Hey, um...

[WilliamPitt]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/182862.php

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/182868.php

Iran.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Day-um.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/11/fallon-resigns-as-mideast_n_90998.html

[femmedem]

2. Aw shit. Dad's home.

But joking aside, from the link:

"Fallon was considered by many to be the one man standing between Dick Cheney and bombing Iran. So in the short term, Fallon's resignation raises concerns about our future policy towards Iran (and as Spencer Ackerman notes, those concerns are likely to be greatest in Iran itself). So much for the return to mainstream foreign policy that was going to be led by Bob Gates and Condi Rice.

In the long-term, Fallon's resignation -- in some ways forced, perhaps in other ways dictated by circumstance -- does much of the same damage to the Pentagon as has already been done to the Justice Department and the supposedly independent regulatory agencies. Defense Secretary Gates was supposed to be a bulwark against the White House's ongoing efforts to erode the Pentagon. But Fallon was apparently too independent. The White House wanted someone, as Esquire said, more pliable. Another Tommy Franks. And we all remember where that led."



Edited to redeem myself by adding some content.

[elizfeelinggreat]

3. hey, psst

SPITZER!

Boehner!

Look at this shiny distraction!

[file83]

23. Couldn't be timed better with a friggin' stopwatch.

[Kurovski]

4. Iran or bust.

K&R

[Jacobin]

5. It would certainly get Bush back in the headlines, now wouldn't it?

I think his churlish ass is peeved that the new presidential contenders are getting all the attention.
The neo cons would love it

[spanone]

6. junior is installing his yes man - this is a pattern and not a good one....iran

[yellerpup]

7. This is the real news today.

I've been counting on the real military minds to prevent the Chimperor from going bananas in the last few months of his trip around the bowl until he disappears into the septic tank. Fallon I trusted. He can't be the only one who refuses to f*** the country on the chicken-hawk-in chief's say so.

[ixion]

8. get ready for quagmire number 3

and most certainly the crushing blow that will leave this country corrupt and destitute for decades to come.

[PDJane]

9. As soon as I heard Fallon had quit,

I figured there was an invasion of Iran and/or another terrorist attack in the works.

Looks as though that's the general opinion. Sanity is rather rare in this administration.

[suffragette]

10. .

:scared:

[Jacobin]

11. This could be good for McCain, if they time it correctly

Get all warmongery, get the idiot populace beating the drums of war, have McCain get a woody about it, have Obama and Hillary figure out what to say that won't get them beat in the election.

I say the probabilities with these psychos at the helm are very high that they will bomb Iran, to try to keep the neocons in power

[Senator]

12. Marshall's "Big Picture" Is Downright Comical

Sorry for the gallows humor, but...

It is widely believed in media and political circles that despite the difficulties in Iraq and Afghanistan, American foreign policy is back under some kind of adult/mainstream management. In other words, that we've left the Cheney/Rumsfeld era behind for a period of Gates/Rice normalcy and that Iran regime change adventurism is safely off the table. But put together what the disagreements with Fallon were about, the fact that the president chose him as someone he thought he could work with not more than one year ago, and the almost unprecedented nature of the resignation and it becomes clear that that assumption must be gravely in error.

Imagine that. The conventional whizdumb of the DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy is diametrically opposite of reality?

I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.

This delusion Marshall shares with so many -- that there is some substantive, moral, patriotic option other than immediate impeachment for these beyond-war-criminals (yes, damn the imagined political torpedoes) -- remains curable only by a competent Cranial-Rectoscopist.

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[badgerpup]

34. "whizdumb"....

:applause:

Hadn't seen that one before...may I appropriate it?
It's...beautiful! :bounce:

[Senator]

35. Feel free to spread it...

...as I think it does quite specifically capture the nature of DC-based "strategerists."

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[iris5426]

13. Rec #10....thanks for sharing

Once again the media has us focused on some other shiny object while something diabolical is going on in the background. Sometimes I wish I didn't care enough to pay attention...maybe ignorance is bliss, at least in a very convoluted way...

[pleah]

14. We are in for it!

Godless Warmongering Bastard and Dickless Chaney are at it again.

[bigtree]

15. yup

legacy

[annabanana]

16. So the next time the Maladministration ramps up the rhetoric

on Iran... Who will talk the idiot away from the edge?

[lonestarnot]

17. kick

[lonestarnot]

18. kick

[lonestarnot]

19. kick

[lonestarnot]

20. kick

[lonestarnot]

21. What the hell was that? One little kick turned into 4? Is DU freaking out tonight?

[Auntie Bush]

22. Bomb, bomb, bomb...bomb Iran!

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. On the bright side, GD-P may start paying attention after the elections are suspended

and I am serious. Several of us consider this another step to canceling the elections and oh yes, not letting go of power

[bobthedrummer]

25. I concur.

[merh]

26. GWB's farewell song

The secret video taken at the Gridiron Club's banquet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkia2koXQeU&feature=related

Sung to the tune of "The Green Green Grass of Home"

Yes you’re all gonna miss me the way you used to quiz me
it’s good to touch the brown brown grass of home

I spend my days clearing brush
I clear my head of all the fuss
Like the fuss you made over Harriet and Brownee

Down the lane I look and here comes Scooter finally free of the prosecutor
it’s good to touch the brown brown grass of home

And then I wake and look around me at the oval walls that surround me
and I realize I was only dreaming
for there is Condi and Dick, my old compadre,
talking to me about some oil rich Saudi

But soon I’ll touch the brown brown grass of home

Yes you’re all gonna miss me the way you used to quiz me
But soon I’ll touch the brown brown grass of home

~skip~

Down the lane I look and Cheney’s strolling
with documents he's been withholding
it’s good to touch the brown brown grass of home

Yes you’re all gonna miss me the way you used to diss me
But soon I’ll touch the brown brown grass of home.

Articles
http://www.wjno.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=244038&article=3387346

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jqmwmAem2FVExHLkut_QhCMsF_Tw

His speech after his performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbCkC4OyTV4&eurl=http://www.wjno.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=244038&article=3387346

[Swamp Rat]

27. Before his term is up:

[TML]

28. If he fell on his sword

then who's hand pushed him in between his shoulder blades?

[David Zephyr]

29. And we have Kyle/Lieberman all tidy and ready.

How convenient.

[progressoid]

30. yawn

Actual news: http://www.rte.ie/arts/2008/0312/timberlakej.html

[Zorra]

31. War as an economic stimulus package. The only idea republicans

have for "fixing" the economy.

[LSK]

32. except we have been at "war" for years

So how come that didn't prevent the recession?

[Zorra]

33. It did, temporarily...now they need another one to get them through Bu*h's term. n/t