W.R. Pitt´s Christmas wish

25 Dec 2002 | W.R. Pitt

[Michael81Dus]

Well, a bit lately but funny:

All I Want for Christmas By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Christmas Day -- Wednesday, December 25, 2002

I want to see the proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before we engage in a war that will send tens of thousands of civilians to their deaths, enrage the Muslim world against us, grievously wound the American economy, and guarantee more terrorism here at home. I am sure the Bush administration's incontrovertible proof that these weapons exist is a sheaf of shipping manifests from roundabout 1984, when we sent the stuff to Saddam in the first place, but I want to see it anyway.

I want to hear about the endgame for our Iraq war. Who will rule in Saddam's place, and how will that person be an improvement? How will the Shiites and Kurds be represented and protected? How long will American forces have to be there? How much will it cost? Who gets the payout from the oil fields? How much of this war is based upon business decisions? Will we stop at Iraq, or will we move on to Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Egypt in the manner that Richard Perle has often envisioned?

I want to know what happened on September 11th, and why, and who messed up. This does not count as a gift - as a citizen, I am owed this, and so are you.

I want to know what was in the smallpox shot Bush got. Was it distilled water or Maker's Mark?

I want to watch John Ashcroft pet a calico cat with a big grin on his face.

I want to know how Jose Padilla and the Guantanamo detainees are celebrating the season. They are not Christian, true, but they are people being held like cattle with nary a mention of basic rights. Maybe someone could send them a fruitcake with the ACLU's telephone number frosted across the top.

I want a nationally known journalist - any journalist - to begin the process of calling the Bush administration to account for its dizzying malfeasance. Enron, Halliburton, Harken, Arthur Andersen, Eli Lilly, Carlyle and O my Lord how the money rolled in. I want the Fairness Doctrine's reestablishment to be a lynchpin policy goal for a Democratic candidate in 2004. I want my free press back.

I want to know where the anthrax killer is.

I want to know where Osama bin Laden is.

I want to know if the two of them are living in sin with Amelia Earhardt somewhere in the suburbs of Paris. We can bomb Paris, right? We can bomb anyone.

I want to know what happened to Paul Wellstone's airplane.

I want 55% of Americans to vote in the 2004 Presidential election. 55% is not such a big goal; only 50% voted in 2000, and something like 39% voted in the 2002 midterms. Let's shoot for a 55% I-give-a-good-damn quotient, America. What do you say? When you don't vote, the terrorists win - the foreign ones, and the domestic ones.

Finally, I want every single soul in the Bush administration to read the following lines. I want them to pay close attention to the words in bold:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

This we call precedent, set by the Founders for all time in the Declaration of Independence. This we call our right as citizens.

Merry Christmas.

[redbaiter]

I want to know what was in the smallpox shot Bush got.

Some people still do not comprehend that George W Bush is the genuine article. That he says what he means, means what he says, and that he is a leader who won't ask of others what he would not do himself. Twenty years ago I would have felt sorry for Pitt. Today I feel only contempt.

[TLBSHOW]

PITT IS A ANTI-AMERICA PIECE OF TRASH HERE IS HIS ANTI-AMERICAN FRIENDS


http://traprockpeace.org/stopwar2002.html

[TLBSHOW]

PITT ALERT

[Monty22]

Argh.. What a painful website, and not just the images.

[Michael81Dus]

I fully agree with your post.
And even I´ve to admit that some of his decisions seem very strange and not understandable from a European view.
But Bush seems to be honest (well he´s a politician, who can be sure?), and he in fact is no opportunistic chameleon. He got my respect after Sept 11 when he reacted well thought-out and calm. From that moment I knew that he´s no danger. But he also is no diplomat, that´s why many here are concerned about him. His foreign policy is completely different to Clintons ...
I´m sure he will be on the right side in the Iraq question.

[TLBSHOW]

DISGUSTING

[dwilli]

He's a regular poster on Democrats.com,nothing more than another of the left wing fools over there

[finnman69]

What's funny is Pitt does not believ Scott Ritter when he says this is not about oil, but believes all the other things Ritter has to say.

[willieroe]

Now I just bookmark Accuweather.com and I guess I'll get rooked into paying the monthly fee that they are getting ready to impose....

Try the NWS website for your local area. The webpage loads fast, no popups, no in-your-face ads.

[TLBSHOW]

What's funny is Pitt does not believ Scott Ritter when he says this is not about oil, but believes all the other things Ritter has to say.

we can always ask him what is up with that? LOL

you know those fake freepers that are really rats here.

[SamAdams76]

Thanks for that link. Here is a link for obtaining the actual discussion of NWS personnel about weather in your particular state.

[litehaus]

For those kind of questions, the man should learn to pray for answers, but I suspect that prayer is alien to him....

[Timesink]

OK,I'll second this one.

You do realize, I hope, that that's a total urban legend. Just another Ashcroft-hater lie made up out of whole cloth by the left.

[doug from upland]

The man is an idiot.

[dixiechick2000]

"But he also is no diplomat, that´s why many here are concerned about him. His foreign policy is completely different to Clintons ..."

That's why we like him. He doesn't speak out of both sides of his mouth. When he says something, we know that he means it. Clinton can't be trusted to tell the truth. I'll never understand why Europeans like Clinton. He's totally untrusworthy.

President Bush is the genuine article...

[Rocko]

"All I want for Christmas is a new foil hat."

[section9]

Now I got as far as "I want to know what happened to Paul Wellstone's airplane..." before I figured that this was just another rant from a self-important ass.

Pitt is a pretentious bullshit artist, like most members of the chattering classes. One time someone posted an absolutely awful screed of his titled "God Sees the Freepers". At bottom, it was a condescending bit of flapdoodle designed to point out that the Freepers weren't right with God. During his bitchfest, Pitt related the story of his very moral, solidly Republican father who would not recognize the Extreme Right Wing Republican Party of Today.

I guess he had issues with Dad.

Anyhoo, apparently God has a huge problem with Freepers jamming online polls. At least, according to Pitt.

Anyway, I don't even go on DU or Capitol Grill to smack this ass-clown around. A pretentious ass is a pretentious ass, and while that may be tautological, it sure as hell is the truth.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[thepitts]

You do realize, I hope, that that's a total urban legend. Just another Ashcroft-hater lie made up out of whole cloth by the left.

I gather the urban legend is that Ashcroft doesn't like cats? I did not know that.

[ErnBatavia]

Barf alert means "laughing alert""?

You ain't seen nothing yet....just wait until you get to the "XXX Projectile Vomiting Alerts".

[Timesink]

I gather the urban legend is that Ashcroft doesn't like cats? I did not know that.

The urban legend is that something about Ashcroft being terrified of calico cats because, according to his Church, the Assemblies of God, calicos are somehow directly connected to Satan. The only problem is, the AoG hold no such belief whatsoever.

I tracked down the source of this entire thing and posted a thread about it many months ago. I don't remember exactly where it it came from at the moment, but I do remember it was the from the weblog of a Bush-hating RAT operative, who claimed some underling of Ashcroft told him so. Then a far more popular RAT site picked it up and it spread like wildfire. The only intent of it was to make Ashcroft look like a religious psychopath.

The story about Ashcroft "clothing the nude statues" at the Jusice Department are similarly false and come from roughly the same source. It's all standard-issue DNC politics of personal destruction.