"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2007
Iran wants Western “apology” after IAEA report – Yahoo! News Iran called on its Western foes on Friday to apologize to the Islamic Republic after the release of a U.N. nuclear agency report which Tehran said showed it had been telling the truth about its atomic plans, according to state media. I think the past [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 13th, 2007
‘Hidden Costs’ Double Price Of Two Wars, Democrats Say – washingtonpost.com Did $1.5 trillion get us more secure? Buy an awe-inspiring display of American military might? Cheaper oil? A sound dollar? Exactly what did we purchase for so high a price? A generation of hatred? Worldwide disdain? A near total loss of moral authority on [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 6th, 2007
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan As I watched event in Pakistan over the weekend I noted that a huge number of lawyers put their careers, bodies and lives on the line in protest of an obvious usurpation of power. I keep thinking that we’d never see a similar spectacle in the US. Not [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Nov 5th, 2007
Keith on the significance of the Daniel Levin story. It was revealed that Levin, an Assistant Attorney General had himself water boarded to determine that it was ethically, legally and morally torture: The presidency of George W. Bush is a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush. Levin was fired for daring [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 5th, 2007
Rice Says U.S. Will Review Aid To Pakistan – washingtonpost.com Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that the United States would review its $150 million-a-month assistance program to Pakistan in response to the declaration of emergency rule by the president, Gen. Pervez Mushar. Pakistan has long been a safe harbor for terrorists in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2007
I can’t see how we will ever succeed using these tactics. Glenn Greenwald – Political Blogs and Opinions – Salon Monday, the Pentagon acknowledged a long-unspoken truth: that the bombardment of civilian neighborhoods in Iraq is an integral part of the vaunted “counterinsurgency” doctrine of Gen. David Petraeus. The number of airstrikes in the conquered [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2007
Blast at Mall Kills 8 in Philippines – New York Times Eight people were killed and as many as 130 others wounded Friday when a powerful explosion ripped through a shopping mall in Makati City, the Philippine capital’s financial district. Wow, that’s frightening. My wife and I have been to that mall many times. It [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Oct 16th, 2007
Attacks cross Iraq-Turkey border – CNN.com Turkish troops shelled farmland around a half-dozen villages in northern Iraq from across the tense border, an Iraqi Kurdish official said Sunday, in what the Turkish military called retaliation for weekend attacks by Kurdish rebels. Also, looks like US forces will be forced out of Incirlik Airbase by the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Oct 14th, 2007
This makes the argument that telcos should be exempted from lawsuits arising from their extra-legal cooperation with NSA spying because they were patriotically trying to help protect the nation after 9-11 specious. Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm – washingtonpost.com A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Oct 14th, 2007
A few excerpts from Frank Rich at the Times: The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us – New York Times …As Andrew Sullivan, once a Bush cheerleader, observed last weekend in The Sunday Times of London, America’s “enhanced interrogation” techniques have a grotesque provenance: “Verschärfte Vernehmung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Oct 10th, 2007
This is why I love Jon Stewart, slashing social and political commentary made funny: AlterNet: Blogs: Video: The Daily Show Comes Clean On Torture, Since The White House Won’t [VIDEO]
Posted in Blog Post on Oct 3rd, 2007
From Errand to Fatal Shot to Hail of Fire to 17 Deaths – New York Times Interviews with 12 Iraqi witnesses, several Iraqi investigators and an American official familiar with an American investigation of the shootings offer new insights into the gravity of the episode in Nisour Square. And they are difficult to square with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 3rd, 2007
He’s still got the chops to stand up to bullies at 83. Carter in Darfur shouting match – CNN.com
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 28th, 2007
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 17th, 2007
I just took a look at Fred Kaplan’s blistering critique of the President’s speech Thursday. I did not watch the speech because I felt it was a waste of time and it would be the same tired rhetoric I’ve heard many times. It seems it was, only this time reality on the ground has diverged [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 14th, 2007
Bush Tells Nation He Will Begin to Roll Back ‘Surge’ – washingtonpost.com Sometime ago I mused about the prospect of the Bush administration simply declaring victory, regardless of conditions on the ground, and starting a pullback of American forces. Well, we got part of it. He touts the “success” of the surge as justification for [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 6th, 2007
Good question. The president is “playing” to lock in his successor into an open-ended commitment of blood and treasure to the debacle that is our occupation in Iraq. McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/05/2007 | Commentary: Can’t we do better than this? This week President Bush made one of his regular, super-secret photo op visits to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 4th, 2007
Ah yes, the “calm” of al-Anbar: The calm of the dead. Juan Cole comments: Informed Comment: On How al-Anbar isn’t that Safe and on How its “Calm” is Artificially Produced <p> Bush made a surprise visit to Al-Anbar Province on Monday, as part of his propaganda drive to get Americans to think we should stay [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 4th, 2007
Interesting op-ed in today’s Post: Israel’s Example – washingtonpost.com NO ONE would say that Israel is soft on terrorism, which makes it all the more fascinating that a country that essentially lives under siege provides so many legal accommodations to those it detains as unlawful combatants. It’s a stark contrast to the Bush administration’s approach [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 2nd, 2007
I love Big Brother even more now that he’s ordered the surge in Iraq. Things are ever so much better now. Accordingly all conflicting information must be sent down the memory hole to eliminate any hint of cognitive dissonance. Informed Comment: Arguments over Night of the Living Dead in Iraq A Government Accounting Office report [...]
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