FalloutStories related to 11 Sept 2001. |
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2/2/2006; 0:38:06 |
| NYT Endorses Kerry for President: |
| "There is no denying that this race is mainly about Mr. Bush's disastrous tenure. Nearly four years ago, after the Supreme Court awarded him the presidency, Mr. Bush came into office amid popular expectation that he would acknowledge his lack of a mandate by sticking close to the center. Instead, he turned the government over to the radical right." "We look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted. Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and again he chose the wrong course. We believe that with John Kerry as president, the nation will do better." -- New York Times 17 Oct, 2004 |
| Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences: |
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'This nation is about to embark upon the first test of a revolutionary doctrine applied in an extraordinary way at an unfortunate time. The doctrine of preemption -- the idea that the United States or any other nation can legitimately attack a nation that is not imminently threatening but may be threatening in the future -- is a radical new twist on the traditional idea of self defense. It appears to be in contravention of international law and the UN Charter. And it is being tested at a time of world-wide terrorism, making many countries around the globe wonder if they will soon be on our -- or some other nation's -- hit list.' -U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, Feb. 12, 2003 |
| On the road to losing the peace : |
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'It was bad enough for the U.S. to have endured the intelligence failures that led to Sept. 11; it's another thing to know that 18 months, billions of dollars and untold numbers of bombs later that Osama bin Laden and most of his top advisers remain on the loose. This failure ought to be thrown daily in Mr. Bush's face, but he has diverted attention to Iraq, where the United States is about to make a mistake of historic proportions.' -Jeffrey Simpson in The Globe and Mail, 18 Feb 2003 |
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This is a wonderful rant. Go read the article. One little quote from it doesn't do it justice.  < 5:57:14 PM>.Salon.com Politics | A Saddam connection? The central trail of evidence appears to show bin Laden's unquestionable complicity, but a second, subtler set of footprints may lead to Saddam's door < 5:54:01 PM>.Salon.com People | They live to give Yusuf Islam, the man the world knew as Cat Stevens before he left the pop music biz to devote himself to Islam, has stepped up to condemn last week's attacks. Islam, who caused a stir a few years back by appearing to endorse the fatwa against Salman Rushdie (he insists he was misunderstood), has issued a statement, posted on the fan site CatStevens.com, decrying last week's violence.
Phew. Dude was getting too weird on me there for a while. < 5:48:44 PM>.New York Loves America New York is not alone in suffering from a drop in tourists, of course. Airline vacation travel has stalled, and hotels and restaurants around the country have been deluged with cancellations. But for New York, the loss of so many visitors is like a second body blow coming at a time when the city needs help in returning to normal. Right now, New York is far too uncrowded for its own good. I was supposed to be at a convention this weekend in NYC. I got postponed to the Nov-Dec weekend. A lot of people have been thinking twice about going even then. I love New York. I want to be there. I just hope the US is not at war. It will be very hard to go there under those circumstances. < 5:44:40 PM>.Al-Ahram Weekly | Fall-out | Caught in the middle Cairo is urging caution and restraint to a hotheaded Washington, warning: look before you leap, write Nevine Khalil and Soha Abdelaty ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Egyptian officials did not miss the opportunity this week to promote their decade-old call for organising an international anti-terrorism conference as the best means of stamping out terrorism worldwide. Decade-old . . . . < 5:30:56 PM>.MS Denies Wingding Thing, Again The resultant collection of images -- which includes symbols for a skull and crossbones, a Star of David and a thumbs-up sign -- has led some to conjecture that the program contains a deliberate anti-Semitic message.
My goodness people are pretty spooked out there these days. < 5:18:55 PM>.IHT: In U.S. Media, Flags and Flag-Waving In between presenting straightforward reports - or even, like Mr. Rather, in interviews away from their news programs - anchors and correspondents have not hesitated to conduct the post-attack coverage primarily through the prism of U.S. patriotism. . Use of the pronouns "our" and "us" has been commonplace. . CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC have incorporated screen icons of waving, American flags. . And red, white and blue ribbons and flag pins have at times adorned the lapels of news anchors, including Brit Hume on the Fox News Channel and Tim Russert of NBC. . Critics say that, with such displays, they undermine their position as disinterested conveyors of news and can intensify public opinion in a way that could help push the American public into a war footing. This is a big problem. Very soon we'll have to start hearing some critical voices again. < 4:12:21 AM>.Japan Today Japan News - Bush tries to calm Canada down The United States sought to smooth Canada's ruffled feathers on Friday over President George W Bush's omission of the U.S. neighbor from a list of countries he thanked for offering anti-terrorism support.
Whoops. OK, I'm of two minds here. The first thought is "hello?!" The second thought is, what the heck. No need to be insecure about it. George ain't so bright. It slipped his mind perhaps. (In the age of the teleprompter?!). All the hand-wringing is related to anxiety about whether we think the American's find fault with Chrétien's response and the fact that before all this happened dubbya seemed unaware that Canada was their biggest trading partner. |
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