The oldest trick in the book: Deny and lie — and when the news is bad, change the subject. No wonder today’s lead editorial<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in The New No wonder the nincompoop’s corporate minions say the latest internal Pentagon audit of + The audit found that the company has “failed to adequately account” for roughly half of + The audit found that the accounting system of Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton No wonder “surveys suggest that Bush’s popularity has plummeted among 18 to 29 year-olds No wonder the nincompoop claims not to read newspapers. Otherwise he’d read Where do these guards (4,300 of them) come from? “Four firms — two of which got the No wonder “In Iraq, Strategic Failures”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> — as No wonder the rise in oil prices, described as “a perfect storm,” means bad weather for all of And no wonder, in today’s pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance<\/I>,
\nThat’s the Nincompoop in Chief’s m.o. So sayeth the experts, above all Paul Krugman. “I had a
\nbad feeling about Bush, from an economic standpoint, as far back as the 2000 presidential
\ncampaign,” he says<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. “I just felt -\u2013 My God,
\nhe’s lying through his teeth!”<\/P>
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\nYork Times, following up yesterday’s report<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><\/B> in The
\nWashington Post, begins this way: “President Bush reacted decisively to this month’s shockingly
\nbad employment report — by quickly changing the topic to terror.”<\/P>
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\nHalliburton, first reported yesterday by The Wall Street
\nJournal<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, is “being used for political purposes” even though:<\/P>
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\n“the $4.2 billion it has received so far” for contracts to provide “logistical support to troops in
\nIraq and Kuwait.”<\/P>
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\nsubsidiary working in Iraq, “was inadequate in nearly every way in dealing with the costs of
\nproviding food, shelter and other support for the troops” and “gave the military inadequate cost
\nestimates, incomplete and inadequate reviews of those estimates, poor employee training and ‘a
\nlack of current, accurate and complete cost and pricing data,’ according to the Pentagon.”<\/P>
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\nin the past four months,” according to today’s Post<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, and
\nthat the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that John Kerry leads the nincompoop
\n“2-1 among registered voters younger than 30.”<\/P>
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\nabout another incredible screw-up, reported in today’s Los
\nAngeles Times<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>: “Stretched thin by troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan
\nand security needs at home, the Army has resorted to hiring private security guards to help
\nprotect dozens of American military bases.”<\/P>
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\ncontracts without having to bid competitively” and “with little previous security experience.” And
\nhow much are the contracts worth? “As much as $1.24 billion.”<\/P>
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\nthe headline puts it on today’s column by Jim Hoagland — reflect the willingness of the
\nnincompoop’s administration “to engage in or condone cynical maneuvering designed not to
\ncreate democracy in Baghdad but to create political cover at home and fear and turmoil in
\nTehran.”<\/P>
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\nus<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. It has become “an issue in President Bush’s reelection. The U.S.
\nFederal Reserve on Tuesday blamed the run-up in oil prices for the recent sharp slowdown in the
\neconomy.”<\/P>
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\nare at liberty to exercise your First Amendment right to assemble and to protest, so long as you
\ndo so from behind chain-link fences and razor wire, or miles from the audience you seek to
\naddress.”<\/P>
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