I think we should take him at his word

Ever courageous neo-con extraordinaire and nearly former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton once again recommends military action by the US, or its regional surrogate Israel, against Iran.

Well I think it is time that we armed the great man with an assault rifle, strapped a couple of bandoliers over his chest, sprayed his mustache with Kevlar and dropped him somewhere over Tehran. After all he "accidentally" missed out on Vietnam and this could be his last chance.

Good luck John; we more or less wish you well.

In neo con cloud cuckoo land

The bitter, sarcastic and elitist Robert Novak wants to deny President Obama and his party a progressive mandate preferring instead to see an unchanged world.

More on the endorsement front

This has got to really hurt. One of the unelected prophets of the neo-conservatives, and author of The End of History, the eminent Francis Fukuyama, has announced he's voting for Senator Obama. His reasons?

"I’m voting for Barack Obama this November for a very simple reason. It is hard to imagine a more disastrous presidency than that of George W. Bush. It was bad enough that he launched an unnecessary war and undermined the standing of the United States throughout the world in his first term. But in the waning days of his administration, he is presiding over a collapse of the American financial system and broader economy that will have consequences for years to come. As a general rule, democracies don’t work well if voters do not hold political parties accountable for failure. While John McCain is trying desperately to pretend that he never had anything to do with the Republican Party, I think it would a travesty to reward the Republicans for failure on such a grand scale."

Of course at least Mr. Fukuyama has admitted he might have been wrong unlike the host of lesser (and non-)thinkers who rely so heavily on his earlier work.

Dear Melanie Phillips

In answer to your question: "almost certainly". Now just fuck off will you, you're annoying me (but that's my fault for actually reading your drivel).

"But the truth is so limiting!"

Over at the home of super plus good untruth, the execrable Washington Times, the execrable Frank Gaffney continues to allege that Barack Obama was born in Kenya without a fact, a citation or a shred of evidence to support his slander. But what the heck? That's (un)investigative journalism for you!

Today in Schadenfreude

Swift boater and habitual liar Jerome Corsi has been deported from Kenya for failing to have the visas required for promoting his most recent slime.

Kenya moves back up my list of places I'd like to holiday!

Now he fucking tells us!

The New York Times carries a story that Captain Codpiece recently told a closed meeting with right wing writers that resplendently mustached John Bolton is not "credible". Well 20-20 hindsight is better than no vision at all, right?

Today in Schadenfreude

It seems that neocon scumbag Michael Ledeen has been sacked from the American Enterprise Institute. Now if they would only get rid of twenty or thirty of his soulmates one might possibly consider them a think tank again.

I may be paranoid but I am not alone!

I may not be the only one who smells something rotten in the state nation of Georgia. There are others just as cynical as me. Could I be right?

Loony as can be Islamaphode Daniel Pipes predicts a war crime

According to the pseudo-thinker Captain Codpiece will attack Iran if Senator Obama defeats The Aged One in November. And this from a man who was once a temporary employee of the euphemistically named "Institute of Peace"!

See John flee! Flee, John, flee!

Resplendently mustachioed former (temporary) US Ambassador to the UN and neo-con extraordinaire John Bolton escaped an attempt by writer and activist George Monbiot to arrest him for war crimes at the Hay Festival yesterday. The Guardian has pictures. I asked you lot to keep your fingers crossed and you failed me!

I may have more to say on this later.

Keep your fingers crossed

George Monbiot is going to attempt a citizen's arrest of John Bolton for crimes against humanity. I reckon he'd look good in an orange boiler suit, don't you? I'm also certain that the Syrians might have one or two questions they would like to ask him (and one or two ways to make him talk) after his extraordinary rendition.

The Tache is back!

And this time he wants to bomb Iran. John Bolton, former temporary US Ambassador to a place he said didn't exist, thinks that bombing alleged training camps in Iran would be a "major step toward victory" in Iraq.

He must be gunning for a job as a backing singer for John McCain.

It's about time

The neo-con house organ The Weekly Standard has been telling us for five years that we are winning in Iraq. I think that they have even told us on occasion that we HAVE WON in Iraq. Now, thanks to an article from Holy Father Fredrick Kagan, we finally know how we can tell!

Curiously Mr. Kagan is capable of seeing things that I, and many others, cannot like the stability of the Iraqi state and it's control over its own territory!

Schadenfreude alert!

Is Douglas Feith who is, according to a reliable source, the "dumbest fucking guy on the planet" about to join Alberto "Gone-zo" Gonzales on the dole queue? Let's hope so, eh?

"No, no chile it wasn't me!"

Douglas Feith, neo-con extraordinaire, current favourite for this year's "dumbest fucking guy on the planet" and leading architect of Captain Codpiece's Iraq Cluster Fuck has announced that whatever problems there may be in Iraq today, they are somewhere between none and legion depending on your source of information, none of them are his fault.

Thanks Doug! Don't call us; we'll call you.

Today in infamy - "now how did that spit get in my hair?" edition

Five years ago today then deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz assured the US Congress that less than 100,000 troops would be needed to secure Iraq.

Here's some footage of Wolfie in action!

This is either terribly ironic...

...or the case of the perfect man for the job. Paul "Is There Enough Spit in My Hair" Wolfowitz has been appointed head of the US Department of State's International Security Advisory Board whose role is primarily related to arms control. According to the New York Times article the Board used to provide "insight" to the Secretary of State, Conocoleezza Rice. I can only assume that this will be replaced with wild hallucination and fantasy.

In other ways Mr. Wolfowitz, who has spent much of the past few years being forced out of jobs for various improprieties, is perfect for this job. He can imagine the pariah state of his choice to be in posses ion of non-existent weapons of mass destruction. When said state is then found not to have any such weapons, after a messy and illegal invasion, he can then claim that this is only due to his extreme efforts as an "arms control" official. (No additional thought required.)

I can only assume that this position does not require Senate confirmation because, even with the current batch of inept and impotent Democrats in charge, there is no way that is going to happen.

Schadenfreude alert

In his new and important job as a New York Times commentator "Bloody" Bill Kristo 0 for 2. It's really hard to watch, innit?

It's a Kristol-ganza!

Now that we know that His Smugness, neo-con "pundit" Bill Kristol has been hired by a newspaper he once wanted arrested for treason, even if no one is sure how one goes about arresting a newspaper, Media Matters provides us with a virtual smörgåsbord of his most insightful moments Enjoy.