From 2 Former GOP Congressmen - McCain abandoned POWs, Unfit to serve as Commander in Chief

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 12:27 PM PDT

2008/08/21 · 12:27

From Bill Hendon & John LeBoutillier, two former GOP Congressmen heavily involved in efforts to return Vietnam POWs home.

The setting:

...in early spring, 1992, the issue of live POWs had become, as McCain later described it, "white hot;" this not only because of intense public interest in the plight of the POWs, but also because Texas businessman and longtime POW advocate H. Ross Perot had entered the presidential race, and had done so amid press accounts that he thought President Bush was not doing enough to bring the POWs home. By late May Perot was in first place in the national polls, ahead of President Bush, who was in second place, and the presumptive Democratic nominee, Governor Bill Clinton, who was in third. What would the committee find? Might a ruling that 69% of the American people were right and that, in fact, there were live POWs still held half a world away throw the election to Perot? How could it not?

Mercutio

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Tuesday July 15, 2008 · 9:31 PM PDT

2008/07/15 · 21:31

Hi folks - I'm not sure how serious this is, but I noticed this tonight and I think mariachi mama needs help - this seems like a legitimate suicide attempt. While I don't know her personally, this seemed serious enough to send out an alert to the community at large. If anyone knows her in real life, please give her a call or stop by to ensure that she's ok and safe.

Thanks.

Update: Many thanks to all who responded here, but most of all to mariachi mama who is making her way bravely through a very rough night. Please continue to send her your love and support.

On a personal note, situations like these show why this community shines above and beyond the typical online crowd - this site is truly a family Maori and I are proud to be part of.

House Resolution Calls for Naval Blockade against Iran

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Thursday June 19, 2008 · 2:47 PM PDT

2008/06/19 · 14:47

From GlobalReasearch.ca:

A US House of Representatives Resolution effectively requiring a naval blockade on Iran seems fast tracked for passage, gaining co-sponsors at a remarkable speed, but experts say the measures called for in the resolutions amount to an act of war.

H.CON.RES 362 calls on the president to stop all shipments of refined petroleum products from reaching Iran. It also "demands" that the President impose "stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran."

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If the congress passes this bill and starts a war with Iran, we should:

97 votes Vote Now!

If the congress passes this bill and starts a war with Iran, we should:

Thank them for blowing up the scary muslims and go back to discussing Britney

9 votes

Write a strongly worded letter

7 votes

Vote them out

9 votes

Kick them out. Physically.

23 votes

Send them to Iran

13 votes

Send them to Iraq

1 vote

Send them to Iraq without body armor or adequate medical assistance

32 votes

Pie

3 votes

McCain's Enron Problem - it goes deeper

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Monday May 19, 2008 · 1:18 PM PDT

2008/05/19 · 13:18

From Jason Leopold, at consortiumnews.com:

Sen. John McCain says he opposes the $307 billion farm bill because it would dole out wasteful subsidies, but his chief economic adviser Phil Gramm also wants to stop its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused when Enron Corp. manipulated California’s electricity prices in 2001.

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Wednesday May 07, 2008 · 8:54 PM PDT

2008/05/07 · 20:54

So, this is pretty much what many of us suspected all along, but Gareth Porter at the Asian Times does a wonderful job of pulling it all together. The real bombshell here is that they deliberately chose to ignore Bin-Laden in favor of establishing new regimes:

Feith's book, War and Decision, released last month, provides excerpts of the paper Rumsfeld sent to President George W Bush on September 30, 2001, calling for the administration to focus not on taking down Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network but on the aim of establishing "new regimes" in a series of states by "aiding local peoples to rid themselves of terrorists and to free themselves of regimes that support terrorism".

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We'll be at war with Iran...

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We'll be at war with Iran...

before the Democratic Convention

5 votes

before the General Election

18 votes

before Obama is sworn in as President

20 votes

Never, if I can help it

37 votes

Conyers threatening Impeachment if Bush attacks Iran

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Thursday April 03, 2008 · 1:40 PM PDT

2008/04/03 · 13:40

Think I'd like to let this speak for itself. From the liveblogging at AfterDowningStreet.org:

...Conyers said that he has drafted and is circulating to his colleagues a letter to Bush that says that if he attacks Iran impeachment hearings will begin.

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What's going to happen now?

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What's going to happen now?

Daily Kos creates a flood of phone calls to the Judiciary Comittee and they start impeachment rolling NOW

120 votes

We get a majority of congresscritters to support impeachment in the case of invasion, and get Bushco to back down on Iran

259 votes

The letters go out, and promptly end up in Cheney's paper shredder

424 votes

Pelosi takes the letters off the table and puts them in Cheney's paper shredder for him

897 votes

Pie

206 votes

CNN/Rawstory: Iran helped broker ceasefire in Iraq

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Monday March 31, 2008 · 9:51 AM PDT

2008/03/31 · 09:51

Just passing on the news, but I think this story needs to get some more attention given the recent desire some candidates and public officials have shown to "Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran"...

From Rawstory:

It was reported on Sunday that Iranian officials had helped broker a ceasefire agreement in the recent fighting between Iraq's government and radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

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Tuesday March 25, 2008 · 3:02 PM PDT

2008/03/25 · 15:02

Look, I know you've been with us for a long time. And I remember back in '92 how excited I was to cast my first vote for Bill, and how it was a fantastic thing to finally see a Democrat in the White House. I loved when you both started up Americorps, and the way the two of you were gonna bring in a new Democratic century. You were a great first lady, in the tradition of Elanor Roosevelt and Lady Bird Johnson - you actually put your shoulder to the wheel to move this country forward.

Well, needless to say, things faltered. I know Gingrich and the Repugs did everything to take you down, tore you up as much as they could, and dragged you through the mud even before you ran for political office. And it was a shame to see you shamed without cause, because you were fighting the good fight. And I can see, too easily, how your faith in the greater good must have been shaken by years of daily attacks against you.

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What was the last straw for you with Hillary?

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What was the last straw for you with Hillary?

Voting for the authorization of force in Iraq

49 votes

Not apologizing for her vote on Iraq

28 votes

Voting for the authorization of force in Iran

19 votes

Praising McCain over Obama

88 votes

Blowing her campaign finances

7 votes

Lying

26 votes

What Spitzer means to the FISA Fight [Update w. Poll]

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Tuesday March 11, 2008 · 10:32 AM PDT

2008/03/11 · 10:32

Not being a regular poster here, but a frequent lurker, I simply have a small question to raise. First off, take a look at The Spitzer Scandal: asking that question by Red Wind over at the Seminal. The article is a good look at how the Spitzer scandal is almost certain to have relied upon the extraordinary wiretapping that the Bush administration has put in place.

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Do you think the Bush Administration is using it's wiretapping capabilities to blackmail prominent Democrats?

13 votes Vote Now!

Do you think the Bush Administration is using it's wiretapping capabilities to blackmail prominent Democrats?

Yes

6 votes

5 votes

It's a distinct possibility

2 votes

The FBI is coming for you, Mercutio

0 votes

380 tons of missing explosives just the tip of the iceberg

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Wednesday October 27, 2004 · 5:20 PM PDT

2004/10/27 · 17:20

This scares the hell outta me: (from Peter Gailbraith, quoted in Salon)

In 2003 I went to tell Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz what I had seen in Baghdad in the days following Saddam Hussein's overthrow. For nearly an hour, I described the catastrophic aftermath of the invasion -- the unchecked looting of every public institution in Baghdad, the devastation of Iraq's cultural heritage, the anger of ordinary Iraqis who couldn't understand why the world's only superpower was letting this happen.

"I also described two particularly disturbing incidents -- one I had witnessed and the other I had heard about. On April 16, 2003, a mob attacked and looted the Iraqi equivalent of the Centers for Disease Control, taking live HIV and black fever virus among other potentially lethal materials. US troops were stationed across the street but did not intervene because they didn't know the building was important.

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From 2 Former GOP Congressmen - McCain abandoned POWs, Unfit to serve as Commander in Chief

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House Resolution Calls for Naval Blockade against Iran

McCain's Enron Problem - it goes deeper

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Conyers threatening Impeachment if Bush attacks Iran

CNN/Rawstory: Iran helped broker ceasefire in Iraq

Hillary, you've blown it. Let it go.

What Spitzer means to the FISA Fight [Update w. Poll]

380 tons of missing explosives just the tip of the iceberg