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Archive for June 12th, 2009

According to today’s New York Times, the government is relying heavily on wiretapped conversations in its evidence against Jose Padilla.

In 1997, as the government listened in on their phone call, Adham Hassoun, a computer programmer in Broward County, Fla., proposed a road trip to Jose Padilla, a low-wage worker there. The excursion to Tampa would be his treat, Mr. Hassoun said, and a chance to meet “some nice, uh, brothers.” Read the rest of this entry »

Please, corporate media, spare us the national news coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s wardrobe. I know after that schlub Dennis Hastert, Pelosi is a stylistic breath of fresh air. But since the Washington Post got a righteous smackdown for its fatuous Pelosi-pantsuit coverage last November, I thought y’all would have learned your lesson. Read the rest of this entry »

No matter how much the Bush Administration disputes that we went to Iraq for oil, only the most ardent Kool-Aid drinker believes that claptrap about WMD, or bringing democracy to Iraq, or even bringing about Armageddon so Jesus can come back and claim his followers. (Please, Lord. Make it soon. They’re driving the rest of us nuts.) Since when did a bunch of oil billionaires give a crap about democracy anywhere, especially a country that has the third-largest oil reserves in the world? Read the rest of this entry »

Last night President Bush went before the American people and asked for more.

Yeah, I noticed the deer-in-the-headlights look, too. Can you blame him? He was asking for 20,000 more of our sons and daughters and $7 billion more of our tax dollars to squander in the black hole that is his monumental Iraq disaster. No, scratch that, he didn’t ask us, he told us:

So I’ve committed more than 20,000 additional American troops to Iraq. The vast majority of them — five brigades — will be deployed to Baghdad. Read the rest of this entry »