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Abraham Lincoln
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to push anything more through before the elections: NYT
I can’t be the only one that thinks that’s good news, can I?
I hope they fail to get McCain’s Torture/Amnesty bill passed. I hope with all my heart that the Dems fight it tooth and nail. It’s not a “tool” against terror, it’s a nightmare of torture techniques and forgiveness for crimes against humanity.
Having said that, I so hope that they run out of time to do more damage before the elections.
More like a hidden pardon for Bush.
Former New York Congresswoman, ELizabeth Holtzman’s Op-ed nails it.
Not so hidden, but missed entirely by the media. Disgusting.
A “Get out of jail free” card.
Link
Bush’s ‘Dirty War’ Amnesty Law
By Robert Parry
September 23, 2006
The United States is following the lead of “dirty war” nations, such as Argentina and Chile, in enacting what amounts to an amnesty law protecting U.S. government operatives, apparently up to and including President George W. Bush, who have committed or are responsible for human rights crimes.
While the focus of the current congressional debate has been on Bush’s demands to redefine torture and to reinterpret the Geneva Conventions, the compromise legislation also would block prosecutions for violations already committed during the five-year-old “war on terror.”
This article shows just how bad McCain’s bill really is.
Here’s another article on how human rights groups are appalled at the McCain torture/amnesty bill.
While everyone sat back and let the Republicans fight, the end result is a dirty piece of legislation approving torture and excusing Bush’s illegal torture escapades. Let’s call it what it is.
It is good that they are following the lead of Argentina and Chile. Just in case they missed it, they are all being tried for their human rights violations. They can not, and will not get immunity for all the crimes they committed.
What will make a difference for these criminals to go to jail is weather the people want to go after them or if they will forget in just a few years.
In the can’t make it up category…..That’ll do it. Not tonight dear, you’ve been naughty.
Another controversial book in the pipeline: Mafia lawyer Sidney Korshak, also known as the fixer, is said to have shared his actress girlfriend Jill St. John with Kissinger.
Was the St. John – Kissinger relationship just for “show” ??? A friend of Korshak is quoted as saying that.. St John told Kissinger she “wouldn’t sleep with him any more” because of the carpet bombing of North Vietnam.
About that other book: General Musharraf’s memoir. Serialised in The Times, UK more embarrassment for W, if he can be.
‘America paid us to hand over al-Qaeda suspects’
Sure!
due to all the denials, denials on who threatened to take Pakistanis back to stone age…
‘The overlooked’
a reposted article from 2004. Pepe Escobar examines who sent the money, who shared breakfast with whom. A juicy eye opener.
Buy the books. Lot’s of book writing and promos going on. Tis the season…
Iraq reduced to a punctuation mark: W to CNN’s Wolf on the civil war that’s been gripping Iraq –
“when the final history on Iraq is written the (killing) will look like just a coma because…” (H/T: Thinkprogress)
So will he be just a coma?
The New Taliban Republic? Not where you think.
“Civil war is raging through the Iraqi countryside. Sunni insurgents have largely taken control of the province of Diyala, where local leaders believe the insurgents are close to establishing a “Taliban republic”.Officials in the strategically important province – composed of a mixture of Sunnis and Shias with a Kurdish minority – have no doubt about what is happening.”
Double standard Watch:
West bars Arab bid at IAEA to rap Israel atom “threat”
More secrets revealed:
Secrets in the mountains of Afghanistan
How the Army keeps the money: Fake budget entries
What a juicy news overview! I love the Musharraf story. The only problem is that it probably won’t see much light of day in the US media. Although, I hear CNN in the background right now discussing the manipulation of gas prices for Bush politics. You never know. CNN has been getting downright gutsy lately. Well, gutsy for them.
The Taliban in Iraq… now that’s downright interesting.
Great links, Idredit, thanks!
Thanks Nag, an esteemed compliment from you.
dunno but the Musharraf book, “In the Line of Fire” is a Simon & Shuster publishing…looks like the net is picking up from erialisation in The London Times, UK
apropo my last link…the money trail.. fake budgets. LAT has this today. A squeeze play on.
“Army Warns Rumsfeld It’s Billions Short
Gen. Peter J. Schoonmaker, Army CoS tells Rummy: we need 41% more…
‘Increase the budget or reduce commitments in Iraq and elsewhere…’ meaning significant troop withdrawals
Not to worry. Rummy just telephoned: Hello Benny. Hello Mr. Paulson…print us up some more notes. Will ya!
Link
WASHINGTON – Retired military officers on Monday are expected to bluntly accuse Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld of bungling the war in
Iraq, saying U.S. troops were sent to fight without the best equipment and that critical facts were hidden from the public.
“I believe thatSecretary Rumsfeld and others in the administration did not tell the American people the truth for fear of losing support for the war in Iraq,” retired Maj. Gen. John R. S. Batiste said in remarks prepared for a hearing by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
A second witness, retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, is expected to assess Rumsfeld as “incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically ….”
“Mr. Rumsfeld and his immediate team must be replaced or we will see two more years of extraordinarily bad decision-making,”said his testimony prepared for the hearing, to be held six weeks before the Nov. 7 midterm elections in which the war is a central issue.
Full Article
Protection like this:
“Law enforcement officials often justify the application of criminal laws to pregnant women by claiming that the arrest and imprisonment of pregnant women will protect fetuses and advance children’s health.”,
What? WHAT? We don’t focus on American jails too much, but my eyes have certainly been opened lately. This is unbelievable.
Hi AndiF…the hideousness of the whole article is beyond belief even though I’ve read enough unfortunately of prison system in this country to know that is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
The premise of punishing women with jail time to start with is so incredibly wrong it’s hard to know how write down just how fucken wrong it is. We’ve certainly come a long way from believing that prison time was supposed to be a time of rehabilitation(hahahaha)and now it’s just punishment and revenge.(to say nothing of racism)
This article just points up how far the religious right has managed to insinuate itself into the thinking into the criminal system against women…making their fetus more important that the women carrying the child. The point seems to be to punish the women, not get her any real help or care..once jailed then forget the fetus, we’ve proved we have control over you.
BBC
hi olivia…not giving her bodyguards or official transport would seem to almost imply the government was just asking for her to be killed. Stupid bastards.
That was my thought as well … 🙁
These seem a bit anticlimactic after all the great posts above, but if you need a break from the heavy stuff, here’s the science headlines:
As the United States looks to crops as possible future sources of energy, a University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues call for caution, citing the possibility of some biofuel crops becoming invasive species.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has proposed setting up uranium enrichment centers under UN control to end nuclear disputes like the one over Iran, a newspaper reported.
The United Nations is to consider calling for a complete ban on the fishing practice known as bottom trawling, a technique environmentalists say is tantamount to driving a bulldozer over the sea bed. UN experts will begin debating a possible ban this autumn and the move already has the backing of both the organization’s Secretary General, Kofi Annan, and the scientific community.
Are you old enough to remember when the tabloids were abuzz with the discovery of “the face on Mars” 30 years ago? If so, you might want to have a look at the most detailed images yet of the cydonia region. Not surprisingly, nobody’s home…
The risk of death due to stroke is associated with exposure to high concentrations of air pollution about 2 hours before death, Japanese investigators report. Because this risk appears to be independent of 24-hour particulate matter levels, they suggest that air quality standards be based on hourly data, as well as 24-hour levels.
The face on Mars… ha. I thought I found a Zuchinni with Cheney’s face on it. Now THAT was scary. Turns out it was a piece of horse manure stuck to the bottom… still looked like Cheney and even passed the smell test. 🙂
Most of the traits that are touted as great for biofuel crops – no known pests or diseases, rapid growth, high water-use efficiency – are red flags for invasion biologists
from the crack-can-cure-your-heroin-addiction dept.
This is rocket science, right?
Not gloat or anything, but… 🙂
Canada posts $13.2-billion surplus