Keith is back with a special comment, and all I can say is THANK GOD...
On Daviel Levin, the former U.S. Acting Assistant Attorney General, who was himself waterboarded to determine whether or not the act constituted torture and was therefore counter to the claims of the Bush Admininstration that it was not.
Water-boarding, he said, is torture.
Legally, it is torture .
Practically, it is torture.
Ethically, it is torture .
And he wrote it down.
Wrote it down somewhere, where it could be contrasted with the words of this country's 43rd President: "The United States of America does not torture."
Made you into a liar, Mr. Bush.
Made you into, if anybody had the guts to pursue it, a criminal.
Anyone care to listen and chat it up, perhaps some fellow California residents have some thoughts to share? I live in Vista, am already ill from the smoke and ash in the air, but somehow, find myself even more ill as I prepare to hear the angel of death comment on the current destruction we are experiencing.
I didn't want to post pics on any of the fantastic and valid diaries, but thought I'd share what is around us, as my husband and I and two cats await the word of evacuation, all our papers, some clothes, all the usual are waiting on the wings to grab and go should it get hairy for us....
Isn't it? I'm used to all the drinking games involved with Bush's press conferences and speeches - you know..for every mention of 9/11 or 'hard work' - whatever...
WASHINGTON - President Bush will hold a news conference this morning at the White House, his first since Aug. 9. A week after approving modest troop cuts in Iraq, President Bush prepared to face questions about the war and other issues.
While Bush anticipated questions about Iraq, the president planned to open with a statement challenging Democrats on their proposal for a $35 billion increase in a children's health insurance program. Bush has threatened to veto the bill.
I know this isn't much, it's just...I gotta talk about it, and I don't see a diary for it yet.
Woah...
How dare you, Sir?
"How many casualties will we have?" - this is the language of Bin Laden. Yours, Mr. Giuliani, is the same chilling nonchalance of the madman, of the proselytizer who has moved even from some crude framework of politics and society, into a virtual Roman Colosseum of carnage, and a conceit over your own ability -- and worthiness -- to decide, who lives and who dies. Rather than a reasoned discussion -- rather than a political campaign advocating your own causes and extolling your own qualifications -- you have bypassed all the intermediate steps, and moved directly to trying to terrorize the electorate into viewing a vote for a Democrat, not as a reasonable alternative and an inalienable right... but as an act of suicide.
I wanted to share some thoughts on why I feel I MUST vote, and why all of America really needs to get with the program on why we ALL should vote, regardless of the obvious robbery in the past, and suspect news in the coming election.
Ok, I know Kerry has been on fire as of late, Michael J. Fox is fighting the good fight, Mike Stark is being nothing but a fantastic patriot, and the polls are looking great, but I was straight up jonesing for Keith's special brand of comment..and he's announced it will be tomorrow. YESS...
There are two things that are keeping me sane this Monday night...Heroes will be on (I'm so hooked!..I need it, leave me be!) and Keith Olbermann has a special comment this evening on the advertising the GOP does for the terrorists, all by themselves.
Well Jack Cafferty is on a roll already - but will he make the Dems as bad as the Reps, as so many like to do?
We'll see if he can even get close to Olbermann's shining truth, but hey, we need all we can get too!
Here's a link to the webpage, looks like they will have a 6 part series starting Oct 23...an election special I'm sure!
i actually have knots in my stomach, waiting for the special comment, and i went to see if anything was posted yet. Here's a preview. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
We have lived as if in a trance.
We have lived as people in fear.
And now - our rights and our freedoms in peril - we slowly awake to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing.
Therefore, tonight, we have become the true inheritors of our American legacy.
For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:
A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.
Olbermann has really broken down with visuals how the Bill of Rights has been DEMOLISHED by Bush, regarding habeas corpus..with a marker crossing out the sections (which was most of it, by chain reaction) that are affected.
i'm just dazed. I mean.. for years, I knew it was coming, I've seen what this adminsitration has done since 2000. That year may not have been the Y2K some feared, but it was a definte turn in history. But now with this really huge thing..and there has been SO many huge things in this country since 2000! - seriously! - I'm left jaw hanging, thinking, what will this mean?? What does it all mean, really?
I'm certain many of you already do this or heard of it, but it occurred to me, in my frustration to do something to help this election year, that credit card companies have been inundating me with offers, and those postage paid envelopes have been wasting away in the trash.
I'm surprised no one is talking about this here, but there IS a whole lot going on..allow me to highlight this fresh new connection that makes some good sense...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election campaign asked the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday to throw out a challenge of the election in this swing state, saying the case resembles "a poorly drafted script for a late night conspiracy-theory movie."
How did you like their reasons for choosing Bush as man of the year??
"After winning re-election and "reshaping the rules of
politics to fit his 10-gallon-hat leadership style,"
President George Bush (news - web sites) for the
second time was chosen as Time magazine's Person of
the Year.
The magazine's editors tapped Bush "for sharpening the
debate until the choices bled, for reframing reality
to match his design, for gambling his fortunes -- and
ours -- on his faith in the power of leadership."
President Bush (news - web sites) defended embattled Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday, saying the Pentagon (news - web sites) chief was doing "a really fine job."
