Archive for the 'GWOT' Category
Shorter Gail Collins: Americans Are Selfish Pussies
And she’s rigt, too:
As I was saying, last November, the Justice Department announced that the terror trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed would be held in Manhattan. Almost everyone in New York rallied around. This was seen as standing up to terrorism.
“It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center, where so [...]
9/11 Repost
Every year I like to repost one of my fondest memories of the World Trade Center, a piece about the time I saw the Fleshtones at Windows on the World, the self-proclaimed “Greatest Bar on Earth”, on the top floor of the now demolished buildings. It’s not the best writing I’ve ever done, but [...]
Read More..>>The US is Upset with North Korea.
Clinton said the United States seeks their release on “humanitarian grounds” and that North Korea should immediately grant the prisoners clemency and deport them.
“Obviously we are deeply concerned about the length of the sentences and the fact that this trial was conducted totally in secret,” Clinton said. “We’re engaged in all possible ways through [...]
Speaking of Paine
Via Greenwald, powerful commentary and video of Lakhdar Boumediene, held without justification or trial at Guantanamo for 8 years, where he was tortured:
Those who voted for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 — all GOP Senators (except Chafee) and Democrats Jay Rockefeller, Ken Salazar, Tom Carper, Mark Pryor, Tim Johnson, Bob Menendez, Frank Lautenberg, Ben [...]
Read More..>>Torture
I’m about a year late to the table, but here’s video of Hitchens getting waterboarded. Something to think about when Dick Cheney and his daughter make the rounds of TV telling you something ain’t what it clearly IS.
Read More..>>Harry Reid Does It Again
Harry Reid: the spineless and powerless majority leader of the senate:
REID: Change course on what?
QUESTION: On funding the closing of Guantanamo Bay.
REID: Well, the decision to close Guantanamo was a right one.
I agree with President Bush. I agree with John McCain . I agree with Barack Obama . Guantanamo makes us less save.
However, this is [...]
I DON’T Believe in Censorship.
As we all know, President Hopey McChangefulness has embarked on what I hope is a fruitless effort to conceal Bush-era crimes. He’s using some pretty shitty logic: that the photos, which everyone knows about already, will harm our national security and put our troops in harms way. You see, the Iraqis had all but forgotten [...]
Read More..>>More Proof the Right Wingers Are Short-Sighted and Not Very Bright
Back when the Bush Adminsitration was setting up its no fly lists and terrorist watch lists and warrantless wiretaps and habeas corpus-free judicial proceedings and all of its other activities, people like me were sounding the alarm that anyone could end up on these lists. Conservatives typically responded with a glib “if you haven’t [...]
Read More..>>Done.
Marcy Wheeler:
Five years ago today, Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales rushed to John Ashcroft’s ICU room to try to trick him into signing the re-authorization for George Bush’s illegal wiretap program over Jim Comey’s objections. Jim Comey arrived at the hospital in time to prevent Card and Gonzales from succeeding.
Five years ago tomorrow, George Bush [...]
PRESIDENT BUSH OR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN? NEW GOP STRATEGY OF APPEASEMENT
What do you call someone who talks to their enemies? In Bushworld, you call them appeasers and compare them to Neville Chamberlain, which is why someone needs to buy Bush an umbrella (right-wing dingaling link on purpose): US considering talks with Taliban, official says:
The United States is looking at negotiating with “reconciliable” members of the [...]
