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Thursday, September 9, 2004 |
SFGate: "Costa Rica's highest court ruled that the United States cannot name this pacifist Central American country as one of its coalition partners in Iraq, and the government was preparing a letter Thursday asking Washington to remove it from the list."
Will the White House change the list? They didn't change that Freudian slip either.
9:11:55 PM 
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CommonDreams: "An enormous head of steam has built up behind the view that President Putin is somehow the main culprit in the grisly events in North Ossetia.
There have been numerous editorials encouraging us to understand - to quote the Sunday Times - the 'underlying causes' of Chechen terrorism (usually Russian authoritarianism), while the widespread use of the word 'rebels' to describe people who shoot children shows a surprising indulgence in the face of extreme brutality.
On closer inspection, it turns out that this so-called 'mounting criticism' is in fact being driven by a specific group in the Russian political spectrum - and by its American supporters. The leading Russian critics of Putin's handling of the Beslan crisis are the pro-US politicians Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Ryzhkov - men associated with the extreme neoliberal market reforms which so devastated the Russian economy under the west's beloved Boris Yeltsin - and the Carnegie Endowment's Moscow Center."
Gateway: "Ilyas Akhmadov, one of Chechnya's separatist leaders, has officially been granted asylum in the United States, RIA Novosti has learnt from the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, co-chaired by former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and former US secretary of state Alexander Hague.
According to the committee, the decision on granting asylum to Akhmadov was taken by an immigration court in Boston, Massachusetts, which was immediately appealed by the US government. 'The appeal has now been rejected and the decision on granting asylum is now final,' the committee said.
The committee confirmed that not long ago Akhmadov was appointed to a post at the US non-governmental foundation National Endowment for Democracy and now plans to move to Washington for permanent residence and work."
12:21:07 PM
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The Bush zealots are taking it a bit too far. Etan was declared a terrorist for taking some pictures.
Oh, how I would like to have a go at Bush like The Mirror does.
"This is the great thing about rabid fundamentalism. You really just don't have to give a damn." And Bush doesn't give a damn. The principle of Bush's support is simple.
We can make fun of the depravation of the GOP, but they call the shots (literally).
We know that elections can be rigged with uncertified software. We know about Bush's history of lies and cheats. Each day the list grows with new facts: "In August 1973, President Bush's superior officer in the Texas Air National Guard wrote a memorandum complaining that the commanding general wanted him to 'sugar coat' an annual officer evaluation for First Lieutenant Bush, even though Bush had not been at the base for the year in question, according to new documents obtained and broadcast last night by CBS News."
SFGate: "Addressing questions that have lingered for years, newly unearthed memos state that George W. Bush failed to meet standards of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war, that he refused a direct order and that his superiors were in a state of turmoil over how to evaluate his performance after he was suspended from flying."
I have added a new site to my links, with the latest on Bush and the elections: The Bush Presidency.
Update Sept. 10: Some sources "are pointing out that those memos are typed in a proportional font, Times Roman, and such typography would have been unusual (though not totally impossible) in the early '70s".
Well, that is not really conclusive, is it? The memos look genuine to me, and they certainly tell the truth. Already in 2000 there was information telling us the same thing. Bush was grounded.
11:12:44 AM
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