Morning News May 30, 2006

&hearts More Troops Sent To Same Places Where We Massacred Iraqi Women And Children

NYT: By DAVID S. CLOUD
Published: May 30, 2006
WASHINGTON, May 29 — The top American commander in Iraq has decided to move reserve troops now deployed in Kuwait into the volatile Anbar Province in western Iraq to help quell a rise in insurgent attacks there, two American officials said Monday.

Although some soldiers from the 3,500-member brigade in Kuwait have moved into Iraq in recent months, Gen. George W. Casey Jr. has decided to send in the remainder of the unit after consultations with Iraqi officials in recent days, the officials said.

The confirmation that the number of American forces in Iraq would grow came on a day of soaring violence in Baghdad. Two Britons working as members of a CBS News television crew were killed on Monday and an American correspondent for the network was critically wounded when a military patrol they were accompanying was hit by a roadside bomb.

When are the Bush twins and the Cheney duo going to Iraq to fight? One of Cheney's daughters is in charge of freeing the women in Afghanistan and Iraq and we all know what a total, utter, screaming failure that has been!

The military has a one way mind. This is why it was so laughably easy for wily bin Laden to lure us into a cul de sac. Once in, we can't get out. My ox team was that way. They would walk into something like the feed room and then would be too uneasy about stepping backwards to get out again. I would have to touch their legs and say, "Back, back, step back, boys."

So for the Pentagon: Back, back, step back, you morons.

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&hearts World's Biggest Embassy Irritates Iraqis So Much They Want To Blow It Up

Chicago Tribune: Though the site is an open secret, U.S. Embassy officials, currently based in Hussein's former Republican Palace, are forbidden to discuss it.

The few details available are contained in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report. Scheduled for completion in June 2007, the 104-acre embassy compound, roughly the size of the Vatican, will resemble (HAHAHA) a mini-state, entirely independent from the outside world. It will generate its own power, pump its own sewage and draw its own water.

Within the compound there will be six buildings containing 619 apartments for diplomats, a barrack for Marine guards, separate residences for the ambassador and his deputy, a gym, a swimming pool, a club, a food court, a beauty salon, a vehicle workshop and a warehouse. There is also, the report noted, an emergency exit.

The Senate report marveled at the meticulous planning.

"Most major construction projects undertaken in Iraq since 2003 have not met these standards," it said. "No large-scale U.S.-funded construction program in Iraq has yet met its schedule or budget," the report added, noting that this one is on schedule and within budget.

Iraqis also are marveling at the scale of the project and the rapid rate at which it is starting to rise above the walls of the Green Zone, which is off-limits to most Iraqis.

"Why are they only building this building?" asked Abdul Kareem al-Khiat, sales manager of the 14-story Babylon Hotel, whose riverside rooms have panoramic views of the construction site. "All the Iraqis are asking this question."

This, in a nutshell, is why we are losing the war on terror. We are the terrorists. We are stupid terrorists playing russian roulette with a semi auto on full phase---we keep pulling that trigger and screaming, "Why are we dying?"

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&hearts Tanks Fill Kabul Streets As Foreigners Struggle To Intimidate People Who Fought The Soviets

By DANIEL COONEY, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 12 minutes ago
KABUL, Afghanistan - Security forces in tanks and on foot took up positions around the Afghan capital Tuesday to prevent a repeat of deadly anti-foreigner riots — the most widespread violence in the city since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

An overnight curfew in this city of 4 million passed without incident and there were no reports of violence early Tuesday, said Gen. Zahir Azimi, the Defense Ministry spokesman.

"The army has control of the city. We have tanks in the city for the first time," he said. "We have 2,000 troops at key places. Everything is calm."

We boasted about how the Afghanis fought Russia until the government there collapsed. We thought we were very clever, arming Islamic fighters like bin Laden's group. History is a bitch. And our rulers are bastards.

Gypsy moths invading my property are smarter and better organized.

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&hearts Super Secret US Refuses Information For Swiss Terrorist Trials

By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 26, 2006; Page A16

Two years after the United States helped disrupt a notorious nuclear smuggling ring, the Bush administration has hobbled a Swiss effort to prosecute three of the alleged leaders by failing to share critical information, an American nuclear expert and Swiss law enforcement officials said yesterday.

Switzerland's federal prosecutor made at least four separate appeals for U.S. help over the past year, asking for access to documents and other evidence linked to the nuclear black market run by the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. In that time, the Swiss have received no assistance, or even a reply, a spokesman for the prosecutor said.

9/11! 9/11! Axis of Evil! Run away! Go shopping!

I do say, the level of insanity in this enterprise is most astonishing. This is driving many people insane. There are so many people holding so many insane ideas, this has reached critical mass. When can we arrest Bush and his gang?

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&hearts Pentagon Wants New Missile Warheads That are Gross WMD But Not Total Nukes

NEW YORK (AFP)

Crew works aboard a US submarine. The Pentagon is pressing Congress to approve the development of a new weapon that would enable the United States to carry out non-nuclear missile strikes against distant targets within an hour, The New York Times reported
(AFP/File)

The Pentagon is pressing Congress to approve the development of a new weapon that would enable the United States to carry out non-nuclear missile strikes against distant targets within an hour, The New York Times reported.

Citing unnamed military officials, the newspaper said the proposal has set off a complex debate about whether this program for strengthening the military's conventional capacity could increase the risks of accidental nuclear confrontation.

WMD! WMD! We have to invade someone because the have WMD! And to stop these weapons we need more WMD. And if they have nukes or want nukes we have the right to preemptively nuke them.

You know, if this sort of insanity was running the government back in 1963, I wouldn't have celebrated my 13th birthday.

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&hearts Washington Post Actually Covers Story About Isreal's Vicious Wall

By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, May 30, 2006; Page A01

NUAMAN, West Bank -- For generations, first in caves hollowed from hillsides, then shepherds' tents and simple stone houses, the Shawarwa and Darawi families thrived here amid pine windbreaks, olive orchards and flocks of sheep. On a hill of their own, they worked, married and raised children.

Jamal Darawi was born here in a weathered house in June 1967, the same month Israel triumphed in the Middle East war. In the conflict, Israel's army seized East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan. Soon, the Israeli government drew a larger municipal boundary around Jerusalem, annexing the lands to the Jewish state, including Darawi's home.

But Israel did not take the people of Nuaman. An Israeli military census right after the war registered families here as West Bank residents, even though their village fell inside Jerusalem's new borders. As a result, the Israeli government has never offered them the right to live in the city, apply for Israeli citizenship or vote in Jerusalem, rights given to Palestinians in other annexed neighborhoods.

How very clever of the Jews invading Palestine. They are smart enough to come up with all sorts of tricky talk to justify their war crimes. Unfortunately, these are still crimes no matter how much the Israelis pretend they are law abiding members of the world community. Of course, 100% of the cost of this criminal wall building exercise it paid for courtesy of the American tax payers who are collecting Chinese IOUs to subsize this thing.

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&hearts Mega Church Makes Video Game So Christians Can Cyber Kill Fellow Americans In Apocalypse

Daily Kos: Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice. You have never felt so powerful, so driven by a purpose: you are 13 years old. You are playing a first-person shooter video game whose creators are linked to the empire of mega-church pastor Rick Warren, best selling author of The Purpose Driven Life.

Um, isn't this the definition of "traitor"? These people are most anxious to kill their fellow citizens. This characterizes the entire GOP, for that matter.

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&hearts Video About How Bush And American Auto Makers Slit America's Throat When They Killed Electric Cars

This URL gives a preview of the movie. It is a good documentary showing the complex forces that decided a polluted, noisy, ugly country is much better than a clean, efficient, quiet country.

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&hearts Mr. O'Brien Can't Get Off No Fly List

By Sarah O'Brien
Originally published May 28, 2006
My husband is not a terrorist.
He's not an ex-convict, a felon or on the lam, and if you don't count the occasional Post-it notes or paper clips that come home with him from the office, he's not even a petty thief.

But so far, he's had trouble convincing the government of this.
Every time he flies, regardless of the airline, he gets flagged when he checks in because he's on our government's terrorist watch list. As it was explained to us the first time it happened, something about his name, Michael Patrick O'Brien, creates the need for an airline manager to clear him.

OK, how many Irish-named people hijacked airlines? To my knowledge, zero. Blair wanted the IRA on the terrorist lists and he got it. Now the Irish have more reasons to hate England. Great. Spread the love.

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&hearts Germans Wonder About Wind Farm Problems

By Tim Bowler
BBC World Service business reporter, Alsleben, Germany

Germany is the world's biggest user of wind power, and it has ambitious plans to build even more wind turbines.

It has decided that generating nuclear power is not the way forward, and it has decided eventually to close all the country's existing nuclear power stations.

The country's great hope for is for a future of green energy, and in particular wind power.

However, some observers are now questioning whether all the investment in wind power makes economic sense.

Our culture is addicted to giganticism. Every house, and I mean every house, should have both wind and sun systems. Automatically. No question. We will still need larger systems but they would be the back up, not the primary system.

Energy, when it travels, loses energy. The further it travels, the more loss there is. So if a system is right in the very house it is servicing, the loss is very little. Not to mention the gigantic bonus that one owns one's own energy! What is preventing this from being launched?

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Comments

[JSmith]

"Mr. O'Brien Can't Get Off No Fly List"

Mr. O'Brien isn't on the No Fly List. He's on the government's terrorist watch list. And that's a completely different list.

If you're on the watch list, you still get to fly. They just check your ID at the airport.

If you're on the No Fly List, then you don't fly on commercial flights. At all. No way. No how.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Then dead bodies should have no problem traveling. They have LOTS of flies.