Mr. Bush: before you try to fool us: 118 Shiites and 9 US troops killed by SUNNI bombs

Mr. Bush and semi-president Cheney are going to try to make us believe that the “surge” is succeeding “in Baghdad” and that the Shiites (and the Iranians), rather than the Sunnis, are killing our kids in Iraq. Don’t buy it.

At least 118 Shiite pilgrims were slaughtered in attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, sparking fears of reprisals that could frustrate efforts by Iraqi and US forces to quell sectarian violence.
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In one attack in Salaheddin province on Monday, six soldiers from Task Force Lightning died “as a result of injuries sustained following an explosion near their vehicles” and three more were wounded, a statement said.
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…the Sunni-dominated province of Salaheddin, which includes Tikrit,[home of Saddam Hussein]
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Three more Task Force Lightning troops were killed and one more wounded in a similar attack on the same day in Diyala province, also north of Baghdad…

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Al-Qaeda in Iraq has recently moved its base of operations from Anbar province to Diyala. During late 2006 Baqubah and much of the Diyala province were reported to have come under Sunni insurgent control. [1] This insurgent control is reported to have continued as of early 2007 [2]

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Let’s get it straight, okay, Mr. Bush? Sunnis are killing our kids, in spite of the fact that your anti-democratic pals, the Saudis, are Sunnis. Mr. al-Sadr is not doing this. The Shiites are not doing this. Iran is not doing this. The Sunnis are doing it. Are we clear?

I always confuse I. Scooter Libby with G. Gordon Liddy; now it’s gonna be even tougher to tell em apart

image of G. Gordon Liddy, (not to be confused with fellow felon I. Scooter Libby.)

Scooter Libby has been convicted in Federal Court of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and one count of false statement to the FBI.

For his role in Watergate, which he coordinated with Hunt, Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping, and received a 20-year sentence. He served four and a half years in prison before his sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.

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Of course, I also confuse Scooter’s boss, Dick Cheney, with the old creepy actor Lon Cheney. Can’t imagine why.

image of Phantom of the Opera, played by Lon Chaney, not to be confused with fellow creep Dick Cheney

Tuesdays at the Rapture: shorting “satanic attacks on farm animals”

image of Steve Martin as Theodoric of York

The Rapture Index is getting boring. I’m beginning to wonder if there really is anything to this idea of a Rapture Index; maybe (hush, my beating heart) the whole Rapture concept is flawed…maybe god is loving, friendly, and forgiving….maybe he’s not petty and vengeful…maybe he has a plan to save every single one of us poor ignorant sinners…

NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!

Anyway, to make this Index a little more interesting, I think I may have to start treating it like the stock market:

“The Index drifted up one point on news of higher oil prices, after several weeks of “prophet”-taking.”

Now about these damned Satanic attacks on farm animals….I googled that and there don’t seem to have been any since September. I’m not sure what time frame we need here….but this category has got to start going down soon…..I am hereby going short on this category, and I’d suggest you do the same. Sell the May contracts….. Make hay before the rapture comes, that’s my motto.

Countdown to US attack on Iran: x minus 25 days: the “opposition” party.

It is not that there isn’t vocal opposition to an attack on Iran; but most of the statements are coming from the second tier of Democratic leaders: Jim Webb, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich, John Murtha, Joe Biden perhaps; and there are the few obligatory calls for negotiations, which Bush will put to rest with a gesture or two like the ‘neighbors’ meeting on March 10.

But with statements like the following from the Democratic presidential candidates on the record, how can the Democrats make any real noise if Bush bombs Iran? We are into the presidential election cycle, and no major candidate dares to run the risk of being accused of being a weakling by Ann Coulter, or losing the suport of AIPAC. Impeachment, for example, as suggested by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel today in Esquire, would be a complete nonstarter.

Here’s the record (really only a partial list):

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) accused the Bush administration of playing down the threat of a nuclear Iran and called for swift action at the United Nations to impose sanctions on the Iranian government.The senator’s statements, in which she said the administration should make it clear that all options remain on the table for dealing with the Iranians, came during a speech about the Middle East on Wednesday night at Princeton University. She criticized the White House for turning the problem over to European nations and said Iran must never be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons.
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Senate candidate Barack Obama suggested Friday that the United States one day might have to launch surgical missile strikes into Iran and Pakistan to keep extremists from getting control of nuclear bombs.
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Senator John Kerry echoed this sentiment on May 29, 2004, when he told the Washington Post that the Bush Administration has not “been tough on the [Iran] issue … which is the issue of nuclear weaponry, and again just like I said with North Korea, you have to keep your eye on the target.”
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Al Gore also complained of Middle Eastern countries (aside from Israel, of course) not taking the Iran nuclear threat seriously enough. “Is it only for the West to say this is dangerous?” Gore asked. “We should have more people in this region saying this is dangerous.”
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… Democrats are not going to let Bush get to their right. At the Herzliya Conference, John Edwards said that keeping Iran from nuclear weapons “is the greatest challenge of our generation.” “To ensure that Iran never gets nuclear weapons, we need to keep all options on the table. Let me reiterate—all options.”

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The Democratic Party will not be able to make any serious effort to stop an attack on Iran.

Malkin, CNN ignore fact that Walter Reed problems due to privatization

Characteristic of the Bush administration: take a good service/department, appoint incompetent cronies, privatize services, do a bad job, then say that “government can’t do the job.”

Lou Dobbs and Wolf Blitzer pontificated all day about Walter Reed and never uttered a word about the root cause: privatization.

Here’s the scoop on Michele Malkin’s dopiness.