test. dumped. redumped. dopey dump? bad celery? stumpo-o?

bestomp-o? dump-o? ignore-o. who knows-0? let's fond of out-o?

what happened to bebop-0?

O, stump-o? no bepopeo-0!

So what if Iraqi politics is so convoluted that no one is headed to a common goal and that democracy is a sham that never could have worked.

Good points all, RMP. That specific one though is the one that makes me wonder what some people here in America are on. We Americas are at at our wits end with our own political situation, yet the Bush Administration has been trying to sell, for years now, that they, all by their their incompetent and dishonest selves, are helping the puppet Iraqi government "stand up so that we can stand down". It just does not get anymore ludicrous than that.

Kitt: "...But yet Greenwald's commentariat are warmongers. Go figure."

Like a little kid, Kitt tries to pretend that my contention that Timberman is a warmonger is the same as calling all of Glenn's commenter's the same. He always hides behind the group, like the little school yard coward behind his friends as he yells insults.

Kitt, you are slime. Notice that I have not called all here slime, nor even the cabal (6 people approx); rather I have called you slime for the continual lies that you tell while at the same time pretending that the entire universe of people who like GG's writing are your 'buds' and have your back.

Please go out and play in the yard more often and let your mom have some peace.

Did I not pay my gold member maintenance dues? Have I been too obnoxious? childish?

What's happening? I try to get on Salon and the Internet says I'm not able -- and will shut down. Then I get on with a guest

pass. I'm confused.

just fun and games?

[Arne]: I blogged on that [colour coded security levels] very thought a while back:

[Mona]: All very good and well, Arne, but there have been no updates in a damn coon's age. If one wishes to warn one's readers, friends and family -- what is the terror color now, huh, Mr. hot shot blogger?

Oh, I know I've been slacking, but I did promise myself I'd update it the very minute I heard in an airport that the "colour of the day" changed (providing the Terra-ists didn't sabotage the airport wireless....)

Can you use your pull in Warshington to see if you could get me something to post about? Liquids are still banned, but they seem to be easing on the digital altimeter watches (click my sig for the gruesome details).

Cheers,

Well, Bucky, you'll have to tell me what it is that sets William and I apart from RMP, Anonymust, Ondelette, Aych in a lot of categories, and Bebop-o, Gordon, Jim White and whole batch of regular folks who comment on here. Cause, you know what, I don't see it.

The front page photo of YKW scares the jello-o?

Who cares? It's not worth the aggravations. It's time for supper.

One thing I think hasn't been explored yet is the "illegal" listening to US persons from a wiretap on a foreign person. From what I've been able to tell, anyone contacting a legal wiretap in the US is legally listened to as well. If it's legal here, it should certainly be legal there.

As I've explained in the past, your conversations in the U.S. may be recorded and listened to ... if you call someone on whom a wiretap warrant has been issued. This means theres some preliminary reason to suspect foul things afoot in the conversation. We don't require that all participants in domestic calls have individual warrants on them, or wiretap only conversations between valid "targets".

The same should go for the FISA snoops, no? So if you have a FISA court order, you should be able to wiretap to your heart's content, even if they're talking to the effin' preznit of the Yoo-nited States. Oh.... Right, I forgot.... In fact, that is what the FISA act of 1978 did allow.

OTOH, if we're allowing "free sniffs" of foreign people without a warrant, we really don't want to use these sniffs absent probable cause (on anyone) to be a "backdoor" to listen to U.S. persons absent the requisite FISA warrant.

Cheers,

I believe they are wrong and the Republicans will be trounced in the November election.

Retired Military Patriot

Let's hope so! But how do you get from a Dem Pres to the end of the War On Iraq? I don't see the connection. And I have not heard anything from Hilary, and little from Barack, which leads me to believe the election of Dems and the end of the war are automatically connected. If you have, pass along a link, please. I'd be eager to read it.

Q [...] For five centuries it's been known as torture, American prosecutors actually obtained convictions against Japanese after World War II because of what they did to American captives. What about it makes it not torture now? Is it just the circumstances?

MR. FRATTO: I don't think that's a question I can answer. [...]

I think I can explain the 'reasoning' ... here:

http://tinyurl.com/ysz2rv

(or click my sig).

Yes, it's the "circumstances"....

Well, Bucky, you'll have to tell me what it is that sets William and I apart from RMP, Anonymust, Ondelette, Aych in a lot of categories, and Bebop-o, Gordon, Jim White and whole batch of regular folks who comment on here. Cause, you know what, I don't see it.

No little one, I do not 'have to tell' you a damn thing.

If Timberman ever wants to talk over this issue, then I will accommodate him, but you are no William Timberman. He stands accused of 'ironic evil' while you are just slime. Since I have told him that he is guilty of ironic evil, he stands accused of being a good man trying to do good. You? Not so much.

But thank for proving on the same page as I wrote last that you are hiding behind others every time you want to start this mud slinging crap. I wrote that Glenn got a good review and you used that to attack; fine we all know you only care about yourself. But little coward, the names you mention are not the ones that are having a disagreement over LBJ with me. Nor you.

Go play in the yard.