Can you trust what Seymour Hersh writes? Relying almost exclusively on vaguely described anonymous sources, he makes sweeping claims about top-secret operations that can only be known to a small number of people inside the government with access to the relevant “sensitive compartmented information” and “special access programs,” and they aren’t allowed to comment one [...]
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Glenn Greenwald and the Mainstream
Remember back when War Crimes for the Bush Administration were all but assured? But with these new, unprecedentedly stark revelations, this facade will be increasingly difficult to maintain. It is already the case, as the Times Editorial today notes, that “all but President Bush’s most unquestioning supporters [i.e., this] recognized the chain of unprincipled decisions [...]
Walter Cronkite and Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden made his first video appearance in three years yesterday. bq. People of United States, this talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal way to prevent another Manhattan and deals with the war and its causes and results. – “Osama bin Laden(Transcript of Osama bin Laden’s Speech)”:http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1964.cfm It certainly was [...]
Four Guys and a W
William Turnipseed says he doesn’t remember George W. Bush being in Alabama with the “187th(187th Fighter Wing, Alabama Air National Guard)”:http://www.almont.ang.af.mil/index.html. bq. George Bush wasn’t even famous back then, so why would I notice this outsider showing up at a couple of meetings. I just wouldn’t. – “William Turnipseed(Alabama commander regrets Bush comments)”:http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4242877/ Bob Mintz [...]
A Real Solution
bq. You say you got a real solution Well you know We’d all love to see the plan – “The Beatles(The Beatles Revolution Lyrics)”:http://www.bbgcarpet.com/TheBeatlesRevolutionLyrics.html John Kerry has a plan for dealing with terrorism but he is keeping it a secret. bq. I don’t care what it sounds like. The fact is that I’m not going [...]
Fanaticism
First off, I will admit this. I downloaded the “entire report”:http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/20040709iraqreport2.pdf but I have not had time to finish it yet. But I just wasn’t in the mood to wait until I had finished it to comment. I don’t care about the WMD stuff. I “never did(Finding Weapons of Mass Destruction)”:http://www.thirdsuperpower.com/previously/2003/05/03/22/57/. I “never will(Dating WMD [...]
Yalies
bq. Another price, one we hope to pay, is that the Yale-educated Good Old Boy, George W Bush, loses his bid for re-election and we have to apologize to the world for electing him in 2000. His presidency will haunt US foreign policy for generations to come. (I’d probably vote for John McCain, if the [...]
The Brandon Mayfield Conspiracy
As some of you may remember, the Government of Spain changed hands recently. It went from one “firmly allied(Transcript of the Azores Islands Summit)”:http://www.milparts.net/azores-summit.html with George W. Bush to being run by a socialist who is committed to “capitulating(Spain Leaves Coalition)”:http://www.therant.info/archive/002055.html to terrorists demands. Now, in the midst of investing the “terror attack(Dates of Death)”:http://www.thirdsuperpower.com/previously/2004/03/12/17/27/ [...]