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Now . . . Tanya Snyder is an idiot. She works for POLITICO. Redundant? She writes:
For almost a century, one principle has governed Washington’s approach to transportation funding: The people who drive on roads should pay for them. But that tenet has been withering for nearly 30 years. And the huge infrastructure packages emerging from Congress and the Biden White House are poised to strangle it.
The reason is simple math: The gasoline tax that bankrolls the federal Highway Trust Fund is politically untouchable, leading lawmakers and presidents of both parties to balk at raising it since 1993. But the money to pay for the nation’s growing needs for roads, bridges and transit has to come from somewhere — and the main answer has been to borrow it, adding it onto the yawning federal deficit.
This is a perfect example of advocacy masquerading as 'reporting.' She wants a gas tax increase -- probably because her bosses at POLITICO want it as well. So she lies. She implies that the people are not paying their share and someone else is going to have to pay it.
Who, liar?
Members of Congress. Sorry to break it to you, dear, but we're not as stupid as you think we are.
All money spent by Congress is money raised through taxation. Meaning it's our money.
Also, people who driver, for example, solar cars? They are "people who drive on roads" and they're either paying a very small gas tax or none at all. Do we need to go over electric cars as well?
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Thursday, July 1, 2021. Hell's a little richer today, but the world has lost a War Criminal.
That's Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Requiem for a War Hawk" which ran November 19, 2006 -- Bully Boy Bush, Dick Cheney and Condi Rice gather due to the departing Donald Rumsfeld -- who was Rumsfled at that point. He argued 'stay the course' in Iraq but, of course, he fled his own duty, leaving his post as Secretary of Defense while the illegal war he helped start continued to drag on (and still does continue).
Rumsfled has fled again. He's passed away.
Below, the cast of THE WIZ reacts to the news of Donald's passing.
At the age of 88, the War Criminal passed away. Bully Boy Bush issued a statement apparently crafted by someone else in which he hailed Rumsfled as "intelligent" to which a disbelieving world yells back, "Spell it!"
We all know he's too stupid to spell the word.
Dick and his equally homophobic wife* Lynne Cheney issued a statement about the "huge change he made in our lives" -- I guess it's not surprising to learn that he waterboarded Dick and Lynne -- Lynne did write that trashy sex novel so their kinkiness really isn't all that surprising. (Dick and Lynne now embrace their lesbian daughter. In 2004, when the issue of gay rights was raised in a vice presidential debate between John Edwards and Dick Cheney, Edwards spoke about the importance of equality and hoped that Dick would agree since Mary was a lesbian. The response was to try to shame Edwards, the Democratic Party and the whole wide world because a lesbian had been acknowledged.)
Donald lived to be 88. Most of his victims were not so fortunate.
Iraqis responded on Thursday (Jul 1) with a mixture of bitterness and indifference to the death of Donald Rumsfeld, former United States defence secretary and architect of the 2003 invasion of their country.
"I'm not saddened by the death of an occupier," said Saad Jabbar, a transport ministry employee, a day after Rumsfeld's family announced his death at the age of 88.
The US "left us nothing but memories of occupation and destruction".
In charge of the US military for most of George W Bush's presidency, Rumsfeld led the charge into devastating wars in Iraq and Afghanistan following the Sep 11, 2001, attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
The Iraq invasion, based on false claims that Baghdad had weapons of mass destruction, removed dictator Saddam Hussein, and Washington promised it would bring democracy and freedom to the region.
In reality it sparked years of sectarian violence and led to the emergence of the jihadist Islamic State group.
"I don't think history will look kindly at (Rumsfeld and Bush) because of the catastrophes they caused, including to the Iraqi people," said a tribal leader from Iraq's Anbar province who asked not to be named.
Glenn Greenwald Tweets:
There's nothing that Donald Trump managed to do that got close to the worst and most destructive acts of Donald Rumsfeld and his comrades. greenwald.substack.com/p/no-matter-th
Abby Martin's EMPIRE FILES Tweeted:
Katie Halper Tweets:
Sad but true. Ugly men -- on the inside and on the outside -- like Donald and Bully Boy Bush were openly gushed over by the press. Their masochistic tendencies were on full display daily.
From April 23, 2006, that's "Ego Mania vs. the United States."
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Julian Borger (GUARDIAN) observes:
Donald Rumsfeld’s name will forever be associated with the biggest military fiasco in US history, the 2003 invasion of Iraq in pursuit of non-existent weapons of mass destruction, alongside the widespread use of torture that has dogged America’s reputation ever since.
It is not just the poor decisions he made as defence secretary for which Rumsfeld will be remembered, but also his efforts to cover up inconvenient facts that did not align with his version of reality.
Documents surfaced after the invasion that showed that Rumsfeld was quite aware of the gaping holes in the intelligence about Iraqi WMD, but he consistently presented the claims to the public as if they were cast-iron certainties.
He also played down the growing insurgency against the US-led occupation after Saddam Hussein’s fall, dismissing the collapse of law and order in Baghdad with the insouciant phrase “stuff happens”, which would go on to haunt him for the rest of his life.
It is not just the poor decisions he made as defence secretary for which Rumsfeld will be remembered, but also his efforts to cover up inconvenient facts that did not align with his version of reality.
Documents surfaced after the invasion that showed that Rumsfeld was quite aware of the gaping holes in the intelligence about Iraqi WMD, but he consistently presented the claims to the public as if they were cast-iron certainties.
He also played down the growing insurgency against the US-led occupation after Saddam Hussein’s fall, dismissing the collapse of law and order in Baghdad with the insouciant phrase “stuff happens”, which would go on to haunt him for the rest of his life.
His reluctance to heed warnings that did not fit in with his world view alienated the generals and the military rank and file. His insistence there was no serious threat in Iraq contributed to the fact that the US military was driving around in lightly armoured Humvees a year after the invasion.
In November 2006, the Army Times took the unusual step of calling for his resignation.
“Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large,” an editorial said. “His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt.”
Iraq, the land of orphans and widows, remains a disaster thanks to Donald Rumsfeld and his ilk. As they struggle with one day after another over 100 degrees F and with little to no electricity, the protests resume. Zhyan English notes:
And they continue to protest in Basra.
Protests continue, as MIDDLE EAST EYE notes, in spite of the attacks on the protesters.
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