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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
"He once before called me a "civil liberties extremist." I'm not sure why he thinks those are insults." Glenn, you couldn't have hit Mr. Klein any harder if you used a brick bat instead. I couldn't help but smile when I read that :) I know he's just like that two faced ferry operator in the Clint Eastwood film "The Outlaw Josey Wales". Singing "Dixie" for Clint, carrying him across the river, only to change to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" upon seeing the gathering Union soldiers on the other side. In France, after the War, the city residents would drag this sort out into the streets and shave them and humiliate them in all sorts of ways. I'm glad to see you doing the same to such collaborators. It's a shame that they have no sense of shame. What can we do? I'm for pushing Barack to join the World Court and take the politics out of it, but I'm either greeted with silence or wonder. Is this not possible? Sure, I know why Bush Jr. and Cheney didn't want to join, but why not now? As you so rightly put it, they will have a target on their chest from now on in the World's opinion.
Well, thanks again for the best read of the day! I always come away feeling better informed, if not always convinced we're going to make it. That's certainly not your fault, brother man. Take care, Compadre.
"There are objective metrics which measure how widely cited and discussed someone's writings are."
Could you provide a link to the aforementioned metrics?
Thanks!
"There has not been an attack. "
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.
-- Jim White
[Read Jim White's other letters]
Permalink Thursday, January 8, 2009 08:13 AM
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I'm not going to bother reading your other letters, to get a sense of "who you are" or any of that silly tripe. I'm going to judge you on the ignorance I read now. That junk you wrote is typical stupidity I read when lurking at the reichwing blahgs. You not only apologize for Junior dropping the intel ball and letting the attacks occur (which was his first impeachable offense), now you want us to drop to our knees and profusely suck his ass for keeping us "safe" ever since then, praise baby jayzus. If that'd been Jimmy Carter (and definitely Slick Williness), he would have been impeached in short order, for Dereliction of Duty (the Duty being taking heed of the warnings that were ignored-re C. Rice and others). But you, in typical king worshipping rethug fashion, want to give him a medal for fucking up. Your idiotic and twisted (punks like to twist things) suggestion to ask Kondracke blah, blah, blah, is about as useful as tits on a boar hog. Who in their right mind is going to attempt a repeat of 9/11 with what little comparative resouces they have? Are you out of your freakin... skip it. I just answered my own question. They got our ATTENTION and that means MISSION REALLY ACCOMPLISHED. What an asinine comment.
You may want to read that letter again.
It's pretty clear that it means the exact opposite of what you seem to think it means.
of a very dispiriting day, Glenn, when you responded:
I should also note that it hurts my feelings when you say these mean things about what I'm writing and, through the pain . . .
I laughed so hard my clown nose flew off behind the monitor and fell off the desk.
There should be grand jury and/or Congressional investigations. The only way to "keep it from happening again" is to do something about it NOW. (Of course, Congress looked the other way at this shit for years.)
When Saint Barack of Obama becomes President Obama The Divine on January 20, will it be his first miracle to order investigations?
If I understand his argument, he's offended that GG accuses him of him of "completely" changing his mind because he can cite years worth of articles where he waffles and can't stick to one position. People who consistently express one position are monomaniacal. Ergo, JoeK is and has always been a spineless jellyfish. This is his closing argument? Good grief.
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?
The lawlessness that went around abroad is soon to be coming around back home:
Peter Dale Scott: Martial Law, the Financial Bailout and WarThe Intensive Quiet Preparations for Martial Law
Let us deal first with the preparations for martial law. On September 30, 2008, the Army Times announced the redeployment of an active Brigade Army Team from Iraq to America, in a new mission that "may become a permanent part of the active Army":
The 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.
Now they're training for the same mission -- with a twist -- at home.
Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. . . . After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one. . . .They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control.17
This announcement followed by two weeks the talk of civil unrest and martial law that was used to panic the Congress into passing Paulson's bailout legislation. Not only that, the two unprecedented events mirror each other: the bailout debate anticipated civil unrest and martial law, while the announced positioning of an active Brigade Combat Team on U.S. soil anticipated civil unrest (such as might result from the bailout legislation).
http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20090108233407311
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
