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by Jeff Davis

The Bush administration not only appointed the worst Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld; they appointed the worst UN ambassador, John Bolton. While there is considerable anxiety among patriotic Americans about the recent Democrat victories, one possible benefit is that the United States may be relieved of the embarrassment of having a certifiable lunatic as our ambassador to the United Nations.

CNN reports that the Senate is preparing to dislodge U.N. Ambassador John “Bonkers” Bolton from the office he has held by a recess appointement for the past 15 months. Bolton is so nuts that even a good many Republicans can’t stomach him. According to CNN: “A key Senate Republican has joined Democrats in opposing one of Bush’s initiatives for the lame-duck Congress: John Bolton’s nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. With leaders from both parties promising a new bipartisan Washington, Bush began efforts to get two of his most controversial decisions approved before the Democrats take over. Along with Bolton’s nomination, Bush said he would like to move forward on legislation to retroactively authorize the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program.” (Including the provisions immunizing himself and others among his neocon gang from prosecution for their criminal activities along the lines of illegal surveillance of American citizens.) “Bush said he would like to see action on both issues before year’s end,” In other words before the Democrats take power in Congress. Yeah, I bet he would. (more…)

by James Buchanan

Recently, a Muslim student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, was using a computer at Powell Library at UCLA. He refused to show his ID to campus police during a routine late night check. More police showed up and Mostafa reportedly provoked the police and ignored their instructions. The police then tasered him. The fact that someone made a video of the police shocking him suggests that it may have been a pre-planned incident. There are lots of far left organizations on campus who have nothing better to do than provoke incidents like this. His shouting about the “Patriot Act” added to the suspicion that the incident was pre-planned.

An L.A. Times article reports “According to a campus police report, the incident began when community service officers, who serve as guards at the library, began their nightly routine of checking to make sure everyone using the library after 11 p.m. is a student or otherwise authorized to be there. Campus officials said the long-standing policy was adopted to ensure students’ safety. When Tabatabainejad, 23, refused to provide his ID to the community service officer, the officer told him he would have to show it or leave the library, the report said. After repeated requests, the officer left and returned with campus police, who asked Tabatabainejad to leave “multiple times,” according to a statement by the UCLA Police Department. ‘He continued to refuse,’ the statement said. ‘As the officers attempted to escort him out, he went limp and continued to refuse to cooperate with officers or leave the building.’ Witnesses disputed that account, saying that when campus police arrived, Tabatabainejad had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack. When an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, the witnesses said, Tabatabainejad told the officer to let go, yelling ‘Get off me’ several times.”

First of all, Mostafa should not be in this country. Second of all, he’s an idiot. It’s just plain stupid to provoke police no matter what country you’re in. Perhaps he’s some spoiled brat from the Persian upper class and he thinks he can treat American police as if they’re servants, who showed up late with dinner. (more…)

by Paul Craig Roberts

Compared to the current Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami is regarded in Western foreign affairs circles as a moderate. When Khatami visited the U.S. in September, he called on the U.S. and Iran to stop verbally assaulting each other in the interest of dialogue that could build trust and eliminate the frictions between the two countries. Khatami said that the precondition for dialogue was “to eliminate the language of threat.”

In an attempt to “resolve conflicts by talking, rather than by aggression,” the venerable Scottish University of St. Andrews invited Khatami to the United Kingdom for an honorary degree, followed by a speech at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. However, a spanner was thrown into the works by two Iranian exiles who claim to have been unlawfully imprisoned and tortured in Iran during the period of Khatami’s presidency. Under Section 134 of Britain’s Criminal Justice Act of 1988, torture wherever committed in the world is criminal under British law and triable in the UK. Thus, Khatami might still be arrested as he tours the UK in the interest of opening communication.

If Khatami can be arrested in the UK for torture, how does British Prime Minister Tony Blair escape arrest for the torture of Afghans and Iraqis by coalition forces? Why are not U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Richard Cheney, and President George W. Bush arrested when they visit the UK? (more…)

by Jeff Davis

Can it be that we will actually see it on our television screens one day? The beautiful, wonderful sight that every decent human being on earth dreams of? Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and above all, George W. Bush, along with dozens of others from AIPAC and the neocon think tanks, all standing in a row in a courtroom, wearing orange jumpsuits and belly chains and placards with numbers around their necks?

Time Magazine thinks it might be possible: “Just days after his resignation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The plaintiffs in the case include 11 Iraqis who were prisoners at Abu Ghraib, as well as Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi held at Guantanamo, whom the U.S. has identified as the so-called “20th hijacker” and a would-be participant in the 9/11 hijackings.”

While a war crimes charge from a European court may seem like a trivial thing, which would only affect the travel plans of the neocons, it is much more important than that. We need something to jump start Congressional hearings on the cause of the Iraq War and on the torture scandal. If a European court actually convicts Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney and Bush of crimes against humanity and launching a war of aggression, then the meek individuals in the Democrat party will be pelted with millions of e-mails asking them why they don’t start a similar investigation right here in America. (more…)

by Paul Craig Roberts

Unless November’s new blood improves the Democratic Party’s civil liberties pedigree, the Democrats will have failed even before they are sworn in next January.

In its disregard for truth, public opinion, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, the U.S. Constitution, and statutory law, the Bush administration has been more of a regime than an administration. The Bush/Cheney executive branch has operated independently of all the constraints that provide accountability and prevent despotism.

The Bush regime was able to evade these restraints because Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and because Republicans wielded 9/11 as a weapon to forestall political opposition.

With signing statements and other unilateral declarations of presidential authority, the Bush regime asserted executive branch powers beyond the reach of Congress and the judiciary.

The Bush regime perpetrated a coup d’état against the Bill of Rights and the jurisdictions of Congress and the courts. Unless Democrats roll back this coup, Americans have seen the last of their civil liberties.

Judging by Democrats’ statements in the flush of their electoral victory, Democrats have little, if any, awareness of this critical fact. Democrats are anxious to get on with their agendas and have shown no recognition that the first order of business is to repeal the legislation that permits torture, warrantless detention, and domestic spying. (more…)

by Ian Mosley

The London Times has discovered that Israel is conducting a campaign to spread Zionist propaganda on the Internet and shut down websites which criticize Israel or Jews in general. This campaign has been carefully organized, staffed and paid for by the Israeli government–which means your tax dollars in action. Interestingly enough, like all such news, we have to look to the foreign press to learn about such matters. Not one whisper of this seems to have appeared anywhere in the American media.

More than a few patriotic, right wing websites have reported that strange individuals had appeared posting on their blogs in the months before the election blindly arguing in defense of Bush and the neocons. No amount of logic could persuade them that the US was headed for tyranny with Bush and the neocons in charge.

The prestigious Times of London reports that “Israel’s government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda.” (Read accurate media coverage of the atrocities Israel is committing against the indigenous people of the Middle East.) “The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages. In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special ‘megaphone’ software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.” (more…)

by Charles Coughlin

An impeachment would be a completely natural thing for an opposition party to do given the level of corruption that went on under the Bush regime. Many Democrats want revenge for the Clinton impeachment while others are genuinely outraged by an illegal war and six years of undermining the Constitution. During the election the Democrat leadership was shying away from talk about impeachment. (Pelosi even said it would not happen.) This may only have been a tactic so that Republican voters would not have that additional motivation to go to the polls to save Bush. Well, the elections are over and it will be interesting to see where things go now.

During the last six years of Republican control, there has been no serious investigation of the pre-war lies or even the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib because the Republicans controlled Congress. Without a majority it’s virtually impossible to launch an investigation of anything no matter how glaringly wrong it is. This lack of accountability has given many Americans the impression that nothing will ever be done and that Bush will never be impeached. Added to this is the fact that the Democrats have been thoroughly gutless and incompetent in recent years, lacking the aggressive spirit and organization necessary for an impeachment. Finally there are the wire-pullers behind the politicians: namely the Israeli Lobby and big business. While George Bush was an obedient stooge for Israel and Big Oil, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll protect him when he gets in trouble. The neocons have already slithered away from Bush blaming him for the poor execution of the Iraq War and occupation. There’s a growing chance that Bush will become the scapegoat for the Iraq War and torture policies, which the Zionist neocons promoted and which the oil companies profited from. (more…)

by Charley Reese

A glance at Donald Rumsfeld’s biography will tell you that he is: (1) ambitious; (2) bright; (3) competent; and (4) incredibly experienced in both the private sector and the public sector.

So how did the 74-year-old secretary of defense become the bad guy of the Bush administration? The answer is probably that by his 70s, his ambition and drive had degenerated into stubbornness and arrogance. Richard Nixon described him as a “ruthless little bastard” when he served that administration. Some military people have said meetings with him were pointless, because he had already decided everything before he got there. And his mouth got him into a lot of trouble.

He was, according to some military people, obsessed with the idea of transforming the defense forces into a lighter, more mobile outfit. He forced this on the Iraqi war planners, and what happened proved what his critics had been saying all along. The lighter, mobile force, carefully coordinated with air power, could whip the conventional army, especially one as broken-down and demoralized as Saddam Hussein’s forces, but then it had no staying power. (more…)

by Charles Coughlin

There are some fierce debates raging in patriot circles about which is worst for America: the Iraq War, the Guest Worker Amnesty Bill or the Loss of Rights, meaning the warrantless spying, Bush’s torture bill, the loss of habeas corpus, secret prisons and the president’s new power to declare any one of us an “enemy combatant.”

A significant number of Americans might say the threat of an guest worker amnesty bill is the biggest danger to America. Many of these people voted for the GOP in the last election, fearing that if the Republicans lose Congress, a guest worker amnesty bill would be pushed through. There’s just one little problem with this logic. The Republicans were in power for SIX YEARS and they failed to deport even a small fraction of the 20 million illegal aliens. That is a de facto amnesty. Rewarding the Republcians with another electoral victory would have just led to more of the same.

Some may argue that it’s too big a risk leaving Bush alone with a Democrat Congress for two years. Unfortunately we had no choice. We could NOT allow the neocons to get rid of any more of our basic Constitutional Rights. (more…)

by James Buchanan

The defeat of the neocons should be seen as a HUGE victory by all patriotic Americans. The 2006 election shows that the American public rejects the neocons’ endless occupation of Iraq and the steady erosion of our basic Rights. The arrogant and incompetent Donald Rumsfeld is finally out of office. GOP Chairman and Zionist neocon Ken Mehlman has announced he will be quitting soon.

Early in the Bush presidency, a group of Zionist carpet baggers (neocons) showed up amidst the Republican Party, uninvited, and proceeded to dictate foreign policy leading the GOP to complete ruin. Perhaps fear of the Israeli Lobby allowed these usurpers to walk into the highest levels inside the GOP promoting wars that had nothing to do with US interests. The paranoid state of Israel wanted us to pound Iraq into the ground and to eliminate Saddam Hussein even though Iraq posed NO threat to the US and only a minor threat to Israel.

The neocons also promoted all the freedom-destroying “security” measures which have angered Americans. The United States has fought two World Wars without resorting to warrantless spying and other draconian measures, which the neocons insist are necessary. The Constitutional protection against torture has been eliminated along with the legal Right “habeas corpus” (getting your day in court versus rotting in a secret prison). (more…)