Vice President for Torture

This article Vice President for Torture at the washingtonpost.com is well worth the read.

Vice President Dick Cheney is aggressively pursuing an initiative that ise unprecedented for the executive branch: He is proposing that Congress legally authorize human rights abuses by Americans. "Cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of prisoners is banned by an international treaty negotiated by the Reagan administration and ratified by the United States. The State Department annually issues a report criticizing other governments for violating it. Now Mr. Cheney is asking Congress to approve legal language that would allow the CIA to commit such abuses against foreign prisoners it is holding abroad. In other words, this vice president has become an open advocate of torture.

He once refered to torture as the "Dark Arts"?

I hope people notice that people who have actually been to war (unlike the entire Bush admin) DO NOT abdicate torture.

It seems Cheney is tied to the lies about yellow cake uranium from Niger and outing CIA agent Valerie Plume and now he's is actively campaignng for torture by US service members.

Miers withdraws! Rove and Cheney resign?

Miers withdraws! Rove and Cheney resign?

Well I had some of my hope for federal politics returned to me when Harriet Miers withdrew herself as nominee for the Supreme Court. After Robert's was so easily confirmed I really was worried that no one would stand up against ANOTHER cronies on the SUPREME court. It was outrageous that she was the nomination in the first place, it was also outrageous that the Democrats were not the power behind her withdrawal, conservative Republicans were. It does give hope that the Bush cabal does not completely own the Republican party.

So this week will we dump more cronies, it seems that we will see indictment of Cheney, Rove and two of their lead staffers. With these sorts of power mad elitists you could read "staffer" as "servants" if you wanted.

I have been enjoying the word 'cabal' lately and was very pleased to see the word used by Colin Powell's Chief of Staff to describe Cheney's and Rumsfeld's dealings, work and lies that led to the bogus deadly and damaging war and current occupation in Iraq.

U.S. military death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000

U.S. military death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000
15, 000 service members wounded.

Read about it anywhere Google News

President Bush, speaking at an Air Force Base, said the best way to honor the dead would be to complete the mission in Iraq.

WHAT IS THE MISSION?

Patrick J. Fitzgerald Special Counsel Web site

Patrick J. Fitzgerald, Special Counsel's, Web site


Keep an eye out for news this week!!
www.usdoj.gov

The the Neo Conservative Republicans are prepping to slander! The majority of the Rebulican party better step up becouse this cabal coninues to burn thier political landscape.

Tom Delay surrenders after arrest warrant is issued

Tom Delay surrenders after arrest warrant is issued for him in Texas. Rep. Tom DeLay at the Harris County sheriff's bonding office, where he was photographed, fingerprinted and released on bond on state conspiracy and money laundering charges. Who would smile like that while being arrested in front of the whole nation?

It's called a shit eating grin by some!

White House floats Cheney resignation rumors

Rumors are flying that Vice president Dick Cheney will resign in the face of the ongoing criminal investigation into the outing of a Covert CIA agent Valerie Plume in retaliation for the White House being called on the repeated bogus assertions they have and do make to justify war with Iraq.

Reported at: usnews.com

That the Bush administration is even letting this idea float, makes me think that the involvement in this traitorous act was likely widespread in the Whitehouse and this is the best they can think to make of the situation.

There have been American lives lost, terrorists running free, complete failure in New Orleans as well as the continuing downturn to our economy. Who has resigned yet?

Brown? He still gets a paycheck from FEMA! Will Cheney resign and then be sitting next to George the next day?

Karl Rove spends hours before grand jury, again

President George W. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, testified at length on Friday for a fourth time before the grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA agent's identity.

Fire Karl Rove and 'Scooter' Libby!

Read about 'Turd Blossom' here.

George W Bush claimed to be on first-name terms with God

As reported in the timesonline :The truth about God and George

A senior Palestinian who said that George W Bush claimed to be on first-name terms with God stood by his comments though the President's spokes people claimed he was using a figure of speech.
Nabil Shaath told the BBC that in June 2003 he heard Mr Bush tell Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Prime Minister: "God would tell me, ‘George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan’, and I did, and then God would tell me, ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq’, and I did."

Mr Bush, once said: "I believe that God wants me to be president", though he denies using God to justify his decisions.

Mr Bush launched an attack on Islamic militants during a speech yesterday, accusing them of seeking to "enslave whole nations" in an empire stretching from Spain to Indonesia.

Last month, senior figures in the Church of England questioned America’s sense of "moral righteousness" in its foreign policy. The bishops of Bath and Wells, Oxford, Coventry, and Worcester, said in their report on countering terrorism: "There is no uniquely righteous nation. No country should see itself as the redeemer nation, singled out by God as part of his providential plan."

President Bush's best Cronie

President Bush's best defense of his nominee nominee to the supreme court, Miers, was that he have known her a long time. She is in fact his employee, and is in no position to serve on the highest court in the U.S.. If confirmed she will likely be ruling on a number of the court cases that involve the President, his cabinet, cronies or the Republican party.
This nomination appears the most thinly veiled appointment of a crony yet, not only at a time when this sort of behavior is an obvious cancer on the Executive Branch's history, but when the Bush cabal may be facing the rule of law.

U.S. Uses Slave Labor and Jails Journalists Without Charges

U.S. Uses Slave Labor and Jails Journalists without Charges. Maybe not quit slaves but most would agree that there really is not a clear distinction. For one they don't get counted when they DIE.

The following as reported by Democracy Now!:

Tens of Thousands of Asian Laborers In Iraq
Meanwhile in Iraq, Corpwatch is reporting that tens of thousands of low-wage Asian laborers are traveling to Iraq to work for U.S. military contractors such as Halliburton. Monthly salaries usually range from $200 to $1000 - far less than the salaries paid to U.S. contractors. Many of the workers are coming from the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. CorpWatch reports they frequently sleep in crowded trailers and wait outside in line in 100 degree plus heat to eat "slop." Many are said to lack adequate medical care and put in hard labor seven days a week, 10 hours or more a day, for little or no overtime pay. They are also often unprotected from the ongoing fighting. When U.S. contractors slip on helmets and bulletproof vests, the Asian laborers are frequently shielded only by the shirts on their backs. The number of Asian laborers killed since the war began is unknown.

Press Watchdog Calls for U.S. To Release Journalists in Iraq
And in news from Iraq, Reporters Without Borders is marking the start of Ramadan by calling for the United States to release five detained journalists all of whom are working for foreign press outlets. Abdel Amir Younes Hussein, a cameraman with CBS News, has been held since April 5th. Journalist Ammar Daham Naef Khalaf who works for Agence France-presse has been detained since April 11th. Cameramen Samer Mohamed Noor and Ali Omar Abrahem Al Mashadani, of the British press agency Reuters, have been held since June 4 and August 8, respectively. Correspondent Hameed Majed of Al-Arabiya, has been detained since September 15. Reporters without Borders said all of the journalists have been denied access to a lawyer, and the right to receive a visit from their families or their employers.