Winter Soldier Comes to Columbus
Bush salutes those who accuse him of imperialism and being a spoiled rich brat
(Prissy Patriot readers often write looking for this picture!)
UPDATE: Powell's Ex-Aide finally fires first shot over the bow! BBC news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4480638.stm
Cheney accused on prisoner abuse
Col Wilkerson has been critical of Mr Cheney in the past
A top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell has launched a stinging attack on US Vice-President Dick Cheney over abuse of prisoners by US troops.
Col Lawrence Wilkerson accused Mr Cheney of ignoring a decision by President Bush on the treatment of prisoners in the war on terror.
Asked by the BBC's Today if Mr Cheney could be accused of war crimes, he said: "It's an interesting question."
"Certainly it is a domestic crime to advocate terror," he added.
"And I would suspect, for whatever it's worth, it's an international crime as well.
Ex-Powell Aide Criticizes Detainee Effort
WASHINGTON - A top aide to former Secretary of State
Colin Powell said Monday that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees arose from White House and
Pentagon officials who argued that "the president of the United States is all-powerful" and the Geneva Conventions irrelevant.
In an Associated Press interview, former Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson also said
President Bush was "too aloof, too distant from the details" of postwar planning. Underlings exploited Bush's detachment and made poor decisions, Wilkerson said.
Wilkerson blamed Vice President
Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and like-minded aides. He said Cheney must have sincerely believed that
Iraq could be a spawning ground for new terror assaults, because "otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard."
The Prissy Patriot is proud to announce Military Families Speak Out of Ohio, along with Vietnam Veterans for Peace and Americans for Shared Sacrifice will attend Winter Soldier to promote "Support Our Troops, Bring Them Home Now". Vietnam showed the futility of "staying until things calmed down" in a place we should not have gone.
Many classic films are just as powerful today as when they were first released. We add such films from many genres to our schedule throughout the season. Many are shown on the occasion of their rereleases, in fresh, new or restored prints. Winter Soldier
(Winterfilm Collective, 1972)
Winter Soldier documents a controversial 1971 meeting organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War in which more than 100 veterans (including a young John Kerry) gathered to testify as part of an investigation into war crimes and atrocities.
(Prissy thanks readers that sent this bumper sticker saying)
UPDATE FROM KOS- The List of Who Served, Who Did Not
Please pass this list around.Speaking of real soldiers-let us take a look at who was and who wasn't. These corporate warriors are the same ones saying we cannot leave Iraq. Dear readers, this list says it all. What irony...don't let them tell you who supports our troops!
"The Little Piggies Who Tell You To Support Our Troops."
by johninwisconsin-Sat Nov 12, 2005 at 01:17:30 PM PDT
* johninwisconsin's diary :: ::
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MILITARY SERVICE RECORDS
DEMOCRATS:
Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan.
1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer
Brigade.
Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g . Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor,
Vietnam.
Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze
Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts.
Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze
Star, Korea.
Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star &
Bronze Star, Vietnam. Paraplegic from war injuries.
Served in Congress.
Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve,
1968-74.
Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army
Reserve 1979-91.
Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star
and seven campaign ribbons.
Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam,
DFCs, Bronze Stars,and Soldier's Medal.
Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart,
Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne,
Purple Heart.
Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in
Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V.
Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
Chuck Robb: Vietnam
Howell Heflin: Silver Star
George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments.
Entered draft but received #311.
Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and AirMedal
with 18 Clusters.
Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII.
Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.
REPUBLICANS (and these are the guys sending people to
war):
Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the
last by marriage.
Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
Tom Delay: did not serve.
Roy Blunt: did not serve.
Bill Frist: did not serve.
Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
Rick Santorum: did not serve.
Trent Lott: did not serve.
John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to
teach business.
Jeb Bush: did not serve.
Karl Rove: did not serve.
Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man
who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.
Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
Vin Weber: did not serve.
Richard Perle: did not serve.
Douglas Feith: did not serve.
Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
Richard Shelby: did not serve.
Jon! Kyl: did not serve.
Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
Christopher Cox: did not serve.
Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight
instructor.
George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year
National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could
campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate..
Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a
non- combat role making movies.
B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting
was over in Korea.
Phil Gramm: did not serve.
John McCain: Vietnam POW, Silver Star, Bronze Star,
Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying
Cross.
Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
John M. McHugh: did not serve.
JC Watts: did not serve.
Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem, " although
continued in NFL for 8 years as quarterback.
Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National
Guard.
Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
George Pataki: did not serve.
Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
John Engler: did not serve.
Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.
PUNDITS and PREACHERS: Sean Hannity: did not serve.
Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal
cyst.')
Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
Michael Savage: did not serve.
George Will: did not serve.
Chris Matthews: did not serve.
Paul Gigot: did not serve.
Bill Bennett: did not serve.
Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
John Wayne: did not serve.
Bill Kristol: did not serve.
Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
Ralph Reed: did not serve.
Michael Medved: did not serve.
Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things
that don't shoot back.)
Please keep this information circulating
--Illinois State Sen. Howard W. Carroll
[urlhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/12/151730/43[/url] Hot Links
Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/28/nblair28.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/28/ixportal.html
Blair brushes off minister's call for swift exit Tony Blair was under growing pressure yesterday to speed up his departure from No 10 after a Cabinet colleague urged him to give Gordon Brown time to "settle in.
www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=nd05boureston
Atomic Scientists Bulletin-Keep your enemy closer-The best way to know the full extent of Iran's nuclear doings is to offer it help. It now appears a foregone conclusion that Iran will continue its nuclear program no matter what the United States and the European Union offer to stop it.
Short of a U.N. Security Council resolution--which is unlikely, given the reluctance of veto-wielding nations such as China and Russia to impose sanctions--Israel or the United States might seek to end the Islamic Republic's nuclear program through force. But bombing nuclear facilities or launching a preventive war runs the risk of futility because Iran has hardened and dispersed its nuclear complex. Moreover, military action may spark reprisal by Iranian-backed jihadist groups at a time when the U.S. military is already stretched to the breaking point by the insurgency in Iraq.
In pursuing a civilian nuclear program, Iran has international law on its side. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty gives signatories "the inalienable right" to peaceful nuclear technologies contingent on not making nuclear explosives. Although Iran has been less than forthcoming about many of its nuclear activities, inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency have not revealed evidence of a nuclear weapons program.
More than you ever wanted to know about Washington Times Newspaper owner Rev. Sun Myung Moon- www.consortiumnews.com/2001/010301a.html
Consortium News-January 3, 2001 Rev. Moon, the Bushes & Donald Rumsfeld
George W. Bush’s choice of Donald Rumsfeld to be U.S. defense secretary could put an unintended spotlight on the role of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon – a Bush family benefactor – in funneling millions of dollars to communist North Korea in the 1990s as it was developing a missile and nuclear weapons program.
www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_ID=10174 Al-Jazeera Iran’s President calls for trying Bush for war crimes
During a nationally televised ceremony marking the 36th anniversary of the establishment of Iran's volunteer Basij paramilitary force, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for trying Bush’s administration on war crimes charges, The Associated Press reported.
Now that is the kind of thing that really makes Dubya see red, no wonder he keeps making threats- besides, Canada has already said our Dubya has Diplomatic Immunity. We must try this case at home...not to worry, the CIA and their neocon approved techniques can dig it out of them.
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/28/MNGIKFV3FK1.DTL San Francisco Chronicle -U.S. alters nuclear weapons policy-Congress rejects 'bunker busters' for more reliable arms
Lawmakers killed the widely criticized nuclear "bunker buster" concept, which critics regarded as too aggressive, and instead appropriated $25 million for research on what is called the reliable replacement warhead, or RRW. Though that initial sum is relatively modest, it signifies an important policy shift that could end up costing many billions of dollars.
Even some arms control advocates have applauded the decision, because many see the new program as a sharp scaling back of the Bush administration's once soaring nuclear ambitions.
Democrats as well as Republicans were so enthusiastic that they voted for almost three times the amount of money requested by the White House, in large part because the program is viewed as an exercise in restraint.
www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/politics/28strategy.html?hp&ex=1133240400&en=024648c70509a183&ei=5094&partner=homepage
NY Times-As Calls for an Iraq Pullout Rise, 2 Political Calendars Loom Large
In public, President Bush has firmly dismissed the mounting calls to set a deadline to begin a withdrawal from Iraq, declaring eight days ago that there was only one test for when the time is right. "When our commanders on the ground tell me that Iraqi forces can defend their freedom," he told American forces at Osan Air Base in South Korea, "our troops will come home with the honor they have earned." But in private conversations, American officials are beginning to acknowledge that a judgment about when withdrawals can begin is driven by two political calendars - one in Iraq and one here - as much as by those military assessments. The final decision, they said, could well hinge on whether the new Iraqi government, scheduled to be elected in less than three weeks, issues its own call for an American withdrawal. Last week, for the first time, Iraq's political factions, represented by about 100 Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish leaders, collectively called for a timetable for withdrawal.
As Mr. Bush ends his Thanksgiving holiday in Texas on Monday, both his own aides and American commanders say, he will begin confronting these sometimes conflicting military and political issues, including the midterm Congressional elections in this country, part of a delicate balancing action about how and when to begin extracting American troops from Iraq.
Note to politicians: Don't try the old "bait and switch"- pulling some soldiers out until the election is over, then some "incident" requires them to return. The majority of Americans want them O-U-T. So do the Iraqi people-stop telling us otherwise.
www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112805Z.shtml
Truthout-Fitzgerald Targets Rove Again-By Jason Leopold
The most serious charges Rove faces are making false statements to investigators and obstruction of justice, the sources said. He does not appear to be in jeopardy of violating the law making it a crime to leak the name of a covert CIA agent, because it's unlikely that Rove was unaware that Plame Wilson was undercover, the sources said. However, according to the sources, two things are very clear: either Rove will agree to enter into a plea deal with Fitzgerald or he will be charged with a crime, but he will not be exonerated for the role he played in the leak, based on numerous internal conversations Fitzgerald has had with his staff. If Rove does agree to enter into a plea, Fitzgerald is not expected to discuss any aspect of his probe into Rove, because Rove may be called to testify as a prosecution witness against Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was indicted last month on five counts of lying to investigators, perjury, and obstruction of justice related to his role in the leak.
Moreover, a second high-ranking official in the Bush administration also faces the possibility of indictment for making false statements to investigators about his role in the leak: National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.
Hadley had been interviewed in 2004 about his role in the leak and had vehemently denied speaking to reporters about Plame Wilson, the sources said. However, these sources have identified Hadley as sharing information about Plame Wilson with Washington Post editor Bob Woodward, whose stunning revelation two weeks ago - that he was the first journalist to learn of Plame Wilson's identity in mid-June 2003 and had kept that fact secret for two years - led Fitzgerald to return to a second grand jury.
A spokeswoman at the National Security Council denied that Hadley was Woodward's source. Hadley, on the other hand, would neither confirm nor deny that he was Woodward's source when he was questioned by reporters two weeks ago. Woodward testified two weeks ago about what he knew and when he knew it. Woodward would not publicly reveal the identity of his source.
If Fitzgerald really does his job, surely he can come up with more charges than that! Call Prissy should you need the news articles showing inconsistent statements.
Quotes of the Day
George Will whining about having to make the only kind of sacrifice he will ever know-taxes...
In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. -- George Will
"The power to command frequently causes failure to think." ~Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian, 1912-1989, The March of Folly
"If the man doesn’t believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can’t burn him." ~Mark Twain
Is this why he gave Dubya the "crazy" sign?
"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." ~Mohammad Ali
The Prissy Patriot will return Wednesday...with some article updates before then.
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