I remember when the "organized left" was calling Cindy Sheehan...what
was it? Was it confused, irrelevant and ineffectual or somesuch? It
seems like such a loooong time ago, but it was just last year.
Most of them still believe it.... losers.
In The News:
It's the Democrats "Hour of Power" - the 110th session begins today
amidst all the appropriate pomp and folderol.
Part 2: The people who put them in power aren't entirely confident about
their loyalties. Cindy Sheehan gives a press conference where the point
was "It's the war, stupid!" after breaking up a democrat press
conference on domestic policy and other issues... forcing a retreat to
chambers.
<http://leighm.net/blog/2007/01/04/tth_070104/>
More News:
What’s worse than losing a battle? Losing one you planned… According to
published studies, the lockdown of Baghdad and al-Anbar NEVER had enough
troops to succeed.
John Negroponte resigns as Director of National Intelligence to become
Deputy Secretary of State, most likely specializing in Iraq, a mess he
helped create. He will be replaced by the director of the NSA,
McConnell, a Colin Powell protege’.
Saddam Hussein’s cell phone snuff film: Two guards and one supervising
official take the rap. Protests and mourning continue. His
co-defendant’s executions have been delayed, most likely at the behest
of the U.S. government. One of the condemned is a judge who did nothing
more than rule on the validity of the original Dujail trials.
Nevertheless, the form of justice currently being practiced in Iraq
tends towards the extralegal.
Case in point:
“She (U.N. spokesperson Michele Montas) said that under
international treaties that Iraq had signed, Hussein had the right to
appeal to the appropriate authorities for consideration of commutation
or pardon.”
The Denial File: EXXONMobil spent $16 million in the 80s on research
that would attempt to disprove global warming.
<http://leighm.net/blog/2007/01/04/tth_070104/>
