UPDATE: Pakistan's truce with Al-Quada APPROVED BY BUSH

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Tuesday September 05, 2006 · 2:38 PM PDT

2006/09/05 · 14:38

You may remember this from 2001:

Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity... You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror.
--George W. Bush

You may also remember hearing this earlier this year:

President Bush praised Pakistan's fight against terrorism as unfaltering...
"We're not going to back down in the face of these killers," Bush said two days after a suicide car-bombing killed an American diplomat in the southern city of Karachi. "We'll fight this war and we will win this war together."

So given the Bush track record ("Nobody ever expected the levees to break..."), it will come as no surprise to the cynical that, with the approval of the Bush Administration, Pakistan has concluded a truce with Al Queada that will allow Osama bin Laden, the architect of 9/11, to live freely in Pakistan. Read More

Pentagon to spend $20M to monitor US newscasts on Iraq

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Thursday August 31, 2006 · 11:41 PM PDT

2006/08/31 · 23:41

I guess I just don't understand the post-9/11 world.

When I grew up, the Department of Defense protected America from foreign threats. Rightly enough, it monitored those threats too, so it could provide timely protection.

But I admit I don't understand why the Pentagon is spending 20 million dollars of your tax-payer money to monitor news stories for positive or negative "tone" about the war in Iraq.

I mean, it's not like the Defense Department would attack the New York Times for a "negative" story. Right? Read More

US Citizens denied re-entry to US, by fiat. No hearing. No charges. Just not let back in.

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Monday August 28, 2006 · 12:34 PM PDT

2006/08/28 · 12:34

This is absolutely breath-taking: the United States is denying re-entry to two U.S. citizens -- one of them naturalized, one born right here in the U.S.-- until and unless they agree to an FBI interview without a lawyer present.

No charges have been brought against the men. No court has seen them, no jury heard them, no due process was given. A faceless bureaucrat, answerable to no one, told them to give up their constitutional rights or effectively give up their citizenship.

Two citizens, two people as American as you or I. Are being asked to surrender their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, or give up their right to return to their own country. Your country. My country. You know, the country that's supposed to be "by the People, for the People" according to that quaint piece of paper, the Constitution.

These two citizens haven't been charged with any crime. The Constitution says that they don't have to submit to a police interrogation, but if they don't, they won't be allowed back into the U.S. Read More

Who is supporting Joe?

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Wednesday August 09, 2006 · 9:25 AM PDT

2006/08/09 · 09:25

In this diary, I'm asking for your help to create a resource we can use: please list here any Democrats who have announced they'll be supporting Joe Lieberman's run as a so-called "Independent Democrat" -- and what should be called, "Joe Lieberman, party of one".

With your help, I'd like to keep comments (at least top-level responses) in this diary to only those listing Dems who have betrayed their party to support Joe against the legitimate winner of Connecticut's Democratic primary.

Of course, we should also list those Dems who have announced they are doing the right thing by supporting Connecticut's next US Senator, Ned Lamont. Read More

Three Republican Heroes

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Wednesday June 28, 2006 · 12:24 AM PDT

2006/06/28 · 00:24

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate defeated, by one vote short of a two-thirds majority, an effort to amend our Constitution to prohibit desecration of the American flag.

As a patriot who loves America, I find burning or disparaging the flag abhorrent, reprehensible, and disgusting. To see the flag that stands for Liberty, for Freedom of Speech and Assembly, for the right to Worship or not as one's own conscience dictates -- to see that flag disgraced is terribly painful.

But as important a symbol as the flag is, what it stands for -- a Constitution that upholds the right of every person to declare his or her beliefs, no matter how repellent we find those beliefs to be -- is more important, more fundamental to the continuation of our American Liberties than any banner of cloth.

Yesterday, three Americans distinguished themselves as Patriots and Heroes. They aren't the sort of men we usually laud at DKos, but we'd be fools deserting our principles if we didn't take time to praise these Three Republican Heroes. Read More

Who cares about Jeremy Ehle?

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Wednesday April 05, 2006 · 12:25 AM PDT

2006/04/05 · 00:25

Another diary tells about how the Bush twins went on a 10K run in Richmond, Virginia. It explains they went out drinking the night before, which is OK, because at 24 they are of legal age.

But some kids never make it to twenty-four.

The number of U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq who were killed before reaching their 24th birthdays: One thousand seventy-seven.

Ironically, the last under-24 years old casualty listed at http://icasualties.org was from Richmond Virginia, where the Bush daughters ran the 10K.

HIS NAME was Jeremy Ehle. HIS WAS nineteen when he was killed in Iraq. Read More

Leaked speech: Bush to call for withdraw from Iraq

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Saturday April 01, 2006 · 9:53 AM PST

2006/04/01 · 09:53

In a forthcoming major speech, President Bush will outline a plan for "Iraqization" of the war and a complete withdraw of American forces, according to anonymous Administration sources.

In a draft of the speech, leaked to CounterLunch.com, extensive excerpts of which are given below, Bush explains his plan. The speech closes with Bush saying, "Let us be united for peace. Let us also be united against defeat. Because let us understand: Iraq cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that."

The speech does not outline the specifics of Bush's planned "Iraqization" of the war, but sources explain that a U.S. Army colonel who has previously been critical of the conduct of the war will be appointed a Major General in the Iraqi Army, to command Iraqi forces which will replace withdrawn American soldiers. Read More

Caspar Weinberger, dead at 88

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Tuesday March 28, 2006 · 8:47 AM PST

2006/03/28 · 08:47

Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan and indicted but pardoned in the Iran-Contra scandal, died today. He was 88. Read More

Stop posting to dKos: government to datamine blogs, entire web

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Thursday February 09, 2006 · 8:14 AM PST

2006/02/09 · 08:14

Shut yo' mouth! The US government's Department of Homeland Security will soon spider the entire web analyzing all pages -- including your blog -- for evidence of "terrorism".

The practical consequence for you is this: your posts and comments here may well get you investigated as a terrorist. Or put on a no-fly list. Or denied a job.

More inside, and a question for Markos. Read More

Republicans hate the Constitution: Utah debates undermining 17th Amendment, direct election of US se

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 · 10:08 PM PST

2006/01/25 · 22:08

"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof...."

The Seventeenth Amendment, a cornerstone of the Populist and Progressive movements, provides for the direct election of U.S. Senators.

Many on the Right -- including Zell Miller and Alan Keyes --, citing States' Rights, are calling for its repeal.

Now, the Republican President of Utah's State Senate thinks he's figured out a way around the Constitution's 17th Amendment. And he's got over two-thirds of Utah's State Senate ready to go along.

(Much more, and many links, inside). Read More

NYT source, NSA whistleblower on Nightline in just minutes

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Tuesday January 10, 2006 · 8:29 PM PST

2006/01/10 · 20:29

No one's diaried this yet?

The New York Times' (Risen's) source is apparently Russell Tice, a former NSA employee.

Tice, and a report on the wiretapping will be on ABC's Nightline tonight (just minutes from now, at 11:35 on the East coast).

Just for tonight, I'm skipping the Colbert Report. Read More

A cop in your trunk: mandatory GPS tracking for all cars [scary update]

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Saturday December 24, 2005 · 9:19 PM PST

2005/12/24 · 21:19

Merry Christmas! Santa knows if you've been bad or good. The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to know where you're driving. Where you're driving, right this very minute, tracking you in real-time using GPS. If the GPS signal is obstructed, your car's engine will turn off, Citizen! Read More

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