As I watched a video of Barack Obama playing hoops with US soldiers at a base in Kuwait,it suddenly dawned on me that a disproportionate number of the soldiers,men and women, were black.Forget the sociological and economic implications of this,it also raises the question why the most ardent supporters of the war against the Muslims/Arabs are missing in action.
Where are the brave TV warriors of yesteryear,i.e. Kristol,Perle,Adelman,Feith,and others?One even finds them missing on TV’s many programs.It is as though someone waved a magic wand and they vanished.
I am not complaining mind you.I just find it very odd.
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By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern
(The Huffington Post) July 18, 2008 – One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcroft didn’t mean it to be funny, but his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee might strike one as hilarious, were it not for the issue at hand — torture.
He explained that he initially blessed the infamous torture memoranda drafted by Justice Department lawyer John Yoo and others in mid-2002 because he (Ashcroft) believed it imperative to afford the President “the benefit of genuine doubt” regarding how to protect American lives in the “war on terror.”
But Ashcroft added that, despite this, when concerns about that earlier guidance for interrogations were brought to his attention, changing his mind “was not a hard decision for me.” A very flexible Attorney General.
… his defense of torture. For it is based on two demonstrable lies.
Frittering Five Minutes With Feith
One might ask why John Conyers has not thought of inviting experienced professionals like Milt Bearden to testify.
One might also ask why Conyers continues to let people like Addington, Yoo, Douglas Feith, and now Ashcroft make a mockery of the committee’s attempts to hold hearings on these historically important issues.
How painful it is to watch as the Bush administration’s witnesses quibble about semantics, make sweeping assertions of executive privilege, and run out the five-minute clock on each congressman’s questions.
Impeachment is what the Founders envisioned for the situation we face at present.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."