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From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Torturing Detainees Cost American Lives

April 29, 2009

Conservatives, arguing that Bush era torture crimes should not be investigated or prosecuted, have chosen to resort to a slogan in defending their position. Torture, "saved American lives". Therefore, the slogan implies, torture should not be prosecuted as a crime.
Not only is the slogan not factual, the truth is just the opposite of the slogan. [...]

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Enhance This

April 28, 2009

War on terror. Evil-doers. Axis of evil. Islamofascists. Mission accomplished. The Patriot Act. Weapons of mass destruction. Operation: Iraqi Freedom.
Phrases, words, memes,……which have no comprehensible meaning by themselves, some are even oxymoronic,…..all repeatedly written and spoken to mislead, to make Americans think one thing is really something else entirely.
An American war of aggression, a [...]

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Why The Bush Administration Ordered Torture

April 27, 2009

We now know that the Bush/Cheney administration ordered the torturing of detainees being held in U.S. secret prisons, in direct and repeated violation of national and international law. That is no longer in dispute. We also know now that the Bush administration ordered torture to be done BEFORE any Justice Department "legal" memos defending [...]

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The Village of the Damned

April 25, 2009

Right on time, just like clockwork, comes David "Centrist" Broder, praising Obama and Rahm Emmanuel for stating that there should be no prosecutions of those who carried out the torturing of detainees….and then going on to demonstrate why he is the Dean of the Village of the Damned….
"But now Obama is being lobbied by politicians [...]

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The GOP Is Getting Even More Extreme

April 24, 2009

I shouldn't be surprised, really. I mean, W. came out of Texas, so I shouldn't be surprised to find that one half of Texas Republicans polled now think the state should secede from the United States.
"Do you approve or disapprove of Governor Rick Perry's suggestion that Texas may need to leave the United States?"
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The Reckoning

April 23, 2009

Today's Akron Beacon Journal editorial has it wrong. That comes as no surprise to me. Those who write the editorials for the Beacon have been way behind the Bush curve for years. There would be no reason to expect a change now.
The editorial calls the Bush-Cheney torture regime "a failure of imagination". Sorry…. [...]

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Despicable New York Times Article

April 22, 2009

I'm sick to death of reading mindlessly written bullsh*t like this from todays' NY Times….
This extraordinary consensus (to torture) was possible,… largely because no one involved — not the top two C.I.A. officials who were pushing the program, not the senior aides to President George W. Bush, not the leaders of the Senate and House [...]

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Jane Harman (D-CA): Bush Co-Conspirator

April 21, 2009

From 2002-2006 Republicans controlled Congress by an ever-so-slight margin, so if Bush-Cheney were to be successful in carrying out their criminal plans against America and some foreign countries, it would take the help of, at least, a few congressional Democrats.
A prime example of the veracity of this claim is found in Senator Jay Rockefeller's [...]

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Torture Did Not Save Lives

April 18, 2009

As our dual narrative America continues in opposite directions over torture…of all things……it becomes more and more important to stop and take the time to expose the lies still being touted about torture.
When George W. Bush said repeatedly, "America doesn't torture", he was relying on his own narrative about torture as defined by his [...]

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Not Proud

April 17, 2009

"Proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free," sang Toby Keith, as America pumped it's fist, beat it's chest and rose up in righteous anger immediately after 9-11.
During the presidency of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, I was not proud to be an American. I was ashamed of America. [...]

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