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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Jim
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Others have said this, but Wilkerson learned of Abu Grahib in the Spring of '04. So where was he during the long summer and fall that followed? I can't salute this man's courage. It's too late.
Another point:
"But Wilkerson said bogus intelligence isn't his principal reason for coming forward -- it's the use of American forces to torture prisoners in the war that it launched."
Am I correct in inferring that Colonel Wilkerson feels greater loyalty to the military as an institution than to the Constitution? Just as his former boss feels a greater obligation to the Bush clan than he does to the country. Wilkerson's sense of shame should only be a hair less than Powell's.
Shame on them both.
I doubt that Pres Cheney--in the event that the impeachment movement snowballs, as a I hope against hope it does--would come to pass. The Republicans would push Powell or someone like him into the VP slot if things really got to look bad for Bush.
I happen to agree with the most idealistic and pessimistic statements quoted in the article. I do believe there is a Constitutional crisis going on, and hope (still against hope) that the American people wake up to the increasing temperature of the water in our frog pot. We can't undo the last five years, but a chastened president and a congress that is carrying out it's Constitutionally mandated functions of oversight, check and balance would be a giant leap forward for the United States, even if that president's name were Cheney.
I haven't yet read the other letters that are commenting on this article, but I think I know my fellow netroots activists well enough to guess at the surprise, if not outright anger, expressed over the glaring omissions in this article. Lieberman's support of the war and Bush go well beyond a "glass half full" vision of present day Iraq; and if Lieberman is 'galled' by the epithet of "George Bush's favorite Democrat" he certainly does nothing to dissuade anyone, left or right, from thinking of him as such.
It is at the very least a journalistic flaw--if not a case of effective dishonesty--in this article that it makes no mention of Lieberman's Wall Street Journal op-ed calling on Democrats to cease criticism of Bush and the war; to not mention his obsessive currying of favor with the likes Sean Hannity and Bill Bennett; and his glass-half full vision of Iraq should at least refer to those journalists, such as Michael Ware of Time Magazine, that Lieberman's vision of Iraq is, to put it kindly, excessively optimistic.
I'm surprised to read what is virtually a DLC puff piece on Poor Ol' Joe in Salon. Was Walter Shapiro also responsible for your excellent Andrew Sullivan adventure a few years back? Way to bring the fairity and balancedness to the pages of Salon.
and I'm sure this post is completely unrelated to the shellacking Walter Shapiro is taking for his Lieberman article....
Sorry, but Mary can go fuck herself. Whatever little fantasies she cooks up for herself about Daddy, they--Bush, Cheney, Rove, and the Bush-Cheney campaigns that Mary worked for--are the ones who made other peoples' private lives the fodder for politics and who will use any wedge issue to win, no matter whom it hurts. Why does she think she should be spared what she, as a high ranking campaign operative, was inflicting on other people? Kerry and Edwards mentioning of her sexuality may indeed have been a "tactical error", but that doesn't mean they were wrong to do so.
I'm willing to bet that Chris Matthews and the gang will be harping on Drudge's version for the rest of the week: Any takers?
I like Harry Reid. I think he's done a great job holding together the 40 odd cats that make up the Democratic caucus, I think he's done a great job maintaining unity and using parliamentary manoeuvres to try to stop as much of the odious Republican agenda as he could. And I will be forever grateful for his support of the attempted Alito filibuster.
For these reasons, I am willing to forgive his support of the backstabbing opportunistic war-monger and half-wit Sean Hannity-lovin' Republicrat Joe
"Short Bus Ride" Lieberman. However, if Senator Reid has information that I don't regarding Lieberaman's commitment to support Ned Lamont should the electoral gods be kind enough to grang Lamont a primary victory...
**"Did it bother you that Lieberman has indicated he'd run as an independent if he loses the Democratic primary -- or at least that he's leaving the door open to that?
He's never told me that. In fact, the letter I wrote for him said exactly the opposite."**
...if Senator Reid has such information, I, as a loyal Democratic voter and contributor, would like to know about it. Until such time as Lieberman pledges publicly to care more about the party than his own future, my checkbook remains closed to the DSCC.
Senators Reid, Boxer, Clinton, Schumer et al should not be confused about this point: We in the netroots are not their ATM machine, and we don't like Joe Lieberman.
That explains a lot about Bushie's worldview: He reads what he wants to read; sees what he wants to see; believes what he wants to believe.
The whole press conference was remarkable. I was tempted to start blogging just so I could walk through answer by answer the childishness, the nastiness, the cluelessness. It was truly something to save for future historians.
Jeebus Christmas. Can't anybody here play this game?
There is enough to pin on Lieberman, his votes, his advocacy, his public statements about everything from the War to Social Security to the bankruptcy bill to Terri Schiavo to the Supreme Court to Abu Grahib to Rumsfeld without fishing and scraping the bottom of the barrell.
One of Lamont's most effective weapons in this campaign has been humor, making Lieberman look out of touch and entitled. How the hell does the neo-Nazi charges help?
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
