I wonder how many times Halliburton/KBR have sold/billed the same weapons to the U.S. Government? All told they probably have 1000 rifles and 500 pistols and after selling them Blackwater goes out and steals them back…rinse, repeat…..rinse, repeat….ad nauseum.

Oh yeah – compliant congress, corrupt executive. I wonder if a Supreme Court Justice could venture a guess…

Comment by RUCerious — January 30, 2008 @ 11:05 am

not to mention his COUNTRY…

tehran times : U.S. trying to bribe Iraqi MPs to pass oil and gas …TEHRAN – Some U.S. companies have offered a $5 million bribe to each Iraqi MP for passing an oil and gas law which has been stalled in the parliament for …
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=162249 – 19 hours ago –

Um, NOT the most credible source.

Comment by Anjuna Laguna — January 30, 2008 @ 9:33 am

Greg Palast reported not long ago that truckloads of money were given to “Al Qaeda in Iraq”. When they received the money they were no longer “Al Qaeda in Iraq”.

They’re all just actors playing a role.

Until the paychecks stop coming.

For a few bucks they’ll be anything you want them to be. Or not be.

As long as the truckloads of money keep coming.

“I can understand why the George W. Bush Foundation does not want the Jurisdictional Conference to vote on this issue,” said Andrew Weaver, a United Methodist pastor and graduate of SMU. “In recent months, colleagues and I have spoken to dozens of delegates who are increasingly questioning the wisdom of placing a partisan think tank on the grounds of a United Methodist institution. The George W. Bush Foundation wants to prevent the vote because it fears the outcome. It appears that the Bush Foundation has no respect for the laws and procedures of the president’s own denomination.”

Comment by missmolly — January 30, 2008 @ 10:31 am

Let’s just hope they’re not using the word “enhance” here the way they use when they talk about “interrogation techniques”.

You could do that with an urban storefront. Just put up the list of all his infamous obliterations of the Englishy language.
Mothers from all across America could threaten their children

“See! You could grow up to be like that!”

Comment by Fred — January 30, 2008 @ 10:24 am

What’s so nice about this scenario is the qualifiers: we know for certain that this man knows the information, and that torture will get the man to reveal this information.

Fact is, we don’t. Terror cells like the ones used by al-Qa’ida are organized so that no one individual knows all the information about an operation. Most just get one small piece of information needed to do their specific job, and that’s it.

And torture will not get someoe to reveal the truth. It will only get him to reveal what they think the torturers want to hear so they’ll stop torturing him. If the person being tortured thinks the torturers want to hear that there’s a bomb at Grand Central Station that will go off at 9:11 am tomorrow morning, that’s what he’ll say.

I’m picturing a sculpture outside the library…’The Stinker’…with Bush scratching his head instead of thinking.

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I admit I’m unclear on how a monument to Dubya would enhance education. By providing a bad example, perhaps?

The petition prompted Brent Caflisch to go to his computer in Rosemount, Minn. “Maybe the terrorists will do us all a favor and attack your town next, our country would be much safer with several thousand dead wackjobs in Vermont,” he wrote.
It went on to say terrorists could kidnap the three Select Board members who voted in favor, “cut their heads off, video tape it and put it on the internet.”
Caflisch, who confirmed sending the e-mail, said Tuesday he did it out of disgust after reading about the measure on The Drudge Report.

nice guy… remind you of anyone in particular?
those kind are just plain S I C K …

I guess a blowjob would have been inappropriate in that venue.

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Who DOES Mukasey think should provide an answer on the legality of waterboarding, if not the top lawyer in the country?

Quotable quotes from another time another place:

On closer inspection the favored Conservative scenario for torture reveals a curious conclusion. It begins: suppose we knew for certain that a certain man knows exactly where a nuclear weapon is and we also know for certain that torturing the man would reveal the information in time for us to disarm the bomb. For certain.

Interesting scenario. Very instructive. Let us tweak the scenario a bit. Suppose you hit the terror cell that planted the bomb and everyone was dead except for one small, female child. The child is a true believer who is quite certain that you are an infidel. As I understand Conservative logic, most Conservatives would torture the child.

Finally, let us note in passing that if you want torture you must vote for conservatives in both the congress and for the presidency. Only conservatives are soothed to sleep by the screams of the damned. It probably reminds them of where they will spend eternity. No liberal or progressive will torture people. Only conservatives enjoy inflicting pain and suffering on their fellow human beings—and lying about it.