Yes, but Blair won’t actually face any consequences, sadly. It wouldn’t be gentlemanly actually to punish him, after all.

Long live the DC Madam and her “employee” in DC who also “hung” herself. It sucks that their names are going out of my brain…….we need to keep their stories as part of the Big Story. Imho.

Last I read wrt the so-called “investigations” in the UK, blair is going to be allowed to testify behind closed doors. National security reasons, donyaknow…..’specially as it relates to (and pisses off) the US pols & military industrial complex. Note: somebody quoted in one of the above articles said that he *should* testify in public.

SPIT!

I think that the D.C. Madam`s last name was Palfrey.She even predicted her eminent death and the method.
I used to go to a web site called:”Bush Body Count” edited by someone by the name of Mean-ass-kitty.It told of the demise of people who had something on a Bush, or were standing in their way or had crossed the family in some manner,and how they met with odd deaths.
After 2005,I could not find it on the net.It was right after Paul Wellstone`s plane went down in cloudy weather that I stopped being able to find meanasskitty`s web site.
Sure is strange.

Deferment No. 5

Seems Tony will be facing the inquisitors from the beginning of January. Lots of interesting stuff already coming off the British investigations already. Kinda filling in the Downing Street memoes on not only English but American slap-dash prep and deceive the public lead up to Iraqi invasion.

The Guardian is keeping us informed, because American corporate papers won’t.

Well of course in this country Dick Cheney and his merry band of criminals are allowed to war-monger and lie and lie and lie without being challenged because the media is owned by the very people who profit from war-mongering and lying. Dontchaknow this is the land of the free, home of the brave, democracy, freedom, justice and all that is good blah, blah, blah, just as we have been told for years….and….years….and…..years.

But in this country Dick Cheney and his miracle-deferment spawn are allowed to lie without even being challenged in interviews, let alone be accountable for their war mongering.

(photo from here)

here’s what’s particularly ironic

obama gives cheney a pass, then cheney runs around calling obama a traitor

obama is far less the strategist then anyone ever imagined and I am beginning to wonder if he is as uninformed as he needs to be to give cheney this pass

does he know cheney did lied trying to get us into conflict before???…does obama know under ford cheney made up crap to undermine the detante treaty?

just because obama turns a pretty speach, does this mean he is not a moron?

reagan was moron and turned a pretty good speach too don’t foget

this will put us all into a very sad mood;

The Quotes That Sent Us To War

Victor Navasky

Below, an excerpt from the chapter titled “Their Finest Hour: America Readies Itself To Free The Iraqi People.”

CAKEWALK!

“I believe demolishing Hussein’s military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.”
- Kenneth Adelman, member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, 2/13/02
“Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.”
- Richard Perle, Chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, 7/11/02

“Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park… The case for ‘regime change’ boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.”
- Kenneth Adelman, member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, 8/29/02

“Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world’s sole superpower.”
- William Kristol, Weekly Standard editor, and Lawrence F. Kaplan, New Republic senior editor, 2/24/03

HOW MANY TROOPS WILL BE NEEDED?

“I would be surprised if we need anything like the 200,000 figure that is sometimes discussed in the press. A much smaller force, principally special operations forces, but backed up by some regular units, should be sufficient.”
- Richard Perle, Chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, 7/11/02

“I don’t believe that anything like a long-term commitment of 150,000 Americans would be necessary.”
- Richard Perle, speaking at a conference on “Post-Saddam Iraq” sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, 10/3/02

“I would say that what’s been mobilized to this point — something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.”
- Gen. Eric Shinseki, testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, 2/25/03

“The idea that it would take several hundred thousand U.S. forces, I think, is far from the mark.”
- Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 2/27/03

“I am reasonably certain that they will greet us as liberators, and that will help us keep [troop] requirements down. … We can say with reasonable confidence that the notion of hundreds of thousands of American troops is way off the mark…wildly off the mark.”
- Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, testifying before the House Budget Committee, 2/27/03

“It’s hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army. Hard to image.”
- Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, testifying before the House Budget Committee, 2/27/03

“If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.”
- President George W. Bush, 6/28/05

“The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is…beside the point.”
- Rich Lowry, conservative syndicated columnist, 4/19/06

WHAT ABOUT CASUALTIES?

“Oh, no, we’re not going to have any casualties.”
- President George W. Bush, response attributed to him by the Reverend Pat Robertson, when Robertson warned the president to prepare the nation for “heavy casualties” in the event of an Iraq war, 3/2003

“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Oh, I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”
- Barbara Bush, former First Lady (and the current president’s mother), on Good Morning America, 3/18/03

“I think the level of casualties is secondary… [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war… What we hate is not casualties but losing.”
- Michael Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute, 3/25/03

HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?

“Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will.”
- Richard Perle, Chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, 7/11/02

“The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small… Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits.”
- Lawrence Lindsey, White House Economic Advisor, 9/16/02

“It is unimaginable that the United States would have to contribute hundreds of billions of dollars and highly unlikely that we would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars.”
- Kenneth M. Pollack, former Director for Persian Gulf Affairs, U.S. National Security Council, 9/02

“The costs of any intervention would be very small.”
- Glenn Hubbard, White House Economic Advisor, 10/4/02

“When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community.”
- Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 3/27/03

“There is a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people. We are talking about a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon.”
- Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, testifying before the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, 3/27/03

“The United States is committed to helping Iraq recover from the conflict, but Iraq will not require sustained aid.”
- Mitchell Daniels, Director, White House Office of Management and Budget, 4/21/03

“Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for ther own reconstruction.”
- Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary, 2/18/03

HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?

“Now, it isn’t gong to be over in 24 hours, but it isn’t going to be months either.”
- Richard Perle, Chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, 7/11/02

“The idea that it’s going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990. Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
- Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 11/15/02

“I will bet you the best dinner in the gaslight district of San Diego that military action will not last more than a week. Are you willing to take that wager?”
- Bill O’Reilly, 1/29/03

“It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could be six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”
- Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 2/7/03

“It won’t take weeks… Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there’s no question that it will.”
- Bill O’Reilly, 2/10/03

“There is zero question that this military campaign…will be reasonably short. … Like World War II for about five days.”
- General Barry R. McCaffrey, national security and terrorism analyst for NBC News, 2/18/03

“The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.”
- David Frum, former Bush White House speechwriter, 2/24/03

“Our military superiority is so great — it’s far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days… Now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad… The odds are there’s going to be a war and it’s going to be not for very long.”
- Former President Bill Clinton, 3/6/03

“I think it will go relatively quickly…weeks rather than months.”
- Vice President Dick Cheney, 3/16/03

Lord Falconer, a former roomate of Tony Blair, had suspended the initial inquest, performed through the Hutton Inquiry, which concluded that Dr Kelly had sliced his own wrist.

However, leading medical experts believe that suicide was unlikely.

“The primary cause of death is given as hemorrhage. And we do not believe, as surgeons, that such hemorrhage would have been so rapid or so voluminous that Dr Kelly would have died from that. We want to see an inquest for Dr Kelly. I think it’s highly likely it will be found that there was foul play,” says Dr David Halpin, an orthopedic surgeon…

The Hutton Inquiry was legally unique, using its own rules and procedures to examine the cause of a single death.

A British member of parliament says the normal rules for inquests were not applied.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/12/813556/-BOMBSHELL:-Weapons-Inspector-who-Opposed-Iraq-Invasion-was-Murdered,-say-Six-Top-Doctors

So you are Tony and your top Bio weapons guy says your lying about Saddam WMD program. The American Press is hardly? reporting the story.
Suddenly your top bio weapons guy dies and you Tony should be the chief suspect after all England’s top Bio weapons guy walking around without 24 hr security just before England is going to war with a country that supposedly has bio weapons? Sorry Tony no dice.
Next your roommate handles the investigation his way ignoring the law and of course you are found innocent.

Great list of quotes to bad the news guys instead of going after ratings and using those quotes all prefer to protect their sources the same sources that made those quotes. Going along to get along has now replaced competition in the Elite world where nobody ever makes a mistake.

Too bad the forkin’ teevee pundits never deign to ask any of the people quoted about their *foresight*; or better yet, cease to invite them on their shows.

“No one could have imagined…………” = the favorite excuse for stoopidity. :-(

“Tony Blair, who was Prime Minister at the time of Dr Kelly’s death, and security chiefs such as MI6’s former head, Sir John Scarlett, will now be asked about the weapons expert, whose body was found in woods near his home in Oxfordshire.
Sir John Chilcot, a former civil servant, has said that his imminent inquiry, which is due to report in 2011, ‘will not shy away from making criticism’.
The Hutton Inquiry, set up by Mr Blair, ruled that 59-year-old Dr Kelly used a blunt gardening knife to slit the ulnar artery on his left wrist on July 18, 2003, and swallowed the painkiller co-proxamol after he was exposed as the source of a BBC report questioning the use of weapons of mass destruction as justification for war in Iraq.
But a team of 13 eminent doctors say the wound to the tiny artery could not have caused his death. They also contend that the co-proxamol dosage was non-fatal.
Ms Pederson revealed in an interview with this newspaper a year ago that Dr Kelly was often unable to use his right hand because of an elbow injury.
She said the hand’s grip was so weak he struggled to get a knife through a steak and that he would have had to be a ‘contortionist’ to have killed himself in the way the Hutton Inquiry claimed.
She also disclosed that he suffered from a disorder that made it difficult for him to swallow pills. She fears that he was murdered under the orders of loyalists to Saddam Hussein.
Lib Dem MP Norman Baker, who is campaigning for an inquest to be held into Dr Kelly’s death, said last night: ‘The obvious route is a coroner’s inquest, which so far has not taken place.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203761/Iraq-probe-include-death-weapons-expert-Dr-David-Kelly.html

My bold my Italics the person who got the government investigating this story again thinks it might have been Saddam agents who killed him.
It is fair to note that however when everyone England, America etc was looking for a cause for war why cover this up?
Still the facts do suggest he was murdered and that Tony covered it up no matter who did it or why.

Tony Blair, who was Prime Minister at the time of Dr Kelly’s death, and security chiefs such as MI6’s former head, Sir John Scarlett, will now be asked about the weapons expert, whose body was found in woods near his home in Oxfordshire.
Sir John Chilcot, a former civil servant, has said that his imminent inquiry, which is due to report in 2011, ‘will not shy away from making criticism’.
The Hutton Inquiry, set up by Mr Blair, ruled that 59-year-old Dr Kelly used a blunt gardening knife to slit the ulnar artery on his left wrist on July 18, 2003, and swallowed the painkiller co-proxamol after he was exposed as the source of a BBC report questioning the use of weapons of mass destruction as justification for war in Iraq.
But a team of 13 eminent doctors say the wound to the tiny artery could not have caused his death. They also contend that the co-proxamol dosage was non-fatal.
Ms Pederson revealed in an interview with this newspaper a year ago that Dr Kelly was often unable to use his right hand because of an elbow injury.
She said the hand’s grip was so weak he struggled to get a knife through a steak and that he would have had to be a ‘contortionist’ to have killed himself in the way the Hutton Inquiry claimed.
She also disclosed that he suffered from a disorder that made it difficult for him to swallow pills. She fears that he was murdered under the orders of loyalists to Saddam Hussein.
Lib Dem MP Norman Baker, who is campaigning for an inquest to be held into Dr Kelly’s death, said last night: ‘The obvious route is a coroner’s inquest, which so far has not taken place.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203761/Iraq-probe-include-death-weapons-expert-Dr-David-Kelly.html

Sorry thats last comment is hard to read so I rewrote it I had some trouble with edit.
My bold my Italics the person who got the government investigating this story again thinks it might have been Saddam agents who killed him.
It is fair to note that however when everyone England, America etc was looking for a cause for war why cover this up?
Still the facts do suggest he was murdered and that Tony covered it up no matter who did it or why.

The Beeb is announcing that the Times of London is reporting that they have reports from an Iranian that the country is gearing up to produce a nuclear bomb…….hummmmmmm, where have we heard this song and dance about WMD before?

How sad that one cry of “wolf” too many could the one time that there actually *is* danger?

*gone to look for something in print*

Well……….none of this is important enough to interrupt non-stop discussion of a golfer that had sex with women not his wife. Don’t ya’ll get distracted and allow your attention to wander from the truly earth shattering news, the ONLY news, that a golfer had sex with women not his wife. This must be talked about, to the exclusion of all else, until another white woman dissappears some other person with name recognition does something profoundly stupid.

Spit

She specialises in employment, discrimination and public law and in this capacity has occasionally represented claimants taking cases against the UK government.[6]
Cherie Blair has appeared in a number of leading cases. A notable example before the European Court of Justice was concerned with discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. See ECJ Case C-249/96, Lisa Jacqueline Grant vs. South-West Trains Ltd. [3] In November 2007, she expressed interest in becoming a senior judge.[7]

Tony’s wife might not make senior judge if people keep investigating her husband.

Blair regularly wears “magic pendants” known as “BioElectric Shields”. Reports of her New Age practices included an account of her 2001 holiday in Mexico, when she and her husband, wearing only swimming costumes, privately took part in a rebirthing procedure that involved smearing mud and fruit over each others’ bodies while sitting in a steam bath.[1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherie_Blair

I am also thinking the Blair’s with all these investigations are not getting invited to any New Age parties anymore.

This is a great historical lesson of the Bush Presidency, Bush cried Wolf on Iraqi WMD that were not there and then when Iran starts to build a bomb not only were our troops spread out in 2 wars but nobody believed us any more!

The Times Online (UK) was taking forever to load on dial-up so here’s the URL from DU and you can get to the full article via there:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102×4183247

Good morning, pups. It’s The Pasty Little Putz and Krugman, since it’s Monday. The Pasty Little Putz, in “Prisons of Our Own Making,” says conservatives need to take ownership of prison reform, and correct the system they helped build. (I doubt he’d be wringing his hands over prison reform if Huckleberry hadn’t stepped in it. And don’t tell me he remembers the Willie Horton debacle — he was 9 years old at the time.) Prof. Krugman addresses “Disaster and Denial” and says the Republican Party won’t face up to the reality of what happened to the U.S. economy. So it’s up to the Democrats.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. We’ve got pea soup fog here, at 60°. They tell me it’s going to be around 75° tomorrow. This isn’t actually too unusual for us here — our coldest weather seems to come from mid January through February. Have a great day.

Ain’t that true!!! :-(

Any bets that Bush and Blair had a lot of meetings after they found out Iraq had no WMD but Iran was building a bomb? Any bets the entire world turned them down flat for more troops to invade Iran?

Oh, gawd! Are they still runnin’ that shit? I vowed yesterday to stay away from the teevee *news*……so why am I watching the Beeb?

Hi! My name is Waccamaw and I’m a news junkie. ;-)

The surge in crime rates, which lasted until the early 1990s, was driven by a variety of factors — the demographic bulge created by the baby boom, the crisis of authority in the late ’60s, and the heroin and crack epidemics that followed. But it was abetted by a softheaded liberalism that emphasized rehabilitation to the exclusion of retribution and deterrence. (Across the Great Society era, as crime rates started to take off, America’s prison population actually went down.)

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

Nope lack of jobs, the threat of punishment never stopped people from committing crimes.

The Guardian is not quite the pub created by its atheist founder, Richard Carlile, but still it’s quite the ticket next to most English language pubs.

An Iran attack sure would provide them with a nice diversion from the Iraq investigation.

Good morning everyone.

As a minor aside, my “n” key seems not to be sticking anymore.

The Telegraph
Independent and Guardian have the best, in my opinion, coverage. The Times is owned by Murdoch now I do believe, besides it is a right wing mouthpiece.

As for Dr. Kelly, I never for a moment thought it was a suicide. Just too convenient.

If you’re a governor with presidential aspirations, you should never, under any circumstances, pardon a convict or reduce a sentence. That’s the lesson everyone seems to have drawn from the dreadful case of Maurice Clemmons, an Arkansas native who murdered four Lakewood, Wash., police officers over Thanksgiving weekend — nine years after Mike Huckabee, then governor, commuted his sentence and the Arkansas parole board set him free.

http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/

Cameron Todd Willingham was tried for arson and the subsequent deaths of his daughters. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Since Willingham’s conviction, “three forensic investigations found there was no evidence of arson. None.” Some have even gone as far as to comment on the original investigator as, lacking the skill and knowledge God gave rocks.

There is a chance, however, that Texas could become the first state to acknowledge officially that, since the advent of the modern judicial system, it had carried out the “execution of a legally and factually innocent person.” But hey why lose any sleep over killing one of its citizens

innocent of any crime, the Governor will never have to see the misery and injustice he created, what pisses me off is that the Governor knew about the bogus evidence, he knew the man was innocent and instead of doing the right thing he played politics.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2284275/texas_governor_rick_perry_executes_pg3.html?cat=9

Typical GOP thinking see what you want to see after Gov Good Hair pulled this tell me don’t you think every Lefty Blogger is going to look at every Death Penalty case every GOP Presidential nominee signed off on?
I think releasing violent offenders early when they are guilty is over if you want to be President it does not matter which party.
Executing innocent White Men Gov GoodHair’s Presidential hopes are over. Well that and Houston the 4th largest city in America elected a Gay Mayor at a time when Gov GoodHair has been running to the right in Texas.

Hot off the presses….
The English not only conduct investigations into war crimes but they also have National Health Care. Now there is a country that won’t last long.

Hey, eCAHN -

Drones…….there’s the ticket to taking out Iran. s/ Sounds like they’re getting more and more practice with them in AfPak. :-(((( Won’t be many years before all the war work is gonna be done by robots (and mercernaries)….and then most of the pols in deecee won’t give a bloody damn how much it costs.

Counting the suicided people from the bushies is a life time task and finding the “inconvenient” people that were suicided during the blair/bush war crimes era will take more than an investigation in England.

If Gov GoodHair because he is running to the Right in the GOP Primary can’t count on winning Houston and we presume Austin Texas either can he win Texas?
If the GOP in Texas can’t win with a conservative candidate next election…well the implications are staggering.

eCAHN -

Was it you who has the friend in Houston whose reaction you were gonna solicit about the new mayor?

Brilliant. I never thought of that. Clearly the solution to all U.S. problems. Makes it easy to do regime change wherever the U.S. doesn’t like the leader.

I haven’t heard back from her. She’s a money manager and often doesn’t look at her email over the weekend, as she doesn’t have a personal email address. If I don’t get a reply today I’ll ask again.

That was my first thought. That whole scandal died out with her death. Lots of Bush scandals just went away. Whatever happened with the CIA poker parties with hookers?

I don’t suppose we’ll get anywhere near the bottom of it in my lifetime.

Thought experiment: who would have made the worst VP, Cheney or Lieberman?

Morning all.
No one has shot back at drones yet. During the Iraq invasion one of my son’s aircraft got near to Contested Iranian airspace and the aircraft was locked on by Iranian radar. The pilot had to take evasive action to elude. I don’t see drones as having this capability.

Just an investigation kills the Blair’s New Age social life and their respect in public circles. Sure Blair might get away with it but does anyone doubt he did it? Does anyone doubt that people stare at him thinking exactly that and that he knows they are staring?
And just how twisted will the investigation have to be before its safe for any loyal Bushy to go to Europe?
Unlike us these are all rich and powerful people they like to think they are liked by everyone except a few crazy people of course who don’t get it.
Being linked to a murder is common bribery is so chic! Not being believed about the Murder even by your own suggests you are common and are not respected.
The rich live in a world we have trouble imagining.

So drones won’t attack Iran then? Not that I want them to or that I want any other country to get nuclear tech.

Thought experiment: who would have made the worst VP, Cheney or Lieberman?

Cheney of course was the real President:)

I think they are a tie under a strong man they both follow orders as long as you double check ever side deal they do your fine but under a weak man they both try and run the show.

My Q was really just a statement to slam Lieberman. They are very different people and it’s impossible to tell what would have happened if W had not been, at least nominally, at the top.

Slamming Holy Joe is going to very popular again. I recall reading somewhere Joe is openly talking about filibustering healthcare.
Now Harry has to defend making him head of Homeland security. Harry has to defend himself if healthcare fails.

Please pardon an uneducated question but does that mean that whoever is piloting the plane can tell via instruments that the invaded country is “locked ‘n loaded” on them flying in or near their airspace?

edited to remove term sometimes considered inappropriate at the Lake

Drones would have a difficult time evading Irans air defenses.

Off Topic:

“Bill in PA” has died:

http://whitenoiseinsanity.com/2009/12/14/bill-in-pa-has-died/

I got an email last night from his daughter telling me he had died on November 19th.

Just thought I’d share since he talked over here on FDL for a long time too. :-)

-Jo Lie no longer aspires to be vp; he has everything he needs to be prez;-see?
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/18714

Attaturk, the Bush Regime suicided a lot of people over the years, so it’s not surprising George’s Poodle was doing the same thing!

Please tell the family I am sorry for their loss.

See the link in Dru’s 50.

all depends on who was president, since bush refused his job cheney was able to act on his fantasys

joe would have had gore, not too much he could have done behind gore’s back

I will TCU! I’m hoping his daughter checks Bill’s emails again so she will know that FDL misses him too. :-)

So Joe already thinks he is President. Good this was not our doing and there is no way we can get blamed for this.
Harry and Obama have to take him down if they hope to be relevant if anything we warned them.

I wish we could get a concerted effort going to pressure our senators to remove Joe Liarman from his committee assignments. Let him switch to the rethug party. I am sure the teabaggers will give him a warm welcome.

interesting;

while bush/cheney remains teflon blair is facing some serious discomfort;

Outraged Brits want Blair prosecuted for war crimes

good reading

“Mr Blair’s game-changing admission gives them a licence to be tougher and more prosecutorial,” he wrote, a call echoed by campaigners at Stop the War Coalition, who urged Chilcot’s inquiry to recommend legal action against Blair.

I wonder, and here’s some food for thought;

if blair goes down, does hi take bush with him?

my problem with all this;

this is old news, it was broken when they released the official government documents from downing street

why are they upset now and not then?

why are they upset now and not then?

Because it turned out badly.

How terribly sad……and how kind of his daughter to let you know. He must have been at the Lake quite some time ago b/c I don’t remember his moniker (or may be we just never crossed paths on the same thread)…….or may be my memory simply suxxxxxxx. *g*

Amy Goodman is doing her usual excellent job (reporting from Copenhagen) and just showed a clip of someone whose name I didn’t catch making a nicely snarkish comment about it being a shame that reform on climate change has to wait on *some* US senators. *G*

Off to help the local beautification club dig weeds/pick up trash/deadhead flowers in one of the small planting beds we maintain. Y’all have a good day!

didn’t it turn out badly about one month after bush declared victory?

Hopefully his daughter will check Bill’s emails again to see our response!

I’m old enough to remember the screw up the Cheney/Rummy crew did to Jimmy Carter. Poor Carter, he ordered and helped plan the rescue of Americans from the Allatoya Komeni. However, the dark side ordered the CIA and military to muck it up until after the election.

This clandestine outting stuff has been going on for years. The Mafia has either accepted Cheney and crew or they took lessons.

I don’t consider myself a paranoid conspiracy theorists, but two unsolved mysteries have haunted me since the beginning. The first was the Anthrax attack, the authors of which cannot be located despite the identification of the source of the spores; the second was David Kelly’s death. He is reported to have telephoned Judith Miller (with whom he was acquainted through her ‘work’ on biological weapons)that he fearted for his life. The knife with which he allegedly cut his wrists did not carry any of his finger prints. It seems unlikely he was wearing gloves, given the circumstances. I have always believed he was murdered. The stakes were so high, that no government, not excluding the British, could afford to have a single man stand in its way, given that the solution to the problem was so easy.

I am not hopeful about the chances of the investigation getting to the bottom of Kelley’s murder. It starts too high up.

Here is another link to the foreign press reports on Iran’s work on a nuclear triggering mechanism:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6955351.ece

There will be another big terrorist attack since they are all false flags when they are complex and big.

There will be be an escalation of the war on terror.

They will open up the Iran and Pakistan fronts.

Do we have enough puppets?

Word!

Shut off your television. Your brain will thank you.