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Thursday, February 3, 2005 |
CommonDreams: "After a year of near-constant revelations and allegations, the controversy over the use of torture in the war on terror is reaching its crucial moment in the Senate debate over whether to confirm Alberto Gonzales as attorney general. If Gonzales is confirmed, which appears likely, the Bush administration is likely to claim that Congress has given a firm mandate for its interrogation policies, just as President Bush said his re-election victory in November was a new mandate for his policies on Iraq."
CounterPunch: "The New Republic has stooped to a new low, publishing a piece that calls for violence, torture, and even death for leading leftists who dare oppose Bush's war on terror and the slaughter in Iraq.
Author Tom Frank described sitting in on an anti-war panel sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, the Washington Peace Center, the DC Anti-War Network and other groups.
After having heard the 100 plus attendees cheer sentiments like 'Money for Jobs and Education Not For War and Occupation', Frank became so riled up, he unloaded a deranged harangue about the suffering he would like to rain upon people daring to organize against this war.
Frank writes, 'What I needed was a Republican like Arnold [Schwarzenegger] who would walk up to [Goff] and punch him in the face'.
Later, when Wolf quoted Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy's defense of the right to resist, Frank was sent into such a state of panic, he once again dreamed of the mighty hand of state repression, writing, 'Maybe sometimes you just want to be on the side of whoever is more likely to take a bunker buster to Arundhati Roy'."
What a pathetic bunch of criminals the GOP has as members.
12:32:49 PM 
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