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Duh!
2 NovRetired judges call detainee law unconstitutional
Seven retired federal judges from both political parties have joined dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees in urging an appeals court to declare key parts of President Bush’s new anti-terrorism law unconstitutional.
The judges, in a rare court filing Wednesday, said stripping courts of the right to question how the military handles terrorism suspects “challenges the integrity of our judicial system” and effectively sanctions the use of torture.
Bush signed a law this month allowing the military to arrest people overseas and detain them indefinitely without allowing them to use the U.S. courts to contest their detention. Bush hailed the law, which established a system of military trials, as a crucial tool in the war on terrorism and said it would allow prosecution of several high-level terror suspects.
Stick a fork in him…
2 NovDuring a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to “the perpetuation of war crimes.”
Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who turned against the war, made the observations in answers to a 1972 candidate questionnaire from a Massachusetts peace group.
Iraq: This generation’s Vietnam
1 NovWhat Bush Has Wrought
Robert Scheer
Every time I hear President Bush railing against those who would “cut and run” in Iraq instead of pursuing “victory,” as he does almost daily, I think back to similar claims being made for the Vietnam debacle when I reported from Saigon in the mid-’60s. Back then, the US troop presence was lower and casualties fewer than now in Iraq, but the carnage, on all sides, would escalate for the next decade, as we waited miserably for the corner to be turned.
Kerry steps on his d***
31 OctSo Kerry either really blew the line, or his speech writers need to spend some time in the rack. Nobody could read that line before actually delivering it without realizing how it WOULD be misunderstood. Even if he did miss reading the punch line (“Just ask President Bush.”) Did he really think that no one would take it out of context?
Stay the course?
31 OctA new course on ‘staying the course’
BY LEONARD PITTS JR.
‘The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. `Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ ” — from 1984 by George Orwell
“I’m here to tell you we’re going to stay the course.” — George W. Bush, Nov. 28, 2003
Diebold source code for 2004 Maryland election compromised?
30 OctBaltimore Sun: Former delegate gets purported Diebold code
FBI is contacted over anonymous package
An Aging Trans Woman 