It's only getting uglier. The further we get from the Bush years, the more weird details trickle out. Robert Draper's new story on Donald Rumsfeld shows the former defense secretary in such a bad light that it almost reads like a parody.
Video 1 - CBS reports that Donald Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 TRILLION was missing from the Pentagon budget. That's big news in itself, but it's off the charts THAN HE ANNOUNCED IT ON 9/10/2001! The day before 9/11! So, it was totally wiped out of the news! What a coincidence! How many coincidences are you going to believe? Video 2 - Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney grills Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the Pentagon's missing trillions, DynCorp's slave trade, and the 9/11 wargames. House Hearing on FY06 Dept. of Defense Budget, March 11, 2005. Video 3 - Rumsfeld: Iraq War will last 6 days Video 4 - WMD LIES Video 5 - Rumsfeld met with cries of "WAR CRIMINAL" at White House correspondents dinner Video 6 - Rumsfeld WHOOPS! Says Shanksville plane was "shot down"
TO paraphrase Al Pacino in “Godfather III,” just when we thought we were out, the Bush mob keeps pulling us back in. And will keep doing so. No matter how hard President Obama tries to turn the page on the previous administration, he can’t. Until there is true transparency and true accountability, revelations of that unresolved eight-year nightmare will keep raining down drip by drip, disrupting the new administration’s high ambitions.
These photos were taken using cameras owned by Cpl. Charles A. Graner Jr., Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick II and Spc. Sabrina Harman. They depict a dead Iraqi detainee, Manadel al-Jamadi, whose body had been stored by CIA personnel overnight in a shower room at Abu Ghraib. Two of the photos show Graner and Harman posing with al-Jamadi's corpse.
● Torture doesn't work in providing information which will keep us safe ● Torture actually reduces our national security ● Most of those tortured were innocent ● They were not tortured in order to prevent terrorist attacks, but to create a false justification for the war in Iraq (by creating a false linkage between Iraq and Al Qaeda) ● Attorney General Holder has admitted that torture is a crime, at least if it results in death. Many have been tortured to death. ● Worse was done at Guantanamo and at Bagram Air base. ● Torture has also been used throughout history as a form of intimidation, to terrorize people into obedience. However, it is not yet clear whether or not this was one of the reasons that the Bush administration implemented a policy of torture.
The Movie: "Taxi To The Dark Side", the story of the U.S torturing an innocent Iraqi taxi driver to death.
Not unlike a sudden appearance of stinkhorn burrowing out of loamy earth, revelations continue to blossom wildly that the US government now simply functions as a gateway to untold and undeserved riches for the well-connected. The latest rancid bud to emerge from the fertile soil of entrenched corruption comes from news that the FBI have been investigating two "enforcement" lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
So, the JACKASS teabagger governor of Texas still wants to secede, huh? Republicans are patriotic...only when there's a Republican president. It's all inflammatory rhetoric. When 9/11 happened on Bush/Cheney's watch, you didn't see Democrats going around in the media doing this to Republicans. I've written here previously, that Texas leaving the U.S. (good riddance, btw...PLEASE leave!) would assure the Democrats of winning every presidential election forever. The enormous amount of electoral votes Texas had, was always a good Republican stalwart against the massive electoral votes of blue states New York and California. Keith Olbmermann (below video) thinks of sooooo many more things that I didn't think of. The Dallas Cowboys: North Texas' team...no longer America's team. And hispanics will outnumber whites in Texas very shortly, and maybe they'll vote to annex to Mexico? The country of Tejas will be cordonned off from the U.S. with another wall...on the north? See the video for much MUCH more. Oh, and btw...Texan George Bush can be their presient...FOREVER! I'm serious, when I say, and I've always said, I wish they would secede! Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Country of Tejas! And you know what else? I hate the Dallas Cowboys, I'm a Philadelphia Eagles fan, anyway! Teabag that!
The ease Republicans have in shifting the conversation from "torture is illegal" to "NANCY KNEW," as if the latter, even if true, in any way changed the former. They kick the soccer ball, and the press follows. After all these years I'm not entirely sure why that is, but there you are. And, you know, disgraced former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has precisely zero power but his every pronouncement is treated as Incredibly Important News. Any journalists want to explain why?
Tracing Torture's Trail - the history of waterboarding is to get false confessions to justify your illegal acts...Cheney needed a false connection between Al Quada and Sadaam. Someone on TV actually explains the entire torture timeline! Cheney needed a false confession of an Al Quada/Sadaam link...FOR A WAR THAT ALREADY STARTED! AND HAD NO JUSTIFICATION! And don't forget, the FALSE claims of WMD's in Iraq!
It's only getting uglier. The further we get from the Bush years, the more weird details trickle out. Robert Draper's new story on Donald Rumsfeld shows the former defense secretary in such a bad light that it almost reads like a parody.
