Let’s face it, we live in a world of people who do dumb things. They can be teachers, police, firefighters, doctors, politicians, doctors and yes, even military personnel. So when new images came out this week of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posing with dead Afghan civilians, once again I thought “we got really dumb people […]
Sounds kind of convenient: The US military has lost a year’s worth of records describing the Guantanamo confinement of Osama bin Laden’s driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive’s war court hearing. Lawyers for the driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, asked for the records to support their argument that prolonged isolation and harassment at the […]
Earlier today our commander idiot in chief had this to say: President Bush said on Tuesday the hand of al Qaeda lay behind the sectarian violence racking Iraq, and deflected talk of “civil war.” So that means our number one enemy is behind all our troubles then. Great – that means our military should be […]
Untitled document While the Republicans worked hard yesterday to protect Bush and his administration from political prosecution for war crimes, a judge ruled that former administration officials don’t have immunity. A federal judge in Idaho has ruled that former attorney general John D. Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of a […]
Our nation has now turned back the hands of time to a point in history before we were actually a nation: The Senate, siding with President Bush shortly after he personally lobbied lawmakers at the Capitol, rejected a move Thursday by a leading Republican to allow terrorism suspects to challenge their imprisonment in court. The […]
Bush is losing support in all corners now: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, parting company with President Bush, came out against harsh interrogations of terror suspects even as the president lobbied personally for it on Capitol Hill Thursday. “I will resist any bill that does not enable this program to go forward with legal […]
After all the debate, arguments, investigations by foreign countries and other crap caused by the report of secret CIA prisons, it turns out that we do in fact have them and Bush admits it: President George W. Bush acknowledged on Wednesday the CIA has run a secret detention program for terrorism suspects overseas and said […]
We heard this past winter about troop reductions. The U.K. even pulled out 1500 troops. Now we are sending more back in: The U.S. military said Monday it was deploying the main reserve fighting force for Iraq, a full 3,500-member armored brigade, as emergency reinforcements for the embattled western province of Anbar, where a surge […]
The Boston Globe hit a home run today. In an article titled “Congress Reduces Its Oversight Role” they highlight how Republicans in Congress ignore their very duty as given to them in our constitution. WASHINGTON — Back in the mid-1990s, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, aggressively delving into alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration, logged […]
The Pentagon has admitted the use of white phosphorus as a weapon against insurgents in Falluja. This adds more credibility to the documentary ran on Italian television last week about the use of such weapons. The use of white phosphorus is not necessarily a violation of any treaties, however the legal wording and the use […]