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Commerce Dept docs: Cheney and oil execs decided to take Iraq’s oil in spring 2001

February 21, 2008 – 9:17 am

The Commerce Department has been forced by Judicial Watch to turn over records of spring, 2001 meetings held between Dick Cheney and execs from global oil giants, records that suggest that the group decided months before September 11th that the US energy policy would center on taking control of Iraq’s oil:
In [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Bush crime family, Corporate control, Foreign policy, Middle East conflicts, War on terror | Comments (0)

Iranian Cartoonist Marjane Satrapi

January 30, 2008 – 10:46 am

Marjane Satrapi and her comic self portrait.
KBOO’s Words and Pictures show recently featured an interview with Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, whose autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis was just made into a feature length film.
“Satrapi became famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her [...]

By Rich | Also posted in Culture, Middle East conflicts | Comments (0)

strangely, that’s just what bush & cheney wanted to hear

January 15, 2008 – 10:26 am

It’s funny how things always seem to work out that way (with the sole exception of the Iran NIE):
The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able on its own to defend Iraq’s borders from external threat until [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, Military | Comments (0)

Hillary, What Took You So Long?

January 13, 2008 – 10:53 pm

Senator Clinton defends her vote for the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Saddam as a vote to get the weapons inspectors back into Iraq. It will be interesting to see whether Senator Chuck Hagle (R-NE) would corroborate Clinton’s claim that he sold this as an attempt to use the threat [...]

By FOIA Gras | Also posted in Impeachment | Comments (1)

harvard should sue bush for defaming its m.b.a. program every time he opens his mouth

December 18, 2007 – 11:25 am

The prez-gnat yesterday:
…And so we cut taxes. And I mean we cut them on everybody.
…
And the plan worked. If you think about where we were coming out of 2001 and where we are today, you can’t help but say the plan worked; cutting taxes helped stimulate economic growth. …And so we’ve had a pretty good [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, Economic justice, Gov Acctability, Healthcare, Military | Comments (3)

on healthcare, iraq, soldiers returning with ptsd, and so much else

December 13, 2007 – 11:43 am

Sometimes to find hope for the future we have to look to the past. In the excellent book Jewish Travellers, you can read the travelogue of Rabbi Benjamin ben Jonah of Tudela in Navarre, the most famous of Jewish travellers in the late Middle Ages. He finished the travels he describes in 1173:
[The [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, Healthcare, Human rights, Katrina, Middle East conflicts, Peace, Religion | Comments (0)

is that a pardon in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

December 10, 2007 – 10:52 am

A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, has dropped his appeal in a perjury case that fueled debate over the Iraq war, his attorney said on Monday.
Libby was found guilty in March of lying and obstructing an investigation into who blew the cover of a CIA officer, Valerie Plame, whose [...]

By slim | Also posted in Bush crime family, Gov Acctability, Republicans | Comments (1)

A Simple Film about Rights

December 3, 2007 – 12:42 pm

Found this video over at the Question Authority group on the Mondo Globo social network site as originally pointed out to me by Rich in an earlier post.  The video is definitely simple, but done very well.  It is a reminder about our individual rights and the responsibilities that ensue from them.

“Free people do bad [...]

By bushtool | Also posted in Civil rights, Human rights | Comments (0)

does this mean we get six more weeks of winter?

November 26, 2007 – 12:43 pm

The war czar has come out of his hidey hole, at the press briefing today with Dana Peroxide:
GENERAL LUTE: As Dana just mentioned, today is an important day for us on the Iraq team, because President Bush and Prime Minister Maliki of Iraq signed an important document that frames our emerging strategic relationship with Iraq. [...]

By slim | Also posted in Iran, Military | Comments (0)

Baird doesn’t fail to disappoint again

November 15, 2007 – 6:32 am

Our U.S. Congressman Rep. Brian Baird, who was against the war but now is for the Iraq occupation, joined a small minority of House Democrats and voted against the war funding bill yesterday which calls for a withdrawal by December 15, 2008. It is obvious he no longer cares about his constituents at all [...]

By bushtool | Also posted in Baird, Brian | Comments (1)