Monday, December 11, 2006

THE WHITE HOUSE TURKEYS WashingtonPost: "A top Air Force lawyer who served at the White House and in a senior position in Iraq turns out to have been practicing law for 23 years without a license. Col. Michael D. Murphy was most recently commander of the Air Force Legal Operations Agency at Bolling Air Force Base in the District. He was the general counsel for the White House Military Office from December 2001 to January 2003, and from August 2003 to January 2005. In between those tours, he was the legal adviser to the reconstruction effort in Iraq, an Air Force spokesman said." This is symbolic for the whole Bush administration: fraud and incompetence. Have a look at what the Foist Family is doing for their country. 12:03:42 PM

IT'S STILL THE OIL, STUPID LATimes: "While the Bush administration, the media and nearly all the Democrats still refuse to explain the war in Iraq in terms of oil, the ever-pragmatic members of the Iraq Study Group share no such reticence. The report makes visible to everyone the elephant in the room: that we are fighting, killing and dying in a war for oil. It states in plain language that the U.S. government should use every tool at its disposal to ensure that American oil interests and those of its corporations are met. All told, the Iraq Study Group has simply made the case for extending the war until foreign oil companies - presumably American ones - have guaranteed legal access to all of Iraq's oil fields and until they are assured the best legal and financial terms possible." 11:58:21 AM

DIME OnlineJournal: "It's been almost five months since the first report that Israeli drone aircraft have been dropping a 'mystery weapon' on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Since then, news media around the world have run stories depicting the strange and horrific wounds inflicted by the new bomb. Combined with photographs of the victims and testimony from attending doctors, this evidence points to the use of Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME). DIME is an LCD ('low collateral damage') weapon developed at the US Air Force Research Laboratory. Publicly, it is slated for initial deployment in 2008. DIME bombs produce an unusually powerful blast within a relatively small area, spraying a superheated 'micro-shrapnel' of powdered Heavy Metal Tungsten Alloy (HMTA). Scientific studies have found that HMTA is chemically toxic, damages the immune system, rapidly causes cancer, and attacks DNA (genotoxic)." 11:49:15 AM

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