Lemony Zest :: Kim Lewandowski

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I heard a really sickening story on NPR the other day. Can’t get it out of my mind. It was about “honor killings” in Iraq, where, if a woman is raped, or even *suspected* of having been raped, the men in her family can murder her, with no repercussions. To maintain their “honor.”

Here’s a link to the story: Concern Grows over Iraqi ‘Honor Killings’.

Is this what we’re fighting for in Iraq? These people whose values are so alien from our own? What on Earth could have possessed Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Feith, et al, to think that starting a war there was a good idea?

No matter when we pull our troops out, I think it will end up as a civil war, with Iran helping the more conservative elements take control. For this, we sacrificed thousands of American and other troops, not to mention the tens of thousands of Iraqis who were killed or traumatized by what we have done to their country. It’s just disgusting, the entire thing.

My dad sent me this, from Andy Borowitz, humorist:

Bush Calls ‘Plan For Victory’ Slogan A Success
Vows to Create Additional Slogans to Defeat Insurgents

One day after making a speech on Iraq at the United States Naval Academy in front of a giant placard reading “Plan For Victory,” President George W. Bush pronounced the “Plan For Victory” slogan an unqualified success.

“Much time, thought and effort went into creating the ‘Plan For Victory’ slogan,” Mr. Bush said today at a White House press conference. “I think we can all agree that the hard work that went into that slogan has really paid off.”

Read the rest.

More at The Borowitz Report

I don’t have time to comment on this right now, but I wanted to save the URL, so check it out:

No Paper Trail Left Behind: the Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election

From http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20051104-1626-cnssummit.html, on Friday in Venezuela:

In a brief question-and-answer session with reporters later, Bush said he would be civil in anticipation of a possible face-to-face meeting with Chavez during the two-day summit.

“I will, of course, be polite. That’s what the American people expect their president to do, is to be a polite person,” Bush said.

I don’t know about you, but I expect a helluva lot more than politeness from the president, like, maybe a minimum knowledge of diplomacy. Does he really not realize how idiotic he sounds when he talks like this?

I’m joining MQABlog in applauding Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid for using a parliamentary maneuver to force the Senate to investigate the possible (?) misuse of intelligence in leading the country into the war in Iraq. Way to go, Harry!

On “Left, Right, and Center” on NPR, Bob Scheer said today that one of the consequences of Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper refusing to testify meant that information they had about when Lewis Libby talked to them was not available to the American public before the election last year. If they had testified, and Libby had been indicted a year ago, John Kerry would now be the president. So their refusal to testify, and fulfill their obligations as journalists to get vital information to the public, resulted in Bush’s re-election.

Or would you have voted for Bush anyway, even if one of his top advisers was indicted?

Way to “restore honesty and integrity to the White House.,” George.

Let me know what you think in the comments.