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There has never been a bigger “War Is Peace” moment in the past four years. In the face of the CIA report that stated Iraq had no WMD, Dick Cheney declared that the report justified the war.

Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, who found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991, justifies rather than undermines President Bush’s decision to go to war.

Yeah, I’m just as confused as you are.

They just keeping pulling the wool in front of the sheep’s eyes. Unfortunately, when the sheep are confronted with ever-increasing facts that destroy the view of the world that they have been fed by Bush Administration, the sheep get even more scared, angry, and convinced that there is no possible way the President is misleading them.

Nobody likes looking foolish, but I’m sorry to say, if you’re supporting Bush because of the “War on Terror” or because Bush is a “fiscal conservative”, you’re playing the part.

I know I didn’t post anything on the debate yet, the media has given fairly good coverage.

But if you didn’t see it, these quotes will pretty much wrap it up for you.

“In Iraq, no doubt about it, it’s tough. It’s hard work. It’s incredibly hard. It’s – and it’s hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it’s necessary work. We’re making progress. It is hard work. You know my hardest, the hardest part of the job is to know that I committed the troops in harm’s way and then do the best I can to provide comfort for the loves ones who lost a son or a daughter or husband and wife.”
-President Bush

“No matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It‚Äôs like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.”
-Tucker Carlson

Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the quotes..

Did you know that approximately 13,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq.

Having a hard time imagining what it’s like in Iraq right now?

Need some assault weapons?

Live overseas and you want to vote? Whoops sorry about that!

Getting pissed yet? Want to do something about it? Go register.

The Left Coaster: Why You Should Ignore The Gallup Poll This Morning – And Maybe Other Gallup Polls As Well

I thought the most recent Gallup poll smelled funny.

From the introduction of President Bush at his rally in Rochester, MN yesterday:

Father we are glad for this opportunity today to hear our President, a man you have appointed to lead us as such a time as this.

– John C. Steer, Pastor at the First Baptist Church of Rochester

I find it hard to believe that God would appoint someone who would defy International Law, most of our allies, the UN and THE POPE to wage pre-emptive WAR against a nation that posed no threat to us. And deceive the American people and the world about the reasons for going there.

Quagmire is not to strong of a word to describe what is happening in Iraq.

Before I even care what John Kerry might do to fix the situation in Iraq, I’d like to hear Bush’s brilliant plan! Stay the course? But he’s strong and convicted! Isn’t he? Right.

The pace of attacks, death and destruction is quickening in Iraq. More Americans have been wounded in the past month than in any previous month.

[Cheney’s speech] . . . signaled that Mr. Cheney and the administration’s other hit men will spend the next two months trying to sell their failed approach to foreign policy, and encouraging Americans to believe that anyone who acknowledges that the United States needs to take a more patient and humble approach to the world is in league with the girlie men.

Mr. Bush’s Acceptance Speech

Andrew Sullivan’s post is an elegant rebuttal to Zell Miller’s speech.

Zell Miller’s address will, I think, go down as a critical moment in this campaign, and maybe in the history of the Republican party. I kept thinking of the contrast with the Democrats’ keynote speaker, Barack Obama, a post-racial, smiling, expansive young American, speaking about national unity and uplift. Then you see Zell Miller, his face rigid with anger, his eyes blazing with years of frustration as his Dixiecrat vision became slowly eclipsed among the Democrats. Remember who this man is: once a proud supporter of racial segregation, a man who lambasted LBJ for selling his soul to the negroes. His speech tonight was in this vein, a classic Dixiecrat speech, jammed with bald lies, straw men, and hateful rhetoric. As an immigrant to this country and as someone who has been to many Southern states and enjoyed astonishing hospitality and warmth and sophistication, I long dismissed some of the Northern stereotypes about the South. But Miller did his best to revive them. The man’s speech was not merely crude; it added whole universes to the word crude.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I could only muster a cheap shot and comparison to a sci-fi character.