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Thanks, George Bush And Joe Lieberman By SusanUnPC, Author, No Quarter Monday, 10 July 2006 at 12:22 Iraq is madness. In the thread below, we began discussing the NYT story, "Baghdad Erupts in Mob Violence," which also features an unforgettable, searing image of the raped and murdered 14-year-old Iraqi GIRL (not woman, as if that much-discussed debate point mattered). Now this from the LA Times today, described by a diarist at Daily Kos:
"Confidential documents that were obtained by the (…)

Michael Scheuer’s Glass House By Larry C Johnson Monday, 10 July 2006 at 16:07 Former CIA analyst, Michael Scheuer hit the hypocrisy trail last week with his attack op-ed on the credibility of Richard Clarke and the FBI. According to Scheuer:
Media teasers about the mini-series have said that Mr. Clarke — the former "terrorism czar" — and a senior FBI officer, the late John O’Neill, will be the heroes of the saga. If true, and if ABC’s fact-checkers are not diligent in verifying Mr. (…)

Reclaiming The Issues: "Why Is Bush Spying On Democrats?!?" By Thom Hartmann July 11, 2006 Every time Democrats and progressives speak out about George W. Bush’s spying on Americans without mentioning that he may also be spying on Democrats, they’re playing into Karl Rove’s "National Security Frame" and actually strengthening Republican electoral chances in November. To short-circuit this, Democrats need to invoke the ghost of Richard Nixon.
If they don’t, even Pete Hoekstra’s new (…)

Was Bob Woodward Slam-Dunked? by Robert Parry July 11, 2006 One of the most memorable behind-the-scenes accounts of pre-Iraq War decision-making was Bob Woodward’s story of an Oval Office meeting on Dec. 21, 2002, when George W. Bush and his top advisers reviewed the CIA’s case against Saddam Hussein for supposedly hiding weapons of mass destruction. Using flip charts, deputy CIA director John McLaughlin presented the evidence while President Bush watched impatiently. When McLaughlin (…)

Nationalize The US Defense Industry Public Good Should Trump Private Greed By John Stanton July 11, 2006 In 1969 John Kenneth Galbraith penned a piece for the New York Times titled "The Big Defense Firms Are Really Public Firms and Should be Nationalized," arguing, among other things, that it was folly for defense contractors to claim that they were private corporations. Such claims made a mockery of free enterprise.
Nearly 40 years hence, Charlie Cray and Lee Drutman have resurrected (…)

In the famous western movie "One Eyed Jacks", Marlon Brando, in jail, speaks to Karl Malden (The ex-outlaw hypcrite sheriff)..... "You’re a one-eyed jack, Dad", he drawls,"and I’ve seen the other side of your face" ********************************* George Bush is the definitive example of the "one eyed jack" referred to by Brando. In his early years he pretended to be a college student (while shooting drugs, womanizing and guzzling booze),then he became the phoney baseball team owner. When (…)

There’s much talk now about spreading democracy throughout the Arabic cultures, as if such a mission were possible. If one is, say, aiming for 2909, then perhaps there’d be a chance. But now? Impossible. And the reasons are abundantly clear though not quite obvious in the public arena.
Supporters say, look at the strains of Islam that have adopted to democracy, or at how well the Ottoman Empire treated aliens. Is that the empirical proof democracy stands a snowball’s chance in hell in (…)

HOOVER DIGEST 1998 No. 1
EDWARD TELLER Sunscreen for Planet Earth
GLOBAL WARMING IS TOO SERIOUS TO BE LEFT TO THE POLITICIANS. HEREWITH A SCIENTIFIC SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM. (IF THERE IS A PROBLEM, THAT IS.)
Society’s emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming—the jury is still out. As a scientist, I must stand silent on this issue until it’s resolved scientifically. As a citizen, however, I can tell you that I’m (…)

Joseph Wilson’s Continuing Fight By Bill Gallagher July 11 2006 Detroit - The vile symbiosis of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney poisons our nation, and their mutual madness infests and endangers the world. Never in the history of our republic has a vice president wielded so much power and the president permitted his subordinate to have such free rein in missions of malice.
Those twin felons, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, seem warm and benign by comparison. Their (…)

Afghanistan Is No One’s War By John Chuckman July 10, 2006 A summary of events leading to the invasion of Afghanistan is helpful. Following 9/11, the Taliban government said it would extradite Osama bin Laden if the U.S. could produce evidence against him. This is the approach taken by the courts of every Western country when extradition is requested.
The U.S. either could not or would not produce any evidence, yet it insisted the Taliban was behaving in bad faith and harboring (…)