| It definitely looks like it's time for everyone to | | | | Shiites and the Northern Kurds. In any event |
| lighten up. Yesterday General Electric the parent | | | | Estonian President Ilves pledged to send a troop |
| company of NBC, fresh from their success with | | | | to Iraq because just in case America wins he |
| the Madonna concert at Wembley Stadium in | | | | wants a share of the oil. Where is Estonia? Is it |
| London announced that it had instructed its news | | | | really even a country or just some fiction created |
| anchors to now refer to the conflict in Iraq as a | | | | by the White House to bolster their baloney about |
| "Civil War." Today President Bush fired back that | | | | having a coalition of the willing? Very few people |
| Iraq was not in a "Civil War." A Civil War according | | | | are still willing to listen to President Bush's baloney |
| to the dictionaries is defined as a struggle | | | | any longer including his own American people. It |
| between various groups (or regions) of a country. | | | | turns out that the Dixie Chicks were right and the |
| If that's the case then why wasn't Iraq called a | | | | Americans were wrong three years ago to stop |
| Civil War months ago? Are we all illiterate or just | | | | playing the Chicks' music on the radio and for |
| completely spun out and brainwashed? | | | | refusing to buy their albums. Why aren't the |
| President Bush is a stubborn Southern Man. Years | | | | American media screaming that it was President |
| ago Neil Young wrote a song about the American | | | | Bush who brought Al Qaeda into Iraq in the first |
| Civil War called "Southern Man". Here are the | | | | place? They wouldn't dare go near Iraq when |
| lyrics: "Southern man better keep your head, | | | | President Hussein was living it up in his golden |
| Don't forget what your good book said, Southern | | | | palaces with his golden showers. |
| change gonna come at last, Now your crosses | | | | In January 2004 CBS News became involved in |
| are burning fast, Southern man, I saw cotton and | | | | their own civil war. They aired a story about |
| I saw black, Tall White Mansions and little shacks. | | | | President Bush's National Guard service. It was |
| Southern man when will you pay them back? I | | | | decided that some of the facts were wrong and |
| heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking How long? | | | | CBS News fired 4 of their staffers including 3 |
| How long? Southern man better keep your head, | | | | executives including senior vice president Betsy |
| Don't forget what your good book said, Southern | | | | West, executive producer Josh Howard and |
| change gonna come at last, Now your crosses | | | | senior broadcast producer Mary Murphy aka |
| are burning fast. Southern man. Lily Belle your hair | | | | Eminem. At the time CBS Chairman Leslie |
| is golden brown, I've seen your black man comin' | | | | Moonves issued this statement on behalf of CBS: |
| round, Swear by God I'm gonna cut him down! I | | | | "We deeply regret the disservice this flawed 60 |
| heard screamin' and bullwhips cracking How long? | | | | Minutes Wednesday report did to the American |
| How long?" | | | | public, which has a right to count on CBS News |
| Now we are told that Iraq is having a Civil War. | | | | for fairness and accuracy." CBS had reported that |
| Isn't that an oxymoron? The Americans and the | | | | President Bush had failed to appear for a physical |
| Iraqis are certainly not acting in a civil fashion. | | | | exam while in the National Guard. CBS News |
| People are definitely not engaged in a civil war | | | | asked former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh |
| when they routinely use power drills on their | | | | and former Associated Press President Louis |
| captives' bodies prior to beheading them in snuff | | | | Boccardi to conduct an independent investigation |
| films shown on Al- Jazeera television. No wonder | | | | into the matter and they prepared a 224 page |
| President Bush turned off the power in Bag Dad. | | | | report. White House spokesman Scott McClellan |
| Doesn't he remind you of Prince Charles just | | | | said the administration appreciated CBS' steps to |
| waiting for the Queen to die? King charles will be a | | | | hold people accountable. Conservative pundit Rush |
| King who once stated that he wished to | | | | Limbaugh insisted the network "had an axe to |
| reincarnate as Camilla's bicycle seat. No wonder | | | | grind" with President Bush. Washington Post media |
| England no longer has an Empire. At least New | | | | critic Howard Kurtz said it would take the |
| York has an Empire State building. | | | | network a long time to get over "a high-profile |
| For the past 3 years President Bush has been | | | | blunder." |
| pounded by journalists and voters alike because | | | | Al Gore got more votes in the 2000 election but |
| the journalists and voters claim that there was no | | | | lost to President Bush. This CBS mountain out of |
| connection between 9/11, Al Qaeda and Iraq, and | | | | a molehill incident and the Swift Boat baloney cost |
| the White House insists that there was in order to | | | | John Kerry the Presidency and handed it to |
| justify Iraq. Weren't the Al Qaeda hijackers on 9 | | | | President Bush. The story didn't even mention |
| 11 and the Iraqis all Muslim? President Bush said | | | | that President Bush was a lying warmongering |
| today that the sectarian violence rocking Iraq is | | | | deserting alcoholic. In the good book Jesus Christ |
| not civil war but part of an Al Qaeda plot to use | | | | says, "You strain at gnats yet you swallow |
| violence to goad Iraqi factions into repeatedly | | | | camels whole." |
| attacking each other. "No question it's tough, no | | | | Presently a bipartisan panel, led by Daddy's |
| question about it," Mr. Bush said at a news | | | | former Secretary of State James Baker III and |
| conference with Estonian President Toomas | | | | former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind. is trying to |
| Hendrik Ilves. "There's a lot of sectarian violence | | | | figure out a new strategy in Iraq. The members, |
| taking place, fomented in my opinion because of | | | | according to CBS News correspondent David |
| the attacks by al Qaeda in Iraq causing people to | | | | Martin have agreed on an all-out diplomatic |
| seek reprisal." | | | | offensive with Iraq's neighbors - including Iran and |
| Hasn't anyone told President Bush that Al Qaeda | | | | Syria - to get help in stabilizing Iraq. However |
| are Sunnis fighting the Shiites? Hasn't anyone | | | | President Bush continued to express his reluctance |
| mentioned to President Bush that sectarian | | | | to talk with two nations he regards as pariah |
| violence is the definition of Civil War? Maybe he | | | | states working to destabilize the Middle East. Who |
| thinks that Civil War is only when the North fights | | | | came up with the phrase "People who live in |
| the South, or the Sunni East fights the Western | | | | White Houses shouldn't throw stones"? |