Let no one accuse the Washington Post editorial and news staff of fraternizing with one another or perhaps even of observing the same world around them. This is especially true when it comes to their respective observations of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.
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Forty years ago today, shots rang out in Memphis, killing the Reverend Martin Luther King. I was in Hawaii that day, on R&R from Vietnam. I returned to my unit in Bearcat, the 9th Infantry Division basecamp 25 miles east of Saigon after the riots had spread across America. Things were not much more wonderful [...]
About 18 months ago, U.S. troops deaths in Iraq passed the number of civilians dead as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks (which had NOTHING to do with either Iraq or Saddam Hussein). Now the U.S. deaths in Iraq exceed 4,000 people, more than 1,000 beyond the number of Americans killed in the 9/11 [...]
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The full text of the 2008 Peace Proposal of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) President Daisaku Ikeda is now available at the official SGI website. Ikeda reprises concerns he raised in recent proposals regarding the unilateral use of force and the problem of fundamentalism: The unhinged march of finance-centered globalization has produced a world riven by disparities [...]
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The U.S. State Department warns Americans who plan on attending the Olympics in China to not hold any expectations about privacy in hotel rooms, residences or offices while in Beijing. Funny, I no longer have much expectation about privacy in hotel rooms (ask Eliot Spitzer about that), my house or elsewhere here in America either. With all the [...]
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Five years ago, Dubya lied and mislead us into Iraq. Maybe everyone doesn’t believe that by now, but most people do. There were no weapons of mass destruction. No connection between al Qaeda and Saddam. No legitimate reason to expect an attack on American soil or likely even on American interests abroad by Iraq. Yes, [...]
Not surprisingly, on a virtual party line vote, Congress failed to override Deadly Dubya’s veto of the Intelligence Bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other forms of torture. Of course Dubya doesn’t think or won’t admit that these techniques are torture. In an exclusive interview with Tomas de Torquemada, your [...]
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This just in from deep below Avila, courtesy of the Satanic News Service: Former Grand Inquisitor Torquemada today congratulated President George Bush on his veto of an intelligence bill that would prohibit CIA use of waterboarding and other “enhanced” interrogation techniques. “George, you are a man after my own heart,” Tomas de Torquemada said. “I salute [...]
Each year, on January 26th, SGI President Daisaku Ikeda releases a peace proposal–directed in part to the United Nations but in essence for the entire world. This year is no exception. From the Soka Gakkai International website comes this: In his 2008 peace proposal issued today (January 26, 2008) to commemorate the anniversary of the [...]
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Maybe George Bush and his fellow Presidential Pinnochios won’t win, but shouldn’t we at least consider entering them collectively for the award? Surely by now, he must be embarrassing Dick Nixon, rolling in his grave in jealousy. According to the report released yesterday by the Center for Public Integrity, principal Pinnochios of the Bush administration issued 935 [...]
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