ThinkFast: July 5, 2007
ThinkFast: July 5, 2007
President Bush equated the war in Iraq with the U.S. war for independence during a speech yesterday. “Like those revolutionaries who ‘dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty,’ Bush said, American soldiers were also fighting ‘a new and unprecedented war’ to protect U.S. freedom.”
Associates of Bilal Abdulla, the doctor “who is accused of riding a flaming Jeep into Glasgow’s international airport on Saturday, say he was a religious zealot and a lone wolf whose anger about political developments in Iraq may have driven him to an act of terrorism.”
453: Number of unidentified corpses, “some bound, blindfolded, and bearing signs of torture,” found in Baghdad during June, an increase of 41 percent since the escalation began in January.
U.S. diplomats in Iraq, “increasingly fearful over their personal safety after recent mortar attacks inside the Green Zone,” filed a cable highlighting “a cascade of building and safety blunders” in the U.S. Embassy construction project in Baghdad “as signs that their vulnerability could grow in the months ahead.”
In his upcoming memoir, The Prince of Darkness, 50 Years Reporting in Washington, Robert Novak “will seek to settle some scores with colleagues in the nation’s capitol. But he won’t be expressing any regrets for printing the name of and ‘outing’ covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.” He writes, “Judging it on the merits, I would still write the story.”
Contractors returning home from Iraq with the same combat-related mental health problems that afflict American military personnel, “are largely left on their own to find care, and their problems often go ignored or are inadequately treated.” Many who file claims for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder are denied coverage.
Ever since Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections in Jan. 2006, the Bush administration has pursued a strategy — crafted by deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams — that “helped to exacerbate dangerous political fissures in Palestinian politics [and has] delivered another setback to the president’s vision of a stable, pro-Western Middle East.”
The Senate is expected to join the House next week in blocking the Bush administration’s plan to place elements of a missile defense system in Eastern Europe by reducing funds for “construction of 10 interceptor missile sites in Poland and for deployment of an X-band radar in the Czech Republic.”
And finally: Yesterday in Clear Lake, IA, “thousands of people cheered along the Fourth of July parade route.” They were most “gaga” over a “tall man with the familiar white hair.” “Bob Barker! It’s Bob Barker!” two women shrieked. But it was actually President Bill Clinton, marching with his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). The women weren’t disappointed. Realizing “who it really was, they seemed just as thrilled, shouting, ‘Ohhhh!’ and clapping madly.”
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Contractors returning home from Iraq with the same combat-related mental health problems that afflict American military personnel, “are largely left on their own to find care, and their problems often go ignored or are inadequately treated.†Many who file claims for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder are denied coverage.
Booo fricken hooo. Your country doesn’t care about you. Now go shopping!
July 5th, 2007 at 9:08 am“President Bush equated the war in Iraq with the U.S. war for independence during a speech yesterday”
Isn’t this like the 4th or 5th time he’s done this? And isn’t thus insinuating that we’re akin to the British, and they’re akin to the Americans? I’m so confused.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:09 amA lone wolf who and six others, keep spinning progressives, aid and comfort to the enemy…
July 5th, 2007 at 9:10 am“President Bush equated the war in Iraq with the U.S. war for independence during a speech yesterday.”
I wonder if he mentioned that he’s the modern-day King George from which the US needs saving.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:10 amClinton/Clinton 2008!
July 5th, 2007 at 9:10 amThe Senate is expected to join the House next week in blocking the Bush administration’s plan to place elements of a missile defense system in Eastern Europe by reducing funds for “construction of 10 interceptor missile sites in Poland and for deployment of an X-band radar in the Czech Republic.â€
Looks like it’s time for another attack on the democrats by the GOP/MIC, maybe they have some leftover Anthrax from last time they needed Democrats to vote for Homeland Security.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:11 am453 bodies tortured?!? in Iraq?!?! So much for the Relgion of Peace
July 5th, 2007 at 9:11 am#3 – Don’t you mean that the neo-cons are spinning the news to hide the fact that Pres. Bush is giving aid to terrorists that hate America?
Yeah, that’s what you meant to write. No thanks necessary for my correcting your (continuing) errors.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:12 am#9
July 5th, 2007 at 9:14 amThen they really hated us before 9-11
“He writes, “Judging it on the merits, I would still write the story.â€
Novak is a traitor pure and simple. He should have been tried for treason and sentenced to death the way we sentenced the Rosenbergs to death back in the 50’s.
He jeopardized the lives and safety of not only Valerie Plame, but also any covert agent that worked under the cover of Brewster Jennings, whom Novak also outed. And he can’t claim he didn’t know she was covert because there is no reason for a CIA agent to have a cover company if they are not covert.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:15 am“Booo fricken hooo. Your country doesn’t care about you. Now go shopping!”
That statement is totally untrue. Your country cares about you, it is your government that doesn’t care about you. You know, the government run by the Republics.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:16 amCaption:
“Wow, was that good Kool-Aid, or what!”
July 5th, 2007 at 9:16 am453 bodies tortured?!? in Iraq?!?!
So much for Pres. Bush making Iraq “a democracy in which to life gets better”.
Maybe Pres. Bush should have said “I’m making Iraq a better place for Terrorists to operate and recruit people to continue hating America!”
Naw, then he’d be telling the truth, and that would go against the neo-con code of conduct.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:16 amBrave, Brave Novak. Do your battles with a man’s wife and not the man. Such courage you have Novak. When I grow up, I want to be just like you.
Sounds exactly like the mob… speak against us and we will go after your family.
What ever you do Novak, never ever address the message. Always attack the messenger ’s family. Yes, that is the most honest way to deal with a problem. That is the way to move forward the manipulation of public opinion to your views.
Never mind that it is an undercover agent. Never mind that disclosure harms national security. Just do it.
And when you look in the mirror, do you see the coward looking back at you? Or do you still think you are a patriot?
Brave, brave Novak.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:17 am#
453 bodies tortured?!? in Iraq?!?! So much for the Relgion of Peace
Comment by jakethedrake — July 5, 2007 @ 9:11 am
655,000 dead INNOCENT Iraqi men, women, children thanks to Christians.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:17 am2 million refugees
Stealing their oil (another Christian virtue)
Now, what to make of those unidentified, tortured bodies in Baghdad? I know it doesn’t jibe with what Bush is telling school kids (”America doesn’t torture”), but isn’t it possible that there a Jack Bauers in Iraq going about their busy business in the name of Freedom at any price?
It may be that this is what the contractors are doing. It really doesn’t make sense that this is part of sectarian violence. After all, the bodies aren’t identified and what is the terror component in torturing for information and not letting the murdered person’s family know what happened?
Nope. I suspect these are the expendable bodies of America’s Special Ops. Or the hasty dispatch of botched “aggressive interrogations”. And it fits with this Administration’s methods. America does torture, and murder, and lie.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:18 am#17
July 5th, 2007 at 9:18 amPurchasing their oil :)
Clinton:
Realizing “who it really was, they seemed just as thrilled, shouting, ‘Ohhhh!’ and clapping madly.â€
vs..
“Upon realizing it was Shrub speeding by in his blastproof limo they promptly threw up in their own handbags”
July 5th, 2007 at 9:18 am“Like those revolutionaries who ‘dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty,’
Is he talking about the insurgents?
American soldiers were also fighting ‘a new and unprecedented war’ to protect U.S. freedom.â€
What freedom? The freedom of a select few to profit immensly?
Protection? Did we ever find those WMD that were an imminent threat?
Gawd he is such a friggin’ moron. No wonder his approval rating ranks second only to Nixon.
(I await the expected troll response: Clinton did it too! or Congress’ ratings are lower)
Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th!
July 5th, 2007 at 9:19 am#9 – “Then they really hated us before 9-11″ Comment by jakethedrake — July 5, 2007 @ 9:14 am
I never claimed that the terrorists didn’t hate us before 9-11. I just never fooled myself into thinking that attacking Iraq was anything more than a grab for oil, while taking our collective eye off the “war on terra” in Afghanistan. You know, the war we started to get Usama bin Laden, the guy Pres. Bush isn’t concerned with anymore. You know, the guy responsible for killing 3,000+ Americans on our own soil.
Oh, my pardon. Pres. Bush promised he’d get bin Laden “dead or alive”, so it’s just fine and dandy to all Republicans and neo-cons that Pres. Bush told yet another lie. Move along. Nothing to see here.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:20 amAmericans fought for their independence from England on American soil. Bush comparing US Independence war with Iraq invasion simply is not there.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:21 amThat figure of tortured dead in Iraq is a monthly total. That is, about 10 Iraqis go missing, are tortured, and then killed each day. And I still suspect it’s Americans who are doing it.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:22 amDubya has always had a little trouble with the equals sign. American Revolutionary War = invasion of Iraq? Saddam Hussein = Osama bin Laden? Warrantless wiretapping = freedom? Keeping Fibby out of prison = justice? Torture = “America does not do torture”? “Support the troops” = ignore them when they need help? The list goes on and on……
July 5th, 2007 at 9:24 amThere’s a lot of difference between our war for independence and the war in Iraq. No one had to “drop their pitchforks” and come fight for America’s freedom. No one wanted independence for America but Americans–and our forefathers fought it with very little help from any other nation.
If a nation doesn’t have the will to fight for their own freedom, they will never generate enough interest in independence to keep it. Such comparisons are an insult to our history and dishonor those founding fathers who gave their lives for the USA as well as all those who have since sacrificed life and limb.
What an unpatriotic 4th of July message!
July 5th, 2007 at 9:24 amI don’t think JaketheDrake can count. He must work for the army counting civilian casualties.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:29 amIf you want to know the REAL DEAL, start reading at comment 310 on the prior Rove thread.
If you don’t want to know, don’t read the entire thing.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:30 amIn that same speech, Bush said that “We were a small band of freedom-loving patriots taking on the most powerful empire in the world.” That Freudian slip is awash with irony since it simply begs being compared with the current situation in Iraq. The Iraqi resistance fighters, like those in Vietnam, are the freedom-loving patriots who are now fighting the most powerful empire in the world. As in Vietnam, the Iraqi people will never rest until the U.S. military has been finally driven from their soil.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:31 amAnd I still suspect it’s Americans who are doing it.
Comment by david
Well, Negroponte knows a lot about that stuff.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:32 am#16-David–
July 5th, 2007 at 9:38 amI’d never thought of that, but it makes sense. Some of those tortured bodies may very well be victims of US contract torturers or Special Ops. After all, who’s to know in “the fog of war?”
yep, right. equating the revolutionary war with the war in iraq is a really bad analogy…
in the revolutionary war, the insurgents won, and the occupying army was vanquished.
but the average remaining bush supporter thinks up is down and black is white so it works for them.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:42 amBush down on the farm with Rove’s relatives. How much did they get paid for their performance? War Criminal Bush has no shame pretending George Washington was an oil pirate, raping and looting other nations for corporate fat cats.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:42 amOn this date in 1989, Ollie North escaped having to go to jail for his role in Iran-Contra.
Hey Juan C, you might know where Negroponte was in those days, somewhere in Central America, no?
July 5th, 2007 at 9:42 amComment by Erroll
I wouldn’t call the Iraqis freedom loving… but they certainly want freedom from the American empire that illegally invaded their country for reasons that had NOTHING to do with protecting Americas freedoms. Americas freedoms would have to be under threat from Iraq for bush to be doing anything but spitting in our face. And since Iraq was not a threat to our freedoms he IS spitting in our faces and the faces of all the REAL patriots of 1776.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:43 am“Like those brave patriots who fought for our own country’s independence 231 years ago, our soldiers fight that battle again today. Just like that, except it’s in Iraq, not Virginia. And they have bigger guns. And tanks. And we’re paying them. And the Iraqis don’t actually want them at all and didn’t ask for our help and we bombed them, invaded, kidnapped their leader, and executed him. A glorious fight for liberty. We celebrate these… militaryesque entrepreneurs.”
Yay. We have a President with two brain cells, and only enough power to fire one of them at a time.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:44 amRobert Novak is a scoundrel and a traitor.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:46 amJohn Negroponte is currently deputy secretary of state.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:51 am“453: Number of unidentified corpses, “some bound, blindfolded, and bearing signs of torture,†found in Baghdad during June, an increase of 41 percent since the escalation began in January.”
Earlier this week I read that Iraqi death were down since the ’surge’ and I am sure that is what Patraeus and Bush will quote in September.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:53 amWhat did we miss? Let us know in the comments section.
Members of congress give themselves a pay raise”
I suppose they deserve it after their bang up job so far.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:53 amJohn Negroponte is currently deputy secretary of state.
Comment by david
Understood, a very scary situation….
July 5th, 2007 at 9:59 amI was curious as to where he was in 1989…..
President Bush equated the war in Iraq with the U.S. war for independence during a speech yesterday. “Like those revolutionaries who ‘dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty,’ Bush said, American soldiers were also fighting ‘a new and unprecedented war’ to protect U.S. freedom.â€
It looks like we’ll have to do it all over again — against King George the Clueless.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:00 amU.S. diplomats in Iraq, “increasingly fearful over their personal safety after recent mortar attacks inside the Green Zone,†filed a cable highlighting “a cascade of building and safety blunders†in the U.S. Embassy construction project in Baghdad “as signs that their vulnerability could grow in the months ahead.â€
Resign. Every one of you should resign, and let King George figure it out.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:02 am453: Number of unidentified corpses, “some bound, blindfolded, and bearing signs of torture,†found in Baghdad during June, an increase of 41 percent since the escalation began in January.
Paramilitary running amok, like in Central and South America. What a great legacy from Negroponte… Wait, it’s not a legacy, it’s a Matrix Redux…
U.S. diplomats in Iraq, “increasingly fearful over their personal safety after recent mortar attacks inside the Green Zone,†filed a cable highlighting “a cascade of building and safety blunders†in the U.S. Embassy construction project in Baghdad “as signs that their vulnerability could grow in the months ahead.â€
But queality rugs are cheap!
Contractors returning home from Iraq with the same combat-related mental health problems that afflict American military personnel, “are largely left on their own to find care, and their problems often go ignored or are inadequately treated.†Many who file claims for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder are denied coverage.
Guess what will happen in Continental USA the oncoming years with all that disgruntled highly trained mercenaires. Maybe someone will record a tally and discover that the victims of the crimes done by these people sums a greater number than the ones of the 911 attack.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:02 amContractors returning home from Iraq with the same combat-related mental health problems that afflict American military personnel, “are largely left on their own to find care, and their problems often go ignored or are inadequately treated.†Many who file claims for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder are denied coverage.
All that money Blackhawk or Halliburton paid you doesn’t seem worth it now, does it?
July 5th, 2007 at 10:03 amSo our founding fathers and our Continental Congressional Troops fought the war for Independence to steal Iraq’s oil reserves?
July 5th, 2007 at 10:04 amWhat exactly is Bush saying here…
I’m having trouble making the connection.
Ever since Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections in Jan. 2006, the Bush administration has pursued a strategy — crafted by deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams — that “helped to exacerbate dangerous political fissures in Palestinian politics [and has] delivered another setback to the president’s vision of a stable, pro-Western Middle East.â€
I think Abrams is accomplishing King George’s vision in the ME, by exacerbating dangerous political fissures in Palestinian politics.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:07 amYesterday in Clear Lake, IA, “thousands of people cheered along the Fourth of July parade route.†They were most “gaga†over a “tall man with the familiar white hair.†“Bob Barker! It’s Bob Barker!†two women shrieked. But it was actually President Bill Clinton, marching with his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). The women weren’t disappointed. Realizing “who it really was, they seemed just as thrilled, shouting, ‘Ohhhh!’ and clapping madly.â€
Oy, that’s gotta hurt….
July 5th, 2007 at 10:08 amGuess what will happen in Continental USA the oncoming years with all that disgruntled highly trained mercenaires.
Comment by Evil Spaniard
Very good point. Everybody thinks that once the conflict ends, the mercenaries just go to Nepal like Rambo or work as a cook like Seagal. No, they keep doing what they know to do, torture and kill people.
Paramilitaries was such a GREAT IDEA to fight the revolutionary army in Columbia. Clinton sent incredible amounts of money to fight these rebels, yeah, right, well, he sent money to get a hold of the coke fields.
And now, anybody is watching the news about Columbia? Paramilitaries are beginning to talk due to a reconciliation plan and they are finding hundreds of mass graveyards where thousands of peasants are buried. Nicaragua II.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:11 amLike those revolutionaries who ‘dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty,’ Bush said, American soldiers were also fighting ‘a new and unprecedented war’ to protect U.S. freedom.â€
Man this freakin’ litte skeezix just isn’t going to let it go, is he?
July 5th, 2007 at 10:13 am“President Bush equated the war in Iraq with the U.S. war for independence during a speech yesterdayâ€
Isn’t this like the 4th or 5th time he’s done this? And isn’t thus insinuating that we’re akin to the British, and they’re akin to the Americans? I’m so confused.
Comment by Punchy — July 5, 2007 @ 9:09 am
No no no – it’s a very simple metaphor. See, the British of 1776 are akin to the terrorism, the American troops today are akin to American colonists of 1776. the British troops today are akin to the French of 1776. The Iraqis are Native Americans or something – they’re basically irrelevant. We, the Americans/Americans, with the help of the British/French, are trying to oust the terrorism/British from Iraq so that we, the Americans/Americans can be free to do what we want in our country/Iraq.
Simple!
July 5th, 2007 at 10:22 amThe Iraqis are Native Americans or something – they’re basically irrelevant. We, the Americans/Americans, with the help of the British/French, are trying to oust the terrorism/British from Iraq so that we, the Americans/Americans can be free to do what we want in our country/Iraq.
Simple!
Comment by toasterhead
Ha ha ha!! Very well summarized.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:23 amZoo and everybody. Have a good day!! :D
July 5th, 2007 at 10:24 amPresident Bush equated the war in Iraq with the U.S. war for independence during a speech yesterday.
WHEW!! For a moment, I was worried Dubya was trying to compare hissown self to the other George, of the cherry tree and hatchet fame.
They have nothing in common, other than their first name. Unlike the real George, Dubya is:
a serial liar,
cares nothing about his country,
is a traitor and an AWOL draft-dodger,
is despised by most of the people of this country as well as the rest of the world,
couldn’t lead a one man parade without major help,
has to wear a cod piece to show ANY bulge in his crotch,
functionally illeterate.
Are many others but these pop out without much effort. Feel free to add as you see fit.
July 5th, 2007 at 10:25 amSimple!
Comment by toasterhead
Wow… I finally understand Bush’s mindset… and it ain’t pretty.
“The saucer people, in conjunction w/ the inverse vampires and under the spuervision of the Rand Corproration…”
July 5th, 2007 at 10:39 amThe bush supporters are themselves war criminals. They, like the nazis citizens after WWII were dragged to the concentration camps to see with their own eyes what they had done and to help carry and bury the corpses, should be dragged from their homes… taken to Iraq… and forced to see what their support for a war criminal has done. The crimes are on their hands as well.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:14 amThe crimes are on their hands as well.
Comment by Gerald Gibson
Couldnt agree more.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:22 amTraveled to see my folks over the fourth and their neighbor is back from Iraq with traumatic brain injury, nearly blind, and can barely stand. So the town ties yellow ribbons everywhere and applauds that much louder. Absolutely sickening that instead of outrage at this young man’s life being destroyed all the town can muster is more fake-ass bravado and false patriotism.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:27 amThe chymp has insulted our founding fathers again. By equating the occupation of Iraq with the Revolutionary war, he stains the memory of the patriots who fought for OUR independence.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:32 amTypical Bushit from the cowardly drunk AWOL clown.
“President Bush equated the war in Iraq with the U.S. war for independence during a speech yesterday.”
Right. Patriots came to America to fight for regime change to remove a tyrant and instill democracy, for Native Americans!
July 5th, 2007 at 11:35 am“Like those revolutionaries who ‘dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty,’
Yeah, those revolutionaries are spinning in their graves now while you wipe your ass on the Constitution that they fought so hard for.
Let’s be honest about this, shall we? Bush? Cheney? Rove? Snow? Just admit that you absolutely despise the Constitution, you think it’s a piece of crap that interferes with your attempts to have complete domination over the entire country and ultimately the world, and you’re doing everything in your power to get rid of it. Could you just let a few honest words slip out of your mouth for once and admit it?
July 5th, 2007 at 11:41 amAnyone hear this?
Australian Defense Minister Admits Securing Oil is the Reason We’re in Iraq.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:55 amoops.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:55 amlink: Australia
In Novak’s defense, I believe he can claim he didn’t know they were covert. From my understanding of the facts, either Bush or Cheney, using the authority Bush gave him, covertly declassified both Ms. Plame and Brewster Jennings. Unfortunately, I don’t think our agents in the field knew that they had been declassified until the read it in the paper. But by then, the government had already disavowed any knowledge of their existence.
Novak got a scoop. Inside knowledge that our CIA operation into global WMDs had just become declassified. In the interests of National Security, no doubt.
Don’t you go to sleep at night feeling better about the lengths Bush and Cheney and a complicit reporter will go to protect us?
July 5th, 2007 at 11:57 am26 – Ace,
you mean this?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6215
July 5th, 2007 at 12:03 pmZoo and everybody. Have a good day!! :D
Comment by Juan C
Thanks, Juan. Have a great day yourself!
July 5th, 2007 at 12:03 pmUnfortunately, I don’t think our agents in the field knew that they had been declassified until the read it in the paper. But by then, the government had already disavowed any knowledge of their existence.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
That is criminal behavior in itself, IMHO. No covert operative can be assured that his or her own government won’t suddenly declassify their operation at any given time, for any reason whatsoever.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:06 pmtrueblue, thanks for the link.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:10 pmMistress Z~
July 5th, 2007 at 12:13 pmReally must be good for morale out in the field, to know that at any moment, your president or his puppet masters will out you if it is to their political advantage. Must really help in the recruitment of new spies.
Was it just me, or was this the suckiest Fourth of July ever? It’s usually fun to “celebrate America” every Fourth. Not this year. It’s ludicrous to see George W. Bush as the inheritor of Thomas Jefferson. [In fact, you could reasonably argue that W.'s a perfect stand-in for George III in the Declaration!] I had this kind of dull background depression all day.
July 5th, 2007 at 12:41 pmDid anyone else feel this way?
Mistress Z~
Really must be good for morale out in the field, to know that at any moment, your president or his puppet masters will out you if it is to their political advantage. Must really help in the recruitment of new spies.
Comment by RUCerious
Yeah, they’re busting down the doors — to get out. :)
I feel sorry for the ones already in the field doing their jobs, and having that very real concern in the back of their mind.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:20 pmWas it just me, or was this the suckiest Fourth of July ever?
Comment by bogtrotters — July 5, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
They had to evacuate the National Mall yesterday due to tornado warnings in DC.
Even God is sick of this administration.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:24 pmRacist NAACP head demands blacks only for judicial selections.
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/07/05/news/062307dcjudgefolo.txt
WASHINGTON — The head of the Arkansas NAACP on Friday challenged 3rd District Rep. John Boozman’s commitment to diversity in the judiciary after the congressman announced six candidates for a vacant federal judge position.
Boozman, R-Rogers, forwarded the names of three whites and three blacks to President Bush, who will select one person from that list to replace the late U.S. District Judge George Howard, who was black.
Dale Charles, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s state conference said he thought only blacks should have been on the list.
Howard, who held court in the Little Rock-based Eastern District, was the first black federal judge in Arkansas.
Boozman said he looked for the best candidates for the job, regardless of race.
“I recall him saying race would not be his first criteria for a replacement, which I strongly disagree with,” Charles said. “Him having said that then gives one the mindset to question whether he believes in diversity.”
Apparently 3 blacks = diversity!
July 5th, 2007 at 2:58 pmbogtrotters sez:
I celebrated by hanging Old Glory prominently outside – upside-down.
I then explained in great detail to all my neighbors that yes, I knew I was flying the flag upside-down and yes, I was doing it on purpose. I then explained the significance of an inverted flag, and how it relates to the state of affairs in this once-great nation of ours.
Fortunately, the hostility I encountered was minimal.
July 5th, 2007 at 2:59 pmTerrorism Hysteria In Great Britain
Thursday 5th of July 2007
by Jay Randal
Great Britain/United Kingdom is in the midst of mass hysteria, induced by fear of terrorism, but the British government is responsible for causing all the anxiety.
Former PM Tony Blair used the fear of terrorist acts to create a militaristic police-state, wherein the entire population is suspected, and everybody is watched too.
The British have more to fear from their own government, than from inept bungling terrorists like the ones who attacked Glasgow airport, not by dud car bombs.
A tourist in Britain has more chance of dying drinking an oatmeal-stout beer, from the high-alcoholic content and bloody awful taste of it, than from a terrorist act.
Eating the bland overcooked food in the UK can cause more gastric problems, which could lead to hospitalization, than getting injured in terror attack on a pub.
The US Congress would be wise to NOT emulate UK in passing draconian laws, nor in suspecting everyone of being potential terrorists, nor acting dumb for Bush.
(Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Georgia, USA.)
July 5th, 2007 at 3:04 pmYes it was. I could not even bring myself to hang a flag and doubt I ever will as long as 43 is in charge. Thi sman and his minions sicken me beyond description. 7 yrs into this and all they can ever say is well “Clinton did it”… manson killed people does that make it right. JFC
July 5th, 2007 at 3:08 pmOff topic, but only slightly, did you notice that our dear leader visited our very carefully selected wounded troops in walter reed recently. How very patriotic of him, how greatly magnanimous, how so unselfish to do so on his day off. Wonder if they brought in those troops from Hollywood or were they the real thing. How many bedpans did he clean, how many dressings did he change, how many did he hold in his arms while they died?
Surely he will go down in history as “the great humanitarian”.
July 5th, 2007 at 5:52 pmPresident Bush equated the war in Iraq with the U.S. war for independence during a speech yesterday.
Obscene and truly pornographic. The kind of propaganda we expect from the Chinese Central Government. And just as subtle.
July 6th, 2007 at 10:07 amThe U.S. is the largest foreign donor in absolute dollar terms ($13.2 billion in 2002), but badly trails virtually every developed nation in contributions as a percentage of GDP. While Norway and Denmark provide almost 1% of GDP in foreign aid, the U.S. lags at 0.13%, behind such powers as Luxembourg, Portugal and Greece.
July 7th, 2007 at 4:03 am