If the Bush administration won't admit error even when it abducts a completely innocent person and sends him to Syria to be tortured for almost a year, when will it?

The question isn't "How will history treat W?" it is "How will the prison guards treat him?"

War Room - Salon.com

But the agreement explicitly gives the president "the authority for the United States to interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions."

This is an utterly collossal fuck up. Bush and Cheney have already demonstrated they are not to be trusted with the keys to the damn bathroom, much less with how the Geneva Conventions are applied.

The CIA has been torturing prisoners and W approved it. That's called a war crime.

CNN.com - Deal on detainee treatment quells GOP revolt - Sep 21, 2006

A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers.

This is a combination of the stupidest and most offensive thing I think I've seen in a while. Let's ignore that the Democrats and "Dixiecrats" split about 50 years ago, and let's ignore that those same pieces of crap are now the "base," we're going to do anything we can, lie, cheat, steal, whatever, to see if we can win.

Go to Hell.
Go directly to Hell.
Do not pass Go!
Do not collect $200.

Black Republicans run racially tinged ad - Yahoo! News

At the time, Bush administration officials denied that they did any micromanaging of media requests for interviews. But a large batch of e-mails obtained by Salon through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that the White House was, in fact, controlling access to scientists and vetting reporters.

I think the quote speaks for itself.

Climate-controlled White House | Salon News

“When the door was opened and the trooper began to speak to the driver, he smelled the strong odor of marijuana,” the news release said. A search of the bus produced 1½ pounds of marijuana and 0.2 pounds of narcotic mushrooms, according to state police.

Willie Nelson and pot? Gee there's a surprise. Narcotic mushrooms? Now that's news to me, and to anyone else familiar with either the medical or legal terminology. Medically, narcotics refer only to opium, opium derivatives (like morphine and heroin) and their synthetically created chemical cousins. Legally, "narcotics" means those drugs plus cocaine and coca derivatives. Are we looking at psilocybin mushrooms which are a schedule 1 controlled substance? That's possible, but unless some botanist has been very busy, and with the opium poppy being a flower and mushrooms being a fungus maybe doing some groundbreaking genetics, there ain't no such thing as a "narcotic mushroom."

Willie Nelson cited for pot, narcotic mushrooms - Celebrity News - MSNBC.com

Or imagine a Middle East with an Iran with a nuclear weapon threatening free nations and trying to promote their vision of extremism through Hezbollah.

I think we've been down this road with Iraq. It was crap then and it's crap now. The most destabilizing government on the planet right now is headed by W. He's made Afghanistan into a total mess, and worse than it was before, Iraq into a bloodbath and worse than it was before, is no longer interested in going after bin Laden, but instead is pushing for war in Iran.

Thirty years ago Nixon and Kissenger put into play the Madman Theory of foreign relations. Make the other side think you're crazy and they'll give you more space to move in. I don't think W is playing the theory, from every indication, he is completely earnest in his insane pronouncements.

Osama bin Laden cannot destroy America. He can blow up buildings, maybe airplanes, cars, buses, and if he gets lucky, he can kill a lot of people. The only ones who can destroy America is We the People, and we are doing it. We are throwing away our liberty and our moral core to satisfy the self-rightous god-inspired delusions of a mono-maniacal dolt who couldn't even figure out how to field a winning baseball team. He is trying to sell us a bill of goods, and it's the same bill of goods he already sold us last time.

Here's hoping for regime change in the November election.

Bush in the Rose Garden.

In traditional U.S. Army slang dating back to the Second World War, a blivet was defined as "ten pounds of manure in a five pound bag," (a proverbial description of anything egregiously ugly or unmanageable); it was applied to an unmanageable situation, a crucial but substandard or damaged tool, or a self-important person.

Today's word for the day! As used in the which is a bigger blivet? Bush trying to redefine the Geneva Conventions to allow what we've been doing to people we've been doing to people at places like Gitmo, Bagram and the secret prisons, or Bush for trying to do so?

Blivet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"I will resist any bill that does not enable this program to go forward with legal clarity," Bush told reporters back at the White House after his meeting with lawmakers."

I think there already is legal clarity on this. It's illegal.

Bush lobbies Congress on terror suspects - Yahoo! News

"This is like prewar Iraq all over again," said David Albright, a former nuclear inspector who is president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. "You have an Iranian nuclear threat that is spun up, using bad information that's cherry-picked and a report that trashes the inspectors."

The committee report, written by a single Republican staffer with a hard-line position on Iran, chastised the CIA and other agencies for not providing evidence to back assertions that Iran is building nuclear weapons.

Maybe they're not providing the evidence because according to everyone in intel and at IAEA, they're not building them.

U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel - washingtonpost.com

And anyone who claims that I and others like me are "soft", or have "forgotten" the lessons of what happened here — is at best a grasping, opportunistic, dilettante — and at worst, an idiot — whether he is a commentator, or a Vice President, or a President.
However. Of all the things those of us who were here five years ago could have forecast — of all the nightmares that unfolded before our eyes, and the others that unfolded only in our minds… none of us could have predicted… this.
Five years later this space… is still empty.
Five years later there is no Memorial to the dead.
Five years later there is no building rising to show with proud defiance that we would not have our America wrung from us, by cowards and criminals.
Five years later this country’s wound is still open.
Five years… later this country’s mass grave is still unmarked.
Five years later… this is still… just a background for a photo-op.
It is beyond shameful.

Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you