The Neo-Con Con(artist)vention wrap-up

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I'll begin with Zell Miller, and I will end things tonight with Zell Miller. To start things off, a bit of a cut and paste job from The Washington Post (since I don't want to make you folks have to go through their registration process) about the Neo-Con version of John Kerry and the John Kerry that actually exists here on planet Earth:

• Kerry did not cast a series of votes against individual weapons systems, as Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) suggested in a slashing convention speech in New York late Wednesday, but instead Kerry voted against a Pentagon spending package in 1990 as part of deliberations over restructuring and downsizing the military in the post-Cold War era.

• Both Vice President Cheney and Miller have said that Kerry would like to see U.S. troops deployed only at the direction of the United Nations, with Cheney noting that the remark had been made at the start of Kerry's political career. This refers to a statement made nearly 35 years ago, when Kerry gave an interview to the Harvard Crimson, 10 months after he had returned from the Vietnam War angry and disillusioned by his experiences there. (President Bush at the time was in the Air National Guard, about to earn his wings.)

• President Bush, Cheney and Miller faulted Kerry for voting against body armor for troops in Iraq. But much of the funding for body armor was added to the bill by House Democrats, not the administration, and Kerry's vote against the entire bill was rooted in a dispute with the administration over how to pay for $20 billion earmarked for reconstruction of Iraq. (Italics mine, of course)

Cheney, at the time defense secretary, had scolded Congress for keeping alive such programs as the F-14 and F-16 jet fighters that he wanted to eliminate. Miller said in his speech that Kerry had foolishly opposed both the weapons systems and would have left the military armed with "spitballs." During that same debate, President George H.W. Bush, the current president's father, proposed shutting down production of the B-2 bomber -- another weapons system cited by Miller -- and pledged to cut defense spending by 30 percent in eight years.

Though Miller recited a long list of weapons systems, Kerry did not vote against these specific weapons on the floor of the Senate during this period. Instead, he voted against an omnibus defense spending bill that would have funded all these programs; it is this vote that forms the crux of the GOP case that he "opposed" these programs.

Speaking of bald-faced liars, we move now to Der Gropenfuhrer, Ahnuld. It seems that - and this should be no surprise - his convention speech was full of more bullshit than a cattle ranch. Don't believe me? Go here and check this article out.

But we have we reached the depths of slime? Of course we haven't, these are Neo-Cons!

Point one - This little tidbit, which I (and many, many others) reported on earlier in the day about the miserable scum wearing the Purple Heart bandaids. If I see so much as one person wearing that tripe, they'll need more than a bandaid, they'll need a full body cast.

Point two - It seems that two of the Swift Boat Liars were appointed by the Bush administration to a panel advising the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The former POWs in the ad, Kenneth Cordier and Paul Galanti, serve on the VA's 12-member Former POW Advisory Committee. VA Secretary Anthony Principi appointed Cordier in 2002 and Galanti in 2003.

Cordier said the VA panel has nothing to do with the Bush campaign or the anti-Kerry group. "It's totally apolitical, and we meet twice a year to bring to the secretary's attention problems from around the country in VA hospitals," he said. (The full story is here.)

Point three: The deaths of at least 200 people in a Russian hostage standoff were used by that bottom dwelling pile of human sewage who currently resides at 1600 Pennsyvania Avenue today in his address in West Allis, wherever the hell that is (ed note: Wisconsin, apparently).

"And finally, in Russia, hundreds of agonized parents are worried about the fate of their children. This is yet another grim reminder of the lengths to which terrorists will go to threaten the civilized world."

I barely have the words to convey how vile I find it that this so-called human being is using the misery of this horrible Russian situation for political capital. I don't suppose I should be surprised, though. I mean, his party went to New York in defiance of all logic so they could engage in political necrophilia on a truly mind boggling scale.

Point four - A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in jails such as Abu Ghraib. Witnesses claim that the detainees – some as young as 10 – are also being subjected to rape and torture.

IF this turns out to be true.. there's just no words. I simply can't give expression to how this would make me feel.

Ending on a much more amusing(?) note, I give you Ken Layne's venom-spewing polemic against Zell Miller. I've got three words for you, folks.

Ho. Lee. SHIT.



That's the news and I am outta here!

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[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the updates, mate