Archive for May, 2009

A million dollar bounty on Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Blair – Scoop.co.nz

Sunday, May 31st, 2009
A million dollar bounty on Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Blair
Scoop.co.nz, New Zealand
As the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal stated: “To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime – differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within it the accumulated evil of all

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SO ANGRY, MUST TYPE: Obama disappoints with Bush-era policies – Daily Aztec

Sunday, May 31st, 2009
SO ANGRY, MUST TYPE: Obama disappoints with Bush-era policies
Daily Aztec, CA
Let me repeat that: For the vast majority of the prisoners that we are currently designating “terrorists,” the military has proven incapable of producing even enough evidence to go to trial, much less convict them of a crime.
OBAMA 100: Trop Beau. Ce Président!Center for Research on Globalization
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Bellevue abortion provider: Killers aren't Christians, they're … – Omaha World-Herald

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Times Online
Bellevue abortion provider: Killers aren't Christians, they're
Omaha World-Herald, NE
Carole Joffe, a sociology professor at the University of California at Davis, said the worst period of violence against abortion providers was during President Bill Clinton's tenure, and attacks dwindled under President George W. Bush.
Video: Abortion Doc Gunned Down at ChurchThe Associated Press
Famous Abortion Doctor Murdered at Kansas Church, Suspect ArrestedPolitics Daily
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A Tale of Two Vice Presidents – Daily Beast

Sunday, May 31st, 2009
A Tale of Two Vice Presidents
Daily Beast, NY
Today, if Cheney were put on trial the results would likely repeat: If he were tried for war crimes, which he most assuredly could be according to US law, he would be acquitted for fear that a conviction would be too tumultuous for the nation to endure

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New Legal Battle Begins in Gitmo Detainee Trials- Trial Looms for U.S. Suspect in Alleged Jihad Plot (Fox News)

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A session of the Guantanamo war crimes court that began Sunday will likely show the difficulties President Obama faces in changing the system and closing the prison by January.

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Transitioning to the back bench – OregonLive.com

Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Transitioning to the back bench
OregonLive.com, OR
by Mike Francis, The Oregonian Dept. of DefenseAfter some New York Times stories on Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon were awarded the Pulitzer Prize this winter, former Pentagon spokesman J. Dorrance Smith dismissed them as works of fiction.
Busted, Pentagon: Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Huffington Post
Why the Pentagon Is Probably Lying About its Supressed Sodomy and AlterNet
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Gail Vida Hamburg: President Obama’s “Spock” Rationale On Iraq War Investigation Untenable (The Huffington Post)

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

The President’s refusal to investigate the Bush administration’s policies and actions relating to the Iraq War is the embodiment of Vulcan logic — free from messy human emotions and moral obligation.

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Readers Write for Monday, June 1 – Minneapolis Star Tribune

Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Readers Write for Monday, June 1
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
You and the Lefts in this country continue to accuse the Bush Administration of war crimes and killing innocent lives, maybe you should … read more talk to the families of the people who were killed by Saddam and his bunch and there are problaby more

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Rosalea Barker: Post 47 – Scoop.co.nz

Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Rosalea Barker: Post 47
Scoop.co.nz, New Zealand
One million dollars was offered on May 30 at 2:58 pm PST by Dr Jurgen Todenhofer, former member of the German parliament, former judge and honorary Colonel of the US Army, to the one: who brings George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Tony

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Will Obama End ‘War on Drugs’? (consortiumnews.com)

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Editor’s Note: President Barack Obama has shied away from George W. Bush’s phrase “war on terror” and also is abandoning Richard Nixon’s earlier phrasing “war on drugs,” but are these changes much more than semantics?

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