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Latest Articles: Editorial
How Bush Uses His Generals
Post Date: 2007-07-16 23:16:44 by Ferret Mike
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President Bush says that he should be trusted on military issues because he listens to his commanders. But he has a tendency to celebrate his generals when they're providing him political cover -- then stick a knife in their backs when they're no longer of any use to him. Last week, Bush rejected any blame for the chaos that ensued in Iraq after the March 2003 invasion. So whose fault was it? Bush pointed the finger at Gen. Tommy Franks, the Central Command chief at the time. "My primary question to General Franks was, do you have what it takes to succeed? And do you have what it takes to succeed after you succeed in removing Saddam Hussein? And his answer was, yes," Bush ...
The Double Hypocrisy of the Rightwing: The Vitter’s Victual
Post Date: 2007-07-16 19:13:38 by Brian S
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"How could you justify doing something like this? Why is it your business?" So Tucker Carlson asked me last Wednesday on his television talk show. Why would the Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG), under the editorial management of Lori Price, publish the "DC Madam's" phone list? Why wouldn't my own sexual behavior also be a topic of concern? Our answer is that the CLG is not appalled at the immorality of visiting an escort or house of prostitution. As a liberal news and activist organization, we generally couldn’t care less about the sexual proclivities of elected officials, unless such activities are illegal or involve children. Anyone who has any ...
If We Ever Meet Irving Kristol We Are Going to Knee Him in the Balls
Post Date: 2007-07-16 18:27:38 by Zipporah
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If We Ever Meet Irving Kristol We Are Going to Knee Him in the Balls It is also far too early in the morning for Bill Kristol to be saying this nonsense. I suppose I’ll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush’s presidency will probably be a successful one. See, now we wish our ridicule could harm you. We are too hungover to even mock this editorial. All we can do is blockquote it incredulously. Let’s step back from the unnecessary mistakes and the self-inflicted wounds that have characterized the Bush administration. Yes, let’s. Let’s step all the way back to bed. Let’s step back to a magical bed ...
Paul Craig Roberts: Impeach Now
Post Date: 2007-07-16 16:16:01 by Zipporah
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Impeach Now By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of "executive orders" that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency. Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, former Republican senator Rick Santorum and others suggest that Americans might expect a series of staged, or false flag, "terrorist" events in the near future. Many attentive people believe that the reason the Bush administration will not bow to expert advice and public opinion and ...
The war in Iraq (SCAIFE PAPER: BUSH IS DELUSIONAL, STAYING THE COURSE IS SUICIDE)
Post Date: 2007-07-16 15:11:33 by aristeides
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The war in Iraq Perhaps Jack Murtha put it best: The Pennsylvania congressman, among the first to make the cogent argument that staying the course in Iraq was the exercise in futility that indeed the war has become, says President Bush is delusional. Based on the president's recent performance, we could not agree more. "Staying the course" is not simply futile -- it is a prescription for American suicide. We've urged for months to bring our troops home. Now is the time. "Progress" has become such a nuanced, parsed and tortured term that it no longer has meaning. The "fledgling" Iraqi government -- how long can it reasonably be called that? -- ...
Impeach Now Or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy
Post Date: 2007-07-16 13:25:23 by Eoghan
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Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of "executive orders" that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency. Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, former Republican senator Rick Santorum and others suggest that Americans might expect a series of staged, or false flag, "terrorist" events in the near future. Many attentive people believe that the reason the Bush administration will not bow to expert advice and public opinion and begin withdrawing US troops from ...
Why Bush Will Be A Winner (Bill Kristol alert)
Post Date: 2007-07-16 00:13:14 by kiki
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I suppose I'll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one. Let's step back from the unnecessary mistakes and the self-inflicted wounds that have characterized the Bush administration. Let's look at the broad forest rather than the often unlovely trees. What do we see? First, no second terrorist attack on U.S. soil -- not something we could have taken for granted. Second, a strong economy -- also something that wasn't inevitable. And third, and most important, a war in Iraq that has been very difficult, but where -- despite some confusion engendered by an almost meaningless ...
Time in a Bottle: American POWs Left Behind in Vietnam
Post Date: 2007-07-15 11:17:49 by boonie rat
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Time in a Bottle: American POWs Left Behind in Vietnam by Alex R. Knight III July 3, 2007 It was, I suppose, otherwise a typical overnight for me; listening to Coast To Coast AM in the wee hours of this past May 30th. The subject matter, however, was such as I had not visited since at least the 1980s, when Rambo-type movies were in vogue -- Uncommon Valor (loosely based on true events) is one which comes to mind. It all made for great cinema, though something perhaps to be taken as a means by which hardline right-wingers were able to assimilate the loss of the Vietnam Conflict -- a first, after all, in the American warfare experience. But as per the aforementioned broadcast, a recent ...
Just Doing His Job - draft
Post Date: 2007-07-14 08:11:07 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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A Soviet born, KGB trained subverter tells about the four stages of communist takeovers Just Doing His Job - draft
The FKN News, 7/13/07 Deek Jackson
Post Date: 2007-07-14 07:48:33 by gengis gandhi
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The Rubicon in Turkish-US ties
Post Date: 2007-07-13 14:32:44 by ghostdogtxn
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Michael Moore Is a Sicko
Post Date: 2007-07-13 11:12:23 by christine
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I want to tell the story of a young man who was attending a Southern University, a few years ago. During his freshman year he was sick with appendicitis, which he misdiagnosed as regular stomach ache for a day. As the agony grew unbearable, he was taken to the regional hospital in an ambulance. That night the doctors operated on his appendix. The young man was feeling better the next day. As he prepared to leave, the hospital’s representative took care of the paperwork by the side of his bed. His Insurance Company took care of the medical bills in accordance with his Insurance contract. The next day the young man was back to school. The Insurance Company saved the student from ...
[Oregon Sen.] Gordon Smith likes to pretend he's a moderate, but he's really just a slave to the GOP leadership
Post Date: 2007-07-12 17:16:32 by Ferret Mike
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In the July 5th edition of the Oregonian, Mr. Jim Rassman bemoans the fact that that publication has, yet again, fallen for the ruse that Senator Gordon Smith is a "moderate" republican, this time due to his comments regarding the Iraq war. Mr. Rassman is correct in pointing out the contradiction between Senator Smith's words and his senatorial votes, but, alas, the contradiction is but the latest in Senator Smith's long history of attempting to appear moderate in the lead up to elections, while slavishly following the party line dictated by his republican leadership as he serves his term. Although Senator Smith might wish it, I cannot forget how, during his reelection ...
"Mr Chertoff to the White Courtesy Phone."
Post Date: 2007-07-12 12:14:12 by Eoghan
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Maybe it’s just me but it looks like, yeah, it looks like they are at it again. You can hear the drums coming up on the fader, the bass is coming in… ba boomp boomp… ba boomp boomp. Any minute now and we’ll be hearing the lead guitar. Zionazi Herr Oberneocongruppenfuhrer Chertoff has just moon-walked on to the stage. And there’s some interesting synchronized swimming going on as well. If you’re paying attention… and some of us are. You hear rumbling. You hear odd snatches of conversation like someone keeps opening and closing the door on a cocktail party. Something is happening in Syria. Israel is making unusual noises, brandishing false overtures and ...
No amount of collaboration will make the sun orbit the Earth
Post Date: 2007-07-11 22:17:50 by Ferret Mike
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It is not often that something makes me laugh so hard I cannot breathe, but Something Awful's piece on 'wikigroaning' did. It consists simply of a list of paired topics on Wikipedia: the game is just to guess which has the longer and more detailed entry and thus is more important to the nerds who write Wikipedia. In this way we learn that the entire universe can be described in 6,623 words, which makes it smaller, or at least less interesting, than Transformers: Universe - "a line of toys consisting of repainted re-releases from various Transformers toy lines", which gets an entry 8,752 words long. Some of these subject pairs are more obvious: the game Second Life ...
On the Road for Impeachment: A T-Shirt Poll
Post Date: 2007-07-11 17:33:51 by aristeides
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On the Road for Impeachment A T-Shirt Poll By DAVE LINDORFF Austin--I just spent the weekend in this state capital, talkin' impeachment at a meeting organized by the Texas Green Party, World Can't Wait, Code Pink and Austin Impeach http://(www.austinimpeach.org), and was flying back home via Atlanta. As I was boarding my flight, the pilot, an Air Force veteran like many commercial pilots, looked at the bold "Impeach Bush and Cheney" emblazoned across my chest, smiled and said, "I like your shirt." Some 20 minutes later when the flight attendant came through serving drinks and I asked for a bottle of red wine, she handed me a bottle and then waved away my ...
"The Rude Pundit Says...." Six Other Things the Office of the Vice President Actually Is:
Post Date: 2007-07-11 15:56:59 by gengis gandhi
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"The Rude Pundit Says...." No comments yet. - Hide Original Post About Cheney: 6/22/2007 Six Other Things the Office of the Vice President Actually Is: Dick Cheney has decided that his office is a free-floating radical in DC, not quite an executive entity, not truly a legislative one, but some unholy Reese's cup of evil. Here's some other ways the Veep has untethered himself from mortal binds. 1. Because his office is not an entity in the executive branch, but actually a Native American religion, Cheney and his staff are free to smoke peyote at the start of every morning meeting. 2. Because his office is not an entity in the executive branch, but actually a breach in ...
The 9/11 Truth Movement has peaked [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-07-11 14:09:58 by Mister Clean
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The 9/11 "truth" movement has peaked and is currently stalled. It will eventually settle down as just another fringe belief system endlessly hyped by its followers. The online success of "Loose Change" was the peak for the movement. The independent "documentary" was the best chance the 9/11 "truth" movement had for the message to reach a broad audience. But the attempt to take "Loose Change" into the mainstream has gone nowhere as its makers are bogged down in the editing process trying to clean up the factual mess they made. The 9/11 "truth" movement is no longer growing and it will not enter the mainstream consciousness as a ...
Olbermann's Worst Person
Post Date: 2007-07-10 21:28:07 by Zipporah
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Scooter Libby: A Case of Selective Compassion
Post Date: 2007-07-10 20:56:17 by Ferret Mike
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As I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby just found out, it's good to have friends in high places. Despite being assigned an inmate number by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Libby will not spend a single day in prison. As everyone knows by now, President George W. Bush commuted the 30-month sentence imposed by a federal judge after a jury found Libby guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice. There has been lots of conversation about the special treatment Libby received as compared to other people convicted of crimes who could benefit from the kind of compassion that Libby received -- people who would also like someone to give careful consideration to whether their sentences are ...
Larry Flynt speaks out on telling Falwell he was 'full of it' and Bush's abuse of government
Post Date: 2007-07-10 19:51:59 by Zipporah
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Larry Flynt appeared Friday on Henry Rollins' show on the Independent Film Channel. Rollins first asked Flynt about his reaction to the death of Jerry Falwell, against whom Flynt won a landmark free speech case in 1983. Flynt replied that although he never agreed with Falwell on any issue, as a result of their joint participation in many debates over the years, he finally "could see him as a human being." Flynt recalled an occasion when Falwell came to see him at his office, saying, "I honesty believe that he was there to bury the hatchet. I don't think ... he felt he was on the winning side of that free speech issue." "I was probably the only guy in ...
Why nations die
Post Date: 2007-07-10 17:00:48 by Tauzero
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Why nations die By Spengler Why people read a certain book often contains more information than the book itself, and there is rich information content in the brisk sales of Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Diamond picks out of the rubbish bin of history a few cases of nugatory interest in which environmental disaster overwhelmed a society otherwise desirous of continued existence. According to the publisher's notice (I do not read such piffle), Diamond avers that the problem was in breeding too fast and cutting down too many trees. The silly Vikings of Greenland refused to eat fish, disdained the hunting techniques of the Inuit, and consumed too ...
“Scooter” Libby and the president
Post Date: 2007-07-10 06:49:27 by Ada
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Justice is not blind By giving a crony a get-out-of-jail-free card, George Bush has further tarnished his presidency ReutersTHE past week has been a terrible one for America's embattled president. First, on June 28th, his own Republicans scuppered his cherished—and, in the view of this newspaper, enlightened and brave—plan to reform the country's broken immigration system, decisively blocking it in the Senate. Then a group of prominent Republican senators joined forces with the Democrats to speak out against his policy of reinforcing Iraq. And on July 2nd George Bush brought fresh waves of vitriol down onto his own head, by annulling the 30-month prison sentence given ...
'Scouting' the Hill on Iraq (NOVAK: BUSH FAILS TO PERSUADE SENATE REPUBLICANS)
Post Date: 2007-07-09 15:48:19 by aristeides
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'Scouting' the Hill on Iraq By Robert D. Novak Monday, July 9, 2007; Page A15 National security adviser Stephen J. Hadley visited Capitol Hill just before Congress adjourned for the Fourth of July. Meetings with a half-dozen senior Republican senators were clearly intended to extinguish fires set by Sen. Richard Lugar's unexpected break from President Bush's Iraq policy. They failed. Hadley called his expedition a "scouting trip," leading one senator to ask what he was seeking. It was not advice on how to escape from Iraq. Instead, Hadley appeared interested in how previous supporters of Bush's course had drifted away. In the process, though, he planted ...
Buchanan: Scooter Commutation Is A Neocon Job
Post Date: 2007-07-08 20:46:12 by Brian S
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Sunday, July 8, 2007 Why did Bush do it? Why did he suddenly barge into the legal process and erase the entire 30-month sentence of Scooter Libby? For, from his own statement, Bush found the act deeply distasteful. In that statement, Bush calls Libby’s crimes “serious convictions of perjury and obstruction of justice.” He praises Patrick Fitzgerald as “a highly qualified professional prosecutor who carried out his responsibilities as charged.” Bush indicated no disagreement with the verdict. “(A) jury of citizens weighed all the evidence ...
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