Comments on: Rep. Harman Claims She Was Not ‘Fully Briefed’ On Secret Torture Memos

By: SLSmith

SLSmith — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:19:06 +0000

I was @ this town hall. I caught great sound bites of her being asked about MisPrison of Treason. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrWPVPihyCY

By: Buckie Boy

Buckie Boy — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:51:18 +0000

So you’re saying that the Criminal Bush Mafia hasn’t been forthright with you? Do tell. I am so surprised.
Just how many people have been kidnapped and tortured under this fascist dictator? Hundreds? Thousands?
And just why does the Supreme Court no take cases from victims of these abuses from other countries? Oh that’s right, National Security. Because if they did then even the Repukian Lemmings would have to admit that they are all criminals.
And the repukes wonder why the rest of the world hates us, or do they wonder at all, they have drank lots of koolaid.

Buck Fush

By: Georgette Orwell

Georgette Orwell — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:07:56 +0000

Willy @ 45, you beat me to trying to reframe this issue. Pelosi and Reid need to be removed from their positions of “leadership” and/or recalled by the voters of their own states. Enabling this egregious administration may not be a crime, but it certainly is criminal.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:55:05 +0000

Thanks dday – nice diary.

This type of disinegenuosness needs much more publicity.

By: lefty

lefty — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:06:45 +0000

BTW, is there anyone else who keeps thinking I’m seeing Chloris Leachman?

By: lefty

lefty — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:05:33 +0000

How am I a troll if Iâ€™m defending Pelosi?

Because Pelosi is one of them now. I gave her a chance but she’s weak and deserves no respect.

We Are The People – you’re either with us or against us.

Saying nothing and doing nothing in the face of this administration is betrayal. The Blue Dog Democrats are traitors.

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:13:46 +0000

Harmon must be naive and gullible.

By: Bluedahlia

Bluedahlia — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:05:26 +0000

Comment by willyloman â€” October 7, 2007 @ 10:21 pm

In order for impeachment to take place the Speaker would have to break the law. Taking impeachment of Bush off the table is not a crime. As Speaker it is her choice, even if it is one I disagree with.

Comment by Probus â€” October 7, 2007 @ 11:53 pm

That is troll talk as far as I’m concerned. Your free speech is heard, it is just lame. Same as the “darker” comment.

By: hterrya

hterrya — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:34:35 +0000

The Democrats have betrayed the American people as much as Bush and Republicans have.
Comment by Jackie Morgan â€” October 7, 2007 @ 6:22 pm

Karl Rove will be glad to know that someone besides him can use his tactics to smear ALL Democrats, instead of pointing out WHICH Democrats have joined the Republicans.

Of course, the comment was made to get at Harman (who IS a loser) and
AIPAC (who regularly backs losers for its own purposes).

A direct attack on the two targets, rather than a smear on Democrats, in general, would have been appreciated.

Glad you haven’t reappeared, Jackie.

By: Chuck U. Farley

Chuck U. Farley — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:36:33 +0000

I think Oilfieldguy (#30) is correct, but in the unlikely event that impeachment was ever considered, any “unidentified Republican’s” vote against Bush would be offset by ten Democrats’ pro-Bush votes in the name of “Supporting the Troops.”

By: Ditch Mitch KY

Ditch Mitch KY — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:29:06 +0000

Congress is not in session this week. When they return, all members must carefully review these latest purposeful calculated lies by Bush, Cheney and others. WE demand the TRUTH.
We demand the impeachment of any and all officials who committed these crimes and covered them up. IMPEACHMENT TIME.

Thanks for Rockefeller, Pelosi, and Harman for your statements. Now you must do the hard part. Open impeachment hearings.

By: Marie

Marie — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:21:44 +0000

There is more than enough to hold hearings; Bush &Co have committed high crimes – lying to congress is a federal offense.
(Impeachment is too easy – they must be removed from office and tried in court — of course, that’s why Bush was so eager to appoint his own judges.)
If the press would make more noise about these crimes, the public wouldn’t tolerate this — but the press doesn’t spell it out for the preoccupied public and when no one is paying attention this is allowed to continue.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:21:35 +0000

Im fu(king peach.

By: willyloman

willyloman — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:21:26 +0000

I put up a new article on exactly what we are facing if we attack Iran, and why this administration is going to do it. “The Line in the Sand”, please read it Veritas, I would like your opinion and insight.

http://willyloman.wordpress.com/

Pelosi needs to be impeached. Once she stated impeachment is “off the table” she tipped her hand. Impeachment is not hers to either hand out or to deny. Impeachment is our guarantee from the founding fathers that this system will not become out of control.

When she said “off the table” she gave the administration a free pass; a “get out of jail” card. She is bought and paid for and she needs to be impeached herself.

By: Brain From Planet Arous

Brain From Planet Arous — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:09:21 +0000

Does anyone still believe Bushâ€™s official story about 911 at this point?? hahahah! It would have to be selective belief at this point.

Comment by Veritas â€” October 7, 2007 @ 5:42 pm

Yeah, Noam Chomsky (Single Bullet Theorist) and Amy Goodman (Single Bullet Theorist).

By: tarazan

tarazan — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:08:31 +0000

This happens only when Congress members become ‘cheerleaders’ ,and forget their Constitutional responsibilities..

By: civil behavior

civil behavior — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:07:56 +0000

I See. It’s perfectly clear to me.

It would take Bush attacking Iran, meaning the action would actually have to take place for the republican congressman to vote for impeachment.

Have these people no end to their insanity?

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:02:58 +0000

How can you tell the folks in the White House are lying…?

Their lips are moving.

By: barfly

barfly — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:57:08 +0000

” and it seems quite a stretch to pull a racist meaning from that very innocent remark.”

Comment by Lefty Patriot

Right on.

By: The Republic of Stupidity

The Republic of Stupidity — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:52:50 +0000

Thats why any number to Gitmos detainees are begging to stay in the island paradise confinement, they donâ€™t want to spend one minute with a Saudi or Pakistani interrogator.

Comment by Billy Hill â€” October 7, 2007 @ 7:54 pm

Validation, please… otherwise, it’s just nonsense…

However, this we do know…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1270541,00.html

… Under military order No 1, issued by President Bush in November 2001, the president gave himself the right, in defiance of national and international law, to detain indefinitely any non-US citizen anywhere in the world. Many ended up in GuantÃ¡namo where at least some of their names were discovered. Others simply vanished. They became in the US euphemism, “ghost prisoners”, an unrecorded host held in secret, their detention denied, hidden from the Red Cross, legal or family access barred, their fate in the hands of unaccountable and unnamed US personnel.

When disappearance became state practice across Latin America in the 70s it aroused revulsion in democratic countries where it is a fundamental tenet of legitimate government that no state actor may detain – or kill – another human being without having to answer to the law. Not only has President Bush discarded that principle, he even brags about it. In his state of the union address in February 2003, he said: “More than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Put it this way, they’re no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies.”

Extraordinary rendition was codified in the Clinton administration. Under Bush it has been hugely expanded.