Remember Fabrizio Quattrochi!
Jim Hoagland, in the Washington Post
Fabrizio said: "I'll show you how an Italian dies!" and he struggled to take off the hood they had blinded him with, and they shot him, the killed him.
Fuck al-Jazeera for this cowardly act in covering up a brave man's final moments.

Vietnam and Iraq: both badly managed wars.
Who said they weren't similar?
Clearly, you can lose a series of battles of wars, with bad leadership, bad policy, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sand, jungle, it don't mean shit if you just do it stupid.

Todays really bad news:
Kerry is falling behind Bush! When Bush is getting totally hammered.
That's not the bad news though: the really bad news is old news, that Kerry is a Senator because of Heinz money: he didn't have any other. He is also the Democratic candidate because of one woman's money: again, he did NOT have any of his own.
Ross Perot redux?

Bush IS a Saudi collaborator!Why is this NOT an incredibly HUGE foreign campaign contribution to the Bush campaign? Why is THIS not simple treason: willfully failing to represent the United States.
Bush-Saudi price fixing

Jail for Bush and Tenant. Warcrimes? Yeah, that too.George Tenent is and was a sycophant, and his "slam dunk" on WMD was apt for the shallow man he is. Bush bought it, including the "slam dunk" because he wanted to. (You cannot cheat an honest man)
Bush says "our duty to go to war to free people": THAT is possibly treasonable, absolutely impeachable.
"What part of thou shalt not lie don't you understand"

American Fundamentalism: it is the defining characteristic of the divisions within this country.
A fundamentalist does NOT compromise. God does not compromise. One does NOT compromise ones principles. One does not compromise with evil.
Principles, God and evil are the words of the fundamentalist. Compromise, accomodation, common good: these are the words of the true American: the distinctions between liberal and conservative are greatly blurred when prefaced by "American".
What is true: the Republican Party is the bastion of American Fundamentalism.
Fundamentalism does not mix with any other form of thought.
American Fundamentalism does NOT mix with democracy.

From the Washington Post: "The information on current threats in the briefing, titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.," stands in contrast to repeated assertions by national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and other Bush administration officials as recently as this week that the document is primarily historical and includes no warning or threat information." here
Goddammit! It IS primarily historical! I mean, fuck, read it yourself. Can't the Post read?

Declassified and Approved for Release, 10 April 2004

Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US

Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and "bring the fighting to America."

After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a ...(redacted portion) ... service.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an ... (redacted portion) ... service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's access to the US to mount a terrorist strike.

The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Ladin's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that Bin Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own US attack.

Ressam says Bin Ladin was aware of the Los Angeles operation.

Although Bin Ladin has not succeeded, his attacks against the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.

Al-Qa'ida members -- including some who are US citizens -- have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks. Two al-Qa'ida members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our Embassies in East Africa were US citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.

A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a ... (redacted portion) ... service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives.

� 2004 The Washington Post Company

my2cents@airamericaradio.com:

Bush needs to be beaten NOW. He needs to know NOW that he has NOT a chance in hell of winning.
If he goes into the election with any hope at all, he WILL steal it. He might get caught doing it, but he will NOT loose.
It could be voting fraud, it could be cooking the books, it could be wholesale tax bribery, it could be homeland security abuses... but he WILL win.
Beat him now, or face the consequences of a country in revolution.

Gerald Berke
political_data.blogspot.com

I hope I noted someplace in here, that the whole notion of a war on terrorism was a bad plan: terrorism had to be made unacceptable and unnecessary. Attacking, declaring "war" was a bad idea, is a bad idea, and has made things possibly irreparable: suicide bombing has made it to the masses: its not just for breakfast anymore.
What would have worked? Fixing the Israel/Palestine conflict would have been THE shining example that there IS another way.
(Going into Iraq alone: priceless)