From USA Today: The Bush administration has missed dozens of deadlines set by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks for developing ways to protect airplanes, ships and railways from terrorists. A plan to defend ships and ports from attack is six months overdue. Rules to protect air cargo from infiltration by terrorists are two months late. A study on the … Read More
Support The Troops!
The Pentagon has reneged on its offer to pay a $15,000 bonus to members of the National Guard and Army Reserve who agree to extend their enlistments by six years, according to Sen. Patty Murray (D-Seattle). The bonuses were offered in January to Active Guard and Reserve and military technician soldiers who were serving overseas. In April, the Office of … Read More
Terrorism Hysteria
Cathy Young has posted a very sane analysis of the recent phenomenon of prominent right-wing bloggers jonesing for a new domestic terrorist attack. (Via Is That Legal): Michelle Malkin, Powerline, and The Jawa Report flogged the story relentlessly, picking up every sensational detail and railing against the "mainstream media" for ignoring and covering up the story. In a typical passage … Read More
Biological Attack? By Who? Against Whom?
I blogged about it here, but there was little national attention to it. But Salon is picking up on the story. From Sploid: DID WASHINGTON ‘TEST’ BIOWEAPONS ON D.C. WAR PROTESTERS? It is the most perplexing "non story" of the American terror era: For the first time ever, a half-dozen of the bioweapons air sensors installed around Washington, D.C., all … Read More
Olbermann On “The Nexus Of Politics And Terror”
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann does an excellent story on how the terror alert level goes up whenever the Bush Administration is in trouble, citing thirteen specific examples. Video here, courtesy of Crooks & Liar. And if you want to read it, do so here. Here’s an example: Number Three: February 5th, 2003. Secretary of State Powell tells the United Nations Security … Read More
Smurfs Get Bombed
Seriously: BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — Out of an idyllic blue sky dotted with birds and butterflies come warplanes that carpet-bomb the Smurfs’ forest village, killing Smurfette, leaving Baby Smurf wailing in distress and sending Papa Smurf and the others bolting for cover. The scene from a bizarre commercial featuring Belgium’s lovable blue-skinned cartoon characters is so upsetting it can only … Read More
An American GI Speaks About Being Tortured By Americans GIs
From the Sunday Times: James Yee entered Guantanamo as a patriotic US officer and Muslim chaplain. He ended up in shackles, branded a spy. This is his disturbing story My cell was 8ft by 6ft, the same size as the detainees’ cages at Guantanamo. Barely a week ago I had received a glowing evaluation for my work as the US … Read More
Arguing With Bush
Professor Juan Cole, an expert on the Middle East, takes on Bush’s "major speech" yesterday by presenting, you know, facts. A must-read.
Bush Ratings Hit New Low; Terror Alert Raised
Connection? Actually, I think this terror alert is pretty bonafide, and might actually be unrelated to Bush’s ever-sinking popularity. UPDATE: Okay, maybe the terror scare is nothing.
Bush: “God Told Me To Invade Afghanistan And Iraq”
Yup. According to the BBC, that’s what Bush reportedly said.
“Major Speech”
It was billed as a "major speech" on terrorism, but you know it’s a lie, because Bush gave it at 10:00 in the morning. I didn’t see it, but it sounds like it was the same old rhetoric: ("9/11", "evil", "WMDs", "evil hearts", "making progress", "9/11", etc.)
I’m With The Wingers On This…
It sure looks like the Oklahoma suicide bombing last weekend was a terrorist attack.
The Next Conspiracy Theory
Remember that anti-war protest last weekend in Washington, D.C.? You know, the one on the weekend of September 24-25 where hundreds of thousands marched on the Mall? Well, that wasn’t the only thing appearing in D.C. that weekend: Biohazard sensors showed the presence of small amounts of potentially dangerous tularemia bacteria in the Mall area last weekend as huge crowds … Read More
Freedom Haters Succeed In Yanking Plans For Freedom Museum
The hysterical moonbats won one: Governor George Pataki said today he will direct development officials to drop plans for a museum of freedom at the World Trade Center site, saying it has stirred “too much opposition, too much controversy.” The International Freedom Center would have been put in a cultural center adjacent to a memorial for the Sept. 11 victims, … Read More
Monday Morning Fast Facts
* Number attending this weekend’s anti-war rally in Washington D.C.: 150,000 estimated (Photo at right from Bradblog) * Number attending this weekend’s pro-war counter rally in Washington, D.C.: 400 (although wingers were expecting 20,000) * Recommended reading: Time Magazine’s "How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There?": A TIME inquiry finds that at top positions in some vital government agencies, … Read More