Fitz!

Joking, obviously your readers don’t like that kind of kibitzing!

I cannot figure out why anyone pays the least bit of attention to John Bolton. He has been wrong forever, and continues to embarrass our nation by speaking in international forums. They just invite him to laugh at him (and us) and he totally accomodates.

Fortunately for him, he had a penthouse in the Waldorf Astoria on our dime while UN Ambassador, without even the veneer of the 109th approval.

Only if MILF means Maniacs I’d Like to Fire into the sun on Watertiger’s Rocket!

Mustache asphyxiation can’t be this uncommon.

Oh. Moy. Gawd!

And MILF means ‘Manhattanite IsraeL Fanatic’, aka Pamela Oshriek Geller.

Seriously, unless Bolton is still getting raw intel fresh from the bone, as he did when at State, his opinion’s worth no more (and probably much less) than Beckham and Satchmo’s.

Are you suggesting his opinion when he was getting raw intel was worth more than Beckham and Satchmo’s?

From the column:
:::Too much of the intelligence community is engaging in policy formulation rather than “intelligence” analysis, and too many in Congress and the media are happy about it. President Bush may not be able to repair his Iran policy (which was not rigorous enough to begin with) in his last year, but he would leave a lasting legacy by returning the intelligence world to its proper function.:::

Sure sounds like he’s still ready to be making policy with reckless disregard for the facts. And his previous use of raw data may have been targeted towards other objectives. (Congress never did get the documents on Bolton’s fishing trips in to the raw data.)

Manhattanite IsraeL Fanatic

Manhattanite?! Oh my heavens, no; Pam is strictly B&T.

I cannot figure out why anyone pays the least bit of attention to John Bolton. He has been wrong forever, and continues to embarrass our nation by speaking in international forums. They just invite him to laugh at him (and us) and he totally accomodates.

the real problem is they actually defer to his knowledge when he’s on

instead they need to laugh at him…democrats need a dialogue whenever bolton comes on teevee, even if they are not on with him, whenever his name is invoked democrats need to turn bolton into a laughing stock so to embarrass him from thinking people listen to anything he has to say

if on at the same time the should say things like this;

“you’re still at it, aren’t you, you and the rest of the maniacs in the pnac still think you can just make up whatever you want, say it with authority and people might actually still believe you.

you’ve been wrong on every assessment, your agenda is a failure, you have deliberately created unrest in the middle east for the sole purpose of stealing treasure and you want to steal even more treasure.

the problem is everyone knows they can bank on the opposite from anyting you say…the world at large has always been on to you and now Americans are on to you as well.

aren’t you embarrassed to be as wrong as krystol?

what kind of man has as little shame as you have, being wrong time after time, to come back and be wrong yet again.”

or something like that

He. Is. A. Jerk.
Nice new digs!

Bolton writes; “Fourth, the NIE suffers from a common problem in government: the overvaluation of the most recent piece of data.”

What might this overvalued piece of data be?

The estimable Juan Cole offers one possible answer atInformed Comment.

So what convinced the US intelligence community that Iran’s weapons program was long ago dismantled?

A prominent Iran specialist is suggesting on a private email list that very likely, it is explained by one name: Ali Reza Asghari.

Asghari had been head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon in the 1980s. He is someone who knows where all the bodies are buried with regard to Iranian covert operations, from involvement in the 1983 attack on the Marines in Beirut, to the training of the Badr Corps (now back in Iraq) and any Iran links to the Mahdi Army. Likewise he was allegedly privy to information on Iran’s nuclear research. He rose to be deputy minister of defense. It is alleged that around 2003 he was recruited by a foreign intelligence agency (very likely that of Turkey) as a spy. The Iranian authorities may have gotten wise to him in late 2006, forcing him abruptly to flee to Istanbul in early 2007.

Bolton exemplifies that old quote:
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.”

You got Beckham back on the tab! Now is there anyway I can go to the next post without going back to the main page? That’s the only complaint I have about the new place. Although I did enjoy the coziness of the beach house you used to live in.

Whoops, see the HTML tags don’t the same as at the old place. Apologies for not getting the quote from Juan Cole italicized.

Don’t be so hard on the man. With that soup-strainer there’s no chance of oxygen making it into Bolton’s nasal passages and into his brain.

Bolton is just yet another bit of evidence showing what happens when you enter government service with the idea that since all gummint is evil, incompetence and corruption on your part is justified. These guys are of the Elect, so it’s impossible for them to lose their slots in Heaven anyway, so they don’t care.

“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.”

We will bury you

Dennis, if you type in your text, then select all of it, you can use the Blockquote function (the ” in the grey menu bar) to blockquote. You can do the same thing with text you want to italicize.

It looks like this when done:

So what convinced the US intelligence community that Iran’s weapons program was long ago dismantled?

A prominent Iran specialist is suggesting on a private email list that very likely, it is explained by one name: Ali Reza Asghari.

Asghari had been head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon in the 1980s. He is someone who knows where all the bodies are buried with regard to Iranian covert operations, from involvement in the 1983 attack on the Marines in Beirut, to the training of the Badr Corps (now back in Iraq) and any Iran links to the Mahdi Army. Likewise he was allegedly privy to information on Iran’s nuclear research. He rose to be deputy minister of defense. It is alleged that around 2003 he was recruited by a foreign intelligence agency (very likely that of Turkey) as a spy. The Iranian authorities may have gotten wise to him in late 2006, forcing him abruptly to flee to Istanbul in early 2007.

By the way: The “Preview” function works over in the FDL side, but for some reason it’s not working for me here — though it is working for Pachachutec. I dunno what’s up, but I’ll let Siun (media.firedoglake@gmail.com) know, and if y’all run across anything weird (besides me), let her know, too.

Thank you! Other lands, other customs. The formatting looks very nice. I started coding HTML back in the day with Notepad and never broke the habit. I’ll play around with the grey menu. Heck, it may even make my posts look erudite!

“Shorter John Bolton,” that doesn’t leave much room there. I saw him once at Logan Airport, he is tiny. Maybe all his blustering is to compensate.

Aw, you guys are all just suffering from MDS (Mustache Derangement Syndrome).

TBoggs you are so right ” rage filled psychopathic chickenhawks” created and cherry picked the WMD intelligence and sent many loyal Americans into Iraq based on a “pack of lies”. 4 thousand dead American soldiers 30-40 thousand injured American soldiers, 1 million dead Iraqi people, who knows how many are injured, 4 million Iraqi refugees is the outcome.

Over at FDL Attaturk writes about Cheney” 1960: Dick attends Yale, having won a scholarship for his High School Senior thesis in late 1958 “Castro’s 26th of July Movement, an insurgency in its Last Throes”.

CHENEY WAS WRONG ABOUT CASTRO TOO

Christy Hardin Smith sure deserves time off. Although I sure do miss her encouraging folks to contact their Reps about their concerns.

For our country, for Justice, for Christy and each other CONTACT YOUR REPS!

Got MILF?

That’s just fuck-fuckity-fucking genius, and I don’t care what font it’s in, or if I gotta sign in to say so. The move: I’m over it. Gimme some hot basset action tonight and I’m good to go.

Re: the warmongering fascists that now run the show: saying “You can’t attack Iran” is the same as telling Walmart that they can’t sell a new product. It’s all business, you see. Most of us decent folks have a hard time grokking that.

Some a-hole swiped my name before I could get an account. Feh.

Yes, I am the Mnemosyne who posted at tbogg’s old place. I don’t know who the other one is.

Yosemite Sam Bolton, one of a chorus of conservative nutjobs polluting the WaPoo editorial page this morning (that liberal rag)has some misbegotten notion that he is relevant. Of course, the Fred Hiatts of the world perpetuate that myth by giving him oped space but the American public recognizes him for the raving lunatic that he is. I say let him continue to brand the neocon movement for the chicken-hawk warmongering xenophobes that they are. We’ll hang that anvil around the neck of the Gooper nominee for president as well as all the “Mean Jean Schmidt” House and Senate candidates as we move to a filibuster-proof majority next year.

Bring it on , John.

So will anyone any of the bloggers be brave enough to write about how A*P*C is turning up the inflammatory rhetoric about Iran. I doubt it

Go check out breaking news at the Jewish Telegraphic agency. Calling Ahmadinjad Hitler, etc.

IAF chief draws Iran-Hitler link

Published: 12/05/2007

The commander of the Israeli Air Force urged his top brass to consider Iran’s president a possible modern Hitler.

Maj.-Gen. Eliezer Shkedi recently distributed a letter to senior Air Force commanders in which he noted the similarities between Adolf Hitler’s pre-Holocaust rhetoric and the anti-Israel vitriol of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

“These statements, at this time, are becoming relevant in light of the direct and veiled threats of the Iranian president about the existence of the State of Israel,” read the letter, which was leaked to Yediot Achronot. “The words take on special meaning in light of Iran’s efforts to build its military nuclear capabilities and deliver systems the can reach Israel.

“We must remember and not forget. We must rely only on ourselves,” Shkedi concluded.

Shkedi is the Israeli military officer entrusted with contingency planning for a war with Iran, and his pilots have been training for long-range bombing runs. The Israeli Air Force is also in charge of missile defense systems.

Shkedi’s deputy, Brig.-Gen. Amir Eshel, led an F-15 warplane formation that flew over Auschwitz in 2003, a ceremony designed to underscore Israel’s vow to use military power to prevent a repeat of the Holocaust.
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Or how about this article at Forward

http://www.forward.com/articles/12203/

Intel Bombshell Sends Community Scrambling To Hold Line on Iran Threat
Israel Challenges U.S. Spies’ Report
By Marc Perelman
Wed. Dec 05, 2007

American Jewish groups are scrambling to reformulate their message on Iran following the release this week of a new American intelligence report that states with “high confidence” that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program four years ago.

In a conference call Tuesday hurriedly arranged by the umbrella body of Jewish organizations, communal leaders decided to immediately send letters to the presidential candidates from both parties, urging them to continue pushing for sanctions against Iran.

According to participants in the conference call, concern is high that the unexpected conclusions drawn in the National Intelligence Estimate not only may lead Washington to withdraw the threat of military action against Iran but may also erode the recently reached international consensus on pressuring Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

CALL YOUR REPS LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU EXPECT THEM TO HONOR THE NIE REPORT FINDINGS AND THE IAEA’S FINDINGS. NOT AIPAC’S WISHES

Perfect shorter. I went for longer, myself.

I’m still trying to figure out what the nutcracker on the right, in the graybar, is for.

KevinHayden December 6th, 2007 at 8:40 am
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I’m still trying to figure out what the nutcracker on the right, in the graybar, is for.

The three kinks in a chain is for hyper linking something
The ABC over the checkmark is Spell check.

Ha HA HA HA.
Guess I shoulda used the spell check.
Links in a chain.

Fuck.

Over at Emptywheel’s shop, Loo Hoo dropped off a lovely video of John Bolton getting his balls torn off by a BBC presenter, slowly and with great relish.

Are you suggesting his opinion when he was getting raw intel was worth more than Beckham and Satchmo’s?

Dearie me, no, forgive me. I meant ‘his claim to have insight’. And forgive me, also: though I was under the impression that La Pam lives on the island, she’s not of the island.

Over at Emptywheel’s shop, Loo Hoo dropped off a lovely video of John Bolton getting his balls torn off by a BBC presenter, slowly and with great relish.

Oh, do go watch it; it’s delicious. To see Dubya subjected to that sort of grilling; well, a guy can dream……..

Some a-hole swiped my name before I could get an account. Feh.
Yes, I am the Mnemosyne who posted at tbogg’s old place. I don’t know who the other one is.

If you registered that name at facebook, possible the other dude is you. Some with that problem were also advised address was in use @ FDL. G’luck.

I think it was Bill Maher who joked “how can you take a man seriously who has a mustache that doesn’t get along with his hair?”

Remember this dream?

Ask and you shall receive!

An d as a bonus, more Bolton mendacity

Pam has not aged well since her last vlog appearance. Too many apple-tinis? You be the judge….