Should be court martialed or what ever the proper term is for the office he held.!
IMPEACH!...Lock the door and throw away the key!
OH, I hope you all are sitting down as you read this, because it is not goit "the values we believe in should shine through what we do in Afghanistan" but few of our "friends" in the region have many values, and some of them have a lot of blood on their hands. For as we search for facilities and jumping-off points and air space and access -- and we are now creating policies by the day -- we are being asked to forget a lot of recent history.
How many of us remember Chechnya? I remember it well! Maybe, some just have more "selective" memories though than I do...
Let me re-phrase it for you, to joggle your memory..."The savage repression of this Muslim republic -- complete with mass executions, mass rape and mass graves -- was the brainchild of Vladimir Putin, the former serving KGB officer into whose soul Mr Bush believes he peered in Slovenia"
Mr Putin's assault on Grozny was timed to bring him the Russian presidency, and within weeks his indisciplined troops had turned the rubble of Chechnya into something approaching Afghanistan. Mr Putin now seems our strongest ally in the "war against terror". And why not, when he is himself such a master of terror?
Then!!!........Moving right along, shall we?????? A nasty little dictatorship run by the Saudi royal family whose religious "mouttawa" police taught the Taliban how to run their Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue.
STRANGE bedfellows indeed, but of course, it depends who of us are in bed with them! Doesn't it?
HMMMMmmmmm, now who would that be. Why, It wouldn't be this present administration, would it???? No! Not them. Those "good" guys in the White house who wouldn't think of doing anything crooked, like outing a CIA operative, because that would be a lot like TREASON, wouldn't it? Or, go to war for oil, and tell the American People that it is for WMDS! Not our administration! Yeah, Right!
Look how we Americans burried our heads in the sand about the "not terribly democratic regime of General Pervez Musharraf." Only a little while ago, the general was the Pakistani army commander who overthrew the democratically elected -- though corrupt -- government of Nawaz Sharif.
Indeed, General Musharraf was rather keen to hang Mr Sharif until President Clinton dropped by Islamabad early last year to condemn Osama bin Laden and appeal for Sharif's life.
Below, are friends!! True friends, and those like them who speak and SING the truth! I came from a generation that wrote lyrics to get us to think!!!!!!!!
Highgate VT '95
I borrowed this portion from another blogger's post, the picture, and wanted to tell you, these are friends, because they make us think about the important things in life....They sing about injustice in parts of our world that we should be interested in trying to "right", instead of playing "footsie" with people who are really our enemies, and are just standing , no more like sitting around waiting for us to fall................
