Quote of the Day

"The commitment to what the president of the United States will say every single day of the week is his number one priority in Iraq, when it's translated into action, looks very tiny."
--Les Campbell, who runs programs in the Middle East for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, known as NDI.

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first the oil companies, and now the insurance industry

making record profits. how obscene.

Letter of the WeeQ

It was no surprise that George W. Bush has stated that our troops will remain in Iraq through 2008. After all, Bush has spent his life having people in power (his family, wealthy friends, the Supreme Court) give him an enterprise (an oil company, a baseball team, the United States) that he promptly proceeds to run into the ground.

Then he moves on, leaving a mess for someone else to clean up. The quagmire in Iraq, ballooning national debt, etc. have become problems for future presidents and our descendants.

True to form, Bush happily goes about his usual pattern - sowing chaos while others reap the results. But, how could anyone expect anything else from him? It's all he knows.
— Michael Santangelo, Iowa City.

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Letter Of The Day

Terry Mattingly’s column in Saturday’s Globe-Gazette about writer Eric Metaxas’ humorous takes on God and the Bible brings to mind an edition of Wiley Miller’s comic strip, “Non Sequitur,” that features as its main caption, “God Does the Talk Show Circuit.”

The strip shows God, in the stereotypical depiction of an old man with a beard, talking to Jay Leno. God says, “I think my best creation was the sense of humor. The irony, of course, is that the people who claim to believe in me the most are the ones least likely to have one.”
--KEVIN YOUNG, Sheffield

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watching cbs' "the unit"

and one has to wonder.... how close to reality it imitates. i'll bet thiiiiiis close.

those who have no confidence in American justice

to work when all else fails, has not my confidence to lead.

an army of criminals - the rumsfeld way

A young Iraqi girl has given a shocking first hand account of what witnesses claim amounts to mass murder by US troops in the war-torn country...

Fifteen people in all were killed, including her parents and grandparents. Her account has been corroborated by other eyewitnesses who say it was a revenge attack after a roadside bomb killed a marine...
--source

winning hearts and minds has got to be harder with these kinds of maniacs in our armed forces.

HYPOCRISY ALERT

In a sleazy hotel room, "Brittany," then aged 16 and drugged into oblivion, waited for the men to arrive. Her pimps sent as many as 17 clients an evening through the door.

A "john" could even pre-book the pretty young blonde for $1,000 a night, sometimes flying in and then flying out from a nearby airport.

None of this happened in Bangkok or Costa Rica, places that have become synonymous with sex tourism and underage sex.

It took place in Atlanta, the buckle of the U.S. Bible Belt, where the world's busiest passenger airport provides a cheaper, more convenient and safer underage sex destination for men seeking girls as young as 10.

--SOURCE

arrest warrant out for rep. mckinney

U.S. Capitol Police on Monday asked a federal prosecutor to approve an arrest warrant for Rep. Cynthia McKinney after she tangled with a uniformed officer last week.
--source

our VP can shoot a man in the face and joke about it, but this woman defended herself and gets arrested. one has said it's apples and oranges .... why?

1. She is a woman.
2. She is black.
3. She is a LIBERAL Democrat who sees through the lies of the neocons.

Different standards must apply if we are to maintain NATIONAL SECURITY. Which in this case means making a scapegoat of this popular Dem to distract from the real stories that are spilling out of the Bushocracy even as we speak. Implying that McKinney is a lunatic criminal will help deflect the true stories about the real lunatic criminals. You know - the ones with the guns.

DELAY WATCH

Everybody leads with Rep. Tom DeLay announcing—via interviews in Time and a
local paper published late last night—that he's not going to run for reelection and will quit Congress, he offered, "probably by the end of May. " DeLay is set to make a formal announcement today.

Last week a second DeLay aide pleaded guilty to conspiracy and corruption charges and has sung to the feds about, as the Washington Post puts it, "a criminal enterprise being run out of DeLay's leadership offices." Not that that had anything to do with the congressman's decision, of course. DeLay explained that he was stepping down only because he was in a tough reelection campaign and was just taking one for the team. "This is a very strong Republican district," he said. "It's obvious to me that anybody but me running here will overwhelmingly win the seat."

Detailing how the feds are creeping ever closer to DeLay, a piece inside the Post points out that not only have two once top aides pleaded guilty, but DeLay's former chief of staff was also named in the latest government docs as a collaborator. In another plus for DeLay pulling out now, he can take all the cash from his campaign war-chest and drop it into his defense fund, which as the Post notes has so far been "financed largely by corporations with business before Congress."

Asked if he'd done anything illegal in office, DeLay told Time, "No." Anything immoral? "We're all sinners," said the Hammer.

THANKS TO TODAY'S PAPERS

and for all things delay head on over to the TPM Cafe Muckraker.

Letter Of The Day

Because a Muslim converted to Christianity he faced the death penalty in Afghanistan, and most Muslims there seem to support it. So, why did we get rid of the Taliban? Is this the democracy you envisioned, Mr. President?
— Philip Luksetich, Knoxville.

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blogger atom just got back online

*whew* thought i was goin to DIE :)

the order of the last few things is probably backward. oh well. sue me

Letter Of The Day

Regarding Rekha Basu’s March 22 column: Another scenario that will arise from South Dakota’s anti-abortion law will be the forcing of rape victims to give birth to their rapists’ offspring.

By not allowing abortion even in the case of rape or incest, girls raped by their fathers would be forced to give birth to their own father’s children. I can’t comprehend how people who deem themselves “pro-life” and “pro-family” could force something this cruel onto a young girl.
— Randy Steele, Washington.

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Headline Of The Day

Courted as Spies, Held as Combatants
British Residents Enlisted by MI5 After Sept. 11 Languish at Guantanamo

--story

i have another idea on why

nobody wants to work for the thievin lying sons of bitches.

The Bush administration can't seem to find anyone who is willing to take the job of FEMA director, reports the NYT on Page One. All the top emergency response experts around the country who have been asked have rejected the job, largely because they don't believe the administration is serious about fixing the agency. This problem goes beyond the job of director, as people who were appointed on an "acting basis" are filling 11 of the 30 top jobs at FEMA.

they LIED about iraq making us safer

Knight Ridder talked to some U.S. intelligence officials who say that insurgents in Iraq are providing training to Taliban and al-Qaida members from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some of these militants went to Iraq to fight but after training they were urged to go back to their countries and use what they had been taught.

bush is BUSTED!

Knight Ridder talked to some U.S. intelligence officials who say that insurgents in Iraq are providing
No comments:

bush is BUSTED!

Knight Ridder talked to some U.S. intelligence officials who say that insurgents in Iraq are providing
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14235672.htm training to Taliban and al-Qaida members from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some of these militants went to Iraq to fight but after training they were urged to go back to their countries and use what they had been taught.

so iraq IS creating more terrorists!

FARPOINT.FACTOID

After the bombing of the shrine in February, 30,000 to 36,000 Iraqis have left their homes.
--source

SHAME ON YOU MISSING DEMOCRATS!

At the hearing, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the committee's ranking Democrat, embraced Feingold's call to censure Bush. "I … have no hesitation in condemning the president for secretly and systematically violating the laws of the United States of America," he said.

But the hearing also dramatized, in the form of a long row of empty chairs, the hesitance other Democrats have about the resolution. Besides Leahy and Feingold, the only other committee Democrat who attended was Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin. And he left without delivering an opening statement or questioning any of the witnesses.

Democrats skipping the session included Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware. Five of the panel's GOP members also were absent.

Feingold's resolution has been championed by an array of left-leaning blogs and the online liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org. But it has attracted only two co-sponsors — Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).

--http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-censure1apr01,1,7596813.story?coll=la-news-politics-national

(i'm using safari, which won't produce the WYSIWYG editor for blogger, and i stll can't post using atom)

Quote Of The Day

"They are seen by the country as being in charge of a government that can't function. We could lose control this fall."
--Newt Gingrich

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STILL CANT POST

we'll see if this bounces

4/1 15:52 dammit, yes. cant post!
Connection failed!

Could not parse response. Please check the console
log for more information.

is this ecto saying this or what?

Quote Of The Day

"They are seen by the country as being in charge of a government that can't function. We could lose control this fall."

--Newt Gingrich

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Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration. Rove expressed his concerns shortly after an informal review of classified government records by then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley determined that Bush had been specifically advised that claims he later made in his 2003 State of the Union address -- that Iraq was procuring high-strength aluminum tubes to build a nuclear weapon -- might not be true, according to government records and interviews.

Hadley was particularly concerned that the public might learn of a classified one-page summary of a National Intelligence Estimate, specifically written for Bush in October 2002. The summary said that although "most agencies judge" that the aluminum tubes were "related to a uranium enrichment effort," the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Energy Department's intelligence branch "believe that the tubes more likely are intended for conventional weapons."

Three months after receiving that assessment, the president stated without qualification in his January 28, 2003, State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production."

(there's a lot more)
--story

why not just admit it: HE LIED AND THEY DIED

Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration. Rove expressed his concerns shortly after an informal review of classified government records by then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley determined that Bush had been specifically advised that claims he later made in his 2003 State of the Union address -- that Iraq was procuring high-strength aluminum tubes to build a nuclear weapon -- might not be true, according to government records and interviews.

Hadley was particularly concerned that the public might learn of a classified one-page summary of a National Intelligence Estimate, specifically written for Bush in October 2002. The summary said that although "most agencies judge" that the aluminum tubes were "related to a uranium enrichment effort," the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Energy Department's intelligence branch "believe that the tubes more likely are intended for conventional weapons."

Three months after receiving that assessment, the president stated without qualification in his January 28, 2003, State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production."

(there's a lot more)
--story

testing posting from ecto

i've been unable to post all afternoon. wtf!

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that no-one should doubt America's commitment to justice and the rule of law . . . .

Her comments came during a visit to the UK city of Blackburn. The tour has sparked anti-war protests.

"President Bush has stated unequivocally, as have I, that the United States is a nation of laws and we do not tolerate any American at home or abroad engaging in acts of torture," Ms Rice said.

"We also have no desire to be the world's jailer. We want the terrorists we capture to stand trial for their crimes," she said.

--source

nowhere in the piece is there anything about renditions. 'just goes to show you just how much the media is so lapdog with bush - frankly, it's nauseating.

oh, i wanted to post something that went with this story:

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to go to a foreign country to proclaim the United States a nation of laws while at home she represents a putative leader whose power rests on a stolen election and who claims some mythic constitutional authority to violate any law that doesn't suit him.

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to say that we will not tolerate torture when the White House memos told this same tyrant that he has the authority to authorize torture and he proceeded to do so.

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to go abroad and talk of freedom while the Patriot Act erodes civil liberties in America.

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to claim that America does not want to be the worlds when, in addition to torturing detainees, it puts them before kangaroo courts with no right to see the evidence against them.

It is a sad sign of how far America has fallen that Dr. Rice, who was one of many high-ranking officials in the Bush regime to willfully lie to the American people about Saddam's military capabilities in order to garner popular and congressional support for an unnecessary colonial war, should be so smug talking about somebody else's commission of war crimes.

--JackRabbit

rice is whining about how America isn't the world's jailer

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that no-one should doubt America's commitment to justice and the rule of law . . . .

Her comments came during a visit to the UK city of Blackburn. The tour has sparked anti-war protests.

"President Bush has stated unequivocally, as have I, that the United States is a nation of laws and we do not tolerate any American at home or abroad engaging in acts of torture," Ms Rice said.

"We also have no desire to be the world's jailer. We want the terrorists we capture to stand trial for their crimes," she said.

--source

nowhere in the piece is there anything about renditions. 'just goes to show you just how much the media is so lapdog with bush - frankly, it's nauseating.

oh, i wanted to post something that went with this story:

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to go to a foreign country to proclaim the United States a nation of laws while at home she represents a putative leader whose power rests on a stolen election and who claims some mythic constitutional authority to violate any law that doesn't suit him.

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to say that we will not tolerate torture when the White House memos told this same tyrant that he has the authority to authorize torture and he proceeded to do so.

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to go abroad and talk of freedom while the Patriot Act erodes civil liberties in America.

It is utter hypocrisy for Dr. Rice to claim that America does not want to be the worlds when, in addition to torturing detainees, it puts them before kangaroo courts with no right to see the evidence against them.

It is a sad sign of how far America has fallen that Dr. Rice, who was one of many high-ranking officials in the Bush regime to willfully lie to the American people about Saddam's military capabilities in order to garner popular and congressional support for an unnecessary colonial war, should be so smug talking about somebody else's commission of war crimes.
--JackRabbit

they call it CORRUPTION

Like the pleas of Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon, Rudy's plea very explicitly targets Ney, saying that in exchange for a whole host of favors, he "agreed to take favorable official action and render other assistance on behalf of the clients of Abramoff and defendant Rudy." Specifically, Rudy's deal mentions Ney's agreement to try and slip a line into "election reform legislation" that would have benefited one of Abramoff's tribal clients. This was also mentioned in Abramoff's deal, among other Ney favors.

--source

dontcha jus LUV repukes eating their own?

my disclaimer

As a general direction, it is the intention of FIELDS OF POOPY to reflect (or at least pursue) the set of weblog ethics expounded by Rebecca Blood.

1. Publish as fact only that which you believe to be true.
2. If material exists online, link to it when you reference it.
3. Publicly correct any misinformation.
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THANKS TO MY FRIEND B!X FOR THE LANGUAGE. he's always got a way with words.

making us *un"safer - the bush legacy

and i'm not talking about terrorism here.

The Pentagon stalled efforts to clean water supplies contaminated by a carcinogenic chemical despite evidence that it posed a significant health risk to millions of people, it was reported yesterday. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigated the solvent, trichloroethylene, which is extensively used on military bases, after significant quantities were found in water supplies. In its report, published in 2001, the EPA found it to be 40 times more likely to cause cancer than had been previously thought, and recommended tough safety standards to limit public exposure. There was also evidence the chemical played a role in birth defects.>>>>snip

"The evidence is that there was some monkey business going on between the EPA and the Pentagon," said Gina Solomon, an expert on environmental medicine at the University of California, who was on the scientific board that reviewed the EPA report.>>>>snip

--story

the first of a two-parter in the LAT is HERE.

Joke of the Day

"A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. Do you think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a fuckin' cross? It's kind of like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on."

in response to this:

The image of the crucifixion, one of the most powerful emblems of Christianity, may be quite erroneous, according to a study which says there is no evidence to prove Jesus was crucified in this manner

--source

BUSTED!

Amid a growing national controversy about the gesture U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the freelance photographer who captured the moment has come forward with the picture.

It’s inaccurate and deceptive of him to say there was no vulgarity in the moment,” said Peter Smith, the Boston University assistant photojournalism professor who made the shot.
Despite Scalia’s insistence that the Sicilian gesture was not offensive and had been incorrectly characterized by the Herald as obscene, the photographer said the newspaper “got the story right.”

Smith said the jurist “immediately knew he’d made a mistake, and said, ‘You’re not going to print that, are you?’ ”

Scalia’s office yesterday referred questions regarding the flap to Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg, who said a letter Scalia sent Tuesday to the Herald defending his gesture at the cathedral “speaks for itself.”

“He has no further comment,” Arberg said.

--source

vaffenculo.... what a strange way to say FUCK YOU. it almost sounds like want my culo.

think anything's changed with the lobbying 'reform' bill?

read THIS and see for youself. it's business as usual, and about the only change is instead of using pens they have to use pencils. it's like putting lipstick on a pig.

more war crimes being commited

Iraqi and US special forces who raided a compound in Baghdad over the weekend did not know it contained a minaret and prayer room until they were inside, the US military chief said on Tuesday. The raid on Sunday, which freed an Iraqi hostage and left 16 Shiites dead, drew angry denunciations from Shiite political leaders who charged that unarmed worshippers were massacred in a prayer room of a mosque.
--source

one really has to wonder how they missed a minaret
oh wait, it's a war crime for hitting a religious institution

Religious buildings are protected under the 1899 Hague Conventions and Article 52 of the first Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions.

oh wait, the geneva conventions don't apply to rumsfeld and his gestapo

always blame someone else - the bush legacy

Bush said that Saddam was a tyrant and used violence to exacerbate sectarian divisions to keep himself in power, and that as a result, deep tensions persist to this day.
--source

monkey see, monkey do

RNC Memo Warns GOPers Not To Distance Themselves From Bush

Republican pollster Jan van Lohuizen, in a memo written for RNC chairman Ken Mehlman, warns that if members of Congress try to drive a wedge between themselves and Pres. Bush, it'd be akin to adding weight to an anchor. GOpers are "W Brand Republicans" whether they like it or not. And van Louhizen, who has polled (often secretly) for the Bush White House under the RNC aegis for years, is worried about low turnout.

--source

then there's this headline in the columbus dispatch: President showing signs of losing support among Ohio Republicans

from the REALLY? file

FLORENCE - A 13-year-old Ockerman Middle School student has been charged with threatening George W. Bush, just days before the president is set to throw the first pitch for Reds Opening Day in Cincinnati.

--story

when the kids start threatening the president, you know something's not right with him.

from the WELL DUH department

another job done by the bushite repukes that shows signs of deteriorating into a cesspool of wasted resource.

USAT notes that the Department of Homeland Security is doing a fine job of ... losing its managers. The department is "hemorrhaging on the front lines and higher up," said one analyst. Among the currently open spots are the heads of the divisions for cyber-security, for technology, and for disaster response. Surveys have consistently ranked the department among the worst to work at.

they're killing us on TCE at a time

The LAT fronts the first of a two-part investigation showing an EPA study concluding a few years ago that a chemical—trichloroethylene or TCE—that has contaminated loads of groundwater is more dangerous than previously thought. The EPA began to consider tighter standards for exposure to TCE, at which point the Pentagon—one-time heavy TCE users—lobbied, the White House backed them, and the tighter regs withered.

want a 5 minute lesson on bush doublespeak?

read THIS.

an excerpt:

Souter stops him, amazed. "The suspension of the Writ," the justice sputters, is the most "stupendously significant act" Congress can undertake. "Are you really saying Congress may validly suspend it inadvertently?" he asks. It's the morning's best example of the degree to which, for Souter as well as for Justice Stephen Breyer, today's argument is an agonizing exercise in Bush administration doublespeak. Clement's arguments are frequently drawn from the well of "because the president says so," or "because the president is the president," or "because it's wartime." They start to sound like Alberto Gonzales' testimony before Congress or the president's signing statements: legal analysis by assertion and justification by double standard. This war is like every other war except to the extent that it differs from those other wars. We follow the laws of war except to the extent that they do not apply to us. These prisoners have all the rights to which they are entitled by law, except to the extent that we have changed the law to limit their rights.

Letter Of The Day

I am intrigued that the Iowa House has passed legislation that, if enacted, will prevent schools from counting recess and pep rallies as part of their school day (“House: Hours Matter, Not School Days,” March 22). Does this mean that the physical activity and the learning-to-get-along skills used during recess are unimportant? Is school spirit and the sense of belonging simply a frill that has no adult-life value?

If this is the case, my 42-year teaching career was out of touch with what kids need and what activities lead to a better society.
Silly me. I should have asked Iowa legislators what to teach, when to teach and how to teach it. Apparently they know all the answers.
— Jacquie McTaggart, Independence.

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Picture Of The Day

with a caption:

that famale disgusts me.

why i hate george bush jr.

It was 9:30 on a recent Friday night when Denise Grier saw blue lights in her rearview mirror.

She pulled over on Chamblee-Tucker Road, unaware of her infraction.

"The officer asked if I knew I had a lewd decal on my car and I thought, 'Oh gosh, what did my kids put on my car?' "

As it turns out, the decal was an anti-Bush bumper sticker Grier slapped on her 2001 Chrysler Sebring last summer. The bumper sticker — "I'm Tired Of All The BUSH—" — contains an expletive.

The officer "said DeKalb had an ordinance about lewd decals and wrote me a ticket" for $100, said Grier, an oncology nurse at Emory University Hospital who lives in Athens.

--source

lewd? Main Entry: lewd
Pronunciation: 'lüd
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English lewed vulgar, from Old English l[AE]wede laical, ignorant
1 obsolete : EVIL, WICKED
2 a : sexually unchaste or licentious b : OBSCENE, VULGAR

the only thing ignorant in this case, is the arresting officer.

don't ya just feel all nice and safe now?

Ω

who would you believe?

an organization that has proven itself liars time and time again, or a news agency who has been proven right time and time again?

The LAT and NYT front Shiite leaders ripping into the U.S. for what Iraqis said was a raid on a mosque that killed at least 16 civilians, including Shiite politicians. As the WP emphasizes, the U.S. said it wasn't a mosque and was a "hugely successful" operation against a "terrorist cell." They also said the operation was led by Iraqi troops. Shiite politicians suspended negotiations for a new government and demanded a joint investigation. "I warn [the U.S.] that a battle with the calm giant Shiite means they are falling into a dangerous swamp," said a spokesman for the prime minister's party.

it's prerty clear now who's in charge here. isn't that "bring it on' i hear?

they do this in dicatorships

The House version (of the immigration bill), unlike the bill endorsed by the Senate panel, would make it a crime for charitable groups to aid illegal workers.

Letter of the Day

When Amana’s sexton, Brian Hollrah, mentioned how it’s harder to make some tombstones than others, he was alluding to the death of my son, Jordan Hans Heusinkveld. Besides dying in a car crash on his mother’s birthday, Jordan was buried in the Amana cemetery on what would have been his 19th birthday. The 19-year-old girl who hit us head-on was fined $37 for unsafe passing plus court costs.
— David B. Heusinkveld, Amana.

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Quote of the Day

"Congress simply must summon the courage to disabuse President Bush of the notion that he doesn't have to obey the law."
--Des Moines Editorial Board

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in the midst of the wilderness it's nice to find some shade

BAGHDAD, March 26 -- A doctor in the northern city of Kirkuk has admitted to killing at least 35 Iraqi police officers and Army soldiers by giving them lethal injections, reopening their wounds and engaging in other deadly acts as they were being treated in Kirkuk Hospital, according to Kurdish security sources and Kurdish television.

On Sunday, Kurdish TV aired what it said was the doctor's taped confession, in which he told police that he sympathized with the radical Sunni Arab insurgent group Ansar al-Sunna, which paid him to kill the men. He worked with the group, he said, because "I hate the Americans and what they've done to Iraq."

"I injected more than 35 policeman and soldiers, including officers and some who were slightly injured," the doctor, identified by a Kurdish security official as Luay Omar Taie, said in the taped statement. "I used to stop the breathing machines or cut the electricity in the operations room or reopen the wounds."

--source

and what i found in the thread:

You know, one of the fine hairs being split by the Bush Administration is that stories planted in Iraq by semi-governmental psyops organizations such as the Rendon Group don't affect Americans here at home, so it's not illegally planting propaganda here in the U.S.

Then last week, the President spluttered around criticizing the media for not printing the "good news" coming out of Iraq. I was holding my breath, hoping that the President would cite some of those planted stories as examples of the "good news." That could have been added somewhere around Article MMCXII of the President's future impeachment articles. Either I missed it, or maybe he was coached not to, or maybe the press was coached not to ask, but I didn't see him do it.

But what about this story? It's got all sorts of plant-like attributes: an evil doctor breaking his sacred oath, a whole lot of difficult to verify victims, a confession in a place where it's known that torture is used, confirmation from shady intelligence types, and relayed via Kurdish television. Anyone want to take a look and see if that Kurdish TV station is funded by the CIA, say through the Voice of America?

If it is a plant, and it made the A Section of the Washington Post, that would sort of negate the idea that this propaganda isn't filtering back to Americans, wouldn't it?

isn't it nice to know that there are more of us out there?