Fla. Republicans won't back Rep. Harris - Yahoo! News

The bush boys are getting their revenge with the uppity Harris. How dare that bitch when they have other plans. It is kinda fun to see her getting her cumuppance after her performance in the 2000 screwing of Al Gore. What goes around comes around.
Fla. Republicans won't back Rep. Harris - Yahoo! News: "Fla. Republicans won't back Rep. Harris "

Roberts and Alito Misled Us

A great article by Senator Edward Kennedy.
"The careful, bipartisan process of years past -- like so many checks and balances rooted in our Constitution -- has been badly broken by the current Bush administration. The result has been the confirmation of two justices, John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr., whose voting record on the court reflects not the neutral, modest judicial philosophy they promised the Judiciary Committee, but an activist's embrace of the administration's political and ideological agenda."
Roberts and Alito Misled Us: "Roberts and Alito Misled Us"
"We need to remember what this process is all about. It is good to hear that a nominee has a loving family, faithful friends and a sense of humor. It is important to know that nominees possess the intellect, life experience and discipline that make a good judge. But it is essential that we learn enough of their legal views to be certain that they will make good on the simple promise etched in marble outside the Supreme Court: "Equal Justice Under Law.""

Roberts and Alito Misled Us

A great article by Senator Edward Kennedy.
"The careful, bipartisan process of years past -- like so many checks and balances rooted in our Constitution -- has been badly broken by the current Bush administration. The result has been the confirmation of two justices, John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr., whose voting record on the court reflects not the neutral, modest judicial philosophy they promised the Judiciary Committee, but an activist's embrace of the administration's political and ideological agenda."
Roberts and Alito Misled Us: "Roberts and Alito Misled Us"
"We need to remember what this process is all about. It is good to hear that a nominee has a loving family, faithful friends and a sense of humor. It is important to know that nominees possess the intellect, life experience and discipline that make a good judge. But it is essential that we learn enough of their legal views to be certain that they will make good on the simple promise etched in marble outside the Supreme Court: "Equal Justice Under Law.""

US Plans $4.6 Billion in Mideast Arms Sales

This middle east war thing is really good for business. Especially if you're in the killing and maiming business like the bush crime family. And especially to the so called friends the Saudi's. Gotta protect those oil fields at all cost.
US Plans $4.6 Billion in Mideast Arms Sales - New York Times

Oil spill adds ecological crisis to Lebanon's agony

People who shit in their own nest should be made to clean it up and pay for it. Will Israel come up with the $40million to $50million to clean it up or will good old uncle get the tab?
Reuters AlertNet - Oil spill adds ecological crisis to Lebanon's agony

One more disaster. Nothing to see here, so move on.......

So what's the big deal? “They are under a ‘term contract,’ which means their job is over when their money ends,” Mr. Snider said. So despite not finishing the hospital, he said, “they did complete the contract.”
Series of Woes Mar Iraq Project Hailed as Model - New York Times
The United States is dropping Bechtel, the American construction giant, from a project to build a high-tech children’s hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Basra after the project fell nearly a year behind schedule and exceeded its expected cost by as much as 150 percent.

'Waiting to Get Blown Up'

"It sucks. Honestly, it just feels like we're driving around waiting to get blown up. That's the most honest answer I could give you," said Spec. Tim Ivey, 28, of San Antonio, a muscular former backup fullback for Baylor University. "You lose a couple friends and it gets hard."
'Waiting to Get Blown Up'
Some Troops in Baghdad Express Frustration With the War and Their Mission

At the heart of the Lebanon crisis lie the lethal mistakes of George Bush

Instead of pursuing a Middle East peace deal, the White House's big idea has been to bomb people into democracy
"But the record of failure goes deeper than that. It began in the president's first week, when Bush decided he would not repeat what he perceived as his predecessor's mistake by allowing his presidency to be mired in the fruitless search for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Even though Clinton had got tantalisingly close, Bush decided to drop it. While Henry Kissinger once racked up 24,230 miles in just 34 days of shuttle diplomacy, Bush's envoys have been sparing in their visits to the region.
The result is that the core conflict has been allowed to fester. Had it been solved, or even if there had been a serious effort to solve it, the current crisis would have been unimaginable. Instead, Bush's animating idea has been that the peoples of the Middle East can be bombed into democracy and terrorised into moderation. It has proved one of the great lethal mistakes of his abominable presidency - and the peoples of Israel and Lebanon are paying the price."
Guardian Unlimited Comment is free At the heart of the Lebanon crisis lie the lethal mistakes of George Bush

Sectarian break-up of Iraq is now inevitable, admit officials

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, meets Tony Blair in London today as violence in Iraq reaches a new crescendo and senior Iraqi officials say the break up of the country is inevitable.
Independent Online Edition > Middle East

U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis - New York Times

The Israel/Hezbollah war which is one of the early skirmishes of WWIII is damn good for business in the good old USA. So why would bush and the republican congress wish to oppose the killing when its putting money in their pockets. American supplied airplanes flown by Israeli pilots dropping hardware onto innocent civilians. What a cash cow this is if you're into the killing and maiming business.
U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis - New York Times: "The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday."

The coward cheney

Just keep on killing and maiming so cheney can declare another "mission accomplished" in Iraq. I hope to see him at the Hague.
Cheney uses Mideast as campaign issue - Yahoo! News: "Cheney also administered the re-enlistment oath to Cpl. Jerrod Fields, a 24-year-old Army gunner from Chicago who was determined to remain in the ranks after losing his left leg last year to a bomb blast in Iraq."

Iraqi Prime Minister Denounces Israel�s Actions

Now what do we do? It looks like the string must have broken on bush's puppet.
"The resentment of the Iraqi government toward Israel calls into question one of the rationales among some conservatives for the American invasion of Iraq — that an American-backed democratic state here would inevitably become an ally of Israel and, by doing so, catalyze a change of attitude across the rest of the Arab world."
Iraqi Prime Minister Denounces Israels Actions - New York Times: "His stance is noteworthy because it is a significant split with American policy toward Israel. It has been the Americans hope that Iraq would become President Bushs staunchest ally among Arab nations. The Americans arranged a series of elections that ended up putting Shiite parties in power, and the White House helped boost Mr. Maliki by pushing last spring for the ouster of the prime minister at the time, Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Mr. Maliki relies on the presence of 134,000 American troops in Iraq to stave off the insurgency led by Sunni Arabs, who ruled over the majority Shiite Arabs for decades."

Bushs Policy Chit-Chat: Undiplomatic Prose

The asshole shows his ignorance and supposed self importance once again.
Bushs Policy Chit-Chat: Undiplomatic Prose - New York Times

Lieberman Hopes His Fate Isn't Sealed With a Kiss

What goes around comes around Joe. What did you expect?
Lieberman Hopes His Fate Isnt Sealed With a Kiss - New York Times
Privately, other leading Democrats have been quick to catalog what they consider to be Mr. Lieberman’s slights to the party over the years — including his mild-mannered performance in his vice-presidential debate against Dick Cheney in 2000; his rejection of a filibuster that would have opposed the nomination of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court; and his on-air chumminess with Sean Hannity, the conservative co-host of “Hannity & Colmes” on Fox News. His willingness to run for re-election as an independent is merely the latest offense.

Wiretap Surrender

Wiretap Surrender: "SENATE JUDICIARY Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has cast his agreement with the White House on legislation concerning the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance as a compromise -- one in which President Bush accepts judicial review of the program. It isn't a compromise, except quite dramatically on the senator's part. Mr. Specter's bill began as a flawed but well-intentioned effort to get the program in front of the courts, but it has been turned into a green light for domestic spying. It must not pass."

Bush blocks WTO entry for Russia - Yahoo! News

What makes our esteemed leader think he's in charge all the time. Score one for Putin.
Bush blocks WTO entry for Russia - Yahoo! News: "ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - In a chilly summit prelude, President Bush blocked Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization on Saturday and President Vladimir Putin mockingly said Moscow doesn't want the kind of violence-plagued democracy the United States has fostered in Iraq."

"It was despicable when the Republicans used the photos of 9/11 for political purposes. Was that despicable?"

Why are these self righteous assholes like Buyer making such a fuss about pictures of flag draped coffins? Why are they so afraid to show them coming in at Dover, Md. They along with the coward george bush who sent them there and who hasn't attended one soldiers funeral should be the ones apologizing to the military families.
Republicans blast Emanuel for coffin pictures Chicago Tribune: "Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Steve Buyer (R-Ind.) complained that Democrats were cheapening the service and sacrifice of military members for political gain.

'To Rahm Emanuel, to remove the shame you made by your mistake, the first thing you do is stop the rhetoric, shut your mouth, you clean up the mistake and then you apologize to the military families in this country,' Buyer said."

Bush's style of diplomacy: Texas bullshit talk

Snow can spin more bullshit than a Texas cattle rancher.
Bush's style of diplomacy: Texas plain talk - Yahoo! News: "Although he is often portrayed as a bit of a bull in a china shop, White House spokesman Tony Snow credited Bush with 'a chess player's ability to think several moves ahead' in his dealings with foreign leaders.
'He tries to figure out what incentives are going to appeal to people to inspire them in a way that we think is helpful and right. It's a real gift and it's something you don't see unless you are on the inside,' Snow said."

Bush told Cheney to discredit diplomat critical of Iraq policy

The revelation that Mr Bush instructed Mr Cheney to personally oversee the campaign to discredit Mr Wilson arrives at an inconvenient time for a White House vehement in criticising leaks.
Last month it condemned as "disgraceful" a report in the New York Times that agents from the CIA and treasury departments had been secretly monitoring international wire transfers without court oversight.
Guardian Unlimited Special reports Bush told Cheney to discredit diplomat critical of Iraq policy: "President George Bush directed his vice-president, Dick Cheney, to take personal charge of a campaign to discredit a former ambassador who had accused the administration of twisting prewar intelligence on Iraq, it emerged yesterday."

WWFFD? Who cares?

"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind," Jefferson wrote in 1816. "As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstance, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."
WWFFD? Who cares? - Los Angeles Times: "The real American question of our times is how our country in a little over 200 years sank from the great hope to the most backward democracy in the West. The U.S. offers the worst healthcare program, one of the worst public school systems and the worst benefits for workers. The margin between rich and poor has been growing precipitously while it has been decreasing in Europe. Among the great democracies, we use military might less cautiously, show less respect for international law and are the stumbling block in international environmental cooperation. Few informed people look to the United States anymore for progressive ideas."