Letters to the Editor
Ché Pasa
Published Letters: 821 Editor's Choice: 2
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None of those "more important things" that Boxer
[Read the article: Still more White House secrecy -- this time in the Tillman investigation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and the rest say they have to work on instead of impeachment or other forms of removal (the Constitution provides more than one) is going to happen if nothing is done to bring the WH dictatorship to heel.
Congress has no intention of putting a stop to the regime's continuing depredations, lawlessness, and autocratic usurpations.
So from my perspective, Congress is not serious about any of those "more important things" -- health care, global warming, ending the various wars, etc -- because they have no intention, whatsoever, of doing what is necessary -- proceeding toward the removal of the regime -- to accomplish any of the other ends they say they want.
Beyond Kabuki at this point.
So let's just bomb Iran and be done with it.
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OT: Other War Failing Too
[Read the article: Still more White House secrecy -- this time in the Tillman investigation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once again, McClatchy is on top of a story the rest of the media can't find the time to tell...
NAIROBI, Kenya — For the workmen racing to spruce up a bullet-studded police garage in time for a critical peace summit beginning Sunday in Somalia, the work got a little tougher this week when insurgents launched mortars at the site.
The message was as clear as ever: Somalia's transitional government is in trouble.
Diplomats say the conference on political reconciliation may be the government's last chance to hold onto power against a growing Islamist insurgency and with one of its most powerful backers, the Bush administration, perhaps rethinking the military operation that brought the regime to power six months ago.
Since Ethiopian troops, supported by U.S. training and intelligence, ousted an Islamist regime from the capital, Mogadishu, the government has been unable to control the city. Somali and Ethiopian forces face near-daily mortar attacks and assassination attempts by insurgents linked to the Islamists, who vowed on Friday to disrupt the summit.
Public confidence in the government has plummeted further as security forces mount an offensive in insurgent neighborhoods, lobbing grenades into populated areas such as the busy Bakara marketplace. More than 50 people have been killed in the last two weeks, according to local hospitals, most of them civilians. Some eyewitnesses described the government strikes as indiscriminate.
The Bush administration linked the Islamist regime, known as the Council of Islamic Courts, to al Qaida and said that its removal was necessary to keep the Horn of Africa from becoming a terrorist haven. Now administration officials appear to be reconsidering the wisdom of regime change.
A U.S. intelligence report sent to Congress on Wednesday paints a bleak picture of the future of the transitional government.
The government "is widely perceived by Somalis to be little more than a pawn of Ethiopia, yet its continued survival, certainly in Mogadishu, remains dependent on the support for the Ethiopian military," said the report. "Continued turmoil could enable extremists to regain their footing and heighten inter-state tensions throughout the region."
And so on: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/17955.html
So let's see, we've got three failed wars under way so far, much lying by the regime, and ignoring by the media, and our overlords are rattling their rusty sabres on a campaign to start another war targeting Iran.
And our congress will do nothing to stop it, in fact the Senate just went out of the way to pass (all but unanimously) an amendment to the defense appropriation that declares casus belli for an attack on Iran. Proposed by Lieberman of CT, it passed 97-0.
The Congress's shame continues.
Wars without end proliferate.
We The People are denounced as traitors.
And we put up with this for what reason exactly?