Talk To The Hand

Because Dick Cheney's "finest Secretary of Defense this nation has ever had" don't listen.


So in addition to being the petulant, foot-dragging martinet who “impaired administration performance on a host of matters extending well beyond Iraq” from blocking time-critical assistance from being sent into the Katrina disaster zone to refusing to play nice with our allies...one of Rummy’s other enduring legacies was tarting up Dubya’s daily briefings on our ongoing and decisive victory over Eurasia in Iraq with festive Bible-verse cover pages.


The effective of which is reporting in this very troubling article from GQ Magazine (Here's how the pros do it, Modo):

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At least one Muslim analyst in the building had been greatly offended; others privately worried that if these covers were leaked during a war conducted in an Islamic nation, the fallout—as one Pentagon staffer would later say—“would be as bad as Abu Ghraib.”

But the Pentagon’s top officials were apparently unconcerned about the effect such a disclosure might have on the conduct of the war or on Bush’s public standing. When colleagues complained to Shaffer that including a religious message with an intelligence briefing seemed inappropriate, Shaffer politely informed them that the practice would continue, because “my seniors”—JCS chairman Richard Myers, Rumsfeld, and the commander in chief himself—appreciated the cover pages.
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And so, in the interest of explaining to the Decider in language he can understand why he and the rest of the Cheney Torture Administrations will go down in history as the worst Presidency ever:

This...



And this...



And, of course, this...


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Because apparently the only two things capable of crossing the Decider’s blood/brain barrier are Jack Daniels and the Book of Revelations.