Latest Articles: Neocon Nuttery
Romney promises to increase defense spending
Post Date: 2007-07-20 22:39:19 by Eoghan
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Gov. Mitt Romney told crowds in Denison and Ida Grove, Iowa, this morning that America needs to elect a Republican president in 2008, or suffer the consequences of what he called “a sharp turn left.” “Americans won’t turn left,” he said to more than 100 who gathered at Cronk’s Restaurant in Denison. “They’ll move forward by electing a Republican and that’s me.” Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, continues to run strong among GOP Presidential hopefuls in Iowa, ranking at or near the top of a field of 10 candidates. He claimed as president he would raise defense spending $30 billion to $40 billion annually to bolster our military. ...
Radiation Detector Program Delayed
Post Date: 2007-07-20 21:18:31 by Eoghan
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DHS May Have Misled Congress, GAO Audit Finds A $1.2 billion program to deploy new radiation monitors to screen trucks, cars and cargo containers for signs of nuclear devices has been delayed by questions over whether Department of Homeland Security officials misled Congress about the effectiveness of the detectors. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced the contracts for monitors with cutting-edge technology a year ago. He said they would improve radiation scans at borders and ports, while sharply reducing the number of false alarms. Congress had allowed the five-year project to move ahead after Homeland Security assured appropriators that the $377,000 machines would ...
No sanctions on Iran before September
Post Date: 2007-07-20 20:16:06 by Eoghan
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Western powers have decided to postpone any effort to impose new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities until September. European diplomats have said that they hope the delay will provide Iran "with an opportunity to improve cooperation with the UN inspectors". Tehran has stepped up cooperation with the IAEA to remove 'outstanding ambiguities' about its nuclear activities. Tehran has also agreed to let inspectors revisit a heavy-water reactor in central Iran before the end of July. "Diplomats said there were several reasons for the delay: the UN Security Council is busy with Kosovo and Darfur, the United States is preoccupied by fierce debate over its ...
Anti-missile system aimed at Iran
Post Date: 2007-07-20 16:02:21 by Eoghan
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The American envoy to Azerbaijan says the anti-missile system being planned for deployment in Poland is aimed at meeting threats from Iran. Calling Iran a threat, the American ambassador to Azerbaijan said the anti missile system the US is planning to deploy in Europe is not aimed at Russia but at Iran. "We have always emphasized bilateral and multilateral talks with our Russian colleagues that the American deployment of an anti-missile system in Europe is related to threats posed by Iran," ISNA quoted the American envoy to Azerbaijan as saying. The American proposal to deploy the anti-missile system in Poland will have no effect on Europe's strategic capability, he said. ...
US to strike militant targets in Pakistan
Post Date: 2007-07-20 13:55:32 by Eoghan
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Pakistan has called White House comments that US forces could unilaterally strike militant targets inside the country 'irresponsible'. The White House a day earlier refused to rule out striking at suspected terrorist targets inside Pakistan near the Afghan border and would not say whether US forces would first seek permission from Islamabad. US President George W. Bush's spokesman, Tony Snow, when asked by reporters Thursday whether US forces could strike militants inside Pakistan, said: "We never rule out any options, including striking actionable targets." Asked whether Bush would first seek authorization from Musharraf, Snow told reporters: "Those are ...
Bush's Cognitive Dissonance
Post Date: 2007-07-20 12:49:04 by Eoghan
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One hopes the leader of the free world hasn't really, truly lost touch with objective reality. But one does have to wonder. Last week, George W. Bush invited nine conservative pundits to the White House for what amounted to a pep talk, with the president providing the pep. Somehow I was left off the list -- must have been an oversight. But some columnists who attended have been writing about the meeting or describing it to colleagues, and their accounts are downright scary. National Review's Kate O'Beirne, who joined the presidential chat in the Roosevelt Room, told me that the most striking thing was the president's incongruously sunny demeanor. Bush's approval ...
Olberman;s Special Comment to Bush: Go to Baghdad Now and Fight Your Own War
Post Date: 2007-07-19 20:13:21 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Olberman to Bush: "you sold out your country." Then, he invited Bush to get out of here, land in Baghdad and fight his beloved war himself. Then Kerry shows up: "if you believe in this war, send your sons and daughters there, volunteer yourself."
Terror suspect in tears over show of support in Australia: lawyer
Post Date: 2007-07-19 19:04:29 by Eoghan
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An Indian doctor held on terrorism charges in Australia burst into tears after being told there was widespread concern about his treatment by authorities, the man’s lawyer told a protest rally Thursday. Mohammed Haneef’s solicitor Peter Russo told a rally in Brisbane that the 27-year-old had been deeply touched when he was told in jail that lawyers and ordinary people were voicing their support for him. “Some of what’s occurring today may come as a little bit of a shock to him,” Russo told the gathering of about 40 people. “He was moved to tears when I told him about it because I think for him, he hasn’t understood the impact that it’s had on the ...
US says Iraqi rebel head is an invention
Post Date: 2007-07-19 16:20:47 by Eoghan
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IN MARCH, he was declared captured. In May, he was declared killed, and his purported corpse was displayed on state-run TV. On Wednesday, Omar al-Baghdadi, the supposed leader of an al-Qaeda-affiliated group in Iraq, was declared non-existent by US military officials, who say he is a fictional character created to give an Iraqi face to a foreign-run terrorist group. In reality, said Brigadier-General Kevin Bergner, an Iraqi actor has read statements attributed to al-Baghdadi, who has been identified since October as the leader of the group, known as Islamic State of Iraq. The information came from a man captured by US forces early this month, General Bergner said. Identified as Khaled ...
Young Republicans for the war (Youtube)
Post Date: 2007-07-19 14:39:16 by Jethro Tull
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Peculiar Luster, This [Richard] Perle
Post Date: 2007-07-19 13:45:22 by Brian S
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As convicted financiopath Conrad Black fights to keep his manor, this is the perfect time to thank him for inspiring one of the greatest pieces of investigative journalism on corporate America. But the Hollinger Report is not just about business. Searing, embarrassing details on the behavior of such Hollinger International directors as Richard Perle give insight into the delusions and pretensions of those who led us into the Iraq debacle, like Perle, and those who are profiting from the war, like ex-journalist (and Judy Miller pal) Richard Burt. Former CIA director George Tenet has pretty much established himself as a monumental liar about the war and his role in it, but one part of his 60 ...
Of course, the NSA couldn't ALREADY have Beltway Madam Jeanne Palfrey's phone records, right?
Post Date: 2007-07-18 16:10:56 by Eoghan
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Just a passing fancy. Even though the NSA does bug everyone including Aunt Molly, and ratfucking and blackmail are Republican signature moves. Following up on Atrios’s post of the CNN transcript: [MONTGOMERY SIBLEY:] Well, I’m shocked about two things, if I might, Larry. Please understand that this is one escort service out of approximately 60 [including Shirlington Limo] in the Metro D.C. area. And indeed there are more escort services than there are McDonald’s in D.C. Now what’s happened here is one service by the coincidence of Jeane being in California had all the calls recorded in the telephone records [and in the NSA intercepts?], and therefore were able to ...
Proof Bin Laden Tape Is 5-Year-Old, Re-Released Footage
Post Date: 2007-07-18 14:20:12 by Eoghan
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Why did IntelCenter, the middleman between "Al-Qaeda" and the media, a group that has government and Pentagon ties, re-release old footage and why did the media report it as new when it had already aired twice before? A videotape that was heralded as "new" footage of Osama bin Laden by many quarters of the press has been conclusively proven to be more than 5 year old re-released footage, leading to questions about why the government and the media continue to act as willing propagandists for the terrorists while striking fear into Americans by claiming an attack is inevitable. Though some reports included the proviso that the tape could contain old footage, the ...
U.S. `Outraged' at Iran for Parading American Citizens on TV
Post Date: 2007-07-18 11:52:05 by Eoghan
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The U.S. State Department said it's ``outraged'' at the treatment of four American citizens detained in Iran, after two of them were shown on state television allegedly confessing to espionage charges. Iran must ``put an end to any further broadcasts'' and release all Americans ``being held on groundless charges,'' department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement on its Web site late yesterday. Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh, both scholars, are accused of acting against national security by the Iranian government, which aired footage two days ago of them making ``confessions,'' state-run Fars News reported at the time. The full program, ...
Intelligence Puts Rationale For War on Shakier Ground (Bush Blows the Fight with Al Qaeda)
Post Date: 2007-07-18 10:39:26 by ...
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The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush has been able to deflect criticism of his counterterrorism policy by repeatedly noting the absence of any new domestic attacks and by citing the continuing threat that terrorists in Iraq pose to U.S. interests. But this line of defense seemed to unravel a bit yesterday with the release of a new National Intelligence Estimate that concludes that al-Qaeda "has protected or regenerated key elements of its ...
Confessions Of The Neo-Cons
Post Date: 2007-07-18 08:30:57 by Eoghan
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Pray for Fox news, want war dissenters in gas chambers A recent exposé in the London Independent, when stripped of its heavily lefty leaning bias, has provided a stark picture of neocon worshippers in America today as a bunch of bigoted wannabe elites who have swallowed whole the mantra of the Bush cabal and now believe that real conservatism consists of invading every oil producing country in the world and killing American citizens who protest. Johann Hari's recent article, while being laced with overly liberal padding, contains at its heart a detailed picture of the fallout of the neoconservative hijacking of America in the 21st century. Hari, reporting from the annual ...
Al-Qaida plots new attacks on U.S. soil
Post Date: 2007-07-18 02:15:35 by Diana
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WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida is using its growing strength in Pakistan and Iraq to plot attacks on U.S. soil, heightening the terror threat facing the United States over the next few years, intelligence agencies concluded in a report unveiled Tuesday. At the same time, the intelligence analysts worry that international cooperation against terrorism will be hard to sustain as memories of Sept. 11 fade and nations' views diverge on what the real threat is. In the National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President Bush and other top policymakers, analysts laid out a range of dangers — from al-Qaida to Lebanese Hezbollah to non-Muslim radical groups — that pose a "persistent ...
Without a Doubt ~ ( aka: GUT INSTINCT)
Post Date: 2007-07-17 21:39:00 by Calamity
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Bruce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush, told me recently that ''if Bush wins, there will be a civil war in the Republican Party starting on Nov. 3.'' The nature of that conflict, as Bartlett sees it? Essentially, the same as the one raging across much of the world: a battle between modernists and fundamentalists, pragmatists and true believers, reason and religion. ''Just in the past few months,'' Bartlett said, ''I think a light has gone off for people who've spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea ...
Sen. Smith = swing vote on restoring habeus corpus
Post Date: 2007-07-17 19:51:23 by Ferret Mike
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In the next 48 hours, a handful of senators will determine whether habeas corpus -- the right that allows one to challenge the lawfulness of his/her imprisonment -- is restored. A majority of the Senate wants to roll back Bush's assault on our Constitution, and the best information indicates that we need only two more votes to overcome yet another conservative filibuster. Still in the undecided column? - Oregon Senator Gordon Smith. Call Senator Smith at 202/224-3753 now and speak up to save habeas corpus and restore our Constitution. In September 2006, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA), which stripped the right of habeas corpus for the first time since the ...
Al Qaeda may use Iraq operatives to attack U.S.
Post Date: 2007-07-17 12:20:04 by Eoghan
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Al Qaeda will try to tap its allies and resources in Iraq in its efforts to exact another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, according to a top government intelligence report released Tuesday. Officials have expressed concern in the past that the Iraq war is providing a theater for al Qaeda to train insurgents and test the terror network's capabilities. "In addition, we assess that its association with [al Qaeda in Iraq] helps al Qaeda to energize the broader Sunni extremist community, raise resources and to recruit and indoctrinate operatives, including for homeland attacks," states the declassified summary of the National Intelligence Estimate. But the radicalization process ...
Right Wing Lies! Says Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison Compared Bush to Hitler
Post Date: 2007-07-17 11:33:29 by Brian S
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It sure hasn't taken long for the Christian Right to go after the first Muslim Congressman. First, they went crazy because he intended to take his oath of office on the Koran. Now the Drudge report cites the right-wing Telegraph (UK) as reporting that Ellison has compared President Bush to Adolf Hitler. The amazing this is that Drudge posts the video of Ellison's speech and he NEVER SAID IT. He never mentions Bush. All Ellison does is say that some people (he doesn't name them) use 9/11 as the pretext for illegal actions the same way Hitler used the Reichstag fire to suppress the opposition. Big deal. But the faux-outrage is starting. No one is ever allowed to compare ...
U.S. to release intelligence report on Qaeda
Post Date: 2007-07-16 18:26:24 by Eoghan
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The Bush administration will release on Tuesday an unclassified intelligence document describing al Qaeda's resurgence as a threat to the United States, officials said. The document consists of key judgments from a larger classified report called a "National Intelligence Estimate on the Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland," which will also be released on Tuesday to President George W. Bush and Congress. Top US stories Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the document will lay out the intelligence community's concerns about a growing al Qaeda threat one week after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he had a "gut feeling" that ...
Impeach Bush and Cheney NOW
Post Date: 2007-07-16 00:50:12 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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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 ...
Aide: Iraqi PM's Comments Misconstrued
Post Date: 2007-07-15 17:59:01 by Eoghan
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Iraq's prime minister was misunderstood when he said the Americans could leave "any time they want" an aide said Sunday, as politicians moved to end a pair of boycotts that are holding up work on crucial political reforms sought by Washington. In Baghdad, a car bomb hit a central square in a Shiite neighborhood, killing 10 people and wounding 25. Police said 22 bullet-riddled bodies were found across the capital Sunday, apparent victims of sectarian death squads. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters Saturday that the Iraqi army and police were capable of maintaining security when American troops leave. "We say in full confidence that we are able, God willing, ...
Report: Al-Qaida Bakes Little Boys
Post Date: 2007-07-13 20:26:25 by Brian S
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A reporter embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq reports a government official has recounted a new atrocity by al-Qaida: several instances in which terrorists baked a young boy, then invited his family to lunch with the victim as the main course. The report is from Michael Yon, a Special Forces soldier who returned to Iraq to report on the successes there, inspired, he told radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt, by a "news cycle that seems to pander toward the terrorists." Yon was in Baqubah listening to the statements of an Iraqi official who asked that his name not be reported. Yon said the Iraqi told him al-Qaida arrived in Baqubah and united a number of criminal gangs, leaving ...
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