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Thursday, February 1, 2007 |
Mark Fiore with an animation about Dick Cheney.
AlterNet: "The good folks at PoliticsTV videotaped this Senate Judiciary Hearing on Congress's Constitutional Right to cut off funding for the war on Iraq.
There is no mealy-mouthed, namby-pamby speak here. In the Framers' brilliant design, Feingold says, Congress got the power of the purse, and the president got the power of the sword. They had the foresight to separate the two.
Of Cheney's recent pronouncement that Congress could not stop him and Bush from the War on Iraq, Feingold responded: 'In the United States of America the People are sovereign, NOT the president...'"
And I even know that the power to declare war is completely in the hands of the Congress as well.
Independent: "There are growing suspicions in Iraq that the official story of the battle outside Najaf between a messianic Iraqi cult and the Iraqi security forces supported by the US, in which 263 people were killed and 210 wounded, is a fabrication. The heavy casualties may be evidence of an unpremeditated massacre.
A picture is beginning to emerge of a clash between an Iraqi Shia tribe on a pilgrimage to Najaf and an Iraqi army checkpoint that led the US to intervene with devastating effect. The involvement of Ahmed al-Hassani (also known as Abu Kamar), who believed himself to be the coming Mahdi, or Messiah, appears to have been accidental.
The story emerging on independent Iraqi websites and in Arabic newspapers is entirely different from the government's account of the battle with the so-called 'Soldiers of Heaven', planning a raid on Najaf to kill Shia religious leaders."
Troops out now!
12:08:19 PM 
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