Anybody happen to watch this story on 60 Minutes II Wednesday night?

Review the web page for the complete information, but suffice it to say that 60 Minutes interviewed several people: Greg Thielmann, a former expert on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction who worked for Colin Powell up until just a few months before the Iraqi War (title: Director of the Office of Strategic Proliferation and Military Affairs); Physicist David Albright; and Houston Wood, a consultant who worked on the Oak Ridge analysis of the tubes that Colin Powell claimed in his address to the UN were centrifuges for nuclear materials and who is among the world�s authorities on uranium enrichment by centrifuge. What do these people say?

They say Colin Powell lied in his address to the U.N. and completely mislead everyone in regard to Iraq being a threat to our National Security.

I, for one, am not surprised. What surprises me is that fucking Dubya still has a 51% approval rating in this country.

WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING?

Questions:

1. Bush and Company LIED to us, people. He completely fabricated reasons for breaking International Law and attacking Iraq. He has spent billions of dollars in doing so; has left our own economy in shambles in the process; we are LESS secure than ever before because we have no money to spend on security in our own back yard (for example: The California Hwy. Patrol is laying off people this year, for the first time ever). Now he wants an additional $87 billion dollars to continue his Middle Eastern crusade. That�s $87 billion dollars taken away from needs we have right here at home, so that we can purse even farther a war waged for apparently no reason whatsoever. Thousands of completely innocent Iraqis have been killed (oh yeah, and two evil ones); hundreds of our soldiers have been killed; dozens of completely innocent reporters have been killed; those that haven�t been killed have still been altered for life. And for what? For something that Bush and his cabinet completely made up! Bush is not smart, he is not charming, he is not good at P.R. My question is: WHY DOES ANYBODY STILL SUPPORT THIS MAN? You know�I didn�t like Ronald Reagan or Bush Sr. either. I could at least, though, understand why people would. I could see both sides of the story in those cases. I just don�t see it, here. Look at what this man has done to throw our entire country and other countries in to complete chaos. And for what?

2. Kenneth Starr headed up investigations of the Clintons on Whitewater deal charges he couldn�t prove and on Bill�s lies about his marital infidelity. Where the FUCK is the investigation in to Bush and company? I�m sorry, but I happen to think his crimes are one hell of a lot more serious than putting his penis in to the wrong mouth and then lying about it.

Oh and as if 60 Minutes wasn�t depressing enough, I then watched this two hour documentary on the Discovery Times channel called Kids Behind Bars.

I openly wept for a good, solid 90 minutes. No joke.

The show is about...well, kids behind bars. In jails. In Juvenile Detention Centers, around the globe. The segments about kids in the U.S. and England were sad enough, just because of these poor 12 year old kids talking about feeling worthless and the like. Oh, but then they showed us kids in Brazil, in the Ukraine...OH. MY. GOD. I can�t even think about it right now. It was just the saddest thing I have seen in a very long time.

I would recommend the show for educational purposes, but it was terribly difficult to watch.

But then...Oh, THEN, I watched The Bachelor, in an effort to kill my brain cells so that I didn�t have to think about George Dubya and/or little kids in jail in Brazil.

So Bob macked on more women (some of whom he didn�t even keep around after the rose ceremony); there was more in-fighting between the gals; there were more tears; and then there is the complete wackadoo otherwise known as Lee Ann.

Man, is she ever a fruit loop. Everyone hates her and now that her only friend has been sent home, she hates everybody else. It�s not just the hate that is so entertaining, though. It is her tears, her holier-than-thou attitude; her confrontational nature; the fact that she told Bob in no uncertain terms that he should not to give her a rose unless she was going to be one of the last few standing because this entire process is just too much for her to handle�and the fact that, by some miracle, Bob gave her a rose anyway.

She must be a good kisser.

Um...perhaps I should read more...

Sports

Poor Cubbies. I, like a lot of people, thought it would be really cool to have Chicago play Boston in the World Series. Well, I guess if Boston wins their series, it will now be easier for me to figure our who I want to root for.

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Word of the Day for Thursday October 16, 2003:

acquiesce ak-wee-ES, intransitive verb:

To accept or consent passively or without objection -- usually used with 'in' or 'to'.

Quote A Day:

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. --Gandhi

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