According to Pelosi,

“Peace between Israelis and Palestinians cannot result from daily barrages of rocket and mortar fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza. Hamas and its supporters must understand that Gaza cannot and will not be allowed to be a sanctuary for attacks on Israel.”

Hamas “controls” Gaza? Sure they do! Well who “controls” Hamas? Who financed the creation of Hamas? If Hamas didn’t exist, Israel would have to invent it.

Oh. That’s right. They already did.

When the IDF moves into Gaza and then the IDF lobs a couple rockets back toward Israel enroute to killing every person in Gaza, it happens because Hamas Controls Gaza!

Israel faked rocket attacks:

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2.....ttack.html

Mossad Motto:

By way of deception thou shalt do war

Ha’aretz notes that Israel is winning the struggle for American hearts and minds:

“The conventional wisdom among policy-makers in Israel and the United States is that if there is one front on which Israel enjoys a clear advantage in the international arena, it is hasbara – information and public relations in the United States.”

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j120902.html

Crisis? What crisis? His legacy is the only crisis on Bush’s alleged mind.

OT: Obama’s duty to prosecute Bush for war crimes: http://www.dailykos.com/storyo.....128/678205

By March 11/08, Bush had spent 879 days on vacation, breaking Reagan’s record. One could argue that the other two thirds of his presidency has been spent on vacation at the White House, while president Cheney let Georgie think he was boss.

http://archive.uwire.com/2008/.....president/

OT
U.S. Seeks 147-Year Sentence in Torture Case
Will BushcCo be held accountable by the Hague? Here is a precedent setting decision. and
“A recent Justice Department court filing describes torture — which the U.S. has been accused of in the war on terror — as a “flagrant and pernicious abuse of power and authority” that warrants severe punishment of Mr. Taylor.”

Last update on the DIGNITY says the boat was rammed by an Israeli gunboat. They were told to turn back, but are 40 miles off Haifa..limping towards Lebanon. The boat is taking on water and has engine problems. No injuries reported.

The attack was filmed and the passengers and crew will report on Israeli’s attack in International waters as soon as they reach Lebanon.

http://www.freegaza.org/index......42e09fdee3

At the end of the article, permission is given to repost. Maybe someone could do it here?

Gaza / PNN – In the fourth day of massacre on Gaza Israeli forces the death toll has exceeded 380 with the number of injuries at 1,700.
Israeli forces killed two girls in an air attack on Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip early Tuesday. Israeli warplanes later hit the American University in Beit Lahiya. Medical sources report again today that hospitals are overflowing with the dead and injured.

Thanks…I have not checked the site. How do we “make him” pursue this?

To the Hague with him and his!

Good morning, pups. It’s Warner and Herbert today. Judith Warner, in “The Lure of Opulent Desolation,” says the “baby busters” of the ’60s never rebelled against the trappings of domesticity represented by their images of the 1950s. Many of them, deep down, yearn for it. Mr. Herbert says we should “Add Up the Damage.” He says he doesn’t think George W. Bush should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a loud, collective angry howl and demonstrations over the damage he’s done to this country. Amen, brother!

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got apple walnut muffins still warm from the oven. I’m starting to feel like a kid before Christmas — 21 days and counting, and Inauguration Day can’t get here fast enough.

President Bush recently spent his 879th day at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, since the Supreme Court, in all its great wisdom, elevated him to the presidency. This according to NPR’s “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me,” which noted that Bush broke former President Reagan’s record for taking vacations from the White House.rIt’s interesting to recall, all these wild years later, that George W. Bush did not decide to buy the ranch near Crawford until after he decided to run for president. Apparently, after Ronald Reagan’s example, it seemed presidential to cut brush on a ranch, and Bush was seeking a brush with history. Or something.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....7378.shtml

Yep Bush is a War Time President just how many vacation days did other War Time Presidents take?
America workers deserve 1/4 of the PAID VACATION DAYS BUSH GETS!

Better. Send them all to live in Gaza and let the Israelis bomb the hell out of them

(Larnaca, Cyprus, 10:00 am) On Tuesday, December 30, at 5 a.m., several Israeli gunboats intercepted the Dignity as she was heading on a mission of mercy to Gaza. One gunboat rammed into the boat on the port bow side, heavily damaging her. The reports from the passengers and journalists on board is that she is taking on water and appears to have engine problems. When attacked, the Dignity was clearly in international waters, 90 miles off the coast of Gaza.

http://www.freegaza.org/index......42e09fdee3

Attacking a peaceful boat bringing Doctors and food to the enemy sounds like war crimes to me if anyone on board is killed or detained.

These crimes will go unpunished and that is in fact a crime of complicity.

Yep Bush is a War Time President just how many vacation days did other War Time Presidents take?
America workers deserve 1/4 of the PAID VACATION DAYS BUSH GETS!

Actually there is no “war”. Congress, and only Congress can declare war and that has not happened. And frankly I would be happy if the bastard had taken 2900 days off, millions of lives would have been saved.

Thanks Attaturk! It is interesting that the only time Bush cut short his vacation was for a brain dead woman. He really doesn’t care about life does he.

Attacking a peaceful boat bringing Doctors and food to the enemy sounds like war crimes to me if anyone on board is killed or detained.

No war crimes here….. just the chosen one’s continuing their killing and maiming.

Mr. Emmanuel had argued in previous court papers that he was being unfairly prosecuted for acts similar to those committed by U.S. personnel in Iraq and elsewhere.

The administration of President George W. Bush has been criticized by some around the world and in Congress for using aggressive interrogation techniques. Justice Department memos were seen as providing legal underpinnings for some of the techniques.

However, administration officials have blamed abuses at places such as Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison on a small number of soldiers or agents and insisted there has been no systematic mistreatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan or the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....40151.html

The Buck Stops anyplace but the White House! The President was not in control and not responsible! Reagan going senile worked as an excuse! Bush 1 pardoning everyone in Iran Contra worked.
To bad Bush also lost his wars and destroyed the economy I think people are more forgiving when they are doing good…but they are not so forgiving when times are tough.
Bush expects history to repeat I think history is changing the line.

Now if we could get Darth to take a vacation

Now if we could get Darth to take a vacationgo to gaol

— 21 days and counting, and Inauguration Day can’t get here fast enough.
You’re right that 21 days can’t get here fast enough.

Just what does Bush’s Preacher say to him at church? Obama is getting hassled for his preachers but the End of Days Preachers are the real danger.
I wonder if they realize that by letting Israel commit war crimes well yes they are getting what they want the end of the world.
BUT by letting making Jesus come back they are going straight into the Lake of Fire!
Blessed are the Peace Makers (the real Peace Makers)
Torture, War Crimes sorry Bush there is no room in the Kingdom of Heaven for You!

Damm and I the only prophet willing to preach in the Lords name against this Evil King!
The Left needs to start getting Biblical on Bush! Old Testament Biblical!

Good Morning All,
532 hours 37 minutes left of the Bush Criminal enterprise

Has there been no crisis, other than Terry Schiavo (which strains the term “crisis” past the breaking point), that Bush did not respond to with more vacation

If Bush is on vacation then he cannot take questions from the Press. Bush seems to think that by not coming home he can avoid trouble.
I assume he did the same thing when he was drinking.
To bad his fuckups are so big nobody can ignore them.

Will the Dow adjusted for inflation be lower than it was when Bush became President? Will it be lower than it was under President Hoover?
Bush still has Time to make things worse!
I have Faith that in 532 hours and 36 minutes that Bush can do it!

We are reaping the rewards of a lot of stupid people voting for the war criminal in chief in 2004.
532 hrs & 23 min

The Left needs to start getting Biblical on Bush! Old Testament Biblical!

I do believe that the “left” deals in reality not fairy tales

WASHINGTON — Top Republican lawmakers are positioning themselves for battle over President-elect Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan, signaling Monday that they will cast themselves as guardians against excessive spending rather than outright opponents of the Democrats’ stimulus package.

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....lenews_wsj

Just where were these guys when Bush was spending money on losing two wars?

Blessed are the peace makers? The good Smaratian? those parts of the Bible I’ll keep.
The Rick Warren parts should be dropped.
Visting 10 plagues on Bush and his house…well only in a just world.

Anyone else catch Mika’s dad dressing down Joe Scar this morning?

He called his knowledge of the Middle East “stunningly superficial”, and embarrassing.

Priceless! Absolutely correct, but priceless.

Picking and choosing is just what Rick Warren is doing. The whole old testament needs to be tossed. It is just a compilation of some writings of delusional old men.
532 hrs & 11 min

What the heck? My computer must have gremlins ’cause your post was not there earlier. Have been waiting for you to show up here. Have you read Known Unknowns: Unconventional “Strategic Shocks” in Defence Strategy Development. It contains things like using the military to quell civil unrest in the US.

http://www.strategicstudiesins.....PUB890.pdf

The last manual is slowly making its way around the web.

http://journals.democraticunde.....kpete/8355

http://existentialistcowboy.bl.....us-is.html

but who’s counting?

good morning pups

But I pick the parts that say be Cool and Help People Rick picks the parts that say don’t do this to further his control of the Sheeple.

but who’s counting?

Soon it will be possible to continue on fingers and toes…. and the just fingers…..and then just the middle finger….

I’ve always thought the best thing about bush was that he takes lots of vacations.

And you both point to the same unfunny comic book to make your respective points.
532 hrs & 0 min

It contains things like using the military to quell civil unrest in the US.

Sort of like this

Deepening economic strife in the US could lead to civil unrest and violence that would require military intervention, warns a new report from the US Army War College.

lmao, Swim’s up

I believe the Rick Warren Parts of the book are an intelligence test. Can we reason for ourselves and do we have enough confidence and intellect to argue with authority when it is wrong?
Are we intelligent or just trained apes doing routines we were trained to do?
Rick shows that the ape can be trained. We however have not yet shown that the ape society can learn that we do not need the force of the law and the fear of Hell to try to be good.

Good Gawd. Clown Istook attacking employee free choice act w/ some new secret ballot group.

oops forgot 531 hrs & 52 min

2 years and 4 1/2 months on vacation while the country went down the toilet.

Fuck you, Shrub. And yer friends, too. And the horse you’re too afraid to ride in on. Nah, scratch the horse. The animal prolly did more good in the last 8 years than Shrub ever thought of. Just puttin’ his face in a feed bag was more than Shrub accomplished.

This is what happens when a group of clowns claims the presidency without winning a full and fair election.
We like the lie” we’re the greatest” and george ran with it, although he didn’t have clue one. He couldn’t have done it without 535 whores in the capitol.

No respectable whore would have anything to do with that bunch of morons.

Too busy with Vitter anyway

Thank you, bluebutterfly, and nomolos at # 40. I’m so relieved that you are bringing attention to this dire subject.

On 12/23/08 (note timing), there appeared in my e-mail a message containing the rightwing’s version of this “Known Unknowns…” report from the US Army War College. I blocked the msg, then decided to find out what they were up to and found the article. LINK BELOW

The last paragraph: “And Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the U.S. military operations to liberate Iraq, said in a 2003 interview that if the U.S. is attacked with a weapon of mass destruction, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.”

I sent the link in an e-mail to Glenn Greenwald, asking that he write about it at his website. No reply yet.

forgot the link!

http://www.newsmax.com/headlin.....64765.html

Thanks for your comment and the link, wigwam.

As to how to push the issue of prosecuting BushCo for war crimes, I recommend that all watch/listen to Amy Goodman’s 12/23/08 interview with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D)NY. (LINK BELOW).

He states that BushCo will not investigate themselves, so he intends to introduce legislation in next Congress to (1) bring back the Office of The Special Prosecutor to investigate criminal activities of the Bush Admin, including torture, illegal wiretapping and data mining; (2) an amendment to the Constitution which limits the presidential powers of pardon so presidents cannot pardon members of their own administration who have committed crimes.

We need to watch for this legislation and flood Reps, Senators, and Obama to pass this legislation.

http://www.democracynow.org
click on Rep Nadler’s picture.

correction: Pic of Nadler not there now, so click on Past Shows, then under 2008 click December, scroll down to 12/23.

I opened the DIGG and commented there.
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