Archive for the 'terror' Category
Rape Rooms
“Every woman in Iraq is better off because the rape rooms and torture chambers of Saddam Hussein are forever closed.”
That was George w. Bush in October 2003.
Today I read in the New York Times, “The definition of torture is unacceptably narrow, a virtual reprise of the deeply cynical memos the administration produced after 9/11. [...]
Philly Bits
My brother Ray has two very good, and disturbing, pieces up today.
Um, What Explosives:
From George Bush’s speech in the Rose Garden 9/15/06: “For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us [...]
Press Conference
Watch Bush go on the attack: yelling, pointing fingers, shouting down reporters, and basically melting down.
I saw the end of the presser this afternoon, but have only now seen this.
Crooks and Liars has more.
This is pretty incredible stuff: Bush is very testy and unfriendly.
Fun with American Airlines: “Path to 911″ emails
Hi everyone,
Courtesy of americablog.blogspot.com, I’ve been
learning a lot of factual inaccuracies in the lame-o
ABC “Path to 9-11″ (they watch so i don’t have to).
One of these inaccuracies is that American Airlines
allowed Mohammed Atta on the flight despite warnings
at logan airport. Americablog offers the emails of
AA’s coporate people, and thus, I have written a
somewhat hysterical [...]
September 11: What We Lost
I’ve reposted this before, but here’s to what was. Not my best written piece, but I was there.
Read More..>>September 11: Bush Knew
Lest we forget:
Bush Knew.
“George Bush received specific warnings in the weeks before 11 September that an attack inside the United States was being planned by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, US government sources said yesterday. In a top-secret intelligence memo headlined ‘Bin Laden determined to strike in the US’, the President was told on 6 [...]
September 11
First of all, let me state up front that I LOATHE these kind of 5-year-retrospectives, as if 9-11 was Live Aid or something, and with everyone else posting about the disaster, it begins to feel like a morose circle jerk. After all, it’s not like the government (or the majority of the American people, if [...]
Read More..>>Well, well, well: Look Who’s Caught Up!
Seems the kids on the shortbus, the ones who wore hockey helmets and mouthguards to school, the ones who grew up to be right-wing bloviators have finally caught up with what those of us on the left have been saying for years, and in recent history for the past month: as a result of the [...]
Read More..>>Forgotten War
Meanwhile back in Baghdad:
As American forces conducted a new security sweep in western Baghdad on Sunday, five apparently coordinated bombings in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood on the city’s south side killed at least 57 people and wounded 148, an Iraqi government official said.
And for a truly hideous catalog, here’s Reuters, cut and pasted:
BAGHDAD, Aug [...]
Press Freedom
OK, first of all, FUCK ADOBE ACROBAT AND PDFS FOR FREEZOING MY GODDAMN COMPUTER AND LOSING MY FUCKING POST.
“Portable Document Format” my eye: try “Pretty Damn Frustrating” or “Program Doesn’t Fucking respond”.
Anyway, read this. It’s really important. If you really need to see the court’s ruling in all it’s pdf glory, visit salon. I’m [...]
