The Hollywood Liberal

Anbar Picture Grows Clearer, and Bleaker

Washington Post
Excerpt:
The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda’s rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military’s mission in Anbar province.
The Marines recently filed an updated version of that assessment that stood by its conclusions and stated that, as of mid-November, the problems in troubled Anbar province have not improved, a senior U.S. intelligence official said yesterday. “The fundamental questions of lack of control, growth of the insurgency and criminality” remain the same, the official said.

H.Ls. Take:
There you have it from the U.S. Marines. The Iraq war in unwinnable. Bush went to war against a nation that he claimed would have been a cakewalk, and lost. He is them most incompetent President of all times. Hell he is the most incompentent human of all time. He refused to listen to the military Generals at the Pentagon because he didn’t care about winning or losing the war, he just wanted that oil, and to get those permanent military bases up. Hence, despite calls from all sides to end the quagmire debacle deathtrap, Bush Continues to spew the same rhetoric he has been since day one.

Bush says U.S. won’t pull out of Iraq

AP
Excerpt:
“There’s one thing I’m not going to do, I’m not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission is complete, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ” he said in a speech setting the stage for high-stakes meetings with the Iraqi prime minister later this week. “We can accept nothing less than victory for our children and our grandchildren.”

H.Ls. Take:
He means victory for HIS Children and Grandchildren, the rest of us will be paying off Bush’s 2 Billion Dollar a month ripoff of the United States for decades to come, while his family enjoys living in mansions, and going Yachting. In the meantime Bush’s Genocide of the Iraqi people continues

State of Emergency in Iraq Extended

Washington Post
Excerpt:
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Parliament voted unanimously Tuesday to extend Iraq’s state of emergency for 30 more days, and suspected Sunni insurgents set off bombs that killed eight people and wounded 40 across the country.
Sectarian violence has worsened, and two car bombs exploded Tuesday near a hospital morgue in Baghdad, killing three civilians and one policeman and wounding 19 civilians, a police officer said on condition of anonymity to protect his security. Insurgents kill many of the Iraqi security forces working with the U.S.-led coalition.

H.L.s Take:
Now even our mainstream media is calling it What it is

NBC calls Iraq conflict ‘civil war’

AP
Excerpt:
NEW YORK – NBC News on Monday began referring to the Iraq conflict as a civil war, adopting a phrase that President Bush and many other news organizations have avoided.

Matt Lauer said on the “Today” show that “after careful consideration, NBC News has decided that a change in terminology is warranted, that the situation in Iraq with armed militarized factions fighting for their own political agendas can now be characterized as civil war.”

H.L.s Take
They knew that Iraq would deteroriate into a civil war before it even started. At least the smart people did. Bush wants all the Iraqis to kill each other to make the job easier for him. He purposely brought this about. So now we can go ahead and call it “Bush’s Genocide” putting him right up there with his grandpappys best friend Adolph Hitler.

And Now a Musical Interlude by Guns N Roses.
Excerpt
Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they’ve always done before

Look at the hate we’re breeding
Look at the fear we’re feeding
Look at the lives we’re leading
The way we’ve always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can’t deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

Chavez vows to beat the “devil”

Reuters
Excerpt:
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuela’s leftist President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised hundreds of thousands of supporters he would win a resounding victory in his December 3 reelection bid he describes as a challenge to Washington.
The former soldier and self-styled revolutionary is favored in the polls to beat rival Manuel Rosales after building a solid political base through a social development campaign financed by oil revenues.
Chavez supporters flooded Caracas thoroughfares waving flags and banners, congregating in different parts of the downtown a day after Rosales sympathizers held a similar march to close his campaign in the capital city.
“We are confronting the devil, and we will hit a home run off the devil next Sunday,” said Chavez, who ruffled feathers in October by calling President Bush the devil in remarks at the United Nations.
The State Department describes him as a menace to regional democracy, though Venezuela remains the fourth-largest exporter of oil to the United States.

H.Ls. Take
Chavez has been slapping Bush around aside from The Devil, Bush has correctly identified Bush as a Drunken Donkey

Gingrich raises alarm at event honoring those who stand up for freedom of speech

Manchester Union Leader
Excerpt:

MANCHESTER – Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.
Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a “different set of rules” may be needed to reduce terrorists’ ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message
Gingrich sharply criticized campaign finance laws he charged were reducing free speech and doing little to fight attack advertising. He also said court rulings over separation of church and state have hurt citizens’ ability to express themselves and their faith.

H.L.s Take
Man these Republicans are really slow on the uptake, This guy isn’t even in power anymore and he is trying to take away our constitutional rights over something that everyone knows is BS by now (The U.S. War of Terror, oops I mean war on terror thanks Borat). Hey Newt what part of this do you not understand?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

If you don’t know what this is then you should take a look at the Constitution and the Bill of rights specifically the first amendment.

Woman faces fines for wreath peace sign

AP
Excerpt:
The Offending Shrubbery

DENVER – A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.

Some residents who have complained have children serving in Iraq, said Bob Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association in Pagosa Springs. He said some residents have also believed it was a symbol of Satan. Three or four residents complained, he said.
The subdivision’s rules say no signs, billboards or advertising are permitted without the consent of the architectural control committee.

Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove the wreath, but members refused after concluding that it was merely a seasonal symbol that didn’t say anything. Kearns fired all five committee members.

H.L.s Take
This Bob Kearns sounds like a real douchebag. “Some of our residents have children fighting in Iraq” he says. Yeah so why should they be offended by someone who is just trying to get those peoples kids home? Answer: They won’t be, Bob Kearns is just a typical fear addled Repbulican idiot who still thinks it 2002. The panel votes 5 to nothing against him, so he fires all 5 panel members. What a power mad a**hole. I guess he has been taking lessons from the Bush Boy. I see a court battle coming out of this one. With old Bob losing big time, Freedom of speech anyone?

NYC mayor disturbed by deadly shooting

Think Progress.org
Excerpt:
NEW YORK – Mayor Michael Bloomberg weighed in on the uproar over a deadly police shooting Monday, saying bluntly that officers appeared to use excessive force when they fired 50 shots at an unarmed man in a confrontation outside a strip club hours before his wedding.
“I can tell you that it is to me unacceptable or inexplicable how you can have 50-odd shots fired, but that’s up to the investigation to find out what really happened,” Bloomberg said at a news conference after meeting with elected officials and community leaders
Of the victims, Bloomberg said Monday: “There is no evidence that they were doing anything wrong,” referring to everything leading up to the moment they struck the officer with their car.

An undercover officer walked closely behind Bell and his friends as they headed for their car. As he walked toward the front of the vehicle, they drove forward — striking him and an undercover police vehicle, Kelly said.
The officer who had followed the group on foot was apparently the first to open fire, Kelly said. One 12-year veteran fired his weapon 31 times, emptying two full magazines, Kelly said.

H.L.s Take:
How come I knew the guy that was killed was black even before I read the story??
So they were doing nothing wrong, walking to thier car with a plain clothes cop following them, so as far as they are concerned nothing is happening. But then they decide to crash their car into the cop, and his unmarked car prompting the cops to fire 50 rounds at the unarmed men. Yeah that makes sense.

Of course in the end the cops will be cleared of any wrong doing just like they always are. It’s time to take a page from England, and stop allowing cops to carry guns. They so obvioulsy can’t be trusted.

Video: Lott Attacks Rove, Says

Think Progress.org
Excerpt:
p>Earlier this month, rumors began swirling that Karl Rove may soon leave the White House, in part because he and incoming Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-MS) have failed to get along. The New York Times then reported that Rove would be staying on, but claimed the White House was compensating for his “ limited influence in Congress .”

Click on the Unrepentent Racist Dixiecrat to see Video

Whats up, I’m still out of town, hanging out in Northern California, which is famous for 2 things, one is wine. I went to a couple of great wineries yesterday. Lots of fun. The other thing they are famous for up here also grows in the ground. (heh heh)

Here is a story about my congressman. I have voted for this guy in every election. He is coming after Bush, like he has been, but now HE is in charge. It’s Hollywoods own Henry Waxman.

Waxman has Bush administration in sights

AP
Excerpt:

LOS ANGELES – The lawmaker poised to cause the Bush administration’s biggest headaches when Democrats take control of Congress may just be a grocer’s son from Watts who’s hardly a household name off Capitol Hill.

Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record) has spent the last six years waging a guerrilla campaign against the White House and its corporate allies, launching searing investigations into everything from military contracts to Medicare prices from his perch on the Government Reform Committee.

In January, Waxman becomes committee chairman — and thus the lead congressional hound of an administration many Democrats feel has blundered badly as it expanded the power of the executive branch.

Waxman’s biggest challenge as he mulls what to probe?

“The most difficult thing will be to pick and choose,” he said.

The choices he makes could help define Bush’s legacy.

“There is just no question that life is going to be different for the administration,” said Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., the current committee chairman. “Henry is going to be tough. … And he’s been waiting a long time to be able to do this.”

Waxman, 67, is in his 16th term representing a Los Angeles district that has migrated west over the years to take in some of the country’s most exclusive real estate: Bel Air, Malibu, Beverly Hills.

Hey, hope you all had a great thanksgiving. I am out of town for a couple of days, eating lots of Turkey, and watching lots of football. We’ll be back with some new stuff soon. In the meantime if you are bored you can catch up on some of H.L.s Comics

Have a great weekend.
H.L.

U.S. Muslims outraged after imams kicked off plane

AP
Excerpt:
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Muslim leaders expressed outrage on Tuesday after six imams were removed from a commercial airline flight in Minnesota for what they said was nothing more than trying to say evening prayers.
“They were treated like terrorists … humiliated,” said Abu Hannoud, civil rights director for the Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who said the men were taken off the US Airways flight in handcuffs.
We are concerned that crew members, passengers and security personnel may have succumbed to fear and prejudice based on stereotyping of Muslims and Islam,” added Nihad Awad, executive director of the council, in a statement from the group’s Washington headquarters.
“We call on relevant authorities to investigate whether proper procedures were followed by security personnel and members of the US Airways flight crew,” he said.
The group said the men told it they were accused of “suspicious activity,” which they believed was only their attempt to pray.

H.L.s Take:
FEAR…FEAR…FEAR…Oh my god its a Muslim,….RUNNNNN!!!!…..I bet US Airways is run by a bunch of Republicans, they are so tough when it comes to defending Bush’s war, (as long as they are not in it) but they see a Muslim, and they S**t thier pants. Osama has already won. He should have been the one saying Mission Accomplished, except he can’t because he is dead.