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   Tuesday, November 08, 2005

   WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN

Even by recent standards, the news this week has been insane:

Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual personal appeal to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in U.S. custody...
-- Associated Press headline, November 5, 2005

Italian state TV, Rai, has broadcast a documentary accusing the US military of using white phosphorus bombs against civilians in the Iraqi city of Falluja.
-- BBC News, November 8, 2005

Secret torture rooms? Chemical weapons?
Obviously horrifying yet oddly familiar...

The danger is clear: using chemical, biological or, one day, nuclear weapons, obtained with the help of Iraq, the terrorists could fulfill their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country, or any other...Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast, and I have a message for them...In a free Iraq, there will be no more wars of aggression against your neighbors, no more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms.

-- President Bush in an address to the US nation, May 17, 2003

Do Iraqis listen to The Who?
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..."

Labels: George W Bush, insanity, Middle East