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Federal Continuity Directive 1: Beyond Duct Tape
Lifted shamelessly from Bad Attitudes. Freedom Through Fear [snip] But today’s topic in the post-election prolonging of Bush ideology is the attempt to reinforce and extend the primacy of the “global war on terror“ (GWOT in Bush-speak) as the federal … Continue reading
We Need to Lead by Example, Not Threats
Toward a Humanist Foreign Policyby Carl Coon President George W. Bush has proved to be as much of a disaster on foreign affairs as on domestic issues. More, if possible. And not just on Iraq. On many other issues, including … Continue reading
So?
Well, this should yield lots of great results. Maybe Darth will even give all of us the same “respect” he gave Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor a few years ago. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog American Public Says … Continue reading
More On Police State Amerikkka
We are coming to the point that we must conclude that George W. Bush and his entire administration could not, cannot, and will never do one fucking thing right. Now they turn away Iraqi refugees for having participated 17 years … Continue reading
From the Creeps Who’ve Spent Billions on War
White House Official Tells Judge: Searching for Missing Emails Too Much Workby Jason Leopold / March 24th, 2008 The White House’s chief information officer said the Bush administration should not be compelled to search for millions of emails on individual … Continue reading
Our Reputation in the World Is in the Toilet
Happy Anniversary, America! How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be?By David Michael Green 24/03/08 “ICH” — — Watching George W. Bush in operation these last couple of weeks is like having an out-of-body experience. On acid. During a nightmare. In … Continue reading
The Neocons Had Deliberately Gamed the System
From Juan Cole’s Informed Comment. This demonstrates the depth of criminality centred in the White House and highest levels of the BushCo administration. It is beyond me how we do nothing in the face of such contempt for the law … Continue reading
BushCo – Stealing Legislative Responsibilities
No Evidence For Administration’s Claim On U.S.-Iraqi Declaration Of Principlesby Jonathan Schwarz, for Democrats.com The Politico reported last week that a senior administration official stated that conflict with Congress over the U.S.-Iraqi Declaration of Principles for an ongoing bilateral agreement … Continue reading
New Scandal : State Department Violation of Obama Privacy
BREAKING NEWSObama’s passport files breached. [We aren’t normally in the business of breaking news, but this is pretty interesting stuff and could have very significant ramifications. So pay attention. The Rag Blog.] By Huffington Post / March 20 Two State … Continue reading
Diplomats Still Say No to U.S. Policy
Why We Said No: Three Diplomats’ Dutyby Ann Wright, John Brown, and Brady Kiesling / Huffington Post / March 20, 2008 Five years ago this month, the three of us left the US Foreign Service in opposition to the war … Continue reading
