Beautiful, Scarecrow. Just beautiful. I don’t think I’ve seen the Charlie-Foxtrot in Iraq summed up so well anywhere. I’ll be highlighting this one to the Aussie blogosphere.

How much more could one possibly need for the Integrity award?

But alas it doesn’t make up for the lack of integrity that is rampant in DC and in us that we are not keeping the pressure on congress and the whole structure.

Bless you, Scarecrow.

That photo! I’m a little underslept and nearly burst into tears right here in my cubicle.

With luck I’m not repeating anyone: Terry Gross interviewed Sy Hersh at length last night on Fresh Air. The two of them made the byzantine resemble the accessible, as nearly as anyone could.

Cheney & Co. warmongers Incorporated are itching to roll out a new product on schedule. And the schedule is tight. March seems likely. Spoiling for a fight, to keep everyone off balance and keep themselves on top. There you have it.

Once again, I submit that America is too large to be governed by a single executive, or even three relatively equal branches. The tin foil I wear these days in many layers thick and I won’t really be surprised if their is an executive coup around of before 2008. Big ba-da-boom, eek it’s the terraists! and suddenly it’s no longer safe to hold elections.

There is a guy named Gar Alperovitz who is beginning to write about dividing the country into approx. 12 sections. I was only going for 4 sections. I want to find more of his writings on the subject. So far, I only have read private emails sent to fellow historians. Anyone else seen anything about this out there in webland?

Murtha knew this, and said it, in so many words, in November of 2005. But everyone was much more concerned about their political positioning than about what he was warning against. He’s been trying to say it, over and over, ever since then, while professional politicians keep him at arm’s length and smear artists try to destroy him.

Hersh’s articles are just about the only thing that I trust reading, besides the blogs. I both anticipate and dread them. It takes me quite awhile to digest each article that he writes, requiring multiple readings, and consideration of others’ analyses of his writings. The one thing I always wonder about Hersh is how he manages to keep writing these articles — why he hasn’t been stopped somehow.

Thanks for your very well written story.

Lakoff on the rush for war with Iran:

“The time has come to stop the attempt to make a nuclear war against Iran palatable to the American public. We do not believe that most Americans want to start a nuclear war or to impose nation destruction on the people of Iran. They might, though, be willing to support a tit-for-tat “surgical” “attack” on Natanz in retaliation for small canister bombs and to end Iran’s early nuclear capacity.”

[Lakoff bold]

I don’t know just what a tat is, so I prefer the synonym equivalent of
an eye for an eye

An oracle, whose name I have long forgotten, pointed out that if we all believe in an eye for an eye then eventually the whole world will become blind. In this particular instance, it seems that many are starting out blind.

Then, he preemptively pardoned people before the Special Prosecutor could bring them to justice. There wasn’t even a trial for Casper Weinberger!!

What conscience?

wow, says it in a nutshell
great synopsis!