Free Iraq

Wonderfully, some people make me proud to be part of the human race ! ! !
Video (4 min), Talking About a Revolution

Pssssst!! -
"Muslims didn't do it."
"Muslims didn't do it."
"Muslims didn't do it."
"Muslims didn't do it."
(Got it? Repeat after me: . . . . )
 

The World Sees America in the Dock: The Pentagon's decision this week to seek the death penalty for six men it accuses of the 9/11 attacks, and to try them under the hugely disputed version of military courts that it has devised, is one of the stupidest mistakes that the Bush Administration has made.

Everything about Guantanamo is an affront to the values the US says it is defending in the War on Terror. The principle of holding hundreds of people there without charge, for years; the fluid rules of the “military commissions” used for the very few who will be tried; the torture that the Administration acknowledges has been practised on these six: all these are an assault on the US Constitution.
 

Rabbis for Human Rights targets Gaza blockade
 

STOP PRESS -
Defense Secretary Robert Gates breaks right shoulder in fall on icy step
 

I find it ironic, and just, that Gates in now enduring torture by the forces of nature.

There may be a select group of rich WASPs, with big guns, ruling the earth with fear, but it's reassuring to know that there is a higher power that does/will rebuke such evil men...
 

FAIR TRIAL
 

McCain Votes Against Waterboarding Ban
 

Cindy Sheehan in Egypt for Islamists
 

Video, This is What A Police State Looks Like
 

Michael -
You say it with a flair for diplomacy that I couldn't muster ! ! !
 

Uncontrollable Psychological Reasons: Wait...you're telling me that a young man, when his country was invaded by foreigners, got angry? And then when they killed his brothers, he became even madder? And he wanted revenge on the people who'd done it?
 

Bombing of the Ameriyah Shelter Baghdad - A Night of Infamy: 2008-02-13 | This night of the 13th/14th February marks one of infamy. The seventeenth anniversary of the bombing of the Ameriyah Shelter in Baghdad, by the United States, incinerating up to fifteen hundred souls, the majority children and women. The full number has never been established as the register was destroyed in the inferno. With the 1991 carpet bombing at its height, it is known the Shelter was especially full. With its normality of showers, washing machines, a large communal kitchen and generators to operate them - and electricity off all over Baghdad - women and children went there to prepare for the feast of Eid the following day. The night of the bombing was also the eve of Saint Valentine's Day and that of the anniversary of the fire bombing of Dresden.

Three days before the Shelter bombing, Dick Cheney, and General Colin Powell visited the Air base at Khamis Mushat, Saudia Arabia (slogan: “bombs are us” and “we live so others may die”). After a pep talk to troops, they both signed two thousand pound bombs: “To Saddam with fond regards”, wrote Cheney (“A General's War”, General Bernard Traynor and Michael Gordon, Little Brown, p324.)

A frantic investigation confirmed that their bombs had not hit the Shelter - and also confirm, then as now, how expendable precious souls are, to those in high places.

Lest we forget earlier crimes of enormity in Iraq.
 

Gangster state: Is there a real difference between a criminal state and a criminal individual? Is there a difference between classical gangsters and armed robbers who hold-up people and steal their money at gunpoint, and a state, which claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East and a light upon the nations of the world, that commits very much the same crime?

On Monday, 11 February, and in broad day light, Israeli occupation soldiers raided dozens of homes, money changers and businesses throughout the West Bank after ordering “forces” answerable to Palestinian “Authority” Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to stay indoor until a further notice.

Raiding homes and businesses and stealing money is not the only gangsterly behavior of the Israeli state. This week, the Israeli Minister of Interior instructed the police to arrest several Palestinians in East Jerusalem for daring to appeal to the Israeli High Court to order a halt to the bulldozing of ancient Muslim archeological sites adjacent to the Aqsa Mosque.

The appellants violated no law and were only exercising their right to seek redress and justice.

However, the Israeli state apparently saw that “justice and redress” were too much of a luxury for non-Jews. This is the very same state whose “Justice” system last week ruled that there was no sufficient ground for indicting a number of crack policemen who had murdered 13 Israeli Arab citizens in October, 2000, during a demonstration against Israeli atrocities in the West Bank.

A Zionist genocide, partial or complete, of Palestinians, especially in Gaza, can’t be ruled out. There is simply nothing that would prevent these modern Nazis from emulating their former tormentors who also happened to be their ultimate mentors.

We are talking after all about a strange breed of psychopaths, not unlike Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Genrich Yagoda and Lazar Kaganovitch and other mass murderers who all committed their crimes while pretending to serve legitimate human purposes. They are capable of doing the unthinkable.