Cuba on Friday put up two huge billboards in front of the U.S. mission with pictures of abused Iraqi prisoners, a swastika and the word “fascists” in bold red letters. 

Oh dear, is “fascist” too strong a word? Let’s see, the Bushites now claim the right to jail anyone anywhere in the world and hold them without trial, advocate torture, and claim they can ignore the Geneva Conventions. Ok, ok, maybe they’re just fascist-wannabes, happy now?

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President Bush said on Thursday that addressing the long-term problems in Social Security would reassure the financial markets, offering a rationale to offset criticism that his plan to add personal investment accounts to the retirement system would require up to $2 trillion in new government borrowing.

But wait, the deficit will widen for more than ten years before the no doubt illusory savings promised by Bush will happen.

Bush made an aggressive sales pitch for restructuring the New Deal-era retirement program by letting younger workers open private investment accounts, an approach that would widen the federal deficit for a decade or more before long-term savings began to accrue.

Let’s see, who benefits from all this?  The financial firms who will manage this money, that’s who. I’m sure they have our best interests at heart, uh huh.

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The Army National Guard is tripling retention bonuses to counter lagging recruitment and is asking for 2$20 billion to replace equipment destroyed in combat as it struggles under the continuing burden of the Iraq war.

The war has lasted 21 months, call it 635 days. Divide that into 20 billion and you get thirty one million A DAY in destroyed equipment. Over one million dollars an hour. A huge loss and indicative of just how widespread the resistance in Iraq is.

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A U.S. Army combat veteran on leave from a unit headed back to Iraq arranged for a friend to shoot him in the leg in an attempt to avoid returning to the war zone, Philadelphia police said Thursday.

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