assets, destroying their ability to campaign? no imprisonment necessary--silence your critics by threatening their livelihoods, the money that makes it possible for them to enter the public stage and survive there. we're way over the line, and at least a few people like KO are willing to say so.
thugs like the ones running the show in the white house now are at their most dangerous when their facade is slipping and their support is wavering--support for the nazis in germany in late 1932 was actually falling, not climbing. that's what made them act so forcefully, that's what made them throw open their psychoses. i'm very concerned now, in a way i have never been before.
keith is a man of balls,, intergitity and pure patriot. Lets see that sick bill O liely say something similar?
He cannot, the man is verbal, DUH, when it comes to keith. Now what does scarbough have to say about this?
NAME one person whos offerd up the truth inside the states aside from Keith and Jon stewart?
ONE?
none of the past employees of the whitehouse has the balls to do so anymore. All they did was write books to make $$$$$$$$ for themselfs.
StraightShooter@33,
" You have set this government at war against its own people."
This is the most powerful statement in the entire commentary, and we're definitely in the deepest emergency we've ever known on so many levels. Don't look now but bush/cheney et al is sandbagging the exits.
Way to go Keith Olbermann! I absolutely agree with him!! Buck Fush!!! Cuck Fheney!!!
jxn Says: thugs like the ones running the show in the white house now are at their most dangerous when their facade is slipping and their support is wavering–support for the nazis in germany in late 1932 was actually falling, not climbing. that’s what made them act so forcefully, that’s what made them throw open their psychoses. i’m very concerned now, in a way i have never been before.
You aren't the only one. I'm fearful not of some foreign enemy, but of the fascists who hold power in this country.
Friar Tuck?
Keith is a man of balls?
I've watched a few of his "Special Comments", but I must say
that KO(Keith Oberman) just scored his very, very best K.O.(knock out)
Send this thead to ALL of your friends and neighbors...it needs to be
seen by everyone..
Lee @ 29:
On 9/11 the Jihadists managed to knock down a couple of buildings and kill several thousand people. A despicable, unforgivable act with many personal tragedies. But the Bush-Rove response has proved even more horrific for the American way of life. It's now a life of fear, suspicion and an absence of Constitutionally guaranteed rights.
We will never be the same. What makes it worse is the suspicion that so many in the administration benefited financially because of all of this. I hope there is a special spot in Hell for their ilk.
crazylove @ 48:
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meaning he HAS THE BALLS TO SPEAK UP !
wtf dont you get??
God, I love Keith !!
re:http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html
I wonder if Bush et al are planning to confiscate Senator and President Clinton's property.
Next they'll have to go after John and Elizabeth Edwards' home.
Then it's on to the rest of the Dems before they attack Chuck Hagel.
I hope there's enough room in Paraguay for all the properties BushCo confiscates - or
do you think Paraguay is where BushCo plans to send all of us who have "interfered or threatened
stabilization in Iraq"?
Friar T,
It was a joke.
The most powerful statement yet from KO about that chicken-hawk bush's f**ked up messianic view of his divine destiny.
KO is more of a true patriot that the entire host of f**king Republic Party members who support this clusterf**k in Iraq - including the entire administration. Let us also not forget that the GOP members of congress (plus that incredible traitor lieberman), almost to a person, continue to support the killing and maiming of our troops and Iraqi civilians - solely to preserve their petty jobs. What cowards - all of them.
Chicken-hawk bush is about ready to push Hitler aside as perhaps the most reviled person in modern history. He is a disgrace to our country, and to the world. Enough!!!
We may not have O'Reilly and Hannity on our side but we've got Larry Flynt eh? Oh great...
I loved the Churchill history lesson! - I hope to hell that the Kristols and the Hanity's of the world (along with GWB...) took note that their favorite role model knew what to do when he fucked up!
KO is such a voice for reason - so articulate, so spot on, so measured. Even in his furious moments he is measured... wonderful stuff!!
KO, do you give personal seminars? If so, please send a flier to every Democrat in Congress. Perhaps you have a 12-Step program for growing a spine that you can share with our elected representatives in both Houses. Members of Congress who swore to protect the Constitution take note, that's what Kieth is doing. Please do, TAKE NOTES! Because if you actually wanted to protect the US Constitution this is exactly what you would sound like.
Furthermore, KO's response to this filthy and obnoxious stuff will have been fifty times more courageous and worthy than Clinton's. And which of them is headed for the White House?
And if Mr. Bush doesn't have the courage to go to Iraq himself, he should at least send his daughters before he asks one more mother or father to give up their child to the war.
Lynda from Australia @ 57:
I concur 100% with everything spoken here.
This is some scary shit. I put nothing past this administration.
I just read the first 8 pages of "Hubris". That is all you need to read. I thought I knew quite a bit about how they started this war, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. It wasn't just the cherry picking intel. Their plan was to get Saddam so upset that he would kill thousands and that would be their excuse for war. How these people can go on and on about embryos and the sanctity of life and yet work to deliberately plan the deaths of innocents to start their vanity war which would cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
Oh, and KO is the best.
jxn @ 43:
I have been thinking this ever since this morning when I heard about this executive order on the bill Press Show. I mentioned it at work, and people started looking at me as if I were the crazy one instead of Bush. I have already emailed the order to colleagues and I plan on posting a copy of it in the "mailroom" tomorrow. These are incredibly scary times and I am not only frightened for my country, but for those of us who work for peace every day.
I think that what Edelman said was a not so veiled attempt to intimidate not simply Hillary Clinton [she is, after all, a fairly mild critic of the occupation] but the more vociferous critics of this most unnecessary occupation. I am also glad that Olbermann included the demonstrations against the Vietnam War and especially Jane Fonda, whom the right has always attempted to demonize as being not only anti-war but also as somehow being against the troops. As the incredibly moving 2006 documentary Sir! No Sir!, which focused on the GI Resistance during the Vietnam War pointed out, Jane Fonda was part of the FTA tours, which served as a counterpoint to the government propaganda handed out by Bob Hope and his USO tours. The military was terrified of Ms. Fonda and forbade her to bring the FTA into Vietnam. Instead, Ms. Fonda and the FTA [the FTA technically stood for Free Theater Associates but was known among the troops as Fun, Travel and Adventure. It was also thought to stand for Free the Army and, especially, F**k the Army] played in front of over 60,000 enthusiastic American servicemen in Japan, Okinawa, and the Philippines, who clearly empathized with the anti-war message that was given by the FTA, as evidenced by the many clenched fists that were seen in those audiences by those soldiers.
As Jane Fonda and Amy Goodman have said of today's atmosphere: Silence is no longer an option.
FOX infotainment(NEWS) has more subscribers.
MSNBC is a higher tiered channel.
People have to actually pay for MSNBC.
They give away FOX as part of a bundled package. See, they have to give it away.
Great commentary... KO says what so many of us are thinking. Why did you ruin our country? And, why don't you care? Enough already. More people are waking up by the minute. Impeach Bush and Cheney!
Go KO! Beat down that little motherfucker's ass!
Nothing short of criminal indictments and convictions for Bush/Cheney and ALL of their co- conspiritors (after impeachment and removal from office, naturally) would even come close to justice for the crimes of these Brooks Brothers mafiosi. And as an added punishment, all their personal fortunes should be seized under the RICO statutes and used to pay back in some small measure for the damage they've caused to American and Iraqi families alike. But impeachment and removal from office alone doesn't begin to address the evil that these genocidal, power mad monsters have unleashed. For it allows Bush to slink away to a life of comfort and peace (although he may never be able to show his face in public again) that the loved ones of the dead and maimed will never know again. Dick Cheney is a horse of a completely different color. He would not go quietly into retirement to live out his remaining days in infamy and seclusion. If left to his own, he would use whatever methods and back channel connections to try to continue the destruction of our democracy. And the scary thing is, he could possibly be more dangerous as a private citizen able to work in the shadows (the dark side, if you will) to achieve his evil fantasy of turning American into the corporatocracy he's been working on since being (s)elected Vice President.
The most encouraging statistic I have read in a long time is that 17% of self identified Republicans (and there are a lot fewer of those these days) favor impeachment of Bush and Cheney!
Wow! Some of em really are patriots!
Some of em actually understand what conservative means!
Keith makes a very good point. This war will eventually end. And we who are working to end need to start planning NOW for the aftermath. Because we will blamed for losing it. We will be accused of betraying the soldiers who fought there. We may even be accused of spitting on them. Unlike after Vietnam, we need to stay engaged and make sure the truth of this war -- who started it, how they started it, what it resulted in, who worked from when to end it -- gets engraved into history.
We need to embrace the troops -- now and when they come back. Welcome home parades. Congress needs to increase funding for their needs, physical and psychic, which are going to be intense for decades. We must resist calls to "heal the nation's wounds" (lapse into collective amnesia and not poke fingers into painful truths) but must insist on full disclosure, full exposure and full accountability for those who brought us this horror.
That was a verbal asswhipping.
Well Mr. Bush - you've got your marching orders. I expect to see you in uniform with an M16 on a street corner in Baghdad. Sooner rather than later.
It's always such a relief to hear this man. These bums in the White House make me sick. I anybody out there planning to march on Washington?
Please be reminded that 30% will agree with Edleman.
Sorry state of affairs we're in.
Keith Olbermann, you sir have spoken eloquently of what is on my mind! Thank you!
Anyone who knows Bush knows that this blame shifting has been a hallmark of W for pretty much his entire life. Not once has he ever taken responsibility for his numerous fuck-ups. Daddy had always been there to cover up junior's mistakes; but not this time.
Sorry but iam not in joke mode.
i live in eruope yet have to pay taxes to the IRS!
i work here have been since 2000.
its getting to the point where i gotta either move or , just see if i can get out from under the fucking usa goverment and its taxes. Even if would,, disown my citzship, the IRS would force me to pay taxes for the next ten yrs.
See why iam,,,,,,,,,,,,really starting to hate america? WHERE I WAS BORN LEAGLE RAISE AND BECAME A WORKING ADULT THERE???
it cares not where you come from, so all this beaner bashing,, HA! folks if you want to leave the sates,,( good luck as the passport dept is behind by one YEAR!) is stupid. Does mexico make its former citzs pay taxes still?
FUCK NO!!!!!!!!!
canada? NOPE!!!
JJohnson @ 71:
LOL Never gonna happen. He doesn't even do those secret middle of the night trips to Iraq any more.
w and cheney are cowards who cut and run from responsibility for their failures.
These are not men, not man enough to admit they are dead wrong.
Enough with the blame game.
The buck stops with the cowards w and cheney. Period.
Keith Olbermann never seizes to amaze me with his awesome Special Comments. He gets so emotional and so in-depth, that it seems like he's never gonna stop, and unfortunately, he does. I hope Bushie and Co. don't try to shut Keith down because he speaks the truth about their piss-poor rewriting of history.
KEITH IS DA MAN!!!!!
The Champ is out.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the White House this evening, just to listen to their heads spinning.
This was so good to listen to.
And speaking of not blaming Bushie. Today Mona Charen has a column that actually says, "It's not Bush's fault there was an intelligence failure regarding WMDs." Unfuckingbelievable.
And yes Bush GO NOW!!!!!
Truth be told....
Olbermann's words slice and dice like a ginzu knife....
Friar Tuck at #74
I would like to recommend to you a book, written in 2002, which you may find interesting: "Why Do People Hate America". It had to be ordered from a bookstore through the UK so you may be be able to obtain it where you live. The authors, Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies, explore the reasons why so many people around the world, especially in the underdeveloped and third world countries, loathe and despise the policies and culture and globilization put forth by the United States. One can imagine that the reasons for despising America has probably increased exponentially around the globe since the U.S. foolishly and illegally invaded Iraq in 2003.
Appropriately scathing.
I also get a sense from the dubya administration of "thrashing on the hook", or "falling over the preipice"....desperately going back to the only tactics (fearmongering) that has served to keep them in power.
It isn't just the president. Within the last two weeks, two major media entities have acknowledged doing fradulent biased right skewed reporting.
If this gets bad enough, even some of the wingnuts may start waking up.
crazylove @ 45:
Good!! We don't want them getting away to Paraguay!
Compare Bush's ownership of his Iraq fiasco to JFK after the Bay of Pigs:
Bush last week:
What's Keith trying to say? Why doesn't he get to the point? Geesh.
It is and always has been the Bush/Cheney war. It is also now the Republican's war. They own it. Their last vote in the US Senate made them sole owners of the War. Can you say: Vote Blocking Republican War Mongers, Boys and Girls?.
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I generally don't like this guy- way too much ego and self righteousness- as opposed to the relative clueless delusion of most cable news anchors.
But this did capture the outrage I feel myself. Not bad.
everybody know Chimpy likes a fight when he has tough guys around him, shit who is tougher then our Military, I say Bush should go and act all big and bad and he can come back the way 3500 of our real Americans have come back. As is so obvious in this country the people who are the first to support war are the last to want to go over and fight it, that is why I always say Republicans are cowards and they keep proving me right again and again.
jitter @ 89:
That's why I like Keith, he has the ego to match Bill Oraly but the sense to report against this criminal government and with the passion and anger we all feel. Go get 'em Keith!!!
Friar Tuck @ 76:
If you are living in Europe, but a US citizen, you should only have to pay taxes on of the amount by which US taxes exceed the taxes of whatever country you are living in. As most of Europe has higher taxes (but gets free healthcare as a return), those taxes should be a credit on your US return, and you shouldn't owe the US anything.
I forgot to mention in my earlier post. For a good time, watch something like Czech "Divided we Fall" or Dutch "Black Book".....for a demonstration of the correct way to handle nazi collaborators.
Powerful and Right On Keith! we are seeing before our very eyes an Insane Extremist Evil Bush government destroying America and the world as we know it.
Keith O. is da Man. Why is it that no one, nada, none, zero in the mainstream media
(other than KO and Jon Stewart) have the balls to report the facts as we saw/read
in this "Special Comment" section..and I am including those in the print-media???
Is every one of them a pussie, a lackey working for BIG Media. Corp.? When, if ever,
are others going to speak out as KO did and let the entire general public know of
how awfully destructive this admin. is and how it is totally disregarding the U.S.
Constitution? I get as angry/upset and pissed off at the media almost as much as
I do with bush/cheney/rove/et.al...AND I AM IN THE MAJORITY; however, I fail to see
my opinion/views being disseminated by the media. They are a failure to us all. Yes,
I do my part by contacting my representatives in both House and Senate, I write
Letters to the Editor, and do my dead level best to express how I feel; yet it is
sooooo frustrating because my/our views are not being heard. WTF can I/we do???
This miserable sonofabitch has never taken responsibility for anything in his life! Don't expect him to start now!
Worst President ever!!
seamus @ 88:
Good point, I hadn't actually processed it that far yet, but you are correct sir, when the Dems gave in and gave funding they clearly bought a chunk of this war for themselves but after the Republican obstructionists they took back what is rightfully theirs: the responsibility for this illegal war! and I say it's time they were held accountable...calling Dr Waxman, Dr Conyers and Dr Leahy you are needed in surgery!
jitter @ 89:
LOL Good God, you think KO's self-righteous with a big ego? Why, because he speaks his mind as he sees fit? It may be the case if he were speaking solely for himself and states so. He's speaking for 70% of the nation. So piss off.
The fact is the military plans for EVERYTHING, for every contingency. For the Pentagon to attack Hillary for insisting they do they jobs is totally insane, the terminal gasp of the total politicization of everything under this regime.
From Wikipedia about D-Day and Eisenhower's sense of responsibility.
Does the fact that Eisenhower thought about and even planned for failure and was ready to take responsibility make him a surrender monkey, bent on demoralizing his own troops? Rather the opposite I should think.
Keith is the Edward R. Murrow of our time.
libertysghost @ 68:
Sign the petition!
libertysghost @ 99:
Man, I can almost guarantee you that 90% of the public would have no idea who you're talking about. Welcome to the dumbing-down of America. "Hey, isn't American Idol on?"
GonzoD @ 95:
So Shrub's Magic: "Mission Accomplished" banner did not do it for you!
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It can't be stated enough...the emperor has no clothes. The Bush apologists intentionally conflate the criminal civilian command with the military in order to avoid being held accountable for their sinister actions.
One can detest radical Islamic terrorists AND corrupt politicians. Only in the sick world of Bush Co. propaganda and is one presented with a false choice between supporting Bush unconditionally or being considered an unpatriotic al Qaeda sympathizer.
Erroll @ 83:
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i was born by ln the late 60s. My dad was Ilegal untill he joined the ARMY after the he became so. My mother was legal since one generation befour. BOTH came from Eruope in the 30s via parents and born in the states. aside from my father that is. Its amazing now looking back that one of my parents was dem, and the other repub, and yet the somehow got along,, untill the day the JFK took a ´´magic bullet to the head´´! then after that as my father was shipped off again to ´´partol´´ the streets of france´´ he started to think .
he was offerd a chance to go inside the east german side,, as he was from then the commie block ( he left germany as a kid in in the 1950s along with his mom and dad) and my father said,, NO!!!!!!!!!!
NAM came up,, hell of a mess,, and he was the dude that carrried the m-16 , unless he said ok i will go spy for you pricks,, he wasint alowed or guranteed a ´´hey hes a usa citzens´´!!! he made the USA citzens test in the army and it was taken during a brief ´´yawnnnnnnn by a QA. the dude was like yeah yeah yeah,, your set,, now do you wish to rejoin the army?
he made staff sarg.. but left the army private first class over this. and he never forgot the pain he felt, seeing his platoon coming back,, dead, or missing limbs.
today he has the army to thank for loss of hearing in his right ear and ,,,,,,,,,cancer from??
so GWB GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!! you slimey prick, your asss should have been over there fighting,, yet you didint!
you GWB thought you were so fucking speical that,, wow i can blow snow all day,, drínk all night and sleep late, guarding the skies´´ over texas´´´
NAME ME ONE THING GWB EVER DID FOR THE WAR? THE WAR HIS ASS WAS ABLE TO FIGHT?
THE SAME FOR DICK CHENEY? AND RUSH LIMBAUGH?
NOTHING;; NOT A FUCKING THING!!!!!!!!!! they RODE THE GRAVY TRAIN AND NOW there they are,, making decisions that have killed over 3,500 military and counting.
SHOW us the guts and gall repigs!!!!! aint not a one of you EVER had that in your balls.
all you can do is,,,,,,,,,,,,be a director of stage,, comedey and pain.
you arent worth the fucking ink it takes to stamp the next dead SOLIDER coming back from iraq /afaganistan.
READ MY LIPS
COWARDS MAKE WAR, SIT BACK AND CHEER, UNTILL THE WAR THEY WAGED CAUSES PPL TO WAGE WAR ON THEM!
I have to disagree with Keith with regard to Bush going to Iraq to fight his war, by himself.
How about packing the entire Bush family, ya know, Poppy & Babs, “Pickles” & those party girl twins, Jeb & his whole brood, Neil & his Asian whores, Cheney's family, all the neocon startegists and pundits and all the rest of this blueblood Skull & Bones bunch into a big yellow school bus. Let’s give them plenty of booze, drugs, guns, ammo, party hats & favors & assorted noise makers. Put a banner on one side of the bus that reads “Leave no Bush behind” & on the other side that says “Operation Iraqi Liquidation” (sponsored by the Carlyle Group), on the back of the bus a big old picture of Jesus with a sword and a glowing Star of David on his chest….. and send those fuckers straight into the meatgrinder! Come on folks, this could be the biggest pay-per-view event ever !!!!
Damn, this is good weed.
I can't believe they actually let someone in the electronic media speak truth to power. Thank you Keith for your courage.
Time to make the bread over here in Germany!!
take care folks,, nice blog BTW!!!!!!!!!!! and ttyl
regards
The Baker
Rico @ 11:
Heh, we do this any more gradually, and we'll all be dead before we get our Republic back . . . but I hear where yer comin from . . . and KO rawhks!!
Friar Tuck,
Thanks for the tip on the book. I'll definately add it to my must read list. But actually our history of pissing off other countries and earning the animosity of people the world over is long and bloody. If you haven't read it already may I suggest "OVERTHROW" by Stephen Kinzer. I did a little research after I read it and was not surprised to find that in a vast majority of the instances in which this country (either overtly or covertly) overthrew other governments, dictatorships or monarchies, these were done under REPUBLICAN administrations. Seems to be a pattern with these megalomaniacs.
Thank you, Keith. That was great. I am especially pleased that Olberman pointed out the myth of blaming war protestors at home for the US losing the war in southeast Asia. We killed so many people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia that even our estimates had six zeros after them because we just didn't know. (Can you imagine, "give or take a million human beings...") Our military was doing everything it could do - killing with incredible efficiency - but, who would have thought, you can't bomb a country into peace. Maybe someday we'll learn the lesson of Vietnam (and then the lesson of Iraq).
Rebellion to Tyrants. Wake the Hell up! The Iraq 'War' Protesters were RIGHT! Bring down the Bush Regime!
call the bus 'cakewalk express'. drive from amman to baghdad. it should be very scenic.
no surprise that the Bushwood Country Club sssssssucks...
Fuck that was awsome, like always when he does a special comment.
[Deleted. I guess ad hominem flame bait is all you have to offer? We see a lot of that here. Nick well chosen, Yawn-Sitemonitor]
Keith better be careful when he says the decider should go to Iraq and fight the war himself.
The way these pig-fuckers twist reality, Keith will end up arrested for threatening the life of the resident.
Yes, I know that by saying fighting the war could be deadly, the white house would have to admit that it's NOT a re-make of REM's 'Shiny, Happy People' video, but they would just reframe the argument....again.
With God as my witness, I hate this administration. I really do.
To Bush The Conn. Cokehead:
Sad, but (unfortunately) true.
Once again Keith is a spark of truth in an otherwise dark universe.
Obama: Don't Stay in Iraq Over Genocide
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070720/D8QG1O201.html
Uhh, if hundreds of thousands dead, and millions of refugees in the Civil War in the Sudan is a genocide, what the hell do you call hundreds of thousands dead, millions of refugees in the Civil War in Iraq???
Just about time Georgie to take your sock off, put your toe in the trigger ..............
[Again. You might want to have that checked Yawn-Sitemonitor]
Keith was outstanding tonight. When he gets on a roll, he is unbeatable.
As O'Lielly loses more and more audience, sponsors and fame, Olbermann gains.
O'Lielly attempts to make fools of his guests, but he makes fool of himself. He is losing radio broadcasts, and soon he will lose so many viewers, he will lose his TV show too.
Keith Olbermann is despised by Bill-o because KO tells the truth. Not many in the news today dare to tell truth to power - Keith has no fear.
Calling Bush a useless bag of shit is a disservice to the shit. At least shit can become good fertilizer.
libertysghost @ 68:
AJ Fan @ 32:
Is this man nuts?
If the administration would start to get out of Iraq, heck I'd take the blame for the failure of the war. Jees, I hate it when the liberals, the media, the secretary of defense, the Iraqi's, Bill Clinton, the congress...everybody gets the blame. I want MY turn to take the blame for the war!
Keith's special comments are incredible. I wish he was running for prez
HELL YEAH!
We're always hearing that the GOP is the party of personal responsibility. So why don't YOU, George W. Bush, exercise some personal responsibility??? You are the decider, after all!
AJ Fan @ 32:
This is, at first glance, quite fearful to ordinary citizens.
I hope it's an attempt to block funding and money changing and such . . . on the worldwide stage . . .
But I doubt it . . I eagerly await analysis on this from those knowledgable . . wow.
Just when I thought, it couldn't get any worse . . .
Does this mean, emails and blogs are to be considered 'threats' to the Executive Order? All dissent is a threat to the Order?
Our 1939 came MUCH sooner than I expected . . . but, there's so much pressure and rising dissent, this don't surprise me . . .
Someone please say it ain't so . . .
Whens the round up and one way slow train rides to countryside start ?
jxn @ 43:
Agreed. Fully, agreed. And warrented.
Keith is no tool of the Corporate News conglomerate. The guy has the balls to say what some of the others may be thinking but are too afraid to lose their jobs to take the stand.
He won't remain silent, and wait for these fascist/nazi bastards to come for him.
Friar Tuck @102: I was going to leave a comment tonight, but damn, you said it perfectly. Thanks.
The author of the letter saying Hillary Clinton is supporting Al Qaida propoganda is (Eric Edelman) was an advisor to Cheney in the con-the-masses run up to the Iraqi war. HE is one of the people directly responsible for this misbegotten folly, and he dares to imply the failure of it lies at the feet of Clinton and others who now (finally) ask reasonable questions about how we will extract our troops?!
This is another example of the lack of character and lack of courage neocons exhibit constantly. Blaming others for their own failures, or even refusing to admit failure, is an immature, irresponsible behavior, and when people in power employ these dodges, they harvest a plentiful crop of disgust.
Col Kilgore @ 123:
LOL! LOL!
Mike the Canuck @123: Ummm...yes he is 100% nuts.
Wonderful. Where's the petition?
1 JustAGI Says:
"As much as I love Keith Olbermann, it’s just a shame that he doesn’t have the loyal viewership that others like O’Riley and Hannity have."
Only when YOU know for a FACT that he (Keith Olbermann) "doesn't have the loyal viewership....will anyone find you credible. I for one is one that is counted as a "loyal viewer". That fact is credible enough for me!.
As for you....to make such a broad assumption, is overstating your illusionary self evaluating mental state.
lindamilo @ 137:
libertysghost
& thank u Emerald.
'Calling Bush a useless bag of shit is a disservice to the shit. At least shit can become good fertilizer.'
Hehehehe.
Olbermann delivers a 2nd powerful special comment in 2 weeks. Keep 'em coming. Someone will listen. Someone else will become enraged with anger at the administration. Even if just one person catches on, it'll be worth it.
By Jove, we have a statesman!
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Could we please stop knocking Bush for his National Guard service during the Viet Nam era. Just remember that not one Viet Cong aircraft got past Del Rio, Texas, and we have George to thank for that. God save our Leader.
Yawn....... @ 115:
I love snarky site moderators ;)
Mike the Canuck @ 125:
In S Carolina during the 2000 campaign, before Bush stole the White House, he said,
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier... just as long as I'm the dictator..."
Shrub is living his fantasy.
Someone please lock this monster up.
Could you just imagine where we would be if we did not have the blogs, Keith, Stewart, Maher and air america? If all we had was the other brain washed fools we would have nothing but a steady feed of Bush propaganda.
What is going to happen to these voices between now and the next election? Can any thing be done by the Bush crime family to impact our ability to get information?
All we have on all of the major networks is Keith. All of cable is Maher and comedy central. One radio station and the blogs. Do you get the impression we are slightly out numbered?
Folks, it's 9pm, Left Coast.
Not a WORD in any of the main blogs about the Executive Order, WRITTEN TWO DAYS AGO, except for TPM, where Joshua says stay tuned for some HUGE breaking news in The Post!
AJ Fan, you broke it, here at C&L.
Kudo's hoss . . and thanks for the heads up.
Like I said, can't WAIT to see how the blogs handle this one . . this is big stuff.
Good luck to each and every Patriot and Progressive out there . . . we're gonna need it.
Site Monitor: Did you scroll down the homepage before accusing us of ignoring a story?
welcome to the unamerica
Has anyone seen my Constitution? It seems to have gone missing. I found a piece of paper that looked like it, but the words had been changed - some were missing, and others had been added (and it looked like someone had used it to wipe themselves).
If anyone sees my Constitution or knows its whereabouts, or if you can remember the words, please post the information here.
Thanks
Libertysghost at #107
Were you thanking FriarTuck for the book that I had recommended to him, that is "Why do People Hate America" by Sardar and Davies?
My hat is off to you, Keith. You are a true American patriot.
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