Sharon, Olmert and Bibi are not friends of the American people.

I certainly wouldn’t go so far as to say they are out enemies either. It’s just that they have their own agenda and they have some hooks into us, so we tend to jump like puppets when they pull our strings.

We need a foreign policy with regard to Israel which is in America’s interests first and Israel’s second.

Alfred Kelgarries says: June 10th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

I know you most of you people don’t read Arabic so I’ll just say that in the coverage by Aswat Al Irak they point out that that bridge was under continuous and I do mean continuous heavy guard by the US. There’s a reason for that and its that its a major chokepoint. Photo here:

U.S. troops and private security guards, in black, work to remove concrete rubble from atop wounded soldiers, at a bridge

We’ve been writing about the bridges and isolation campaign on “guides” for 2 years now. Today’s one on top of Badoush a few days back is a major disaster for your troops in Irak.

Christy sorry for the o/t

There is a simple solution to this problem. Let the Uighurs stay in the U.S. After all, we have determined they are not terrorists. They have been harmed, and the only right thing to do is for the guilty party to make things right. What is the stated justification for not allowing them to stay here?

Is this the reason Bush is going to Albania???

Gotta be either that or the Kosavars aren’t sending him their share of the profits from the international heroin trade…ya know, where there’s a member of the Bush family there’s a connection to illegal and highly profitable drugs. Look no further back than Poppy as head of the Drug Interdiction Task Force under Reagan…a 600% increase in the amount of cocaine that made it into the US…now that’s an impressive statistic although not one I’d want on my resume if I was looking for work with the DEA as an effective soldier in the war on drugs…I’m just saying.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..0610/iraq/

Another crucial highway link out of Baghdad is severed…

Alfred Kelgarries @ 88

OKK at 86 your comment was truncated.

I realize that. And that was not intentional.

Didn’t think so. Can you spell out exactly how you see Bibi returning to power (and I agree with you 110% that he is the most dangerous nutjob in the middle east, even worse that Ahmenawhatever, because he ALREADY HAS NUKES, he doesn’t have to wait for them…)?

newtonusr @ 41

Now that’s what I’m talking about! I recall Federici’s testimony – McCain openly ridiculed her. Beautiful.

That was several years ago, wasn’t it? I think I remember seeing that testimony. It was in my pre-FDL days, so I wondered, in my innocence, why McCain was being so hard on her.

Who controls McCain’s old boodle of 750,000 emails? I sure would love to see them made available to TPMmuckraker!

Bob in HI

More on the emails and Federici:

In late February, 2004, the Washington Post published their first report on Abramoff and his dealings with certain gaming tribes seeking access to Congress and Interior. A few days later, Senate Indian Affairs Committee member John McCain announced he would seek hearings into the Abramoff fiasco. That night, Committee Chairman Ben Nighthorse Campbell checked himself into a Washington hospital, complaining of chest pains; turned out he had a bad case of indigestion. A week later, Campbell announced that despite kicking off his re-election campaign just a month earlier, he would not seek re-election, citing “health concerns” (NB, Campbell is currently healthy enough to work as a high-paid lobbyist in DC.) Campbell allowed McCain to oversee the Committee hearings, including the subpoena process, and McCain took over the chairmanship when Campbell retired.

In April, McCain obtained the first Abramoff documents subpoenaed from Greenberg Traurig and other sources. Some of these documents (many still highly redacted) were not made available to the public until hearings began in the Fall of 2004. However, soon after McCain took possession of the Abramoff emails, with their potential to take down now only Abramoff and his lobbying buddies, but dozens of Congressional and Administration officials, McCain’s top advisor John Weaver met with Karl Rove to purportedly “iron-out their differences”, four years after the ugly 2000 primary season. The result? McCain buries any evidence that could hurt Bush’s re-election effort, at least until after November, and McCain becomes Bush’s heir apparent for 2008.

A month later, McCain joined Bush on the campaign trail..[snip] For his part, McCain postponed the opening of the Abramoff hearings from early summer until fall, and made sure the first, and only, hearing prior to the November election focused solely on Abramoff’s “maltreatment” of his tribal clients. It was a full year, and only after significant leaking from unnamed Committee members, that McCain called Interior officials before the Committee, and even then, he softballed on all but Italia Federici, whose Council for Republicans for Environmental Advocacy had actively attacked his support of global warming legislation.

[wampum]

TheOtherWA @ 45

I agree. We screwed up, the least we can do is let these people live here and give them a chance at rebuilding some kind of life.

what a choice.
do you think they would actually do it? would they want to do it?

Guys, please if I sound angry it is because I am angry at ChimpCo and sad for the Uighars. Unbearably sad.
We can not let our government be hypocritical. Remember George I. and Tiannamen square? *Plenty* of mainland students were allowed permanent residency in the U.S. after that incident by decree of George I. Georgie I & II can grandstand all they like, but we should not allow them to be hypocritcal in the case of the innocent and much persecuted Uighars.

How about building some low-income housing for the Uighurs in Kennebunkport?

LOL