Oh. The explanation for Congress' closed session surfaces.

[icarus]

Today's Washington Post article about CIA secret prisons scattered around the world.

I guess we now know what Tuesday's closed session in the Senate was about.

The Washington Post would have informed them that this article was coming out on Wednesday: "Do you have anything to add?" I bet the Democrats were pissed.

The two unidentified European countries that have CIA prisons are Poland and Romania. WG just informed me that Poland and Romania are both desperate for US weapons and have been given weapons deals in exchange for their participation in the Iraq war.

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

We're a powerful, wealthy country, armed to the teeth, led by a profoundly bad leader who has no moral compunction about lying (WMDs), firing anyone who gets in his way (CIA, Colin Powell), and who doesn't listen to experts in their field (the Pentagon) -- so he's inept on top of it all.

For example, the Pentagon told him we shouldn't invade Iraq, that it would be a mess. He did it anyways, listening to the people who told him what he wanted to hear.

When the CIA said "we don't torture people, it doesn't work" he went against it and didn't care about the implications.

He throws out those in the press who ask tough or unpleasant questions. Their press passes are revoked and they're not invited back for the next press conference.

He surrounds himself with yes-men but doesn't have the leadership ability to make a decision when there's a real crisis such as 9/11 or Katrina. It took us months to respond to 9/11. He sat on his ass for three days about the Indonesia quake and didn't so much as call one world leader. Again he sat on his bum for three days about Katrina.

In short: he's an idiot. And now we're in a real mess.

Icarus

[jaig.livejournal.com]

Along with the rest of the world, yeah.

He's just incompetent. Completely.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did mean we as in all of us, the whole world.

Or the short version of that rant: Bush *stab-stab-stab-stab*

Icarus