This much should be clear. The detainees did not accidentally fall outside of the jurisdiction of the federal courts because they ended up on Guantanamo. Rather, they were brought to Guantanamo for the very purpose of being kept beyond the jurisdiction of the courts.
mr ed - watching foxes new sunday show - andrew card is the first guest. i dont think ive ever seen him in front of a camera b4 outside a kindergarten. i wonder why he is being wheeled out. given that ive never seen him speaking b4, he is quite good at it. speechifies a bit - but pretty tite. he has an errant right eyebrow - possibly a deception tell. intererestingly, dean was 2nd guess. in the introduction the host sez "how does your campaign keep defying gravity?" and the attack dogs were set forth. dean did reasonably well, under the circumstances, and to be fair, the host did let him finish his summation and make some good points.
If our Founding Fathers were alive today they would be targeted by the FBI, and the Bush administration, simply because they protested against King George.
Does anyone remember when Bush constantly said he "trusted the people, not the government" during the 2000 election?
On the Nixon enemies list were such notorious "terrorists" as Paul Newman, John Lennon, Bill Cosby, Joe Namath, Gregory Peck, and Edward Kennedy.
If they were alive today, other "terrorists" like Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson would be targeted by the Bush Regime, and the FBI, since they were considered very staunch opponents of the British oppression. Our Founding Fathers definitely violated the "If you are not with us, you are against us" mandate by President Bush.
Rescinding his harmful steel tariffs last week, President George W. Bush said they had "achieved their purpose". Which purpose was that? Punishing US car-buyers by making cars more expensive? They certainly achieved that. Giving world trade talks, derailed at Cancun in September, a fresh kick in the guts? Well, they achieved that as well. Or perhaps the President meant the way his tariffs had threatened the livelihoods of citrus growers in Florida and motorcycle manufacturers in Wisconsin, who would have been among the targets of $3 billion worth of retaliatory trade barriers imposed by the EU.
I am appalled by Lead Balloons’ suggestion, below, that President Bush might have enhanced his manly profile for his photo-op aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln — the first known instance, if the innuendoes are true, of a turkey stuffing himself.
You learn in flight school to cinch those straps tight — while you’re seated in the cockpit — in the event that you have to eject or bail out. But every kid learns, quickly, that you don’t stand up with those straps tight; it pinches your nuts. And yes, Bush would have been very familiar with that.
Iraq has become a mess. There is only one priority: to "get out with dignity".
This strategy is now being rammed down the throat of the US administrator in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, by George W. Bush's new "realist", Deputy National Security Adviser Bob Blackwill. He answers to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, not US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and is the new boss of Iraq.
The White House got the message. Washington sacked its first governor, Jay Garner, within a month of the invasion. It is now effectively abandoning its second within six months. Baghdad has seen three regime changes within a year.
Iraq seems ever more likely to split three ways. Fragmentation has become the default mode of Western intervention. It was so in Yugoslavia. It is so in Afghanistan.
The bird is so perfect it looks as if it came from a food magazine, with bunches of grapes and other trimmings completing a Norman Rockwell image that evokes bounty and security in one of the most dangerous parts of the world.
administration officials said yesterday that Bush picked up a decoration, not a serving plate.
To date, President Bush has selected six of the 660 detainees as eligible for trial by military commissions, which are also called tribunals.
mr ed - wouldnt it be perfect rove to imply the number 666? reading the story it first says 660 detainees, and i wondered then if that was a coincidence, but the reading down a bit u get to 6/660. surely not...
im tempted to consider the possibility that the 6/66 thing isnt an accident. rove is so bloody good that these things tend not be accidents/coincidents. if this crazy hypothesis is true, then i think it reiterates my questions about whether the 'gulfstream5' story was really accidental. my guess is that the rove machine, that is so controlled that comes up with ideas like 666, wouldnt accidentally let that phony GS5 story slip.. i still cant imagine what they were trying to achieve with it. yet.
American soldiers have begun wrapping entire villages in barbed wire.
mr ed - sounds like israel
In selective cases, American soldiers are demolishing buildings thought to be used by Iraqi attackers. They have begun imprisoning the relatives of suspected guerrillas, in hopes of pressing the insurgents to turn themselves in.
mr ed:
1. 'in selective cases' is cute.
2. lemme get this straight, the logic is 'if the guerrilas cant meet where they met last time, then we have won'
3. imprisoning relatives is still a war crime according to the geneva convention.
"If you do nothing, they will just get stronger," said Martin van Creveld, professor of military history and strategy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
"You have to understand the Arab mind," Capt. Todd Brown, a company commander with the Fourth Infantry Division, said as he stood outside the gates of Abu Hishma. "The only thing they understand is force — force, pride and saving face."
mr ed - please make it stop.
"This fence is here for your protection," reads the sign posted in front of the barbed-wire fence. "Do not approach or try to cross, or you will be shot."
"With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them," Colonel Sassaman said.
In Iraq, the Americans have bulldozed, bombed or otherwise rendered useless a number of buildings which they determined were harboring guerrillas.
"Well, I guess what we need to do is go back to the laws of war and the Geneva Convention and all of those issues that define when a structure ceases to be what it is claimed to be and becomes a military target," General Sanchez said. "We've got to remember that we're in a low-intensity conflict where the laws of war still apply."
In Abu Hishma, residents complain that the village is locked down for 15 hours a day, meaning that they are unable to go to the mosque for morning and evening prayers. They say the curfew does not allow them time to stand in the daylong lines for gasoline and get home before the gate closes for the night.
"Colonel Sassaman, you should come and live in this village and be a sheik," Hassan Ali al-Tai told the colonel outside the checkpoint.
The colonel smiled, and Mr. Tai turned to another visitor.
"Colonel Sassaman is a very good man," he said. "If he got rid of the barbed wire and the checkpoint, everyone would love him."
mr ed - i dont even know what point they are trying to make here.
(this article is scary for a whole bunch of reasons)
Do you really need that 42-inch plasma television with surround sound, or does your urge to splurge stem from a narcissistic personality disorder?
According to our model, a strong M.V.O. "materialistic value orientation," is one way in which people attempt to compensate for worries and doubts about their self-worth, their ability to cope effectively with challenges and their safety in a relatively unpredictable world.
A growing body of research demonstrates that people who strongly orient toward values such as money, possessions, image and status report lower subjective well-being.
when people rate the relative importance of extrinsic, materialistic values as high in comparison to other pursuits (e.g., self-acceptance, affiliation, community feeling), lower quality of life is also reported.
WO Turkish technicians who were reported to have been kidnapped in Kabul are not being held captive and are safe and sound, a spokesman for the Turkish foreign ministry said today.
It was not immediately clear if the workers had ever been kidnapped or if they had left their work site voluntarily to hold talks with neighbouring villagers, Huseyin Dirioz said.
", has been resolved," he added.
Today's incident follows the kidnapping of two Indian road engineers in south-east Afghanistan yesterday and the kidnapping at the end of October of a Turkish engineer also working on the key Kabul-Kandahar highway.
Rumsfeld suspects number of Iraqi security needed to replace Americans might be understated
''I raised that question not because I have conviction that we need more, but because I worry that budgets will begin to get committed, and we may not know if we need more until sometime, for example, in February or March or April,'' he said. By then, he said, the money might not be available.
Iraq was the final stop on a trip that began in Brussels, Belgium, where Rumsfeld attended NATO meetings. He also went to the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia.
In the presence of reporters, Rumsfeld also asked Odierno if he needed more American troops. He said no. In fact, Odierno said, as more Iraqis are trained for security duties he probably would be able to reduce the 33,000 U.S. troops he has in his area now.
mr ed - blah blah
Suicide terrorists are plotting to hijack aircraft by smuggling "ready-to-build" explosives kits past airport security and assembling their bombs on board, a leaked FBI intelligence report reveals.
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