Sunday, he (Howard Dean on Meet The Press) undoubtedly delighted his fans, the "Deaniacs" who believe that the Democrats, burdened by defeat, should get feisty and strike with impunity at the ruling Republicans. "I will use whatever position I have to root out hypocrisy," he said.
i havent seen the flick yet, and am anxious to do so. as soon as i can find someone who wants to go.
Among the North American records set by "Revenge of the Sith" were best one-day, two-day, three-day and four-day sales. It also managed to beat the five-day record. The only record out of "Sith's" grasp was the Friday-to-Sunday opening weekend tally of $114.8 million achieved by "Spider-Man" in 2002, which it missed by about $6 million.
money.cnn
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A military policeman has been sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to assault and two counts of making a false statement in the 2002 beating death of a prisoner in Afghanistan.In a plea bargain, Army prosecutors agreed not to pursue a charge of maltreatment against Spc. Brian E. Cammack. Cammack also agreed to testify in other cases related to the deaths of two inmates at the Bagram Control Point.
Cammack was sentenced Friday during a court-martial at Fort Bliss. He will be demoted to private, fined more than $3,200 and given a bad-conduct discharge.
"I have come to realize what I did was wrong," Cammack said.
Cammack, a member of the Army Reserve's 377th Military Police Company in Cincinnati, said he was angry when he struck the prisoner, Mullah Habibullah, twice in the thigh with his knee. The prisoner had allegedly spit on his chest.
The technique isn't supposed to be used unless a guard's life is in danger, but soldiers have testified it was used regularly with the knowledge of officers. Cammack told the judge that he didn't feel threatened by the prisoner.
Habibullah died of a pulmonary embolism apparently caused by blood clots formed in his legs from the beatings, according to a 2004 military report.
Prosecutors argued that Cammack should be given the maximum penalty of six months in prison. They declined comment after the court-martial.
"Spc. Cammack made a mistake. He has been punished, and now he is moving on with the rest of his life," said Capt. Robert Leone, the defense attorney.
Cammack testified earlier this year in a hearing for Pfc. Willie V. Brand, who is scheduled to face court-martial on charges of assault, maiming, maltreatment and making a false statement. Brand is accused of assaulting Habibullah and the other prisoner who died, a man identified only as Dilawar.
This month, the Army charged three more soldiers with assault at the detention center where the two prisoners died.
The WP fronts the first of a two-part investigation into waste in the contracting process at the Department of Homeland Security. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the newly created agency received a lot of money, tight deadlines, and a small contracting staff, which resulted in unnecessary spending, ineffective programs, and often huge profits for contractors. For example, the contract for new airport screeners increased from $104 million to $741 million in less than a year, and the screenings have not improved significantly since right after the attacks on Washington and New York. Last year, the Government Accountability Office issued a confidential report that described the Homeland Security Department as having a "high risk" of failure.
slate's today's papers
On May 1, an advertisement appeared in The Des Moines Register condemning Planned Parenthood and demanding all public support of the organization be stopped. The lead group behind the ad has a catchy title - STOPP. They used to call themselves Stop Planned Parenthood; now they are called STOPP International. They have a single overriding goal: to shut down Planned Parenthood and put an end to the programs and services we offer.
The advertisement in the Register illustrates the hysterical lies that drive STOPP's agenda. The fact that all of Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa's public funding goes solely to prevention and education services was intentionally ignored in the ad.
I am personally familiar with STOPP International's tactics. They harass local businesses, especially construction companies, landlords, real estate offices, insurance companies and local hospitals that already do business with Planned Parenthood or might in the future. Here in Iowa, members of this organization have stalked my staff.
I was surprised to see the sponsors of the ad included Congressman Steve King, Casey's president Don Lamberti and Msgr. Frank Bognanno. These are community-minded leaders. What would they propose for the thousands of Iowans who would lose health care if their wish to destroy Planned Parenthood came true? Who would be there to supply 200,000 birth-control products each year to those without money or insurance? How do they plan to replace 50,000 annual examinations for cervical and breast cancer as the cost of health care and the uninsured escalate?
STOPP is not merely an anti-choice organization. Their tactics and their goals are both undemocratic and anti-family. We have witnessed many times during the last few months the increasing invasion of what was once sacrosanct in our country - the rights of the American family to decide their own personal and private matters, free from the inference of strangers and politicians. STOPP's ad in the Register is one more example of what these strangers are trying to dismantle - your family's right to make these most important decisions and to be left alone by meddling outsiders.
-Jill June,
president and CEO,
Planned Parenthood
of Greater Iowa, Des Moines.
this is how the new reich-wing GOP plans things: they want to create chaos so they can ride to the rescue.
David Yepsen (May 15) wrote a love letter to Newt Gingrich for trying to change the tone of politics. Yepsen must know of a 1996 memo from Gingrich's GOPAC that advocated using words such as corrupt, disgrace, incompetent, pathetic, shallow, sick and traitor when describing political opponents.
-Drew Miller,
Ames.
Respondents favored conservative over liberal judges in general, 47 percent to 39 percent. As for a possible Supreme Court nominee, 52 percent said they felt comfortable that President Bush would pick the right kind of justice, while 46 percent said they weren't.
of course America favors conservative judges over liberal ones. in the case of judges, we need to err on the side of caution, which means conservative.
the conservative-ness of your father, not of these extremists.
Four Democrats in the U.S. Senate could be prepared to support Undersecretary of State John Bolton’s appointment as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Bloomberg News reported today (see GSN, May 19).
The undecided Democrats are Mary Landrieu (La.), Joe Lieberman (Conn.), Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Mark Pryor (Ark.).
“Senator Lieberman remains undecided about Mr. Bolton’s nomination,” said spokesman Matt Gobush. “As a general rule, he believes the president should have the latitude to choose his own Cabinet, except in the most extraordinary cases. The senator is studying the issues raised by the [Foreign Relations Committee] to determine whether this is one of those cases.”
Nelson has not decided on Bolton, but is “leaning in favor of the nomination,” spokesman David DiMartino told Bloomberg.
Support from a few Democrats could further boost Bolton’s chances in the Republican-controlled Senate. Only one GOP senator, George Voinovich (Ohio), has expressed his intention to vote against the nomination.
Meanwhile, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has placed a hold on the nomination. The Senate battle over President George W. Bush’s judicial selections and the filibuster could also slow Senate action on Bolton, said Steve Clemons, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation who opposes the appointment.
“There are too many senators who want to be with Voinovich,” Clemons said. “Time kills the White House’s plan” (Bloomberg News, May 20).
it is my hope and trust, that the democrats will, for once, stand up and say NO. and then back it up with whatever force is necessary to maintain a checks & balances system on which this country was founded on, and prospers from. we are at risk, at extreme risk of losing the last vestibule of democracy, and only by resisting the bush junta will democracy have a chance to really flourish. for if the judiciary caves, then there will be no one to save us from the gates of hell opening up. and satan doesn't give a flying fuck if you're a poor homeless bum, or the richest man on earth.
WASHINGTON - All presidents seek power, but President Bush is setting a new standard with his efforts to consolidate and expand presidential authority.
He may be on the verge of his biggest victory yet as the Senate debates whether to change its rules for dealing with judicial nominations. A decision to bar Senate filibusters - unlimited debate - against judicial nominees effectively would give Bush a free hand in picking judges. It also would reduce the inherent power of every senator, and the Senate itself, to exert leverage against any president.
This is but the latest example of Bush's drive to boost White House power vis-a-vis other institutional rivals. On issue after issue, Bush has guarded presidential prerogatives and tested the limits of his office's clout. He asserted a ground-breaking doctrine of authority as commander in chief by declaring his willingness to attack other nations first if he thought them sufficiently threatening, sought to bypass the courts in dealing with terrorism suspects and proposed new restrictions on public access to presidential papers.
When Congress shelved his plans to boost federal aid to religious charities and scale back environmental regulations, he used executive orders and federal rule-making power to get his way. He's aggressively fought attempts by Congress, the news media and outside interest groups to shed light on his administration's internal deliberations.
Presidential scholars say Bush already has gone beyond previous presidents in the use of his authority.
"This Bush White House has been extremely aggressive in expanding presidential power," said Allan Lichtman, a presidential scholar at American University in Washington. "Previous presidents have used presidential power, have used executive privilege, have used executive orders, but this president has really sent it into the stratosphere."
Lichtman and other scholars agree that Bush's assertion of power differs only in degree from other recent presidents. Nearly everyone who sits in the Oval Office becomes frustrated at some point with the Constitution's checks and balances, which were intended to limit executive authority.
"He's doing what every president would do, given a chance. In wartime, presidential powers will grow simply because nobody else wants to get in the president's way," said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin and author of a book about executive orders and presidential power. "When the opportunity has presented itself, he's pushed the envelope."
But Bush's approach isn't just a matter of circumstance. In a revealing interview late last year, Vice President Dick Cheney said the former Texas governor came to the White House determined to exert authority in the aftermath of the hotly disputed 2000 election.
"He never wanted to allow, correctly, the closeness of our election to in any way diminish the power of the presidency," Cheney told the History Channel for a documentary on the presidency.
Cheney, who served as chief of staff under President Gerald Ford, has been a forceful voice in the administration for protecting and enhancing presidential authority. Although the Constitution envisions three separate but equal branches of government - executive, legislative and judicial - the balance of power has shifted back and forth over the years.
A monumental power shift occurred in 1950, when President Harry Truman ignored Congress' right to declare war and sent American troops into combat in Korea on his own authority. Americans have fought all over the world since then without any war declaration by Congress.
Congress tried to reassert itself in the 1970s after the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal shook public confidence in the White House. Lawmakers exerted more control over the federal budget, used congressional oversight authority to rein in the CIA and the FBI, and sought to limit the president's war-making authority with the 1973 War Powers Act.
In a view echoed by presidential scholars, Cheney said he considered Ford's experience the low point in modern presidential power. The pendulum has swung back toward the White House fairly steadily since then, pushed along by the demands of a 24-hours news cycle that's enhanced the president's ability to set the national agenda.
"In many ways, the Constitution has taken a beating in the last half-century. Congress has lost its backbone," said David Adler, a political science professor at Idaho State University who specializes in balance-of-power issues. "It seems to freely surrender these powers."
Bush followed his father's lead in seeking congressional authorization for military action against Iraq, while saying he didn't need permission. But Bush went beyond his recent predecessors by claiming broad power to deal with suspected terrorists.
In a 5-4 ruling last year, the Supreme Court said Bush overstepped constitutional bounds by asserting the power to detain and interrogate suspected terrorists without giving them access to lawyers or the courts.
"That was an incredibly far-reaching claim to unilateral power," Adler said.
and there's more... on the knight-ridder wire
i know that was long, but it made a point: this isn't just about bush. he's the whipping post boy for the RNC alright, and he's obviously very happy at it. but it's the likes of cheney, and frist, and others not so well known, who have massive influence (more than normal) upon the government, what's left of our American government, and who are able to start wars whenever someone does something not to their liking. i'll be dying soon, and i can't say it's soon enough. i've had enough of this. frankly, there's not much more i can do about it.
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Once again, pictures are speaking louder than words in the Arab world.kansascity.com
The startling image of an imprisoned Saddam Hussein in only his white briefs is certain to roil the already raw emotions in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, scholars and analysts warned on Friday.
"Culturally, this is highly repulsive and highly offensive to Arabs and Muslims," said Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle East studies and international affairs at New York's Sarah Lawrence College.
A May 15 letter suggested that while John Bolton may be a "lying bully" he's perfect for the U.N. job, as we need someone to take on the corrupt U.N. culture.
I'm very curious as to how his policy of arrogant intimidation coupled with his lack of credibility is going to win us more support in the world. Fighting wrong with another wrong is rarely effective. That's why we're at this dilemma in the U.N. in the first place. America embraced another "lying bully" named Saddam Hussein to counterbalance Iran in the 1980s.
I wonder if the writer's opinion has more to do with partisan politics than with the "deceit, corruption, and hypocrisy" at the United Nations. While his umbrage at these wrongs is certainly justified, I'm just curious as to what he thinks should be done about the "deceit, corruption and hypocrisy" in the U.S. Congress, perhaps starting with Rep. Tom DeLay?
-Duane Miller,
Storm Lake.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Osama bin Laden is on the run with a small band of fighters, but his al-Qaida network has been paralyzed by Pakistani government forces, the country's foreign minister was quoted as saying Friday.
"I don't think a photo inspires murders. I think they (insurgents) are inspired by an ideology that is so barbaric and backwards that it's hard for many in the western world to comprehend how they think," Bush told reproters at the White House when asked about the impact of the photos on the Iraqi insurgency.YAHOO
The average American is working harder and smarter than ever.But on payday, that's not making much difference.
U.S. wage growth isn't keeping up with rising prices for everything from gas to groceries to medical care. Strong productivity gains and an improving job market are not helping as they did in the past.
Adjusted for inflation, real weekly wages are down 0.3% vs. a year earlier. That's despite a slight monthly gain in April, Labor Department figures show.
So what gives?
what gives?
i'll tell you what gives: greedy ceo's.
Iraqi security forces are committing systematic torture and other abuses against people in detention, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
Perhaps it doesn't matter. The lack of uproar in this country over the Downing Street Memo suggests that the public is more interested in completing the mission successfully than in rehashing how it began. Indeed, that's where the focus should be.
so, just because MSM fails in its mission to keep the electorate informed, hence the public knows nothing, so congress has an easy job.
Still, it's important to establish the truth of how the United States came to invade a country that posed no threat to us. It's important for the historical record and for better decision-making in the future. Congress, which authorized the invasion at the president's request, has an oversight responsibility to inquire and to report to the nation.
fuck you des moines register. you used to be good at journalism. now you're just one of the many suckers of republicon tit.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior State Department official ruled out on Thursday the possibility of providing Iran with fresh economic incentives as a means of curbing its nuclear ambitions.
``There is no reason to believe that extra incentives offered by the United States at this point would make a real difference,'' Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said.
Burns, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the normal or near normal diplomatic and trade relations that European allies have maintained with Iran over the years have had little impact on Tehran's nuclear policies.
Burns said ``it does not stand to reason'' that a U.S. ``opening of the trade gates'' would encourage Iran to give up its nuclear weapons aspirations.
jpak (1000+ posts) Thu May-19-05 04:36 PM
7. The fuse was lit when the Chimp met with Sharon last monthCome June...
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is working on a bill that would renew the Patriot Act and expand government powers in the name of fighting terrorism, letting the FBI subpoena records without permission from a judge or grand jury. Much of the debate in Congress has concerned possibly limiting some of the powers in the anti-terrorism law passed 45 days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.APWire
But the measure being written by Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., would give the FBI new power to issue administrative subpoenas, which are not reviewed by a judge or grand jury, for quickly obtaining records, electronic data or other evidence in terrorism investigations, according to aides for the GOP majority on the committee who briefed reporters Wednesday. Recipients could challenge the subpoenas in court and the Bush administration would have to report to Congress twice a year exactly how it was using this investigatory power, the aides said.
The administration has sought this power for two years, but so far been rebuffed by lawmakers. It is far from certain that Congress will give the administration everything it wants this year. Roberts' planned bill also would make it easier for prosecutors to use special court-approved warrants for secret wiretaps and searches of suspected terrorists and spies in criminal cases, the committee aides said.
Eight expiring sections of the law that deal with foreign intelligence investigations would become permanent, they said. So, too, would a provision that authorizes wiretapping of suspected terrorists who operate without clear ties to a particular terrorist network. The aides spokes on condition of anonymity because Roberts has yet to make public the bill's contents. Opponents of expanding the Patriot Act said Roberts' proposal would amount to an expansive wish list for the administration. "While we're fighting to bring provisions ... back into balance with the Bill of Rights, here we have the intelligence committee moving to give the government more power outside the judicial system to gain access to records of Americans," said former GOP Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia, a critic of the law.
Lisa Graves, the American Civil Liberties Union's senior counsel for legislative strategy, said the new subpoena power would "be a dramatic expansion of secret search powers."
Porn star and former gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey will be joining her boss, Kick Ass Pictures president Mark Kulkis, in attending a dinner with President Bush in Washington, D.C. on June 14.http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=227238
“I’m honored to be invited to this event,” Kulkis said.
Kulkis serves as an Honorary Chairman on the NRCC’s Business Advisory Council, a group of business people who advocate a progressive, pro-business agenda. His company produces hardcore adult videos with a guarantee of “No Fake Boobs & No Condoms.” Carey ran for Governor in the 2003 California Recall Election, while Kulkis served as her campaign manager.
(New York, May 19, 2005)-U.S. interrogators have repeatedly sought to offend the religious beliefs of Muslim detainees as part of their interrogation strategy, Human Rights Watch said today.Human Rights Watch said that the dispute over the retracted allegations in Newsweek that U.S. interrogators had desecrated a Koran at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has overshadowed the fact that religious humiliation of detainees at Guantánamo and elsewhere has been widespread.
"In detention centers around the world, the United States has been humiliating Muslim prisoners by offending their religious beliefs," said Reed Brody, special counsel for Human Rights Watch.
On December 2, 2002, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld authorized a list of techniques for interrogation of prisoners at Guantánamo, which included "removal of all comfort items (including religious items)," "forced grooming (shaving of facial hair, etc.)," and "removal of clothing." Each of these practices is considered offensive to many Muslims. These techniques were later applied in Afghanistan and Iraq as well.
The purpose of these techniques, Human Rights Watch said, is to inflict humiliation on detainees, which is strictly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.
In his May 11 column on airport security, Cal Thomas is upset with his treatment by the airlines because his name is on the terrorist list. He's being inconvenienced and doesn't like it.
When my 90-year-old Norwegian mother was being searched repeatedly and had to remove her shoes repeatedly so they could be searched for bombs, Thomas said that's the price we must pay to be safe from terrorists.
How does the shoe fit when it's on your foot, Mr. Thomas?
-Cecil S. Murphy,
Des Moines.
The White House blaming Newsweek for the riots in Afghanistan and elsewhere following the story about the desecration of the Quran is a little like blaming the guy who flips a light switch for blowing up a house full of leaking natural gas. If the situation had not been so inflammatory because of Americans abusing and torturing Afghanis and Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, then the U.S. government's denial would have been plausible and not much would have happened.attribution
I do, however, agree with the White House that more needs to be done to repair the damage. But my ideas relating to that have more to do with repairing the gas leak than punishing the guy who flipped the switch.
-Rick Whitten,
Madrid.
... military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy... There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.and as one observer put it:
attribution
To review: Bush was pre-determined to go to war. The case that Saddam posed any danger was "thin." The administration had taken it upon itself to "fix" the intelligence to justify an invasion. The lack of post-war planning had already begun.BINGO!! GIVE THAT GUY A CIGAR!
when both the left and the right agree, we know, there must be something true in its base.
With startling unanimity, they agreed that without some combination of big tax increases and major cuts in Medicare, Social Security and most other spending, the country will fall victim to the huge debt and soaring interest rates that collapsed Argentina's economy and caused riots in its streets a few years ago.
The generally accepted ethics of journalism allow unidentified sources to be used only in extraordinary circumstances. That's what we practice at the Register, out here in the heartland. But information supplied "on background" by government officials has become a way of life in Washington, and the use of unidentified sources has become almost routine, with hardly a second thought.how many times do you hear of bush fed stories that are linked to unidentified sources every day in the paper? it's done every fuckn day. and now the register wants to take newsweek to task for what everybody does????
I turned a bit snappish and suggested he just might be interested if he had a son or daughter serving in the American military in Afghanistan. After all, the bull's-eyes on their foreheads have suddenly become more inviting targets thanks to an apparently bogus few paragraphs that showed up in Newsweek magazine a couple of weeks ago.this naive writer is under the impression that our interrogators would NEVER do something so stupid. i wonder if he thinks they didn't do it after or before they tortured them. that newsweek retracted the story is another case of how rove got the upperhand. he set it up, they took the 'bait', and now they have to act like they're the bad guys all sorry for their 'sins'.
It is alleged that Posada Carriles has worked for the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF), which denies any connection. The Miami Herald has recently run articles querying CANF's ties to terrorism and Operation Condor. In 2000 he was convicted with Gaspar Jiménez, Pedro Remón and Guillermo Novo Sampol of conspiring to assasinate Castro during a regional summit in Panama. The four were subsequently pardoned by Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso in the final days of her administration in 2004. Jiménez, Remón, and Novo were admitted into the United States.
the real test is about to begin
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Federal agents arrested notorious Cuban exile leader Luis Posada Carriles near Miami Tuesday afternoon. He is reported to have been planning to leave the country.
any bets on what will happen?
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights rejected by 22 votes to 8, with 23 abstentions, a resolution brought by Cuba calling for the setting up of a special U.N. investigator for the detention center at a U.S. naval base on its territory.
i am posting this rather late, and long after the event was published. - hence i have no attribution. i'm sure if you WANTed to, you could google it.
Speaking at a forum at Washington College, Karl Rove said the influx of media outlets and the shrinking shelf life of news in a 24-hour news cycle are to blame.
"We are substituting the shrill and rapid call of the track announcer for calm judgment, fact and substance," Rove told the crowd of roughly 600 students and local residents.
Naming specific reporters and news organizations, Rove said the media unfairly created the impression that President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act, introduced early in his first term, was stalled in Congress at every step before its passage.
But the legislation was passed by the House and Senate with wide margins and was signed by Bush less than a year after it was introduced, Rove said. He said the media have taken a similar approach to the current debate over Social Security.
What really gets me is how short the time horizon is for many members of the media of coming to a conclusion of whether something will pass," he said.
Another example is the "obsessive reliance" on polls to create news and political predictions, he said. He cited the media's early reliance on ultimately misleading exit polls from Election Day 2004 that appeared to show Sen. John Kerry headed for a presidential win.
"It is as if they (reporters) believe that all polls are created equal," he said. "But it ain't so."
BWAHAHAHAHA
In it, the Silvio Berlusconi administration is accused of picking the Nasiriyah area to safeguard a 1997 deal signed by Italy’s largest energy producer, ENI, and former dictator Saddam Hussein.
A government report compiled months before the war broke out recommends that Italy, in case of conflict, should secure the region of Nasiriyah and the nearby area of Halfaya, south of Baghdad, so as to secure “a deal worth 300 billion dollars”.
Both areas are known for its vast oil fields.
(What is your favorite studio trick?) "Laying down drum and percussion loops live then putting them into Logic Audio and tweaking them. I think the key to a warm sound is performing as much of the music as possible live."
--D:FUSE
this is one picture that says a real loud "let me fuck you."
ok, sorry. but he's hot in both mind and soul.
oh you were lookin at his face. *giggle*
he knows, there is nothing that wins 'em over like live music.
combine that live music attribution with the gutless motorcharge of dance, sprinkled with a bit of chant, and you have all the makings of a class A party.
"As Christians, we are called to be peacemakers and to initiate war only as a last resort. We believe your administration has launched an unjust and unjustified war in Iraq."from the moonie rag: washtimes
"No single political position should be identified with God's will," says the ad, which also chastises the president for "actions that favor the wealthy of our society and burden the poor."
Christians are to be characterized by love and gentleness, it adds, but "we believe that your administration has fostered intolerance and divisiveness and has often failed to listen to those with whom it disagrees."
...
"Some think we should be honored to have the president here," religion professor David Crump said. "We're excited by the opportunity to show people that evangelical Christianity is represented by a much broader spectrum of opinion than is depicted by the religious right and the media."
The subcommittee, chaired by Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman, claimed that Galloway allegedly funneled allocations through a fund he established in 1998 to help a 4-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from leukemia and received allocations worth 20 million barrels from 2000 to 2003.and over at the BBC he was even more forthcoming:
“I am not now nor have I ever been an oil trader and neither has anyone on my behalf,” Galloway said. “I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.”
“I gave my heart and soul to stop you from committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq,” Galloway said. “And I told the world that the case for war was a pack of lies.”
He told committee chairman Senator Norm Coleman: "I know that standards have slipped over the last few years in Washington but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice."so he's not lying. and my own neighbor's senator has the gall to stand up to the nation and call this man a liar. SHAME ON YOU NORM COLEMAN.
"The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and maps - the better to target those guns. I met him to try to bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war," he said.
In December, Mr Galloway won £150,000 in libel damages from the Daily Telegraph over its separate claims he had received money from Saddam's regime.
the headline says it all.
No Requiem for the Dead
Eyewitnesses tell how President Karimov’s soldiers finished off the injured as they lay bleeding, and then concealed the corpses.
institute for war & peace reporting
which ends with:
Many people in Uzbekistan whom IWPR has spoken to would like there to be an official mourning period for the dead.
But since the authorities insist there were no mass killings, it follows logically that there is to be no grieving.
now, i wonder what a google search of uzbekistan+bush would reveal.
no surprise there. 1st hit: Uzbekistan: Bush's New Best Friend
