I’ve been watching C-Span...My God, what a sorry bunch of bastards! Republlcan or Democrat...What a bunch of whores! This country is ”In a world of sh_t”! Used-car salesmen have become saints!   [End]
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The Caine Mutiny From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the novel. For the 1954 film, see The Caine Mutiny (film). The Caine Mutiny is a 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk’s personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea as interpreted by the code of the US Navy. [edit] Plot The novel is about a rich, callow young man named Willie Keith who secures a reserve commission through the Navy’s officer procu ...
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Jesus wept!   [End]
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The ’BUSH Legacy” is all that matters to the shrub. He is hoping that (1) Maliki or (2) the Dems, can be blamed for his failure in Iraq. I don’t think he’ll get any bites. What kills me, is that we’re not talking dollars...We’re talking our young people. We are talking lives for political leverage!   [End]
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Brassieres have always been a fountain of wonderment for me, Devvy. Have worked for and with people who wore brassieres. Initially, I had to swallow my pride in order to accept any female as a boss, but life evened out...Losers are losers -- sex didn’t seem to be a determining factor. You appear to be a Republican. You demean the female psyche. The females I worked with and for were straight. But, I never knew a Republican who wouldn’t drop to his knees, in a heartbeat, for a promotion or a raise. Why does sexuality not have pertinence when goose-steppers are kissing ass?   [End]
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I don’t fear Osama...and I don’t have a bunker mentality. But. I assure you (from first-hand experience) that those who cannot tolerate our present form of government will be harassed in very subtle ways. IRS, Social Security, and TSA have been the tools used against my resistance to the ”neutering of the middle class.” The keepers of the gate don’t crash through my doors, but they do use every means available to shut me up in an untraceable manner. I’m not afraid of Osama or our government. But, I do hold them in ”equal” contempt. Washington, D.C. is filled with pimps and whores -- ...
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Years ago, I realized that what you have stated is our hidden reality. The only treasure that I can withhold is my progeny. They require cannon fodder. Fight your loved-one’s enlistment at all costs. Go get a second mortgage in lieu of forcing your kid to die for fascism.   [End]
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Bucket Mouth Biden Defends Hypocrisy Mr. Biden voted for the bankruptcy bill. Why? Because he’s a whore to the financial industry. Par exellance! Biden’s most prolific donor has been MBNA...The largest credit card conglomerate in the U.S.. Have no doubt that his concerns lie with major corporate donors and not those he is expected to represent. He is the biggest ego-maniac conman fouling the Democratic party. Cross yourselves when he speaks. He is expected to run in the Presidential Primary. Spend what it takes to quash his efforts. Voters have short memories...forget the Biden vote a ...
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Tonight, I watched a replay of the Congressional Budget Hearings for the Defense Department, 2006. WARNING…Do not eat one hour before or after observing the machinations of “any” hearing! Republican nobodies voicing what a wonderful situation we have created in Viet Nam (whoops!—Iraq.) And, you will be reminded how many times these ambulance chasers\used-car salesmen have visited the troops. When they visit our troops, they can be found baled within a casement of Kevlar, stuffed within an armored vehicle, surrounded by a number of infantry only exceeded by the forces that landed at No ...
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To: The C-Span Network From: Wheelslip Subject: A Suggestion For A More Informative Presentation To The Public When I attended high school, Civics was a prerequisite to graduation. Congress, the executive and judicial system of our government was taught in detail. I graduated convinced that there was one firm truth about our political system…One citizen, one vote. As I’ve grown older, to my dismay, I’ve learned that, in a majority of electoral scenarios, he who has the most money to devote to electioneering will most likely win the election. When pols are queried relative to ...
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I certainly agree with your post, but would like to make a couple of points: Bush does not nor has he ever cared about human life. Look at his history...Executions in Texas and the slaughter in Iraq. I won’t bore you with the slaughter (by smothering) of thousands of Taliban POW’s in Afghanistan. Rove calculated that Bush could not win without the evangelist vote so he created two polarizing areas of contention--same sex weddings and abortion. The press bit and that opened the door for Falwell, Dobbs, et all, to loose the hord. That was the edge. You can motivate blacks, other min ...
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Karl (Rove): Let it be...Take a few days off!   [End]
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Julius Caesar Anti-War Hoax An e-mail purporting to be a quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is making the rounds. We were skeptical because it wasn’t accompanied by an act or scene number and because it’s only been a day since we were taken in by the phony Ascroft article. Here is the quote: ”Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and th ...
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Mountain Dew, for heavens’s sake. Why do you respond to the ingrate, Wiz? Go back and ”really” read what he posted. He, obviously couldn’t find his ”face” with both hands...If he had three faces! I only read the post’cause you replied. Mountain Dew for God’s sake! How about Lil’ Abner? I grow to understand ”The Final Solution” from day-to day. What I once considered unthinkable, may be the only solution. Kinda’ like ”Der Roachmeister, DeLay.”   [End]
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http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views04/0621-13.htm Published on Monday, June 21, 2004 by AnitaRoddick.com A Time to Weep by Ted Sorenson Ted Sorenson, a former aide to President John F. Kennedy, gave this moving commencement speech at the New School University in New York on May 21, 2004. (The ”President Kerrey” he refers to is, alas, former Senator Bob Kerrey who is president of the New School, not future US President John Kerry.) This is not a speech. Two weeks ago I set aside the speech I prepared. This is a cry from the heart, a lamentation for the los ...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1242638,00.html   [End]
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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0617-07.htm Bush (41) and Reagan Officials Say Bush (43) Must Go by Katrina vanden Heuvel Today a group of former senior diplomatic officials and retired military commanders--several of whom are the kind who ”have never spoken out before” on such matters--issued a bracing statement arguing that George W. Bush has damaged the country’s national security and calling on Americans to defeat him in November. It’s too early to tell if the statement will have an impact on this fall’s campaign. But Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change, as the g ...
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Americans: Tolerant, Christian, Fair-minded, Honest. Then, how did violations of the Geneva Convention and our own rules of POW treatment ever become a topic of revisionism. We are, either, the result of a ”better system” or the mirror image of that entity that is willing to die to destroy our way of life. When our goverment resorts to legalize to determine what and what is not torture, we have lost our rudder. It depends on what the definition of is, is...cuts any question of credibility into too fine a cloth. The margin between America’s perception of right and wrong should always be a m ...
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http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040615-090334-2289r.htm The global newspaper Financial Times’ Gerard Baker wrote: ”It is hard to find anyone who admits to having supported the war at all. If success has many fathers and failure is an orphan, Washington is now running the largest and most desperate orphanage in modern intellectual history.” Those who were once gung-ho to liberate Iraq listened politely, without objection, to various face-saving, U.N.-sponsored scenarios. Accelerated Iraqi sovereignty now seemed a small price to bring U.S. troops home by April 2005, the second ...
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I was going to reply to your comment with one word...AMEN. I have schooled myself (a bit) on the history of the Catholic church and it certainly is not without some bleak moments. In fact, its present handling of the molestation fiasco is questionable. But, in the long run, to stop taking ”any” moral stands would leave a real vacuum in our ”Do it, if it feels good,” society. I repeat--My first instinct was, AMEN.   [End]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/politics/13george.html?ei=5062&en=ed2cc6e29... June 13, 2004 Bush Asked for Vatican’s Help on Political Issues, Report Says By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK n his recent trip to Rome, President Bush asked a top Vatican official to push American bishops to speak out more about political issues, including same-sex marriage, according to a report in the National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper. In a column posted Friday evening on the paper’s Web site, John L. Allen Jr., its correspondent in Rome and the dean of Vatican journalists, wrote that ...
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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0611-10.htm Published on Friday, June 11, 2004 by the Chicago Sun Times Is US like Germany of the ’30s? by Andrew Greeley BERLIN -- I can understand, my German friend said, why Germans voted for Hitler in 1933 -- though he did not receive a majority of the vote. The Weimar Republic was weak and incompetent. The Great Depression had ruined the nation’s war-devastated economy. People were bitter because they thought their leaders had betrayed them in the war. They wanted revenge for the humiliation of Versailles. Hitler promised strong leadersh ...
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Why would anyone go to Powell for an honest response? The father and son are a disgrace to America, let alone the black race. Belafonte described whoreboy Colon(sp) as a ”black slave.” His decision to tie-up with the Bush administration was suicidal. Powell could have been our first black president. It’s good to have been given the opportunity to observe what a subservient piece of crap he truly is. Yasssuh massa! In all honesty, the entire Army Officer’s Corp had him pegged for as much during the last twenty years of his service.   [End]
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Welcome to the state of Mississippi…(Also, known as the “Land of the mental dwarf.”) Mississippi pretty much holds the honor of being the “worst” of everything…Name it—Health care, out-of-wedlock births, education, housing, illiteracy, high school drop-outs. This state is Nirvana for the Red Necks. And there sets their newly-elected gobener (or is it goober?)…Jubilation T. Cornpone…err, Haley Barbour. Get my drift. Good ole’ Haley was Chairman of the GOP until he returned to the rectum of planet Earth. Somehow, the pieces to the puzzle seem to fit perfectly. Yup…Mississippi is surely a sta ...
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Deja vu...”It all depends on what the meaning of what is, is.” http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ From the front page of Friday’s Post ... U.S. intelligence personnel ordered military dog handlers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to use unmuzzled dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees during interrogations late last year, a plan approved by the highest-ranking military intelligence officer at the facility, according to sworn statements the handlers provided to military investigators. A military intelligence interrogator also told investigators that two dog handlers at Abu Gh ...
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When I was a pup, I read or heard advice relative to getting caught, by your wife, poking the maid. Deny that what she is observing is true! Tell her it’s all in her imagination. In time, if you remain in denial, she will begin to question the validity of her observation. Also...Fire the maid.   [End]
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I’m proud to be an American as our once-arrogant president prostrates himself in front of any tin-pot dictator from any banana republic that will waste the time to listen to his pleadings. The cowboy who dangled a dollar in lieu of true diplomacy and respect for third world nations is now taking on all comers. I was soooo…proud as the administration withheld AIDS relief from those who wouldn’t “just say no!” How I glow with pride as a nation often envied and feared is held in contempt. Not even the promise of treasure is able to sway the loathing a majority of the world’s citizens hol ...
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From: The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler Book by Robert G. L. Waite; Da Capo Press, 1993 From Private Neurosis to Public Policy He who knows not how to rule his inner self would gladly rule his fellow men according to his own arrogant conceit. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In political leaders, private motives become projected and rationalized as public policy. -- Harold Lasswell A COMPELLING REASON for studying the personalities of political leaders in any country was set forth decades ago by the American political scientist, Harold Lasswell. In a pioneering study of 1930, he ...
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If one of your loved-ones was being held for ransom by a group of kidnappers and you were reasonably certain that you had captured one of the group, would you limit yourself to actions determined by the Geneva Convention or civil law while interrogating the suspect? In an identical situation except that the suspect was captured by law enforcement, would the suspect be as endangered as he would be in example one? One outcome for the suspect would be determined by passion…the other, by some form of law or treaty. Passion gave us Mai Lai, Kent State, Ruby Ridge and the Waco Incident. Th ...
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Shrub and Reagan were both selected for name recognition and gross stupidity by the highest powers in whatever group controls the GOP. Neither were smart enough to know they were just pretty faces. Hitchens sure as heck didn’t pull any putches...and he’s a conservative turn-coat! http://slate.msn.com/id/2101842/ Not Even a Hedgehog The stupidity of Ronald Reagan. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Monday, June 7, 2004, at 10:03 AM PT Not long ago, I was invited to be the specter at the feast during ”Ronald Reagan Appreciation Week” at Wabash College in Indiana. One of my opponents wa ...
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[url] http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/060704A.shtml[/url] Planet Reagan By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective Monday 07 June 2004 Buffalo Bill’s defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break one,two,three,four,five pigeons just like that Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy Mister Death - e.e. cummings, ”Buffalo Bill’s Defunct” Ronald Reagan is dead now, and everyone is being nice to him. In every aspect, this is appropriate. He was a husband and a father, a belo ...
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http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines04/0604-13.htm Published on Friday, June 4, 2004 by the Capitol Hill Blue Bush’s Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides by Doug Thompson President George W. Bush’s increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern over their leader’s state of mind. In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that ...
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Bush and Churchill...Kidding, Right? “It took twelve years to democratize the Japanese and Germans.” “Look at how many Americans we lost fighting WWII.” Each and every day, the public is bombarded by Bush spin doctors attempting to equivocate the present Machiavellian – neoconservative plan for domination of the Mid-East with the noble wars fought in order to defeat the Axis powers. What a shame that an ex-cocaine addict with an obviously damaged brain (God speaks to him relative to terrorism and the Israeli quandary) should be quoted by the press when he attempts to equivocate himself t ...
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Last night, on the news, it was stated that ”your” President Bush has retained a private law firm ”just in case” he is called to testify before the grand jury that is hearing the testimony relative to the Valerie Plame outting. If Bush becomes a defendent in the indictment, I shall personally rent a leprechaun outfit and dance an Irish jig until the sun goes down! Impeachment--here we come!   [End]
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My Salute To Those Who Would Have Been These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene, That men call age; and those who would have been, Their sons, they gave, their immortality. Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), British poet. ”The Dead” (1914). The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke (Geoffrey Keynes ed.; 1970) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/31/opinion/31MON2.html By the Light of Other Wars Published: May 31, 2004 In most of America’s cemeteries today, you will find fresh flowers on the graves ...
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Rud, Grog, Whiz--Your responses were enlightening and none of them were without merit. I see a points of general agreement amongst all of you. I don’t see a ”pure socialist” in any of you. Greed seems to be a common adjective in your thoughts. Is it possible that we are all failed capitalists? This is all sour grapes? I read a lot...whenever I can. My interests are political science and social economics. I know that figures don’t lie but liars figure. I am guilty of reading Krugman, Moore, Conason, Clark, O’Neil, Choate, Franken,Ivins,Thurow, and many of the other bleeding-heart a ...
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Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in past issues of Life Extension, a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active ingredients made in other countries. In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we obtained the actual price ...
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cap·i·tal·ism [káppit’l ìzzəm] noun free-market system: an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit. “I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable.” John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), British economist. The End of Laisser-Faire (1925). I’ve stated my philosophy about the pros and cons of g ...
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Gore has been regrouping since since he blew the 2000 election. People don’t change their forcefulness...He has been modified by by some very expensive experts.I think the Clintons are very leary of him. That slime ball Gindrich is attempting to make a comeback also. If you’re observant, you can watch their little Texas sidestep. Trent Lott is sneaking through the back door, also. Maybe we are safer with those guys in Washington...Keeps ’em from selling used cars.   [End]
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A Speech That’s No Joke By BOB HERBERT Published: May 28, 2004 t has always been easy to make fun of Al Gore. But if there’s any truth to the thunderous criticism he’s turned loose on the Bush administration this week, it’s time to dispense with the jokes and listen seriously to what the man is saying. If Mr. Gore is right, the nation is faced with a crisis of leadership that is perilously close to an emergency. If he’s wrong, then all the folks who have made the easy jokes at his expense can consider themselves vindicated. The war in Iraq, said Mr. Gore, in an interview on Wednes ...
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Dew..I doubt that you’ve seen this quote before...Read and think about it: ”My country, right or wrong” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying ”My mother, drunk or sober.” G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer and poet. The Defendant (1901).   [End]
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” all at the expense of our civil liberties and constitution. And, they are bankrupting America while they line their pockets.” You might add 800 beautiful young people dead, and over 4,000 disabled for life. (You have mentioned the losses in other posts.) May I comment on your post? Sincere, well thought-out you saved me a lot of time. Quite honestly--I couldn’t match your response. Dew...I do hate that sleezy not very good person Bush. And, yes you can quote me. It’s a necessary experience to finally, after sixty years, hate an individual. Generalizing people and their politica ...
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Not even ”The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight” would be illic enough to hit Syria before the elections. Unless, convinced Bush can’t win, Rove commands the invasion of Syria and, simultaneously, cancels the elections. I think Hitler pulled that off...do we deserve less? I can think of hundreds of people that are goose stepping right now. Do I think that those same loonies wouldn’t throw an activating pellet into a canister of Zyclon-B? To me they are the psychological equivalents of the Waffen SS in 1938. Isn’t it amazing that the victims of the Holocaust may have instigated Arm ...
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Dew makes the whole election decision sound like ”it’s six of one...half-a-dozen of the other.” I was really behind Dean because I felt that he hated Bush and everything those of his ilk stood for as much as me. Then the ”electable” word popped-up. I bought it. After taking a good look at Kerry, he appears to be a duplicate of every sold-out politician in Washington. Then I fell back on ABB (Anybody but Bush.) Then, with my hopes of the GOP getting walloped, ebbing, I heard a woman on the news say, ”I would vote for my dog, before I would vote for Bush!” Those words have re-awakened ...
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A Guarantee…If Bush Popularity Goes Down In Polls—New Terrorist Warnings Appear Within Days. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5179... U.S. has credible threat of new terror attacks Wed 26 May, 2004 14:18 By Sue Pleming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has ”credible” information of new, unspecified terror attacks in the country in the coming months, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says. Ridge said in a round of morning television interviews on Wednesday that there had been disturbing new reports of possible attacks to co ...
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G.W. Bush will, now, reap what he has sown in the capitals of countries that were, once our allies. If our president thought that the U.N. was too slow in responding to his arrogant demands prior to our unilateral invasion of Iraq…He ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Our “leader” has always acted like the arrogant larvae of ultra-wealthy parents. He showed no class nor humility toward world leaders and international organizations. What a great honor it must be to hold the title of the most despised human in the world. In most cases, it would pain me to see a world leader and his flacks crawl ...
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A couple of week ago, Shrub spoke in Prarie du Chien, Wisconsin. He spoke at Cabelas--A sporting goods retailer. Low wages, temporary employees, minimal benefits and totally dedicated to the furtherance of the Chinese economy. I know several people who, for various reasons, are employed there. One supervisor told me that he and his people spent the entire pre-speech morning turning storage racks of boxes around so that the ”Made In China” labels couldn’t be seen. This administration makes used car sales almost a holistic endeavour. Soon...800 body-bags and counting!   [End]
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FBI Classifies Translator...Retroactively Material Given to Congress in 2002 Is Now Classified By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: May 20, 2004 WASHINGTON, May 19 - The Justice Department has taken the unusual step of retroactively classifying information it gave to Congress nearly two years ago regarding a former F.B.I. translator who charged that the bureau had missed critical terrorist warnings, officials said Wednesday. Law enforcement officials say the secrecy surrounding the translator, Sibel Edmonds, is essential to protecting information that could reveal intelligence-gathering ope ...
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Bush’s failed Mideast policy is creating more terrorism By U.S. Senator Ernest F. Hollings Originally published in the Charleston Post and Courier May 6, 2004 With 760 dead in Iraq and over 3,000 maimed for life, home folks continue to argue why we are in Iraq -- and how to get out. Now everyone knows what was not the cause. Even President Bush acknowledges that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. Listing the 45 countries where al-Qaida was operating on September 11 (70 cells in the U.S.), the State Department did not list Iraq. Richard Clarke, in ”Against All Enemies,” tells ...
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Mayor of nation’s greatest cesspool , defends same! http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Arti...e=82107&Sn=WORL Blame terrorists says Giuliani NEW YORK: Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani told the official September 11 inquiry yesterday that anger over deaths in the World Trade Centre should focus on the terrorists, not ”mistakes” by the emergency services. ”Our enemy is not each other,” Giuliani said, just minutes after the September 11 commission released a report highlighting the lack of communication and co-ordination between police and fire departments responding to the at ...
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”For you’ll ne’er mend your fortunes, nor help the just cause, By breaking of windows, or breaking of laws.” Hannah More (1745–1833), Britlish writer. ”Address to the Meeting in Spa Field” (1817). Life (H. Thompson; 1838). Encarta® Book of Quotations © & (P) 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4999734 Memos Reveal War Crimes Warnings: Could Bush administration officials be prosecuted for ’war crimes’ as a result of new measures used in the war on terror? The White House’s top lawyer t ...
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God! I’ve been listening to that Red-Neck BS since Nam. ”Love it or leave it!” What a glaring display of absolute ignorance. I believe something in that order kept getting repeated at Nuremberg. And the ones that ”should” have gone are the ones that keep repeating it.   [End]
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I just can’t bring myself to say (or believe) our military non-coms and Jr. officers are war criminals. I do hold the admministration guilty of war crimes and hope that I live long enough to see those found culpable for the invasion of Iraq and the resulting mayhem, tried in front of a world court. In all wars, the brain of the combatant shifts the enemy into a less-than-human entity. I guess it’s just trying to harden itself against the insanity of combat.   [End]
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http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/9316830p-10241546c.html Atrocities in Iraq: ’I killed innocent people for our government’ By Paul Rockwell -- Special to The Bee Published 2:15 am PDT Sunday, May 16, 2004 ”We forget what war is about, what it does to those who wage it and those who suffer from it. Those who hate war the most, I have often found, are veterans who know it.” - Chris Hedges, New York Times reporter and author of ”War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” For nearly 12 years, Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey was a hard-core, some say gung-ho, Marine. For three year ...
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Rove would plant Three-Mile Island under the Iraqi sands if he thought he could pull it off.   [End]
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http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aNjrU71A0Eh0&refer=us U.S. Denies Rumsfeld Approved Iraq Interrogations (Update1) May 16 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials didn’t approve any operations that led to the interrogation methods used on Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison, the Defense Department said. The denial was made in response to an article on the New Yorker magazine Web site which said Rumsfeld had approved expanding an interrogation program that had been used in Afghanistan to hunt for al-Qaeda. Rumsfeld faced ...
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THE GRAY ZONE by SEYMOUR M. HERSH How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. Issue of 2004-05-24 Posted 2004-05-15 The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld’s decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of élite combat units, and hurt America’s prospects in the wa ...
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http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E2149849,00.html Article Published: Saturday, May 15, 2004 Army recruiters keep pushing Ex-GI fears being ”scammed” By Eileen Kelley Special to The Denver Post Some U.S. Army recruiters continued to contact former service members in the Denver area Friday, urging them to come back to the Army Reserve or they can bank on being sent to Iraq very soon. About 2,300 Coloradans are part of a pool of 118,000 former Army soldiers and Reserve members. They collectively are called the Individual Ready Reserve, people who for one reason ...
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“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Irish author and clergyman. Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711). http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5150255 Vatican Warns Catholics Against Marrying Muslims Fri May 14, 2004 12:43 PM ET By Shasta Darlington VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican warned Catholic women on Friday to think hard before marrying a Muslim and urged Muslims to show more respect for human rights, gender equality and democracy. Calling women ”the ...
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/135/world/Bremer_tells_Iraqi_leaders_US_:.shtml Bremer tells Iraqi leaders US would leave Iraq if Iraqi government so requests By Associated Press, 5/14/2004 08:07 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) The U.S. governor of Iraqi told regional officials Friday that the United States would leave Iraq if requested to do so by the new Iraqi government although he thinks such a move is unlikely. L. Paul Bremer told a delegation from Iraq’s Diyala province that American forces would not stay where they were unwelcome. ’’If the provisional government asks us to leave we ...
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Thinks he’s an Okie? You shoud meet his constituents! Senator ’Outraged by Outrage’ at Prison Abuse WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As others condemned the reported abuse of Iraqi prisoners, U.S. Sen. James Inhofe on Tuesday expressed outrage at the worldwide outrage over the treatment by American soldiers of those he called ”terrorists” and ”murderers.” ”I’m probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment,” the Oklahoma Republican said at a U.S. Senate hearing probing the scandal. ”These prisoners, you know they’re not there for ...
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Durwood... I have read the following books in the past two months: The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind Against All Enemies by Richard A. Clarke Bushwacked by Molley Ivins Big Lies by Joe Conason I will grant you, that all of the titles are anti-Bush. But, O’Neill and Clarke were a part of the Bush team. They jumped ship and spilled their guts to the world. I sense that you don’t read a lot of books, but you should. Books are the precursors to what, in time, will be historical fact. From what I’ve seen, your postings are banal drivel...gardens and grandaughters and Sesa ...
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Did you see Jonnah Goldberg on Lou Dobbs, tonight? Goldberg stated that the abuse was not the question...He said the taking of pictures was the ”real” mistake! Lard Ass, moronic son of Orca. He does have his own blog, though. :-))   [End]
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“There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as ”we”; one is a newspaper editor and the other is a fellow with a tapeworm.” Attributed to: Bill Nye (1850–1896), U.S. humorist. I am unable to listen to our President give a speech. As I’ve aged, my mind has taught my ears to shut-off at the first indication of BS and lies. The Bush administration is structured on marketing techniques, polls and propaganda…Nothing to do with a philosophical, moral or a populace-centered platform. When I hear the President state that “We,” “ The American People,” “America,” followe ...
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Attorney General’s Office reopens murder case… Forty-five years ago, Emmitt Till, a 14-year-old African American from Chicago who was visiting his family in Jackson, Mississippi, was found with his face crushed and a gunshot wound to his head in the Talahatchie River. The youth was killed in 1955, after he reportedly whistled at a young married white woman who was working alone in a grocery store. Two white men were arrested, tried and acquitted for the murder. Shares of US oil companies fell on Monday after a call by Saudi Arabia’s top energy official for increased production by OPEC ...
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Just ”attempted to follow that ”Zealot” string. How did you ever get involved with that one , Wiz. Such a waste of your grey-matter!   [End]
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It doesn’t matter how many times one defines a patriot as a terrorist...If ones’ sovereign country is invaded and an individual attempts to repel said invader, is that an act of a terrorist? Is it okay to torture patriots? Unplug your ’puter and go watch Fox news...they’ll tell you what you want to hear.   [End]
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“Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.” Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Irish author and clergyman. A Tale of a Tub (1704). “Of course, Behaviourism ”works”. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian creed in public.” W. H. Auden (1907–1973), English poet. A Certain World : a Commonplace Book ”Behaviourism” (1970). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4933619/ By Dana Priest and Joe S ...
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Let me get this straight.. Because Clinton didn’t inhale, and Ted Kennedy was a drunken sot responsible but never charged for manslaughter, it’s OK for GW Bush to be an out of control drunk and drug addict, a liar, cheat and thief, and for his family to buy his way (under false pretenses) out of Vietnam, then into politics and into the White House. Not to mention his family is the biggest and sleaziest political Mafia enterprise in the world. Ha! ;0) Wiz   [End]
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