Lies, Damn Lies, and the Democratic Underground. The Democratic Underground is upset because of the articles about them and the tsunami. They feel that the Times and Fox news are not represting the truth about them. So, how do they represent the truth themselves?

Let's look at this article which was posted earlier this week. The name of the article is " It's Time to Support the Troops". How? By firing Rumsfeld. Here are some examples of outrageous statements:

Their boss, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, says although the troops might not have been the ones he wished for when he went to war, they were all he had. Recently, when asked about a draft, he even said he'd continue to work with what he had. "God bless 'em - because they volunteered," he said. "They want to be doing what it is they're doing."

Lies, all. Rumsfeld was talking about unarmored Humvees, not troops, when he made the statement about "what you have, not what you wish."

After a stunned and confused moment, Rumsfeld first blamed the quality of the troops, then blamed the manufacturers for not having "production capacity," before finally pooh-poohing in true Rumsfeldian fashion the need for having armor at all. "If you think about it, you can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can be blown up," he blustered. "And you can have an up-armored humvee and it can be blown up."

At least three humvee manufacturers were quick to call Rumsfeld on his blatant lie. Executives at Armor Holdings, Jacksonville, Fla., said the company was ready to go, and has been waiting for purchase orders from the Pentagon. Those from AM General in Indiana and Ohio's O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt echoed Armor's remarks. All three manufacturers were adamant that no orders had been placed.

Again, lies and misrepresentations. The armor manufacturers said that they could increase production slightly if the army requested it. That's a long way from no orders.

t's easy to conclude that Bush and Rumsfeld are either sadistic liers or they are totally out of touch with reality. Or both.

Someone here is a sadistic lier or out of touch with reality.

It was all lies. Congress had to know Saddam Hussein posed no threat whatever to America; that he had no connection to 9-11, and that Iraq was broken by 12 years of sanctions, by the disease and death resulting from our relentless bombing of Iraqi infrastructure and the withholding of medicines and food.

How many times to we have to quote President and Senators Clinton, Vice President Gore, and Senator Kerry saying that Saddam presented a clear danger? In the rewritten version of the war, Bush elevated a benevolent Saddam into a monster in order to help the military industrial complex or something similar.

Speaking of which, here's a congress woman who is actually saying this stuff.

Rep. John Conyers says that at least one senator will back his challenge to the Ohio Delegation. Conyers is so busy challenging the election that he cannot explain what he did with charity turkeys.

Fernandes said he became suspicious that the turkeys didn't get to poor people after hearing from a friend that a federal court worker had said he was offered free turkeys from a member of Conyers' staff.

[...] A Conyers staff member who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal told the Free Press that Grubbs and her cousin, Conyers' Detroit deputy chief of staff Marion Brown, along with a former Conyers aide, DeWayne Boyd, picked up the turkeys and later gave contradictory accounts of what happened to the birds.

The unnamed staff member raised concerns in a memo sent to both the FBI and House ethics committee. Conyers was the target of an informal ethics committee inquiry last year following a Free Press investigation about use of staff members during work hours for political campaigns.

Boyd, who was fired from Conyers' Detroit office in 2002, was convicted on seven counts of fraud last month in U.S. District Court in connection with a scam he ran from Conyers' office in 1999.

And this is the man who is investigating election irregularities.