April Fools

Head up your ass? Insulated from reality? Dim-witted? Developmentally arrested?

Then take a break. Please.

The United States says Wednesday's grisly killing of four American civilian workers in the Iraqi town of Fallujah will not change the U.S. mission in the country.

The top American administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, vowed to bring to justice the killers, saying their deaths will not go unpunished.

  VOA article

Mr. Bremer, with all due respect (which is none, if we're talking due), this policy has not been working. It's not going to work. Who are you going to punish? Who are you going to "bring to justice"? Entire cities? I think that's maybe the problem, not the solution. Does it not occur to you that these people believe they are bringing to justice the offenders? Maybe, Mr. Bremer, you just don't think.


Fool Paul Bremer

Speaking [at] a graduation ceremony for police cadets in Baghdad Thursday, Mr. Bremer said, what he called, the "despicable and inexcusable" acts will not derail the march toward stability and democracy in Iraq.

It looks more like a retreat than a march toward. Doesn't it? I mean, it's not just me, is it?

Earlier, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said those behind the attacks are trying to prevent democracy from moving forward in Iraq. But he added they "can not shake the will of the United States."

Fool Scott McClellan

The American civilians were identified as employees of a U.S.-based company that provides security for coalition personnel.

Wow. That's really working well.

Bush did not speak about the attacks during the day and did not specifically mention them last night at a Washington fundraiser for his campaign. He included his standard assertion that because he confronted Saddam Hussein, "an example of democracy is rising at the very heart of the Middle East. . . . The world is more free and . . . America is more secure."

Repeat ad nauseum. If you say it enough, it will be true.

"We still face thugs and terrorists in Iraq who would rather go on killing the innocent than accept the advance of liberty," he said. "This collection of killers is trying to shake our will. America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins."

  WaPo article

Please look in the mirror. Who are the ones in Iraq who would go on killing the innocent?


Fool Oaf of Office

"Despite an uptick in local engagements, the overall area of operations remains relatively stable with negligible impact on the coalition's ability to continue progress in governance, economic development, and restoration of essential services", said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the 51-year-old former paratrooper who is chief spokesman for the U.S. military command.

  Oakland Tribune article

Sorry, no picture of Fool Mark Kimmitt. I wonder how long he's going to spout lies for the U.S.

On Tuesday, before the Fallujah attacks, Kimmitt, the American military spokesman, appeared to back off at least somewhat from the command's emphasis on Islamic militants as the principal enemy. At a briefing, he offered an overview of the war in which he suggested that what has occurred, in effect, is a merging of the pro-Saddam insurgents and the Islamic terrorists into a common terrorist threat, and that, either way, "we just call them targets."

Trying to spin the war any way that keeps the soldiers and American citizens ignorant and believing that there is some justification for it. How many times do they have to change the story before people figure it out? Personally, I think people want to believe the lies.

Either way, we just call them "April fools".