The Guerrilla Campaign

Fascinating, isn’t it? I guess we’ll be seeing another round of tax cuts for the well off. That’s just the sacrifice they’ll have to make. We all have to make sacrifices in these troubled times. But as we know that they’re all superior beings, much better than the worker classes, that they’ll shoulder the burden with their usual elan. –TM US government warns it's running out of cash Fri Dec 30, 2005 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051230/ts_afp/uspoliticseconomy_051230161316 WASHINGTON (AFP) - Treasury Secretary John Snow has warned that unless Congress raises the national debt limit, the US government will run out of cash to finance its daily work in two months. In a letter to Senate leaders Thursday, Snow said the statutory debt limit imposed by Congress of 8.184 trillion dollars would be reached in mid-February and the government would then lose its borrowing power. "At that time, unless the debt limit is raised or the Treasury Department takes authorized extraordinary ac...

12/30/05 Background: The UK government has been quick to deny that we practice, or tolerate the practice of Torture. So it is perhaps not suprising that they are determined that you should not see the following documents: http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/telegrams.pdf http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/npaper.jpg Craig Murray was the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, untill his complaints and protest at the use of intelligence gained by torture got too much for Jack Straw and the Foreign Office, who set about attempting to unsuccessfully smear him, and to successfully remove him from office. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3750370.stm http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2005/04/timeline_of_cra.html The Foreign Office has had the draft of Craig's book for clearance for over 3 months now, and they are doing everything they can to try and prevent him from publishing his side of the story. Their latest attempt to cover their own backs was to inform him, the night before Christmas E...

War Resister Jerry Texiero, the Marine Corps and Who Betrayed Whom? By: Jack Dalton 12/29/05 “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” Henry Kissinger as quoted in the book “Kiss the Boys Goodbye" Just when was it we in this nation lost our ability to choose if and when we would be willing to kill another human being, or be killed ourselves? When was it that following the “rules” became more important than following what is right? Case in point: Jerry Texiero; who as an active duty Marine in 1965 refused to deploy to Vietnam and took off (For details see: Marine Refuser From 40 Years Ago Faces Court Martial ). 40 years later the Marine Corps has Jerry incarcerated at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, N.C. Why would the Marine Corps take so much interest in Jerry Texiero and want to court-martial him 40 years later, when we all know for absolute fact the ‘American War On Vietnam’ was contrived , a war crime on a grand scale, and a war in...

Our Entitlement Paralysis By Robert J. Samuelson Wednesday, December 28, 2005; Page A21 Washington Pos t [...] Until we challenge this moral logic -- the crux of entitlement politics -- public opinion will resist change and our paralysis will continue. The responsibility for this failure is widespread: among liberals, who like massive government programs; among conservatives, who fantasize about "free market" alternatives to Social Security and Medicare; among pundits and "experts," who speak of the "entitlement crisis" in meaningless generalities or incomprehensible technicalities. Our resulting inaction compounds many future dangers of an aging society: higher taxes, slower economic growth, squeezed government spending for non-elderly programs and more conflict between younger taxpayers and older beneficiaries [...] Again, another clueless pundit writes about Social Security and Medicare. And again his solution is to cut benefits and raise the retirement...

Letter From Military Mom Robin Vaughan: Domestic Spying & Incident of Intimidation of Military Families 12/23/05 It wasn’t that long ago that the military command in Iraq started pulling computer access to various units. Seems some of the troops were writing emails home to family, to friends, to various anti-war groups and the like, and the military was getting a bit disconcerted by that. After all, can’t have your own troops pretty much turning the “official news” on its head now can you? So what do you do? You shut them up and any way that you can. Let them know they are monitored works pretty good. But, what about the “moms” back home that are writing on the internet? Moms like Robin Vaughan, whose letter detailing her recent experiences with the Department of Defense and the Army is below. Moms writing back and forth to “sons and daughters” in Iraq, who might “slip” and tell “mom” what life is really like in Iraq; Can’t have that now, can we? What if the “moms” start telling o...

Iraq Elections: What's Changed? Sunday, December 18, 2005 http://leninology.blogspot.com/2005/12/iraq-elections-whats-changed.html Peshmerga and Badr Corps interfere with voting . Dead Men Vote . United Iraqi Alliance claims victory . Baghdad Burning wrote some while back that many secular voters might back Iyad Allawi's list, despite his backing the atrocities in Fallujah, because "He who sees death, is content with a fever." I doubt the vote for Allawi will be very much more significant than it was in January. The LA Times indicates that Allawi has not done very well at all . One thing that has changed however is the alignment within the Shi'ite voting bloc. It appears that the Sadrists did better than any other partner in the UIA coalition , and that the SCIRI did rather badly. (See Cole's caveats on this). Also, of course, the Sunni Arab voters who had largely boycotted the vote last time round voted in very large numbers this time. Adnan al-Dulaimi of t...

November In Iraq http://www.peacetakescourage.com/november.html It’s Easier To Lie http://www.peacetakescourage.com/easiertolie.html Peace Takes Courage thanks to Eric Blumrich at Bushflash.com I was watching a video of my grandaughter toddling around the backyard. So cute. What am I going to tell her about this time of America? This is her century, hers and my grandson’s. And it is certainly not starting off real well. There is no other way to put it. We have allowed a corrupt and venal administration to rob her future. Not something to be proud of. And we have allowed this same administration destroy another country and people. And the American people, and the American media, and the American congress cheered on this obscenity. And still are. Sometimes the rage and sadness overcome me. The loss and waste caused by little georgie peorgie’s war is heartbreaking. And they send the dead home as freight . The Iraq people are not going to forget what we did to them. The wanton use of DU mu...

That’s the day little georgie got the nod from the supreme court. And quite the criminal enterprise he’s got going for him now. You can read None Dare Call It Treason by Vincent Bugliosi for more.

Rice defends unlimited detention of suspected terrorists (AFP) 29 November 2005 Khaleej Times Online http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2005/November/theworld_November769.xml&section=theworld&col= WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the unlimited detention of suspected terrorists saying, ... “You can’t allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them... Rice defends detainee tactics before trip to Europe By Saul Hudson 12/5/05 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051205/ts_nm/europe_rice_dc ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Maryland (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday defended U.S. treatment of terrorism suspects, telling European allies they should trust Washington and cooperate to prevent new attacks... Bush seeking compromise on CIA torture ban -aide 04 Dec 2005 18:21:22 GMT Source: Reuters By Mohammad Zargham WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The White House is seeking a compromise with a leading Senate Repub...