TSP means "Terrorists Surveillance Program." Sounds so much better than Domestic Spying Program doesn't it? God, these guys are good. So now Bush can say we are against the Terrorists Surveillance Program. God job Rove. Oh, and by-the-way Democrats. While you sit back and let these word masters twist the truth, you are helping to broadstroke people like me with the likes of you.
Arlen, Arlen, Arlen, your hearings "for the pResident to present his case" is so laughable. Bush has given you the finger so many times, and yet you make such a ridiculous statement. I know Bush is going to give you a reason why he is spying. Arlen, guess what. There is no tooth fairy.
On Today's Show, McCain is reframing the spying issue by saying that he "can't judge until he knows the scope of the spying." Okey dokey McCain. Let's just forget the main issue of Bush not getting the legal warrants and breaking the law. Let's concentrate on the scope of his illegal spying. Oh, and by-the-way, McCain says Congress was briefed and Matt Lauder said there was no resistance to illegal spying in that briefing. Lie, repeat, lie, repeat, lie, repeat.
Posted by Judith at January 25, 2006 06:10 AMUS Orders Syria to Do the Impossible
by Paul Craig Roberts
Is there a person anywhere in the world who still thinks there is an ounce of sanity in the Bush administration? If so, let that person read John Bolton's orders to Syria in the Jan. 24 online edition of the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.
Bolton is Bush's unconfirmed ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, a neoconservative warmonger, has managed to get the UN Security Council on Jan. 23 to instruct Syria to disband and disarm the Lebanese militias. Bolton says, "I hope in Damascus they read it very carefully and then comply."
How is Syria to meet this demand?
Last year, Syria complied with U.S. demands to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. As Syria has no military presence in Lebanon, it could not disarm a local police force, much less the Shia militias that defeated the Israeli army, drove it out of Lebanon, and have representatives in the Lebanese parliament.
After three years and unimaginable expense, the superpower American military has proved that it cannot disarm the recently formed Iraqi militias. Yet the idiot Bolton thinks puny Syria can disarm the Lebanese militias that defeated the brutal Israeli army!
Syria was never in Lebanon as a conqueror or invader, as the U.S. is in Iraq and Israel is in the West Bank and Golan Heights. Syria was invited into Lebanon by the Lebanese government for peacekeeping purposes, adding the weight of its military to indigenous militias in order to create stability where U.S., Palestinian, and Israeli bungling had brought disorder and massive bloodshed.
Until they were withdrawn, the Syrian troops were a counterweight to the Shia militias. Now that the Shia crescent is spreading from Iran through Iraq to Lebanon, the stupid neoconservatives are confronted with the error of their ways. The Bush administration was trying to set Syria up for U.S. attack by demanding that they withdraw from Lebanon. The neocons thought Syria would refuse and thereby become a target for demonization and invasion.
Alas, the Syrians departed. And now the problem is how to turn back the Shia advance, which is increasing in power inside Lebanon as well through the Hezbollah and Amal movements. Bolton's solution is a ridiculous attempt to turn Syria into a neocon proxy and to set it at war with the militias. Otherwise, Bolton intends to damn Syria for "noncompliance" and again threaten them with U.S. invasion.
It will be interesting to see who Syria fears most, the militias that triumphed over Israeli military might or the U.S. forces that have been defeated in Iraq.
Where in Article II does it say the President has the authority to spy on US citizens without a warrant as the wingnuts are claiming? The IV Amendment would trump it anyway.
Posted by JohnT at January 25, 2006 07:44 AM'I read the news today oh boy,
About a lucky man who made the grade.
And though the news was rather sad,
Well I just had to laugh.
I saw the photograph.' (c) The Beatles
I am sure many are asking what the f*ck I am talking about. Perhaps if we substitute George Jr. for the heiress to the Irish beer fortune, and it would make some sense.
Anybody heard/read about this?
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/25-Jan-2006.html
Posted by curious at January 25, 2006 08:19 AMTo the powers that be:
Why doesn't the strkeout/strike/strike tag work in comments? My snarkiness is crippled without it.
Posted by idiosynchronic at January 25, 2006 09:58 AMWhy doesn't the strkeout/strike/strike tag work in comments? My snarkiness is crippled without it.
It does work. I think Dick Cheney is reading your posts and removing them.
Posted by muckdog at January 25, 2006 12:59 PMHey! Muck made a funny!
Posted by pessimist at January 25, 2006 02:17 PMcurious, I followed up on that artic beacon link. 1/19, the day OBL tape came out. Turn it around it's 911. There are some spooky coincidences!!
Posted by bbtb at January 25, 2006 09:36 PMThe London subways were bombed on 11-9. It was hardly mentioned. coincidence? Jack Cafferty pointed it out on C.N.N., while playing a Beatle record in reverse.
Posted by TIKI AL at January 25, 2006 10:41 PMTIKI AL, Did you read all that body of work, it really is an impressive resume. I never knew it was 911 days between 9/11 and Madrid, Spain.
Whatever happened there though it backfired, they lost the election and Spain pulled out it's troops!
And the connections to the Masons and numerology is plain creepy. May cracked something open and I won't be suprised if more predictions come true.