chicken_hawks battle flag blues As if to further prove the point that The Shrub was only trying to use the UN as his rubber stamp for a war plan that had been concocted well before they started selling it to the public here'sn exchange that ought to raise a few eyebrows: Richard Haass, policy planning chief at the State Department, said he first realized in the first week of July that war was coming, according to the New Yorker. In a conversation with Ms.[Condoleezza] Rice about whether it was wise to put Iraq front and center of U.S. policy: "She said, essentially, that the decision’s been made, don’t waste your breath,” or better yet, how about one straight from the General's mouth during one of the first CENTCOM press briefings: When asked on Saturday if there had been any surprises in the campaign to date, he said: “Actually, there have been no surprises in the way that you asked the question. One is surprised, I think, when one has not had a year to think through the possibilities. “Much has been said and written about this business of [whether] one plan [is] good enough and another not, and so forth. And the fact of the matter is that for a period of about a year, a great deal of intense planning and a great deal of what-iffing by all of us has gone into this so that we prepare ourselves and prepare our subordinates in a way that we minimize the number of surprises. There will be surprises, but we have not yet seen them.” So all of this "diplomacy has failed" talk coming out of DC is about as big a crock of horseshit as it can be. Colonialism at best, imperialism at worst. 030327 ... silentbob a shitty band from souix city, iowa ok people to talk to, bad music that i don't like listening to. 030327 ... pipedream that rooster cartoon where there was a chicken hawk chick who would yell 'im a chicken hawk! im a chicken hawk!' and try to eat the big rooster guy...hahaha 030328 ... battle flag blues one down. One of Rummy's cronies, a DoD policy guy named Richard Perle resigned yesterday. The is the rat-fuck who said back in February that going into Iraq would be "a cake-walk." He's also the dumbshit who said, as if this was a children's game that France was "out of the coalition." A remark many took to mean that France should no longer be regarded as an ally. All this while owning a house in the south of France. I say, if that sonofabitch thinks it's so easy, instead of letting him retire to his cozy French villa, we let him take part in the "cakewalk" by having him air-dropped in with the guys in the 1st Marine Expeditionary and see if those guys don't shoot him first. 030328 ... the spork It's good news, but it could be better. Perle merely resigned his chairmanship of the Defense Policy Advisory Committee. He still holds a seat on it, however, which means that his scummy influence hasn't been removed, just taken down a notch. 030328 what's it to you? who go blather from