Dialogue before bullets, The Guardian

Except for military briefings, the US government has said little of substance about the Najaf crisis for the past 10 days, even though nearly all the fighting has been done by 3,000 American soldiers.

The US and Mr Allawi are insisting that Iraqi troops, not Americans, will be used if necessary to storm the holy shrine in Najaf, yet this ruse only tarnishes Mr Allawi's regime further without diminishing Shia anger against the US. If Iraq is embarking on the road to democracy, as was claimed in Baghdad yesterday, honesty is the first requirement.

An Israeli / Rove Connection? The McGreevey Scandal, By WAYNE MADSEN

Cipel was also a former Israeli naval officer, leaving the service with the rank of lieutenant. How a person goes from an influential position with one of the most important Israeli diplomatic missions abroad to a mere Jerusalem area tour guide seems, on the surface, extraordinary. But in the world of intelligence, such career changes are driven by political necessity, not by choice.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Provokes Arab Reactions

Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is provoking strong Arab reaction. Kuwait banned it, Jordan tried to cut it, Syria has not decided, and Saudi commentators are denouncing it.
Many Arab moviegoers say with a twinge of envy that they wish the region, where free speech is for the most part restricted, had its own Moore. Some say it reinforces their bad image of the United States and shows Americans what their own media does not.

For Radwan Rizk, a 47-year-old Lebanese gym owner, the message was double-edged: Moore's presentation shook his idea of American democracy, yet reinforced it, too.
"I hope that we can come to a point where we can criticize our own governments the way he did — freely," Rizk said.

Those they can't co-opt, they destroy , by Kamil Mahdi, Guardian Op-ed

For more than a week, an aggressive foreign power has addressed an essentially domestic political question by means of tanks, helicopter gunships and F16s.

A thoughtful article from the UK Guardian. An article that no American media outlet will ever publish.

BAD BOYS, BAD BOYS, WHATCHA GONNA DO? WHAT CHA GONNA DO?

Here's my analogy of the Iraq War.

Saddams the wife beater, constantly beating his wife and family while the neighbors ignore it. The people of Iraq would be both the wife and children. Like many that suffer abuse, they tolerate it, hoping with time or some great action on their part or the oppressors something will change. Anyone that grows up with abuse sees it almost as a normal occurence. The abused also fail to run away, call the cops or any other matter that may stop the violence. For some it is economic, "I can't afford to leave" or any number of reasons that women will stay and take the abuse.

So in the effort of being the "Noble Gentleman" America took it upon itself to come knocking on the door of the tyrant, issuing a decree that if Saddam came out of the house with his hands up, the police wouldn't have to break down the door and possibly hurt any of the family. Of course it was expected that Saddam would not surrender, so what did America do?
In the effort of liberating Iraq something around 16-20,000 people were sacrificed for the greater good of the nation. That's like busting through the door, machine guns blowing holes everywhere all in the best interest of the small family. Well some of the kids got dead, Saddam got captured and the wife you understand is very upset. See some of her children died.

So now the bad guy is captured, some of the kids are killed and the rest of the family is now more angry and upset at the police. They blame the police and in their grief are shouting and screaming at the police to leave, just get the hell out now won't you! The police now have quite a situation on their hands, it would not be good enough to leave now, we must insure that peace and happiness is restored before they leave the premises. Meanwhile two officers are busy upstairs in the bedroom pocketing some of the nice twinkets and jewelry left around, just for safe keeping you understand. Another cop is in the fridge making a sandwich, all the while the mother and her sons feel humiliated. It's not pure love for their tormentor that grieves them, it's the fact that while they wanted to find an end to the violence in their own way, these police just destroyed much of their way of life. Now the police captain comes in and offers his best friend as the new husband. He's a nice guy, the captain tells the wife, he'll take care you, you are in no shape now to go looking for a suitor, so it's best you take my friends hand in marriage.

Saddam was not a nice guy, we all know the brutality etc. etc. BUT the real reason I believe Iraq is not working out the way the Bloodlusters thought, was that the people of Iraq needed and deserved to come to terms with their oppressor in their own way. They needed their own liberating experience, They needed to rescue themselves, not suffer the indigity of having their culture swamped with 150,000 TV fed, pop culture kids on a mission of mercy from some policy wonks.

Anything earned is much more valuable than gifts given with a price.
This is what is driving the stupid fucking whitemen crazy, nobody appreciates having a "gift" tossed back them

-Citizenofearth

WHY ARE WE IN NAJAF? Op/Ed - Richard Reeves

So what are we doing in Najaf? Is killing the followers of a nasty Shiite preacher, killing them at the gates of the most holy shrine of Shiite Muslims all over the world, vital to the national interests of the United States and its allies?

Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda have made effective use of Sun Tzu's thought, By Scott D. O'Reilly

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
-- Sun Tzu

Written some 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is one of the most penetrating and relevant works on the subjects of leadership and waging war. Its most timeless lesson, perhaps, is that “in all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.” Presently, the United States is engaged in two protracted wars--in Iraq and Afghanistan--and an ongoing conflict with a shadowy army of Islamic extremists who threaten American interests across the globe. So how does Sun Tzu's advice bear on America's predicament, and more particularly on the strategic vision of our leaders and that of our enemies? Unfortunately, bin Laden and al-Qaeda seem to have absorbed the lessons of Sun Tzu to a far greater extent than has the Bush administration.

Sun Tzu's strategies and thoughts on war, were written with the goal of winning a decisive military victory. If you wanted to provoke chaos and spread bloodlust play any Sun Tzu record backwards.

The Shared Bloodlust of Stupid Fucking Whitemen and Nihilist Muslims

Here we are in this brave new world. Welcome to the America of the 21st Century. Much has changed and then much has not. A few years ago a bunch of people decided to fly airplanes into the World Trade here in NYC. Who knows what they were thinking but, the story goes they wanted to provoke America into unleashing the Dogs of War, along with the Horsemen. If America can be provoked into lashing out against Islam, then moderate Muslims would be forced into joining the "resistance" a confrontation on a world-wide scale never imagined before will materialize and so forth and so on. Seems they got their wish. America has now slipped down the slippery slope. After one war in Afghanistan and another one in Iraq, more and more of the self-styled patriots of freedom are screaming for more. Onto Iran, onto Syria! In the effort of fighting terrorism people in America are sounding very similiar to the terrorists. Calls for internment camps, civil liberties swept aside, disdain for any opinions other than their own, the vilifying of people, the deification of their leaders, the bloodlust.

Bloodlust in the sense that when Fox News can report 100 or 200 Iraqis killed by the efforts of the Military that these are deaths of only evil, tyrannical Muslims bring relief and accomplishment on this "War on Terror" Of course the U.S. Military doesn't do body counts of civilians, that's too messy. Civilians conjure images of regular ordinary people, The Military doesn't kill innocent people, neither does Al-Quaida. Al-Quaida announced after Sept. 11 that all those killed were not innocent or civil as long as they paid taxes and supported the American government. Bloodlust. Earlier this month, the president of Iraq declared amnesty for any of the resisters/dead-ender/guerillas in Iraq, but that was quickly changed, as long as they were not involved in any of the attacks on Americans. Again we human life is not created equal, and the dead are still not equal.

3,000 people died in NYC, in retaliation/justice America has killed about 10,000 in Afghanistan and according to the conservative numbers at Iraqbodycount.net, somewhere like 16,000 in Iraq. These are civilians, like those killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but not quite the value of Americans. The anniversary of the only atomic bombing on a people occured this week without any reflection here, maybe a 30 second brief on MSNBC. America was able to reason this as a quick way out of the war along with the notion of showing the Russians how bad ass they are.

So here we are, while the Muslim fanatics get their sermons from the nihilist Immans, the Americans get fired up by the Rush Limbaughs and Michael Savages, as the Muslim Fanatics rationalize their actions by how they interpret the Koran, the Americans can rationalize their war as the "war to end all wars" again.

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George W. Bush sucker-punches a rugby opponent at Yale

As long as we're re-examining the 1960s, looking for signs of character, trying to decide if a man who volunteered for combat and was decorated five times was more or less courageous than a guy who didn't even show up for his own medical exam... here's George W. Bush during his college days, hitting a fellow sportsman in the face.

this is part of the appeal, especially what White American Males can appreciate. The Win-at-all-costs manner, the swagger, the tough-guy, the cowboy, the, the , the

Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War Department's Timesman Won a Pulitzer

General MacArthur had gone to pains to restrict journalists' access to the bombed cities, and his military censors were sanitizing and even killing dispatches that described the horror. The official narrative of the atomic bombings downplayed civilian casualties and categorically dismissed reports of the deadly lingering effects of radiation. Reporters whose dispatches convicted with this version of events found themselves silenced.

Laurence quoted General Groves: "The Japanese claim that people died from radiation. If this is true, the number was very small."

Laurence then went on to offer his own remarkable editorial on what happened: "The Japanese are still continuing their propaganda aimed at creating the impression that we won the war unfairly, and thus attempting to create sympathy for themselves and milder terms . . . Thus, at the beginning, the Japanese described 'symptoms' that did not ring true."


See post below from Japantoday.com regarding the lingering effects of Depleted Uranium.

Controversy over 'Israelis' roads only' ( or Welcome to Michelle Malkin's World )

Some roads are "sterile" and Palestinian traffic is completely prohibited there. Manned roadblocks ascertain that only Israelis use those routes, B'Tselem said.

Routes linking those roads to Palestinian villages are blocked, the report noted.

Some roads are "sterile", great language. Sterile meaning clean of any of the dirt, dirty Arabs, dirty Muslims, etc.
Welcome the new Apartheid, when do the embargos start?

Fallout remains from photos of troops' coffins

On April 7, she took two photographs with her digital camera. She intended to keep the images as a personal memory. She e-mailed a photo to a friend in the United States, Amy Katz, who brokered its use by The Seattle Times. It was published on the front page April 18. For some, it came to represent the rising death toll in Iraq and sparked debate around the country.

Within days, Silicio and her husband, David Landry, also a Maytag employee, were fired, she for taking the picture, he for helping her. Disseminating photos of war dead goes against military and company policy.

They returned home to Everett, Wash., where Silicio is still looking for work. Disillusioned, a bit hurt and angry, she feels permanently marked by her decision to release the photo, which she meant as a gesture of respect for the families of the soldiers in those coffins.

"That picture should have been about compassion for our fallen heroes," said Silicio, 50. "It should have nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with firing anybody . . .

"I might as well just change my name. I was thinking about that the other day."

Hey all you Pro-Iraq War people, any outrage over this? Any at all? Didn't think so

Iraqi doctor learns from Hiroshima's past

The U.S. military uses depleted uranium-tipped shells, known for their armor-piercing capability, against tanks and other hard military targets.

Although Iraqi doctors allege DU weapons cause leukemia and cancer, U.S. authorities deny direct links between DU and the cancer on the rise in Iraq since the 1991 war.

The medical community in Japan, a U.S. staunch ally, is also reluctant to admit a connection.

The DU story will come out over time, relunctantly at first, but when it does it will be huge.

How Portland Paper Got Iraq Abuse Story (and Shocking Photos)

A reporter for the newspaper that broke a story about human rights abuses in Iraq after the U.S. handover of sovereignty said that the news emerged from his recent stint as an embed, and required three weeks of intensive checking.

This past weekend, Mike Francis, a reporter for The Oregonian in Portland, exposed the high-level U.S. military decision ordering Oregon National Guardsmen to return abused Iraqi prisoners to their Iraqi jailers after the American soldiers had come to their aid. The incident occurred on June 29 -- Iraq's first official day as a sovereign country. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has now asked the Pentagon to investigate.

A creepy place to wage war, U.S. troops, militia clash in cemetery

NAJAF, Iraq—Bats flapped out of crypts, startling soldiers creeping through the cemetery with guns up. Graves opened beneath their combat boots. And an old enemy displayed a new professionalism, darting in clearly practised moves between tombstone and mausoleum to stalk the Americans from above ground and below.

In the battle to control one of the world's largest graveyards, U.S. Marines and soldiers say they are coping with a lot, including lingering regret. The vast cemetery in Najaf is sacred to Shiite Muslims, perhaps 2 million of whom lie buried in miles of desert adjoining the shrine of Imam Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.

Soldiers involved in the fighting described how many of the most recent graves are marked by photos, which crumble when U.S. forces shell the cemetery walls to reach the militiamen hiding within.

"Wives, daughters, husbands," said Sgt. Hector Guzman, 28, of the 1st Cavalry Division's 5th Regiment. "You just know you're destroying that tomb.''

The Houston native shook his head. "It doesn't feel right sometimes.''

Review: 'Checkpoint' unsettling anti-Bush book

The deeply unsettling "Checkpoint" (Knopf, $15.95) 128 pages ,a slim work with a red-and-black bullseye target on the cover, takes the form of a spare, almost Socratic dialogue captured on a digital recorder between two friends, Ben and Jay. Their tension: Jay is determined to do away with the president. An appalled Ben doesn't want him to.

16 bucks for 128 pages? That's unsettling to me

Deaths Mounting, As Is Indifference

Onwordi, 28, a Nigerian immigrant, and Shondee, a 19-year-old Navajo, were on duty with the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq when, early last week, they gave their lives for their country. The Pentagon did not have much to say about their deaths. In a terse news release of some 100 words, the government announced that the two Arizonans had been killed "when an improvised explosive device detonated near the vehicle they were traveling in." The attack took place in Baghdad on Monday. Onwordi died that day. Shondee fought for life, then succumbed Tuesday. Their deaths came with news that four other American soldiers were also killed in Iraq in the same 24-hour cycle.

From London to Iraq - the latest recruits to the Madhi army

Both were at pains to point out their disapproval of Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida network and insisted their presence in Mr Sadr's militia did not amount to terrorism, because they were fighting against uniformed soldiers.

"Bin Laden and his group are totally against our belief, killing innocent civilians," said Abu Haqid. "Killing innocent people we cannot do. That is terrorism, this is defending your country."

(A LOOK BACK) 'Who knows, it'll get done" Goss defends pace of Intel report as Dems cry foul

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss (R-Fla.) has ignored repeated Democratic requests to begin work on the final stages of a report on failures in the intelligence community to assess Iraq's weapons capability accurately.

If the Chalabis Were Corrupt, They Weren't Alone

Strong indications of victory for President Hugo Chavez

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PW Views: Hugo Chavez is heading towards total defeat

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Decisive Chavez win could telegraph stability to international decision-makers

Toronto-based Financial Correspondent Al Emid writes: If an important person can be conspicuous by his or her absence, an important political event can be conspicuous by its absence in international media coverage ... a sad fact proven again by the relatively low amount of international attention paid to the recall referendum in Venezuela.

Fighting under way in Najaf cemetery

Fresh fighting was reported Tuesday in the holy city of Najaf
can someone please help me understand how in fighting Al-Queda America ended up in a Holy city of Najaf fighting the same people that Saddam persecuted?

W., Beyond the Caricatures

No charges await man with skull

Holland, who claimed he wasn't responsible for the death of the person, said he took the skull as a souvenir and didn't know what he was going to do with it. Police don't know why Holland didn't call to report his finding, but said there are no plans to charge him in connection with the remains.

UK Jewish charity political row

A UK Jewish youth organisation may lose its charitable status after publishing allegedly anti-Arab articles,
Articles like this

Jordan "not Surprised" By Arrest Warrant For Chalabi

no comment.

New Zealand Jewish Chapel Burnt Down

The chapel at the Makara Cemetery on the outskirts of the capital was destroyed in the fire and up to 90 headstones broken from graves, police confirmed. On July 16, historic graves were smashed and swastikas cut into a lawn at the Jewish section of a central Wellington cemetery.

According to Jewish Council President David Zwartz, both acts were sparked by the government's diplomatic sanctions and hostile rhetoric against Israel over the spy affair. "We see a progression from hate speech to hate action," Zwartz said.

So in order not to inflame bigotry, hate and anti-semitism, countries shall always give Israel a free pass and their Mossad agents a get out of jail card, no matter what they might be caught doing

Spies are overrated; deal with the roots of terror

Political leaders all over the world tend to have a weakness for the "secret knowledge" derived from espionage. It gives them a sense of power denied to others. But an obsession with spies is unhealthy, and sometimes dangerous. As the disastrous Iraq war, with its mounting toll of human misery, demonstrates every single day, spies can sometimes lead politicians seriously astray.

America spends an astonishing $40 billion a year on intelligence gathering and analysis. But, for all the resources and technical wizardry at their command, America's spies and security agencies failed to identify and stop the Sept. 11 terrorists or present a remotely accurate picture of Saddam Hussein's arsenal of weapons. The fact is that the CIA's National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, on which Bush launched his war against Iraq, was wrong. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and no links with Al-Qaeda. The war was waged on a fraud, for which both Iraq and America are now paying dearly. 

Worth reading

Ex-deputy Mossad director accuses IDF of losing its morality

Former deputy Mossad director, Shmuel Toledano, launched a harsh verbal attack on Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon on Sunday, saying that the IDF under his leadership had lost its morality and military ethics.

Now you say something?

The Retreat to Fortress America

At their convention, without bogging their speeches down in abstract political theory, the Democrats could have clarified their principles by answering a simple question; was liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein a mistake or not? Not one of the convention's featured speakers -- the keynote speaker, the vice-Presidential nominee, or the Presidential nominee -- chose to address this issue in a direct manner

If Kerry loses, this will be one of the things I'll look back on, in a post-break-up "we're did we go wrong" kinda way

Jail, Exile, or Iraq BY LEE NICHOLS

Being highly opposed to the war in Iraq, Webb says he's leaning toward resisting the order. "I've been counseled that my only options are to just go; refuse and go to jail; or permanent exile," Webb says. "I'm not considering exile. I've traveled, I lived in Mexico for like five months and I like it, and I've traveled to Europe and Asia. But all my family and friends are in the States, and I like this country. I'm thinking about exploring the second option, the jail time."

One more way to put a Brother in jail

Dangers from terrorism scant compared to other risks, experts say

Some critics think the Bush administration has manipulated warnings about the timing of possible terrorist attacks for political purposes. Cilluffo, a Republican, dismissed such suggestions as "truly preposterous."

Zbigniew Brzezinski, national-security adviser to former President Carter, is not so sure, and he worries about the degree to which perceived political imperatives drive leaders in both parties.

"My grave concern is that we are hyping ourselves into a state of panic which is going to discredit us internationally even if it has some utility in the short run for the administration," Brzezinski said. "It reinforces the theme that we are at war. In a war you don't change your commander in chief. This is a pretend war. If it was a real war, we would have a draft, special taxes and a sense of sacrifice, posters with Uncle Sam pointing a finger at you and saying, 'I want you.' "

Bush Might Name Thomas as Chief Justice

WASHINGTON - Clarence Thomas has been interviewed by White House lawyers as a possible choice to be the next chief justice of the United States, says the author of a new biography.

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Thomas says he isn't interested but could find it hard to turn down an opportunity to be the first black man to lead the Supreme Court, said biographer Ken Foskett.

"Judging Thomas," out this week from William Morrow, traces Thomas' life from rough beginnings in rural Georgia, through Yale Law School to his life today.

Thomas initially refused Foskett's request for interviews, but later spoke to the author both on and off the record.

Thomas likes NASCAR and football, plays a fierce game of basketball and during the court's summer recess tours the nation in a 40-foot mobile home decorated with orange flames, Foskett wrote.
likes Nascar? You forgot to add he loves Condi's chicken and gets along well with Colin even

Thomas is friendly and outgoing in person, though he almost never says a word during the court's oral arguments and is considered among the most private of the nine justices, Foskett said.
oh God!, you forgot to mention how articulate he is and how nice his teeth are

Back to the past in Iraq article extract from Jane's

Back to the past in Iraq

Iraq's new internal intelligence service, the General Security Directorate (GSD), established by the transitional government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi faces an uphill struggle in its mission to crush the plethora of insurgent groups that have dragged the country to the brink of anarchy.

The GSD, the latest US effort towards remaking Iraq's security apparatus, will include former members of Saddam Hussein's feared security services, collectively known as the Mukhabarat. These former Ba'athists and Saddam loyalists will be expected to hunt down their colleagues currently organising the insurgency.

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is supporting the new service, which was unveiled by Allawi after the US-led Coalition handed over sovereignty to his interim government on 28 June 2004. However, the USA is having its own serious problems in functioning effectively in Iraq even though it currently has hundreds of operatives deployed. Before the 2003 invasion, Iraq had been a 'black hole' for the CIA, which found it almost impossible to recruit agents because of Saddam's all-pervasive secret police.

Yet the CIA's vast deployment in Baghdad, Basra, Mosul and other cities has hardly been able to dent the insurgency. In December 2003, the CIA station chief in Baghdad was removed because his ability to lead the complex intelligence operation was in doubt and a more experienced officer was sent in. Since last year's invasion, the CIA's Baghdad station has become the largest in the agency's history, bigger even than the station in Saigon during the Vietnam War. The overall mission in Iraq - originally planned for 85 personnel - presently numbers 500, including 300 full-time 'case officers' running intelligence-gathering operations. With the war on terrorism now covering five continents, US intelligence capabilities are stretched extremely thin, or "beyond the limits" as one informed intelligence source told JID

by Charley Reese

Robert Fisk is a reporter for the British newspaper The Independent. He has spent decades in the Middle East, and I know of no reporter who is his equal in that area of the world.

People will always paint Robert Fisk as Anti-American in order to keep him off the mainstream, but I don't think he is, if anything he reports what he sees and understands, which is Iraq and Afghanistan are going to hell

Parting ways with Bush's gang

Neo-con Francis Fukuyama supported Bush until he invaded Iraq. Peter Fray reports on his new book.

Added Haloscan, but lost all previous comments, sorry people

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan

The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa.

It is most likely the other way around: Israel has asked the United States to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. IT REALLY IS NOT ALL ABOUT OIL OK! NOT ABOUT OIL, NOT ABOUT OIL

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US Military Bracing for Recruitment Headaches

With the prospect of US presence in Iraq extending several years, young people who would normally be drawn to enlisting as a way of paying for their education and gaining medical coverage are now thinking twice about it.

So if intelligent people or least people that want to further their education are declining to sign-up, how about trying to get more of the less intelligent? How about an advertising campaign promising like 22 inch rims, or even an Escalade or Hummer H2?

Michelle Malkin: Racist, Stalinist, Fascist, Orwellian, Money Whore

So Michelle writes a book new trying do out Coulter, out Fox, out do all the little pretty fascist bitches alive.
"In Defense of Internment" Like internernment is a word that's been getting a bad rap lately. Like Internment just hasn't been quite understood, you know? So after all we've heard and seen regarding Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and the like Malkin writes that maybe internment needs to be re-considered. My favorite reason that many pro-internment thinkers give is that it also "protected" the interned. So let's think about it, historically just for a second, how many Italian and German families were locked up and later released to find their homes and buisnesses gone? Not gone, STOLEN, stolen by whites. Not many.

My Grandfather, a proud, strong Jewish man from Brooklyn would tell me many stories when I was a kid. My favorites concerned how before WW2, his group of friends, fellow jewish law students were trying and sucessfully infiltrating the Bund and other pro-Nazi American parties right here in NYC. One story of how they dropped a microphone 2 stories down from a window with a 1940's 1 inch thick cable to record that evening's meeting. My grandfather Sey did this while the FBI concerned elsewhere. Like before 911, they did not listen when confronted with the evidence of a growing threat. What he told me was they never considered any of the reports or documents they had worthy, until the day after Pearl-Harbor. They stormed into my Grandfather's office and walked out with everything the entire file cabinets and all, without a word. Was my Grandfather upset or angry when he told these stories 40 years later? No, but he was able to feel that he did DO something to protect his family and his neighborhood of Brooklyn. And freedom.

Now here we have Malkin, all ready to lock up any suspicious looking people into camps for their safety and the safety of those deemed innocent ( white )
I doubt if when Malkin looks into the mirror she sees an Asian woman. She is Filipino, there are a lot of nasty Muslims in the Phillippines too I read, maybe she feels safe under the blanket of protection afforded to her by being a Fox, Murdoch stooge but what of the other people? Internment is Racist. The idea that you can identitify the innocent and guilty and lock away even the innocent for their own good, just for the time being is Fascist and cruel.

If this is really going to be worthy of a debate, if this is what America is becoming, then all bet's are off. We lost, Freedom, Democracy all that is dead and buried. We might as well tell Al-Quaida you win. You win, you destroyed America, no actually thats not right, We destroyed ourselves in the effort of destroying you!
same damn thing. Fuck Malkin, Fuck Bush, Fuck Osama, Fuck the Americans that can allow this shit. America deserves Bush. America does not deserve Freedom or Liberty if Americans are not willing to fight ALL those who oppose it. Be they Osama, nihilist Muslims, Stupid Fucking Whitemen, or The Totally confused Malkins, Condis and Colins of the world.

Iraqi Delegation Robbed At Gunpoint in Memphis

The robbery comes one day after City Council Chairman Joe Brown slammed the door in the delegates' faces at city hall. The group was here to learn about democracy, freedom and civil rights in America. 

except for the lynchings, I say the Iraqi delegation got a pretty good idea of America and the South

The Case Against George W. Bush, by Ron Reagan

George W. Bush and his allies don't trust you and me. Why on earth, then, should we trust them?

Fortunately, we still live in a democratic republic. The Bush team cannot expect a cabal of right-wing justices to once again deliver the White House. Come November 2, we will have a choice: We can embrace a lie, or we can restore a measure of integrity to our government. We can choose, as a bumper sticker I spotted in Seattle put it, SOMEONE ELSE FOR PRESIDENT.

Another Open Letter to the Troops in Iraq, from Stan Goff - Bringthemhome.org

Ali was typical of many of the "non-white" members of Special Forces in two respects. He was demonstrably patriotic - compelled, it seemed, to prove his devotion to the American security state - and he adopted the prevailing attitude within much of Special Operations of Negrophobia - a kind of institutional disdain for Black troops that served to bloc other "non-whites" with whites in SF. It's a peculiar mechanism of white supremacy where there is not a master-race mentality so much as a deficient-race ideology from which all others could self-exclude. This - along with an anabolic version of masculinity - served as one form of social glue in SF culture, though there were a few exceptions.


Ali's Negrophobia wasn't virulent like that I had witnessed in other SF troops. In fact, he was willing to grant exceptions among individual Black soldiers fairly easily. It was more part of his obsessive desire to fit in.

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A Picture Worth A Thousand Words

You are looking not only at the image of a war crime, but at the worst fears of a war criminal; the reason that those accused will cooperate, but not implicate.

An audio essay

A MUST LISTEN! ESPECIALLY YOU BLACK REPUBLICANS< THIS SHIT IS ONLY A FEW STEPS DOWN FROM LYNCHINGS

Saddam Hussein: Honorary citizen of Detroit, Michigan

Years before Saddam Hussein became an enemy to the United States, he was reportedly seen as a friend and made an honorary Detroit citizen. 

my nigga!

Iraqis on tour banned from Memphis hall

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Iraqis visiting on a civil rights tour were barred from city hall after the city council chairman said it was too dangerous to let them in.

The seven Iraqi civic and community leaders are in the midst of a three-week American tour, sponsored by the State Department to learn more about the process of government. The trip also includes stops in Washington, Los Angeles and Chicago.

The Iraqis were scheduled to meet with a city council member, but Joe Brown, the council chair, said he feared the group was dangerous.

"We don't know exactly what's going on. Who knows about the delegation, and has the FBI been informed?" Brown said. "We must secure and protect all the employees in that building."

Elisabeth Silverman, the group's host and head of the Memphis Council for International Visitors, said Brown told her he would "evacuate the building and bring in the bomb squads" if the group entered.

"They are in charge of setting up processes in their country. They have to educate themselves about how it works in this country," Silverman said.

Silverman did not immediately respond to a message Tuesday seeking comment, and it was not clear whether the group had run into trouble elsewhere on their tour.

But the delegates seemed in good spirits Monday, after they were able meet with Carol Chumney, the city council member, elsewhere. Shahla Waliy, a 31-year-old native of Baghdad, said she was intrigued by the city's civil rights history.

"I heard there was a kind of majority-minority conflict in Memphis, especially in history," she said. "We have these smaller provinces, and we have majority-minority conflicts in these places."

stupid fucking racist whitepeople, welcome to Dixie! This here's how we do democracy

Heil Bush, we were only following orders Sir!

I am comprised of three ethnicities: African, Russian/Jewish and Cherokee. Whatever that makes, thats who I am.
All three have been the subject of abuse, humiliation, colonialism, massacres and holocousts. So I admit there is a lot of rage going on inside me, but when I saw the photos of Lynndie England for the first time, I was outraged. I was living in Paris at the time ( Parisians do rule ) and I was able to focus much of my anger at dear ole' Lynddie. But the more the story came public and the more I was able to think with a clear head ( absent the wine ) the more I felt that this was not only about some white trash ugly pig bitch, but how the military intelligence guys were able to manipulate a white trash ugly pig bitch.
I admit my anger for Ms. ugly white trash pig bitch has sub-sided and I am more angry at the machine, the machine that can manipulate white-trash and then use them as a bait when media gets the scent.

this is not about Lynndie England, the people that should be on trial are the people that held her white little hand and coaxed her along, the psychological theatrics involved were not just white trash fun, but highly calibrated measures, backed up by research in "how to break men's souls"

STUPID FUCKING WHITE GIRL
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NOTE TO ( SO CALLED) BLACK REPUBLICANS: IF THESE PEOPLE ARE YOUR FRIENDS, YOU NEED TO WAKE UP

Terrorism In South Africa
The photos on this page are gruesome and hideous. However, these pictures reveal the terror that looms over White South Africans. Since the African National Conference took power in South Africa, crime and violence have run rampant. Cannibalism is on the rise. White Afrikaan farmers are the prefered targets of black gangs, black political militants, and black bandits.  According to well informed sources, the death of Nelson Mandela will trigger a massacre of the White population. Looking at these images, do you believe a slaughter of Whites is not in the future?

Clearly this Conservative Web site is not inciting HATE and Fear is it?

Bug Me Not

This is great site, it allows you to bypass web registration to read articles on web-sites that require registration, i.e.
ny times, wash post etc.

Republicans in Black Face

While Bush and the GOP said, "no, no, no" to blacks and other minorities disenfranchised in the Florida debacle and elsewhere across the nation, he said "yes, yes, yes," shortly following when he appointed Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and a host of other racial minorities to prominent administration posts.

So if Black Republicans will not stand up against the disenfranshisement of their fellow Blacks, concerning the vote in Florida, whose side are they really on? I do not know of one Black Republican Organization that was willing to say anything regarding this. I do not think they consider themselves Black, at least not in the sense that have share any roots with any Blacks in America who are not financially well-off. Joining the Republicans is a way of declaring themselves free from their color, a beard, a show, an Uncle Tom .

Black Republicans are strange indeed

Black Republicans fail to understand that white Republicans will never accept them as equals. Although they will not acknowledge the truth, white Republicans, like most other whites, view black Republicans as strange creatures.

WHAT HAS CHANGED? BLACK REPUBLICANS, BLACK SOLDIERS: DON'T BE MISLED. YOUR VOTE OR SERVICE WON'T BUY ADMITTANCE TO THEIR TEAM

The New Amerikkkan Porn
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NOTE TO REPUBLICANS: YOUR BUSH IS POLITICIZING THE WAR ON TERROR

A CONSPIRACY STORY THAT WAS DERIDED, HAS COME TRUE, EXACTLY TO THE DAY, JULY SURPRISE!

This afternoon, Pakistan's interior minister, Faisal Saleh Hayyat, announced that Pakistani forces had captured Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian Al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The timing of this announcement should be of particular interest to readers of The New Republic. Earlier this month, John B. Judis, Spencer Ackerman, and Massoud Ansari broke the story of how the Bush administration was pressuring Pakistani officials to apprehend high-value targets (HVTs) in time for the November elections--and in particular, to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. Although the capture took place in central Pakistan "a few days back," the announcement came just hours before John Kerry will give his acceptance speech in Boston.

GHALIANI WAS CAPTURED LAST WEEK AND KEPT ON ICE TILL THE CONVENTION

SO IN THE EFFORT OF "FIGHTING TERROR" WE MUST BELIEVE ANOTHER COINCIDENCE?
BULLSHIT, SO CALLED PATRIOTS, AMERIKKKA LOVING REPUBLICANS WILL CHALLENGE THIS, BUT THE FACT IS
GETTING BUSH BACK INTO OFFICE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN GETTING AL-QAEDA.