Mr. David Corn,

Funny theme as we are living on the other side of the looking glass.

Great Post!

Thanks

Kirk

There is no need to concentrate on the lies that started Armegeddon, everything is right on schedule.

Buildup to World War III

by Bill Sardi

From: Lew Rockwell

Objective: Seize oil fields and destroy military in Arabic countries

Step #1: Raise oil prices to unprecedented levels so the economic impact of any withdrawal of oil from the world market by Middle-Eastern countries will be blunted by existing high oil prices.

Step #2: Warn the public, in this instance in a State of the Union Address, that the nation must become less oil dependent.

Step #3: Raise funds for the war in Congress before war is announced. The President requested the military budget be raised by $70 billion (Feb. 5, 2006).

Step #4: Provoke the people in target countries to respond with anger by humiliating them. Cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Danish newspapers have provoked outrage and demonstrations throughout Middle-Eastern countries. An Associated Press report says "images of abuse by American soldiers at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and reports of deplorable conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison also have reinforced suspicions that Arabs in general have become targets of the anti-terror war."

A Knight-Ridder news report said: "Muslims also took to the streets in Afghanistan, the West Bank, Iraq and New Zealand on Sunday. The most violent protests occurred in Asian and Middle Eastern capitals. In London, some protesters carried placards warning that those who defame Islam would pay with their blood."

Fawzi al-Jasem, Kuwait's ambassador to Austria, said: "At first it was just Denmark, but it keeps spreading," al-Jasem said. "We don't know what we can do to stop this."

Somehow a vast cache of Danish flags have appeared in Muslim countries, to be publicly burned, while green and black Islamic flags were waved by demonstrators worldwide. The outrage is being well orchestrated.

Step #5: Find a fall guy. Jamal Ahmed Badawi, the so-called mastermind of the USS Cole attack in 2000, is reported on Feb. 5, 2006, to have escaped from prison in Yemen with other al Qaeda terrorists. He is now free to attack the West.

The problem with this story is that Associated Press released a similar story that Badawi escaped from prison on April 11, 2003. Certainly the news media is aware of this, which means they are complicit in the propaganda buildup to the next war.

Step #6: Contrive or provoke a threat. In this instance, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seeing US military bases being built in countries neighboring Iran and elsewhere, may feel the only negotiation card Iran has left is nuclear weapons.

Step #7: Ignite the world against the Middle-Eastern countries in order to recruit the vast number of military troops required for WW III. US forces are short on man power. Whatever country doesn't go along with the agenda won't have oil supplies restored.

Step #8: Now all that is needed in this powder keg environment is an alarming event, which is scheduled for....
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The whore media I hold completely responsible.

The thugs and slugs in power stole it fair and square. They will dictate the game from now on. "We can do _______, because we say so" started long before the illegal and unwise invasion of Iraq, just as the illegal wiretaps started long before 911.

Seems clear we would be facing a takeover from within to destroy American doctrine because it is inconvenient and cumbersome not matter what, who or how.

There is nothing the Democrats can do (well not much) so we can only hope some in the GOP to stand up for the country and the constitution instead of holding up their legs for the likes of Bush, Cheney, Rove, etc..

*sigh*

capt

David, not only did the press corps not ask about the MOADSM'S. They have yet to ask anyone where is the verifiable evidence to back the repeated claims of the Bush administration that Iran is developing their nuclear capabilities...DEJA VU....INCLUDING YOU AND HUFFINGTON.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph the same folks who lied us into the "cakewalk in Iraq" have been allowed to lay the groundwork for sanctions or military action against Iran. Based on what verifiable evidence?

These folks including John Bolton should be in jail or at the very least in a courtroom. Instead Bolton has been laying out yet another parallel organization to trump the IAEA'S PROCESS. Mr. El Baradei has said that Iran poses not "imminent threat" yet Bolton marches on. Ready to move forward with sanctions whether the UN security council votes yes or not. Deja Vu. All the while the media sleeps and the american people (numb and dizzy from spin) do not even ask the question...WHERE IS THE FUCKING VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE THAT WOULD SUPPORT THE CLAIM THAT IRAN IS DEVELOPING THEIR NUCLEAR CAPABILITY?

The same folks who warned us against the lies that led us into Iraq have been screaming at the tops of their lungs about Iran. Scott Ritter, Cia Ray McGovern, know one seems to be taking their insights and asking the logical questions of the Bush administration.

David will you be stepping up to the plate on this important issue?

Jesus history is repeating itself fast.

Great reference to Alice in Wonderland. The circular argument of the Attorney General -- we didn't break the law because we don't believe we broke the law -- is incredibly frustrating,

Also, a couple of times during the hearings, Senators were essentially begging Gonzales to tell them how to change the law so the administration would be in compliance. He kept saying he thinks everything is fine with FISA. This reluctance of the administration needs further questioning.

The MOADSM reaction (or lack of) is much like so many `issues' the extreme Left thinks are important but in the broader picture, "Don't amount to a hill of beans!". I mentioned the Danish cartoon incident a potential BIG deal and it has certainly proven to be so. Any serious journalist better toss their name into the `hat of ideas' and say something. You Lefty journalist say some of the most outrageous things but yet, for the most part, are SILENT on this `incident'...Echos of hypocracy?

One of the best in the business is copied below on the BIG PICTURE:

Thomas Sowell today:

Terrorists and terrorist governments are giving us almost daily evidence of their fanatical hatred and violent sadism, as the clock ticks away toward their gaining possession of nuclear weapons. They not only hold a harmless young woman hostage in Iraq, they parade her in tears on television, just as they have paraded not only the terrorizing, but even the beheading, of others on television.

Moreover, there is a large and gleeful audience in the Arab world for these gross brutalities, just as there was glee and cheering among the Palestinians when the televised destruction of the World Trade center was broadcast in the Middle East.

Yet what are we preoccupied with or outraged about? Whether the American government should intercept the phone calls of these cutthroats to people in the United States.

That question has been sanitized in the mainstream media by asking whether the government should be engaged in "domestic wiretapping," just as the terrorists themselves have been sanitized into "militants" or "insurgents."

The way the question is posed by many in the media and in politics, you would think our intelligence agencies were listening in on you talking on the phone to your aunt Mabel.

Be serious! There are more than a quarter of a billion people in the United States. Intelligence agencies have neither the manpower, the time, the money, nor the interest to listen in on you and your aunt Mabel.

Lawyers may differ on fine legal points about the Constitutional powers of the commander in chief during wartime versus the oversight powers of the courts. But, a Supreme Court Justice once pointed out that the Constitution of the United States is not a suicide pact.

BTW: A quick glance show postings are getting boring! Adios!!

Kathleen, you should know by now that no one of significance is going to jail, this play will be ssen through to the bitter end, and it appears to me the Iranian president is provoking it. Is he just another patsy for the NWO? What does he gain from this?

STFU moneybags, read the Constitution!

CHECK OUT THIS TIMELINE OF THE CARTOONS BEING PRINTED
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30 Sept 2005: Danish paper publishes cartoons
20 Oct: Muslim ambassadors complain to Danish PM
10 Jan 2006: Norwegian publication reprints cartoons
26 Jan: Saudi Arabia recalls its ambassador
30 Jan: Gunmen raid EU's Gaza office demanding apology
31 Jan: Danish paper apologises
1 Feb: Papers in France, Germany, Italy and Spain reprint cartoons
4 Feb: Syrians attack Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus
5 Feb: Protesters sack Danish embassy in Beirut
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TAKE THE DATE OF THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE CARTOONS SEPT AND INSERT THE DATE OF THE DISTRICT IN NORWAY THAT DECIDED TO JOIN THE BOYCOTT OF ISRAELI PRODUCTS ...DEC. 16TH 2005..

Also insert the response from the ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE and other Israeli firster groups and Condaleeza's response in December, she said Norway would suffer consequences from it's decision.

Then move to the decision of the Norwegian paper's decision to reprint the inflammatory cartoons.

I really do not think this is a coincidence. Since the original individual who commissioned the cartoons Flemming Rose is involved with Daniel Pipes (who has led the movement to block the DIVEST FROM ISRAEL CAMPAIGN ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES HERE IN THE STATES.

What an effective way to inflame and ignite the Muslim population and turn them against the Scandanavian countries. What a way to SHUT DOWN THE DIVEST FROM ISRAEL CAMPAIGN.

30 Sept 2005: Danish paper publishes cartoons
20 Oct: Muslim ambassadors complain to Danish PM

--HERE IS WHERE YOU INSERT
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..16 DEC...2005 THE DATE THAT A DISTRICT IN NORWAY DECIDED TO JOIN THE BOYCOTT ISRAELI PRODUCTS CAMPAIGN

..IN DECEMEBER MANY ISRAEL FIRSTER ORGANIZATIONS AND ISRAEL RESPONDED AGGRESSIVELY. (WHICH I BELIEVE WOULD BE NORMAL FOR ANY COUNTRY TO RESPOND)

..THEN CONDALEEZA RICE RESPONDS AND TELLS NORWAY "THAT THEY WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES"

..WHY WOULD NORWAY DECIDE TO REPRINT THESE INFLAMMATORY DRAWINGS
who owns this paper..who is the person who made the decision to reprint?

--BACK TO THE ORIGINAL TIMELINE
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10 Jan 2006: Norwegian publication reprints cartoons
26 Jan: Saudi Arabia recalls its ambassador
30 Jan: Gunmen raid EU's Gaza office demanding apology
31 Jan: Danish paper apologises
1 Feb: Papers in France, Germany, Italy and Spain reprint cartoons
4 Feb: Syrians attack Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus
5 Feb: Protesters sack Danish embassy in Beirut

Cartoon row: Your views

I DO NOT THINK THIS WAS SOME INNOCENT MISTAKE.

#5
Lynn,
I find that interesting too. It tells me that the white house 1. doesn't care what the congress thinks and 2. is baiting the congress into doing nothing so that it can proceed on in the same manner. When people like Lindsey Graham can say

"All I'm saying is the inherent authority argument in its application to me seems to have no boundaries when it comes to executive decisions in a time of war, it deals the Congress and courts out, Mr. Attorney General."

it is pretty serious. If this congress lets it go they are nothing more than a lax parent who allows his son or daughter to terrorize the neighborhood.
It is the congresses job to be a check and balance.

#8 from Corn blog's best Constitutional Scholar:

STFU moneybags, read the Constitution!

Posted by: DEN at February 7, 2006 11:43 AM

David:

Last words before I head out! Your site is blessed with so many Scholars (see example #8), world-class economists and political analysts, I am just awe-struck. I presume most of your Lefty regulars have numerous publications, books, and of course, the requsite degrees but have to post under pseudo handles to avoid upstaging you. Needless to say, they must be among the wealthy elites since they should be able to capitalize on their remarkable forsights.

As for you and your site, it is no longer called `BushLied', right? Expand your horizon beyond the typical political lies and doublespeak!

#6 Saladin. I am confused by this. It seems the Iranian President is playing into, a plant provoking, setting a trap. Hell I don't know.

But the PNAC folks are just 7 months behind the schedule that Scott Ritter predicted. (we remember Ritter was right they were wrong about Iraq)

This is all being pushed hard before the AIPAC CONFERENCE in early March which of course will be completly focused on sanctions or an invasion of Iran. This will help the push for actions . I mean at the Aipac conference last year both Perle and Sharon said the U.s. should invade Iran. When will Sharon be made to sign in as "an agent of a foreign country."

Bolton is pushing hard to have something happen before the AIPAC/ROSEN trial in April. It would appear that it is proven that Rosen/Weismann/ Kenneth Pollack/Naor Gilon/Judith Miller were spying on the U.s. If Franklin decides to not take the fall and exposes what went on.

Would actions against Iran be out of the picture at this point. Far less likely.

Saladin what have you read about the intelligence that allegedly was transferred between these folks? Was it all about Iran? I have read that it was?

Kathleen,
This is the kind of thing that you read about 50 years later in a history book and you wonder why countries can be so stupid. I think we are heading toward World War and I think the fanatics are gleeful about it.

What happens when a world war breaks out and no one will go to the front lines to fight?

As far as the prisoner escape? I thought from the first moment it was staged.

"AS THE WORLD SPINS" I have to go back to work. Will check back later.

thanks for all of the reading folks do.

Do folks my age (53) remember that soap opera back in the day..my mother watched it..
"AS THE WORLD TURNS."

We now know it no longer turns''it spins and spins according to Rove and the Bush administration's Perception is reality crowd.

Here's the extended quote from Humpty Dumpty's news conference.

The reporter, Alice, does better than most of the White House Press Corps by asking a probing follow-up question. HD's reply eeirly anticipates the Republicans' success at turning Washington into a one party town.

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"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean-- neither more not less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-- that's all." (274)

Heh, heh, constitutional scholar? It does not take anything above a 8th grade education to understand: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Duh!

Here's an interesting post.

Letting More Al Qaeda Terrorists Slip Away

Twenty-three more al Qaeda members are on the loose after a prison escape last Friday in Sanaa, Yemen. The group includes Jamal Mohammed al-Badawi, the mastermind behind the USS Cole attack that killed 17 US sailors in Yemen in October 2000.

Why would the Bush administration allow terrorists with American blood on their hands to be held in an insecure location? This was not the first time that suspected Al Qaeda members escaped from prison in Yemen -–†at least 10 members escaped from a prison in Aden in 2003.

And this latest escape comes just a few months after an escape by four top Al Qaeda suspects who were held by US forces in an American military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan last year.

President Bush continues to talk tough on terrorism, but more than four years after the 9/11 attacks, what does he have to show for all of his talk?

-Global terrorist attacks have tripled on President Bush’≥ watch;

-The Bush administration has received failing and mediocre grades on fighting terrorists by the 9/11 Commission;

-By invading Iraq without a plan to stabilize the country, President Bush created a new haven and terrorist training ground for Al Qaeda; and

-The Bush administration let top Al Qaeda leaders slip away in the early days of the war in Afghanistan.

The Bush failures in the fight against terrorism keep piling up, and Americans are less safe because of them.

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This guy needs an education, Saladin. Even I, the most hopeful-naive- person on this blog, knows this was a set up.

DEN, Happy is happily oblivious. It also does not take a degree in economics to know that we can't keep borrowing nearly 2 billion a day to finance a rogue govt. that is pissing the entire planet off! We've been set up for a fall, anyone with eyes can see that.

Saladin Says:
"Step #5: Find a fall guy. Jamal Ahmed Badawi, the so-called mastermind of the USS Cole attack in 2000, is reported on Feb. 5, 2006, to have escaped from prison in Yemen with other al Qaeda terrorists. He is now free to attack the West.

The problem with this story is that Associated Press released a similar story that Badawi escaped from prison on April 11, 2003. Certainly the news media is aware of this, which means they are complicit in the propaganda buildup to the next war."

Check it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3550311.stm

USS COLE SUSPECTS RECAPTURED 19, March, 2004

BADAWI WAS RECAPTURED - Who is full of "propaganda buildup" now?

Ve Vill tell you vat to tink, ve are zee SS, you vil now proceed to zee reichstalag vere you vill be until ve say you may go. SSincerely; Komendandt BOOsh

Top 10 'Conspiracy Theories' about George W. Bush, Part 1

In the aftermath of Sept. 11, a friend sent me an obscure book featuring predictions by a blind Native American shaman. It was a thoughtful, but annoying, gesture. For all I knew, this "seer" could merely be a James Frey-sized figment of the author's imagination and these so-called prophecies could be nothing more than a patchwork of hunches. A prediction that the Red Sox would win the World Series would have been impressive. But wars? Economic downturns? Environmental disasters? Yawn.

This was the age of forged Nostradamus quotes and apocalyptic visions, however, and, with debunking in mind, I plodded ahead. Some predictions, which were reportedly made in 1982, were decidedly silly. Others, however, don't exactly ring foolish. Among the more noteworthy:

* Propaganda and terrorism will increase.
* Religious zealots will use the courts to try to force their views upon the general public.
* The Supreme Court will make unfortunate decisions that don't benefit the people.
* Several undeclared wars will be waged simultaneously.
* There will be high-level secrecy and clandestine agreements between nations.
* America will eventually become a police state.
* The draft will be reinstated.
* Americans will learn of government duplicity and cover-ups.

Whether or not this list is the result of guesswork, fabrications or something else, nearly a quarter of a century later, such musings have gone from the fringe to the forefront. Police state predictions? Check. Rumors of wars? Check. Clandestine agreements between nations? Check. Discoveries of government duplicity and cover-ups? Triple check.

Predictions are not the same thing as conspiracy theories, of course, but both can occur simultaneously. Sept. 11 commission co-chair Lee Hamilton's prediction that another terrorist attack is all but certain, for example, when combined with concerns about George W. Bush's imperial ambitions, creates the kind of speculation the founding fathers engaged in, long before FOX News was there to pooh-pooh concerns about tyrannical designs.

And though predictions and conspiracy theories are often speculative and contrived, it must be remembered that the term "tin foil hat" has its roots in historical fact and the tendency to tag a "gate" onto scandals proves that some conspiracy theories do, in fact, turn out to be true.

With the most secretive, power-hungry administration in recent history, George W. Bush has generated a cornucopia of theories. Many of them are ridiculous while others, like the assorted conspiracies relating to Skull and Bones, simply confirm suspicions about frat boys and prove that privilege and networking do, in fact, catapult people into high places.

Some theories, however, have Tina Turner-strength legs. For your consideration:
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Long article, full of links. Very good.

#64 of the previous thread -

Graymaling, eh. Didn't know there was a term for it. I had always suggested that the trial of the century would be for the families of the 911 hijackers to sue for their share of the 911 fund, arguing that the hijackers were just ordinary citizens who happened to be on the planes. In order for the insurance companies and the US to win the case, it would have to release a load of classified information into the public view. That's not going to happen. The hijackers' families would win simply because no proof would emerge to prove they actually did it. A judge would have to rule in their favor.

hmm, a funny thing about that 911 fund:: almost NONE of the highjacked PASSENGER'S families have even filed for it - in fact, there is an official death registration/list that everyone in the U.S. who dies is automatically put on, and almost none of the highjacked passengers have even been put on that list as registered deceased -

just more things that should make you go hmmm...

NATO Troops Fire On Afghans Protesting Against Cartoon
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- NATO peacekeepers exchanged gunfire with protesters who attacked their base Tuesday in another day of deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, officials said. Three demonstrators were killed.

In neighboring Pakistan, 5,000 people chanting ''Hang the man who insulted the prophet!'' burned effigies of Denmark's prime minister and a cartoonist.

Denmark Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen called the protests ''a growing global crisis'' and appealed for calm. The Danish paper Jyllands-Posten was the first to publish the drawings, in September.
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NATO Troops are a pretty good target, if you're looking for a big backlash!

Is this the begining of the end of the "War on Terror" or the end of the beginning on the "War on Anyone Standing Slightly In The Way of the Flow of Oil?"

Addicts gotta get their fix, anyway they can!

-T

Army Charges GI for Being Wounded

The last time 1st Lt. William "Eddie" Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood.

Now he is forced to pay for the "missing" body armor. The army charges soldiers for missing equipment. When medics rushed to save Rebrook's life, they neglected to keep track of the bloody and destroyed body armor. "I last saw the [body armor] when it was pulled off my bleeding body while I was being evacuated in a helicopter," Rebrook said. "They took it off me and burned it."

Rebrook decided to leave the army because of his injuries. But he was informed that he could not be discharged until he paid $700 for his "missing" armor. Rebrook scrounged up the cash from his Army buddies and returned home last Friday.

I wonder if we will hear anything on this from the "Support Our Troops" crowd.

It turns out the editor who originally publshed the "offensive" Muslim cartoons is a disciple of Daniel Pipes and the "clash of civilizations" theory put out by Project for a New American Century. PNAC is the outfit that called for a "Pearl Harbor event" in order to initiate a global war against the Muslim world.

and got one with 911

Rove counting heads on the Senate Judiciary Committee

The White House has been twisting arms to ensure that no Republican member votes against President Bush in the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation of the administration's unauthorized wiretapping.

Congressional sources said Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove has threatened to blacklist any Republican who votes against the president. The sources said the blacklist would mean a halt in any White House political or financial support of senators running for re-election in November.

"It's hardball all the way," a senior GOP congressional aide said.

The sources said the administration has been alarmed over the damage that could result from the Senate hearings, which began on Monday, Feb. 6. They said the defection of even a handful of Republican committee members could result in a determination that the president violated the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Such a determination could lead to impeachment proceedings.

Over the last few weeks, Mr. Rove has been calling in virtually every Republican on the Senate committee as well as the leadership in Congress. The sources said Mr. Rove's message has been that a vote against Mr. Bush would destroy GOP prospects in congressional elections.

"He's [Rove] lining them up one by one," another congressional source said.

Mr. Rove is leading the White House campaign to help the GOP in November’≥ congressional elections. The sources said the White House has offered to help loyalists with money and free publicity, such as appearances and photo-ops with the president.

Those deemed disloyal to Mr. Rove would appear on his blacklist. The sources said dozens of GOP members in the House and Senate are on that list.

So far, only a handful of GOP senators have questioned Mr. Rove's tactics.

Some have raised doubts about Mr. Rove's strategy of painting the Democrats, who have opposed unwarranted surveillance, as being dismissive of the threat posed by al Qaeda terrorists.

"Well, I didn't like what Mr. Rove said, because it frames terrorism and the issue of terrorism and everything that goes with it, whether it's the renewal of the Patriot Act or the NSA wiretapping, in a political context," said Sen. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican.
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In a political way?
No, sir, in a mobster sort of way.
Get a clue.

Bush 2007 budget quietly omits impact of policies on deficit

President George W. Bush's fiscal year 2007 budget quietly omits a table included in previous years which lays out the impact of the Administration's proposed policies on the deficit, RAW STORY has learned.

The missing table was first discovered by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Its omission -- a single table among thousands and thousands of pages that follow a standard format each year -- likely signals that the Administration is trying to keep the focus off the massive deficits which the United States will incur after 2010.

The missing table was first discovered by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Its omission -- a single table among thousands and thousands of pages that follow a standard format each year -- likely signals that the Administration is trying to keep the focus off the massive deficits which the United States will incur after 2010.

Bloomberg News notes that under the 2007 budget, the federal deficit would decline until 2010 and then start rising at a remarkable rate.

"If Congress makes Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent, most of the impact won't be felt until after 2011, long after the president has left office," the financial news service writes. "Some of the tax reductions are due to expire at the end of 2008 and the rest in 2010."

The loss of revenue between 2012 and 2016 is projected at $1.2 trillion.
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Please interview actual Saudi Arabian
average, ordinary citizens. I , for one, want
to know how they are doing, what's
on their minds , etc.

Anderson Petition
WAR IS A RACKET

www.warisaracket.org

Why is the administration so desperate to take over the Middle East? Pick your poison...War vs. economic disaster.

Check this out...(sorry,don't know how to link) it's a little long, but well worth the read.

February 05, 2006
Battle Plans for Iran?
By Mike Whitney in OpEdNews.com
In less than 24 hours the Bush administration won impressive victories on both domestic and foreign policy fronts. At home, the far-right Federalist Society alum, Sam Alito, has overcome the feeble resistance from Democratic senators; ensuring his confirmation to the Supreme Court sometime late on Tuesday. Equally astonishing, the administration has coerced both Russia and China into bringing Iran before the United Nations Security Council although (as Mohamed ElBaradei says) "There's no evidence of a nuclear weapons program." The surprising capitulation of Russia and China has forced Iran to abandon its efforts for further negotiations; cutting off dialogue that might diffuse the volatile situation.
"We consider any referral or report of Iran to the Security Council as the end of diplomacy," Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told state television.

The administration's success with Iran ends the diplomatic charade and paves the way for war.
Now, UN Ambassador John Bolton can make his appearance before the Security Council with allegations of "noncompliance" that will rattle through the corporate media and prepare the world for unilateral military action.

The administration has no expectation of securing the votes needed for sanctions or punitive action. Its all for show. The trip to the Security Council is simply a ploy to provide the cover of international legitimacy to another act of unprovoked aggression. The case has gone as far as it will go excluding the requisite "touched up" satellite photos and spurious allegations of unreliable dissidents.

We should now be focused on how Washington intends to carry out its war plans, since war is inevitable.
Those who doubt that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld team will attack Iran, while so conspicuously overextended in Iraq, are ignoring the subtleties of the administration's Middle East strategy.

Bush has no intention of occupying Iran. Rather, the goal is to destroy major weapons-sites, destabilize the regime, and occupy a sliver of land on the Iraqi border that contains 90% of Iran's oil wealth. Ultimately, Washington will aim to replace the Mullahs with American-friendly clients who can police their own people and fabricate the appearance of representative government. But, that will have to wait. For now, the administration must prevent the incipient Iran bourse (oil-exchange) from opening in March and precipitating a global sell-off of the debt-ridden dollar. There have many fine articles written about the proposed "euro-based" bourse and the devastating effects it will have on the greenback. The best of these are "Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar" by William R. Clark, and "The Proposed Oil Bourse" by Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D.

The bottom line on the bourse is this; the dollar is underwritten by a national debt that now exceeds $8 trillion dollars and trade deficits that surpass $600 billion per year. That means that the greenback is the greatest swindle in the history of mankind. It's utterly worthless. The only thing that keeps the dollar afloat is that oil is traded exclusively in greenbacks rather than some other currency. If Iran is able to smash that monopoly by trading in petro-euros then the world's central banks will dump the greenback overnight, sending markets crashing and the US economy into a downward spiral.

The Bush administration has no intention of allowing that to take place. In fact, as the tax-cuts and the budget deficits indicate, the Bush cabal fully intends to perpetuate the system that trades worthless dollars for valuable commodities, labor, and resources. As long as the oil market is married to the dollar, this system of global indentured servitude will continue.

Battle Plans
The Bush administration's attention has shifted to a small province in southwestern Iran that is unknown to most Americans. Never the less, Khuzestan will become the next front in the war on terror and the lynchpin for prevailing in the global resource war. If the Bush administration can sweep into the region (under the pretext disarming Iran's nuclear programs) and put Iran's prodigious oil wealth under US control, the dream of monopolizing Middle East oil will have been achieved.

Not surprisingly, this was Saddam Hussein's strategy in 1980 when he initiated hostilities against Iran in a war that would last for eight years. Saddam was an American client at the time, so it is likely that he got the green light for the invasion from the Reagan White House. Many of Reagan's high-ranking officials currently serve in the Bush administration; notably Rumsfeld and Cheney.

Khuzestan represents 90% of Iran's oil production. The control over these massive fields will force the oil-dependent nations of China, Japan and India to continue to stockpile greenbacks despite the currency's dubious value. The annexing of Khuzestan will prevent Iran's bourse from opening, thereby guaranteeing that the dollar will maintain its dominant position as the world's reserve currency. As long as the dollar reigns supreme and western elites have their hands on the Middle East oil-spigot, the current system of exploitation through debt will continue into perpetuity. The administration can confidently prolong its colossal deficits without fear of a plummeting dollar. In fact, the American war-machine and all its various appendages, from Guantanamo to Abrams Tanks, are paid for by the myriad nations who willingly hold reserves of American currency.

This extortion-scheme is typically referred to as the global economic system. In reality, it has nothing to do with either free markets or capitalism. That is just philosophical mumbo-jumbo. It is the dollar-system; predicated entirely on the ongoing monopoly of the oil trade in dollars.

Invading Khuzestan
In a recent article by Zolton Grossman, "Khuzestan; the First Front in the War on Iran?", Grossman cites the Beirut Daily Star which predicts that the ""first step taken by an invading force would be to occupy Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan Province, securing the sensitive Straits of Hormuz and cutting off the Iranian military's oil supply, forcing it to depend on its limited stocks."

This strategy has been called the "Khuzestan Gambit", and we can expect that some variant of this plan will be executed following the aerial bombardment of Iranian military installations and weapons sites. If Iran retaliates, then there is every reason to believe that either the United States or Israel will respond with low-yield, bunker-busting nuclear weapons. In fact, the Pentagon may want to demonstrate its eagerness to use nuclear weapons do deter future adversaries and to maintain current levels of troop deployments without a draft.

Tonkin Bay Redux
On January 28, 2006, Iranian officials announced that they would "hand over evidence that proved British involvement in bombings in the southern city of Ahvaz earlier in the week" that killed eight civilians and wounded 46 others. This was just one of the many bombings, incitements, and demonstrations that have taken place in Khuzestan in the last year that suggest foreign intervention. The action is strikingly similar to the 2 British commandoes who were apprehended in Basra a few months ago dressed as Arabs with a truckload of explosives during the week of religious festival.

Coincidence?

Probably not.

Step by step, Iran is being set up for war. What difference does the provocation make? The determination to consolidate the oil reserves in the Caspian Basin was made more than a decade ago and is clearly articulated in the policy papers produced by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) The Bush administration is one small province away from realizing the its dream of controlling the world's most valued resource. They won't let that opportunity pass them by.

We're in for another war.

Jeanne, Pusface strongarming the congress, any doubt the wiretaps are not for the political purposes has been wiped out. The utter arrogance of pusface shows the true disregard this cabal has for the rule of law. In any other case this is evidence of BLACKMAIL, what else is needed to put these cabalists behind bars? Congress needs to suspend chimpys presidency IMMEDIATELY and call the entire bunch on the carpet for treason against the US, no more arm twisting, no more wiretaps, no more cabal. WAKE UP CONGRESS, smell the stench of dirty politics at its worst, it must stop!

Wouldn't you like to see Judge Alito and Chief Justice Roberts questioning the Democrat Senators to determine their qualifications for public office?

Just imagine matching the IQs of the Senators and the Judges!

The questions might go like this............

Judge Alito(JA): "Senator Kennedy, I see from your official resume that you attended Harvard Univ..."

Senator Kennedy (SK): "Yes, your honor, I certainly did."

JA: "Did you graduate?"

SK: "Your honor, I respectfully ask that you not pry into my personal life..."

JA: "Is it true that you were expelled from Harvard for violating the honor code, to wit, you hired someone to take an exam for you?"

SK: "Mr. Chairman, I want to go on record that I disagree with this line of questioning. I ask the chair to order the Judge from asking questions about my private matters."

Senator Spector, Chairman of the Judiciary committee: "Answer the Judge's questions. He answered all of yours..."

JA: "Senator Kennedy, we have on hand a transcript of the session of the University's honor council attesting to your fraudulent examination and subsequent expulsion from the Unversity..."

SK: "I have had all I can take of this line of unreasonable questioning. I am going to ask Al Gore how he managed to keep his early departure from Vanderbilt University Divinity School away from the eyes of you religious nuts..."

JA: "Wait, Senator Kennedy, I want to ask you about the 26 phone calls you made from a hotel room the night Mary Jo Kopecne drowned in your car at Chappaquiddick, when you said you were asleep all night...."
[Kennedy flees the hearing room]

Senator Spector: "Chief Justice Roberts(CJR) will now interrogate Senator Biden(SB), Democrat of Delaware.."

CJR: "Senator Biden, is it true that you were expelled from law school for plagiarizing another students work?"

SB: "Wait, Ted, I am going with you.." [Biden flees the hearing room]

Senator Spector: "Judge Alito will now interrogate Senator Feinstein, Democrat of California..."

JS: "Senator Feinstein(SF), why did you vote for the former Grand Kleage of the Ku Klux Klan of West Virginia[Robert Bird] to become the Democrat Senate Majority Leader in 1986, 1988, 1990, and 1992?"

SF: "Wait, boys,I am going with you...." [Feinstein flees the hearing room]
[end of hearing]

This is the best and brightest the left has to offer!!!!LOL

#24
Remember the bean counters aren't on the front lines. All they see are missing pieces of equipment from an inventory and a signature from the person that had it last. The fact that he paid it shows his own incompetence, he could have requested a report of survey. I lost a duffle bag full of equipment when I returned from a deployment one time. I didn't pay a single dime, US Customs lost my bag. If you roll over and pay up, noone is going to push the issue. I would suspect that he was too anxious to leave to want to go through the financial liability process, and I would wonder why his NCOs didn't stand up for him or tell him to fight it.

Citizen X

good point - I agree with that.
maybe the moral of that story should be that
if one finds oneself to be getting screwed, one shouldn't bend over to make it easier for the screwer -

Top Ten Myths About the Illegal NSA Spying on Americans

MYTH: This is merely a "terrorist surveillance program."
REALITY: When there is evidence a person may be a terrorist, both the criminal code and intelligence laws already authorize eavesdropping. This illegal program, however, allows electronic monitoring without any showing to a court that the person being spied upon in this country is a suspected terrorist.

MYTH: The program is legal.
REALITY: The program violates the Fourth Amendment and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and will chill free speech.

MYTH: The Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) allows this.
REALITY: The resolution about using force in Afghanistan doesn't mention wiretaps and doesn't apply domestically, but FISA does--it requires a court order.

MYTH: The president has authority as commander in chief of the military to spy on Americans without any court oversight.
REALITY: The Supreme Court recently found the administration's claim of unlimited commander in chief powers during war to be an unacceptable effort to "condense power into a single branch of government," contrary to the Constitution's checks and balances.

MYTH: The president has the power to say what the law is.
REALITY: The courts have this power under our system of government, and no person is above the law, not even the president, or the rule of law means nothing.

MYTH: These warrantless wiretaps could never happen to you.
REALITY: Without court oversight, there is no way to ensure innocent people's everyday communications are not monitored or catalogued by the NSA or other agencies.

MYTH: This illegal program could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
REALITY: This is utter manipulation. Before 9/11, the federal government had gathered intelligence, without illegal NSA spying, about the looming attacks and at least two of the terrorists who perpetrated them, but failed to act.

MYTH: This illegal program has saved thousands of lives.
REALITY: Because the program is secret the administration can assert anything it wants and then claim the need for secrecy excuses its failure to document these claims, let alone reveal all the times the program distracted intelligence agents with dead ends that wasted resources and trampled individual rights.

MYTH: FISA takes too long.
REALITY: FISA allows wiretaps to begin immediately in emergencies, with three days afterward to go to court. Even without an emergency, FISA orders can be approved very quickly and FISA judges are available at all hours.

MYTH: Only liberals disagree with the president about the program.
REALITY: The serious concerns that have been raised transcend party labels and reflect genuine and widespread worries about the lack of checks on the president's claim of unlimited power to illegally spy on Americans without any independent oversight.

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Never-mind the facts. Bunnypants supporters do not think, they believe - no matter the facts. Ergo - true believers.

capt

Please read the #24 post carefully!!!!! You are dying or gravely injured and you still must keep track of your equipment. The Nazis running this war are scumbags.

American Soldiers

More American soldiers are killed in the Middle East.

2,519 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush and his evil lies.

Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. Henry Kissinger

G.K. Chesterton said, "Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics."

Before you seek revenge, dig two graves. Confucius

When an illegal war is launched, EVERY person killed and injured, EVERY piece of property destroyed, and all environmental damage is a WAR CRIME. A war without borders and limits is a perpetual war. This war of aggression proliferates terrorism in proportion to its reckless widening, making the world ever more dangerous. TCR News

All Gonzales kept saying was, "this program which the president has acknowledged..."

Goes to show that there is more going on then so far determined, and the Attorney General wasna gonna say any more.

And then the GOPhers trotted out the widow of the pilot of Flight 77 which was supposed to have hit the Pentagon...

And John Boehner gives new meaning to the phrase, popularized by Rush Limbaugh, "my formerly nicotine stained fingers..."

#35
You're hatred makes you blind to reality sometimes. Remeber it's you and every American citizen that demands to know where every dollar spent on Defense goes. Because of that we keep very careful records of where our equipment goes. No survey officer in his/her right mind is going to charge a soldier for a piece of equipment he lost at the time he was injured in it. Do you think they make tank commanders or drivers pay for tanks that get destroyed? Just stop for one minute and THINK, he didnt follow the procedure that would have relieved him of financial obligation, he chose to pay up instead, the fault is his own.

EXCLUSIVE: Sibel Edmonds Rebukes Dennis Hastert Attorney's Rebuttal to Charges of Bribery
'Gag Ordered' FBI Whistleblower Gives Statement to BRAD BLOG Questioning Letter to Vanity Fair by House Speaker's Legal Counsel
Calls on Hastert to 'Come Clean' on $500k in Un-Itemized Campaign Donations, Relationship With Turkish Interest Groups

In the September 2005 issue of Vanity Fair, a lengthy feature article on former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds discussed a number of claims that Edmonds has by and large been disallowed from expressing publicly.

Her attempts at whistleblowing on the malfeasance and cover-ups she alleges to have witnessed during her time at the bureau in late 2001 and early 2002 -- during which she translated covert wiretaps recorded prior to 9/11 -- have been silenced by the U.S. government. An arcane "states-secret privilege" has been applied to her which effectively "gag orders" her from discussing her claims including allegations which the Dept. of Justice's own Inspector General found to be "credible" and "serious" and "warrant[ing] a thorough and careful review by the FBI," according to a declassified version of their investigation into her claims.

More.

Peace Takes Courage

New Animation:

Dead Wrong

capt

A cartoon for the trolls - it might help them understand something

BUSH - NAZI TIES

why would dems and the 'liberal' corporate media cover this up?

DANISH BILDERBERG CONNEX?

The controversy continues over the anti-Islamic cartoons published in a Danish publication. The latest word notes that Merete Eldrup, managing director of JP/Politikens Hus, the company that published the cartoons, is the wife of Anders Eldrup, chairman of DONG (Danish Oil and Natural Gas), a currently state-owned energy provider about to be privatized.

Moreover, according to a posting on Indymedia UK, as well as several other sources, Anders has been among the attendees at the last five meetings of the Bilderberger gathering, alleged by some to be an internationalist conspiracy bent on world government.

Meanwhile, his wife, before she took over the directorship at JP/PH, was both the Head of Secretariat at the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, and the Deputy Director of the Danish Energy Authority. She is currently Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of the Copenhagen Business School. - ST

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Bilderberger’s, eh?

capt

VIDEO: Rev. Lowery’s Standing Ovation
Speaking before four presidents, including President George W. Bush, Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery received a standing ovation today at the Coretta Scott King funeral.

We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. [Standing Ovation] But Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor.

#41,

Almost too true to be funny.

The Busheney supporters have a very odd sense of humor. They might not get it.

capt

Oh no, he did NOT say that!

Downloading the file now . . or trying to.

WOW! Take that Commander Bunnypants!

I love to hear people of courage speak truth to power.

Thanks - I needed that

capt

Bush 2007 budget quietly omits impact of policies on deficit
John Byrne
Published: February 7, 2006

President George W. Bush's fiscal year 2007 budget quietly omits a table included in previous years which lays out the impact of the Administration's proposed policies on the deficit, RAW STORY has learned.

The missing table was first discovered by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Its omission -- a single table among thousands and thousands of pages that follow a standard format each year -- likely signals that the Administration is trying to keep the focus off the massive deficits which the United States will incur after 2010.

Bloomberg News notes that under the 2007 budget, the federal deficit would decline until 2010 and then start rising at a remarkable rate.

"If Congress makes Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent, most of the impact won't be felt until after 2011, long after the president has left office," the financial news service writes. "Some of the tax reductions are due to expire at the end of 2008 and the rest in 2010."

The loss of revenue between 2012 and 2016 is projected at $1.2 trillion.

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A Straussian Interpretation of the 2006 SOTU

Let us examine what seems to be the most curious idea introduced in the 2006 SOTU – human-animal hybrids. Like "aspens turning," the human-animal hybrid will someday have an important historical place in understanding the Bush administration. Exoterically, Bush is mad at the mad scientists, and wishes to see them reined in for the good of the country.

But esoterically, Bush has an entirely different meaning. While the president simultaneously alarms and comforts us common people, in fact he speaks powerfully in code to his real audience – those who understand him esoterically.

I invite you to join me in this Straussian excursion. In the final chapter of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, we find this paragraph, which has long been recognized as a key to deep understanding of political process:

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If you have not read this yet, do not miss it!

capt

#31 In your dreams Boyd.

Now, back to reality. Does the AG really think the President's NSA unwarranted survellance of US citizens in wartime within the bounds of the law... or has Bush found another minion like Powell who will, in the name of duty,put his own reputation on the line... and lose it.

February 07, 2006
The Dionne/Pandemoniac Amnesia

E. J. Dionne, one of the best liberal columnists in America, suffers from a strange attack of amnesia in today's Washington Post. He argues that the tax cuts have crippled the American budgeting process, which I'll get to momentarily, but he also lays the blame on George Bush's father for disavowing his compromise with Democrats on taxes in 1990:

The roots of our fiscal madness, on display once again yesterday with the unveiling of President Bush's new budget and its deficit in excess of $350 billion, were planted on Oct. 27, 1990.

Ironically, that's the day when the first President Bush embraced the last genuinely bipartisan budget reduction package to include both tax increases and spending cuts.

It can be seen in retrospect as one of Bush 41's admirable long-term achievements. (Another, of course, was his success in driving Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.) In tandem with Bill Clinton's tax increases three years later, the 1990 agreement set off a decade of fiscal responsibility and exceptional economic growth.

But Bush 41 could not embrace his budget victory as a triumph, because the agreement split his party and because he had won election just two years earlier promising "no new taxes." So he backed away from his achievement as soon as it was in hand.

Er, that isn't all that happened, and either Dionne has a bad memory or has slipped into uncharacteristic disingenuity by claiming this. Dionne leaves out two important points. The first fact omitted is that the tax increase in 1990 resulted in a sudden recession, which the Gulf War made worse by driving up oil costs temporarily. In fact, the increased rates flattened tax receipts; it did not result in any significant increase to the Treasury.

Second and more to the point, the Democrats with whom the President consulted and compromised used his efforts to castigate him as unfaithful to his promises in the 1992 general election. I find it hard to imagine that Dionne cannot recall the "Read My Lips' commercials that the Clinton campaign used to devastating effect in that election, which showed Bush promising to hold the line on taxes -- and blamed him entirely for raising them later. The Democrats stabbed Bush 41 in the back for working with them, and that's the lesson that 43 learned from the experience. Compromise with Democrats, and they will use it to attack at the first opportunity.

In terms of the actual issue of tax cuts and their effect on the budget, Dionne also neglects to mention that since the inception of the tax cuts in 2003, tax revenues have actually increased -- and increased sharply. The OMB, in fact, shows tax receipts at their highest point ever for this year (page 3). The reason for the deficit isn't the tax cuts, which provided the spark for the economy that has driven tax revenues far past the $2T mark for 2005. The deficit comes from increased federal spending, which both parties have increased on almost a straight line ever since that budget agreement in 1990.

Dionne is rightly concerned about the federal budget and the deficit, but he seems to have a hazy memory about its origins and its underlying causes. His call for bipartisanship in solving the problem is also laudable, but instead of castigating Republicans for a lack of intestinal fortitude in handling its fiscal conservatives, perhaps Dionne should scold the Democrats who twisted Bush 41's bipartisanship into a character flaw and the moderate Republicans who join with the Democrats in their inability to stop spending our money.
Posted by Captain Ed at February 7, 2006 06:00 AM

Either way we all lose.

capt

Hold the Nazis Accountable

#31 Fantasy is he playground of IDLE minds.

Happy place...happy place... happy place

Let's Not Forget

Your Christian President

For all the grandstanding this administration has done on the need for secrecy and control of procedures, for all the grandstanding about the need to prosecute the leakers, this administration is the greatest enemy. They have caused the greatest damage because they are forcing whistleblowers to come forward. They are forcing hearings to uncover illegal acts done by the White House. The White House is forcing the press to print what the press sometimes knows could open the secrecy of the CIA but will also uncover illegalities.

Bush and Cheney and Gonzales and Rumsfeld can't point fingers because they are the biggest problem.

DU

Impeach Bush

The Betrayal of Valerie Plame
By Larry C. Johnson
AlterNet
Tuesday 07 February 2006

A judge's rulings make it clear that Scooter Libby did lie to the grand jury, and that, yes, Valerie Plame was an undercover agent protected by federal law.

Valerie Plame was a covert intelligence officer covered by the Intelligence Officer's Identity Protection Act, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby lied to the grand jury. These two truths emerge from the opinion written by Judge Tatel, of the U.S. Court of Appeals, and released in February 2005. Thanks to a FOIA request by the Wall Street Journal we now have a more complete record, although key parts of his decision are still blacked out. Perhaps most of the media will now realize that they have been fed a pack of lies by the likes of Ken Mehlman, Victoria Toensing, Cliff May and others.

Tatel's opinion also is relevant to the current furor over "domestic spying" and whether reporters will have any ability to protect their sources. It certainly appears that Tatel would uphold the right of the reporters to protect sources who told them about illegal spying. Tatel's concludes his opinion that Judy Miller and Matt Cooper had to testify before the grand jury with the following:

In sum, based on an exhaustive investigation, the special counsel has established the need for Miller's and Cooper's testimony. Thus, considering the gravity of the suspected crime and the low value of the leaked information, no privilege bars the subpoenas … Here, two reporters and a news magazine, informants to the public, seek to keep a grand jury uninformed. Representing two equally fundamental principles - rule of law and free speech - the special counsel and the reporters both aim to facilitate fully informed and accurate decision-making by those they serve: the grand jury and the electorate. To this court falls the task of balancing the two sides concerns ...

... Were the leak at issue in this case less harmful to national security or more vital to public debate, or had the special counsel failed to demonstrate the grand jurys need for the reporters evidence, I might have supported the motion to quash. Because identifying appellants sources instead appears essential to remedying a serious breach of public trust, I join in affirming the district court's orders compelling their testimony.

Tatel's incisive opinion makes he clear that he understands the difference between someone who leaks information designed to hurt U.S. intelligence assets, as happened in Valerie's case, and someone who leaks information about government malfeasance, as happened with the leak to James Risen that the Bush administration was spying on Americans. The key issue for Tatel was "harm" to the United States versus the public's right to know.

More.

Here's what I think about having our dying and injured soldiers pay for lost equipment

Been gone for a few days...but observed that Arlen Specter is all talk, but no meaningful action; Alberto Gonzales does not answer questions; Scooter Libby doesn't have "perfect recall" unless he's recalling what he wants to recall and that's it; lots of folks are afraid to criticise fundamentalist Islam; Arab governments are willing to instigate protests against Denmark & Norway, but not so willing to permit protests against the U.S. or Israel; the Judiciary committee (read Arlen Specter) does not want Gonzales under oath. Could it be because the administration takes the position that bush is not bound by law and the Repugs go along with that? Gonzales keeps using the national security card to avoid answering questions; bush's budget is typical; the graymail defense tactic probably won't work (I hope) because it's mainly about lying, not espionage; if Helen Thomas was Snotty's mom, he wouldn't have turned out to be such a loser.

Moving right along...If you are planning to give your sweetie flowers or chocolates on Valentine's Day, be aware that these gifts are often tainted by toxic pesticides. Commercial flowers are the most toxic and heavily sprayed agricultural crops on Mother Earth. Flower industry workers, in nations such as Ecuador and Colombia, are routinely abused and exploited; 40% of the world's chocolate comes from Africa's Ivory Coast where child slavery is widespread and starvation wages are the norm. Tell the corporate KINGPINS to shove their products! Buy Organic and Fair Trade Valentine's Day flowers and chocolate.

Are We Safer in the Dark?

SUNSHINE WEEK: March 12-18, 2006

This is an issue that is important for the public and for the press. Secrecy in government is growing at an alarming rate and public information is being withheld from citizens. We have a right to know -- we need to know much of what is being held in secret -- or is being ignored by the press. This secrecy trend in our government is hurting democracy.

Steelers Lynn Swann clears path to GOP primary!!

A black conservative Republican Steeler running against a liberal Democrat Governor, doesn't get any better than that!!!

Jimmy Carter giving foreign policy advice-now thats funny!!! The worst President in history thinks someone cares what he thinks.

Had to keep the furnace wayyyyy low the last couple days because one of us forgot to check the level in the oil tank. Had it filled today to the tune of $522. THAT'S HALF OF A $1,000! In light of the obscene profits the oil companies make, it's outrageous. What are people supposed to do? We are indeed doomed. We're all going to be freezing to death, hungry and unable to see a doctor when we get sick, and on and on..........

King Funeral Turned Into Bush Bashing Event

Only a liberal would use the funeral of a deceased wife of a civil rights leader to preach hate and intolerance against a sitting President who was in attendance. You liberals are soooo classy.

Carol

Convert to natural gas or a heat pump, you are polluting the enviroment and causing global warming by burning oil. Start practicing what you preach lefties!!!

Amidst flurry of Bush attacks, Feingold to hit Congress wiretaps: 'Congress has lost its way'

In a prepared speech advanced to RAW STORY, Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) will sear President Bush -- and Congress -- on the Senate floor over Bush's warrantless wiretap domestic spying program.

Feingold's speech, in its entirety, follows:

Mr. President, last week the President of the United States gave his State of the Union address, where he spoke of America's leadership in the world, and called on all of us to "Lead this world toward freedom." Again and again, he invoked the principle of freedom, and how it can transform nations, and empower people around the world.

But, almost in the same breath, the President openly acknowledged that he has ordered the government to spy on Americans, on American soil, without the warrants required by law.

The President issued a call to spread freedom throughout the world, and then he admitted that he has deprived Americans of one of their most basic freedoms under the Fourth Amendment -- to be free from unjustified government intrusion.

The President was blunt. He said that he had authorized the NSA's domestic spying program, and he made a number of misleading arguments to defend himself. His words got rousing applause from Republicans, and even some Democrats.

The President was blunt, so I will be blunt: This program is breaking the law, and this President is breaking the law. Not only that, he is misleading the American people in his efforts to justify this program.

How is that worthy of applause? Since when do we celebrate our commander in chief for violating our most basic freedoms, and misleading the American people in the process? When did we start to stand up and cheer for breaking the law? In that moment at the State of the Union, I felt ashamed.

Congress has lost its way if we don’¥ hold this President accountable for his actions....

......In December, we found out that the President has authorized wiretaps of Americans without the court orders required by law. He says he is only wiretapping people with links to terrorists, but how do we know? We don't. The President is unwilling to let a neutral judge make sure that is the case. He will not submit this program to an independent branch of government to make sure he's not violating the rights of law-abiding Americans.

So I don't want to hear again that this Administration has shown it can be trusted. It hasn’¥. And that is exactly why the law requires a judge to review these wiretaps.

It is up to Congress to hold the President to account. We held a hearing on the domestic spying program in the Judiciary Committee yesterday, where Attorney General Gonzales was a witness. We expect there will be other hearings. That is a start, but it will take more than just hearings to get the job done.

We know that in part because the President’≥ Attorney General has already shown a willingness to mislead the Congress...

....The President has broken the law, and he has made it clear that he will continue to do so. But the President is not a king. And the Congress is not a king's court. Our job is not to stand up and cheer when the President breaks the law. Our job is to stand up and demand accountability, to stand up and check the power of an out-of-control executive branch.

That is one of the reasons that the framers put us here - to ensure balance between the branches of government, not to act as a professional cheering section....
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Great speech. Clear, open, honest and necessary.

Iraq War Draws Veterans Into Politics

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - After 20 years in the Air Force and Bronze Star service during the 1991 Gulf War, Democrat Jay Fawcett decided to come home and run for Congress, largely out of disgust with the way American troops were being used in Iraq.

"I think it's just gotten to the point where a significant number of us who've served are looking at this administration particularly — and Congress doesn't get off the hook — and saying, `What're you doing? What's the plan?'" he said.

Fawcett is part of a large and possibly unprecedented number of former soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines running for Congress this year.

About 40 of the candidates are Republicans, while at least 55 are Democrats. By one count, at least 11 veterans of the Iraq war or Afghanistan are hoping to get elected to the House or Senate, all but one of them Democrats.

The fighting Democrats, as some call themselves, say their military experience could give them the credibility to criticize the war without being dismissed out of hand by the GOP as naive and weak on defense, as the Bush administration has often done.

"One of the things I think is behind this movement is, we're not stupid in the military. We know when we've been used and misused," Navy veteran Bill Winter, a Democrat who hopes to challenge GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo in the Republican suburbs of Denver.

Former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., who lost both legs and an arm while serving in Vietnam, said the Iraq war veterans running as Democrats will offer "a direct rebuttal" to the administration on the Iraq war.

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Just the facts.

capt

Carol,
Our heating bill is high too. We have natural gas. Cold weather states.

Micki!

Glad you are back! I thought we were missing a voice or two.

Carol,

Sound like some people are going to freeze. Over $500 is quite insane. Wages are down, costs are up, how are people suppose to pay for the increase? Heating oil and gasoline are robbing us blind and Bunnypants says it is all fine and dandy.

capt

Capt,
I hope every one of those fighting Dems get elected. I see real leadership there.

#71
People will freeze. Especially when the mentality of the leadership in this nation is to cut spending on the poor. Cut it on education and health care. Both of those things directly affect the youth. There is obviously a lack of "compassion".

And our congress stands up and applauds this administration. Go figure.

LBH, THERE ISN'T ANY MONEY TO CONVERT ANYTHING TO ANYTHING! It's called stuck. It's called trapped! You want to make a donation?

Body Armor Is the Willie Horton of 2006

Yet, without question, the hands-down, all-time winner of the Silver-Bullet-In-Waiting Award for 2006 (if not the entire century) goes to – drum roll, please – Body Armor.

Yeah, you got it. I’ll put it plain and simple. If the Democrats want to destroy the GOP in 2006 – I mean flatten those bastards – they really need do just one thing: run a single commercial, over and over again. Well, okay, make that two things: Run it over and over again, and then never retreat, never explain, and never apologize.

That commercial’s theme? Simple: It’s been five years since the Bush team started planning the war in Iraq. It’s been three years since they launched the invasion. And yet, today, American soldiers still do not have sufficient body armor to protect themselves.

That’s it. That’s really all the Democrats need to win in a landslide in 2006. Body armor is the Willie Horton of 2006.

Now, you could certainly also make the thing even more compelling with the addition of a few powerful grace notes. To wit:

* A secret Pentagon report showing that 80 percent of the Marines killed from upper body wounds in Iraq would have survived if George Bush had supplied them with proper armor.

* Film of small-town American communities holding bake sales to outfit their troops in Iraq with armor, perhaps juxtaposed with shots of Tom DeLay golfing in Scotland.

* Interviews with returned soldiers describing how our troops have to jury-rig cobbled-together armor for themselves and their vehicles.

* Reports of corruption and incompetence in armor contracting, alongside reports of vast corruption in the Coalition Provisional Authority’s procurement and accounting practices, to the tune of $8 billion utterly vanished. How many entire armies could be outfitted in 24 carat gold armor for eight billion dollars?

* Film of wounded American soldiers struggling to recover their lives. Clips of families of the fallen angrily lamenting their unnecessary loss of loved ones.

The impact of such a campaign should be obvious, but there are also good strategic reasons why body armor is the Willie Horton of 2006.

First, because it is indelible and unconscionable. Republicans have been successful in recent years in part because they have picked issues which they can reduce to simple and emotionally powerful tropes that are especially effective with busy, frightened and ill-informed voters. (Moreover, the GOP works hard not only to exploit such voters, but to create them beforehand by overworking them, frightening them, and lying to them). So Democrats, trying to explain the fourth-order nuances of highly nuanced issues look like flip-flopping nothing-burgers who voted for it before they voted against it (whatever it was), or wimpy bleeding hearts who would try to stop terrorists by stretching a General Assembly resolution in front of them, printed on the finest parchment.

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Republicans are a disgrace. They are talking about starting another war and the troops still do not have the best equipment? BODY ARMOR simple. It exposes the neocons for what they are inept and unable to lead, organize, manage, or conduct a war. BODY ARMOR should be like a laser pointer to the weak underbelly of the accidental uber-fuhrer dictator.

capt

Jeanne, we live out in the country. No natural gas. Just oil and propane. Our house came with an oil furnace. Our oil bill has always been the cheapest bill we had. Our oil bill was always cheaper than our natural gas friends living in the suburbs of Detroit. Until now. Husband wants to retire. Don't know how we'll pay the property taxes and oil bills like that if he does.

Carter is the worst president in history? ha.

Carol

Maybe you shouldn't have bought a house if you couldn't afford it. Or, maybe you should sell your house. Or, maybe you should refinance your house and change to a clean burning fuel. Or, maybe one of your liberal friends could give you a small loan. I don't think it is the governments fault if you can't manage your own finances.

"We need your undivided attention over the next six months," he said. "We need backup. We need for you to make the words that you spoke in Jackson Square a reality."

Nagin was referring to the president's September 15 address to the nation from New Orleans, in which he pledged "we will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes" to rebuild.

NEW ORLEANS WILL SEEK FOREIGN AID

start doing what you promise righties!

James Ha

Yes Carter was one of the worst if not the worst President ever. I think this is why a B rated movie star beat him for a second term. He sucked!!!

NEW ORLEANS WILL SEEK FOREIGN AID

A 9/11 Conspirator in King Bush's Court?

By Jeremy Scahill
Saudi prince who met with bin Laden five times is a guest at the SOTU
While Cindy Sheehan was being dragged from the House gallery moments before President Bush delivered his State of the Union address for wearing a t-shirt honoring her son and the other 2,244 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, Turki al-Faisal was settling into his seat inside the gallery. Faisal, a Saudi, is a man who has met Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants on at least five occasions, describing the al Qaeda leader as "quite a pleasant man." He met multiple times with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.

Yet, unlike Sheehan, al-Faisal was a welcomed guest of President Bush on Tuesday night. He is also a man that the families of more than 600 victims of the 9/11 attacks believe was connected to their loved ones' deaths.

Al-Faisal is actually Prince Turki al-Faisal, a leading member of the Saudi royal family and the kingdom’s current ambassador to the U.S. But the bulk of his career was spent at the helm of the feared Saudi intelligence services from 1977 to 2001. Last year, The New York Times pointed out that “he personally managed Riyadh’s relations with Osama bin Laden and Mullah Muhammad Omar of the Taliban. Anyone else who had dealings with even a fraction of the notorious characters the prince has worked with over the years would never make it past a U.S. immigration counter, let alone to the most exclusive offices in Washington.” Al-Faisal was also named in the $1 trillion lawsuit filed by hundreds of 9/11 victims’ families, who accused him of funding bin Laden’s network. Curiously, his tenure as head of Saudi intelligence came to an abrupt and unexpected end 10 days before the 9/11 attacks.

“Nobody explained the circumstances under which he left,” says As’ad AbuKhalil, author of The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power. “We know for sure that he was tasked by the United States government back in the late 1970s and on to assemble the kind of Arab Muslim fanatical volunteers to help the United States and the C.I.A. in the fight against the Soviet communist regime [in Afghanistan]. In the course of doing that, this man is single-handedly most responsible for the kind of menace that these fanatical groups now pose to world peace and security.” Yet, there al-Faisal sat on Tuesday as President Bush spoke of his war on terror and Cindy Sheehan was being booked. At one point, the cameras even panned directly on al-Faisal listening intently to Bush.

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What an insult to the American people, mostly those who have lost members of their families in Iraq and Afghanistan and the 9/11 families.

James Ha #79

James, that is not a rightie promise. It was Bush caving into a leftie demand. I say don't rebuild New Orleans. Let Nagin have Jimmy Carter go to his Hamas buddies or Chavez or Castro to get his funding.

First off, Lynn Swann WAS a Pittsburgh Steeler about 30 years ago...but that's okay. I think it's kind of pathetic though, that his campaign is already built around his Steeler connection, rather than on ideas or experience.

Swann may win. But that doesn't mean he's qualified to be governor. Jesse Ventura -- the wrestler -- won a gubernatorial race and didn't work out too well. Schwarzenegger -- another "athlete" (hahaha) -- ain't so hot in the guv's role either.

Swann has offered little in the way of specifics -- but that doesn't seem to bother Repugs.

Swann: "I will say this: I am conservative by nature. Pennsylvania needs to find ways for business to thrive. I am for reducing taxes for business and an environment that will create more jobs and revenue for our state. I am conservative as far as social values are concerned."

At one public event, Swann called himself a conservative but declined to provide his position on gun control or taxes or even abortion. Then minutes later he returned to tell reporters that he opposed abortion rights -- putting him in line with most Republicans.

"I wasn't supposed to be born," Swann said, explaining that his father had wanted only two children, but his mother wanted a third. "I was born. That's enough for me to be pro-life."

Oh, boy.

LBH,
You have just proven to me that you are a child. Go set the table. Go pick up your clothes. Go do your homework. Get away from the computer. NOW!!

Micki,
I second that on Jesse, although he's not as bad as Pawlenty. Pawlenty's middle name is neocon.

GIVE THE DOWNING STREET MEMO A REST ALREADY...

This Downing Street memo stuff is a waste of time. Nobody with an IQ over 27 believes that Bush didn't lie and decieve the country into war. It is a given with what we know now.

The proper historic backdrop to this war is NOT 9-11. It is the stock market scandals of the late-Clinton,/early-Bush-43 administrations. Bush took his cue from the Enron types...truth is whatever you can convince some sucker to believe...truth is whatever you can hype and sell. There was no difference between Colin Powell's asinine hype job before the United Nations, and Kenny Lay's televised hype jobs to investors. The rosy scenarios of Skilling and Wolfowitz...all the same.

Of course, reality eventually trumps spin and deceit. Enron crashed in ball of flames, and this war is turning out very badly. Enron went bankrupt overnight, Iraq is doomed to a bloodbath and civil war....despite the hype told us a few years ago.

Bob in North Dakota

LBH are you defending bush? or just denigrating everyone else? because that's a typical rightwingnut response:: put everyone else down to try and distract from the fact that bushco are either incompetent saviors or competent criminals -

We are at a "magical moment in the history of liberty." -George W. Bush

Through the looking glass, indeed.

Oops, I had the oil bill amount wrong. It was $564.22.

"Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." ~ Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland

Almost $600?

I am floored. Hey maybe the thought of record breaking profit for the big oil companies can keep the people living at or below poverty level warm, maybe even hot.

capt

James ha

"Are you defending Bush or just deningrating everyone else?"

Both, it's called tough love. It really pisses me off to see people complain about not having any money when they own a home. People are living on the streets and starving to death who only wish they had your pathetic problems. Now, quit being a whiner and do something about it.

The problem with you lefties is that you want someone else to give you a helping hand instead of helping yourself.

"I've had nothing yet", Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I can't take more."

"You mean you can't take *less*. It's very easy to take *more* than nothing." ~ the Mad Hatter's response to Alice (Lewis Carroll)

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop." ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Said by the King to the White Rabbit - English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)

The only good thing Jimmy Carter ever did for this country was bring us Ronald Reagan!!

I never said I couldn't pay the bill, you moron. Bob told me to tell you to "go fuck yourself".

Enough already, yourself! The Downing Street Memo and the "Mother" of all Downing Street memos ARE important!

The memos are not only clear indictments of the bush administration, they are also indictments of the bush regime's accomplices -- the willing and compliant press who provided haphazard, uncritical reporting of bush's lies and war propaganda.

Additionally, those memos provide ALL the information that is necessary for the Ruling Class to be thrown out of office. The Ruling Class FEARS full disclosure and a public airing of those memos because they know that could spell their demise.

Carol

Financial Advice:

Step one

Get rid of the internet

#97 Atta girl! Those morons don't know the difference between "can't" and "how the fuck do these damned oil companies get away with their obscene profiteering at the expense of American (taxpaying -- not tax-dodging) citizens."

I agree with Bob.

Carol #74

THERE ISN'T ANY MONEY TO COVERT ANYTHING TO ANYTHING. It's called stuck. It's called trapped.

Sorry, I didn't know that you were lying.

So why not convert to a clean fuel source if you can afford it and not contribute to global warming?

Carol, I hope you don't answer it.

It is Brock.

He's mad as a hatter...from mercury in the water...

Micki #100

First of all Micki, I converted my home furnace to natural gas. I drive a Hybrid veh and ride my bicycle to work. I do not contribute to the oil companies profits unlike some of you lefties.

"If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." : Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787

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"...There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing." : Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837

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"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." : Frederick Douglass

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Thanks ICH Newsletter!

Don't worry, Micki. There's nothing further to say to such an idiot.

LBH -
It really pisses me off to see people complain about not having any money when they own a home. People are living on the streets and starving to death who only wish they had your pathetic problems. Now, quit being a whiner and do something about it.

have you seen me complain about my problems? you come across as a fool LBH, and I'm sure you don't have the foggiest idea what a real problem looks like - did you hear me whining? no you did not.

"With a sort of mental squint." ~ Lewis Carroll

James Ha

I wasn't talking about you, I was answering your question. Follow along, please!

"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today." ~ Lewis Carroll

"The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision." ~ Lewis Carroll

James ha

"I'm sure you don't have the foggiest idea what a real problem looks like"

James, everyone has problems, it's how you handle/respond to the problems that makes the difference.

so LBH how you feeling about that democracy thing in the middle east...what is your opinion on US dealings politically with democratically elected "terrorists"
it seems historically we have better luck in the short term with our own installing of dictators and "terrorists"
then again we always do meet those old allies again...don't we LBH?
your people stirred the bees hive with no plan and no clue as to how unsustainable and irreversible this course would be
defending this is moronic idolatry and partisan loyalty of the worst lot...to be a modern Republican one must believe infalliablity plausible
so what say you LBH? is this working so far, this fourth rationale for war?

ed

Democracy has nothing to do with the mess in the Middle East. This is a religous war that dates back to the crusades. Until, the west wakes up and realizes this we are all fucked!

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
the frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the maxome foe he sought-
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood a while in thought.
As in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came.
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack.
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"Has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Calloh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

~ Lewis Carrol - Jabberwocky

The Deaths of Children

LBH, you assumed many things when I reported what it cost to fill our oil tank. I reported it as an example of what heating oil is costing oil furnace owners. It's called information.

"...everyone has problems, it's how you handle/respond to the problems that makes the difference."

That right, LBH. And there's no way you could know WHAT the problems are of anyone on this blog. You shouldn't ask, and you DEFINITELY shouldn't assume.

Mickl wrote:

>Additionally, those memos provide ALL the information that is necessary for the Ruling Class to be thrown out of office.

And who, pray tell, is going to do it? Our neutered Congress? Our upstanding Attorney General? The Supreme Court? The impotent Democrats? Our suck-up press? John Kerry? Hillary? Give me a break. There is a power vacuum in America, and the neocons have taken over. There is NOBODY to throw this evil Ruling Class out of office, as much as you and I would want that to happen, Mickl. Mark my words...there will even be talk after the 2006 elections of Bush not relinquishing the White House...we are at war, after all.

There is no higher power for this evil crew to submit to....they have made it abundantly clear that they are above the law. We are at war, after all....they can do whatever they want. So saith our Attorney General.

Bob in North Dakota

P.S. I'll bet a box of Krispy Kremes that the Democrats run YADC (yet another doomed candidate) in 2008. The Democrats are as impotent and pathetic as the neocons are evil.

Bob, I agree totally. The only force left to fix this is the American people but they're in a coma pretty much.

Bush Promises Victory

Bob in ND, don't bother to wager the box of Krispy Kremes. As to who is going to do it -- I guess it's up to us. It sure ain't gonna be a politician who's looking at re-election.

It's going to take collaborative efforts of the people, from the grassroots up...locally, persistently, effectively, cooperatively.

More info on OBL and the Saudi backing

From early 1980 to present.

Bob Herbert wrote,  "The most logical reason for not getting a warrant is that the president's intelligence acolytes, who behave as though they graduated from the Laurel and Hardy school of data mining, have not been able to demonstrate that the people being spied upon are connected to Al Qaeda or any other terror organization."

It would seem to me that bush doesn't bother with FISA warrants because he knows that the FISA court would not grant the warrants because he is over-reaching and spying on ordinary Americans for his future plans.

I wonder what bush's lockstep lemmings would think if they found out that they had been the target of bush's warrantless searches? Would they just say, "hofuckinghum, we're at war" and let it go at that? If so, what losers!

Rhetorical Question?

"They want to test our feelings. They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers."--"protester" Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra in Afghanistan, quoted by the BBC, Feb. 6
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And the American press are even bigger sissies than the European press. Way to go NYT, LAT, Washington Post. Praise the freedom of speech but refuse to print the pictures.

micki 61, GOOD FOR YOU!! Anyone who hasn't read the plight of child slave workers on the Ivory Coast would be well motivated to take your advice after gaining knowledge of such disgusting practices. And to make it easy, From Global Exchange, Fair Trade Chocolate: The Sweet Solution to Abusive Child Labor and Poverty

Capt 71, by golly, all those damn libruls should just get a couple more jobs! It's the Amerikan way dontcha know?
Carol 76, we live in the boonies too, electric and propane are the major energy sources. The house we are renting, (no one can afford to buy here with prices for the most basic of houses in the $400,000-$500,000 range) is mostly electric with a propane fired furnace. Thank God we have a wood stove, even so our electric bill is $100+ per month, and that is with conserving as much as possible, including doing laundry in cold water and line drying!
LBH 78, I would like to take this opportunity to say you are an IDIOT and an ASSHOLE!
Bob 117, I must agree with you. I have yet to see any reason to hope for opposition from the dems. They have thrown every chance away, I don't trust them as far as I can pick up my car and throw it.
PS to Jeanne, hopeful is a good thing, naivete you will get over! My strategy, hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Russian MP Says US To Attack Iran Late March
Muslim riots a US psyop aimed at getting EU support for war

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | February 7 2006

A top Russian parliamentary leader has told Ekho Moskvy radio station that an attack on Iran is inevitable and that it will occur on March 28th. The leader of the Liberal Democrats Vladimir Zhirinovsky also believes that the Muslim riots were orchestrated by the US to garner European backing for the military strike.

Rhetoric has heated significantly in the past week with Donald Rumsfeld yesterday warning that a military option was on the table, echoing the comments of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist who said that the US was prepared to take military action.

Also, Israeli acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated that Iran would pay "a very heavy price" if the Islamic Republic defiantly resumes full-scale uranium enrichment to build nuclear weapons.

Zhirinovsky told the Russian radio station that, "The war is inevitable because the Americans want this war. Any country claiming a leading position in the world will need to wage wars. Otherwise it will simply not be able to retain its leading position."

"The date for the strike is already known, it is the election day in Israel (March 28). It is also known how much that war will cost, said Zhirinovsky

Commenting on the Muslim riots sweeping the Middle East and Europe, Zhirinovsky said that the publication of the offensive cartoons was a planned psyop on the part of the US and aimed to provoke a row between Europe and the Islamic world.

It will all end with European countries thanking the United States and paying, and giving soldiers, said Zhirinovsky.
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They will have their war, just like they did in Iraq. And the same way, with tricks and deception.

Forgive me for my mistake in #123.

I referred to the cartoons as being pictures. NYT just loves to print the pornographic pictures of Iraqi prisoner torture at the hands of American troops at Abu Ghraib but Mohammed Forbid a political cartoon!

Where will this career path lead to next?

NEW YORK -- A director at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been named to head the museum that will commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Alice Greenwald will oversee the creation of the World Trade Center Memorial Museum. It will be an underground gallery of exhibits next to the memorial that marks the destroyed twin towers' footprints.
Groundbreaking is scheduled for next month; the museum and memorial are slated to open in 2009.
Greenwald says in a statement obtained by The Associated Press the museum "will honor in perpetuity those whose lives were lost, and demonstrate to all who visit the World Trade center site for years to come, the healing power of memory in retelling their story."

Jon Stewart on the Enron trial:

"The trial of Enron chiefs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay began four-and-a-half years after perpetrating -- allegedly -- the fraud that led to the second largest bankruptcy in American history. Why four-and-a-half years? Because apparently it's harder to bring Ken Lay to trial than it is to invade two countries."

capt

Cheech & Chong perhaps?
(not the culprit, the chasers!)

WAXAHACHIE, Texas - Wildflowers may not be the only thing sprouting up along a 15-mile stretch of Interstate 35 in Ellis County this spring. Seeds of an illegal plant were inadvertently sown after a police officer stopped a car with no license plate light early Friday morning and smelled a strong odor of marijuana. When the officer returned to his car and called for backup, the driver drove away, Milford Police Chief Carlos Phoenix said. As several law enforcement agencies joined the chase, the fleeing driver tore open and threw 17 to 19 bags out of his window. "There was marijuana flying everywhere," Phoenix told the Waxahachie Daily Light. After driving over a second set of spikes set out by authorities, the suspect finally stopped and was taken into custody, and he was "literally covered in marijuana," Phoenix said. Officers picked up two duffel bags, a backpack and three or four gallon-size freezer bags from the interstate, but the wind blew much of the substance and seeds, Phoenix said.Also, some people with police scanners heard that a man was throwing marijuana out of his car window and drove to the scene to try to retrieve it, Phoenix said.

Very silly to even mention party, Democrats, Dumbocrats, Republican, Indy, etc. It does not matter what party the figure is from.

Say a Democrat wins in 2008, there is no historical evidence that they would do anything (in the larger scheme of things) very differently.

The "party" issue is a red herring.

It is all about money. Until that changes the name or party will have nothing to do with how the influence runs this country.

We are being bought and sold as we speak of from which party is the next dictator we choose.

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear." ~ Alan Corenk

capt

BREAKING NEWS: George Deutsch Did Not Graduate From Texas A & M University

Through my own investigations I have just discovered that George Deutsch, the Bush political appointee at the heart of administration efforts to censor NASA scientists (most notably to prevent James Hansen from speaking out about global warming), did not actually graduate from Texas A&M University. This should come as a surprise, since the media has implied otherwise, with even The New York Times describing the 24-year-old NASA public affairs officer, as "2003 journalism graduate of Texas A&M." Although Deutsch did attend Texas A&M University, where he majored in journalism and was scheduled to graduate in 2003, he left in 2004 without a degree, a revelation that I was tipped off to by one of his former coworkers at A&M's student newspaper The Battalion. I later confirmed this discovery through the records department of the Texas A&M University Association of Former Students.

Deutsch's former coworker informed me that in the summer of 2004, when Deutsch was the Opinion Editor for The Battalion, he was offered a position in George W. Bush's presidential reelection campaign. The position was apparently too good to turn down, so Deutsch not only left his editorial post, but he also left A&M completely. Deutsch's coworker was not aware of him returning to A&M to complete his education. I investigating this further, and through the Association of Former Students, I learned that George Deutsch never graduated from Texas A&M, and the last record of him was from June 9, 2004, when he withdrew.

At this point, while I am unaware of whether Deutsch graduated from college at all, it is clear that he did not graduate from A&M, and he may have intentionally misled people to believe that he did. The idea that NASA let a 24-year-old journalism major, with no experience in science or technology, other than writing a few articles about video games, determine what scientists were able to communicate to the public was pretty bad. The fact that he was censoring scientific information on global warming and the big bang made things more interesting, especially since he was a political appointee doing this to prevent challenges to the Bush administration’≥ policies. But now, finding out that he did not even graduate from Texas A&M, and may not have graduated from college at all, is absolutely outrageous. George Deutsch, as I wrote before, needs to be removed from this post immediately.

The Bush administration and the Republican Party can give lip service to science all they like, but when they show such a flagrant disregard for scientific integrity by placing someone, whose only qualification is having worked on the Bush campaign, in such an important position, everything else they say is meaningless.
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Well, well, well, what do we have here?

24 years old, unqualified and telling James Hanson, a top NASA scientist he doesn't know what he's talking about.
And Congress backs these thugs up.

David,

I think the Mother of the DSM decided to have a late-term abortion. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Or is there?

Feingold rocks. He's gonna get Wellstoned.

He has a great letter right now on Rawstory.com, if you've not peeped it yet. Too long to post.

ChiGirl,
It was a good letter. For those interested I linked it on #68.
I agree with him. There was no reason to be applauding that thug at the state of the union. Congress has lost its way. They should be ashamed.

Jeanne, hat's off to you! I was out of commission most of the day.

Jeanne,

Feingold is a phony just like every other politician in Washington, D.C. Classic case, in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and early on in 2005, Robert C. Byrd blamed all of America's ills on Bush. He voted against most or all of his conservative judicial appointees. Late 2005 and 2006, Byrd, of all people, voted to confirm both Roberts and Alito. This after proclaiming that he prefers conservatives judges because his constituents do. Byrd...up for re-election, 2006. Oh yes, just being a typical politician. When will any of you, other than a few admit they are all for one thing and one thing only, their tax-payer supported cushy government jobs and that lucrative pension that waits at the end of that global warming rainbow that they are not subject to like the rest of us, aka social security.

Sweden plans to be world's first oil-free economy

15-year limit set for switch to renewable energy Biofuels favoured over further nuclear power

Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15 years - without building a new generation of nuclear power stations.

The attempt by the country of 9 million people to become the world's first practically oil-free economy is being planned by a committee of industrialists, academics, farmers, car makers, civil servants and others, who will report to parliament in several months.

The intention, the Swedish government said yesterday, is to replace all fossil fuels with renewables before climate change destroys economies and growing oil scarcity leads to huge new price rises.

"Our dependency on oil should be broken by 2020," said Mona Sahlin, minister of sustainable development. "There shall always be better alternatives to oil, which means no house should need oil for heating, and no driver should need to turn solely to gasoline."

More HERE

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Do we have a fifty year plan to wean America from the teat of big oil? Do we think will get better?

capt

TRH, you are hopeless, IMO.

(Not that it matters to you; nor should it. I just find you terribly offensive and wanted to share that with you.)

I like you too, Micki. Not that it matters.

TRH..."and that lucrative pension that waits at the end of that global warming rainbow that they are not subject to like the rest of us, aka social security."

I am not sticking up for ANY politician, but that BS about SS and politicians is OUTDATED! Look it up on snopes or any other urban legend site.

If you're gonna bitch about politicians, at least get your ducks in order, eh!

Ex-U.N. Inspector: Decision Already Made To Attack Iran

Ritter described how the U.S. government might justify war with Iran in a scenario similar to the buildup to the Iraq invasion. He also argued that Iran wants a nuclear energy program, and not nuclear weapons. But the Bush administration, he said, refuses to believe Iran is telling the truth.

He predicted the matter will wind up before the U.N. Security Council, which will determine there is no evidence of a weapons program. Then, he said, John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, "will deliver a speech that has already been written. It says America cannot allow Iran to threaten the United States and we must unilaterally defend ourselves."

"How do I know this? I've talked to Bolton's speechwriter," Ritter said.

Ritter also predicted the military strategy for war with Iran. First, American forces will bomb Iran. If Iranians don't overthrow the current government, as Bush hopes they will, Iran will probably attack Israel. Then, Ritter said, the United States will drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.

The only way to prevent a war with Iran is to elect a Democratically controlled Congress in November, said Ritter, a lifelong Republican. He later said he wasn't worried his advice would be seen as partisan because, "It's a partisan issue." He said the problem is one party government and if Democrats controlled the presidency and Congress, he would advise people to elect Republicans.

More HERE

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His predictions are troubling.

"The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling." ~ Walter Goodman

capt

Don't have any ducks. No need for quackers.

I just seen an awesome story on our local ABC station. This ex-CIA man uses his skills in desguises to help people with mangled faces get their sense of self back with prostheses. It showed a before/during/after of this guy that lost his eye and socket to cancer. Looked like a big bandaid he was using to cover the hole...all sunk in and shyt. The change in this guy afterwards was really something. When he seen himself first, in a mirror, he got up and bear hugged the guy. I mean, he wasn't a 'girlie-man', this guy was big. His wife had tears in his eyes, and to tell you the truth, I did too. They showed a lady with a magnetic fake nose he made for her... and she took it off to show the ugly truth underneath. This ex-CIA man turned down work in Hollywood to help common people. They linked to his site on the station's web site.
I seen the lady's picture on the site, but not the big guy.
Robert R. Barron, former Senior CIA Disguise Specialist

ChiGirl and Jeanne: I loved Feingold's letter, too. Now, he has to trumpet its essence at every opportunity. (His pre-1776 comparison will probably float right over most Americans though.)

Maybe a Feingold/Clark ticket in '08...

Unfortunately, Ritter has been right again and again, and non-partisan. Scary post, Capt.

On a positive note, our normally-irrelevant, local nightly news covered Bush getting criticized at the funeral today.

Where shall we begin, where will it end?

Article 2, Section 4.

The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Impeachment is a terrible thing to waste. And to think we don't have to drill for Impeachment in ANWR. It is right here, readily available for use against all of the politicians, including the judges.

Feingold/Clark. Work's for me.

Worst president ever, Carter or Bush?

Diplomacy and Foriegn Policy
Human Rights
Fiscal Policy
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Leadership
Integrity

#25 James Ha...Pipes connection to Flemming Rose the cultural editor of Jylland Posten who commissioned the cartoons in Sept of 2005 really needs to be investigated.

Daniel Pipes has led the roadblocking of the DIVEST FROM ISRAEL CAMPAIGN developing on college campuses the last 8 years.

A district in Norway joined the Boycott of Israeli Products campaign in December of 2005. The ADL ( anti defamation league), JDL (Jewish Defense League), and Condi Rice all had strong words for Norway about this boycott. Rice said "Norway will suffer serious consequences for their decision"

Then in mid Jan. 2006 a right wing Christian newspaper in NOrway re-printed these cartoons. Why? It had been Sept. when Rose originally printed them. Was this done to incite, inflame the Muslim population intentionally. Sure looks like it.

Is this an example of the CHRISTIAN/ZIONIST COALITION working together?

I hope someone investigates the Norwegian paper and it's editors, and explore their connections.

WHAT AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO TURN THE SCANDANAVIANS AGAINST THE MUSLIM POPULATION AND VISA VERSA..TURN SCANDANAVIAN COUNTRIES THAT HAVE BEEN MOVING IN THE DIVESTMENT DIRECTION RIGHT AROUND.

# 29 Owl ..So many of the same folks who were going to great effort to inform the american public before the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq, have continued to warn and inform us of the desire of the Bush administration/Israel.. to go on into
Iran.

Scott Ritter,CIA ANALYST Ray McGovern , IAEA mR. EL Baradei has said "Iran does not pose and imminent threat". Yet Bolton has set up a system to trump the UN process once again.

#60 Robert Schwartz...thanks for the TTAtel statements..informative

#61 Micki...Welcome back.

#68 Jeanne..Everything I have heard Feingold say is clear, concise, factual and filled with integrity. I have not heard him say one thing I disagree with.

I would like to hear what he has to say on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. If he is a Carter man on this topic...he has my heart. Carter has said over and over "until the U.S. deals with this conflict in a fair and honest way..until then the cycle of violence will continue."

President or Vice President Feigold sounds great to me. This guy is quality.

I really believe Cheney's resignation is coming..

About Time!

DOVER, Del., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Delaware plans to create a memorial garden to discourage the proliferation of roadside markers for crash victims. The memorials have sprouted in the past 20 years, ranging from simple crosses to piles of plastic flowers and stuffed animals. Critics say they can be dangerous nuisances, and some states have been sued for religious memorials on public property. There is no national law or policy and a wide range of state regulations, The New York Times reports. New Jersey sets a time limit, Texas and some other states supply non-religious markers and Missouri encourages grieving families to adopt a stretch of highway for cleanup instead. In Delaware, the Memorial Garden is under construction off a stretch of highway between Dover and Wilmington. Plans include a reflecting pool, benches and red bricks inscribed with the names of crash victims. Construction was interrupted last year by funding problems. "Our philosophy is that we want to keep our roads clean and safe, and to do that we want to encourage people to have a safe location where they can mourn," Darrel Cole, a spokesman for the state Transportation Department, told the Times.

Count me among the ones in this country who question this practice. People die every day in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes. Yet, for some reason, people feel the need to memoralize their loved ones loss of life alongside a roadway? I don't mean to be insensitive, but then again, I am an evil conservative.

BUDGETING BUSH-STYLE Cut, cut, cut social programs...cut, cut, cut taxes on the super-wealthy

$2,770,000,000,000

$2,770,000,000,000

$2,770,000,000,000

But, wait! That doesn't include ...the jinzu knives or wars...

bush's budget plan does not cover the cost of military operations in Iraq or Afghanistan or the cost of emergency aid for Hurricane Katrina. bush said last week that he would submit requests for supplemental spending for $120 billion for his two wars and $18 billion more for Katrina (not that he intends to hand over the dough for this!).

The budget office said that the deficit for the current fiscal year would be $423 billion, a record high, up from its midyear estimate of $341 billion.

#150 kathleen, I wonder why you think this. Good riddance to him if it happens, but do you have some insight that you can share? His resignation for health reasons has been predicted so often that it would fill volumes!

When that jet taking off from DTW crashed by the freeway back in the 80's, the hill by the entrance ramp was covered in crosses and wreaths, etc. It was horrible. The power's that be took care of it by having pine trees planted instead and now the embankment along the entrance ramp up to the freeway is just trees. What a relief THAT was!

Xymphora and others have links to a translation of an admiring article which Flemming Rose (the Danish journalist in the cartoons case) wrote about Daniel Pipes, the American neo-conservative who has implied that he thinks Muslims should be interned (commenting favourably on the internment of people of Japanese origin in the United States during the Second World War, and drawing the obvious parallel, but later denying that he had actually advocated such internment).

The article appears to be the one which Pipes has reprinted on his Danish language site:
http://dk.danielpipes.org/article/2304.

Pipes is also one of the people behind Campus Watch which is attempting a latter-day McCarthy-type witch-hunt in universities.

Given this connection, it's fairly clear that Flemming Rose knew exactly what he was doing, and what his motivations were.

Why are you worried about the deficit? The polticians aren't. They know they can always use their ATM card, also known as their Automatic Tax Mandate to line their pockets. Rest assured, I will not be around to see it paid off, will you?

American Soldiers

More American soldiers are killed in the Middle East, 2,521.

2,521 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush and his evil lies.

Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. Henry Kissinger

G.K. Chesterton said, "Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics."

Before you seek revenge, dig two graves. Confucius

When an illegal war is launched, EVERY person killed and injured, EVERY piece of property destroyed, and all environmental damage is a WAR CRIME. A war without borders and limits is a perpetual war. This war of aggression proliferates terrorism in proportion to its reckless widening, making the world ever more dangerous. TCR News

Contamination

Linda Schrock Taylor says, "When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom."

Hitler Bush and the Nazi cabal will prowl the world seeking endless wars. With endless wars and depleted uranium the Nazi States of America will contaminate people, land, air, and water. In time our entire world will become contaminated through the use of depleted uranium in fighting our endless wars.

The Nazi States of America is an evil nation.

16,500+ American soldiers have been maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush’≥ evil lies.

40,000+ American soldiers are suffering from PTSD.

Over 250,000+ Iraqis have been killed in Iraq since Bush declared shock and awe bombings on March 19, 2003.

Contamination from depleted uranium may be effected 100,000 American soldiers and several million Iraqis.

Are you feeling more safe and secure with Bush in the WH and Cheney as his chief hatchet man overseeing America and her people.

Nazi American elections are rigged to favor the repugnants.

We will have to see how events play out. Seymour Hersh (when he was asked to comment about the 2004 election)

Bush will declare martial law in 2008 and the elections will be suspended.

Our military men and women are used as cannon fodder for a terrorist Nazi American government.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. George W. Bush, August 5, 2005

There is no sense trying to make sense from those who have no sense.

THE GLORY OF BUSH IS MAN FULLY DEAD!!!

This war in Iraq really pisses me off!!!!!

Rigged elections doom American democracy. American soldiers are being killed and maimed TO PROMOTE AN AMERICAN NAZI STATE.

THE GLORY OF GOD IS MAN FULLY ALIVE. St. Irenaeus

I shall pass this way but once. Any good that I can do let me do it now for I shall not pass this way again. St. Ambrose

We must work tirelessly for man to be fully alive.

American soldiers are being killed like flies for Bush's lies. To date 2,521 American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

DON'T PATRONIZE ME WITH TALK ABOUT HUMAN LIVES. COLIN LAPDOG POWELL

It sounds like human lives are not important to Lapdog.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. Oliver North

There is no sense trying to make sense from those who have no sense!

Wolfowitz + World Bank = War + Poverty

As Diebold goes, so goes the election!

American democracy is dead as we know it. We are now OUTSOURCING our dead American democracy around the world with our dead and maimed soldiers who are fighting in foreign lands so these lands can revel in our dead democracy. Nazi America will remain for our country and the world.

My fellow Nazi Americans, Bush does not view our Constitution as a piece of paper. He views our Constitution as a piece of toilet paper so he can wipe his ass with it.

When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom. Linda Schrock Taylor

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow

All Nazi Americans are accomplices in Bush's murders and war crimes.

To sin is a human business; to justify sin is a devilish business. Leo Tolstoy, Russian author 1828-1910

Nazi Americans continually justify sin.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. Jack Anderson

PEACE TAKES COURAGE!

HONOR THE TROOPS, DEMAND THE TRUTH!

The CIC (Coward in Crawford) lies about lying about his lies.

DEPLETED URANIUM HAS CONTAMINATED MAnY MILLIONS OF IRAQIS AND OUR AMERICAN SOLDIERS.

Depleted Uranium - Dirty
Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets
A Death Senterce Here And Abroad

By Leuren Moret
1-21-6

"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
- Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam"

Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.

And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that "Gulf-era veterans" now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.

This week the American Free Press dropped a "dirty bomb" on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.

Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras Kor?nyi-Both, is in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense's Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.

This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction of DU on the battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a death sentence and very nasty stuff.

Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as "spectacular ... and a matter of concern."

This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological systems - radiation, chemical and particulate - the particulate effect from nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to define.

In simple words, DU "trashes the body." When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: "I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people."

Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has been reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the U.S. military invasion of Iraq using DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.

Just 467 U.S. personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems.

The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs told American Free Press that he believes there are more disabled vets now than even after World War II.

They brought it home

Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but they brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their 20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and were forced to have hysterectomies because of health problems.

In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects. They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans' families now, the only normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before the war.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep records of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.

How did they hide it?

Before a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The blueprint for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document from the Manhattan Project.

Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant, who developed poison gas in World War I, was brought into the Manhattan Project by the father of presidential candidate John Kerry. Kerry's father served at a high level in the Manhattan Project and was a CIA agent.

Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee, which recommended developing poison gas weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic bomb project in World War II. At that time, it was known that radioactive materials dispersed in bombs from the air, from land vehicles or on the battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust which would penetrate all protective clothing, any gas mask or filter or the skin. By contaminating the lungs and blood, it could kill or cause illness very quickly.

They also recommended it as a permanent terrain contaminant, which could be used to destroy populations by contaminating water supplies and agricultural land with the radioactive dust.

The first DU weapons system was developed for the Navy in 1968, and DU weapons were given to and used by Israel in 1973 under U.S. supervision in the Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.

The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested on the USS Bigelow out of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been sold by the U.S. to 29 countries.

Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from 1974-1999 at military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian labs under contract. Today 42 states are contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and deployment.

Women living around these facilities have reported increases in endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and cancers and other diseases in adults. Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the cause.

The medical profession has been active in the cover-up - just as they were in hiding the effects from the American public - of low level radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. A medical doctor in Northern California reported being trained by the Pentagon with other doctors, months before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only.

Medical professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning soldiers were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the soldiers or their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail.

Reporters have also been prevented access to more than 14,000 medically evacuated soldiers flown nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from Germany who are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, D.C.

Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has contacted three medical doctors since February 2004, after I had been invited to speak about DU. Dr. Katharine Thomasson, president of the Oregon chapter of the PSR, informed me that Dr. Gould had contacted her and tried to convince her to cancel her invitation for me to speak about DU at Portland State University on April 12. Although I was able to do a presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me I could only talk about DU in Oregon "and nothing overseas ... nothing political."

Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto, Canada, from inviting me to speak to Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), the Canadian equivalent of PSR, several months later. When that didn't work, he contacted Dr. Allan Connoly, the Canadian national president of PGS, who was able to cancel my invitation and nearly succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own member, from showing photos and presenting details on civilians suffering from DU exposure and cancer provided to him by doctors in southern Iraq.

Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing member of PSR, reported that she finally quit some time after being invited to lunch by a new PSR executive administrator. After the woman had pumped Dr. Sherman for information all through lunch about her position on key issues, the woman informed Dr. Sherman that her last job had been with the CIA.

How was the truth about DU hidden from military personnel serving in successive DU wars? Before his tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive director of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95 percent of Gulf War veterans had been recycled out of the military by 1995. Any of those continuing in military service were isolated from each other, preventing critical information being transferred to new troops. The "next DU war" had already been planned, and those planning it wanted "no skunk at the garden party."

The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret

A new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael Collins Piper, "The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America's Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War Against Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global Empire," details the early plans for a war against the Arab world by Henry Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That just happens to coincide with getting the DU "show on the road" and the oil crisis in the Middle East, which caused concern not only to President Nixon. The British had been plotting and scheming for control of the oil in Iraq for decades since first using poison gas on the Iraqis and Kurds in 1912.

The book details the creation of the neo-cons by their "godfather" and Trotsky lover Irving Kristol, who pushed for a "war against terrorism" long before 9/11 and was lavishly funded for years by the CIA. His son, William Kristol, is one of the most influential men in the United States.

Both are public relations men for the Israeli lobby's neo-conservative network, with strong ties to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to this network and the Carlyle Group, who, one could say, have facilitated these omnicidal wars beginning from the time former President Bush took office. It would be easy to say that we are recycling World Wars I and II, with the same faces.

When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who could have devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic code and genetic future of large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East and Central Asia - just coincidentally the areas where most of the world's oil deposits are located - he replied: "It has all the handprints of Henry Kissinger."

In Zbignew Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives," the map of the Eurasian chessboard includes four regions strategic to U.S. foreign policy. The "South" region corresponds precisely to the regions now contaminated permanently with radiation from U.S. bombs, missiles and bullets made with thousands of tons of DU.

A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of DU is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The U.S. has used more DU since 1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere from atmospheric testing!

No wonder our soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle East, Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after Vietnam when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange, "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign policy."

Unfortunately, more and more of those soldiers are men and women with brown skin. And unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried around the world and deposited in our environments just as the "smog of war" from the 1991 Gulf War was found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii.

In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they aren't telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence ... for all of us. We will all die in silent ways.

To learn more

Sources used in this story that readers are encouraged to consult:

American Free Press four-part series on DU by
Christopher Bollyn.
Part I: "Depleted Uranium: U.S. Commits War Crime
Against Iraq, Humanity,"
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/depleted_uranium.html

Part II: "Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD: MD Says
Depleted Uranium Definitively
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html

Part III: "DU Syndrome Stricken Vets Denied Care:
Pentagon Hides DU Dangers to Deny Medical Care toVets",


http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/du_syndrome.html
Part IV: "Pentagon Brass Suppresses Truth About Toxic
Weapons: Poisonous Uranium Munitions Threaten World",
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pentagon_brass.html

August 2004 World Affairs Journal. Leuren Moret:
"Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War,"
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Trojan-Horse1jul04.htm

August 2004 Coastal Post Online. Carol Sterrit: "Marin
Depleted Uranium Resolution Heats Up - GI's Will Come Home To A Slow Death,"
http://www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01.htm

World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg,
Germany, October 16-19, 2004:
http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm

International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan.
Written opinion of Judge Niloufer Baghwat:
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm

"Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost of Nuclear War"
by Akira Tashiro, foreword by Leuren Moret,
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html

Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has worked around the world on radiation issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress and other officials. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud on the Yucca Mountain Project. An environmental commissioner in the City of Berkeley, she can be reached at leurenmoret@yahoo.com.

http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9993

Just As "Legal" As Hitler was in 1933

With Abu Gonzales playing the role of Franz Gurtner... first it was torture, and whatha hell, that logic works with spying too.

Gerald, they will pay for what they are doing, rest assured. I just hope I live to see the day.

Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program.

The lawmaker, Representative Heather A. Wilson of New Mexico, chairwoman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, said in an interview that she had "serious concerns" about the surveillance program. By withholding information about its operations from many lawmakers, she said, the administration has deepened her apprehension about whom the agency is monitoring and why.

Ms. Wilson, who was a National Security Council aide in the administration of President Bush's father, is the first Republican on either the House's Intelligence Committee or the Senate's to call for a full Congressional investigation into the program, in which the N.S.A. has been eavesdropping without warrants on the international communications of people inside the United States believed to have links with terrorists

(snip)

Ms. Wilson, a former Air Force officer who is the only female veteran currently in Congress, has butted up against the administration previously over controversial policy issues, including Medicare and troop strength in Iraq. She said she realized that publicizing her concerns over the surveillance program could harm her relations with the administration. "The president has his duty to do, but I have mine too, and I feel strongly about that," she said.
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another example of women having the 'balls' to speak up... she's the only woman veteran in Congress

Kathleen, Dont know if you saw it or not, but he editor from that Danish newspaper that published the pictures was on "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer tonight. FYI in case you can find a trancsript somewhere to see what he had to say.

y'all need to see this picture

Dude, Where's My Party?

I think that unrest; be it in regard to faith or politics has as its impetus..........the press.

I also think, that a thinking public has the wisdom to see a cartoon for what it is.............

A cartoon.

Who's GOD has Not been mocked????? Do we all Riot about this????

GOD, mine or yours, isn't an icon.........and therefore cannot be mocked.

I had a very wise Father, he said; Pick your battles and you will win your wars.

I as a person in the world am very tired of burning and killing, and mayhem in the name of Anybodies GOD.

It isn't about the cartoon, or the cartoonist, its about..........My GOD can kick your GOD's ass.

And its really stupid, childish and petty....and people are dying.

Guess what? I havent seen the relavent cartoons, nor am I in a huge hurry to. Do I think they needed to be repressed??? Oh hell no.

If you wish to demonstrate in support of your beliefs, to me, you best be able to do so with respect for other peoples beliefs, lives, and property.

These cartoons may well have been tasteless and crass, I don't know, I have only heard about them, but seems to me there is something to be learned here. How many who have not seen these images are now interested?? Why?? Press coverage. Its a catch 22 that could make the world a real nasty place.

Yeah, you can invoke National Security, or you can invoke, litterary responsiblilty.........but in the end it is all about..........repression.

EYES ONLY.

"THE DEVIL YOU SEE"

See Rove: Blacklist

A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA

Published: February 8, 2006
George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.

(snip)

Mr. Deutsch's educational record was first challenged on Monday by Nick Anthis, who graduated from Texas A&M last year with a biochemistry degree and has been writing a Web log on science policy,
scientificactivist.blogspot.com.
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I had read his article earlier, linked from 'crooks'. Score another homer for the bloggers!

"He's only a bit player," Dr. Hansen said of Mr. Deutsch. " The problem is much broader and much deeper and it goes across agencies. That's what I'm really concerned about."

"On climate, the public has been misinformed and not informed," he said. "The foundation of a democracy is an informed public, which obviously means an honestly informed public. That's the big issue here."
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This is true. A dumbshit was published in today's 'letter to the editor' locally... sounded just like an RNC bulletin about so-called global warming.
*...misinformed and not informed indeed!

*that damn pesky Constitution

Judge Is Urged to Intervene for Detainee Held in Iraq

Published: February 8, 2006
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — Lawyers for a 44-year-old naturalized American citizen have been pressing a federal district judge to intervene in their client's case, saying that he had been arrested and held in Iraq for more than a year without being charged or given access to a lawyer.

(snip)

Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, one of several American lawyers representing Mr. Omar, said before the government filing that "neither we nor his family know why he is being held." He added, "We're asking the court to provide him with the due process rights he is entitled to as an American citizen."
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He's been an American citizen for 20 years, and even served in the Minn. National Guard.

#161 Alan - Great Post!

Write Heather Wilson or write your own Rep. but show this woman the support she deserves.

She's 45, an Air Force Academy Grad, a Rhodes Scholar with a masters and PhD from Oxford. She worked for Bush I in national security.
http://wilson.house.gov/Bio.asp

#161,

Heather Wilson is my rep - she votes with Bush 90% of the time (documented). This is a real pip and any calls she has made for an investigation is to whitewash the issue - TRUST ME.

I have sent her thousands of letters and she always has a rather smart ass reply about how I hate Bush but she thinks he walks on water.

We came very close to booting her last election and I bet this is a ploy.

DO NOT trust Heather Wilson. This is a show or a ploy to get re-elected. She did not change her stripes overnight.

IMHO

capt

Weelky Alibi

Dear Alibi,

I, too, like your previous correspondent, Brian Fejer of Albuquerque [Letters, "Impeach Them All," Jan. 19-25], wrote to Heather Wilson concerning the impeachment of President George "WMD" Bush, and was equally offended at her dismissive response. She actually responded with the standard little form letter thanking me for my "message about Harriet Mier's nomination to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States." I didn't even mention that ridiculous nomination in my letter, although Heather "Just Roll Me Over and Take What You Want" Wilson kindly explained nonetheless that "Article II, section 2, paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution gives the Senate responsibility for considering and confirming the President's executive and judicial nominations. The House of Representatives does not vote to confirm the President's nominations," another way of saying, "I have nothing to say regarding this, because it's not my responsibility—it's the Senate's." It's hard to believe someone who has so little respect for her constituents that she won't even send back the correct standardized form answer to their honest inquiries was ever properly elected to Congress. Has she ever actually done anything for anybody in New Mexico, or is she just another Republican-aligned hack with a vote to sell that New Mexico needs to get rid of? The day they dismiss our letters and our concerns is the day we should dismiss them as our representatives in Congress.

*****end of clip*****

This is from our local progressive free weekly.

capt

CREW Releases Report "Addicted to Porn"

Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director referred to Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) as "the biggest hypocrite of all" for having written a letter to former Vice President Al Gore demanding that he return a contribution from an adult entertainment web site and for sanctimoniously ranting at Viacom executives that they cared more about profits than morality, despite accepting $47,000 in porn profits.

A copy of the report can be found on the web at www.citizensforethics.org or contact Naomi Seligman at press@citizensforethics.org.

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The "Alibi" used to have an Mp3 up where she called into a radio station - nearly in tears - about the Jackson breast fiasco. She was almost crying but even as she was all weepy, she took thousands of campaign dollars FROM Viacom.

She is as two faced and lying a politician as I have ever seen.

I have posted a link to the mp3 (months ago) - will see if I can find it again.

Trust me, if she is calling for anything it is to support her special relationship to Bunnypants.

capt

Cry us a river.

In a lame-ass attempt to convince folks that she cares about something other than lining the pockets of pharmaceutical companies at the expense of America's senior citizens and under the guise of extending "a prescription drug benefit" to the very people that are actually getting screwed by inflated drug costs, Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M., unfortunately) literally cried foul on Wednesday as a House Telecommunications Committee spent two hours chastising Viacom president Mel Karmazin over this year's Super Bowl halftime festivities.

Listening to KUNM last Wednesday night, we were baffled by a deep-voiced woman who sounded on the verge of tears. "You knew what you were doing," she said, her voice shaking. She went on to say that the "shock and indecency" would "move market share and line [executives'] pockets." We were left wondering who this tearful woman was: a grandmother who doesn't own a TV? An overly-dramatic soap-opera actress? Tipper Gore? Before we could speculate further, KUNM's report identified the overwrought voice as that of Wilson.

Reading that Wilson delivered her speech with her "voice cracking," as reported in Thursday's Journal, doesn't really begin to describe how distraught (and bizarre) she sounded. Luckily, thanks to your friends here at the Alibi, you can listen for yourself HERE.

For a politician whose voting record clearly defines the self-serving interests of corporate America (Viacom is one of her campaign contributors for Chrissakes, to the tune of $4,500 since 1997) to get teary eyed and ridiculously dramatic over a risque halftime show—©t was just a breast, after all, and 52 percent of us, including Wilson, have them—°nd not over the fact that she's repeatedly voted against the interests of New Mexican children and families she's constantly feigning concern about is insulting to every resident of the state she supposedly represents. Shut up, Heather. And do some good in Washington for a change! And besides, with American soldiers still dying in Iraq, aren't there bigger issues to cry about?

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Here is the Mp3 I was talking about. (linked at the end of the second paragraph)

There is the very slim possibility that she had an epiphany or found God but I will wager it (a call for investigation of Bush) is just more distraction or a ploy.

capt

That would be at he end of the third paragraph.

Or: HERE.

capt

Exxon: America will always rely on foreign oil

The United States will always rely on foreign imports of oil to feed its energy needs and should stop trying to become energy independent, a top Exxon Mobil Corp. executive said on Tuesday.

"Realistically, it is simply not feasible in any time period relevant to our discussion today," Exxon Mobil Senior Vice President Stuart McGill said, referring to what he called the "misperception" that the United States can achieve energy independence.

The comments, in a speech at an energy conference in Houston, come a few days after U.S. President George W. Bush declared America was addicted to Middle Eastern oil and promised to help the country kick the habit.

Many in the United States believe America should wean itself off oil imports from the Middle East, fearing it makes the country dangerously dependent on an unstable region.

The world's largest publicly traded oil company, however, says hoping to end foreign oil imports is not only a bad idea, but also impossible.

"Americans depend upon imports to fill the gap," McGill said. "No combination of conservation measures, alternative energy sources and technological advances could realistically and economically provide a way to completely replace those imports in the short or medium term."

Instead of trying to achieve energy independence, importing nations like the U.S. should be promoting energy interdependence, McGill said.

"Because we are all contributing to and drawing from the same pool of oil, all nations — exporting and importing — are inextricably bound to one another in the energy marketplace," he said.

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Boy, we better STOP trying to conserve - EXXON says so.

Check out post #137 - We should be ashamed and EXXON should be boycotted for saying such a thing.

capt

Timmieee! Dude, BobinND may not be much brighter than you but he just punked your azz:
"Nobody with an IQ over 27 believes that Bush didn't lie and decieve the country into war. It is a given with what we know now."
Posted by: Bob in North Dakota at February 7, 2006 06:13 PM

I think he's misunderestimating you boy; but hey, don't we all?

Hi Pags-Happy, it's me again. Looks like Bubblenose Bill ran out on you. You know they say only cowards Cut and Run‚Ñ¢. Look at who's left defending the Grand Ol' Lynchin' Party, you and a steaming, fly-infested pile of LBH.

Sowell is such a funny guy. Thanks for posting his comedy act. We need the laughs since the Grand Ol' Spending Party is driving this country into the economic ditch.

This was the best part:
"The way the question is posed by many in the media and in politics, you would think our intelligence agencies were listening in on you talking on the phone to your aunt Mabel."

Blaming it on the media won't work. The media gets its info from whistleblowers at the FBI and NSA. They're the ones who are complaining about the idiotic way that resources are being used in the War on Terror‚Ñ¢.

"BTW: A quick glance show postings are getting boring! Adios!!
Posted by: Happy Enchilada at February 7, 2006 11:33 AM

Well, Pagliacci, I'll give you this much: your Spanish is improving!

Your unintended humor is just as funny:
"Your site is blessed with so many Scholars (see example #8), world-class economists and political analysts, I am just awe-struck. I presume most of your Lefty regulars have numerous publications, books, and of course, the requsite (sic) degrees but have to post under pseudo handles to avoid upstaging you. Needless to say, they must be among the wealthy elites since they should be able to capitalize on their remarkable forsights (sic)."

I still don't get why you reactionary ignoramuses get all whiny about the folks who post comments on this blog. Your spelling is telling.

Your copy-and-paste nonsense from Captain Ed is a pathetic attempt to dulcify the mess that the Grand Ol' Spending Party has gotten us into. For a party that preaches "personal responsibility" you guys sure do make a lot of excuses. It's obviously a big pile of Bull-LBH.

This is just tragically stoopid:
"Er, that isn't all that happened, and either Dionne has a bad memory or has slipped into uncharacteristic disingenuity by claiming this. Dionne leaves out two important points. The first fact omitted is that the tax increase in 1990 resulted in a sudden recession, which the Gulf War made worse by driving up oil costs temporarily. In fact, the increased rates flattened tax receipts; it did not result in any significant increase to the Treasury."

Hey look! Another war that drove up oil costs and screwed up the economy. That apple doesn't rot very far from the tree, eh Pags? As for significant increases to the treasury, do you have any data to back that up? Didn't think so. I have data to the contrary. Look at the numbers from the CBO (careful it's one of those PDF jobbies), page 4 shows a steady increase in revenues capped off by a record $1 Trillion in personal income taxes paid in 2000. I would consider a "record" to be a "significant" increase in revenues.

And like any typical Republican, he gives us the thumbsucker's view of the Dems:
"Dionne cannot recall the "Read My Lips' commercials that the Clinton campaign used to devastating effect in that election, which showed Bush promising to hold the line on taxes -- and blamed him entirely for raising them later. The Democrats stabbed Bush 41 in the back for working with them, and that's the lesson that 43 learned from the experience. Compromise with Democrats, and they will use it to attack at the first opportunity."

Oh those vicious Spineless Dems‚Ñ¢. They attack without the slightes provocation. If you whiny titty-babies would just get over it and remember that you are the majority party, you might be able to see that the mess we're in is squarely on your plate. Do something about it or quit fucking whining.

Then we get a bigger pile of stinky, filthy LBH:
"The reason for the deficit isn't the tax cuts, which provided the spark for the economy that has driven tax revenues far past the $2T mark for 2005. The deficit comes from increased federal spending, which both parties have increased on almost a straight line ever since that budget agreement in 1990."

It's a bipartisan Pork party? I don't think so. Neither does George Will. Neither does this nutbag:
"Rep. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, has written to the House leadership that, "With the number and dollar value of earmarks more than quadrupling over the past decade, pork-barrel spending has become an unfortunate hallmark of our Republican majority."

You guys need to make up your mind. Either you control both houses of Congress or you don't. If the Dems are forcing you into this rampant spending, quit whining about those Spineless Dems‚Ñ¢.

Pags, do you follow congress? I have a question about this quote:
"Dionne is rightly concerned about the federal budget and the deficit, but he seems to have a hazy memory about its origins and its underlying causes. His call for bipartisanship in solving the problem is also laudable, but instead of castigating Republicans for a lack of intestinal fortitude in handling its fiscal conservatives, perhaps Dionne should scold the Democrats who twisted Bush 41's bipartisanship into a character flaw and the moderate Republicans who join with the Democrats in their inability to stop spending our money."
Posted by Captain Ed at February 7, 2006 06:00 AM
Posted by: Happy Lazyass at February 7, 2006 04:16 PM

How many Democrats voted for the last spending bill in the House? How many voted against it? How many Republicans voted for it? How many voted against it?

I won't do all of your research for you. You lazy Republicans need to get off of your asses every once in a while.

Time to hit the road.

They came to praise King and bury Bush

George W. Bush’≥ pathetic attempt to turn Coretta Scott King’≥ funeral into a politically-advantageous photo op fell flatter than his State of the Union speech Tuesday –†a textbook example of just how out of touch the President has become with the American people.

"This commemorative ceremony this morning and this afternoon is not only to acknowledge the great contributions of Coretta and Martin, but to remind us that the struggle for equal rights is not over," said former President Carter, who remarks brought loud cheers. "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans."

Carter’≥ comments ring true about Bush and his right-wing Republican followers –†a group of rabid racists whose tokenism only deepens the racial divide in this country.

But Carter drew even louder cheers when he compared King’≥ struggles against FBI harassment and surveillance to Bush’≥ use of the National Security Agency and other government agencies to spy on Americans.

"It was difficult for them personally," Carter said of both Kings, "with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretapping, other surveillance, and as you know, harassment from the FBI."

Bush tried his usual plastic smile but his body language clearly showed discomfort as speaker after speaker zeroed in on the hypocrisy of his Presidency –†one that talks unity but practices division.

He offered phony applause when the Rev. Joseph Lowery, King protege and longtime critic, who cited Coretta King's opposition to the war in Iraq and scored the administration’≥ phony commitment to helping the poor.

"She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar," Lowery said. "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor."

When Bush’≥ turn came, the audience, for the most part, sat on their hands, offering only muted applause for his seven-minute eulogy. It was a pitiful performance by a President whose legacy is marked all too often by shameless self-promotion.

Longtime political scientist George Harleigh, who worked in both the Nixon and Reagan White House, called the President’≥ appearance at King’≥ funeral "the equivalent of a walk-on, a token but-failed attempt to show compassion that does not exist for a cause he does not support.

"George Bush has never been a compassionate man," says Harleigh, "but lately he looks more detached than normal, like someone going through the motions, marking his time and hoping against hope that his time is not up."

But Bush, despite his clumsy attempts to put on a strong public face, should realize he is living on borrowed time, not only as a lame duck President but as one who could well face impeachment if enough Democrats win seats in this fall’≥ House and Senate elections.

"The Bush era is coming to an end –†in 2008 or perhaps even sooner," Harleigh says. "It is an era that will not be remembered fondly."

There is little doubt that George W. Bush will go down in history as one of the most controversial, morally-challenged, dishonest Presidents to serve at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. What remains in doubt is how his Presidency will end and whether or not there will be an America left to put that painful memory behind it.

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Doug is back and in rare form.

capt

#136 - LBH

Uh, LBH, I think you are confusing yourself. You say Fiengold is a phony and to prove it you talk about Byrd?

Fiengold has the guts to stick to his convictions. Prove that he hasn't.

Imagine living next to a wealthy but violent and volatile neighbor who took an enormous life insurance policy out on his vibrant and healthy wife.
The pugnacious husband--and his equally violent brothers--had earlier published a manifesto describing the benefits of murder and insurance fraud, called the PNAC.
A week later the woman is found murdered. Her blood is found inside the house and car. While investigators attempt to search for more clues, the husband orders the car destroyed. Meanwhile the house is cleaned, detectives are ordered off the case and local newspaper reporters are forbidden to write investigative stories about the case because the wealthy local publisher is also an influential friend of the husband's.
Indeed, powerful political friends of the husband cast suspicion on distant relatives living several thousand miles away. The security cameras inside the house offer no clues (because the tapes all mysteriously disappeared) but a number of ID cards belonging to distant relatives are scattered around the premises. The obviousness of this planted evidence is ignored by normally objective persons.
And in a remarkable twist, the husband receives his massive insurance payout while the local mayor, also a friend of the husband's, becomes a hero "Man Of The Year"--for his efforts to allay all the suspicious, unanswered questions of reporters, first responders and bereaved family members.

The WTC-7, the massive government building housing branches of the SEC, Secret Service and CIA, was demolished under extremely suspicious circumstances. The subsequent crime and cover up was exactly like the scenario outlined above.
Imagine the US Senate Building collapsing and no official investigation conducted by the US government and none demanded by the mainstream media. Those in charge, who benefited in a thousand different ways, deliberately impeded any investigation of the crime but were instead rewarded for their negligence or complicity.
If that does not indicate guilt, I do not know what does.
But does a massive cover up (and mountains of circumstantial evidence) indicate guilt?
Yes. In civil cases and espionage cases and fraud cases, such evidence would result in indictments and convictions. Why not then, in the case of 911, where over 3,000 persons were executed?
Branches of the US government, housed in the massive 47 story WTC-7"representing your government and mine"were purposely destroyed. Those in charge of the crime scene, New York mayor Giuliani ("Man Of The Year) for example, prohibited any investigation. Instead the crime scene was quickly destroyed.
Likewise, those entrusted with safekeeping the nation that day were promoted. People like General Richard Myers. Those entrusted with capturing the alleged culprits failed miserably. Like George W. Bush, who was rewarded with reelection while OBL remained free. Those responsible for the national security of the nation before 911 likewise failed miserably. Like George Tenet and Condoleeza Rice. But, like the others, Rice received a promotion and consolidated even more power while Tenet got a $5 million dollar book deal.
By contrast, those honest FBI officers who asserted the 911 case was more complex and shadowy than the official government version were threatened, passed over for promotion or labeled troublemakers. Those who accepted the government version of events were promoted.
And lastly, the guy who leased that government building only weeks before it was purposely destroyed? He was rewarded with hundreds of millions of dollars. How obvious does a crime have to be before people can see it?
But the greatest indicator of guilt lies in the suspicious behavior of people after the crime. Convinced they have "gotten away with the perfect crime, suspects lie, cheat and steal. They plot vendettas against honest people, commit further crimes, create increasingly intricate lies (WMD), threaten witnesses and waste their ill-gotten fortunes (trillions), all the while becoming ever more vicious and greedy.
Indeed, everything that has happened before, during and after 911 indicates proof positive that the Neocons committed the crime. And any objective court of law"if one truly existed"would convict them in a New York minute.

In a NY SECOND!

From 104:

"I converted my home furnace to natural gas"

"I do not contribute to the oil companies profits"

Natural gas (commonly referred to as gas in many countries, but note that gas is also an American and Canadian shortening of gasoline) is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. It is found in oil fields and natural gas fields, as well as in smaller quantities in coal beds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas

"Natural gas" is a by product of fossil fuel/oil production.

It is not that hard or time consuming to at least get a couple of facts straight. Isn't the point of lying and prevaricating to convince others of what the liar knows to be untrue? Wouldn't that goal be better accomplished by establishing credibility? Baffling...

There is little doubt that George W. Bush will go down in history as one of the most controversial, morally-challenged, dishonest Presidents to serve at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. What remains in doubt is how his Presidency will end and whether or not there will be an America left to put that painful memory behind it.

#160 Saladin, you are living to see it now. All we have to do is to look around and see all the hatred, murders, torture, war crimes, corruption, greed, decadence, and lies. They are the eight pillars of human destruction. Nazi America is morally dead. Nazi America is a morally damned nation.

Our children and their children will live to experience more pain and suffering than any time in the history of the universe. They will live in a natural hell and a prelude to the supernatural hell.

#172 capt, it is an election year. The Nazis again change their stripes. They are masters of bait and switch tactics. The Democrats are as useless as nipples on a bull.

American Soldiers

More American soldiers are killed in the Middle East, 2,522.

2,522 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush and his evil lies.

Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. Henry Kissinger

G.K. Chesterton said that Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics.

Before you seek revenge, dig two graves. Confucius

When an illegal war is launched, EVERY person killed and injured, EVERY piece of property destroyed, and all environmental damage is a WAR CRIME. A war without borders and limits is a perpetual war. This war of aggression proliferates terrorism in proportion to its reckless widening, making the world ever more dangerous. TCR News

Nazi America is a mirror image of Bush!

There are people who will share with you what they see as the future for America. Here is part of my perception of what is in store for Americans. Katrina is the beginning of communal graves.

Communal Graves

My perception of America is that America is synonymous with Nazi concentration camps. When I think of Nazi concentration camps, I visualize communal graves. Since the 10% of wealthy Americans desire more land, communal graves are the answer.

Communal graves will be the size of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The 90% of Americans who are poor will be laid in communal graves. Human bodies will fill these graves. As the bodies decompose, the land will be fertile and rich for the pleasure of the 10% wealthy.

Mini gardens can be planted so the wealthy can grow more food for their way of life. They will have more food to eat and as the food passes through their bodies, they will have mother loads of all mother loads so their servants can scoop up the human dung so the dung can be baked into cake dung for fuel. The wealthy will donate the cake dung to the 90% of Americans who are poor for fuel during the winter months.

The wealthy can feel that these charitable donations will offset their miserable, pathetic, and worthless lives of corruption and decadence. These miniscule donations for 90% of Americans will help make the wealthy feel important.

The choice for America is very clear. Do we want Shalom for America and the world or do we want to continue our path toward communal graves?

Shalom

Here is more reality!

Here is what America and the world need in order to attain peace and justice on our planet for all of God's children. Here is also what I believe God wants for His children and His vision for the world.

Shalom translated means peace but it is much more than peace. Shalom is a vision of social wholeness; a state of well being for all, where everyone has access to the goods of creation intended to meet the needs of all. Shalom is the substance of the biblical vision of one community embracing all creation where all enjoy the resources that make communal harmony joyous and effective.

Shalom is nothing less than God's intended vision of the world, a dream of God that resists our tendencies for division, hostility, fear, lust, and misery. If there is to be well-being, it will not be just for the isolated and insulated individuals, it is security and prosperity granted to the whole community - the poor, the widow, the orphan, the immigrant, the tax collector and the sinner, the despised and the rejected, young and old, the have and the have nots, the powerful and the dependent. We are in it together. Together we stand before God's blessings and together we receive the gift of life. Shalom comes only to the inclusive embracing community that excludes no one.

Gerald, I meant to see the traitorous muderers get what they deserve. And since I don't believe in a supernatural hell, I am hoping to see them suffer even a fraction of the suffering they have caused for so many thousands upon thousands of people around the world.

Thank you Robb. Pointing out that natural gas is a fossil fuel and that the companies extracting it are indeed the very ones that fill your petrol tank. The company trucks in the natural gas industry carry the title "Haliburton".

Corruption of air quality has a huge impact here. Therefore it is important to get as much baseline data of air, ground water and ground samples for future information when dealing with BP et al and the Colorado Oil And Gas Commission (COGCC)that is run by oil and gas lawyers. Collecting data is what I do here in Western Colorado where surface owners find themselves facing the ravaging consequences of gas and oil drilling 180 feet from their once quiet homes. Ground water and air quality as well as noise disrupt more than you can imagine.

One should realize that gas extraction is soon to impact all US wildlife refuges and National Parks in Arizona, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California. Not to forget- Alaska.

Just thought you should know.
Thanks,
th

#186 Saladin, I believe that when we die, we are directed to one of two places - heaven or hell. I do not want anyone to end up in hell and so God will determine the punishment. Maybe because Bush and the Nazi cabal are such miserable, pathetic, useless, and worthless beings that their lives can be tormented as they live.

Gerald, this is what I believe, "the living are conscious that they will die, but as for the dead, they are conscious of NOTHING AT ALL."
Ecclesiastes 9:5
I would prefer to know those monsters have received the punishment that is due them rather than hope for some illusory punishment after death. Hell is a fairy tale made up by the church to terrify people into submission, the same sort of tactic the tyrannical bush regime uses.

187 You are welcome and thanks to you for the good information, th. I continue to occasionally ponder the intent or benefit of the "troll" posts. No conclusive answers yet...perhaps just mischevious children...

Check out this VIDEO Colbert exposes Richard Clarke as false opposition

Colbert takes mere seconds in dismantling the notion that Richard Clarke is anything other than another establishment hack. Clarke of course, is a darling of the left gatekeepers, vaguely criticizing the Bush Administration on "terror" but maintaining the fiction of Al-CIAdaAl-Qaeda as a real and significant threat.
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Any politician or other govt. official that continues to whitewash the truth with BS AL-CIADA rhetoric cannont be trusted.

#189 Saladin, the Bushes and their Nazi cabals have NO CONSCIENCE and so they will not be punished and tormented. They display a depraved indifference toward human life.

Happiness for Nazi Americans is a conscience free soul. They are ecstatic to witness people's sufferings. Saladin, since you do not believe in a hell, you will have to live with the fact that the Bushes and their Nazi cabals will never suffer. Living soul-less creatures do not suffer. They just exist with joy in their depraviities.

Paul Craig Roberts does not fail to deliver

Gerald, I believe in justice, even though we see precious little of it now. I do not believe it is just to subject a person to an eternity of torture in a hellfire for a short lifetime of wrongdoing, and if there is a just God he/she would never create such a condition. Only humans are evil and cruel enough to invent such nonsense and use it as a coersive tool to force obedience. The days of this world order are numbered, one way or another it will be stopped, because such intense evil cannot continue, evil is self-destructive by it's very nature. We may think it has lasted forever, but in time as measured by the universe, humans and their doings, good and bad, are but a blip on the radar screen. Earth has endured far worse over the past 5 billion years than anything we are capable of dishing out, and it will continue long after we are gone, and won't miss us a bit!

#162 Citizen X..Thanks for the tip. I would also like to see the editor of the right wing Norwegian Christian magazine MAGAZINET interviewed.

This magazine reprinted the cartoons in mid January in Norway...just after a district in Norway joined the BOYCOTT ISRAELI PRODUCTS CAMPAIGN. After Israeli firster organizations ADL (anti defamation league) the JDL (Jewish defense league) and others including Condaleeza Rice pounded Norway for this stance on Israels policies.

The editor of this Norwegian paper needs to be interviewed and investigated. Why they chose to reprint those cartoons in mid January after the Boycott was declared in mid December and almost 4 months after they were originally printed in Denmark in mid Sept 2005 . This paper and their associations with any other right wing organizations needs to be investigated.

Was it their intention to incite and inflame?
Is this an example of the RIGHT WING CHRISTIAN/ZIONIST COALTION?

#176 CAPT...Thanks fo that article. Doug hit the nail on the head. Enough of the efforts by Bush to co-op the passing of Coretta Scott King and then ignoring the critical issues that were so important to both Coretta and Dr. Martin Luther King.

While I am not into anyone being humiliated in public. Bush certainly deserves it. He provides tax cuts to the wealthy..while ignoring the needs of the poor.. and the middle class pays out the nose.

I wish I had been there.

from: Lew Rockwell

2008, Choose Your Foreign Policy Poison

by Michael S. Rozeff

Right now, the 2008 election shapes up like this. The Republican frontrunners are Senator John McCain (Az.) and Senator George Allen (Va.). McCain is ahead of Allen. Giuliani is running third, quite far back.

Hillary Clinton is the Democratic favorite with Governor Mark Warner (Va.) running a distant second.

The Republicans are slight favorites to retain the White House. All these rankings are from Tradesports contracts.

Senators McCain and Clinton are competing intensely in an Iran War tournament. First prize goes to whoever stakes out the most pro-war position. Both are hawks. Both are prepared to bomb Iran. Choose your war crimes poison, Republican or Democratic.

In a speech that could have been written and proofread by AIPAC, Clinton loudly clanged all the pro-Israel and anti-Iran bells: "We cannot and should not, must not, permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons." McCain ratcheted up the Iranian confrontation to the most serious since the Cold War and declared that "a nuclear capability in Iran is unacceptable." Is Iran a child in need of correction? Choose your hectoring poison, red or blue.

The good thing about 2008 is that Bush will become an ex-President. The bad thing is that whoever replaces him will probably continue his policies, which are in turn extensions of policies that go back decades. Congress repeatedly has made clear its support of America’≥ Empire. America will continue to ally itself with some and make enemies of others.
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Israel always comes first. Our troops are overseas being slaughtered in the cause of a foreign interest. Anyone know how many Israeli troops are killed in Iraq?

#195,

I hate that such a sad occasion would end up being a forum for some truth to power but Nubbypants is always hiding out or screening his audience so . . .

Nobody's fault but his own and I think Coretta would have liked it anyway.

capt

Great Posts and commentary! BTW

High fivers all around!

I know - capt is a kiss-butt - so what!

thanks to all!

capt

February 8, 2006 -- A Department of Justice prosecutor emphatically told this editor that the leadership of the Justice Department is incredibly "stupid." His statement was in respone to this editor's contention that criminal conspiracy appeared rife within the Justice Department and FBI. However, one statement in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's February 6 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee supports the Justice Department prosecutor's contention about rampant stupidity within DOJ. Gonzales testified that "President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale" than George W. Bush. It is noteworthy that Gonzales failed to mention Richard Nixon's massive wiretapping program involving the NSA and CIA. But Gonzales's contention that President Washington engaged in electronic surveillance confirms the stupidity factor within the upper echelons of the Justice Department. Perhaps Washington was intercepting the lightning strike that was transmitted to Benjamin Franklin's kite key. We just hope Washington had a Clipper chip to decode the key. - Wayne Madsen

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This is just a tease, click on the link to see the story not posted here.

Yesterday's funeral for Mrs. King illustrated the Disneyfication of her and her husband's message that the media and some pundits have been carrying out for years.

Today, some are complaining about the politicallization of the event; as if such an event could be divorced from the ideals she and MLK lived and indeed he died for.

My question, to all the politicians who showed up, "what part of Ghandian non-violence do you support, and what are you doing to reduce the militaristic bent of this nation?"

#194 Saladin, exactly!!! God works in mysterious ways. He wants us to work together to resolve misery, pain, and suffering in the world. Frankl, a noted psychiatrist, said that life must have meaning and purpose. Working for a better world for all of God's children is the true meaning and purpose of our lives.

Cornposters, there will be no 2008 presidential election.

Cornposters, Bush is a failed low life amoeba and he will not relinquish the WH as such a failed low life amoeba. He still has visions of grandeur surrounding his miserable, pathethic, useless, and worthless existence.

Why Do We Post

Dear Cornposters:

Have you sat back and ask why we take the time to post, make comments, and share information? For patriotic Americans we take this time to, in some small way, try to make our country and life have some kind of meaningful existence. We post not to just make our lives to be better and we want better lives for the people who will follow us. Yet, we seem to be making little progress. The reason for such little or no progress is because we, as Americans, must go beyond ourselves and include all human populations on our planet. How can we feel our lives are better and we still have little concern for the people in Darfur as an example? The true meaning and purpose of life is when all the human populations share in God's gifts to us.

Sincerely,

Gerald

Does anybody really think that Dumbya had any idea that he was being roasted? The clips I've seen just look like he had no clue.

-T

Fix it Now

America's seniors deserve a prescription drug benefit that gives them more than just a headache, but the new Medicare prescription drug benefit isn't working. The countless options available are endlessly confusing. Seniors are given information that contradicts itself. Those who are supposed to help navigate the maze of options are overworked to the point of exhaustion. It's yet another example of the Bush administration's incompetence in performing the basic tasks of government.

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A little keyboard activism!

capt

Hajji,

Nubbypants is not in a position to hear much of anything.

capt

Juan Williams was just on Day to Day and said that Coretta Scott King would not have liked the politization of her funeral. I do not agree.

Coretta would have wanted the truth to be told about the state of our nation and especially the poor. If you call stating the FACTS AND THE TRUTH "politization" then so be it, Juan.

Everything I have ever heard Coretta and Dr. Martin Luther King say,live and die for would not support Juan Williams opinion.
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STILL WAITING... FOR REPORTS FROM THE MSM OR THE SO CALLED "ALTERNATIVE" PRESS ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHASE 2 OF THE SSCI. Larissa at Raw Story has done a few after she was led directly to the information.

I would still like to see some real follow-up and investigative reporting about this issue. Justin Raimando is one of the only reporters who has consistenly stayed on this important investigation. He really digs in.

I will phone the senate aides (from both sides) that were called 2 months ago. They shared with me at that time ( I posted this on Corn I think in mid December) that Feith was refusing to turn over OSP documents, that Senator Pat Roberts move to pass this obligation off to the General Inspector of the Pentagon (nothing like investigating your self to "not" get to the bottom of an issue.

Many believe that this was yet another stall tactic by Roberts.(he promised that this investigation would move forward after the election after doing everything in his power to get it off of the table). Remember Senator Harry Reids efforts/ stunt to get this back on the table last October. We have heard very little since from our representatives about this critical investigation.

Many wise individuals have stated that a concurrent investigation of the OSP is the responsibility of the SSCI. The other question I have heard these wise folks ask is "why the SSCI (senate selecet committee on intelligence) is not using its subpoena power to force Feith to release the requested documents."

CALL..EMAIL..VISIT..(R) SENATOR PAT ROBERTS(CHAIR OF THE SSCI,(D) SENATOR ROCKERFELLER (CO-CHAIR) OR YOUR OWN REPRESENTATIVE. LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU EXPECT EVERY LAST OUNCE OF THE FABRICATED INTELLIGENCE THAT TOOK US INTO THIS "WAR OF CHOICE" COMPLETELY INVESTIGATED AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING AND DESSIMINATING FALSE INTELLIGENCE.. HELD ACCOUNTBALE).

COMPLETE... PHASE 2 OF THE SSCI.
THIS IS THE VERY LEAST OUR REPRESENTATIVES CAN DO FOR THOSE THAT HAVE NEEDLESSLY LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE "CAKEWALK" IN IRAQ.

Gerald,

I always knew you were a kook who recycles his old posts, but I've been reading your posts today with absolute amazement.

I believe you to be SERIOUSLY impaired as in MENTAL! I say this with no malice whatsoever - you need to see a mental health professional right away (if not doing so already.)

I mean, I'm not even a doctor and I can see obvious signs of seriously imbalanced mental processes.

It's scary just knowing you are out there somewhere, perhaps even in my own city...

Here is a little secret, Tim...Gerald has been following you around and spying on you for months now.

CONYERS STOPPED WAITING..

As liberal Democrat calls for special prosecutor on Iraq, Democrats duck
02/08/2006 @ 12:42 pm
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Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), the feisty septuagenarian congressman who serves as the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee will issue yet another missive to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales later this week calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate possible criminal misconduct in regard to the Bush Administration's march to war in Iraq.

Just three other Democrats have signed Conyers' letter: Reps. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Susan Davis (D-CA).

Conyers' move comes on the heels of yet another British memorandum showing that President Bush had conspired with Prime Minister Tony Blair to set a fixed date for war before even bringing Iraq to the United Nations. The memo also asserts that Bush had proposed a plan to paint a U.S. spyplane with UN markings and use it to attempt to lure Saddam Hussein into war.

What's striking isn't that Conyers is calling on Gonzales to appoint a special prosecutor. He's done it before, and he'd likely do it again. But his decision to take public action to seek a Justice Department investigation of pre-war policy and manipulation of the press has met resounding silence among his Democratic Party.

While a handful of House members sign on to Conyers' proposals each time, the leading voices in the party are silent when it comes to formal legal action on Iraq. In other words, Democrats are quick to criticize the Administration, but are loath to make legal attempts to bring them to account. Democratic senators have called for a special prosecutor to investigate both the fallen conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the National Security Administration's domestic surveillance program. But they have yet to seek a criminal inquiry into how the United States got into a war that has cost taxpayers $300 billion dollars and is burning the nation's reserves at the rate of $100,000 a minute.

Conyers says the body of evidence showing that Bush misled Congress into war deserves a special counsel's investigation.

"We write to request that the U.S. Department of Justice appoint an outside special counsel to investigate and prosecute any and all criminal acts committed by members of the Bush Administration in connection with misinformation concerning the decision to go to war in Iraq and other misconduct associated with the war," the Michigan Democrat writes. "We are aware that there may be other legal and congressional avenues being pursued on these matters; however, due to the severe constitutional crisis that they pose, it is imperative that a special counsel undertake a comprehensive and objective criminal investigation."

Democrats won't sign onto Conyers letter - and have ignored his moves on Iraq in the past. Aides tell RAW STORY that Abramoff and the NSA wiretaps are better issues because they feel they have more political resonance, and because their caucus is divided on the handling of Iraq policy. None would be identified by name, and most declined to be quoted - even anonymously.

"The [push] to go after Abramoff is because a lot of Republicans are tied into it," one aide remarked. "The NSA thing splits the Republican base."

With regard to Iraq, the aide added, "Certainly more vulnerable Democratic members that don't like that kind of stuff."

One aide noted that the issues surrounding the lead-up to the Iraq war are a hard issue for Democrats because many believed - and said - they thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. President Clinton also took a hard line, saying in 1998, "We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."

So did House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process," Pelosi said in 1998.

"Was Clinton lying to the people, was he falsifying that stuff?" one aide asked. "I honestly think [Bush] thought that there were weapons over there. Everybody thought there were weapons over there."

Democrats have pressed for investigations into pre-war intelligence, but not as vociferously as they have for fuller inquiries into Abramoff and domestic eavesdropping.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid (D-NV) stunned the nation when he forced the Senate into secret session, angry that a report on pre-war intelligence had not been completed. The report, called Phase II, remains in limbo in the Senate Intelligence Committee because the Pentagon has not finished an internal probe into Douglas Feith, one of the architects of the Iraq war. Senate Democratic aides say they are waiting on that report and have not yet decided on further action.

Democrats are not alone in their silence on the memo. Neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times have published articles about the latest British U-2 document. Both papers also declined to publish any articles about the Downing Street minutes until six months after they were printed in Britain. The earlier minutes recorded a meeting between Bush Administration officials and the Blair government at which the director of British intelligence said that intelligence was being "fixed" around a policy for war.

Democratic aides acknowledge, however, that Conyers has been instrumental in orchestrating a fury over the lead-up to war in Iraq.

"You've got to remember that Conyers and a few others early on were speaking about the war in Iraq and how wrong it was and that number has grown tremendously," one aide said. "Sometimes it takes someone like him to get the fire up and ignited."

Conyers' latest letter follows.

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Re: Request for the Appointment of Outside Special Counsel for the Investigation and Prosecution of Violations, and Conspiracy to Violate, Criminal Laws in Misconduct Associated with the Iraq War

Dear Attorney General Gonzales:

We write to request that the U.S. Department of Justice appoint an outside special counsel to investigate and prosecute any and all criminal acts committed by members of the Bush Administration in connection with misinformation concerning the decision to go to war in Iraq and other misconduct associated with the war. We are aware that there may be other legal and congressional avenues being pursued on these matters; however, due to the severe constitutional crisis that they pose, it is imperative that a special counsel undertake a comprehensive and objective criminal investigation.

There have been recent, startling media and other reports detailing how members of the Administration misled Congress and the American people concerning the decision to go to war. Notably, late last week, a new book by Professor Philipe Sands described minutes of a White House meeting between President Bush and Prime Minister Blair on January 31, 2003 in which President Bush made it clear that he would invade Iraq regardless of whether UN inspectors found evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons program and that "the diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning."1 President Bush reportedly stated that he was so concerned by the failure to find WMD that he proposed that the US "fly[] U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours." President Bush added: "If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach [of UN resolutions]"2 Neither the Blair nor the Bush Administrations have challenged the accuracy of this new document.

This new disclosure is part of an overwhelming record of evidence of misconduct by the Administration in its war effort that includes misleading Congress and the American public concerning the decision to go to war. As detailed in a report my staff recently released titled, "The Constitution in Crisis," the actions taken by the President, Vice President and other members of the Bush Administration potentially violate a number of federal laws, including Committing a Fraud Against the United States (18 U.S.C. пїЅ 371); Making False Statements to Congress (18 U.S.C. пїЅ 1001); and numerous other statutory prohibitions as more fully detailed therein.3

As you are aware, under Department of Justice regulations, the Attorney General must appoint a special counsel when (1) a "criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted," (2) "the investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney's Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department," and (3) "it would be in the public interest to appoint an outside Special Counsel to assume responsibility for the matter."4 Significantly, your obligation under this regulation is mandatory, not discretionary. In the present case, all three factors have been met.

(1) A Criminal Investigation is Warranted

President Bush and members of his Administration made numerous public statements to the effect that a decision had not been made to invade Iraq, when in fact the record indicates that such a decision had been made. As detailed in my staff report, and confirmed even more clearly by Prof. Sands' recent disclosure, there is substantial evidence that these individuals have Conspired to Defraud the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. пїЅ371. 5

Among other things, we have found: Before Mr. Bush was elected President, he stated that he saw Saddam Hussein as "the guy who tried to kill my dad," and numerous key members of his Administration had called for a military invasion of Iraq. Immediately after the September 11 attacks, President Bush and members of his Administration displayed an immediate inclination to blame Iraq - the President asked Richard Clarke to determine if Hussein is "linked in any way;" White House officials instructed Wesley Clarke to state that the attack is "connected to Saddam Hussein;" and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith proposed that the U.S. select "a non al-Qaeda target like Iraq." The Downing Street Minutes provide unrebutted documentary evidence that in the spring and summer of 2002 it was understood by the Blair government that the Bush Administration had irrevocably decided to invade Iraq. These documents reveal that President Bush had told Prime Minster Blair "when we have dealt with Afghanistan, we must come back to Iraq" (Fall, 2001); "Condi's enthusiasm for regime change is undimmed" (March 14, 2002); the U.S. has "assumed regime change as a means of eliminating Iraq's WMD threat" (March 25, 2002); and "Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD" (July 23, 2002).6

Among other things, my staff report also details the following: The "marketing" campaign for the war which included the creation of the so-called "White House Iraq Group;" the "rollout of speeches and documents;" the release of a white paper inaccurately describing a "grave and gathering danger" of Iraq's allegedly "reconstituted" nuclear weapons program; and the deliberate downplaying of the risks of occupation. The plan by which the Bush and Blair Administration sought to use the UN to "wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors and the UN SCRs [Security Council Resolutions]" in the winter of 2002 and spring of 2003, constitutes further evidence that the decision to invade Iraq had been made; this is reflected by the fact that Defense Policy Board Member, Richard Perle admitted the U.S. "would attack Iraq even if UN inspectors fail to find weapons;" Vice President Cheney reportedly admitted to Hans Blix that the U.S. was "ready to discredit inspectors in favor of disarmament;" and President Bush was "infuriated" by reports of Iraq's cooperating with UN inspectors.7

It is important to note that the phrase "defraud the United States" in 18 U.S.C пїЅ 371 is broadly applicable, and there is ample precedent for applying the law to false and misleading statements by high government officials. In Hammerschmidt v. United States, 265 U.S. 182 (1924) the Supreme Court held that the law applies to those who "interfere with or obstruct one of its lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft or trickery, or at least by means that are dishonest. It is not necessary that the Government shall be subjected to property or pecuniary loss by the fraud, but only that its legitimate official action and purpose shall be defeated by misrepresentation, chicanery or the overreaching of those charged with carrying out the governmental intention." This statute has been used in the prosecution of numerous Administration and military officials in the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandal, with Judge Walsh writing in his final report on Iran-Contra that "[f]raud is criminal even when those who engage in the fraud are Government officials pursuing presidential policy."8

2) A Conflict of Interest Exists in this Case

Because the allegations of misconduct involve the President, Vice President, and other high ranking members of the Bush Administration, there is little doubt that the Justice Department would have an unavoidable conflict of interest in fully investigating and prosecuting possible violations. This is in fact a textbook case of a conflict of interest. You were directly appointed by the President, previously served as White House Counsel and have close connections to President Bush dating back decades. For a Justice Department inquiry to be credible, an outside special counsel with no ties to the Justice Department and no close ties to the President, Vice President or other high ranking Bush Administration officials is essential.

3) The Public Interest Demands the Appointment of an Outside Special Counsel

The public interest demands that this prima facie case of criminal activity be referred to a special counsel who has the independence to investigate the violation of these criminal laws. For example, there can be no doubt that the public interest is served by a full and unbiased investigation into the decision to go to war. In fact, on June 16, 2005, I delivered to the White House more than 560,000 citizen petitions from Americans who, along with 122 Members of Congress, requested information from the President on these issues. To date, no response has been received.

Moreover, the public interest is heightened on this issue because no entity has ever considered whether the Administration misled Americans about the decision to go to war, and the Senate Intelligence Committee has not yet conducted a review of pre-war intelligence information, while the Silberman-Robb report specifically cautioned, that intelligence manipulation "was not part of our inquiry." There has also not been any independent inquiry concerning torture and other legal violations in Iraq; nor has there been an independent review of the pattern of cover-ups and political retribution by the Bush Administration against its critics, other than the very narrow and still ongoing inquiry of Special Counsel Fitzgerald.

As a general matter, the violation of criminal laws is to be investigated by prosecutors and tried by independent federal courts. Regardless of whether Congress chooses to vigorously exercise its oversight powers and try to repair this breach of trust with the American people, the matters at issue are also serious criminal matters.

It is important to note that despite widespread allegations of misconduct by numerous members of the Bush Administration, neither you nor your predecessor, John Ashcroft, have chosen to appoint a single special prosecutor under the applicable regulation. We believe it is no longer tolerable that high ranking members of the Bush Administration avoid the independent legal scrutiny called for by our nation's laws.

We await your response to this important matter. Please reply through the House Judiciary Committee Democratic office, 2142 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, 20515. Or, you may reply by telephone: (202) 225-6504; or, fax: (202) 226-4423.

Sincerely,

Rep. John Conyers

cc: Hon. F. James Sensenbrenner Chairman, House Judiciary Committee

James Ha Ha Ha,

Uh, the WTC Tower FELL ON Building #7 you moron. Well, Duh!!! I guess that would be the cause of a collapse just like every other rational person... except you.

From the King Center Website:

Coretta Scott King is one of the most influential women leaders in our world today. Prepared by her family, education, and personality for a life committed to social justice and peace, she entered the world stage in 1955 as wife of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and as a leading participant in the American Civil Rights Movement. Her remarkable partnership with Dr. King resulted not only in four talented children, but in a life devoted to the highest values of human dignity in service to social change. Mrs. King has traveled throughout our nation and world speaking out on behalf of racial and economic justice, women's and children's rights, gay and lesbian dignity, religious freedom, the needs of the poor and homeless, full-employment, health care, educational opportunities, nuclear disarmament and ecological sanity. In her distinguished and productive career, she has lent her support to democracy movements world-wide and served as a consultant to many world leaders, including Corazon Aquino, Kenneth Kaunda, and Nelson Mandela.

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Why were so many so eager to share the podium at her funeral? Were they there to embrace her life's work and vow to continue the struggle? What other purpose would there be to celebrate such a life? A life so dedicated to justice, nonviolence, and the welfare of all others.

Kathleen,

Where is Mr. Corn when you need him. You need to be reprimanded for posting an ENTIRE ARTICLE! Good LORD!

They used to enforce that rule here. POST a LINK, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

Robb,

Thanks, I needed to hear that. You mean he's NOT institutionalized???

Please provide any documentation whatsoever for the claim made in post #210, Tim.

You appear to have a set of facts that is contradicted by consensus reality.

Then you compound the idiocy by questioning the sanity of others.

Robert,

There's plenty on the web. I've studied numerous, high-res photos taken by the US Navy from above the entire WTC site. I've viewed the entire site from many angles as provided by extensive ground-level photos in which you could change your viewing reference point. I've watched the videos of the towers collapsing. I've read the accounts of people who were in a position to know the FACTS as opposed to the rantings of looney conspiracy advocates.

Frozen Account Ruffles Nuns
By ELAINE SILVESTRINI and HOWARD ALTMAN The Tampa Tribune
Published: Feb 8, 2006

ST. LEO - The nuns of the Holy Name Monastery say they have been swept into the net cast by the nation's antiterrorism laws.

The sisters say the monastery's main bank account was frozen without explanation in November, creating financial headaches and making the Benedictine nuns hopping mad. They were told the Patriot Act was the cause.

"I think the Patriot Act is unwise, let's say, and that if it happened to us, it can happen to anybody," said Sister Jean Abbott, the monastery's business manager. "I think people need to know that nobody is safe from, in some cases, really ridiculous scrutiny."

The nuns didn't know anything was amiss until Nov. 10, when their checks started bouncing without warning and the account wouldn't accept deposits, including paychecks from state agencies where some of the sisters hold jobs.

More.

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Nun's bank accounts frozen, Ted Kennedy on a no-fly list - along with infants, Quakers being infiltrated...

...and Attorney General Gonzales says, "trust me."

Tim the conservative #210 -

what are you high? towers 1 & 2 fell entirely into their own footprints without touching tower 7 - furthermore, ALL of the concrete in each tower was somehow rendered into powder/dust BEFORE IT REACHED THE GROUND - tower 7 fell entirely into it's own footprint as well, many hours later - the fires in all 3 towers were minimal and had no bearing on the steel frames of any of the towers - silverstein the leaseholder let it slip out later that WTC7 was "pulled" (his very word) -

One more thing. The defining characteristic of conspiracy theories is embodied in its ver name - THEORY. Any nut job can postulate any outlandish theory they want AND make it sound very convincing. It's actually a highly refined art form these days!

It's simple really. Take one part facts, mix in a few ideas off the top of your head and add a hint of nefarious intent. Bring to a boil and Presto! You have a fine dish that will be gobbled up by the intellectually challenged who are hungry for ANYTHING that will reinforce their preconceived beliefs!

Tim the conservative, I submit that you have viewed NOTHING re: 911, and could NOT PROVIDE ANY REFERENCE TO WHAT YOU SAY AT #215 -

the govts own official 911 fairytale is itself the stupidest conspiracy theory of all! NOT ONE ASPECT OF IT CAN BE CONFIRMED! -

James, James, JAMES!

The towers most definitely DID NOT fall within "their own footprints." Hell, you can see this with the naked eye in the videos! Look at the overhead pictures, then try to float such a silly idea.

You are truly a moron if you thing all that damage was done at ground level by concrete "powder/dust" Well, DUH! I guess you missed those huge slabs of the building crashing onto adjacent buildings IN THE VIDEO!

do some REAL RESEARCH INTO 911

James,

Sorry, it is amply evident that it is you who know absolutely NOTHING about the subject. It is you who hasn't bothered AT ALL with INCONTRAVERTIBLE FACTS.

You moron.

as I said, what're you high? - why don't you point me in the direction of one of these "videos" that you are imagining - in the meantime Tim the conservative, click my name to order the FREE DVD::
'CONFRONTING THE EVIDENCE: Reopen the 911 Investigation'

The truth - 1
Looney conspiracy theorist - Big fat ZERO

Sorry folks, but we have to add Mr. James "conspiracy under every rock" Ha to the list that Gerald's on.

Reality. Who needs it really? We have James and Gerald!

here's what a PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE WTC COLLAPSE

it's all in the references moron

Well, this has been invigorating. I just love exposing idiots like Mr. Ha Ha. He made it so easy...

I just had to come back and see what folks like him have been up to here. I'll give him one thing, he's persistent. Too bad he's not like most folks that know when to stop lest they really start making fools of themselves!

Tim, people will see your foolish words and realize that you provide no references for them - and they know that I on the other hand, can throw out any number of analyses by scientists and eyewitnesses and photos as well to back up my claim that 911 was an inside job

Like I said. Take one part ...

Keep on cookin, James. there are still plenty of hungry idiots out there...

I'm done. if anyone has any questions about 911, be sure to ask Tim the conservative for his opinion of a fairytale.

Rove

"Repetition Compulsion" is the name of the game for me. I see myself as a Karl Rove of and for patriotic Americans.

Karl Rove has brought the bushgod to great heights because he keeps repeating and repeating about how great bush is. After awhile Americans begin to believe. If it's good for Karl Rove, it's good for me. Keep repeating until the thoughts are embedded and imprinted in the brains of all Americans.

Americans have heard from Karl Rove that the bushgod is great. No one can deny that the majority of Americans not only believe that bush is great but that he is also a god.

BUSH WILL NEVER FIRE ROVE!!!!!

ROVE IS MY MENTOR!!!!!!!!!!

Cornposters, have you looked closely at Bush and sensed that he a demented and deranged low life amoeba?

one more thing... the professor of physics whose report I posted at #227, recently gave a presentation in Utah to an overflowing crowd -

If Dr. Jones’s work ever breaks into the mainstream media, and the rest of the country reacts the way the Utah County audience reacted, traditional political divisions will evaporate like steel beams exploded with thermite, and the whole lot of them, the Democrats and the Republicans, will be swept away, along with the military-industrial complex that has apparently managed to subvert the constitution of these United States and to con the American public, mesmerized by the shock of 9/11 and hypnotized by spell-binding incantations of freedom and patriotism, into going along with their mad plans for world domination.

Gerald,

Look closely in the mirror and you will see your President.

Iraq Is Not Vietnam
by Jim Cox
by Jim Cox

A rising concern that Iraq is becoming the new Vietnam has prompted many commentators to denounce any such comparisons as too ridiculous to be entertained. Here’≥ a comparison of Iraq limited to 2003–≤004 to match the first two years of US ground troop involvement in fighting in Vietnam, 1965–±966 to show the difference:

- Item
Iraq 2003–≤004
Vietnam 1965–±966

1
Commander-in-Chief?
Texan, George W. Bush (with stateside duty during Vietnam war)
Texan, Lyndon B. Johnson (with stateside duty during World War II)

2
Justification for invasion?
Based on deceptions –†WMD, 9/11, aluminum tubes, etc
Based on deceptions –†Gulf of Tonkin

3
US Casualties?
1,432 killed, 3,000+ wounded
3,910 killed, 5,000+ wounded

4
War Declared by Congress as required by US Constitution?
No, instead a resolution authorizing the president to take action he deems necessary
No, instead a resolution authorizing the president to take action he deems necessary

5
Enemy?
Not a nation, but an abstraction –†terrorism
Not a nation, but an abstraction –†the spread of communism

6
Frontlines?
No frontlines, guerilla resistance
No frontlines, guerilla resistance

7
President makes TV appearance to reassure Americans of the necessity of the war?
Yes, after 2 years –†2005
Yes, after 3 years –†1968

8
Handling of the Federal Budget?
Guns and butter policy
Guns and butter policy

9
Party in control of Congress?
No check and balance as Congress is in the hands of the same party as the Presidency
No check and balance as Congress is in the hands of the same party as the Presidency

10
Troops?
Enlistments buttressed by deployment extensions, and National Guard and Reserves
Enlistments buttressed by draft

11
Troops in country?
140,000
200,000

12
Alliance?
minimal troops from allied countries
minimal troops from allied countries

13
History of country?
former colony of a European power (Britain, 1917–±932)
former colony of a European power (France, 1887–±954)

14
Hoped for Solution?
Iraqification
Vietnamization

15
Most extreme suggestion?
Michael Savage: "Drop a nuclear bomb on the Sunni triangle."
Curtis LeMay: "Bomb them back to the stone age."

Thus, we can all take comfort securely in our knowledge that Iraq is not Vietnam; Vietnam is spelled with a "V" and is in Southeast Asia, Iraq is spelled with an "I" and is in Southwest Asia.

July 15, 2005

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Iraq Is Not Vietnam, Part II
by Jim Cox
by Jim Cox

Last year I published a 15-item list of comparisons between the US experience in Vietnam, 1965–±966 and that of the current war in Iraq, 2003–≤004. With another year behind us, here is Part II of that comparison for Iraq, 2003–≤005 and Vietnam, 1965–±967:

` Item
Iraq 2003–≤005
Vietnam 1965–±967

16
Poisonous weapon used?
depleted uranium

agent orange

17
Administration’≥ response to soldier complaints of being poisoned by US weapons?
denial
denial

18
US troop deaths?
2,178
16,159

19
Troops in country during 3rd year?
160,000
500,000

20
US troop deaths per troops in country?
136 per 10,000
300 per 10,000

21
Number of President’≥ children of military age?
2

2

22
Number of President’≥ children serving in military?
0
0

23
Strange concept of liberation applied?
We had to destroy it to save it
We had to destroy it to save it

24
Who have war supporters blamed for lack of quick victory?
news media, war protestors
news media, war protestors

25
Who have war supporters not blamed for lack of quick victory?
administration war planners
administration war planners

26
Language, history, and customs unknown to American soldiers on the ground?
yes
yes

27
Election held to choose head of state of country?
December 15, 2005
October 21, 1967

28
Monthly cost to US for operations in country (in 2004 dollars)
$5.6 billion
$5.1 billion

29
Member of US Congress calls for withdrawal?
John Murtha
D-PA
Eugene McCarthy
D-MN

30
Term increasingly applied to US involvement?
quagmire
quagmire

Thus, we can all still take comfort securely in our knowledge that Iraq is not Vietnam; Vietnam is spelled with a "V" and is in Southeast Asia, Iraq is spelled with an "I" and is in Southwest Asia.

January 31, 2006

Jim Cox is an Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science at the Lawrenceville Campus of Georgia Perimeter College and the author of The Concise Guide to Economics and Minimum Wage, Maximum Damage.

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Here is the post that broke trolls' backs!!!!!

Death

Dear Cornposters:

I would like to post some information and I hope that this information can come together. I have on several to many occasions posted on fundamentalists and evangelicals. As you know, there are many fundamentalists and evangelicals who have said that Bush was chosen by God to be president. Bush has said that God speaks through him. He in fact said to Amish farmers. They may have been in Indiana. I do not recall his exact words but maybe someone who reads this post will know the words? Many of these fundamentalists and evangelicals refer to the Old Testament and a punishing and vengeful God. These preachers fail Americans because the God in the Old Testament is a God of love and the New Testament fulfills His Word through Jesus Christ in the New Testament.

Let us look at the Old Testament and God's love for you and me. In the Book of Genesis God made Adam and Eve and He placed them in paradise. God wanted for all of us a life in paradise. Our first parents through pride and they wanted to be like God. They were fooled by the devil and they were taken from paradise to experience the hardships of life and death.

We have a ruler who believes that he is doing God's work. He believes what the fundamentalists and the evangelicals are saying about him. God has chosen Bush to lead us to the promise land.

Another example of God's love in the Old Testament comes when God has had it with the people because of their sinful ways and He was going to destroy the Earth and all His creations. For some reason He gave the people one more chance and He chose Job. He inflicted upon Job all the hardships and misery possible. People in the Old Testament and some in the New Testament have looked upon our hardships as punishment from God. Even Job's neighbor said that God was punishing him and what did he think. Job's answer was that God knows best and he is accepting God's will. God was so moved by Job's answer that He spared the world.

Bush prowls the world saying that he is doing God's will because God speaks through him.

Another example of God's love is that He gave us the Ten Commandments through Moses. These commandments are to guide to eventually be with God.

Bush probably believes that he is God's messenger to save the world. Bush may even consider himself a prophet. But, what are prophets? Prophets are close to God in prayers and prophets also know the heart and mind of God. Bush's pride believes that God has chosen him and this pride leads to his arrogance that what he is doing is God's will and he cannot be blamed for doing God's work. From arrogance comes disobedience. Bush is actually disobeying God. He does not know God's heart and mind. He believes in a punishing and vengeful God just like the fundamentalists and evangelicals are feeding him. He cannot believe that the God in the Old Testament is a God of love and the New Testament fulfills God's love through Jesus Christ. He does not understand that the Old and New Testaments are linked together.

From disobedience comes death. Even though Bush is breathing, his soul is dead. This is my perceptual opinion. I am not posting to convert anyone. I have my own sinful ways that I must work through before I can even try to covert someone else. I do not know if I can ever work through my sinful ways.

I can say to you that John Paul II and Mother Teresa are true Christians and they are even saints. I have also shared some information about Teresa Whitehurst and me. I believe that Dr. Whitehurst is a true Christian and I truly do not know if I can be a true Christian. I pray but there are people who may not pray but their lives are fulfilled in their deeds. These deeds make a person a true Christian, especially if they are doing God's work in love.

Teresa Whitehurst's writings reveal a true Christian. Her writings help people to love.

From this post my aim is to have you be on guard against pride that leads to arrogance that leads to disobedience and eventually the death of the soul. Bush's deeds reveal hatred, murders, torture, and war crimes. These deeds do not know and understand God's heart and mind. I believe that Bush is a false prophet who rose to power through other false prophets.

Sincerely,

Gerald

"Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not fully His. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefor, who are we to condemn anybody?" ~ Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

I looked in the mirror and I saw a person with sinful ways and I knew that I must continue to persevere to do good in words and deeds. I hope and pray that my perseverance will lead to good words and deeds. That is why I pray so God can help me.

My only hope for salvation is a merciful God.

"Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine." ~ Henry S. Haskins

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." ~ Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)

"When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things." ~ Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04

One can't help but see celebrity news while keeping up with the real news. I'm sure some of you read that Britney Spears drove her car with her baby in her lap. I saw another blurb about it in the paper this morning and this is the part I loved; the Gestapo went out to her house to question her about her driving habits with baby. There are cameras watching us everywhere now, but soon they'll be watching us in our homes a la 1984. Need a job? Join the Gestapo. They'll need an army of them.

One block captain per block. One resident troll per blog - minimum.

Goose-stepping brown-shirted fasicsts.

They are willing to kill to keep their power. Nobody is will to kill them to relieve them of their delusions. They think that means they win.

We will see, people in general grow to hate oppressors. It takes time.

capt

Bush Unmoved by Bipartisan Budget Rebuke

President Bush defended his new budget blueprint on Wednesday amid criticism from both parties over plans to trim popular health benefit programs. He then signed an earlier installment of scaled-back spending.

Bush made similar pitches for spending restraint at a business forum in New Hampshire, and later at the bill-signing ceremony at the White House, where he praised steps that he said would both check federal spending and "leave more money in the pockets of those who know how to use it best, the American people."

At the White House, he signed a measure —†left over from his 2005 agenda —†that restrains spending in Medicare, Medicaid and some other federal programs by $39 billion over five years.

The signing came two days after Bush sent Congress a $2.77 trillion plan for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.

The budget blueprint calls for trimming spending in Medicare by $35.9 billion over five years.

More HERE

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The hobby war is an expensive endeavor, screw the old the young the Americans they can take a screwing for all he cares. The war, spend billions for the best equipment and send our troops in on the discounted plan so some friends can line their overstuffed pockets.

80% of the Marines KILLED could have LIVED if the had the right BODY ARMOR! Anybody want to wager the incerases in military spending is all space crud and star wars, rockets and nukes - still no vests?

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!~

capt

People already have a cable or satellite box in their homes. Not a stretch to imagine them using it to watch us.

Ignore the troll, he still thinks this is his blog.

He is a pathetic control freak and spews made up stuff ie: the towers fell on WTC #7?

It would be funny but he doesn't even believe his wacky talk. He is just trying to get a response.

If he ever made sense in any way it would be appropriate to respond. His lack of civility and critique of others commentary is a form of censorship. You are rewarding that behavior.

If you limit your response to posts that are civil and make sense and are not a personal attack on others it will force the troll to follow that lead. It would serve to greatly elevate even the troll commentary.

Why do you think the troll keeps returning? Becuase he can post crud here that would be cut from any other blog. The can be as outrageous and insulting, as ill mannered and uncaring, as inane and insane as they like. No reason to encourage them to become more out there. Maybe it is just me.

Once again I will make a challenge to any: Show me an interchange where a troll has ever be informed, updated or learned something? Show me a single instance where you have convinced a troll of anything (anything?)

Anybody that would still try to defend Busheney or make the claim that they did not lie us into a war making our once great nation into an agressor? Anybody that effin stupid cannot be taught. So what is the use?

Of course if you are having fun playing wack-a-troll, then carry on. The cost of the ride is the return trip we all dread. Is it really that much fun?

Just a thought.

capt

"People already have a cable or satellite box in their homes. Not a stretch to imagine them using it to watch us."

They already do. You can buy PPV from the TV? That is two way communication, do you think they would limit that to what you want to buy?

NOT BLOODY LIKELY~!

capt

Thoughts of our world

Do we put our faith in rational arguments: only the arms race will keep the world at peace, only the willingness to use nuclear weapons prevent their use, to fight terrorism we must bomb suspect countries and their innocent people into oblivion.

To stop developing new weapons is a gospel step toward the peace promised by Jesus. To kill a child in Afghanistan is just as evil as murdering a member in your own family. The world will know we are Jesus’†disciples by our love.

Deeds like opposing the death penalty, opposing the bombing of any country, and volunteering at a homeless shelter are equal to prayers and retreat days.

We should give pause and thoughts about trying to convert people to the American way and that we are number one and accountable to no one.

We should not fear speaking out against wars that my country wages. Do not look upon problems as so big that you cannot make a difference.

Are we into comfort and immediate gratification of every need and want? Do we favor killing people to maintain our comforts and possessions at any cost? Are we afraid to disarm because we might lose our comforts and privileges? Do we clutch our possessions and seek to protect them by surrounding ourselves with missiles, submarines, and star war shields? We have become a people whose excessive lust for possessions now possesses our souls.

A Sufi mystic wrote that a true pilgrim is one who possesses nothing and is possessed by nothing.

A true disciple is reminded that the face of the suffering demands action. Do what God tells you. Turn swords into plowshares. Change Patriot missiles into bread. Transforms enemies into friends. Do not settle for what can be seen but leap into the unimaginable.

The bomb, Daniel Berrigan, SJ, reminds us, is a countersign to the Cross. There is no way the two can be reconciled. One stands for revenge, retaliation, and the taking of human life. The other calls for forgiveness, mercy, and self-sacrificing love.

We live in a nation that has the nuclear capacity to destroy the world many times over. The question that we need to answer is, who is my brother and who is my sister? Do we look at other populations of the world as our brothers and sisters?

We must chance the intuitive over the rational, refuse selfish pursuits and serve the poor, choose humility over domination, accept the Cross over personal comfort, celebrate the present moment, leap into the unimaginable, forgive without limit, love unconditionally, look in the face of every human being and see our brothers and sisters.

Jimmy Carter's Bitterness in Bad Taste

The New York Post is blasting ex-President Jimmy Carter for trying to Hijack Coretta Scott king's funeral in a bid to "score cheap political points" against President Bush.

"Jimmy Carter may or may not have been the worst President of the 20th century," the paper said. "But his disgraceful performance yeterday at Coretta Scott King's funeral marks him as the most shameless."

NICE!!!!

Once again the question has to be asked...

If you didn't agree with Coretta & Martin King, how is it you come to praise her at her funeral?

Hers was a life "devoted to the highest values of human dignity in service to social change. Mrs. King has traveled throughout our nation and world speaking out on behalf of racial and economic justice, women's and children's rights, gay and lesbian dignity, religious freedom, the needs of the poor and homeless, full-employment, health care, educational opportunities, nuclear disarmament and ecological sanity."

Robert S

The question is why wasn't Robert KKK Bird there to praise her?

it's true that whack a troll is not productive, but when someone makes an absurd claim like the twin towers fell on WTC7, then I have to set the record on that straight - just in case anyone believed that claim, you can see a picture of WTC7 still standing with no fires in it taken from the twin towers devastation area HERE (3rd photo down) - notice all the grey powdery stuff? - that's the concrete from one of the twin towers - no chunks or blocks of broken concrete, just POWDER -

James Ha

Notice all that gray powdery stuff?

Boy, you sure sound like an expert to me Forrest!
How mant Dr Peppers you been drinking?

LBH,
I never claimed to be an expert on anything, did I Elmer? - or is it Gomer? I can never remember... but I know how to read and I know what grey powdery stuff is.

They came to praise King and bury Bush

George W. Bush's pathetic attempt to turn Coretta Scott King's funeral into a politically-advantageous photo op fell flatter than his State of the Union speech Tuesday a textbook example of just how out of touch the President has become with the American people.

"This commemorative ceremony this morning and this afternoon is not only to acknowledge the great contributions of Coretta and Martin, but to remind us that the struggle for equal rights is not over," said former President Carter, who remarks brought loud cheers. "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans."

Carter's comments ring true about Bush and his right-wing Republican followers a group of rabid racists whose tokenism only deepens the racial divide in this country.

But Carter drew even louder cheers when he compared King's struggles against FBI harassment and surveillance to Bush's use of the National Security Agency and other government agencies to spy on Americans.

"It was difficult for them personally," Carter said of both Kings, "with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretapping, other surveillance, and as you know, harassment from the FBI."

Bush tried his usual plastic smile but his body language clearly showed discomfort as speaker after speaker zeroed in on the hypocrisy of his Presidency –†one that talks unity but practices division.

He offered phony applause when the Rev. Joseph Lowery, King protege and longtime critic, who cited Coretta King's opposition to the war in Iraq and scored the administration's phony commitment to helping the poor.

"She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar," Lowery said. "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor."

When Bush's turn came, the audience, for the most part, sat on their hands, offering only muted applause for his seven-minute eulogy. It was a pitiful performance by a President whose legacy is marked all too often by shameless self-promotion.

Longtime political scientist George Harleigh, who worked in both the Nixon and Reagan White House, called the President's appearance at King's funeral "the equivalent of a walk-on, a token but-failed attempt to show compassion that does not exist for a cause he does not support.

"George Bush has never been a compassionate man," says Harleigh, "but lately he looks more detached than normal, like someone going through the motions, marking his time and hoping against hope that his time is not up."

But Bush, despite his clumsy attempts to put on a strong public face, should realize he is living on borrowed time, not only as a lame duck President but as one who could well face impeachment if enough Democrats win seats in this fall's House and Senate elections.

"The Bush era is coming to an end in 2008 or perhaps even sooner," Harleigh says. "It is an era that will not be remembered fondly."

There is little doubt that George W. Bush will go down in history as one of the most controversial, morally-challenged, dishonest Presidents to serve at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. What remains in doubt is how his Presidency will end and whether or not there will be an America left to put that painful memory behind it.

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I know a double post but worth the return trip. Far more substantial than the cry-baby neocon trolls whining about what we post, eh?

capt

You people should not listen to a certain person that posts here. He is an idiot and does not know what he is talking about. He is also apart of an internet scam job. If you monitor his site then he will put bugs in your computer and you will get SPAM on how to lengthen your penis and lose 30 lbs in 30 day. Plus many other bad things.

I’m warning you people. Don't get suckered in! Don't learn you lesson the hard way.

The Democrats' Tiny Megaphone

Sen. John Kerry says a key reason that the Democratic political message seems so muddled to many Americans is that Democrats have a smaller "megaphone" than the one wielded by the Republicans and their conservative allies.

"Our megaphone is just not as large as their megaphone, and we have a harder time getting that message out, even when people are on the same page," the Massachusetts Democrat explained to the New York Times for a story about the party’≥ missed opportunities heading toward Election 2006. [NYT, Feb. 8, 2006]

While Kerry’≥ observation is undeniably correct –†when one considers Fox News, right-wing talk radio, well-paid columnists and magazine racks weighted down by conservative publications –†the overarching question remains why Democrats and progressives haven’¥ invested more in getting a competitive megaphone.

Wealthy progressives and liberal foundations can match up almost dollar for dollar with conservative funders. But the American Left has adopted largely a laissez-faire attitude toward media infrastructure, while the Right has applied almost socialistic values to sustain even unprofitable media ventures.

Indeed, the Right’≥ subsidizing of media may be the most under-reported money-in-politics story in modern American history. Many good-government organizations track the millions of dollars contributed to candidates, but much less attention is paid to the billions of unregulated dollars poured into media.

Read More HERE

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It may be true but they knew this long ago, since before 2000. What have they done about it? They have let the GOP and the neocons buy more stations and media outlets. Allowing the Forth Reich to consolidate their control. Dumb move or cooperative progressives. Probably some of both.

capt

yes it's all a big scam! - you're being fooled by a "certain person" into believing that bushco does not have your best interests at heart, and that they would resort to criminal means to get what they want, when in reality bushco are just clumsy bumblers who would surely do the right thing if they were only given a break by the liberal corporate media! ha.
click my name professor bogus to see what REAL PROFESSORS have to say.

"Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic. But will they keep it, or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." : Thomas Jefferson

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"In the general course of human nature, a power over man's substance amounts to a power over his will." -- Alexander Hamilton

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"We meet," it said, "in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin....Corruption dominates the ballot box, the [state] legislatures and the Congress and touches even the bench.....The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced....The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few." - The founding convention of the People's Party - better known as the "Populists" (1892).

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"Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty." Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877-1881) - 19th President of the United States

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"All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for thir future security." : The Declaration of Independence (1776)

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Thanks ICH Newsletter!

#212 Tim..you should consider reading an entire article at some point in your life. Then and only then will any of the comments that you make have any substance to back up your claims. Take the time to read that article and you will discover it is focused on David Corns topic.

Or .. you can continue to make your idiotic statements about the conclusions people share on this site from a great deal of reading.

I know what you will choose to do.

I have never witnessed Chris Matthews rip into an individual as completely as he did tonight. Torie Clarke the Bush administrations former Asst Secretary of Defense for Public affairs wa on his program.

She used to be regarded as one of the best communications strategist in Washington. You know a master bull shitter.

She started to "spin" the pre-war intelligence once again, and Matthews lost it and went for her throat. Matthews said "all of the arguments used to get us into war have been shotdown, every single one shotdown, wrong completely and absolutely wrong." I have never seen him so pissed. It was refreshing. She was giving him the "stink eye" after that and if looks could kill Matthews would be dead.

Now if only Matthews would give the same "hardball" treatment to Bill Kristol, David Frum, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, Bolton and all of the rest of the criminals that took us into Iraq..I would be really happy

"On October 10, 1963, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy committed what is widely viewed as one of the most ignominious acts in modern American history: he authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to begin wiretapping the telephones of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy believed that one of King's closest advisers was a top-level member of the American Communist Party, and that King had repeatedly misled Administration officials about his ongoing close ties with the man." King biographer David Garrow, in a 2002 Atlantic Monthly article.
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The comments by Carter and Kennedy at the King funeral just go to show how idiotic these two cherished democrat icons are. It reminds me, I went to a funeral and a political convention broke out! Great move, keep on truckin, Howard!

I forgot to mention that tomorrow on the Diane Rehm program they will be focused on Iran. People might want to call in and ask some relevant questions. Like "where the hell is the verifiable evidence to back up the claims the Bush administration is making about Iran?" Such a simple question ..a question that I have not heard one reporter in the U.s. ask this administration. NOt one.

Although tonight on the BBc the reporter asked Jack Straw where is the conclusive evidence to back up the claims about Irans nuclear developments? Jack Straw answered "there is no conclusive evidence, just highly suspicious behaviour on the part of Iran".

IAEA'S MR. eL Baradei has said that "Iran does not pose an imminent threat."

So this time the REGIME CHANGE FOLKS do not even have to pretend and come up with some fake documents from Niger. They can just make endless claims based on "highly suspicious behaviour"..oh yeah...Deja vu...

I hope folks call in tomorrow morning to the Rehm program. 1-800-989-talk....email drshow@wamu.org. We should hammer the show tomorrow morning with emails so they think someone is concerned about history repeating itself so quickly.

cheap heat -40,000 BTU constant corn stove burns a bushel a day of corn, no vertical vent. i think they draw around 3 amps. the squirrels will love you!

Capt in #248 You sure haven't changed... Folks, just count the posts. Capt is speaking only of himself and his illusions of rationality, of sophistication, of high-minded discourse. Of course, he's a legend in his own mind!

Iranian paper seeks cartoons of Holocaust

TEHRAN, The Associated Press

A prominent Iranian newspaper said yesterday it would hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. Hamshahri, one of Iran's largest papers, made clear the contest is a reaction to European newspapers' publication of Danish cartoons of the Prophet. The newspaper said the contest would be launched Monday and co-sponsored by the House of Caricatures, a Tehran exhibition centre for cartoons. The paper and the cartoon centre are owned by the Tehran Municipality, which is dominated by allies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, known for his opposition to Israel. Mr. Ahmadinejad provoked outcries last year when he said on separate occasions that Israel should be "wiped off the map" and the Holocaust was a "myth." Hamshahri invited foreign cartoonists to enter the competition. "Does the West extend freedom of expression to the crimes committed by the United States and Israel, or an event such as the Holocaust? Or is its freedom only for insulting religious sanctities?" Hamshahri wrote, referring to the Prophet cartoons.
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Iranian cartoonists? Bring it on!

Associated Press

Got this in an email today.

Stop the attack on our National Parks!

Once again the Bush administration has quietly launched an attack on America's most treasured places. This time political appointees in the Department of Interior have devised a plan to radically overhaul the way our National Parks are managed. The plan could have a detrimental effect on air quality, visibility, wildlife management, and more. The plan could also increase commercialization in our parks.
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the link is to a petition

David:

While we are "Still waiting...",

I don't know about anyone else, it seems I can't remember any gathering of Arabs or Muslims, broadcast by the media, that did NOT contain at least one of the following:

All hell breaking loose...
Burning of flags, embassies, effigies...
Cheering wildly of others dying...
Death to Bush/Blair/Danes/Jews/USA signs/chants..
Exhibiting bazookas, grenade launchers, rifles..
Face fully covered while brandishing weapons..
Going to town blaming the West for their `situation'..
Holding serious looking , head-cutting knives..
Inciting everyone around them to "Get Involved"..
Jumping all over burned-out military hardware..
Kicking statutes or dead `enemies'..
Looting everything including the kitchen sink...
Mobs dragging mutilated (Western) bodies around...
Stampedes with many Pilgrims dying...
Trashing of their own neighborhoods and cars...
Wild weapon firings with anti-gravity bullets..
Yelling God is Great..

Moderate Muslims, presumably greater in number than the `squeaky wheels', have mostly become cowed endangered species (sort of like America's moderate Democrats). What was really a pisser was British Muslims with anti-Freedom of Expression signs? WTF!

David, please tell us, are we still in the grey area as far as a Clash of Civilizations or are we squarely in it?

Kathleen, You missed my point ENTIRELY! It's the blog etiquette! Reading articles has nothing to do with what I suggested. It's just rude to make people have to scroll for MILES down-post, not to mention the load times and the wasted space! Get a clue, will ya?

Tim...you are talking about etiquette? Go read that article.

You all are quite the sight. You come here to save the world but only end up stroking each others egos, or try to deflate those who you disagree with. With all the woes going on in this country, (by your own estimation) I can't figure how any of you have the time to visit a website.

"I'm not intending to imply insult or judgment here but I am curious to know in order to be able to respond to your posts in an appropriate manner, so please forgive what appears to be, but in fact is not intended as, an insulting question: Are you stupid?" ~ Melinda Shore

My last post for a while. It takes every ounce of patience I have to read and respond to the tripe spewed by Capt, Gerald and Mr. Ha Ha. Capt, your challenge was met by ME some time back and you scurried off because you couldn't refute the facts. The topic was global warming and its effect on the strength of Hurricanes. I posted an informed, cogent argument backed by a referenced scientific, peer-reviewed source that showed global warming would have a negligible effect on the strength of hurricanes. What did you do? You remained SILENT. You weren't even honest enough to admit that I more than answered your assertions. So I think others here who aren't blind or mentally challenged can see you for what you are.

y'all gotta see this... dial-ups at least need to read this page from the "Eyes Wide Open" group (they use the 2,000 pair of Army Boots in demonstrations)
Robert Cray/ "Twenty"

Dammmmit! This lady is syndicated in our Houston Chronicle and I've pretty much enjoyed her articles so far. They're usually 'quality of life' and 'parenting' etc.. written with a woman's touch and often funny. But she let me down with this one. I don't often, but I wrote her an email to get on to her about the "Jane Fonda" comment about Cindy Sheehan. She also said some negative shyt about Cindy calling bush a terrorists... so ya knowwwww I commented on that too.
Think she writes for the Miami Herald.

First Amendment remains intact

thanks Alan,
I watched it and signed the petition. Robert Cray is great. The video was great.

I come here for intelligent conversation, not mindless crap flinging.

As to toxic spam on web sites.........this is not generally the fault of the site, more of the site manager.

When you come upon a link you are interested in, instead of clicking on the link, type the url into your address bar. Way safer.

If you run a good antivirus you can prescan any page you wish to view.

We the spammed, need to quit blaming the spammers and learn how to work around them. We also need to learn how to keep our computers clean.

I suggest subscribing to a tech mag, I get PCWorld.

These can be viewed free online. PCMag.com PCWorld.com, or type PC tech mag into a web search.

The trolls keep up.