Quote of the day: Since the Bushhawks have no respect for military competence, of course they dismiss the generals' shocking testimony on Iraq

"I believe that Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the administration did not tell the American people the truth for fear of losing support for the war in Iraq."
--retired Army Maj. Gen. John R. S. Batiste (at right above with retired Marine Col. Thomas Hammes, left, and retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, center), to the Senate Democrats' forum on the war chaired by Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, who has been quietly emerging as one of the Senate's more serious members

We assume you've already seen this quote--and those of the other generals who testified. But we hope their words will be plastered all over the damned place. If ever there were "quotes of the day," these are it.

Of course you've got the usual counterpoint. From John Cornyn, the blight of Texas: "an election-year smoke screen aimed at obscuring the Democrats' dismal record on national security." From Mitch McConnell, the shame of Kentucky: "Today's stunt may rile up the liberal base, but it won't kill a single terrorist or prevent a single attack." And there's Mighty Mouth, Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter, telling the National Press Club that election-season politics are to blame for the failure to solve the Iraq mess.

These are people who are too stupid to live, and that's without reference to their psychopathic viciousness. There must be a prison psych ward somewhere that could shelter them.

And then there's another psychopathic liar, Secretary of State Rice, calling former President Clinton a liar. Of course she would do better to keep her trap shut, since--as Jon Stewart pointed out on last night's Daily Show--the media mites are paying no attention whatsoever to Clinton's rapid-fire presentation, following the supposed "meltdown" in his confrontation with Fox idiot Chris Wallace, of the facts about his administration's vs. his successors' attention to Al Qaeda.

Apparently we've reached the point where people in this administration feel not the slightest compunction about spewing total fabrications. Well, why should they feel any inhibition, let alone anything as quaint as shame? After all, their only concern is the possibility of getting caught in their lies, and how much chance of that is there when, in the grand scheme of today's "journalism," a pile of puke like Chris Wallace stands closer to the high end (at least on the TV side) than to the bottom?