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When this guy gets worried, we all should be worried:
69 Killed in Separate Outbreaks of Violence
By Juan Cole
03/27/06 “ICH” — – All hell broke loose in Iraq on Sunday, but I’m darned if I can figure out most of what happened or why. It seems possible that the US committed two major military blunders that will worsen its relationship with Iraqi political forces.
Nice sign. Go here to help hold Bush accountable.
Looking back on the string of unfulfilled objectives, broken promises, squandered dreams, shattered bodies and eviscerated lives that was and is the war in Iraq, one thought emerges plain and clear. This isn’t simply a result of bad governance. This is criminal.
Bad governance is telling the American people that a war with Iraq would be concluded in a manner of months, and would cost the American taxpayer less that $2 billion, when in fact the war has gone on for three years now, with no end in sight, and over a quarter-trillion dollars have been expended, with untold billions more to be spent.
Criminal governance is the fabrication of a justification for war (weapons of mass destruction), hiding the President’s true intentions from the American people and the Congress of the United States (Bush signed off on the Iraq war plans in late August 2002, and yet continued to publicly state that no decision for military action had been made), and shredding international law by waging an aggressive war of pre-emption void of any United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing such actions.
Continue reading It’s criminal by Scott Ridder, former weapons inspector in Iraq.
More Walgreens customers sue over insults on their prescription printouts
Missy Stoddard
Less than a month after a Palm Beach woman sued Walgreens for labeling her CrAzY!!” and “psycho” in its nationwide computer system, two more Floridians have come forward with similar allegations.
A Palm Beach Gardens grandmother, 64, filed suit Wednesday, accusing the retail chain of negligent supervision and intentional infliction of emotional distress for typing in its system in May 2003: “WATCH CONTROLS SHE SEEMS SHADY.”
For nearly 20 years, Elizabeth Noah has patronized the Fairway Drive Walgreens near her home in PGA National, she said. So when the retired United Technologies financial analyst picked up a prescription for anxiety medication the evening of Feb. 6, she began to cry when she read the notation on the Drug Utilization Review — or DUR — stapled to the bag.
“It hurt my feelings so bad,” she said. “I’m always nice. I’ve been going there forever. I’ve had secret clearance [at work] and never even had parking tickets. I’m always dressed nicely and have my makeup on and my hair done. I was raised that your reputation goes with you everywhere.”
What the hell is it with druggists these days? First, they won’t fill legitimate perscriptions, then they insult you to boot. Dudes, you ain’t god, or even a doctor. Your job consists of reading a piece of paper, finding a jar, counting, and typing. Can ya do that without editorializing?
Did White House Direct Phone Jamming Scheme?
Washington, DC - A new report suggests that the national Republican establishment–including the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and even the Bush White House–may have had a role in the criminal Election Day phone jamming scheme that disenfranchised countless New Hampshire voters in 2002.
The Union Leader today reported that “court records show Ken Mehlman’s office received more than 75 telephone calls from now-convicted phone-jam conspirator James Tobin from Sept. 30 to Nov. 22 of that year.” At the time, Mehlman–the current RNC Chair–was White House political director. [Union Leader, 3/23/06] This raises the disturbing question of whether Tobin, who worked for the RNC and the NRSC at the time and has since been convicted on two criminal charges for his role in the scheme, discussed the plan with one of the President’s most important political strategists.
Today’s news also has important implications for other national Republican figures. At the time the phone jamming scheme was devised and implemented, Tobin’s supervisor at the RNC was Terry Nelson, who Arizona Republican Senator John McCain recently hired as a senior strategist for his Political Action Committee. This means that McCain may have hired one of the key figures in the phone jamming scheme.
Republicans- a culture of corruption.
Generally, when our fair state appears in the news, you can smell the Daisy Dukes and future “COPS” stars a mile away. But finally, news we can like:
Poll: Reed a drag on GOP ticket
A tough race for Sonny could be even tougher with Reed at his side. Or so sayeth the pollster.
On Monday, pollster Matt Towery raised Republican blood pressure with the news that President Bush’s approval ratings in Georgia had dropped significantly.
And that Gov. Sonny Perdue was no longer the shoo-in many thought he would be this November.
On Tuesday, the head of Internet political news service Insider Advantage cut loose another set of worrisome numbers for the state’s Republicans: Ralph Reed, the GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, at this point represents an 8-point drag on a Perdue-Reed ticket.
Ha. Keep it up fellas.
Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas goes Samuel L. Jackson on King George:
HELEN THOMAS: I’d like to ask you, Mr. President, your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is, why did you really want to go to war? From the moment you stepped into the White House, from your Cabinet — your Cabinet officers, intelligence people, and so forth — what was your real reason? You have said it wasn’t oil — quest for oil, it hasn’t been Israel, or anything else. What was it?
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I think your premise, in all due respect to your question and to you as a lifelong journalist, is that, you know, I didn’t want war. To assume I wanted war is just flat wrong, Helen, in all due respect —
HELEN THOMAS: Everything —
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Hold on for a second, please.
HELEN THOMAS: — everything I’ve heard —
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Excuse me, excuse me. No president wants war. Everything you may have heard is that, but it’s just simply not true. My attitude about the defense of this country changed on September the 11th. We — when we got attacked, I vowed then and there to use every asset at my disposal to protect the American people. Our foreign policy changed on that day, Helen. You know, we used to think we were secure because of oceans and previous diplomacy, but we realized on September the 11th, 2001, that killers could destroy innocent life. And I’m never going to forget it. And I’m never going to forget the vow I made to the American people that we will do everything in our power to protect our people.
Part of that meant to make sure that we didn’t allow people to provide safe haven to an enemy. And that’s why I went into Iraq — hold on for a second —
HELEN THOMAS: They didn’t do anything to you or to our country.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Look — excuse me for a second, please. Excuse me for a second. They did. The Taliban provided safe haven for al-Qaeda. That’s where al-Qaeda trained —
HELEN THOMAS: I’m talking about Iraq —
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Helen, excuse me. That’s where — Afghanistan provided safe haven for al-Qaeda. That’s where they trained. That’s where they plotted. That’s where they planned the attacks that killed thousands of innocent Americans.
Helps to remember who you invaded and why, jackass.
Hague in the morning:
May 17 – The White House’s top lawyer warned more than two years ago that U.S. officials could be prosecuted for “war crimes” as a result of new and unorthodox measures used by the Bush administration in the war on terrorism, according to an internal White House memo and interviews with participants in the debate over the issue.
The concern about possible future prosecution for war crimes–and that it might even apply to Bush adminstration officials themselves– is contained in a crucial portion of an internal January 25, 2002, memo by White House counsel Alberto Gonzales obtained by NEWSWEEK. It urges President George Bush declare the war in Afghanistan, including the detention of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, exempt from the provisions of the Geneva Convention.
Continue reading Memos Reveal War Crimes Warnings
US military probes Iraq killings
Relatives say troops went on the rampage
US military investigators have flown to Iraq to study reports that marines shot dead at least 15 civilians, including seven women and three children.
The incident is said to have happened in Haditha on 19 November 2005.
The military’s initial claim that the civilians died in a roadside blast was disproved by an earlier investigation.
Investigators will now ask if the civilians died in crossfire or were targeted deliberately in a potential war crime.
“Hell yeah its Vietnam all over again- and this time, we’re gonna WIN!”
Don’t think so.
Remember TTP mentioning some months back the story of the “Denver 3″, the people removed from a Bush event in Colorado because of an anti-Bush sticker on their car? White House gibbering idiot Scott McClellan belched out the following, when asked if the people had any connection to the White House:
MR. McCLELLAN: … My understanding that a volunteer at this event — and let me — I need to back up before that. We use a lot of volunteers at events to help us in a number of different areas because you obviously have — you tend to have a lot of people come into the event, a lot of logistical support that you need, and so we do rely on volunteers to help in a lot of different ways at events.
Now, in terms of this issue, my understanding is a volunteer was concerned that these three individuals were coming to the event solely for the purpose of disrupting it.
Make sure you’re sitting down for the next bit, since it’s so shocking. Not. Turns out pasty boy was yet again lying:
Now, I’m sure the MM’s of the world will debate the exact phrases used by the weasels, but a rational person says:
Lying again.
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