We should move on him in the ethics committee. Time to take the terririst bugman down. He's messed around gerymandering Texas, he's taking bribe money for favours, time to destroy him.
Frist should be put on hte record here and attaked by the AMA. The man is a disgrace to his profession. Investigate these mother fuckers out of the park. Frist must have been invovled in these cases as well. As a hospital owner and surgeon he's had people shunted off their ventilators and tubes too. Bury this stupid mother fucker Frist for getting involved. Fucking morons cannot take on science and win. This is it. Dawn has arrived. This is going to be a night of the long knives--the biggest since Clinton's impeachment when Gingrich etc resigned. All these Thuggie dumbasses have been involved in switching off the life support of relatives. They've all lived long enough to have had to make the painful decisions. This is an open goal. I call for investigtions into the rank hypocracy of these dirt bag thuggie.
Could the resources of KOS be used to assist Labour defeat Tory Michael Howard?
I don't particularly like Tony Blair's avid War-activism but he's actually OK (passing grade) domestically. Michael Howard has been stirring the pot with some extremely nasty Brown shirt rhetoric about Gypsies and immigrants--appealing to the fascist tendency in our domestic politics.
Seriously folks we need to get to the bottom of the lies and distortions. Also I would like to get a history out about this war. Can US units have their diaries FOIA?
Alarm bells should be going off but all we get is denial. The truth might be found in unit diaries. Armies are pretty thorough with their own archives. They know exactly how many they have killed and are engaged in denial.
Over at Atrios a character called Jamshid linked to a web site that pooh-poohed the recent Lancet report by highlighting that 15 years of civil war combat in Lebanon only produced 150,000 casualties and that it was impossible the Invasion of Iraq could have produced 100,000 in two years of combat. "Okay" I thought to myself, "maybe Lancet got it wrong". Lebanon and Iraq are somewhat similar in intensity so there can't have been as many deaths. Same types of militias, gangs and ethnic tensions= similar casualty figures. Then it occurred to me that Lebanon is significantly smaller than Iraq. Lebanon had approx 2, 668,000 residents at the end of hostilities. Iraq has a population of about 20,000,000. So suppose the two conflicts have about the same rate of death.
Over at Atrios a character called Jamshid linked to a web site that pooh-poohed the recent Lancet report by highlighting that 15 years of civil war combat in Lebanon only produced 150,000 casualties and that it was impossible the Invasion of Iraq could have produced 100,000 in two years of combat.
Here be the URL.
http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2004/10/ass-cole.html
Well Okay I thought to myself, maybe Lancet got it wrong. Lebanon and Iraq are somewhat similar in intensity so there can't have been as many deaths as Lancet suppose. Same types of militias, gangs and ethnic tensions same types of casualty figures.
The Declaration of Independence of the Blogosphere
February 10th 2005
The unanimous Declaration of the Blogs of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the professional bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
A stunning book about the right stuff in the wrong war. As a child, George W. Bush dreamed of levitating. As a young man, he dreamed of flying helicopters -And the US army gave him the chance. They sent him to Vietnam where between August between august 1965 and July 1966, he flew more than 1,000 Assault missions. In Chickenhawk, Richard Cheney gives us a devastating bird's-eye-view of that war in all its horror, as he conveys the experiences, the accelerating terror, the increasingly desperate courage of a man "acting out the role of a hero long after he realizes the conduct of the war is insane" says the New York Times. "And we can't stop our selves from identifying with it."
You know him from his Clash of Civilizations book, however he's done some other damage over the years...He wrote a book in the fifites called The Soldier and the State. In it he mapped out his ideal structure of civil military relations. Outside of a Junta there were two possibilities as he saw it. Subjective civilian control and objective civilian control. Subjective meant that civilians use the military as a part of or mirror of society and manipulated the military to their own ends. the other objective form meant that civilians would leave the military alone to do as it wished, and the military would withdraw from politics. Sounds great don't it? However he thoerized that fro this objective state to happen society would have to become conservative...This has unintended consquences....
Some chap in another thread seemed to think that we do. All I see are behmoth corporations bully little fish like Kos whilst they bribe their chosen reporters to shill for NCLB and war whoring. Kos will lose no doubt. We are at war folks--don't forget it.
Armstrong Williams is a fricking disgraceful man. Dig around a bit and you'll find the evidence. Tapes of board meetings, memos, policy papers and bank reciepts. No fucking Bush gets this kind of coverage without serious moola in the pockets of the press corps.
Apart from the fact that the UK and the US have actually been acting just like a fascist aggressor, it seems to me that Harry was sending out some interesting messages while partying with his right wing hunting chums. The scandal shows how thoroughly bebased discourse has become in the West. Let's flip our collective PC lids over a snotty public school boy at a party! let's ignore true tales of torture and murder in Iraq conducted by our own government! Ignore the decay of our own democratic values at home, concentrate on proving how unfascist you really are by commenting on fancy dress. Yeah! That'll show the world how good we really are because we don't like Swastikas on the arm of a posh rightwingers.
Rather amazingly the only coverage about the elections has focused on some sort of Pro Russia/West bias that the candidates have. either candidate will be stuck with Russia as their major trading partner and a huge Russian minorty population, so the issue seems a little bogus. What was the actual budgetary meat? If we assume Yushechenko is a bit like Yeltsin or Bush and will unleash "da market", I assume Ukrainian heavy industry will disappear and demographic indicators will get worse for the foreseeable.
Why Shouldn't the Russians see the Re-run in Ukraine as a Second Crimean War and a continuation of the Cold War by other means? Pardon me but has the 19th century just come round again with the situation in Ukraine? British policy (now inherited by America) was always to contain Russia. War in Crimea (modern Ukraine) Fights in Afghanistan and Caucuses. This is certainly how the Russians will be reading events, even if you disagree with premise.
Now we are going to see a new trend of reporter/hardmen who claim to be combatants and veterans themselves. The inmates are truly in charge of the asylum. This is another peabody moment for Bill.
How does screwing at a Buenos Aires bordello qualify as combat? Did you get a dose Bill?
But the tape of the incident actually helps the Marine because you can clearly hear him yell to his squad, "He's (blanking) faking he's dead! He's (blanking) faking he's dead!" Then the soldier shoots. On the tape you can see the insurgent move before the soldier pulls the trigger.
well fuck me! Of course that justifies killing a wounded man doesn't it? Your mate yells out that someone is moving! He was probably asking for water...
One reason why we are dealing with Bush at all is that Clinton was not ruthless enough. He should have been raining bombs on Al Qaeda as soon as the USSCole was struck. It is quite a cynical thing to say, yes I know that it could be construed as hypocritical by the simple minded Freep but you really do have to annihilate Republican's by any means. If Clinton had used the lever of military power during the 2000 campaign after the USSCole bombing all the moderate chumps would have rallied to him and been reassured by Gore. Bush won this election based on maintaining a war during an election. I had hoped Clinton would rain down Tomahawks on Osama's traning camps during the debates or late October--the chimp would have been in great trouble in October if Clinton had forced his hand. For Bush foreign affairs have no use apart from seizing domestic power. Unfortunatly Clinton did not exploit the avantage of executive power to benefit the party. Now we all pay the price with health insurance, pensions, debt and crumbling infrastructure.
Suppose Germany, France, China and maybe Russia signed a pact with Iran whereby they place a division of troops each along the Iran/Iraq border( on the Iranian side of course). In return for this defence pact the Iranians foreswear a nuclear bomb programme?
At the rate the neocons are going we will have a war in Iran in the next year. So some radical ACTION needs to be taken. Such a move would send shock waves through the corridors of the Whitehouse and the Pentagon Brass might be quite happy with the solution.
The Chinese must be inches away from such a move anyway...France and Germany have never had imperial interest in Persia so there shouldn't be too much friction.
Here is Michael Waltzer's opinion in the classic Just And Unjust Wars:
"For guerrilla's don't merely fight as civilians; they fight among civilians, and they do this in two ways. First their day to day existence is much more closely connected with the day to day existence of the people around them than is ever the case with conventional armies. They live with the people they claim to defend, whereas conventional soldiers are only billeted with civilians after the fighting is over. And second they fight where they live;their military positions are not base camps, forts or strongholds but towns and villages. hence they are radically dependent on villagers, even if they don't radicalize them to fight for a 'people's war'."
The Neocons are trying to see if the American public are really as amnesia prone as Europeans often claim. How good was Powell's intelligence to the UN last time? Why would anyone think it had improved this time?
Anyway Tehran or bust scramble the B52s and F18s. We going to war in 04!
Her specialization is Soviet studies. I expect she will start little fights with the Russians. It is probably at the core of her strategic outlook. Expect more breakaway republics in the near future and secret funding of Chechen rebels. The focus of her mind is naturally going to be central Asia's political make up. Anybody care to discuss?.
