In a more than necessary and better-late-than-ever move, someone (Dennis Kucinich) introduced articles – 35 – of impeachment against Bush yesterday.
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Kucinich Moving to Impeach Bush
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008What will change?
Monday, June 2nd, 2008If it is Obama, Clinton or McCain in regards to the U.S Middle East policy? Not much. Chomsky has a short article on some of the key points based on the candidates record/positions.
For the record: I agree.
Read it in his website here.
Say what Mrs. Clinton?
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Clinton this morning continued her tough military talk, saying she would “obliterate” Iran if the Shia Muslim theocracy launches a nuclear attack on Israel while she is president.
“I want the Iranians to know that if I am president we will attack Iran, and I want them to understand that,” she told ABC News, when asked how she would respond.
“Whatever stage of development they might be in their nuclear weapons programme in the next ten years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.
“That’s a terrible thing to say, but those people who run Iran need to understand that, because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic.”
Read the full article from The Guardian here.
No, it’s not a terrible thing to say, it’s an insane thing to say.
Temporarily permanent
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Nothing says “temporary stay” like the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, the U.S.’s largest diplomatic compound anywhere in the world, which is now ready.
“It’s been a difficult few weeks, rockets are bouncing off your buildings, and maintaining focus can be an occasional challenge,” (ambassador) Crocker said…
Read the CNN article here.
Read my previous entry here.
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So, why is this a surprise?
Sunday, March 9th, 2008Bush has vetoed a bill that would prohibit the use of torture by the C.I.A. So why does that come as a surprise?
Don’t forget the C.I.A destroyed all the tapes incriminating them with the use of waterboarding; you might as well just make it legal right?
It is absolutely consistent with his record. Look it up.
Read about the veto here
Say what Mr. Bush?
Saturday, January 12th, 2008“For Mr. Bush, Friday was an emotional day of tourism at sights special to Jews and Christians. He visited Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust museum, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. At least twice, Mr. Bush had tears in his eyes, said Avner Shalev, the chairman of the museum.
At one point Mr. Bush stopped before aerial photos of the Auschwitz death camp taken by American planes during World War II, and asked Ms. Rice why the American military did not bomb the camp. “We should have bombed it,” he told her, Mr. Shalev told reporters later.” the NYT article reads (my emphasis).
Never mind the thousands of prisoners…
Read the NYT article here.
U.S. vetoes
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
After reading the news about Bush’s recent visit to Israel and the West Bank (obviously there was no mention of Gaza) and what according to the press might have been some of the strongest statements to date on the need for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians(…) I couldn’t help but wonder what the record (the U.N record that is) shows. A funny pattern of vetoes comes up dating from 1995, having almost every veto being from the U.S. against Palestine. This of course leads me to believe that this time around he REALLY wants peace. Right?
Click on the image above for a higher res version or read this fantastic chart of total UN vetoes here.
Read the BBC article here.
C.I.A.’s waterboarding videos
Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
It’s of course all over the press, so I’m not really going to comment on it. But in case you actually haven’t read what these people (Michael Hayden et al) use for excuses, read this excerpt from The Guardian’s article:
“The tapes posed a serious security risk,” the CIA’s director, Michael Hayden, told agency employees in a statement yesterday. “Were they ever to leak, they would permit identification of your CIA colleagues who had served in the programme, exposing them and their families to retaliation from al-Qaida and its sympathisers.”
Really? So the destruction of tapes which contain footage of an interrogation technique which cannot be admitted nor denied -because it would actually qualify as torture- is for the protection of the actual interrogators. Not because it *might* be torture.
Read The Guardian’s full article here.
BBC’s coverage here.
Chomsky and Zinn Interviews
Friday, April 20th, 2007
Check out the interviews, conducted by Amy Goodman for Democracy Now, with “our country’s leading dissidents” Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn.