Author: david

  • Why Stop There?

    What Emboldens the Enemy? Gates: “[The] proposed Senate resolution…would embolden the enemy” Gates: “Any indication of flagging will” would embolden the enemy. Then why stop there? Open debate emboldens the enemy. Free speech emboldens the enemy. Political opposition emboldens the enemy. And why stop even there? Elections? That’s just what they want us to do.…

  • Bush Keeps Hope Alive

    Washington Post: Bush said he recognizes that “there is skepticism and pessimism” in Congress, but he added that “some are condemning the plan before it’s even had a chance to work.” ———————————– All we are saying is give war a chance. [The WP article]

  • The Military Commissions–Worse than Just Procedures

    Pentagon sets rules for terrorism suspect trials WASHINGTON (Reuters), 1/18/07 – The Pentagon on Thursday gave broad discretion to judges to decide what evidence may be presented against suspected…Taliban members facing trial in the new military commissions court system. DKo: So, suspected terrorists and suspected Taliban members may be regarded interchangeably. And, indeed, that is…

  • The FBI Effort to Drive Dr. King to Suicide

    To me, this was the most disgusting part of the FBI’s campaign against Dr. Martin Luther King. It is pretty well known by now that the FBI had bugged King’s hotel rooms, and had recorded explicit sexual episodes. They used these tapes against him for years, and even played them for selected journalists. I heard…

  • Kurds Killing Arabs to Stabilize Iraq?

    Anger Mounts Over Deployment of Kurdish Forces to Baghdad By Nidhal al-Laithi and Marsi abu Tareq Azzaman, Iraq, 1/7/07 Kurdish leaders have decided to deploy their own militias in the fighting now taking place in Baghdad….This will be the first time Kurdish armed groups will fight in Baghdad, and specifically against their co-religionists, Arab Sunnis.…

  • It’s So Unfair!

    “‘If the Iraqis are unhappy with our presence and they are willing to attack us, my view would be that it’s because the overall situation in Iraq has become so unsatisfactory,’ [Defense Secretary] Gates said. ‘And probably the fact that many of those Iraqis blame the United States for the mistakes that were made after…