Completing my trifecta of detainee stories, here are the travails of Benamar Benatta. (I wanted to post all three stories on Friday, but you know how it is. So many abuses, so little time.)
It took his lawyers only five years to get him out of the clutches of Attorneys General John “Let the […]
The official definition of extraordinary rendition seems to be that it is an operation in which we ship off a terrorist suspect – or any other suspected combatant in TWAT – to a friendly country on the assurance that said person will not be subjected to torture.
I didn’t make any of that up. For […]
Jennifer Davis has managed to make headlines by speaking out strongly against the Pentagon decision to extend the deployment of the 172nd Stryker Brigade in Baghdad for another 120 days.
It occurs to me that if her husband were to be killed in action or sustain serious injuries in the next 120 days, the Pentagon would […]
Donald Rumsfeld is at it again. Adding insult to injury by first taking an unpopular decision, and then twisting the knife in the wound by crowning the incident with some totally unnecessary and totally ludicrous lies.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Saturday praised the work of an Army brigade whose one-year tour in Iraq […]
This stupid whore swore an oath to uphold the Constitution:
Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a “nation of secular laws” and that the separation of church and state is a “lie we have been told” to keep religious people out of politics.
“If you’re […]
In the “Osama is irrelevant and everything is going swimmingly in Afghanistan” video segment that is making the rounds, Ann Coulter shows her true colors:
Coulter … abruptly decided to end her participation in the middle of the segment, saying, “OK, well, good night! It was nice being here.”
Soon after that, she unplugged her mike when […]
The U.S. military, for some strange reason, has just released a Guantanamo detainee:
A German native who was imprisoned by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was released Thursday, more than 18 months after a federal judge in Washington ruled there was insufficient evidence to detain him.
Murat Kurnaz, 24, a Turkish citizen who was […]
cav·a·lier (kăv’ə-lîr’)
adj.
Showing arrogant or offhand disregard; dismissive: a cavalier attitude toward the suffering of others.
Carefree and nonchalant; jaunty.
Not often you get the literal and the ironic at the same time. But this is life down here for the “lucky” ones living in parking lots and fields in FEMA trailers.
I’m talking to as many people […]
When it comes from the mouth of an endangered Republican running for re-election:
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), once an ardent supporter of the war in Iraq, said yesterday that the Bush administration should set a time frame for withdrawing U.S. troops. He added that most of the withdrawal could take place next year.
Shays, who faces a […]
From Salon’s War Room:
University of Virginia students seeking a spot in Larry Sabato’s seminar on campaigns and elections have to write an essay as part of the admissions process. S.R. Sidarth’s successful three-word submission: “I am Macaca.”
