Soviet style purge at CIA and State Department. We are soooo fucked.

[Cyrano]

The new head of the CIA, Porter Goss, is busy firing every competent CIA official who doesn't agree with King George. Kinda makes you feel safer, doesn't it?

And Condi will soon be doing the same thing at the State Dept, with the help of Dick Cheney's elves. Boy, this is really going to improve our standing with the rest of the people on planet Earth.

Under King George's new regime, as under the first, all that counts is loyalty. Don't think, don't advise, don't disagree. Just smile, nod, and put on your knee pads.

Any semblance of competence at the CIA or the State Dept. will soon be non-existent. Jeeeez, we are sooo, sooo, fucked.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Yep... we're FUCKITY-fucked.

As fucked as "a nation under God" can be...:(

[Thtwudbeme]

2. I agree with this;

This move scared me more than anything else that has happened over the past several years.

I hate to say this, but are we going to long for the OLD Bush Jr. administration? Are we going to ...god help me...fondly look back on the good 'ol days of nutty, cat-fearing Ashcroft?

Yeah. We are screwed.

[Paradise]

3. Soooo are the freepers!

There's always a silver lining. :silly:

[Cyrano]

4. The problem is, they're too stupid to know it.

While we're in the showers waiting for the gas to be dropped in, they'll be looking around for the soap.

[Paradise]

11. :) You do have a way with words, Cyrano :) n/t

[emulatorloo]

5. Actually, I think that it is Bush who will be in trouble for this

He is setting himself up for failure. . .

You don't succeed by shutting out all alternative viewpoints.

In the short term it may work for him.

In the long term, it ain't gonna be pretty for GWB.

[Chimpanzee]

8. setting himself up for failure???? WTF?

He's been a failure at everything his entire life and half the coutry loves him!!

[emulatorloo]

10. Can't last forever. . .EOM

[Beetwasher]

6. We've Never Been In More Danger Than We Are Now!

From within and without. These purges are throwing State and CIA into chaos just when we need them the most. We have never been more vulnerable to attack than we are now because of this.

[leftofthedial]

7. there is no longer a professional policy apparatus

the entire Executive Branch is a partisan political operation

no policy except the neocon agenda

the intelligence apparatus has been paralyzed by political infighting between those for whom we are the enemy and those who actually care about the world we live in.

we are fucked, but with less ambiguity than before.

[Chimpanzee]

9. I agree

Did I get trapped in my computer somehow inside one of those 'SIM-' games? This new reality is really starting to creep me out!

[Cyrano]

12. BushCo represents a clear and present danger to our country.

But their ain't no Harrison Ford around to confront him, no statesman to step forward and try to wake up the brain-dead 50% who voted for him, no effective opposition from a castrated Democratic party, and no end in sight to our horrifying national nightmare.

Wait until 2006, or 2008? I'm not sure there will be much left to salvage even if we could get all the votes fairly counted.