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No, Keith. Resignation is not the answer.
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That was the mistake we made last time--letting Nixon resign and leave all the rats in place. Bush and Cheney do nothing but give orders and their minions carry them out, secure in the thought that blind obedience absolves them of personal responsibility for the consequences of their hubris and misbegotten ambition.What we need to remember is that the reason the current occupants of the White House think fondly of Harry Truman is because he said, "the buck stops here," implying that everyone else in the hierarchy could pass the buck with impunity. Of course, the mistake Bush Two has now made in commuting Libby's sentence is that he spent his own buck and his fingerprint is still on it.
As I have said before, impeachment is not predicated on the commitment of a crime, as Republicans have tried to argue, but if Republicans want a crime, now they've got one. Bush Two has attempted to obstruct justice, perhaps with the intent to preempt what Libby might confess, if he were actually sent to jail. Perhaps it's a cover-up; perhaps not. We won't know unless or until I. Lewis Libby, Jr. reveals which of his bosses told him to initiate the defamation of Joseph Wilson by calling his wife's integrity into question.
Is it necessary to observe that harming an innocent person with the intent of influencing the behavior of some, more influential, other person is the very hallmark of terrorism? Is it necessary to observe that this tactic has been widely reported to have been used in the "interrogation" of Iraqi captives whose wives and children have been kidnapped and abused in an effort to make them talk? Does the use of this tactic to silence the Ambassador make it less abhorrent than when it's used to extract information? Have we no shame as a nation that these things are being permitted to be done in our name? Is it a lack of shame that's preventing these miscreants from being impeached?
Keith Olbermann has got it wrong. This has nothing to do with politics. Political differences revolve around policies--who's best qualified to do what, how. Bush Two is about power--the power to determine who lives and who dies. And, for that power to be exercised, some people have to die. When you have a whole army of eager minions, it's almost as easy as pulling the wings off a fly. Six hundred thousand dead Iraqis deserve more than a resignation.
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New Statewide Campaign to Turn Up Heat on Senator John Sununu to Bring Troops Safely Home from Iraq
"Iraq Summer" Campaign Gives Voice to Americans Everywhere Tired of Endless Iraq War
Manchester, NH – New Hampshire residents will launch a statewide campaign Thursday in Manchester with local veterans and advocacy groups working to bring an end to the war in Iraq. The New Hampshire campaign, part of the larger nationwide "Iraq Summer" campaign, plans to turn up the heat on John Sununu, who has opposed setting a timeline to bring a responsible end to the war in Iraq. Over the next ten weeks, a barrage of events, letter writing campaigns, volunteer activities, internet organizing and resolution efforts directed at Sununu will call on the lawmakers to reject the Bush Administration’s failed policy of endless war and vote for the safe, responsible redeployment of American troops out of Iraq.
A recent New Hampshire poll found that 65 percent of its citizens disapprove of the Bush Administration’s Iraq policy. This campaign expects Senator Sununu to represent his constituents with his votes as well as his leadership, and won’t stop until he joins with his fellow party leaders, Richard Lugar and George Voinovich, in calling for a change in course on Iraq.
"Iraq Summer" is a nationwide campaign organized by Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, which is dispatching nearly 100 organizers to the home states and districts of Republican Senators and Representatives who have opposed setting a timeline to end the war in Iraq. Organizers will be in fifteen states from Nevada to Maine, a total of 40 congressional districts.
What: Launch of "Iraq Summer," Statewide Campaign to Turn the Heat Up on John Sununu to Bring an End to the War in Iraq
Who: New Hampshire Citizens Alliance, New Hampshire Peace Action, and other constituent groups, in concert with Americans Against Escalation in Iraq
Where: Sen. Sununu’s office at 1589 Elm Street, Suite 3, Manchester, NH 03101
When: July 5, 2007 at 11 a.m.
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Hey man, it isn't nice to push it in our faces, man.
Congratulations Monica.
I'm sure a surprise she will find tomorrow morning. :)
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Gotta' go prepare for 2 events tomorrow, so I will say adieu. But first a post I thought you all would enjoy.
July 6th, 2007
Friends,
An employee who works at Capital BlueCross has
sent us a confidential memo written and
circulated by its Vice President of Corporate
Communications, Barclay Fitzpatrick. His job, it
seems, was to go and watch "Sicko," observe the
audience's reaction, and then suggest a plan of
action for how to deal with the movie.
The memo, which I am releasing publicly in this
email, is a fascinating look at how one health
care company views "Sicko" -- and what it fears
its larger impact will be on the public. The
industry's only hope, the memo seems to indicate, is if the movie
"flops."
Mr. Fitzpatrick writes: "In typical Moore
fashion, Government and business leaders are
behind a conspiracy to keep the little guy down
and dominated while getting rich."
No. You don't say! That can't be!
BlueCross V.P. Fitzpatrick seems downright
depressed about the movie he just saw. "You
would have to be dead to be unaffected by
Moore's movie," he writes. "Sicko" leaves
audiences feeling "ashamed to be...a capitalist,
and part of a 'me' society instead of a 'we' society."
He walks out of the theater only to witness an
unusual sight: people -- strangers -- mingling
and talking to each other. "'I didn't know they
(the insurers) did that!' was a common
exclamation followed by a discussion of the
example," according to Fitzpatrick.
He then assesses the film's impact: "[T]he
impact on small business decision makers, our
members, the community, and our employees could
be significant. Ignoring its impact might be a
successful strategy only if it flops, but that
has not been the history of Moore's films ... If
popular, the movie will have a negative impact
on our image in this community."
The BlueCross memo then suggests a strategy in
dealing with "Sicko" and offers the BCBS
"talking points" to be used in discounting the film.
My heartfelt thanks to the employee who
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/a...
sent this to me.
And now a word from me to Capital BlueCross:
How 'bout a debate? No more secret memos and
hand wringing about the millions seeing "Sicko."
Just me and your CEO openly debating the merits
of a system that kills thousands of innocent Americans every year.
In the meantime, I hope you don't mind me
sharing your thoughts and impressions in your
well-written memo. And if the rest of your
executive team hasn't seen "Sicko," it opens in
an additional 100 cities tonight for a total of
over 700 screens across North America.
Attendance went up a whopping 56% on the 4th of
July, higher than any other film in the theaters
right now. But don't be scared, and certainly
don't be ashamed to be a capitalist. Greed is
good! Especially good for you. There's nothing
like having the pre-existing condition of being
rich, should you ever get sick and need help.
Yours,
Michael Moore
mailto:mmflint@aol.commmflint@aol.com
www.michaelmoore.com
P.S. Join me at noon EST, today, when I'll be
chatting with U.S. Steelworkers, the California
Nurses Association, and whoever stops by to talk
about "Sicko" and the industry's attempt to stop
this movement. Check my website for details.
Full Letter
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/a...
former, we really don't know when the PNAC planned on taking down Iran, so they may be on schedule. It really is a moot point becuz we know they are totally and clinically insane so they will do what they want, regardless of whether or not there are enuf troops or money or popular support. There is an insane plan inside an insane plan to be carried out by insane people.
Did you read the article I wrote about the woman heading up the new war games plan? First, the public must be convince that Iran is a danger and must be taken out. Will the public buy it? Prolly, if we had another attack by the *Iranians.* Look how many people still think Saddam and 9/11 were connected. How easy would it be to connect an attack by Iran with gullible frightened Americans ready to follow Daddy Cheney into Hell?
come on paine...you know the rubbing is apt...i'm on top, you're not, etc...its old school...didn't someone say that someone's got to win???
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/
Long before Farm Aid and "We Are the World," there was The Concert for Bangladesh. The 1971 performance was organized by George Harrison, fresh out of the Beatles, to raise money for the troubled country. It featured many of his friends and fellow artists like Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Billy Preston
everything's out of order!
hey HQ!!! fix the blog!!! what a paine in the...
no offense paine...
New thread already!
news clips.
here is a link to a slide show of my jc-mobile at the gay pride parade week before last. A friend took the stickers that were magnets and moved them from the back to the side so that parade goers could see them. Will open in a new window.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/65/180338655_1c9118e63f.jpg?v=0
You know, this photo shows good ways to get-out-the-word
- comment signs. A few or more people holding up a sign. Perfect?
Of course I didn't write the article. Typing fast during commercials of "Dr. Who." LOL
Ok, so you might need to tweek it a bit....
"Bush Two is about power--the power to determine who lives and who dies"
- No, Keith. Resignation is not the answer. by Monica Smith 
Monica has it right.
Good morning, BFA, if any are still around. And congrats, Monica, hitting the nail right on the head as per usual!
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I was wondering when I would see someone remind those of short memories of a better analogy than bringing up Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich (unseemly perhaps, but a gesture from which Clinton had nothing to benefit from personally). And my man Dan does not disappoint.
Like father, like son. And also in the hope that more damaging revelations would not appear about their own sordid and criminal actions.
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The Clinton-Did-It Flimflam
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, July 6, 2007; 12:32 PM
The White House, which has been so adept at distracting the media from critical issues -- "Oh, look! A shiny penny!" as one of my readers puts it -- tossed out the shiniest penny of all yesterday.
Rather than address the most weighty criticism of President Bush's decision to commute former vice presidential chief of staff Scooter Libby's prison sentence -- that it was part and parcel of a longtime cover-up of White House misdeeds -- press secretary Tony Snow lashed out at former President Bill Clinton and his would-be president wife for actions that date back more than six years.
Sen. Hillary Clinton has been among the foremost critics accusing Bush of commuting Libby's sentence in order to avoid further inquiry into his own behavior. The commutation "was clearly an effort to protect the White House," she told the Associated Press earlier this week. "There isn't any doubt now, what we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the vice president, or maybe the president as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent."
Snow let loose in yesterday morning's gaggle, calling attention to numerous controversial grants of clemency that Bill Clinton issued in the closing hours of his presidency in 2001. "I don't know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this is a gigantic case of it," Snow said. Snow's deputy, Scott Stanzel, took up the cudgel at the televised mid-day briefing: "The hypocrisy demonstrated by Democratic leaders on this issue is rather startling," he said.
It's certainly hard to argue that President Clinton didn't abuse the pardon process. But Bush's pledge back in 2000 was to restore ethics to the White House -- not engage in he-did-it-too defense of his own misconduct.
And furthermore, there is an ethical chasm between Clinton's pardons -- unseemly as they were -- and Bush's decision to grant clemency to someone involved in an investigation of his own White House. (See my Tuesday column, Obstruction of Justice, Continued.)
As it happens, the previous granting of clemency that is most analogous to what Bush did dates back neither to the Clinton or even the Nixon era, but to Bush's father's presidency.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
This article speaks for itself.
The most incompetent SoS ever in the Worst. Administration. Ever.
Ever.
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Lessons Unlearned In Iraq
By Kiki Munshi
Saturday, July 7, 2007; A15
JULIAN, Calif. -- Last year at this time, I traveled from Forward Operating Base Warhorse into the Iraqi town of Baqubah several times a week to meet with the governor, the provincial council chairman and other officials. Yes, it was dangerous. But it wasn't suicidal.
Today, though, such trips would be almost impossible. Baqubah is a battlefield, the site of a major push against al-Qaeda and other insurgents. The houses that haven't been destroyed are riddled with bullet holes. Many of the Iraqis I worked with are dead, and many others have fled.
The reason for some of this destruction lies, as our newspapers tell us, in the outpouring of al-Qaeda operatives from Baghdad, a result of the latest U.S. troop "surge" into the capital. Much of the responsibility, however, is ours.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
The principle has been lost to the technicality ... and we all lose.
I do not recognize putzCo's version of America as the country I was raised in. I loathe their version and I loathe every last single one of them for what they have done.
I am ashamed that we have allowed them to do it.
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Lawsuit Against Wiretaps Rejected
Case's Plaintiffs Have No Standing, Appeals Court Rules
By Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 7, 2007; A01
A federal appeals court removed a serious legal challenge to the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program yesterday, overruling the only judge who held that a controversial surveillance effort by the National Security Agency was unconstitutional.
Two members of a three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ordered the dismissal of a major lawsuit that challenged the wiretapping, which President Bush authorized secretly to eavesdrop on communications involving potential terrorists shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The court did not rule on the spying program's legality. Instead, it declared that the American Civil Liberties Union and the others who brought the case -- including academics, lawyers and journalists -- did not have the standing to sue because they could not demonstrate that they had been direct targets of the clandestine surveillance.
The decision vacates a ruling in the case made last August by a U.S. District Court judge in Detroit, who ruled that the administration's program to monitor private communications violated the Bill of Rights and a 1970s federal law.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
JudyforDean,
hey dear lady, before you get on
Me thinks this is the overflow thread on a chaotic night
for another current thread
click
http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/21431
Or go back and forth
When the Reagan Administration began its very unhealthy relationship with the mujaheddine (very radical Muslims) in the 1980s in their geopolitical *games* with the USSR, I thought that it was shortsighted, uncalled for and simply crazy, and did not hesitate to say so to anyone who would listen. I was ignored.
Of course, the remote but foreseeable consequences of those years were brought home to us all most vividly on September 11, 2001. What is even more frightening is how quickly and efficiently this radical ideology has spread throughout the globe ... even to and among those who once most admired us.
putzCo's illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and our continuing idiocy in supporting one side to the exclusion of all else in the I-P situation have only fanned the flames of what may ultimately result in our own destruction. The tipping point is very close.
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In Morocco's 'Chemist,' A Glimpse of Al-Qaeda
Bombmaker Typified Resilient Network
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, July 7, 2007; A01
CASABLANCA, Morocco -- On March 6, Moroccan police surrounded a cybercafe here and arrested a fugitive who many people assumed had fled the country or was dead. Saad al-Houssaini, known as "the Chemist" because of his scientific training and bombmaking skills, had vanished four years earlier after he was accused of helping to organize the deadliest terrorist attack in Moroccan history.
It turned out that Houssaini hadn't gone anywhere. Since 2003, according to Moroccan police documents, he had remained underground in Casablanca as he rebuilt a terrorist operative network and recruited fighters to go to Iraq. He also spent time honing his bombmaking techniques, designing explosives belts that investigators believe were used in a string of suicide attacks this spring, including one that targeted the U.S. Consulate in this North African port city.
[...]
His long underground career demonstrates the limits of stepped-up anti-terrorism cooperation between governments in the past five years -- Houssaini, now 38, eluded not just Moroccan authorities but intelligence agents from France, Spain and the United States who feared he was involved with sleeper cells in Europe.
[...]
Morocco also continues to keep up its guard. On Friday, it raised its national security alert level to maximum, indicating that a serious terrorist attack was expected imminently, the Interior Ministry announced in a statement. The ministry cited "reliable intelligence information" but gave no details about a specific threat.
Houssaini, the Moroccan, abandoned his graduate studies in chemistry in Spain in the mid-1990s. He went to Afghanistan, where he trained in al-Qaeda camps and consulted with high-ranking members of the group, including deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who would later become chief of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to documents and interviews.
While there, he helped found an affiliated network known as the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, which is blamed for the March 2004 train bombings in Madrid. As operational commander of the group, he was suspected of fashioning the bombs used in coordinated suicide attacks in Casablanca in May 2003 that killed 45 people.
Four years later, suicide bombers struck in Casablanca again, blowing themselves up on three separate occasions in March and April, including the attack on the U.S. Consulate. No bystanders were seriously injured in the attack on the consulate, but the diplomatic post remained closed for nearly two months because of security concerns.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
Let's see Regan/Bush and Afghanistan
Afghanistan harbors confessed
dumbya down didn't need President Bill Clinton to tell him and daddy bush's gang about the threat from Afghanistan
Good morning, everybody
Yes, it was a surprise to find this post. Almost missed while reading the news clips from NH's impeachment resolution. Robert Perry is one of the most active members of our DFALink group and started the pressure on our former Congressman during various town hall meetings by challenging him to do something about depleted uranium. Now Carol Shea-Porter occupies that seat-------
Which reminds me.................
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