Sunday, December 31, 2006
Happy 2007 Everyone!
Hope everyone has enjoyed their evening. Be safe, be well, and if you must fight...fight for peace. Long live the dirty, fucking hippies.
Love,
Diane
No Regrets
LONG BEACH, Calif., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Conrad Buchanan, who tried in 1998 to save a woman from suicide and subsequently became known as a hero, has died at his California home at age 34.
The Times reported that Buchanan, left a quadriplegic after the event, died Wednesday of unknown causes. His autopsy is pending.
On a November day in 1998, Julie Light, an aging actress who had recently lost her husband, stood on top of a parking garage, telling people on the sidewalk below to move out of the way. The Times reported that everyone except for Buchanan, a mall security guard, moved. The woman jumped, falling on top of Buchanan, injuring his neck and leaving him a quadriplegic.
The woman died shortly after the incident, but Buchanan became known as a hero for his efforts. Despite his suffering Buchanan, a father of two, said he never regretted his actions.
I always wondered how this might have ended if even one of the others in that crowd had decided to stand with Conrad rather than clear the way for Julie to jump. What if they all stayed put and said 'no, we won't just walk away and let you do this'?
Rest in peace, Conrad Buchanan. The world will be just a little bit darker in this coming new year.
-D.
The Times reported that Buchanan, left a quadriplegic after the event, died Wednesday of unknown causes. His autopsy is pending.
On a November day in 1998, Julie Light, an aging actress who had recently lost her husband, stood on top of a parking garage, telling people on the sidewalk below to move out of the way. The Times reported that everyone except for Buchanan, a mall security guard, moved. The woman jumped, falling on top of Buchanan, injuring his neck and leaving him a quadriplegic.
The woman died shortly after the incident, but Buchanan became known as a hero for his efforts. Despite his suffering Buchanan, a father of two, said he never regretted his actions.
I always wondered how this might have ended if even one of the others in that crowd had decided to stand with Conrad rather than clear the way for Julie to jump. What if they all stayed put and said 'no, we won't just walk away and let you do this'?
Rest in peace, Conrad Buchanan. The world will be just a little bit darker in this coming new year.
-D.
Bumbling Bush turns Despot into Martyr
Juan Cole via Salon:
In his farewell address, however, Saddam could not help departing from his national-unity script to take a few last shots at his ethnic rivals. Despite some smarmy language urging Iraqis not to hate the Americans, Saddam denounced the "invaders" and "Persians" who had come into Iraq. The invaders are the American army, and the Persians are code not just for Iranian agents but for Iraqi Shiites, whom many Sunni Arabs view as having Iranian antecedents and as not really Iraqi or Arab. It was such attitudes that led to slaughters like that at Dujail.
In his death, as in his life, Saddam Hussein is managing to divide Iraqis and condemn them to further violence and brutality. But the Americans and the Shiite- and Kurd-dominated government bear some blame for the way they botched his trial and gave him this last opportunity to play the spoiler.
Iraq is on high alert, in expectation of protests and guerrilla reprisals. Leaves have been canceled for Iraqi soldiers, though in the past they have seldom paid much attention to such orders. But perhaps the death of Saddam, who once haunted the nightmares of a nation, will soon come to seem insignificant. In Iraq, guerrilla and criminal violence executes as many as 500 persons a day. Saddam's hanging is just one more occasion for a blood feud in a country that now has thousands of them.
Quite a lively discussion going on there on this topic. Absolutely worth reading.
-D.
In his farewell address, however, Saddam could not help departing from his national-unity script to take a few last shots at his ethnic rivals. Despite some smarmy language urging Iraqis not to hate the Americans, Saddam denounced the "invaders" and "Persians" who had come into Iraq. The invaders are the American army, and the Persians are code not just for Iranian agents but for Iraqi Shiites, whom many Sunni Arabs view as having Iranian antecedents and as not really Iraqi or Arab. It was such attitudes that led to slaughters like that at Dujail.
In his death, as in his life, Saddam Hussein is managing to divide Iraqis and condemn them to further violence and brutality. But the Americans and the Shiite- and Kurd-dominated government bear some blame for the way they botched his trial and gave him this last opportunity to play the spoiler.
Iraq is on high alert, in expectation of protests and guerrilla reprisals. Leaves have been canceled for Iraqi soldiers, though in the past they have seldom paid much attention to such orders. But perhaps the death of Saddam, who once haunted the nightmares of a nation, will soon come to seem insignificant. In Iraq, guerrilla and criminal violence executes as many as 500 persons a day. Saddam's hanging is just one more occasion for a blood feud in a country that now has thousands of them.
Quite a lively discussion going on there on this topic. Absolutely worth reading.
-D.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
'Democracy'?
Sadr City celebration : Iraqis cheer as they ride through the streets of the Shiite-majority Baghdad suburb Sadr City with an effigy of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein hanging from a rope, during celebrations of Saddam's execution. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
-D.
Bush :35% War Approval from U.S. Troops
Via Think Progress, a new poll of active duty U.S. troops:
– Only 35 percent said they approve of the way President Bush is handling the war, while 42 percent said they disapproved.
– 50 percent believe success in Iraq is likely, down from 83 percent in 2004.
– 38 percent believe the United States should send more troops to Iraq. 39 percent believe we should maintain current levels or reduce the number of troops, including 13 percent who support complete withdrawal.
– 72 percent believe the military is “stretched too thin to be effective.”
– 47 percent disagree with President Bush’s mantra that the war in Iraq is part of the war against terrorism, while the same percentage agree.
– Only 41 percent of the military said the U.S. should have gone to war in Iraq in the first place, down from 65 percent in 2003. That closely reflects the beliefs of the general population today — 45 percent agreed in a recent USA Today/Gallup poll.
– 52 percent approve of the overall job President Bush is doing, down from 71 percent in 2004.
– 63 percent say the senior military leadership has the best interests of the troops at heart. That number is lower from President Bush (48 percent) and lower still for civilian military leadership (32 percent) and Congress (23 percent).
Perhaps Rummy isn't who they wanted to see replaced?
-D.
– Only 35 percent said they approve of the way President Bush is handling the war, while 42 percent said they disapproved.
– 50 percent believe success in Iraq is likely, down from 83 percent in 2004.
– 38 percent believe the United States should send more troops to Iraq. 39 percent believe we should maintain current levels or reduce the number of troops, including 13 percent who support complete withdrawal.
– 72 percent believe the military is “stretched too thin to be effective.”
– 47 percent disagree with President Bush’s mantra that the war in Iraq is part of the war against terrorism, while the same percentage agree.
– Only 41 percent of the military said the U.S. should have gone to war in Iraq in the first place, down from 65 percent in 2003. That closely reflects the beliefs of the general population today — 45 percent agreed in a recent USA Today/Gallup poll.
– 52 percent approve of the overall job President Bush is doing, down from 71 percent in 2004.
– 63 percent say the senior military leadership has the best interests of the troops at heart. That number is lower from President Bush (48 percent) and lower still for civilian military leadership (32 percent) and Congress (23 percent).
Perhaps Rummy isn't who they wanted to see replaced?
-D.
Soon to be on his third tour of duty...
"First it was weapons of mass destruction. Then when there were none, it was that we had to find Saddam. We did that, but then it was that we had to put him on trial," said Spc. Thomas Sheck, 25, who is on his second tour in Iraq. "So now, what will be the next story they tell us to keep us over here?"
Spc. Scheck, now your mission is to find the magic pony. Stay safe. That is all.
-D.
Spc. Scheck, now your mission is to find the magic pony. Stay safe. That is all.
-D.
What?
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Bombings killed at least 68 people in Iraq on Saturday, including one planted on a minibus that exploded in a fish market in a mostly Shiite town south of Baghdad.
Where's the flowers? Where's the love??
-D.
Where's the flowers? Where's the love??
-D.
Friday, December 29, 2006
Breaking
3 Arab news stations reporting Saddam has been executed. His daughter is said to want him buried in Yemen.
-D.
-D.
Saddam Update
Despite appeals by Saddam Hussein's attorney for the U.S. to block the execution of Saddam, a release from the Associated Press says his hanging is to take place within hours:
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A top Iraqi official told The Associated Press late Friday that Saddam Hussein will be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, Baghdad time, or 10 p.m. Friday EST.
Before the invasion of Iraq I doubt I would've given two figs about his fate. Now, this seems more of another viciously aggressive act by an unrepentant, misguided, self-serving administration, not to mention that Human Right's Watch condemned the verdict because of irregularities(putting it mildly)during his trial.
-D.
*Edit* This breaking from Reuters: Saddam to hang in 3 hours.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A top Iraqi official told The Associated Press late Friday that Saddam Hussein will be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, Baghdad time, or 10 p.m. Friday EST.
Before the invasion of Iraq I doubt I would've given two figs about his fate. Now, this seems more of another viciously aggressive act by an unrepentant, misguided, self-serving administration, not to mention that Human Right's Watch condemned the verdict because of irregularities(putting it mildly)during his trial.
-D.
*Edit* This breaking from Reuters: Saddam to hang in 3 hours.
Riverbend
You know your country is in trouble when:
1.
The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed, UNAMI.
2.
Abovementioned branch cannot be run from your country.
3.
The politicians who worked to put your country in this sorry state can no longer be found inside of, or anywhere near, its borders.
4.
The only thing the US and Iran can agree about is the deteriorating state of your nation.
5.
An 8-year war and 13-year blockade are looking like the country's 'Golden Years'.
6.
Your country is purportedly 'selling' 2 million barrels of oil a day, but you are standing in line for 4 hours for black market gasoline for the generator.
7.
For every 5 hours of no electricity, you get one hour of public electricity and then the government announces it's going to cut back on providing that hour.
8.
Politicians who supported the war spend tv time debating whether it is 'sectarian bloodshed' or 'civil war'.
9.
People consider themselves lucky if they can actually identify the corpse of the relative that's been missing for two weeks.
-D.
1.
The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed, UNAMI.
2.
Abovementioned branch cannot be run from your country.
3.
The politicians who worked to put your country in this sorry state can no longer be found inside of, or anywhere near, its borders.
4.
The only thing the US and Iran can agree about is the deteriorating state of your nation.
5.
An 8-year war and 13-year blockade are looking like the country's 'Golden Years'.
6.
Your country is purportedly 'selling' 2 million barrels of oil a day, but you are standing in line for 4 hours for black market gasoline for the generator.
7.
For every 5 hours of no electricity, you get one hour of public electricity and then the government announces it's going to cut back on providing that hour.
8.
Politicians who supported the war spend tv time debating whether it is 'sectarian bloodshed' or 'civil war'.
9.
People consider themselves lucky if they can actually identify the corpse of the relative that's been missing for two weeks.
-D.
Where's Saddam?
Conflicting reports in various media as to exactly whose custody Hussein is in today, then this from the BBC:
Lawyers for former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein have confirmed to the BBC that they have been asked to pick up his personal effects.
Doesn't bode well, for Saddam, or Iraq.
-D.
Lawyers for former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein have confirmed to the BBC that they have been asked to pick up his personal effects.
Doesn't bode well, for Saddam, or Iraq.
-D.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Demolition Crew
The Army has been forced to cancel more than 60 training exercises in the past year amid growing concern that the armed forces are being stretched to breaking point by deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But, perhaps that doesn't sound bleak enough. Enter Dumbya:
The Bush administration is considering an increase in troop levels in Iraq of 17,000 to 20,000, which would be accomplished in part by delaying the departure of two Marine regiments now deployed in Anbar Province, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
With all this dark news for our military, our nation, Iraq, other foreign nations...these are actually the least of our worries. Be very afraid of anyone insane enough to consider a vote for Rice in '08. They're out there.
-D.
But, perhaps that doesn't sound bleak enough. Enter Dumbya:
The Bush administration is considering an increase in troop levels in Iraq of 17,000 to 20,000, which would be accomplished in part by delaying the departure of two Marine regiments now deployed in Anbar Province, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
With all this dark news for our military, our nation, Iraq, other foreign nations...these are actually the least of our worries. Be very afraid of anyone insane enough to consider a vote for Rice in '08. They're out there.
-D.
Welcome to Bushland
TAMPA, Fla. -- The Homeland Security Department sent a letter apologizing to a Muslim woman who was detained at the Tampa airport and strip searched at a county jail.
Safana Jawad, 45, a Spanish citizen who was born in Iraq, was detained on April 11 because of a suspected tie to a suspicious person, authorities said. She was held for two days before being deported to England.
Jawad filed a complaint, and the agency apologized in a letter dated Dec. 8.
"On behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, I offer you my sincere apology for having to undergo a strip search," wrote Timothy J. Keefer, acting chief counsel for the department's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
The agency declined to release the name of the suspicious person in the case.
Department spokeswoman Joanna Gonzalez said it is standard practice to send a response letter to someone who complains. She said the agency does not track the number of apologies it issues.
Jawad was traveling to Clearwater to visit her 16-year-old son, who lived with her ex-husband, Ahmad Maki Kubba. Kubba, an Iraqi exile and American citizen for 27 years, was praised last year by Gov. Jeb. Bush for organizing a group to vote in Iraq's election.
Kubba said his ex-wife's detention prompted his son to move to Spain.
"I lost my son because of what happened," Kubba said. "My son wanted to be in the U.S. Navy, and he speaks both English and Arabic. He would have been just what they are looking for. What they did to Jawad was unfair and is hurting America."
I'll take "What is too many to count?" for $500, please.
-D.
Safana Jawad, 45, a Spanish citizen who was born in Iraq, was detained on April 11 because of a suspected tie to a suspicious person, authorities said. She was held for two days before being deported to England.
Jawad filed a complaint, and the agency apologized in a letter dated Dec. 8.
"On behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, I offer you my sincere apology for having to undergo a strip search," wrote Timothy J. Keefer, acting chief counsel for the department's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
The agency declined to release the name of the suspicious person in the case.
Department spokeswoman Joanna Gonzalez said it is standard practice to send a response letter to someone who complains. She said the agency does not track the number of apologies it issues.
Jawad was traveling to Clearwater to visit her 16-year-old son, who lived with her ex-husband, Ahmad Maki Kubba. Kubba, an Iraqi exile and American citizen for 27 years, was praised last year by Gov. Jeb. Bush for organizing a group to vote in Iraq's election.
Kubba said his ex-wife's detention prompted his son to move to Spain.
"I lost my son because of what happened," Kubba said. "My son wanted to be in the U.S. Navy, and he speaks both English and Arabic. He would have been just what they are looking for. What they did to Jawad was unfair and is hurting America."
I'll take "What is too many to count?" for $500, please.
-D.
Oy.
Dub is gonna huddle today on his war strategery with his strategerically selected advisors.
Here's the guest list for those about to help make hash, or whatever other stupid euphemism is tossed in there:
Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and national security adviser Stephen Hadley will attend the session.
I'm sure something besides spend billions and send other's kids off to die will come from that group.
-D.
Here's the guest list for those about to help make hash, or whatever other stupid euphemism is tossed in there:
Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and national security adviser Stephen Hadley will attend the session.
I'm sure something besides spend billions and send other's kids off to die will come from that group.
-D.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Nearly 21,000 Wounded
For every servicemember who has died in Iraq, more than seven others have been wounded in action, according to statistics compiled by the
Pentagon.
They seem to be reporting this with pride.
-D.
Pentagon.
They seem to be reporting this with pride.
-D.
Metallica: One
I cant remember anything
Cant tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me
Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up I can not see
That there is not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god,wake me
Back in the womb its much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But cant look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I'll live
Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god,wake me
Now the world is gone Im just one
Oh god,help me hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God help me
Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
[REUTERS]
Afghan widows and a young boy line up for food handouts December 21, 2006 in the Afghan capital Kabul. The aid agency CARE International gave out food to burqa-clad widows on Thursday as the harsh winter sets in.
-D.
motherfuckers
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed orders that will send the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade to Kuwait shortly after the new year, senior defense officials said Tuesday.
The decision to send the unit was first reported earlier this month. The soldiers, who are based at Fort Bragg, N.C., are expected to be deployed into Iraq early next year, and the move could be part of a short-term surge of troops to the battlefront to quell the ongoing violence.
The 82nd Airborne unit - which would include as many as 3,300 soldiers - will replace the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which had served as the reserve force based in Kuwait but has been deployed into Iraq.
Can't we get someone to blow them already so people can quit dying? JimmyJeff, where are you?
-D.
Suckers
AMMAN, Jordan - A former Iraqi Cabinet minister who escaped from a Baghdad prison this month has arrived in Jordan on a U.S. plane, Jordan's prime minister said Tuesday. Ayham al-Samaraie, a former minister of electricity with dual U.S. and Iraqi citizenship, was serving time for corruption when he escaped mid-December.
On Dec. 19, he called the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times and gloated over his escape, referring to U.S. and Iraqi officials in Baghdad as "suckers." He declined to tell the newspapers where he was, but said he was in a "a very safe place."
Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit told reporters Tuesday that al-Samaraie "arrived in Amman as an American and on an American plane," an apparent reference to a U.S. military plane. He did not elaborate on the official's escape from jail.
"Jordan did not receive any demand from the Iraqi authorities" for al-Samaraie's extradition, al-Bakhit said.
Lou Fintor, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, said the U.S. government was not involved in al-Samaraie's escape "in any way."
Damn my ignorance on legal matters, but even so, I'm fairly certain that the U.S. flying the escapee out of Iraq and to another country would at the least make us some sort of accomplice.
-D.
On Dec. 19, he called the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times and gloated over his escape, referring to U.S. and Iraqi officials in Baghdad as "suckers." He declined to tell the newspapers where he was, but said he was in a "a very safe place."
Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit told reporters Tuesday that al-Samaraie "arrived in Amman as an American and on an American plane," an apparent reference to a U.S. military plane. He did not elaborate on the official's escape from jail.
"Jordan did not receive any demand from the Iraqi authorities" for al-Samaraie's extradition, al-Bakhit said.
Lou Fintor, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, said the U.S. government was not involved in al-Samaraie's escape "in any way."
Damn my ignorance on legal matters, but even so, I'm fairly certain that the U.S. flying the escapee out of Iraq and to another country would at the least make us some sort of accomplice.
-D.
Monday, December 25, 2006
Reality Bytes
*BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. patrol in southern Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding two, the U.S. military said in a statement.
*ANBAR - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in action in Iraq's western Anbar province on Sunday, the U.S. military said in a statement.
BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed at least 10 people and wounded 15 when it exploded on a busy commercial street in the mainly Shi'ite New Baghdad district of the Iraqi capital, police said.
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 20 others when he blew himself up aboard a crowded bus in the Shi'ite Talibiya district in northeastern Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said.
RAMADI - A suicide bomber targeting a police checkpoint near the main entrance of Anbar University killed three policemen and wounded two students in the city of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, police Lieutenant Kareem al-Rishawi said.
The U.S. military said one student and one police man were killed, and five police wounded. The bomber was also killed. A U.S. statement said the reports of three policemen dead were a deliberate inflation of the casualties in an effort to intimidate the police and dissuade people from enlisting.
BASRA - British forces seized a major police station in the city of Basra suspected of militia activity and transferred prisoners to another station before planting explosives and destroying the building.
MAHAWEEL - Gunmen killed a police lieutenant colonel and wounded three other policemen in a drive-by shooting in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. An Interior Ministry source said two of the policemen with the officer also died in the attack.
MUSSAYAB - Gunmen killed one civilian after they stormed his house on Sunday night in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
JURF AL-SAKHAR - Gunmen wounded three policemen when they attacked a police checkpoint on Sunday in Jurf al-Sakhar, about 85 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
HAWIJA - Gunmen killed two Shi'ite brothers on Sunday in the town of Hawija, 190 km (120 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed three insurgents on Sunday in northern Baghdad during a raid targeting foreign fighters and local insurgents who were building car bombs in the area.
BAGHDAD - A total of 29 bodies were found shot dead, with most showing signs of torture, in different districts of Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.
RUMAITHA - Clashes between security forces and militiamen loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr killed six people and seriously wounded one on Sunday in the southern Iraqi town of Rumaitha, 25 km (16 miles) north of Samawa, police said. Three days of clashes have killed at least eight people in Samawa.
MOSUL - A total of seven bodies, including three policemen, were found in different districts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a hospital source said.
No pony today.
-D.
*ANBAR - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in action in Iraq's western Anbar province on Sunday, the U.S. military said in a statement.
BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed at least 10 people and wounded 15 when it exploded on a busy commercial street in the mainly Shi'ite New Baghdad district of the Iraqi capital, police said.
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 20 others when he blew himself up aboard a crowded bus in the Shi'ite Talibiya district in northeastern Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said.
RAMADI - A suicide bomber targeting a police checkpoint near the main entrance of Anbar University killed three policemen and wounded two students in the city of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, police Lieutenant Kareem al-Rishawi said.
The U.S. military said one student and one police man were killed, and five police wounded. The bomber was also killed. A U.S. statement said the reports of three policemen dead were a deliberate inflation of the casualties in an effort to intimidate the police and dissuade people from enlisting.
BASRA - British forces seized a major police station in the city of Basra suspected of militia activity and transferred prisoners to another station before planting explosives and destroying the building.
MAHAWEEL - Gunmen killed a police lieutenant colonel and wounded three other policemen in a drive-by shooting in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. An Interior Ministry source said two of the policemen with the officer also died in the attack.
MUSSAYAB - Gunmen killed one civilian after they stormed his house on Sunday night in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
JURF AL-SAKHAR - Gunmen wounded three policemen when they attacked a police checkpoint on Sunday in Jurf al-Sakhar, about 85 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
HAWIJA - Gunmen killed two Shi'ite brothers on Sunday in the town of Hawija, 190 km (120 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed three insurgents on Sunday in northern Baghdad during a raid targeting foreign fighters and local insurgents who were building car bombs in the area.
BAGHDAD - A total of 29 bodies were found shot dead, with most showing signs of torture, in different districts of Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.
RUMAITHA - Clashes between security forces and militiamen loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr killed six people and seriously wounded one on Sunday in the southern Iraqi town of Rumaitha, 25 km (16 miles) north of Samawa, police said. Three days of clashes have killed at least eight people in Samawa.
MOSUL - A total of seven bodies, including three policemen, were found in different districts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a hospital source said.
No pony today.
-D.
Pass the Turkey, Please
WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee has rejected as untrue one of the most disturbing claims about the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes — a congressman's contention that a team of military analysts identified Mohamed Atta or other hijackers before the attacks — according to a summary of the panel's investigation obtained by The Times.
...
The panel said it found "no evidence" to support claims by military officers connected to Able Danger that Defense Department lawyers prevented the team's analysts from sharing their findings with FBI counter-terrorism officials before the attacks.
Nor was the alleged chart or any information developed by Able Danger improperly destroyed at the direction of Pentagon lawyers, the panel concluded — a charge that had stoked claims of a cover-up.
So...all these 'officials' are lying? These folks for instance:
Defense Department inquiry finds three more people who recall seeing intelligence briefing slide that identified Mohamed Atta, ringleader of Sept 11 attacks, year before hijackings; officials say investigators who reviewed documents have not found chart itself or any evidence that it existed; acknowledge that docuemtns and electronic files created by unit, known as Able Danger, were destroyed under standing orders that limit military's use of intelligence gathered about people in US.
Or, is history being changed while everyone is busy with holiday festivities?
-D.
...
The panel said it found "no evidence" to support claims by military officers connected to Able Danger that Defense Department lawyers prevented the team's analysts from sharing their findings with FBI counter-terrorism officials before the attacks.
Nor was the alleged chart or any information developed by Able Danger improperly destroyed at the direction of Pentagon lawyers, the panel concluded — a charge that had stoked claims of a cover-up.
So...all these 'officials' are lying? These folks for instance:
Defense Department inquiry finds three more people who recall seeing intelligence briefing slide that identified Mohamed Atta, ringleader of Sept 11 attacks, year before hijackings; officials say investigators who reviewed documents have not found chart itself or any evidence that it existed; acknowledge that docuemtns and electronic files created by unit, known as Able Danger, were destroyed under standing orders that limit military's use of intelligence gathered about people in US.
Or, is history being changed while everyone is busy with holiday festivities?
-D.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Students join sand sculpture artists to create a 100-foot-long Santa Claus sculpture on the Puri golden beach, in the Indian state of Orissa on the eve of Christmas.
-D.
12,000
The number of Iraqi police officers who died in the line of duty since the U.S. led invasion in 2003, says Interior Minister Jawad Bolani.
-D.
-D.
And So This is Christmas
Three more dead U.S. troops today.
[Iraq is] "worth the investment" [in American lives and dollars.] -- Condi Rice
Edit: Make that 4 more dead U.S. troops.
-D.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
War is Over if you Want it
I was just reading about Japan's Emperor Akihito giving a speech today in which he said (from the article):
"has said the practice of mourning Japan's war dead can help younger generations better understand the past.
He said he hoped facts about World War II would be correctly conveyed so the suffering his generation experienced would never be repeated."
As a child, I was raised to honor our war dead. My father's father had died before I was born -- he had been a WWI Veteran -- and I recall hearing as a small child amazing stories of courage on the battlefield, and how he died to save his remaining compatriates.
When I was much older, and after my father, and his mother had passed on, I discovered quite accidentally how he really died. Grandfather had contracted malaria in the war, and suffered irrepairable damage to his heart. He was honorably discharged and on military disability the rest of his days. He also brought demons home with him, that he often drank to try to forget. He was arrested in a drunken stupor one late night in our home town, and put in the city jail, with no access to his heart medication. He was released in time to die in the Veteran's hospital. I was never at all ashamed to learn any of this. I feel oddly closer to him now, and my heart breaks a little to think of him -- a decorated war hero -- dying in such a manner.
Then there were my father's 5 brothers. The eldest died outside of Paris, France during WWII near the end of the war. He was 21. I have one photo of him, he's in his uniform looking quite dashing with his arm around the girlfriend he didn't return home to marry. My grandmother never got over losing him. He and my grandfather died within a month of each other.
The other 4 brothers were all wounded during WWII, and honorably discharged -- all of them with various medals -- and disabled upon their return. I remember these 4 quite well. All addicted to pain killers after discharge from the Veteran's hospital, then illegal drugs and alcohol. Never discussed much about their time in the military, how they were wounded, let alone the demons they had brought home with them. First one uncle vanished one day without a trace, and no one ever saw him again. He left behind a wife, and several children. To this day, I don't know what happened to him. Then a drug overdose killed the next, and one at a time they were gone. My dad had served,(Korea) but as the youngest of a family that had suffered heavily during the war he was given 'light' duty, and yet... he died young anyways.
I don't relay all of this to you for any sympathy, not at all. It's just that growing up through this(also mind you, I had some friends with older brothers then who had come home from Vietnam either dead, or disabled, too.)that these events had an enormous impact upon how I view society, our government, politics, and war.
Noble thoughts passed on by the Emperor on his 73rd birthday. Sadly, war is never decided in the same manner as mourning or sorrow are felt.
-D.
"has said the practice of mourning Japan's war dead can help younger generations better understand the past.
He said he hoped facts about World War II would be correctly conveyed so the suffering his generation experienced would never be repeated."
As a child, I was raised to honor our war dead. My father's father had died before I was born -- he had been a WWI Veteran -- and I recall hearing as a small child amazing stories of courage on the battlefield, and how he died to save his remaining compatriates.
When I was much older, and after my father, and his mother had passed on, I discovered quite accidentally how he really died. Grandfather had contracted malaria in the war, and suffered irrepairable damage to his heart. He was honorably discharged and on military disability the rest of his days. He also brought demons home with him, that he often drank to try to forget. He was arrested in a drunken stupor one late night in our home town, and put in the city jail, with no access to his heart medication. He was released in time to die in the Veteran's hospital. I was never at all ashamed to learn any of this. I feel oddly closer to him now, and my heart breaks a little to think of him -- a decorated war hero -- dying in such a manner.
Then there were my father's 5 brothers. The eldest died outside of Paris, France during WWII near the end of the war. He was 21. I have one photo of him, he's in his uniform looking quite dashing with his arm around the girlfriend he didn't return home to marry. My grandmother never got over losing him. He and my grandfather died within a month of each other.
The other 4 brothers were all wounded during WWII, and honorably discharged -- all of them with various medals -- and disabled upon their return. I remember these 4 quite well. All addicted to pain killers after discharge from the Veteran's hospital, then illegal drugs and alcohol. Never discussed much about their time in the military, how they were wounded, let alone the demons they had brought home with them. First one uncle vanished one day without a trace, and no one ever saw him again. He left behind a wife, and several children. To this day, I don't know what happened to him. Then a drug overdose killed the next, and one at a time they were gone. My dad had served,(Korea) but as the youngest of a family that had suffered heavily during the war he was given 'light' duty, and yet... he died young anyways.
I don't relay all of this to you for any sympathy, not at all. It's just that growing up through this(also mind you, I had some friends with older brothers then who had come home from Vietnam either dead, or disabled, too.)that these events had an enormous impact upon how I view society, our government, politics, and war.
Noble thoughts passed on by the Emperor on his 73rd birthday. Sadly, war is never decided in the same manner as mourning or sorrow are felt.
-D.
Customers queue outside Santa's Ghetto in central London to buy works by underground artist Banksy.
-D.
Christmas on the Oregon Coast
Christmas lights at Shore Acres on the Oregon Coast via 'sandnsea' from the Democratic Underground.
-D.
Lampson Update III
Nick Lampson is home resting after his angioplasty yesterday with a good prognosis from his doctors.
Happy Holidays, Rep. Lampson, and wishing you a new year with wonderful health.
-D.
Happy Holidays, Rep. Lampson, and wishing you a new year with wonderful health.
-D.
Friday, December 22, 2006
My First Blogging Award!
It's the bestest of the best awards, the Monkeyfister au peer Award.
Many thanks to Tony, Skippy, and all the other bloggers. You're all winners, each and every one.
-D.
The End of the World as we Know it.
Canon Andrew White, president of the Foundation for Reconciliation in the Middle East, told The Times that the Iraq war had had a dire effect on the lives of Christians in the region, particularly in Iraq, where he is the vicar of St George’s Church in Baghdad.
“All my staff at the church have been killed,” he said. “They disappeared about a year ago and we never saw them again. Of the rest of my congregation, most say they have been targeted in some way or have had letters delivered with bullets in them. People forget, or the Islamic groups don’t realise, that Christianity was in the Middle East before them and therefore they see Christians as being part of the Western coalition military presence. Things have got considerably worse since the Iraq war.”
Tensions have also increased elsewhere. In Syria one Christian Assyrian said that he was planning to emigrate to Canada because of growing Islamic fundamentalism in a society having to absorb huge numbers of Iraqi refugees. “I do not feel at ease any longer and I do not want my two sons to live in this polarised society and atmosphere,” he said.
In Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Christian Arabs are a vulnerable minority caught between sympathy for their fellow Palestinians under Israeli occupation and their own tensions with the much larger Muslim Palestinian community.
Even before the Iraq war there had been a palpable increase in anger towards the United States because of President Bush’s use of the phrase “crusade” for the war on terrorism shortly after 9/11. In Gaza, Christians saw neighbours’ anger mount at the US-led occupation of Iraq. Matters were made worse by the publication of cartoons of Muhammad and by a speech from Benedict XVI that described Islam as a religion of violence.
Surely even Bush's 'god' who sent him off on this grand mission must be rethinking the wisdom of this move what with the disintigration of all of jeebus's churches in the middle east. It's a shame George can't hear his god yelling 'stop!' over Holy Joe and StMcCain's war drums.
-D.
“All my staff at the church have been killed,” he said. “They disappeared about a year ago and we never saw them again. Of the rest of my congregation, most say they have been targeted in some way or have had letters delivered with bullets in them. People forget, or the Islamic groups don’t realise, that Christianity was in the Middle East before them and therefore they see Christians as being part of the Western coalition military presence. Things have got considerably worse since the Iraq war.”
Tensions have also increased elsewhere. In Syria one Christian Assyrian said that he was planning to emigrate to Canada because of growing Islamic fundamentalism in a society having to absorb huge numbers of Iraqi refugees. “I do not feel at ease any longer and I do not want my two sons to live in this polarised society and atmosphere,” he said.
In Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Christian Arabs are a vulnerable minority caught between sympathy for their fellow Palestinians under Israeli occupation and their own tensions with the much larger Muslim Palestinian community.
Even before the Iraq war there had been a palpable increase in anger towards the United States because of President Bush’s use of the phrase “crusade” for the war on terrorism shortly after 9/11. In Gaza, Christians saw neighbours’ anger mount at the US-led occupation of Iraq. Matters were made worse by the publication of cartoons of Muhammad and by a speech from Benedict XVI that described Islam as a religion of violence.
Surely even Bush's 'god' who sent him off on this grand mission must be rethinking the wisdom of this move what with the disintigration of all of jeebus's churches in the middle east. It's a shame George can't hear his god yelling 'stop!' over Holy Joe and StMcCain's war drums.
-D.
Lampson Update II
HOUSTON -- Congressman Nick Lampson, newly elected to the seat once held by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, underwent a procedure Friday to open up a partially blocked blood vessel, his spokeswoman said.
Doctors at Christus St. John Hospital in suburban Houston performed the angioplasty on the 61-year-old Lampson and placed a stent in the vessel.
Lampson was "conscious, alert and in good spirits throughout the procedure," spokeswoman Carrie Chess said in a statement. He was expected to be discharged Saturday.
Seems Lampson's docs did some very thorough testing, and luckily found this blockage before anything more serious developed. I'll update if anything else becomes available, but let's hope he's on the way to a healthy recovery, and that much needed rest during this holiday time.
-D.
Doctors at Christus St. John Hospital in suburban Houston performed the angioplasty on the 61-year-old Lampson and placed a stent in the vessel.
Lampson was "conscious, alert and in good spirits throughout the procedure," spokeswoman Carrie Chess said in a statement. He was expected to be discharged Saturday.
Seems Lampson's docs did some very thorough testing, and luckily found this blockage before anything more serious developed. I'll update if anything else becomes available, but let's hope he's on the way to a healthy recovery, and that much needed rest during this holiday time.
-D.
Words is Tricksy
WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department admitted Friday it violated the Privacy Act two years ago by obtaining more commercial data about U.S. airline passengers than it had announced it would.
Seventeen months ago, the Government Accountability Office, Congress' auditing arm, reached the same conclusion: The department's Transportation Security Administration "did not fully disclose to the public its use of personal information in its fall 2004 privacy notices as required by the Privacy Act."
Even so, in a report Friday on the testing of TSA's Secure Flight domestic air passenger screening program, Homeland Security department's privacy office acknowledged TSA didn't comply with the law. But the privacy office still couldn't bring itself to use the word "violate."
Instead, the privacy office said, "TSA announced one testing program, but conducted an entirely different one." In a 40-word, separate sentence, the report noted that federal programs that collect personal data that can identify Americans "are required to be announced in Privacy Act system notices and privacy impact assessments."
Ah, for the good ol' days when we had an administration that only minced words regarding sexual peccadillos.
-D.
Seventeen months ago, the Government Accountability Office, Congress' auditing arm, reached the same conclusion: The department's Transportation Security Administration "did not fully disclose to the public its use of personal information in its fall 2004 privacy notices as required by the Privacy Act."
Even so, in a report Friday on the testing of TSA's Secure Flight domestic air passenger screening program, Homeland Security department's privacy office acknowledged TSA didn't comply with the law. But the privacy office still couldn't bring itself to use the word "violate."
Instead, the privacy office said, "TSA announced one testing program, but conducted an entirely different one." In a 40-word, separate sentence, the report noted that federal programs that collect personal data that can identify Americans "are required to be announced in Privacy Act system notices and privacy impact assessments."
Ah, for the good ol' days when we had an administration that only minced words regarding sexual peccadillos.
-D.
Lampson Update
U.S. Rep.-elect Nick Lampson, D-Stafford, is expected to leave a hospital this morning to which he was taken Thursday evening after eating dinner and complaining to his wife that he wasn't feeling well, said Tom Permetti, a spokesman for Christus Saint. John Hospital, said shortly after 8 a.m.
"He's fine,'' Permetti said. "We expect him to be leaving here pretty quickly.''
Whew.
-D.
"He's fine,'' Permetti said. "We expect him to be leaving here pretty quickly.''
Whew.
-D.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
When in Doubt, Deport!
An 85-year-old man accused of having been a guard at a Nazi death camp has lost an appeal against his deportation from the US to his native Ukraine.
John Demjanjuk, who was ordered to be deported a year ago, can still make a further appeal against this ruling.
He has denied the allegations and his lawyers argued he would be tortured if sent back to Ukraine.
Mr Demjanjuk migrated to the US in 1951 and was briefly deported to Israel amid a 30-year legal battle over his past.
At the time, he was suspected of having been a notorious concentration camp guard, known by the nickname "Ivan the Terrible".
But his name was eventually cleared in an Israeli court and he was spared the death penalty.
I can't for the life of me figure out why -- if Demjanjuk has been cleared to the satisfaction of Israel -- why is the U.S. still determined to send an 85 year old man to the Ukraine when all of his family is here?
-D.
Christmas at War
Here's the latest from our now 16 year old Ava @ PeacetakesCourage. Brilliant work, as always, and if I'm not mistaken she also pulled this one off while she had one hand in a cast. Maybe she'll stop in and 'splain it for us. :)
-D.
Pink Floyd: Money
Apologies for such sparce blogging, but with work, moving, and 'real' life it gets a little harry at times. :)
Rock on,
-D.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
A Child's Wonder
Another talented photog from the Democratic Underground, whose work is available at this online gallery. Great work, L!
-D.
Time to fill the stocking of a treasured Blogger
My new year's resolution is for Digby *not* to have to provide the nudge next year. If you're able, please help keep her online.
Thanks.
-D.
Thanks.
-D.
Never
The number of times I either wondered about, discussed, even gave thought to its existance.
Clearly, I must be a faux Christian.
-D.
Clearly, I must be a faux Christian.
-D.
Heh
"I wanted to be up front and assure that I have nothing to hide and avoid speculation, unfounded rumors, and distortions," said Bruno. "There have never been conflicts in anything I have done."
Of course not until *after* he learned that news of the investigation had been leaked to reporters. :)
-D.
Of course not until *after* he learned that news of the investigation had been leaked to reporters. :)
-D.
Home town news notes
The gingerbread display that turned the sweet treats into Nazis was taken down Monday, in part due to the complaints of World Ward II veterans who brought the real things down more than 60 years ago.
Local artist Keith McGuckin began to field criticism shortly after his display— which depicted swastika-bearing gingerbread men at a Nazi rally—went up inside a vacant Wellington storefront Thursday.
Last month, the display was erected for one night in an Oberlin hardware store before the store owner kicked him out. This time, though, he’s removing it on his own.
“A veteran called me and said he couldn’t understand why I was glorifying the flag he’d fought to bring down,” McGuckin said.
“I tried to explain that it was just a joke, but he didn’t understand. The last thing I want to do is upset the veterans.”
The display was supposed to portray the extent of trouble the gingerbread men could get into when no one was watching, McGuckin said.
In place of the frosting and sprinkles commonly found on an average gingerbread man, McGuckin’s were carved out of wood and painted to represent Nazi SS troops.
Complete with swastikas, blue eyes and blond hair, the batch of gingerbread men stood around a fire with one arm raised to salute the “mini-Fuhrer” standing behind two microphones.
Dude, it's just really not funny. Please don't attempt stand-up comedy. Thanks.
-D.
Local artist Keith McGuckin began to field criticism shortly after his display— which depicted swastika-bearing gingerbread men at a Nazi rally—went up inside a vacant Wellington storefront Thursday.
Last month, the display was erected for one night in an Oberlin hardware store before the store owner kicked him out. This time, though, he’s removing it on his own.
“A veteran called me and said he couldn’t understand why I was glorifying the flag he’d fought to bring down,” McGuckin said.
“I tried to explain that it was just a joke, but he didn’t understand. The last thing I want to do is upset the veterans.”
The display was supposed to portray the extent of trouble the gingerbread men could get into when no one was watching, McGuckin said.
In place of the frosting and sprinkles commonly found on an average gingerbread man, McGuckin’s were carved out of wood and painted to represent Nazi SS troops.
Complete with swastikas, blue eyes and blond hair, the batch of gingerbread men stood around a fire with one arm raised to salute the “mini-Fuhrer” standing behind two microphones.
Dude, it's just really not funny. Please don't attempt stand-up comedy. Thanks.
-D.
Blue Christmas
Posted with consent. There are some talented Democratic Underground photogs, whose work I hope to feature during the holiday season here, this is the first of those.© 2006 James David Walley, www.ravenfallsphotography.com
-D.
They Write Letters
I've received some very nice "thank-you" letters from Dem members of congress whom I supported in one way or another during the election this year. Each includes a copy of their 'agenda' for the new congress, and I quote:
* Draining the swamp – breaking the link between lobbyists and legislation, bring civility to the legislative debate, and committing to pay-as-you-go budgeting;
* Making America more secure – implementing the independent 9/11 Commission recommendations; Giving Americans a raise – increasing the minimum wage;
* Making college more affordable – cutting the interest rate in half on federally subsidized student loans;
* Making health care more affordable – negotiating for lower prescription drug prices;
* Beginning on a path to energy independence - ending subsidies for Big Oil and investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency; and
* Giving hope to families with devastating diseases – allowing stem cell research.
Wonderful, noble undertakings, all. But, what about Iraq?
-D.
* Draining the swamp – breaking the link between lobbyists and legislation, bring civility to the legislative debate, and committing to pay-as-you-go budgeting;
* Making America more secure – implementing the independent 9/11 Commission recommendations; Giving Americans a raise – increasing the minimum wage;
* Making college more affordable – cutting the interest rate in half on federally subsidized student loans;
* Making health care more affordable – negotiating for lower prescription drug prices;
* Beginning on a path to energy independence - ending subsidies for Big Oil and investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency; and
* Giving hope to families with devastating diseases – allowing stem cell research.
Wonderful, noble undertakings, all. But, what about Iraq?
-D.
BushMan Dates
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- New Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday, armed with a mandate from President George W. Bush to help forge a new Iraq war strategy. He made the unannounced trip to the battlefront just two days after taking over at the Pentagon.
Gates went in pursuit of advice from his top military commanders on a new strategy for an increasingly unpopular, costly and chaotic war -- one he has conceded the U.S. is not winning. His trip so soon after taking office underscored the Bush administration's effort to be seen as energetically seeking a new path in the conflict.
I hate to wish an IED on well, almost anyone, but I hope the gotdamned things chase Gates all the way back home and send him cryin' to his momma. This is such a hollow appearance by the new SOD, seconded only by the stupidity of the delivery of the mandate.
Gates, just as he who hired him, don't want the advice of top military commanders. Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, will be sort of retiring soon, after this edict from the Pentagon:
"If you're going to change the strategy, in fairness to [Abizaid], let him go," said a former senior Pentagon official who has worked closely with the general. "He's given it all he's got, in terms of personal sacrifice."
Time to make room for a Bush yes-man. Preferrably one who believes that Roe v. Wade is a scourge upon humanity, and that smoking cigarrettes during wartime is just really, really wrong.
-D.
Gates went in pursuit of advice from his top military commanders on a new strategy for an increasingly unpopular, costly and chaotic war -- one he has conceded the U.S. is not winning. His trip so soon after taking office underscored the Bush administration's effort to be seen as energetically seeking a new path in the conflict.
I hate to wish an IED on well, almost anyone, but I hope the gotdamned things chase Gates all the way back home and send him cryin' to his momma. This is such a hollow appearance by the new SOD, seconded only by the stupidity of the delivery of the mandate.
Gates, just as he who hired him, don't want the advice of top military commanders. Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, will be sort of retiring soon, after this edict from the Pentagon:
"If you're going to change the strategy, in fairness to [Abizaid], let him go," said a former senior Pentagon official who has worked closely with the general. "He's given it all he's got, in terms of personal sacrifice."
Time to make room for a Bush yes-man. Preferrably one who believes that Roe v. Wade is a scourge upon humanity, and that smoking cigarrettes during wartime is just really, really wrong.
-D.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The stupid...it burns us.
WSJ:
Seeking to counter her critics and to put a positive gloss on the instability now rippling through the Middle East, Ms. Rice touted what she described as "a new opportunity" to get moderate forces in the region "to support the development of stable new governments in Iraq and Lebanon...and to make progress toward the emergence of a Palestinian state that is founded on the same principles."
Although, the crazy might's well go overseas to seek support. She certainly isn't going to find it here.
-D.
Seeking to counter her critics and to put a positive gloss on the instability now rippling through the Middle East, Ms. Rice touted what she described as "a new opportunity" to get moderate forces in the region "to support the development of stable new governments in Iraq and Lebanon...and to make progress toward the emergence of a Palestinian state that is founded on the same principles."
Although, the crazy might's well go overseas to seek support. She certainly isn't going to find it here.
-D.
A Far too Frequent Scene at the Fire Dept.s in MI.
A motorcycle leads a funeral hearse carrying the casket containing the remains of Marine Lance Cpl. Brent E. Beeler under a giant American flag attached to two fire truck ladders, following Beeler's funeral in Jackson, Michigan today, December 19, 2006. Beeler was killed in combat near Fallujah, Iraq.
[REUTERS/REBECCA COOK]
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