What a maroon!

Uh, it can get embarrassing when the synapses fail you. Couldn't happen to a nicer idiot.

You know, I've heard all the rhetoric -- you've heard it, too -- about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that."

-- George "the idiot" Bush
Temporary US president

President Bush, quoted by ABC News, suggesting the immigration bill does provide amnesty after months of claiming otherwise. The apparent slip of the tongue comes with a key Senate vote on the issue later today. [emphasis mine]

The pic is of synapses. Pretty kewl, huh? How the hell do they photograph such things?

H/T Teagan Goddard.

AFGHANISTAN: War crime immunity law gets green light

This is gonna be popular. It seems Bush's style of rule is spreading. There's nothing wrong with committing criminal acts.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday signed a controversial bill which provides sweeping amnesty for war crimes committed over more than two decades of conflict in Afghanistan.

Afghan legislators who have been opposing the bill criticised the move.

"We are deeply concerned over the contents of this undemocratic document," said Shukria Barakzai, an MP and democracy activist whose parliamentary group opposes the amnesty law.

Mir Ahmad Joyenda, another lawmaker, told IRIN that those "MPs opposing the immunity law were explicitly threatened by powerful warlords in the national assembly".

Noor Akbari, a former Afghan diplomat, said the enacted law contradicts the country's constitution and will violate some of the international human rights treaties to which Afghanistan is a signatory.

To be clear. No one has the right to grant amnesty to war criminals. No one. There are some people who don't deserve amnesty such as child molesters, serial killers and especially war criminals.

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