Editor and Publisher Can you believe that?! Christ! What does it take? Also, it turns out Americans oppose our government's use of torture and the "redefinition" of the Geneva Conventions. And only 42% feel that the terrorist threat to the U.S. would increase if we left Iraq right now. ---------------------------------------------------- In other news, Hillary Clinton is a communist.

From the new American Conservative, October 9, issue, Deep Background by Philip Giraldi, retired CIA officer. It is not available online but here is the text: THE WHITE HOUSE HAS OVERCOME RESISTANCE FROM THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF AND HAS ORDERED PLANS TO ATTACK IRAN AFTER THE NOVEMBER CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS. President Bush has made it clear, both publicly and privately, that Iran will not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapons capability and that he intends to take direct action, whatever...

Jim Bovard explains why I hate John McCain so much: "The key players in the U.S. Senate have agreed with the Bush administration to retroactively legalize torture by U.S. government agents. The compromise deal struck yesterday will block prosecution for CIA officials who tortured detainees since 9/11.

This time from the Nation - and this refers to different ships than the RawStory report from yesterday and the Time report from the day before that. "As reports circulate of a sharp debate within the White House over possible US military action against Iran and its nuclear enrichment facilities, The Nation has learned that the Bush Administration and the Pentagon have issued orders for a major "strike group" of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser,...

I hate John McCain.

Lew: "Daniel Ellsberg will be on the Colbert Report tonight; he also has an important article in the new Harper's, calling on insiders to resign and tell the truth to the press and the public about Bush's planned aggression against Iran and any other country he may be targeting." My interview of Dan Ellsberg here.

Hell man I don't know. I'm not sure Jim Lobe knows either, but he does know which facts to weigh in his analysis. Also, check out this one from the Times: Ahmadinejad goes to the Council of Foreign Relations.

Larisa Alexandrovna RawStory Published: Thursday September 21, 2006 The Pentagon's top brass has moved into second-stage contingency planning for a potential military strike on Iran, one senior intelligence official familiar with the plans tells RAW STORY. The official, who is close to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking officials of each branch of the US military, says the Chiefs have started what is called "branches and sequels" contingency planning. "The JCS has accepted the...

Excerpt from Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback column, June 10 2003: It Takes a Village to Write a Hillary Book: Last year, TMQ pointed out that Hillary Rodham Clinton was lying when she claimed to be the author of "It Takes a Village," which was actually penned by a ghostwriter named Barbara Feinman Todd. Specifically, TMQ noted last year, "Hillary's official U.S. Senate biography states, 'In 1997, she wrote the best-selling book It Takes a Village.' This is an outright lie....

From Brian Williams interview of Ahmadinejad: Williams: And the American president says, "It's OK, keep your nuclear program to keep your homes warm. Stop enriching uranium toward weapons." How do you react? Ahmadinejad: Who is the judge for that? Any entity except for the IAEA?

Via Justin: The BBC has the video of Israeli soldiers training Kurds is preperation for war against Iran. Hersh reported it first here, Justin explained why it was "The Stab in the Back" here. Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi told me there were as many of 800 Israeli military intelligence officers in Kurdistan here.

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by William Norman Grigg September 12, 2006 In early August, about 300 Alaska-based soldiers of the 172nd Stryker Brigade, shortly after returning from Iraq, were ordered to return to Iraq immediately. Because of a bureaucratic bungle, the unit was not informed while in Iraq that its tour of duty had been extended. As a result, the soldiers and their families, relieved and grateful for their safe return, were torn apart once again without adequate time to prepare.Shortly thereafter the Bush...

Huh. Did I forget to blog about this? U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000 Paul Craig Roberts, when he isn't going off the deep end about 9/11, writes some pretty good stuff - such as in this case.

Well, no shit. RAWSTORY: British Army expert casts doubt on 'liquid explosives' threat, Al Qaeda network in UK Identified Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, has suggested that the police and government story about the "terror plot" revealed on 10th August was part of a "pattern of lies and deceit." British and American government officials have described the operation which resulting in the arrest of 24 mostly British Muslim suspects, as a...