Padilla didn’t have WMD- but he wanted some- and if he had some- he might have used em- so invade him- I mean convict him- it’s the 1% doctrine that we now run the country on.

The idea of a 1% doctrine is convenient nonsense as it’s applied nowhere else in our society. There’s well more than a 1% chance of death by plane / train / car crash but “safety” measures sufficient to stop them aren’t taken. Well more than a 1% chance that obesity or obesity related illness will kill large numbers of Americans but we go right on selling high fructose corn syrup, not checking the meat for E-Coli or mad cow and so on. I can go on with this list but we all know that life is fraught with situations where there is well more than a 1% chance of dying in any given situation.

This is about power and money. An investigation is yet to be done about who is getting rich off Iraq. Robert Greenwald has started the process but his evidence right now is largely anecdotal and observational. We don’t have access to Cheney’s bank accounts any more than we have to the log of visitors who came to see him. But I submit it would all make for interesting reading.

Senator Feinstein Introduces Legislation to Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

-Bill requires transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to other detention facilities-

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced legislation today to close the Department of Defense detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within one year of the bill’s enactment.

It is the first measure introduced in the Senate to close the Guantanamo Bay facility.

Senator Feinstein, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is deeply concerned that open-ended detentions and documented reports of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay have tarnished America’s reputation and complicated our efforts to fight global terrorism.

Sad.

As Dinocrat ruefully notes, it’s “pretty funny if it weren’t for the annoying fact that these people want to kill us.”

What do you mean ‘us’, white man?

I’m not a Christian, I’m not an Imperialist, and I’m barely tolerant of capitalism.

What, they want to kill me ‘for my freedom’?

Send me an e-mail, please at my gmail account.
Thanks

lee5 at 70

I have a full and solid psychoanalytical analysis on why Padilla has behaved the way he has. The analysis is based on the theories of Heinz Kohut. Very dense indeed. I once worked for one year on an interview with him for Psychology Today Magazine (when it was being run by T George Harris and was a wonderful placve.) I just had huge problems bringing his words to the place where magazine readers were. I used those same theories (without the detailed words of Kohut) in a speech at NASA to explain why hackers attacked their computers.

It takes a hell of a long time to “set up” and I’m not sure a blog is the place to lay these out. Perhaps in the book I’m thinking about…:-)

interesting … would love to hear more.

Thank you so much