War Criminals Still at Large

From Bill Bonner's blog, Diary of a Rogue Economist:

When the Romans built a bridge, the architect would have to stand under it when the scaffolding was removed. If he did his work badly, the bridge fell down and he was killed.

We'd like to see some feet poking out of the rubble of the Iraq War. Is that too much to ask? Rumsfeld. Bush. Cheney. And all the jackasses in Congress who went along with it. Of course. But how about these war criminals too:

Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Scooter Libby, John Bolton, Eliot Abrams, Robert Kagan, Michael Ledeen, William Kristol, Frank Gaffney Jr. They said our troops would be "greeted like liberators." They claimed the war would "pay for itself" with Iraqi oil.

And let's not forget Thomas L. Friedman. He said an invasion of Iraq would be one of the great "revolutionizing" events of history... and that American GIs weren't really fighting men, but were "nurturing" a great new democracy.

Surely there is some corner of Hell, dark and hot, reserved for these intellectual miscreants. The sooner they get there the safer we will all be.

Full text of article. 

Jagor's comment:  

If they can have an International Criminal Court in The Hague for a handful of hapless African thugs and a couple of sorry Slavs, why can't they set up a court to try some real  criminals--Bush, Cheney and their Dirty Dozen--for war crimes and crimes against humanity?  

Inquiring minds want to know.

The F-35: A Flying White Elephant

The F-35 fighter is the most expensive weapon ever. The entire program is now expected to cost taxpayers nearly $1.51 trillion; Each individual plane is now estimated to cost $160 million - more than double the $74.5 million the DoD initially estimated they'd cost.

Business Insider published today an article entitled,  "Leaked Pentagon Report: The F-35 Won't Stand a Chance in Aerial Combat."

Excerpt:

According to an article published by the Washington Times, the F-35A, the Conventional Take Off and Landing version of the Joint Strike Fighter, would be defeated in aerial combat because of its current shortcomings. 

Mentioning a leaked Pentagon report made available by POGO, the article explains that “out-of-cockpit visibility in the F-35A is less than other Air Force fighter aircraft,” thus limiting a pilot’s ability to see aerial threats surrounding him.
 
And if that's not enough and you need more proof that trillions of dollars are being squandered in the biggest and most costly boondoggle in the history of the Pentagon--which is replete with boondoggles-- read this article entitled, "How the F-35 Turned into Such a Disaster."
 
Now if the American people had not been thoroughly brainwahed and bamboozled by the military-industrial complex, we would be invading the halls of Congress en masse and demanding that our Representatives and Senators defund this insanity immediately. 

But no--too many Americans have been lobotomized into supine passivity and inaction and have swallowed the Republicans' big lie that we have to slash benefits to the poor and middle-class citizens of America in order to "balance the budget" and "pay down the natioal debt."

Baloney!

We need to slash the trillions in corporate welfare going to pay for the flying white elephanat and other military boondoggles. 

Well, just look at the picture below if you want to know what $320 million [2 X $160 million] of your taxes bought.  Ugly little bastards, ain't they?

The Flying White Elephant: "Flawed beyond redemption."

Jagor