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Monday, January 8, 2007 |
AlterNet: "The new Democratic Congress will likely subpoena documents that the White House may refuse to hand over - if that happens, we may witness a struggle that puts our democratic republic on the brink.
While the November elections provided the Democratic Party a public mandate to end the war in Iraq, President Bush has signaled his intent to utilize his institutional powers as Commander in Chief to maintain and even escalate the U.S. commitment, public or congressional opinion notwithstanding. The Democratic leadership has removed two obvious ways to stop him - impeachment and a cutoff of war funds - from the table. Some Democrats have even indicated they will acquiesce in the sending of tens of thousands more troops to Iraq.
For those in Congress and the public whom acquiescence is not an option, there remains an indirect route to challenging Presidential war-making power and force withdrawal from Iraq. That is to so discredit the Administration in the eyes of the public that neither Republican politicians nor the military, the intelligence agencies, the foreign policy establishment, or the corporate elite will allow it to continue on its catastrophic course. That requires a devastating exposure of the criminality, corruption, stupidity, and false premises of those who are making the decisions."
The exposure of the criminality of the Bush regime has been the subject of this blog for years. It has been the subject of thousands and thousands of blogs.
The ultimate responsibility rests with the Democratic party. They should block Bush's illegal government and impeach him. If America goes down it will go down with the consent of cowardly Democrats like the Clintons.
Moreover, I think Saudi Arabia should put more pressure on America to solve the Palestinian problem. Peace in Palestine will pacify the whole region. And this would show clearly that if the US still wants Iran on its knees, it will be for the oil. Just like the US is tightening the screws on Iran, Saudi Arabia should tighten the screws on the US now that they have the ability to do so.
11:22:36 AM 
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Independent: "Iraq's massive oil reserves, the third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days.
The US government has been involved in drawing up the law, a draft of which has been seen by The Independent on Sunday. It would give big oil companies such as BP, Shell and Exxon 30-year contracts to extract Iraqi crude and allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil interests in the country since the industry was nationalised in 1972."
11:10:15 AM
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BBC: "The US Army is to apologise to the families of officers killed or wounded in action who were sent letters urging them to return to active duty.
The letters were sent to more than 5,100 Army officers listed as recently having left the military.
But this figure included about 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in action."
That reminds me of Dead Souls by Gogol.
10:58:28 AM
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