Sorry for the late response. The article you linked to broke my heart. I hope we stay on top of this issue because it will go on much longer than any war we are fighting. The rape of Iraq is happening right here and right now in the good ol’ US of A.

President dip-shit should be less concerned about the quality of life for the citizens of Iran, and be more concerned about the quality of life for the citizens of these United States of America. He is from here, after all. Unfortunately.

The latest chympie approval poll is distinguished in that the differential spread is at an all time high of FORTY.
AP-Ipsos
4/7-9/08
Approve 28
Disapprove 68
Unsure *
Disapprove -40

Self-righteous and pious – the lot of them.

Top Bush aides, including Vice President Cheney, micromanaged the torture of terrorist suspects from the White House basement, according to an ABC News report aired last night.
Discussions were so detailed, ABC’s sources said, that some interrogation sessions were virtually choreographed by a White House advisory group. In addition to Cheney, the group included then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, then-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, then-secretary of state Colin Powell, then-CIA director George Tenet and then-attorney general John Ashcroft.’

I want to know when the collective public outrage will begin — when this will headline every news program on radio and TV – when the newspapers will print all follow up information to the investigation of this.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/23/7831/

The Memo with a G.W.Bush signature on it…
http://www.gwu.edu/ ~nsarchiv/ NSAEBB/ NSAEBB127/ 02.02.07.pdf

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I’d rather pull my fingernails off with pliers, thanks! No offense to Randi…

impeachcheneythenbush Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Nicky Barnes Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 10:39 am

All This bad news is good. It will help Obama win in November. Let’s be happy about this. We will soon have complete power and we can impose our Progressive agenda! Things are looking up.

I think this is a troll. Agree?

There seems to be a consensus on that point.

All This bad news is good. It will help Obama win in November. Let’s be happy about this. We will soon have complete power and we can impose our Progressive agenda! Things are looking up.

I think this is a troll. Agree?

And yes the Constitutional showdown appears to be looming. Bush is the trickiest Prez since tricky Dick Nixon. My apologies to tricky people

The Republic of Stupidity Says:
April 11th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I suspect “Nicky” is a troll, misshusseinmolly.

TRoS, I’ll go a step beyond that. I’m pretty confident that “Nicky Barnes” is the same troll who can’t spell who’s been demonstrating his pathetic loneliness on these threads for weeks.

Since when is investigating unethical and illegal behavior butting heads with those attempting to cover it up referred to as a “constitutional impasse” ?

It’s only one of several “constitutional impasses” because it is the Dept. of Justice that is responsible for enforcing such subpeonas…and it is also the Dept. of Justice that would prosecute under the War Crimes Act. There is obvious evidence that the very top officials in this administration were intimately involved in just such war crimes (i.e. Mary’s post above). But if the Justice Department refused to prosecute, Congress could do very little and would then have to rely on the Hague process to intervene.

What did we miss?

Where’s Dubya today? Rumor has it that he’s back in Texas on another well-deserved(?) vacation, cutting down bushes, getting drunk, practicing his tap-dance steps and crying on command. Gotta get ready for the pope’s visit, ya know.

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Iraq is home to the oldest agricultural traditions in the world. Historical, genetic and archaeological evidence, including radiocarbon dating of carbon-containing materials at the site, show that the Fertile Crescent, including modern Iraq, was the center of domestication for a remarkable array of today’s primary agricultural crops and livestock animals. Wheat, barley, rye, lentils, sheep, goats, and pigs were all originally brought under human control around 8000 BCE. Iraq is where wild wheat was once originated and many of its cereal varieties have been exported and adapted worldwide. The beginning of agriculture led inexorably to the development of human civilization.

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(bremer’s Order 81) Order 81 deals specifically with Plant Variety Protection (PVP) because it is designed to protect the commercial interests of corporate seed companies. Its aim is to force Iraqi farmers to plant so-called “protected” crop varieties ‘defined as new, distinct uniform and stable’, and most likely genetically modified. This means Iraqi farmers will have one choice; to buy PVP registered seeds. Order 81 opens the way for patenting (ownership) of plant forms, and facilitates the introduction of genetically modified crops or organisms (GMOs) to Iraq. U.S. agricultural biotechnology corporations, such as Monsanto and Syngenta will be the beneficiaries. Iraqi farmers will be forced to buy their seeds from these corporations.

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Iraq had kept its precious natural seed varieties in a seed bank in the town of Abu Ghraib. Sometime during the early part of the occupation the seed bank vanished, another casualty of the Iraq War. The Agriculture Ministry, fortunately, had taken the precaution of creating a back-up seed bank in neighboring Syria.

All of this was imposed by the US on Iraq without discussion or debate.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/9/13738/98820/681/492574

I think many of us had visions of Iraq as a dry, barren desert. Well, now it probably is.

Only trolls use phrases like “Progressive agenda”.

Especially w/ a Capital P.

Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.

Unlike the neocons, we are not all about “winning” — we are all about making our country and our world a better place. A tanking economy could very well help the Democratic candidate win in November, but at what cost? People losing their jobs? People losing their homes? People losing their retirement funds? People starving? People dying because they can’t afford medical care? That kind of “winning” is never worth it.

If a mother allowed her sick child to go untreated because it would help her get publicity and attention, decent people would call that reprehensible. And rightly so. It’s the same with problems in our country — it’s more important to fix them and mitigate the suffering than to exploit them for political gain.

The neocons may trash the country in order to gain power and implement their agenda, but we don’t. Because it’s not right.

Uh oh… this makes me a little nervous. Half of my comments are juvenile distratctions.

I guess I’d better shape up around here.
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HAH! Waaaay aheada ya, Ralfie… TWICE as many of my comments are juvenile distractions. That makes ALMOST everything I say…

Never mind.