Posted at Le Big Orange, already off the recommended list and gone… AP News is carrying a story (here on Yahoo): Iraq Death Squad Claims Being Investigated BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s Interior Ministry...
Read MoreCROSS POSTED IN THE VANISHING DIARY DOWNPOUR AT DAILYKOS Also also wik: My Left Wing My father served in the United States Merchant Marines during World War II. The Merchant Marines, who were civilians, did the job of getting...
Read MoreCross-posted at dailyKos (where there has been a lot of DLC style centrism afoot!)
Since the beginning of the Bush regime, we’ve established that
o President Bush can order American citizens held incommunicado without any charge, indefinitely
o President Bush can order the execution without any trial of an American citizen in a car in Yemen
o President Bush can approve the torture of prisoners or have them ‘disappeared’ to other countries where they will be tortured
o President Bush can divert funds allocated by Congress for one war for waging another war
o President Bush has the power to wage war against another country without a declaration of war and without proving that the situation was a dire emergency
tyr·an·ny
NOUN:
pl. tyr·an·nies
A government in which a single ruler is vested with absolute power.
Cross-posted at dailyKos (where it will vanish in a heartbeat)
— Barack Obama (D-IL)
I’ve been thinking about this tone all day. In my view, there is very little truth in it, especially when one is mindful of the photos and words RubDMC has been posting for the past 269 days.
Maybe America does think the way Senator Obama says they do. But if that is true, I’m just as ashamed of that thinking as I am of Abu Ghraib.
Read MoreCross-posted at dailyKos (where it will most likely vanish soon) canberra boy’s EARLIER Booman diary here. A brief blurb was said once on my morning radio and then not again in any headlines I can find. The United Nations...
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