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BiPartisan Commission in the Offing

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004

President Bush will establish a bipartisan commission in the next few days to examine American intelligence operations, including a study of possible misjudgments about Iraq’s unconventional weapons, senior administration officials said Sunday.

NY Times 2-2-04

I don’t know why exactly, but I’m not really interested in reading the Lieberman / Rumsfeld Report. The fascinating thing here is that those with eyes to see can pretty well connect the dots on what happened (at least during the Bush Administration) with regards to Iraq, and it’s not terribly pretty. This should be as big a self-parody as the Hutton Report turned out to be.

For the conspiaranoid, check this one out:

Mr Bush will model his inquiry on the Warren Commission into President John F Kennedy’s death in 1963.

What are they trying to tell us there? Next thing they’ll be telling us that they’ve tapped Henry Kissinger to head the Investigation.

Suggestions being taken about other possible bipartisans tapped to look into apologetics for the further obfusication of the run-up to war.
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Ted Rall’s blog covering Clintonian inanities.

Do NOT EAT THE BABY

Monday, February 2nd, 2004

George W. Bush is shaking the public’s hands after a campaign fundraiser. Somebody hands him a baby.

George W. Bush looks closely at the baby. He licks his lips, and brings his mouth close to the baby. His thoughts, “MUST… RESIST… URGE… TO EAT.”

Meanwhile, Karl Rove is watching on a closed-circuit television. A microphone is rigged into Bush’s ear to guide Bush. Karl Rove is having a conniption fit.

“Georgie… DO NOT EAT THE BABY! I REPEAT: DO NOT EAT THE BABY!!”

Bush mouths the code “Kluggrat Kopa”, which translated means “Popping the bubble-wrapping”, idiomatically meaning essentially “I know I shouldn’t, but LOOK AT IT!”

George Bush is able to pull back at the last minute, and after kissing the baby hands it back to its mother.

Karl Rove breathes a sigh of relief.

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Apologies to Rick Emerson.