How bad a job do you have to do, as a prosecutor, and as a Justice Department, to fail to execute a September 11 conspirator?
For a pro-death penalty administration, I’d say pretty bad.
Zacarias Moussaoui will have no cake walk. He will spend life in prison, in a seven foot wide cell, with a cement and mattress bed. And, he wanted to be executed; to become a martyr to Islam, or a distorted version that inspired 911 type blood-lust.
But let’s face it, the dude was supposed to die. This was 911, the modern Pearl Harbor, and the only conviction was a knuckle-head who missed the whole show. He was probably left behind by the real hijackers when they saw what a numbskull he was.
We know the Bush Administration wanted blood, but they muffed it. When they illegally prepped witnesses, witnesses crucial to the prosecution’s case, and got caught, they threw away any chance of a death sentence.
How lame does your Department of Justice have to be to fail to get the conviction you want from an idiot like Moussaoui?
Well, they do have some other terrorists in custody. Ones that would make an even better trial. But they can’t even convict these guys, let alone fry them. It seems that, while in military custody, these men were tortured, illegally. All of the relevant info they spilled is inadmissible in court.
How lame does your Attorney General have to be to sign off on the torturing of prisoners?
And Osama? He is free to make videos at will. We know generally where he is, summering and wintering between our heroin exporting ally Afghanistan, and our nuclear-armed and thug-run ally Pakistan. We apparently don’t have time to track him down, though. We are too busy killing people in Iraq, and preparing for nuclear war with Iran.
How lame does a president have to be to get it all so wrong?
And, how lame are we? Are we going to hand the keys to Hell’s elevator to this president by electing him another Republican congress? If not, are we going to check the Democrats by defeating incumbents like Lieberman, and Maria Cantwell, and other Administration apologists?
We, the voters will be the lamest of all if we don’t get busy in the primary season, and let our Democrats know that we just don’t want a change of parties, we want a change of government. We want a real democracy, real representation of our districts and our interests.
How lame will we be if we vote Republican, or for conservative Democrats? We will be the lamest of all. And will deserve exactly what we get.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Nuclear Follies!
According to Seymour Hersh, New Yorker Magazine columnist, the United States is planning to attack Iran, and part of the plan includes nuclear weapons. Boy, if that isn’t the icing on the cake of Bush Mideast policy.
But, before we all get our panties in a twist, consider a few things:
1. Seymour Hersh is an outstanding journalist, with great sources, but has been a critic of the Bush administration for years. This is not like a revelation from Lou Dobbs.
2. Military planning should, and I’m sure does include all contingencies, from doing nothing, to evaporating entire countries.
3. Iran, although it certainly has legitimate gripes with the US and our policies, has issued some pretty inflammatory statements through its leaders, including the destruction of our ally, Israel.
4. Only an absolute idiot would drop an atomic bomb, especially in the Middle East.
Oops, wait a minute. We do have an idiot in charge of our nukes.
Hersh is no fan of the Administration, and he has made this clear in his writing over the last few years. He criticized the Iraq war from soon after the beginning, writing scathing columns about prison abuse and failed policy. But he does, after many years in the business, have good sources.
And what his sources say, according to his radio interview on NPR, is that the “brass” in the Pentagon tried to get the nuclear option taken out of the Iran contingency plans (because, it’s sheer lunacy to even consider), and Bush and Cheney said “no!” They want to threaten Iran with Nukes, and have them available for use.
Wait a minute. Available for use? Seriously?
In spite of Hersh’s anti-Administration reporting, this should scare the hell out of anyone who doesn’t want Doomsday to arrive in the 2006 tax-reporting period. Dropping a nuclear bomb in the Middle East would be, well…like dropping a nuclear bomb in the Middle East! It would be among the worst things that anyone could contemplate, if you chart out the consequences.
First, our “bomb them, kill them, and they will love us and embrace democracy” strategy has been a horrible failure in Iraq. Especially when we didn’t make the lights, water and sewers work again after we destroyed their country. It hasn’t escaped the notice of most rational people that our Mideast strategy has turned most of he world against us. Nuking Iran would make us the pariahs of the globe – sub-North Korea in standing.
Second, although we think the President of Iran is loony, nuking his country would legitimize his lunacy. The Zionist plots of infidels would have come to fruition, and no measures taken in revenge would be enough. 911 times ten, and an entire world of people that will tell us “well, you did ask for it.” The most west leaning of the Muslims will be opening terrorist training camps in response.
Finally, dropping a nuke anywhere will be letting the genie out of the bottle. If we were to use a nuke as a first-strike option, what’s to stop Israel, or Pakistan, or China, or North Korea from flinging nukes whenever they think it suits their national interest? Whoever drops a nuke first in the 21st century will not be the last. They will just get the ball rolling – the fireball that sweeps across the globe.
Great! Just what we want. Fiery, nuclear annihilation, and we will have started it.
I guess we should get our panties in a twist, a big twist. Our President is just messianic enough, just arrogant enough, just enough of an idiot to use a nuke in the Middle East. And since we elected him, we will bear some of the responsibility. Remember this at the polls in November. Remember to vote in a congress that will check the lunacy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Yikes!
But, before we all get our panties in a twist, consider a few things:
1. Seymour Hersh is an outstanding journalist, with great sources, but has been a critic of the Bush administration for years. This is not like a revelation from Lou Dobbs.
2. Military planning should, and I’m sure does include all contingencies, from doing nothing, to evaporating entire countries.
3. Iran, although it certainly has legitimate gripes with the US and our policies, has issued some pretty inflammatory statements through its leaders, including the destruction of our ally, Israel.
4. Only an absolute idiot would drop an atomic bomb, especially in the Middle East.
Oops, wait a minute. We do have an idiot in charge of our nukes.
Hersh is no fan of the Administration, and he has made this clear in his writing over the last few years. He criticized the Iraq war from soon after the beginning, writing scathing columns about prison abuse and failed policy. But he does, after many years in the business, have good sources.
And what his sources say, according to his radio interview on NPR, is that the “brass” in the Pentagon tried to get the nuclear option taken out of the Iran contingency plans (because, it’s sheer lunacy to even consider), and Bush and Cheney said “no!” They want to threaten Iran with Nukes, and have them available for use.
Wait a minute. Available for use? Seriously?
In spite of Hersh’s anti-Administration reporting, this should scare the hell out of anyone who doesn’t want Doomsday to arrive in the 2006 tax-reporting period. Dropping a nuclear bomb in the Middle East would be, well…like dropping a nuclear bomb in the Middle East! It would be among the worst things that anyone could contemplate, if you chart out the consequences.
First, our “bomb them, kill them, and they will love us and embrace democracy” strategy has been a horrible failure in Iraq. Especially when we didn’t make the lights, water and sewers work again after we destroyed their country. It hasn’t escaped the notice of most rational people that our Mideast strategy has turned most of he world against us. Nuking Iran would make us the pariahs of the globe – sub-North Korea in standing.
Second, although we think the President of Iran is loony, nuking his country would legitimize his lunacy. The Zionist plots of infidels would have come to fruition, and no measures taken in revenge would be enough. 911 times ten, and an entire world of people that will tell us “well, you did ask for it.” The most west leaning of the Muslims will be opening terrorist training camps in response.
Finally, dropping a nuke anywhere will be letting the genie out of the bottle. If we were to use a nuke as a first-strike option, what’s to stop Israel, or Pakistan, or China, or North Korea from flinging nukes whenever they think it suits their national interest? Whoever drops a nuke first in the 21st century will not be the last. They will just get the ball rolling – the fireball that sweeps across the globe.
Great! Just what we want. Fiery, nuclear annihilation, and we will have started it.
I guess we should get our panties in a twist, a big twist. Our President is just messianic enough, just arrogant enough, just enough of an idiot to use a nuke in the Middle East. And since we elected him, we will bear some of the responsibility. Remember this at the polls in November. Remember to vote in a congress that will check the lunacy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Yikes!
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