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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Jelperman
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Oliver North has a a 40-year track record of lying and covering up war crimes and atrocities. He was a character witness in the court martial of his buddy, fellow Marine Randy Herrod, who was on trial for the murder of civilians at Son Thang in Vietnam. North also appeared on TV whining about all the coverage My Lai was getting. He lied to cover up the numerous atrocities of the Contras, too.
As this article points out, it's rather two-faced for Fox News to attack Obama for being on an educational board that Bill Ayers sits on, when Fox has a show hosted by a man linked to the La Penca bombing in Costa Rica that killed four and wounded thirteen in 1984.
http://daltonator.net/durandal/blog/index.php?s=son+thang
In fact, he's a disgrace to ANY uniform. Yes, Burger King, too.
Martin isn't the only Jew-baiter Sean Hannity treats as a respected guest on his show. He practically turned his two TV shows and radio show into infomercials for anti-Semitic crackpot Jerome Corsi for two solid weeks. In 2004 Corsi wasn't just content to lie about John Kerry's war record, he also attacked him as being untrustworthy because of his partial Jewish ancestry.
Here's a quote from Corsi:
"After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judiasm? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?"
You can read more of Corsi's filth here:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200408270004?f=s_search
It's not surprising they are trying to incite the assassination of Barack Obama. After all, the McCain/Palin campaign's speechwriters used lines from Westbrook Pegler in Sarah Palin's acceptance speech. Pegler was a Jew-baiting crackpot and a supporter of lynching who called for the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and Robert Kennedy. So yes, they know exactly what they're doing.
This is eerily similar to what happened in Israel, when the right-wing Likkud party ginned up a campaign to smear Yitzhak Rabin (whom they couldn't beat at the polls) as a traitor, terrorist and even a Nazi camp guard. The smear didn't win for Likkud but then again, it wasn't meant to. What id DID succeed in doing was inciting a young ideologue named Ygal Amir into assassinating Rabin, which he did.
For more:
http://daltonator.net/durandal/blog/?p=160
Glenn, I think you made a HUGE mistake by using the pro-torture crowd's terminology on FOX. They use the terms "rendition" and "enhanced interrogation techniques" to hide what they are up to:
KIDNAPPING and TORTURE and MURDER!
You're not the only one to make this mistake. I wish those who opposed torture in the media would use the blunt and forceful words to describe what these people did.
I loved this little bit of stupidity from Ruth Marcus:
Fifth, focusing governmental energy on uncovering and punishing the actions of the past will inevitably drain energy and political capital from the new administration. /i>
Excuse me, but the government had plenty of time and energy to bust Tommy Chong on a trumped up charge of selling bongs across state lines. If Chong can stand trial, so can the thugs of the cheney-Bush Junta.
As this article shows:
http://daltonator.net/durandal/blog/?p=154
Goldfarb smeared Pvt Beauchamp and accused him of making up stories of despicable acts by US troops in Iraq. One of the sources used to smear Beauchamp was 1st Sergeant John E. Hatley, who has been charged with ordering his own men to murder prisoners execution-style and dump their bodies in a canal.
Click the link by my name for more.
As far as Gaza is concerned, it's obvious that the reason it's considered just for Israel to slaughter a hundred Palestinians for every Israeli killed is because most Americans regard Arabs and Muslims to be sub-human. Don't believe me? Could you imagine if the RAF had bombed the Republic of Ireland, killing 100 Irish people for every Briton killed in an IRA attack? Could you imagine American public officials flocking to Britain to cheer on the massacre and IDF camp followers like Michael Bloomberg and Gary Ackerman have done? How about if the Spanish goverment had blown away Basques in such numbers in retaliation for ETA bombings?
That's because the Irish and the Basques are considered members of the human race and Arabs are written off as Untermenschen -especially Palestinians.
Glenn, it would be very interesting for you to contact Kondracke and ask if those very same acts, "under orders and with patriotism", would be worthy of punishment if they had been unsuccessful and we had been attacked.
Another question for those who think we should let bygones be bygones when it comes to war crimes:
If it's just too "traumatic" and too much of a distraction to prosecute war criminals now, do they think the trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo were a bad idea, too? Do we owe the men convicted of war crimes and their families an apology?
It's obvious that the Democrats in charge are scared to death of a real prosecution since they are neck deep in torture, just like the Bush Junta. Now we have Obama who claims to oppose torture, but (a) won't prosecute and (b) wants to set up kangaroo courts that use evidence obtained under torture.
I wonder if the media's support for torture is based on what happened to Julius Streicher at Nuremberg. He ran a newspaper that advocated all the war crimes carried out by the Third Reich and was hanged along with those who did the dirty work. Are they afraid of ending up in the dock, too?
Charles Taylor Jr was just sentenced to 97 years in prison for torture.
http://daltonator.net/durandal/blog/?p=169
He even supports the use of the same tactics the SS used in Eastern Europe, such as the razing of Lidice:
http://www.counterpunch.org/menetrez02122008.html
So anyone using him to vouch for torture might as well invoke Himmler.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
