"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 28th, 2008
After his remark last week about staying in Iraq 100 years, McCain lays this one on us: McCain Warns: “There Will Be Other Wars” – Politics on The Huffington Post Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters on Sunday, “It’s a tough war we’re in. It’s not going to be over right away. There’s [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 24th, 2008
Negotiating Our Future in Iraq | The American Prospect Bush would like to negotiate a long term agreement with Iraq, including security and training assurances without going to the Senate for ratification of a formal treaty between the nations. Why would he want to do that (other than a long standing hatred of anything that [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 6th, 2008
George McGovern lays out a powerful argument for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney: Why I Believe Bush Must Go – washingtonpost.com Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 30th, 2007
PZ talks about the real value of torture. It’s not information gathering. Pharyngula: Torture — what’s it good for? Here is all that torture is good for: inspiring fear in a population. If you want it widely known that your ruling regime is utterly ruthless and doesn’t care about individuals, all you have to do [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 19th, 2007
The New York Times reports: One former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the matter said there had been “vigorous sentiment” among some top White House officials to destroy the tapes. The former official did not specify which White House officials took this position, but he said that some believed in 2005 that any [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 18th, 2007
Way to go Chris!! Dodd’s Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill – Politics on The Huffington Post Senator Chris Dodd won a temporary victory today after his threats of a filibuster forced Democratic leadership to push back consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 17th, 2007
In two recent post Glenn nails it. The first What “winning” in Iraq looks like hits on what’s happened in Basra since the British abandoned it: The article details that Shiite militias — which British troops “unintentionally” armed for years by failing to realize that the “security forces” had no allegiance to the central government [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 16th, 2007
So what was the excuse for destroying these tapes again? CIA Told Not to Destroy Interrogation Tapes | Newsweek Periscope | Newsweek.com In the summer of 2005, then CIA director Porter Goss met with then national intelligence director John Negroponte to discuss a highly sensitive matter: what to do about the existence of videotapes documenting [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 16th, 2007
White House hints, but won’t say, that waterboarding is legal – The Carpetbagger Report A CIA employee says they used waterboarding on a prisoner. The US uses only legal methods of interrogation. Therefore waterboarding is legal. Seems pretty straight forward, but the White House spokesperson Dana Perino refuses to say if it’s legal or not. [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 13th, 2007
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/13/2007 | House votes to outlaw waterboarding by CIA The GOP has taken obstruction and raised it to a high art. If something as basic and simple as “we shouldn’t torture” dooms a bill to failure something has gone horribly wrong. When the republicans held the majority they threatened changes to [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 12th, 2007
CIA still peddling the lie that low-level crazy man proves waterboarding is a good thing – AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth So we tortured the al-Qaeda village idiot, then claimed a great victory against a high level operative. Despite being briefed about the real value of the poor fool by the CIA, Bush [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 7th, 2007
CIA Destroyed Videos Showing Interrogations – washingtonpost.com I’m sure they’re not reaaaaally hiding anything. Who wants a pesky smoking gun laying around? Obstruction of justice anyone?
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 4th, 2007
Crooks and Liars » John McCain: There are No Thomas Jeffersons in Iraq Does McCain know that the internets keep everything he’s said? He claims that he’s always thought the Bush/Rumsfeld was a failure despite many, many statements of support for the Iraq policy in the nearly five years this disaster has stumbled along.
Posted in Blog Post on Dec 3rd, 2007
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak – 12/3/2007 – The Japanese flying monkey Nothing logically inconsistent with prosecuting Japanese soliders for exactly the same behavior the blow dried one seems to think is really cool, is there? Maybe he should be waterboarded until he admits it’s torture?
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 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 18th, 2007
The Daily Dish-Chenney vs Mukasey OK, we all oppose torture, Dubya and Chenney included. The rub is exactly how does the AG nominee define torture? Does he have an expansive view that encompassing the same methods used by the Nazi’s during WWII and the KGB during the Cold War?
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 Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2007
U.S. Pays Steep Price for Private Security in Iraq – washingtonpost.com We pay more for a rent-a-grunt foot soldier then we do for Gen Patraeus. We get less accountablity, but what the heck who’s really coutning the deaths over over-paid mercenaries? Muuuuch easier than asking Congress for the necessary manpower for the military. Man are [...]
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