so AG gonzo threatens to resign. [my reaction: is that a threat or a promise?]
now rep darrell issa (r-ca) retaliates with a threat to impeach gonzo.
fun, huh?
20 hours ago
••can ye pass the acid test?•• ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it. time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?
I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded. … We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard of power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.
—edmund burke (1729-97)
• first, we must indict our leaders for the war crime of aggression, prosecute them, convict them, sentence them, and carry out the sentence. if we don't trust our legal system to act forthrightly and impartially, we should turn them over to the international criminal court.that's all. nothing to it.
• second, we must end the charade of saddam hussein's trial and turn him over to the ICC.
• third, we must admit our invasion of iraq was illegal, submit to the authority of the UN security council, tell them we are ready to withdraw our troops, and comply with their recommendations.
Jackson closed with a cautionary tale, relaying a conversation he had with a prospective advertising contractor.You're probably not too surprised to hear that. Frankly, neither am I. And that's the problem.
"He had made every effort to get a contract with HUD for 10 years," Jackson said of the prospective contractor. "He made a heck of a proposal and was on the (General Services Administration) list, so we selected him. He came to see me and thank me for selecting him. Then he said something...he said, 'I have a problem with your president.'
"I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I don't like President Bush.' I thought to myself, 'Brother, you have a disconnect--the president is elected, I was selected. You wouldn't be getting the contract unless I was sitting here. If you have a problem with the president, don't tell the secretary.'
"He didn't get the contract," Jackson continued. "Why should I reward someone who doesn't like the president, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the president? Logic says they don't get the contract. That's the way I believe."
"Just as interesting was Jackson's follow-on statement in which shows his understanding of how government contracting works: political supporters get contracts so they can pump a percentage of the profits back into the political party. Standard machine politics, at best. Organized bribery, at worst. And whatever you want to call it, the guiding principle of all contracting and government spending in the second Bush administration."That's exactly right. And Jackson isn't the only example of this entrenched Republican corruption. Bush's Republican procurement chief--the man in charge of spending huge sums of taxpayer dollars--was arrested and charged with conspiracy in the evolving scandals associated with Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Nobody likes a guy who says "I told you so." And inside the Bush administration it's also a truism that nobody likes Colin Powell.
So the former Secretary of State won no new friends in the White House when he revealed that he had counseled President Bush to raise troop levels prior to the 2003 invasion, saying, "I made the case to General Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I was not sure we had enough troops. And so the case was made, it was listened to, it was considered..." Then Powell sighed and added, "It was laughed at, it was called retarded, it was scrawled in feces on my office door."
the best way to prevent war is to be prepared for war,but today i saw a bumper sticker that said
you can't simultaneously prevent war and prepare for it.so which is it?
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