Archive for May, 2004
Was Iraq invasion at Iran’s behest?
Ahmed Chalabi, the thug whose Iraqi compound was raided by US soldiers this week, may have fallen from George’s grace due to his Iranian connections. Chalabi fronts an Iraqi exile group, the INC, that has been tight with the neocon crowd. In fact, intelligence from the INC was largely used to justify the war with [...]
Low wage Republican outsourcing
Orcinus It’s probably also worth remembering that the claim that Bush was outsourcing his campaign work dates back to early last year, when the New Delhi Business Standard reported a GOP-HCL connection. Buzzflash, you’ll recall, picked this up and briefly carried it. However, the Republican National Committee immediately issued a denial of sorts, through a [...]
Military sentencing: conscientious objector=torturer
One of the reasons Mejia stayed home in the first place was the fact that he witnessed the abuse of prisoners. Now he’s getting the same punishment as a convicted torturer. Just after the last strains of a bugle call signaling the end of the day faded across this Army base, two burley MPs ushered [...]
Just havin’ a little fun…
WaPo: Prisoners posed in three of the most infamous photographs of abuse to come out of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were not being softened up for interrogation by intelligence officers but instead were being punished for criminal acts or the amusement of their jailers, according to previously secret documents obtained by The Washington [...]
Support Nancy Pelosi
Support a Democrat who is not afraid to take on our bumbling Commander in Thief. Read the article excerpted below. Then take this poll. House Democratic Leader Pelosi calls Bush ‘incompetent’ House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called President Bush “incompetent” and said he is responsible for hundreds of deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. “Bush [...]
Details of wedding massacre emerge
A story in The Guardian has more evidence that the Pentagon mad a grievous error that it is refusing to admit to. (Or else they knowingly targeted a civilian wedding party in order to get at the “ two dozen military-age males.”) (Link via Steve Gilliard) The wedding feast was finished and the women had [...]
Council denounces PATRIOT Act
This is a good trend. Let’s hope it continues. The City Council delved into national politics Thursday, adding its voice to the growing chorus of local governments speaking out against a controversial law aimed at finding terrorists. By a 5-2 vote, council members approved a resolution denouncing portions of the Patriot Act, which was passed [...]
Unforgivable
Juan Cole: The Associated Press reports that “American tanks and AC-130 gunships pounded insurgent positions near two shrines in the center of the holy city of Karbala early Friday, and the U.S. military said it killed 18 fighters loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The fighting began after insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at U.S. tanks [...]
Total Information Awareness MATRIX
Via Daily Kos, an update on just what MATRIX is and why you should fear it: Do you remember Total Information Awareness (later remarketed as Terrorist Information Awareness and always referred to as TIA)? This was a proposed database that would coordinate info on every American from a host of disparate databases, allowing the government [...]