And We're Supposed to Trust the Pentagon?

9/11 mastermind confesses in Guantanamo

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer Wed Mar 14, 7:38 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, confessed to that attack and a string of others during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released Wednesday by the

Mohammed claimed responsibility for planning, financing, and training others for bombings ranging from the 1993 attack at the World Trade Center to the attempt by would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.

In all, Mohammed said he was responsible for planning 29 individual attacks, including many that were never executed. The comments were included in a 26-page transcript released by the Pentagon, which also blacked out some of his remarks.

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So the Pentagon holds a trial of this fellow that’s closed to the public and we’re supposed to believe their version of what he said? Excuse me. When you’re being tortured, you’ll say ANYTHING to stop the pain. And which of its lies and crimes over the past six years is supposed to convince us that we can believe the Pentagon?

The President is a Monster

President Authorized Abu Ghraib Torture, FBI Email Says

by NewStandard Staff

Among a new batch of documents rights groups have forced the gov't to release, a Bureau communication refers to a presidential Executive Order endorsing some forms of torture witnessed at Iraq prison.

Dec. 21, 2004 – Repeated references in an internal FBI email suggest that the president issued a special order to permit some of the more objectionable torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prison facilities around Iraq. The email was among a new batch of FBI documents revealed by civil rights advocates on Monday. Other documents describe the initiation of investigations into alleged incidents of torture and rape at detention facilities in Iraq.

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The man who mocked a woman he had executed…

The man who stood atop the ruins of the World Trade Center with an actor portraying a fireman…

The man who stole the presidency and then used the tragedy of September Eleventh to start a war against a country that had nothing to do with it…

The man who played guitar while New Orleans drowned…

Is now the man who turned America into a torturing thug.

Sometimes I feel that if Bush killed a baby on national television that we’d just shrug and say, “Business as usual.” Is there nothing that can bring this monster down?

 

 

 

 

Bush seeks 8,200 more troops for wars - Yahoo! News

Bush seeks 8,200 more troops for wars - Yahoo! News: "MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -
President Bush asked Congress on Saturday for $3.2 billion to pay for 8,200 more U.S. troops needed in
Afghanistan and
Iraq on top of the 21,500-troop buildup he announced in January."
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Okay. The 21,500 more troops was outrageous. Now he wants 8,200 more. If Congress lets him get away with it, he'll know for sure that he can invade Iran and get away with it. The Democratic majority in Congress sounded good. We thought that sanity had again returned to Washington. The people did their part. They elected the Democrats. It's starting to look like the problem is that the Democrats they elected are nothing but a bunch of reptiles primarily concerned about the jobs they can hope to get with corporate America after their terms are over.

Is the supposed integrity of the Democratic party just another myth in this world of lies?

Liar's Poker

"Mueller admits fault in FBI intrusions
AP - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions."
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We've become uncomfortably numb. We're lied to so often that we have lost the power to be outraged. The administration knows this and does whatever it wants with a ready lie in their pocket. Libby is convicted of perjury instead of outing a working CIA officer and all we do is wonder when Bush will pardon him. We elect a Democratic majority and when they only pretend to serve our interests, we shrug and go on.

I remember seeing interviews with common people in the old Soviet Union. When asked about the crimes of their government, they invariably gave a hopeless response that I came to think of as "The Soviet Shrug," an ineffable expression of their powerlessness to reign in their criminal government.

Our own outlaw government goes on as it did before last November. Instead of stopping the illegal Iraq War ( A war becomes illegal when the reasons for initiating it are proven false.), the Democrats are giving George Wicked Bush more money for his criminal wars.

And while we fuss and fume over Wicked's crimes, he and his gang go on with their outrages against us. Upon the eve of the conviction of Cheney's top hand in outing Valerie Plame, Bush goes on the road to distract us from his culpability in the outing. Huge protests rage around "the Rich Boy in the Bubble," and his incurious ass sits in splendor and thinks of all the money he's stashed for his private life after he goes out of office.

That the FBI used the Patriot Act provisions illegally would have been enormous news a decade ago. But now it's just another spot on our windshield obscuring our view of what's really going on.

The Scooter Pardon

One of the flaws in our system of government is that the President (or anyone who’s stolen that title) can pardon anyone for anything. Gerald Ford (a Republican muppet) pardoned Richard Nixon not only for any crimes he may have committed but for any crimes he would commit in the future.

[I think it’s notable that the hands up Gerald’s ass at the time were those of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. With Cheney now holding all power, is it outrageous to believe that a pardon for his former chief of staff is unlikely?]

However outrageous it might be to think that the Unpresident would pardon Scooter, please think of all the outrageous moves the Bush Gang has made so far. We know Cheney remembers how he manipulated Ford into pardoning Nixon. Is it unthinkable that he’s going to manipulate Bush into doing the same for Scooter?

But as disgusting as that will be the real stomach-turner will be that the American people will let them get away with it.

If we cared about more than gas, cable and food on the table they wouldn’t have gotten as far as they have. Of course, the Bush Gang are outlaws. But they wouldn’t have taken over the town if any of the townspeople had spines.

The Works Blog

This will, like most blogs, reflect the author's views on subjects ranging from current events to the struggle of Bigfoot to achieve social equality. If I were to narrow my range of topics—say to the lives of janitors in the Democratic Conventions, I would soon run out of things to say. I don't think the world could soon recover from my silence. So I'm giving myself a lot of room to squawk.

If my ideas disagree with your own, you could stand where you are and cheer for the sacred freedom of speech that we Americans enjoy (as long as we're standing in "freedom of speech zones") or you could throw something at your computer screen and call me several things I'm not. I would hope that you would at least applaud my effort. But in this world to hope for fair treatment is a lot like a child waiting to see Santa on Christmas Eve. It ain't gonna happen no matter how good we've been or how sweetly we wait.

If I should write something here that disagrees with your pet belief, I hope that you will react with fair-mindedness and aplomb. I will make my email address available for those who want to write me. But I must forewarn that I will not let Conservatives demean me. Neither will I let hypochristians besmirch my character. If you're not ready to defend yourself in this world, you might as well go knit.

Lastly, I would like to thank you for spending your valuable time reading my valuable thoughts. You could, I know, be gaming, blaming, defaming or checking out the hotties. I will try to render what modest satisfaction I may.