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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
EUObserver: "EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson is due to warn Chinese officials about the 'intolerable' trend of the country's rising exports to Europe, which is creating pressure for new protectionist measures to be introduced by Brussels."
Gee! And all the time I had thought capitalism was all about FREE trade, the FREE play of supply and demand and all that rot.
11:25:59 AM 
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It's not only the sheer stupidity of George W. Bush that is so exasperating. He is a usurper, a quack and a war criminal.
NYTimes: "President George W. Bush cannot order the military to indefinitely imprison a suspected al Qaeda operative, who is the only foreign national held in the United States as an 'enemy combatant', a court ruled on Monday."
Independent: "The head of the Royal Navy at the time of the Iraq invasion was so worried about the legality of the conflict that he sought his own private legal advice on justification for the war.
In the approach to the 2003 invasion, Lord Boyce, the Chief of Defence Staff, insisted that the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, provide an unequivocal written assurance that the invasion was lawful. He eventually received a two-line note from Lord Goldsmith on 14 March 2003 confirming the supposed legality of the war. It has since emerged that the Attorney General had twice changed his views on the matter prior to that note."
One word of advice to prince Harry: get out of the army as soon as possible, lad. You would make a fool of yourself if you continue this war gaming. It's not a computer game, you know! You've already made one gaffe too many. It's bad for Royalty.
SMH: "A former US Army torturer has described the traumatic effects of American interrogation techniques in Iraq - on their victims and on the perpetrators themselves.
Tony Lagouranis said he conducted mock executions, forced men and boys into agonising stress positions, kept suspects awake for weeks on end, used dogs to terrify prisoners and subjected others to hypothermia.
But he said he was deeply scarred by the realisation that what he did had contributed to the plight of US forces in Iraq."
Fair: "Reviewing the London-based anti-Iraq War play Fallujah, New York Times reporter Jane Perlez wrote (5/29/07), 'The denunciations of the United States are severe, particularly in the scenes that deal with the use of napalm in Fallujah, an allegation made by left-wing critics of the war but never substantiated.'
Unfortunately for the Times, which does make a pretense of objectivity, the U.S. government did use the modern equivalent of napalm in Iraq. In a 2003 interview in the San Diego Union-Tribune (8/5/03), Marine Col. James Alles described the use of Mark 77 firebombs on targets in Iraq, saying, 'We napalmed both those approaches'."
BNNetwork: "Former U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell says the prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba should immediately be closed.
He says it should be closed 'not tomorrow, but this afternoon'."
Bill Richardson: "Bill Richardson has a strong plan to end this war, bring ALL the troops home and start reconciliation in Iraq. But Congress must act now: de-authorize this war before the summer break.
I'm joining his call on Congress to end this war NOW. Don't wait until the fall. It is time to stand up to Bush now.
Article 1 of the US Constitution gives the Congress, not the President, the right to declare war. And the War Powers Act specifies that the President may not continue a war without Congressional authorization. In 2002 Congress passed a resolution authorizing the Iraq war because the administration claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and links to Al Qaeda.
Saddam is dead. There never were any WMDs or ties to Al Qaeda. The basis for the 2002 war authorization is gone."
I have said it before and I will say this again: Bush and Blair should be deposed and arrested for war crimes. In a proper democracy this would have been taken care of by the system of checks and balances. It's time for the Democrats to close ranks and depose the usurper.
11:19:51 AM
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