Monthly Archives: June 2008

Preparing the Battlefield in Iran

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No, that is not a typo. It does say Iran, not Iraq.

Follow this link to the astounding article by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker.

Follow this link to an article on Huffington Post that has a CNN interview with Seymour Hersh about his New Yorker article.

Follow this link for an interview of Seymour Hersh on Fresh Air on NPR. In many ways, the information divulged in this interview is much more frightening than anything I read in the New Yorker article. (The link to the NPR interview was given to me by Richard H.)

Terrorism Fight Held Hostage by Republicans

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The Republicans seem so adamant that the new FISA bill before the Senate must have immunity for the telcos for their past crimes, that they are willing to see our intelligence agencies hamstrung unless they get their demands.

Why is telco immunity more important to Republicans than is our national security?

Why can’t the Democrats ask the Republicans why they would be willing to torpedo this bill if the telco’s cannot get immunity?

Why are the Democrats so bad at framing the issues?  Can they negotiate their way out of a paper bag?

Taliban ambassador wielded power within Guantanamo

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Follow this link to this central part of the McClatchy story and an index to the other parts of the story.

This part of the story does not match the tone of the other parts that I have posted.  I have provided this link so that there can be no accusation that I am hiding the parts that don’t adhere to the party line.  Whatever conclusions you come to, I want you to have the whole story.

Bush officials committed war crimes

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Follow this link to another article from McClatchy.

Here is the introduction to the news story:

The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing “war crimes” and called for those responsible to be held to account.