6 US soldiers die near Baghdad as John McCain
goes shopping

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 01 April 2007 05:42:00 PM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Too bad those now-dead six American service members didn't have 100 troops, 3 Blackhawk helicopters, and 2 Apache gunships backing THEM up.

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Breaking News! George Bush Admits He's The
Bastard Love Child of Barbara and Moe Of Three Stooges Fame

post from Cut to the Chase: Zapping & Snapping The Zeitgeist on 01 April 2007 05:30:00 PM. © Cut to the Chase: Zapping & Snapping The Zeitgeist

Finally! The truth is out: George W. Bush is NOT the legitimate heir to the Bush (missing a few dozen important chromosomes) Dynasty but is, instead, the bastard love chair of Barbara Bush's long, impestuous affair with Moe of the Three Stooges.

She (known as Babs with Crabs in her lustier days) says she does NOT, however, have an explanation for the fact that Georgy managed to make president when he can neither spell "Stooge" or "Bastard" (although Barbara frankly acknowledged that her Georgy is both along with an imbecile, a crank, and a sadist).Media, Politics, United States, World, War, Terrorism, Propaganda, Constitution, Vermont, US.

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Meanwhile

post from Eschaton on 01 April 2007 05:24:00 PM. © Eschaton

Life goes on.

BAGHDAD - After a heavily guarded trip to a Baghdad market, Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) insisted Sunday that a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in the capital was working and said Americans lacked a "full picture" of the progress. The U.S. military later reported six soldiers were killed in roadside bombings southwest of Baghdad.

For some.

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Midday Open Thread

post from Daily Kos on 01 April 2007 05:23:06 PM. © Daily Kos

I'm so sick of April Fool's posts, and looking around for linky materials has made it exponentially worse.

tparty at My Left Nutmeg provides a home-state takedown of Lieberman's recent USA Today op-ed:

The "political cease-fire" that Lieberman continually calls for is more accurately described as a partisan roadblock, one which has prevented the bipartisan majorities in both houses, with strong popular support, from truly "getting things done" in D.C. I would only guess that such roadblocks - abusing the filibuster and supporting a highly unpopular presidential veto to defy Congress and the will of the American people and keep our troops in Iraq indefinitely - weren't exactly what Lieberman voters thought they were getting when they voted last year for a "bipartisan" Senator who would "get things done."

NY-26: lipris at The Albany Project looks at the potential of Iraq war vet and War Kids Relief founder Jonathan Powers challenging Tom Reynolds.

Another Republican in the race: Tommy Thompson announces he's running for president.

The AP is reporting six soldiers killed in Iraq.

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What You Told Us

post from Firedoglake on 01 April 2007 05:14:36 PM. © Firedoglake

(Book Salon is still on vacation while we get a new editor for the weekly feature in place. I think we'll have a book for community review next week at this time, so please stay tuned. — Pach)A couple of weeks ago I asked our readers to[...]

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Quick, Somebody Check OReillys Phone Bills!

post from Crooks and Liars on 01 April 2007 05:09:55 PM. © Crooks and Liars

I'm pretty sure I know what number he's been calling. (h/t Steve Audio )

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New York Times Takes Aim at Rove

post from Daily Kos on 01 April 2007 04:42:28 PM. © Daily Kos

The New York Times wants Congress to go beyond Gonzales:

The investigation of the firings of the United States attorneys seems to be closing in on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who should have been fired weeks ago. But Congress should bring equal scrutiny to the more powerful Mr. Rove. If it does, especially by forcing him to testify in public, it will find that he has been at the vortex of many of the biggest issues they are now investigating.

And the editorial is clear that Rove should be investigated for exactly what he was meant to do all along:

Whatever the immediate objective, Mr. Rove seems focused on one overarching goal: creating a permanent Republican majority, even if that means politicizing every aspect of the White House and subverting the governmental functions of the executive branch. This is not the Clinton administration’s permanent campaign. The Clinton people had difficulty distinguishing between the spin cycle of a campaign and the tone of governing. That seems quaint compared with the Bush administration’s far more menacing failure to distinguish the Republican Party from the government, or the state itself.

This was, perhaps, the inevitable result of taking the chief operative of a presidential campaign, one famous for his scorched-earth style, and ensconcing him in the White House — not in a political role, but as a key player in the formation of policy. Mr. Rove never had to submit to Senate confirmation hearings. Yet, from the very start, photographs of cabinet meetings showed him in the background, keeping an enforcer’s eye on the proceedings. After his re-election in 2004, President Bush formally put Mr. Rove in charge of all domestic policy.

Nice of them to get around to noticing. Where were they a few years ago?

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More On Obama and The Iraq Supplemental

Further emphasizing the notion that Matt can write faster than me, I noticed, after finishing a piece on Obama's AP quote, that Matt's article on the subject had already been up on the front page for seventeen minutes. Even so, I want to echo what he[...]

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A Tale of Two Zachs

As a child & family therapist, I have worked with a number of young clients over the years that have struggled in some measure to come to terms with their sexual orientation. By and large, these individuals experienced more distress over coming out to their family than coming out to themselves or their friends. [...]

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Tainted

One of the fourteen "high value" detainees at Gitmo, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who the Pentagon had announced earlier this month had confessed to the attack on the USS Cole, has claimed during his closed-door hearing that he was tortured to obtain the confession.

The BBC yesterday reported:

A Saudi man held in US custody for five years has told a military hearing he was tortured into confessing a role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000.

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, 41, said he had faced years of torture after his arrest in 2002, a Pentagon transcript from the closed-door hearing said.

Mr Nashiri said he made up stories to satisfy his captors, the transcript said, but gave no details of torture.

...Mr Nashiri's testimony was given at a military tribunal held at Guantanamo to determine his status as an "enemy combatant" on 14 March, AFP news agency reports.

"From the time I was arrested five years ago, they have been torturing me," the transcript of his hearing read.

"It happened during interviews. One time they tortured me one way, and another time they tortured me in a different way.

According to his testimony he eventually "confessed" to playing a key role in the bombing of the USS Cole.

"I just said those things to make the people happy," the transcript read.

"They were very happy when I told them those things."

Among the apparent confessions contained in the transcript, Mr Nashiri told his interrogators that he met al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden several times and received significant amounts of money from him.

Several commentators noted yesterday that one military prosecutor had refused to act against another high value detainee because of allegations of torture. Along with the too convenient "mislaying" of the DVD of Padilla's interrogation and the plea deal entered into by David Hicks - which included an undertaking that he would not pursue the US government for any suit relating to possible torture during his detention - there is now a deep shadow cast over any and all detainee "confessions" or hearings.

The evidence is tainted, and with it America's reputation.

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