5 days and counting – summing up a presidency

Bush’s presidency began with the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil and ends with the worst economic collapse in three generations.

How to sum up a presidency in one sentence, from Salon.

But the cartoon works also.

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Suck on this, Tom Friedman and Jeffrey Goldberg:

“To follow up on the Tom Friedman claim from yesterday that Hamas will lose support if Israel kills enough Palestinian civilians, The New York Times today reports that “The more bombs in Gaza, the more Hamas’s support seems to be growing at the expense of the Palestinian Authority.”  This was the (self-evident) point made so well yesterday by Daniel Larison:  if a foreign power drops lots of bombs on a population (to say nothing of stories like this and this), they tend to become more hostile to those doing the bombing and more supportive of their own leaders, especially if those leaders vow retribution against the attackers.  As Jonathan Schwarz recalls, Tom Friedman’s own demented reaction to the 9/11 attacks illustrates exactly how that dynamic works.”

Read the rest of this post by Glenn Greenwald.

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Three weeks in and Israel continues to pound the snot out of Gaza. And it’s hardly only Hamas that’s being targeted. Last week it was a school. Now the hospitals and relief agencies have bulls-eyes on their backs also:

Israelis shell hospitals and UN HQ.

All of the food and medicine was destroyed.

You da shit, Israel.

And the US Congress is right behind you, because there’s nothing that gives them a bigger hard-on (yes, even the women) than the prospect of more AIPAC money flowing into their bank accounts. Until the Arabs are willing to match the Zionists dollar for dollar, the Gazans are toast.

Have another missile.

This one’s on Mitch ($107,956 from AIPAC, 2007-08).