The Bush Doctrine's Logical Conclusion

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The idea [of the Bush Doctrine] was that the US had the right to attack and invade other countries and change their governments because we thought they, or their proxies, or just a splinter-group of their citizens, might possibly be a threat to our citizens in the future. And if you explore that idea to it's logical conclusion you would have to agree that accepting the Bush Doctrine means you agree that the US can kill large numbers of innocent civilians in these countries, and wound and dislocate many many more. We can do this to people who never did us any harm, because our current leaders want to protect us from what their future leaders might do at some unspecified future date. Just collateral damage, don't you know.

Well, since we've built our logical case to this point, let's follow it to it's ineluctable conclusion: If that's all OK on a government to government level, it must be OK on a personal level too. And there it is: Cheney's torture policy is just the Bush Doctrine for individuals. The (evil) genius of it is that he's found a way to indefinitely extend the ticking time-bomb scenario. If we can invade other countries and kill and maim their citizens because of something their leaders might do, then surely we can do the same to individuals who may not know of any time-bombs currently ticking, but who might know of someone else who might start a bomb ticking at some future date.

Sigh

This is not why I voted for you, Barack.

God Dammit

The NHL is a fucking joke. What a fucking crock of shit.

Grrrrrr

Hopefully I will start writing again, but this:

RICE: I just said, the United States was told, we were told, nothing that violates our obligations under the Convention Against Torture. And so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.

is fucking infuriating, for obvious reasons.

Nixon was wrong, moron!

Again!

The White House Press Corps is amazingly stupid.

That is all.

The White House Press Corps

So I'm pretty sure the White House Press Corps managed to ask three questions in an hour with Robert Gibbs.

1) OMG you're losing on cable news, how will you ever recover?
Gibbs: You're a bunch of morons, you know that?

2) OMG you're speaking to Iran directly. Oh noes?
Gibbs: Seriously, morons.

3) OMG CBO says budget deficit is bigger than OMB! Are you doomed?
Gibbs: Listen, we are optimistic that growth will happen before the CBO projects it to happen. Now could someone ask a question that is not one of these three?

Press Corps: Well, why is the President such a bastard and mocking Special Olympians?
Gibbs: Jesus, fuck you guys I'm gonna go watch the NCAA Tournament.

Wooooooo

We're in the friggin' Tournament!