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Meanwhile in eye-raq.

At least 15 dead and 126 wounded in latest attacks, including more American soldiers. Five soldiers attached to the Polish force in Iraq, a force that in all likelihood was due to leave soon after June 30th, were killed clearing mines. Oh, and the entire UN “oil for food scandal” evidence has disappeared at the […]

He was right before…

Richard Clarke endorses what his been a big fear of mine since 2002 – is Saudi Arabia about to “blow up.” Ask yourself this question: if it does, given that they don’t even have enough troops to occupy Iraq successfully, what will the U.S. do? Now where the hell did I put those solar panels?

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Justice Dept. Torture Plan Sent to Bush

A Justice Dept. letter to Bush has been obtained by the Washington Post, which in turn provided the blueprint for the Pentagon legal report that was described in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Both documents contained one key argument: that torture was justified only if the President directly approved it, and that anyone charged with […]

Reagan already missed

Where’s Ronnie to “take him the woodshed” like they did in the good old days to David Stockman (for telling the truth by the way). Rumsfeld has finally said the obvious:

SINGAPORE — The United States and its allies are winning some battles in the terrorism war but may be losing the broader struggle against […]

Hitchens Sees His Chance

To jump off the sinking ship, by calling Reagan “a cruel and stupid lizard.” Here here he fires a shot that will get him permanently barred from the GOP country club he’s been trying to scale the wall of every since his classmate Bill Clinton got caught in a not so youthful indiscretion back in […]

Pentagon Lawyers Said President Must Approve Torture

Here’s a quick summary. Read the comments for a link to the WSJ article itself.

A Pentagon legal task force, in early 2003, led by unnamed Bush political appointees, decided that the President was totally above the law. US-signed Treaties and International Law that forbid torture could be ignored. Torture could be used at any […]

D-Day

In the Guardian I found a pretty good article about the invasion of Europe and what it means, because it does have a present tense meaning; the present would be quite different were it not for the way the operation turned out. By the way, if you don’t want to hear any D-Day blather skip […]

Just another Day in Iraq?

Take a look at what they buried behind the “Gipper” garbage. Literally during the D-Day ceremony, hundreds more prisoners were released from Abu Ghraib (strangely in spite of the cries of right-wing radio hosts to either turn up the voltage or in Michael Savage’s case, “kill them all.”). In the afternoon this scene in Iraq […]

Investigations Are a Joke – New York Times

It’s about time someone pointed this out.

Get ready for a week-long “Friday Night Dump” of bad and embarrassing news. Dennis Hastert has just said in an interview in Normandy that Reagan’s casket will be flown around the country until Friday as part of ceremonies that no doubt were planned a long time ago, and […]

Reagan Dies

Former President Ronald Reagan Dies at 93 WASHINGTON (AP) _ Ronald Reagan, the cheerful crusader who devoted his presidency to winning the Cold War, trying to scale back government and making people believe it was “morning again in America,” died Saturday after a long twilight struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, a family friend said. He was […]