Why is the Obama Administration negotiating with terrorists?
November 17, 2010 at 10:15 am | Posted in Bush, Foreign Affairs, Obama!, politics straight up, Reality Bites, terrorism | Leave a commentTags: Bush tax cuts, Democrats, george w. bush, Mitch McConnell, Republicans, Social Security, START Treaty, terrorism, universal health care
"Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Reconditioning gas masks at the gas mask factory." 1942 June. Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
The Obama administration and Congressional Democrats still don’t understand that Republicans don’t care if they destroy the country, whether it be by foreign or domestic means.
Because a police state is so much better than a nanny state.
Well, better for the terrorists anyway.
Relationship FAIL
November 8, 2010 at 4:53 pm | Posted in Bush, terrorism | Leave a commentTags: Barbara Bush, george w. bush, Marioin Post Wolcott, relationship fail
"Mother listening to son read. Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida." January 1941. Marion Post Wolcott, photographer. Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
(NYPost) George W. Bush’s pro-life stance solidified when he was a teenager in Texas — after his mother suffered a devastating miscarriage and showed him the fetus in a jar, the former president said in an extraordinary interview that airs tonight.
“She said to her teenage kid, ‘Here’s the fetus,’ ” the shockingly candid Bush told NBC’s Matt Lauer, gesturing as if he were holding the jar during the TV chat, a DVD of which The Post exclusively obtained.
“There’s no question that affected me, a philosophy that we should respect life,” said the former president, who had to drive his distraught mother to the hospital at the time.
[snip]
But “the purpose of the story wasn’t to try show the evolution of a pro-life point of view,” Bush insisted to Lauer.
“It was really to show how my mom and I developed a relationship.”
“I ain’t marching any more”
November 6, 2010 at 7:00 am | Posted in Department of Defense, Reality Bites, terrorism, torture | Leave a commentTags: Phil Ochs, Veterans Day
Following Rules of War American style: Shoot first, lie about it later.
April 5, 2010 at 2:32 pm | Posted in Department of Defense, Foreign Affairs, Reality Bites, terrorism, Uncategorized | 1 CommentTags: Baghdad, Department of Defense, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Iraq occupation, Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, murder, Namir Noor-Eldeen, Reuters, rules of war, Saeed Chmagh, war atrocities, Wikileaks
On July 12, 2007 Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh and nine others, including two children, were killed by a U.S. helicopter strike in Baghdad. The American military authorities claimed they were armed insurgents.
“There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force,” said Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a spokesman for the multinational forces in Baghdad.
WikiLeaks, their Freedom of Information Act request stonewalled by the Defense Department, has obtained video from unnamed military sources that clearly shows that the people targeted and killed in cold blood were not carrying, and certainly not firing, AK-47s or RPGs.
I can only hope that the people who committed this atrocity are haunted by their crime because they will certainly never be held accountable.
UPDATE: If you don’t believe your lying eyes and think that this film was edited in some way to make the US military look bad, go here to see the full, unedited video.
UPDATE: Josh Stieber, a former US Army solider, deployed to Iraq in 2007 and 2008 as a member ofBravo Company 2-16 — the same Company as the infantry ground soldiers involved in the Apache helicopter attack — spoke with Glenn Greenwald about the video and “compellingly explains how the incident depicted there — from the initial killing of the Reuters journalist to the shooting of unarmed rescuers to the language used by the pilots — was anything but rare; it was extremely common.”
Kill The Pigs!
March 28, 2010 at 1:58 am | Posted in health, terrorism | 1 CommentTags: Fox News, Glenn Beck, john mccain, Neil Cavuto, politics, Roger Ailes, sarah palin, Ted Nugent, terrorism, wingnuts
Apparently Ted Nugent is under the mis-impression that the Affordable Care Act creates universal, single-payer health care.
And yeah, I can’t imagine how anyone would be upset by a discussion of killing pigs with a bullet through the head and declaring that the president, members of the House and Senate and his fellow Americans are pigs and should be taken out and shot. Oh, yeah, no, that was definitely satire.
Personally, I think Nugent’s speech and that of his fellow travelers (I’m looking at you, Sarah Palin — wink, wink) is terrorism:
Terrorism (noun)
- the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
- the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
- a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
Back in June 2009 Canada was considering a law allowing victims of terrorism to sue perpetrators of the attacks and their supporters. I can’t imagine there would be a prohibition against suing terrorists here in the United States. I hope Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck, Ted Nugent, Sarah Palin, John McCain and a large number of leading Republicans are putting money aside to pay judgments against them when the time comes.
Thanks to Crooks & Liars for the video.
How’s that airport security working out?
February 8, 2010 at 3:07 pm | Posted in Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, public safety, terrorism | Leave a commentTags: airline security, JFK airport, Narita International Airport, new york, Tokyo
A Delta Airlines jet is inspected on the tarmac at Narita international Airport outside Tokyo Sunday after a dead body was discovered in the landing gear bay. Jiji/Getty
(NYDailyNews) Japanese authorities were seeking American help Monday to identify a body found in the landing gear compartment of a plane that arrived in Tokyo from New York.
A mechanic made the grim discovery after Delta Flight 59 landed at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport about 6:05 p.m. local time Sunday, a Chiba prefecture police spokesman said.
(BusinessWeek) Tarmacs are supposed to be protected against intruders, so a man climbing onto the plane would have breached security wherever the incident began. The case highlights a possible weak spot in the safety crackdown ordered after a Nigerian man tried to blow up a Detroit-bound Delta flight on Dec. 25
Ya think?
Chilcot Hearings on Iraq War
January 29, 2010 at 10:39 pm | Posted in Bush, Foreign Affairs, Historical, terrorism, torture | Leave a commentTags: Chilcot hearings, Ctesiphon, george w. bush, history, iraq, Iraq Inquiry, Mesopotamia, Tony Blair, war crimes
Ctesiphon, the imperial capital of the Arsacids and of the Sassanids, was one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia, now Iraq. c1932 (Library of Congress)
Wufnik at Scholars and Rogues has been doing regular posts on the goings on at the Chilcot hearings on the Iraq war that are well worth a read.
The first post in which Wufnik talks about the inquiry is Christmas music (9)–Best English folk/indie/whatever Christmas album, then Stout Denial, More Chilcot, Blogging Blair and Blogging Blair (2).
The British Government has a website for the Iraq Inquiry that has video, transcripts and background documents.
The Terrorists Have Won
January 21, 2010 at 11:56 am | Posted in Judiciary, Obituary, politics straight up, Reality Bites, terrorism | 1 CommentTags: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporate overlords, Supreme Court, terrorism
It’s official. Corporations may now openly buy seats in the House, Senate, governorships and the White House.
The court on Thursday overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said corporations can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to pay for campaign ads. The decision almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns and threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states.
The justices also struck down part of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union- and corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election campaigns.
The illusion that ours was a government of, for and by the people has been thrown aside. We are now officially a government of, for and by Our Corporate Overlords.
Sporting of them to “almost certainly … allow labor unions to participate.”
UPDATE: Go here to read relevant excerpts from the majority and dissenting opinions, or here for the whole thing.
UPDATE: You don’t suppose Roberts, Kennedy, Alito, Scalia and Thomas are currying favor with those who have threatened violence against judges who step out of line, do you?
The Teabaggers Lexicon
January 9, 2010 at 11:59 am | Posted in politics straight up, terrorism | Leave a commentTags: First Amendment, free speech, political violence, politics, teabaggers, video
Mark Fiore is receiving death threats as a result of this video.
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