Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith etc. lied us into a disasterous war. Says William Arkin: It was in particular his response to questions about his criticism of the intelligence shop set up by Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith, though, where Hayden provided a glimmer of insight and hope about a better future. Feith

Come to find out, that sick killer, Bill Clinton is in town. I'm splittin' to Dallas...

Some may not realize that the Bush Regime has started two wars it can't win. Afghanistan has yet to submit to the Awesome Power

Retired Colonel Sam Gardiner lays it out for Steve Soto at the Left Coaster: "I. Period of Building Pressure: This could be 60 days or even six months in which the US and European leaders continue to talk to their publics on the failure of the Iranians to comply with "the wishes of the international community." There will be talk and work on sanctions but those, will be for the purpose of building US and international support; they will not be done with any hope of changing Iranian behavior....

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Brian Doherty from Reason explains to the readers of the LA Times the destructive nature of America's domestic and international Drug War. "When drugs are outlawed, only outlaws deal drugs. If it weren't illegal, the sale of narcotics would be no more prone to violence and corruption than the sale of cola or cigarettes." Why isn't everyone a libertarian? This was the first issue that really woke me up to the irrationality and impunity associated with state power as a youth. It is also a...

There was a bunch of crap on the Austin, Texas (virtual) ballot Saturday. Proposition 1 proposed that every bit of city business be made public - including all the council's dealings with contractors and lobbyists and the results of investigations by the citizen's police oversite board, whose job it currently is to investigate police crimes and do nothing in secret. The editor of the Texas Monthly sent me some flyer in the mail warning me that Prop 1's enforcement would waste money badly...

They have lied us into war for the benefit of Israel and Iran (and have since lied about and plotted against the latter), killing who knows how many hundreds of thousands of people, turned the two-bit rapist nobody, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, into a new bin Laden, tortured and murdered with impunity [.pdf] at "ghost prisons" (some the actual gulags of the former Soviet Eastern Bloc), asserted the authority to nullify the Bill of Rights due to an undeclared war, kidnapped Americans and turned them...

By Arthur Silber "The tenacity of the Churchill myth is instructive: the kind of idolatry focused on Churchill (and Reagan, and several others similarly situated -- and even on Bush by his most ardent and self-blinded worshippers) reveals a gross kind of immaturity on the part of a distressingly large number of people. Without their Great Men to whom they can turn for protection in times of danger, they appear to feel utterly helpless and to believe they are doomed to destruction."

A million thank yous to Luke Ryland for the transcription: Sibel Edmonds, the Turkish FBI translator turned whistleblower who has been subjected to a gag order could provide a major insight into how neoconservatives distort US foreign policy and enrich themselves at the same time. On one level, her story appears straightforward: several Turkish lobbying groups allegedly bribed congressmen to support policies favourable to Ankara. But beyond that, the Edmonds revelations become more serpentine...