tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55924892011-09-28T16:48:20.396-05:00Writing Simultaneously From the Right and the LeftTrajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16463621071318072816noreply@blogger.comBlogger35821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592489.post-1163405267946936302006-11-13T02:06:00.000-06:002006-11-13T02:07:48.003-06:00

we wonI mean this was a landslideand I have had a smile plastered on my face for days as I see we will stop the clock on the Bush administrationGod thank you

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.Time to go my compatriots.Over 200,000 readingsThousands of visitors.Thank you all.Some parting thoughts. I appreciate the loyal visitors I have had these last few years. It has been almost three years and we started this just to have a dialogue inside a culture that watched the media dissolve and become cheerleaders. Trajan dropped off years ago but we are still friends and both agree that a

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resigns

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You have to love it when combat veterans come out against the war. Add this to the growing list of US Military experts, people who did not avoid military service, people who can’t stand silently anymore, speak up. This fellow though, is special. This is from Eric Haney, the guy who started the first Special Operations Unit known as Delta Force. Q: What's your assessment of the war in Iraq?A:

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.(from Huffington Post)Has Latin America ever had such a unifying figure?At political rallies, his visage is held aloft as a beacon to regional independence and self-determination. He's helped forge new trade partnerships to spur economic growth and alleviate poverty. And his leadership has fanned a gale-force electoral trend that's sweeping the hemisphere to topple one pro-Washington government

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.Has Latin America ever had such a unifying figure?At political rallies, his visage is held aloft as a beacon to regional independence and self-determination. He's helped forge new trade partnerships to spur economic growth and alleviate poverty. And his leadership has fanned a gale-force electoral trend that's sweeping the hemisphere to topple one pro-Washington government after the next.Who is

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.."This will be no war -- there will be a fairly brief and ruthless military intervention.... The president will give an order. [The attack] will be rapid, accurate and dazzling.... It will be greeted by the majority of the Iraqi people as an emancipation. And I say, bring it on."

Judahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15082606202624714578noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592489.post-1143484421904084052006-03-27T12:32:00.000-06:002006-03-27T12:33:42.116-06:00

.I know this has been said by others and no matter how many times it is restated paste-eaters like Jeff Goldstein will faily to comprehend but I'll give it one more try.Imagine if 30 people were killed every day by car bombs in US cities. Monday, 30 dead in Denver. Tuesday, 30 dead in San Francisco. Wednesday, 30 dead in Philadelphia. You get the idea.Now scale that roughly relative to population

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.The Rainwater ProphecyRichard Rainwater made billions by knowing how to PROFIT FROM A CRISIS. Now he foresees the biggest one yet.(FORTUNE Magazine)By OLIVER RYANDecember 26, 2005(FORTUNE Magazine) – Richard Rainwater doesn't want to sound like a kook. But he's about as worried as a happily married guy with more than $2 billion and a home in Pebble Beach can get. Americans are "in the kind of

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. A Soldier Speaks"I never hear that because we all here know the good news stories are bullshit and do not really affect the mission in any way. It's like this thing we keep saying here about all the new people we've recruited for the iraqi police. It leaves out the fact that my platoon was in a 40 minute gun fight with the iraqi police. So you recruited more of them ... awesome! I am sure that

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back on sunday

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Link: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142722231554&call_pageid=970599119419Toronto StarRemember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.At least, he did if he was one of 95

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.Nobody knows what will transpire between now and November and how much intensity each party's voters will have, but as of now, Democrats have a pronounced intensity advantage and enough of one to probably outweigh the GOP organizational edge. Good news------The charge that the administration is all thumbs is gaining steam and it's not coming from just die-hard Democrats. I think of it as the

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.Bruce Bartlett, The Cato Institute, Andrew Sullivan, George Packer, William F. Buckley, Sandra Day O'Connor, Republican voters in Indiana and all the rest of you newly-minted dissenters from Bush's faith-based reality seem, right now, to be glorying in your outrage, which is always a pleasure and feels, at the time, as if it is having an effect, but those of us who have been anti-Bush from day 1

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.Shamegeorgia10I am ashamed. I am ashamed of this President. Aren't you? After watching his press conference today, a sense of shame overtook me. I'm ashamed that he took to the podium today as if he emptied out a container of laughing gas. I'm ashamed of a President who has the temerity to laugh when asked a question about war. I'm ashamed of the whores of the fourth estate who care more

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.A Top-Down Review for the PentagonBy PAUL D. EATONFox Island, Wash.DURING World War II, American soldiers en route to Britain before D-Day were given a pamphlet on how to behave while awaiting the invasion. The most important quote in it was this: "It is impolite to criticize your host; it is militarily stupid to criticize your allies."By that rule, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is not

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.The other night Jon Stewart showed a clip of Bush telling an audience that we had evidence that Iran had been making IED bomb components for Iraqis to use against our troops.In a clip that followed, the Senior Reuters White House Correspondent asked Rumsfeld and General Pace if they had any evidence that Iran was making bomb components. Rummy looked at Peter Pace, Pace looked at Rummyn and

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OyBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi police have accused U.S. troops of executing 11 people, including a 75-year-old woman and a 6-month-old infant, in the aftermath of a raid Wednesday on a house about 60 miles north of Baghdad.--Anyone who hoped that the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq would inspire the country’s leading newspapers to finally editorialize for a radical change in the White

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. The Strange Case of the Dead Girl in Joe Scarborough’s Office. Posted: 2003-08-21 10:56I started this thread because there appears to be a general lack of information about the death of Lori Kaye Klausutis, an aide to then-GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough, who now makes his living on MSNBC accusing Democrats of doing bad things.On the morning of July 20, 2001, Lori Klausutis was found dead in

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. OyBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi police have accused U.S. troops of executing 11 people, including a 75-year-old woman and a 6-month-old infant, in the aftermath of a raid Wednesday on a house about 60 miles north of Baghdad.

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.People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.George Orwell

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.Mexican President Vicente Fox announced that they have discovered oil under the Gulf of Mexico. In a related story, President Bush accused Mexico of having weapons of mass destruction.--Jay leno"Lies gets halfway around the world before truth has a chance to get its pants on." --Winston Churchill"A half truth is a whole lie." -- Yiddish Proverb"It is dangerous to be right when the government is

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."Alas, another case of White House employees impersonating Secret Service agents. (Remember, something similar happened last year in Denver.) Actually, in this case apparently they were impersonating Secret Service agents impersonating FOX News journalists. No, I'm actually not kidding about this. Perhaps it just would have been better to say they were White House employees rather than journos

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.So what does all this have to do with the media charade that passes for journalism these days? Well, besides the obvious fact that more reporters should be covering Houston, which is starting to feel like the epicenter of evil (ABC could lease Enron's old offices), this tale also makes clear that it is incumbent upon those of us who read and watch the news to look deeper, not to accept these

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. It adds to the picture of harsh interrogation practices at American military prisons in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as well as at secret Central Intelligence Agency detention centers around the world.---- In a court filing late Friday night, Libby's legal team said that in June and July 2003, the status of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame was at most a peripheral issue to "the

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.A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the state of Tennessee can issue "Choose Life" license plates, the Associated Press reported.The antiabortion license plates had been thrown out by a lower court, after abortion-rights groups complained that the state refused to issue "Choose Choice" plates. "Although this exercise of government one-sideness with respect to a very contentious

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. I'm afraid it would. This is something to be very concerned about. These are not trival matters. We've seen a sort of broad-based assault on basic Constitutional rights in our country since 9/11. We have a President who ordered electronic surveillance by the NSA without warrants in something that constitutes a federal crime. Congress isn't even holding serious hearings on that. So we have a

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.Six in 10 in the poll, taken Friday through Sunday, say the war has had a negative effect on the nation.- so 4 in 10 think this is good?

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."His strong points as a president were being seen as personally credible, as a strong leader. That has all but disappeared," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, whose latest independent poll found a dramatic decline in Bush's credibility.A majority of Americans, 56 percent, believe Bush is "out of touch," the poll found. When asked for a one-word description of Bush, the most

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"Tommy Franks and the coalition forces have demonstrated the old axiom that boldness on the battlefield produces swift and relatively bloodless victory. The three-week romp through Iraq has utterly shattered skeptics' complaints."-Tony Snow, April 2003 Fox News--"Now that the war in Iraq is all but over, should the people in Hollywood who opposed the president admit they were wrong?"-Alan

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.We have a President who likes to break things. He has broken the federal budget, running up $3 trillion in new debt. He has broken the Geneva Conventions, giving the green light to torture. He has repeatedly broken promises – and broken faith – with the American people. And now, worst of all, he has broken the law.In brazen violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), he

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.That's true in general, and it's true in spades in Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon. "Cobra II" makes Rumsfeld and Franks each seem like Barry Bonds: a formerly intimidating figure who now just seems pathetic. Those two were contemptuous of the armchair generals and the TV kibitzers. But at the crucial moment in their lives, they got things wrong, and the pundits often got things right.

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. My God Republicans are dumasses.I mean is there any clearer explanation for how completely useless and dangerous Republicans are than to see 73% of them still approve of this poseur in the White House?

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.According to the GAO, it would take real double-digit growth over the next 75 years to pay off our current debt--an impossible task, considering that the growth rate during the 1990s boom years averaged just 3.2 percent.

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.What is he thinking? On a day when Shiite vigilantes conducted hangings in Sadr City in reprisal for the killing of scores of their co-religionists in a market bombing, President Bush continued to insist that progress in Iraq justified staying the course."By their response over the past two weeks, Iraqis have shown the world that they want a future of freedom and peace," he said Monday."We're

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.Piecing together four completely disparate news items, I think I can prove that there is either going to be a small, token troop draw down for the mid term elections - something like a small brigade level drawdown. Or this is an exercise just to test a new way to extract our assets out of theatre. There is a plan for it, and it will be harder than you can imagine for reasons you might not have

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.PITTSBURGH – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Pennsylvania today released new evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting investigations into a political organizations based solely on its anti-war views.Two documents released today reveal that the FBI investigated gatherings of the Thomas Merton Center for Peace & Justice just because the organization

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.The succession of crisis after crisis has taken its toll. Some in the White House sound frazzled. While there are few stories of aides nodding off in meetings, some duck outside during the day so the fresh air will wake them up. "We're all burned out," said one White House official who did not want to be named for fear of angering superiors. "People are just tired."White House officials are

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.The Past Few Years Have Seen Tremendous Growthin the Number of Mexican Law Enforcement Personnel,Including the Military, But a Paradoxical Deterioration in theAbility to Reduce the Drugs Trade.Everywhere, the war against drugs is being lost. I refer at least to South America, Central America, Mexico, the United States and Canada - each country, each region, in its own particular way, with its

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.“When I got back from Iraq a little while ago, I went down to see the president, and I sat with the president, and he kept talking about terrorists. And I said, ‘Mr. President, if every single al-Qaeda personality, every single al-Qaeda operative or anyone like him tomorrow were blown away, you still have a war, Mr. President. This is well beyond terrorists.’ There’s an insurgency, Tim, a

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.At the end of the day, organizers say it was more than half a million protesters. Police estimated the crowd at 300,000.

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An Open Letter To Freepers: You Really Are Utter Scum Edited on Sat Mar-11-06 04:24 PM by caliYou have thread after thread on Tom Fox's death, and scarcely a kind or Christian remark to be found in the filth and name calling. You're not only scum, you're whited sepulchers and hypocrites of monumental proportion. You cluck over the language on DU, but make the most vile, racist remarks imaginable.

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.answer coming tomorrow J. Edgar Hoover would have loved this. The....... administration wants government to be able to read international computer communications – financial transactions, personal e-mail and proprietary information sent abroad – all in the name of national security. In a proposal that raises obvious concerns about Americans' privacy, President wants to give agencies the

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OK I wrote that nasty epitaph and it seems too mean. I don't see ultimately why any of us should be angry at dictators or suffering. They are a part of life like viruses and accidents.I just can't feel empathy for dictators.

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.I hope it was a painful death. I hope he awoke sweating and panicked as his left arm grew numb and achy. His chest pounded and hurt with a pain that could only be described as lightning and thunder, ripping down his side. I hope he cried for his wife or mother. I hope he cried tears at his predicament- once a powerful leader- now and old war criminal squirming on a cold cement floor. I hope he

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. As I lie here in bed recuperating from the injuries that I received from a federal agent and the NYPD in front of the US Mission to the UN (USUN) the other day, I have had time to reflect on the experience, the state of our union and its descent into a fascist state.When the four of us. Missy Beattie, Rev. Patricia Ackerman, Medea Benjamin, and I, were arrested the other day, I was singled

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. Nearly 70 Percent Say Country Headed in Wrong Direction

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.The Bush administration has appointed 28-year-old former White House staffer Doug Hoelscher as the executive director of the Homeland Security Advisory Committees.In his new position, Hoelscher will gather expert advice “on behalf of the president and the Homeland Security secretary” from 20 other advisory boards covering “key areas of homeland security, including threats to infrastructure and

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. "When you have people dying because they're poor and black or poor and white, or because of whatever they are...That erases everything that's great about our country. There's no reason why someone can't go down there who's supposed to be the leader of the free world and say, 'I'm giving you a job to do and I'm not leaving here until it's done. And you're held accountable, and you're held

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.This morning I spoke at a gathering of the National Newspaper Association regarding my strategy to redeploy our troops from Iraq on a scheduled timetable as soon as practicable. Iraq continues to be mischaracterized by the President as the center for the Global War on Terrorism. It is estimated that there are less than 1,000 Al Qaeda in Iraq. What is happening in Iraq is a civil war. It is

Judahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15082606202624714578noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592489.post-1141928079891180942006-03-09T12:14:00.000-06:002006-03-09T12:14:39.966-06:00

.BEIJING Mar 9, 2006 (AP)— China on Thursday lashed out against U.S. criticism of its human rights record, saying racial discrimination and crime were still rife in the United States and prisoners were being abused at U.S.-run detention centers abroad.The State Council, China's cabinet, denounced the United States for what it said were rampant violence and widespread discrimination against

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."I there is one thing the Bush Administration won't stand for, it's a Mid East Country that could have a nuclear weapon, but doesn't."-Jay Leno

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.The Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday rejected Sen. Rockefeller's motion to hold hearings to investigate the President's warrantless eavesdropping program by an 8-7, strict party line vote. Yet again, every Senate Republican followed White House instructions not to investigate the President, and this time did so despite the statements of several of those GOP Senators just within the last 8

Judahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15082606202624714578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592489.post-1141838532851236132006-03-08T11:21:00.000-06:002006-03-08T11:22:12.873-06:00

.The Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday rejected Sen. Rockefeller's motion to hold hearings to investigate the President's warrantless eavesdropping program by an 8-7, strict party line vote. Yet again, every Senate Republican followed White House instructions not to investigate the President, and this time did so despite the statements of several of those GOP Senators just within the last 8

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.Listening to the Bush administration's increasingly ridiculous attempts to spin the disastrous reality on the ground in Iraq, I'm wondering if they've hired the venerable messaging team of Ionesco, Beckett, and Genet. The theater of war meets the theater of the absurd. Here's Don Rumsfeld putting the blame for the White House's Iraq troubles squarely where it really belongs: "I think the biggest

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."The United States is keeping all options on the table in addressing the irresponsible conduct of the regime."--Dick Cheney (Refering to Iran, not USA)---"America will help women stand up for their freedom, no matter where they live."--George W Bush at Dangerfields, practising a stand up routine

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. "The top U.S. envoy to Iraq said Monday that the 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime had opened a 'Pandora's box' of volatile ethnic and sectarian tensions that could engulf the region in all-out war and disrupt the global economy if America were to extricate itself from the country too soon."

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.Advance trend numbers for spring radio ratings in the Miami market, leaked to RAW STORY, reveal that liberal talk posted hefty gains against the once-indomitable Rush Limbaugh.In particular, The Ed Schultz show actually passed Limbaugh among the 25-54 age range in the nation's twelfth largest radio market. Schultz scored a 3.4 rating to Limbaugh's 3.2, climbing 1.1 ratings points from the winter

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."> Homeland Security InsecureWASHINGTON - The agency entrusted with protecting the U.S. homeland is having difficulty safeguarding its own headquarters, say private security guards at the complex.The guards have taken their concerns to Congress, describing inadequate training, failed security tests and slow or confused reactions to bomb and biological threats.--- After The TortureWalid al-Qadasi

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.from KosNow that the majority of Americans recognise the folly of being led to war by Bush, the mammoth challenge of debt weighing on the economy, and dangers of further turmoil in the Middle East, OBL is changing tactics - and it's brilliant. OBL is escalating, but in a way that is more likely to alienate Americans from Bush than cause blowback in the Middle East. OBL is taking Bush's "We'll

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.The press had better hope we win this war, because if we don't, a lot of people will blame the media. Go ahead. Blame the media. It wasn't that the government couldn't do what they primoied. No it was something completely other- it was Dan Rather and Keith Olberman who lost this war.I mean the balls to come out and make a claim like this. I guess they think if we just clap hard enough then the

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.The Bush administration continues to make fools of Congress, including Republican representative of New York, Peter King, who took the lead in opposing the Dubai port deal. As the NYT reports in Sunday's paper, King recently received notice that the Pentagon would no longer be able to provide his Congressional delegation air transport inside Iraq. "'It is very coincidental,' said Mr. King, who

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.At the rate that President Bush is going, Iran will be a global superpower before too long. For all of the axis-of-evil rhetoric that has come out of the White House, the reality is that the Bush administration has done more to empower Iran than its most ambitious ayatollah could have dared to imagine. Tehran will be able to look back at the Bush years as a golden era full of boosts from America

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. "There's a tone of gleeful relish in the way they talk about dragging reporters before grand juries, their appetite for withholding information, and the hints that reporters who look too hard into the public's business risk being branded traitors," said New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, in a statement responding to questions from The Washington Post. "I don't know how far action will

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.The United States and Britain are planning to pull all their troops out of Iraq by the spring of 2007, two British newspapers reported in their Sunday editions, quoting unnamed senior defense ministry sources.The Sunday Telegraph said the planned pull-out followed an acceptance by the two governments that the presence of foreign troops in Iraq was now a large obstacle to securing peace.Hard to

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. Katherine Harris Caught Up in Bribery Scandal------Ex-Official: Iraq Abuses Growing WorseBy ED JOHNSON, Associated Press WriterThu Mar 2, 9:23 AM ETHuman rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday.John Pace, who last month left his post as director of

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.Bush fatigue has set in. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. Despite the polls and the news and the protests I just can't shake the knowledge that Bush is here to stay--that is unless we follow his lead, scrap the Constitution, and stage a coup. The only solace available to me these days are the blogs and the handful of articles that help convince me that this Administration has finally

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.WASHINGTON, March 2 — After complaints from historians, the National Archives directed intelligence agencies on Thursday to stop removing previously declassified historical documents from public access and urged them to return to the shelves as quickly as possible many of the records they had already pulled. Allen Weinstein, the nation's chief archivist, announced what he called a "moratorium"

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.Moazzam Begg was kidnapped in Pakistan in January 2002. As the Guardian notes in an accompanying story: "During his internment, he spent virtually two years in solitary, was kicked and beaten, suffocated with a bag over his head, stripped naked, chained by his hands to the top of a door and left hanging, and led to believe he was about to be executed." The only "evidence" against him was the

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.BAGHDAD, Feb. 28 -- Officials overseeing Baghdad's morgue have comeunder pressure not to investigate the soaring number of apparent casesof execution and torture in the country, the former U.N. human rightschief for Iraq said Tuesday. shhhhhh----More than one in three soldiers and Marines who have served in Iraqlater sought help for mental health problems, according to acomprehensive snapshot by

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. The Administration must think that we do not have cameras and tape recorders. Furthermore they think that we all don't care how much they lie. Furthermore they think we are children and can't interpolate and handle their lying. Lying is hard to keep up with certainly. "Hoping to counteract the damage of the story, the White House leaked Newsweek transcripts from daily noon FEMA conference calls

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.It's not that all Republicans are racists. It's that every racist is a Republican.

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.Herr Lieberman helped me realize there is not much of a fine line left between the middle of the right and the edge of the left. We have moved so far over that even middle America stands perched on one foot, with it's one strand of hair tossed across its frowning face, trying to straighten the coffee in a cup that will forever be leaning far too right to ever feel balanced again. No good

Judahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15082606202624714578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592489.post-1141222365981776952006-03-01T08:12:00.000-06:002006-03-01T08:12:46.006-06:00

.Remember what Rumsfeld said about Europe, "Oh they're Old Europe, they don't really matter"? Well, O'Reilly and Limbaugh, court jesters of a failed American monarchy, are old media. Grandpa may be in the home watching O'Reilly, but the kids are watching Colbert (in between the crystal-meth fueled polysexual love-a-thons and satanic ritual pet beheadings O'Reilly wants us to believe our

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.UNKINDEST CUT....I guess it's just a matter of priorities. In his new budget, the president takes an ax to a tiny Americorps program called the National Civilian Community Corps. This small enterprise employs about a thousand 18-to-24 years olds in full time service, much of it involving disaster relief and homeland security. The program gets rave reviews from participants and recipients alike.

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.Who knew Richard Cohen was such a fan of unelected hereditary oligarchies who, among other badnesses, refuse to recognize the state of Israel.The simplest and most obvious lesson I've learned in the past few years is that the American press has an incredible bias in favor of whatever our foreign policy happens to be that day. Whoever the government deems as "friends" are the good guys and

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..(NYT rises from time to time)The poll is the first of U.S. troops currently serving in Iraq, according to John Zogby, the pollster. Conducted by Zogby International and LeMoyne College, it asked 944 service members, "How long should U.S. troops stay in Iraq?"Only 23 percent backed Mr. Bush's position that they should stay as long as necessary. In contrast, 72 percent said that U.S. troops

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.WASHINGTON - At least tens of thousands of veterans with non-critical medical issues could suffer delayed or even denied care in coming years to enable President Bush to meet his promise of cutting the deficit in half — if the White House is serious about its proposed budget. Bush Hates Vets

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. File this under TOLD YOU SO. The rape rooms have been . The rape rooms? They may be gone. But they are now replaced with rooms where they drill holes in your head or burn your eyes out with a cigarette. Well, we liberated them didn’t we? Hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executed every month in Baghdad alone by death squads working from the Ministry of the Interior,

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.This is Civil War.-George Will-----Better start Praying-Bill O Reilly in regards to the Iraqi civil war.------Since 2003, the report said, the Army National Guard has left more than 64,000 pieces of equipment, valued at more than $1.2 billion, in Iraq. The Army has not kept track of most of this equipment and has no firm plans to replace it, the report said……"The Army cannot account for over

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.What's wrong with the economy?by EPI President Lawrence Mishel and Policy Director Ross Eisenbrey1. Profits are up, but the wages and the incomes of average Americans are down. • Inflation-adjusted hourly and weekly wages are still below where they were at the start of the recovery in November 2001. Yet, productivity—the growth of the economic pie—is up by 13.5%. 1 • Wage growth has been

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.http://festival.sundance.org/2006/watch/film.aspx?which=402

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.Most prisoners are kept apart, although some can communicate through the steel mesh or concrete walls that separate their cells. They exercise alone, some only at night. They had not seen sunlight for months — an especially cruel tactic in a tropical climate. One prisoner told me, "I have spent almost every moment of the last three years, and eaten every meal, here in this small cell which is my

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.WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- A United Arab Emirates government-owned company is poised to take over port terminal operations in 21 American ports, far more than the six widely reported.

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.It is increasingly expensive to be a criminal.Beverly Dubois, a 49-year-old former park ranger in Washington State, spent nine months in jail for growing and selling marijuana. She still owes the state almost $1,900 for court costs and various fees. Until she pays up, the state has taken away her right to vote.Wilbert Rideau, 64, a convicted killer, spent 44 years in Louisiana prisons. Not long

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.This really is the lowly point to which Bush followers have dragged this country. To oppose the American war in Iraq -- a war that is turning out to be the greatest and most disastrous strategic mistake this country has ever made - has long been sufficient for one to be branded a coward and a subversive. To question the President's policies on terrorism has resulted in even more severe

Judahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15082606202624714578noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592489.post-1140834981067322152006-02-24T20:35:00.000-06:002006-02-24T20:36:59.976-06:00

."Second, this is a corporation, consequently its only interest is in making money. A corporation is like a shark, designed to do two things: kill and eat. Thousands of years of evolution lie behind the shark, where as the corporation has only a few hundred. But it is still perfectly evolved for its purpose. That means a corporation that makes money running port facilities does not have a stake

Judahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15082606202624714578noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592489.post-1140822971743176852006-02-24T17:15:00.000-06:002006-02-24T17:16:11.770-06:00

.One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. The same edition of the paper quotes a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Reuel Marc Gerecht backed the American intervention. He now speaks of the bombing of the especially sacred Shiite mosque in Samara and what that has precipitated in the way of revenge. He concludes that “The bombing has completely demolished”

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.I saw the news of the bomb on television when I was eating breakfast with my children. By lunch we had packed up our essential belongings and left to find refuge at a relative's house.There was no argument from my wife. She knew as I did what the sight of the destroyed dome meant.We live in a mixed Sunni and Shia area in Baghdad. Tonight there will be bloodshed and retaliation attacks and this

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.The coalition government relied heavily on a revolving door of diplomats and other personnel who would leave just as they had begun to develop local knowledge and ties, and on a large cadre of eager young neophytes whose brashness often gave offense in a very age- and status-conscious society. One young political appointee (a 24-year-old Ivy League graduate) argued that Iraq should not enshrine

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.George Bush doesn't care who controls inspections at America's ports, as long as the deal benefits his family and friends. This fact seemed to wake up some of his blind Republican supporters, but comes as no surprise to seasoned Bush-watchers. Just think back to his indifferent reaction to the Hamas landslide last month. Cronyism-------The administration did not require Dubai Ports to keep

Judahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15082606202624714578noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592489.post-1140637406136166942006-02-22T13:42:00.000-06:002006-02-22T13:49:13.316-06:00

.Small events sometimes reveal large truths. Last month’s U.S. missile strike in the remote Bajaur district of Pakistan was such an event. Aimed at taking out Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s chief deputy, the strike missed its intended target and killed as many as 18 residents of the small village of Damadola. But the episode did not end there: outraged Pakistanis rose up in protest; days of

Judahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15082606202624714578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592489.post-1140618522194082602006-02-22T08:28:00.000-06:002006-02-22T08:28:42.200-06:00

.But the jokes this week might be even more disturbing for the Vice President. Because when the late night comics define you, it’s how the whole country sees you.

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."Shirley Phelps-Roper, a daughter of Fred Phelps and an attorney for the Topeka, Kansas-based church, said neither state laws nor the Patriot Guard can silence their message that God killed the soldiers because they fought for a country that embraces homosexuals."

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.Wolf, this may be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back, this deal to sell control of six US ports to a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates. There are now actually Senators and Congressmen and Governors and Mayors telling the White House "you're not gonna do this." And it's about time. No one has said "no" to this administration on anything that matters in a very long time.

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Here’s Your VictoryBAGHDAD — The Islamic government in neighboring Iran watched with trepidation in March 2003 when U.S.-led troops stormed Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime and start remaking the political map of the Mideast. In retrospect, the Islamic Republic could have celebrated: The war has left America's longtime nemesis with profound influence in the new Iraq and pushed it to

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.Many of us have struggled to make sense not just of the Cheney shooting incident, but of the secrecy surrounding it and the apathetic response of the American people -- as well as that of Texas law enforcement agencies. The metaphor most meaningful for me -- since, after all, the shooting has functioned as a kind of Rorschach test for the Left -- is that 78- year-old Whittington stands for the

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.Sometimes it’s the small abuses scurrying below radar that reveal how profoundly the Bush administration has changed America in the name of national security. Buried within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 is a regulation that bars most public access to birth and death certificates for 70 to 100 years. In much of the country, these records have long been invaluable

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.Under the port agreement, the United Arab Emirates company would control the shipment of US military equipment for the US Army. You mean, packing and shipping our own weapons should be outsourced?

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