The Guerrilla Campaign

Top US general says Rumsfeld is inspired by God Thu Oct 19 2006 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061019/pl_afp/usmilitarypolitics_061019193550 MIAMI (AFP) - The top US general defended the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying it is inspired by God. "He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country," said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Road Map in the Back Seat? Friday, June 27, 2003; Page A27 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37944-2003Jun26?language=printer Imagine our surprise Wednesday to read in the Israeli paper Haaretz (online), that Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Mazen, meeting recently with militants to enlist their support for a truce with Israel, said that, when they met in Aqaba, President Bush had told him this: " God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam... Warring with God Tuesday 21 October 2003 http://www.trut...

Wednesday, October 18, 2006 by riverbend Baghdad Burning http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#116120448528625171 This has been the longest time I have been away from blogging. There were several reasons for my disappearance the major one being the fact that every time I felt the urge to write about Iraq, about the situation, I'd be filled with a certain hopelessness that can't be put into words and that I suspect other Iraqis feel also. It's very difficult at this point to connect to the internet and try to read the articles written by so-called specialists and analysts and politicians. They write about and discuss Iraq as I might write about the Ivory Coast or Cambodia- with a detachment and lack of sentiment that- I suppose- is meant to be impartial. Hearing American politicians is even worse. They fall between idiots like Bush- constantly and totally in denial, and opportunists who want to use the war and ensuing chaos to promote thems...

Bush signs bill to interrogate, prosecute terror suspects POSTED: 10:16 a.m. EDT, October 17, 2006 http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/17/bush.terrorism.ap/index.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush signed legislation Tuesday authorizing tough interrogation of terror suspects and smoothing the way for trials before military commissions, calling it a "vital tool" in the war against terrorism. [...] This bill allows torture, indefinite detention, ends habeus corpus, and also applies to US citizens. Oh yeah, and gives amnesty and immunity to the bush administration for these particular war crimes. Now, I'm not one to disparage, but... Do the republicans actually think the "Enlightened One and Font of All Goodness and Knowledge", little georgie bush is going to be president forever? The bush cult members seem to have forgotten that not everyone is as sensitive as their god. The next president may not be. What are they going to tell their grandkids about how they d...

By Mary Shaw October 14, 2006 OpEdNews.com http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=1986 I'm talking about the America that I had come to know and love -- the America that stands for human rights, moral values, goodness and decency. On Tuesday, October 17, at 9:35 a.m., George W. Bush will sign the Military Commissions Act and abolish some important rights that our founding fathers had placed at the heart of our democracy. Thereafter, Bush and his agents will have the power to arbitrarily decide that you may be a threat to this nation. They can then lock you up and throw away the key. They don't have to tell you why you're being detained. They can torture you, as long as they don't call it that. They don't have to reveal whatever evidence they might have against you, so there is no way that you'll ever be able to dispute that secret evidence or prove your innocence. You're at their mercy. This sounds like the kind of thing that goes on in brutal th...

That the homophobic republican party, you know, the one that advocates torture, indefinite detention, murder, rape, corruption, adultery, and pornography would harbor and protect pedophilia, should really come as no surprise. Perverted by it’s superstitions, it is fiercely trying to hold onto power for the sake of power, not to govern, but to shield itself from investigation, leading to convictions, vilification, disgust, and, finally, destruction. The tawdry foley affair has finally revealed republicans for who they truly are when the masks are removed. That anti-gay defense that their protectors (the *CCMA) are assisting them in, is ludicrous. So let’s just do away with it once and for all. Why, just in the last few years, a couple of women have been arrested for pedophilia with young men right here in jeb’s Florida. Even here in lovely Redneck City, the convicted child molesters abound, mostly men, mostly with young girls. Oh, and did I mention necrophilia? Poor Terri Schiavo, they ...

A Journey Through The Mind Of Contemporary Conservatism by Phil Rockstroh Day-to-day life within an empire consists of the deceitful leading the disengaged. Although when the artifice shielding a nation's populace from the ruthlessness of their leaders begins to fall away, hysteria and displaced rage rises in the land. Ergo, in the American empire, we're witnessing these demented days of congressional boy love and despotic rockets. Day after day, the pace at which insane tidings arrive quickens: it's as if we've become passengers on a high-speed train, commandeered by lunatics, that only stops at insane asylums in order to board more lunatics ... Naturally, the train has gone runaway, careening down the buckling tracks, blue spark spraying from its steel wheels, while any approaching curve becomes a threat to derail the whole hurdling madhouse. For many years, these episodes of mass psychosis have been gaining velocity. Empires are inherently bughouse crazy, because, by...

by Mary Pitt For God's sake, Mr. President, just TALK to the man! Ever since you "took" the office of the presidency of the United States, the president of North Korea has been asking to talk to you and you have refused. Bill Clinton talked to him, learned what the needs of that nation were, and agreed to fulfill some of those needs in return for some concessions by North Korea. You came in with a roar, totally ignoring the Clinton agreement, then naming Iraq, Iran, and North Korea the Axis of Evil, and insulting Kim Il Jung as being a "pigmy". Time after time, Kim has asked to talk to you and each time, you have ignored and refused that request. It's not that you have an aversion to speech! You are no threat to the ownership of President Coolidge's nickname of "Silent Cal". We can't turn on the television set without seeing your face and hearing your mouth flapping. Maybe the reason you won't talk to President Kim or Ahmedinijad or Cha...

Did the president bush "pocket veto" the Torture and Tyranny act? The bill was passed by congress on Sep 29, and sent to the president. The Constitution says in Article 1, Section 7: "...If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law. " The tenth day was Oct 10. What got me thinking about this was reading the transcript at Crooks & Liars Olbermann: “Why does habeas corpus hate America” By: Jamie Holly on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at 6:04 PM - PDT http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/10/olbermann-why-does-habeas-corpus-hate-america/ [...] "Because time was of the essence–and to ensure that the 9/11 families would wait no longer–as soon as he got the bill, President Bush whipped out his pen and immediately signed a s...

by Steve Clemons The Washington Note October 10, 2006 http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/ Fareed Zakaria may have been in a secret meeting with Paul Wolfowitz five years ago figuring out how to frame an Iraq invasion -- or even agitating at the meeting for many more troops for such an invasion and occupation. Today, however, Zakaria captures clearly the consequences that have been wrought from America's misguided adventure. Zakaria writes : Iraq is now in a civil war. Thirty thousand Iraqis have died there in the past three years, more than in many other conflicts widely recognized as civil wars. The number of internal refugees, mostly Sunni victims of ethnic cleansing, has exploded over the past few months, and now exceeds a quarter of a million people. (The Iraqi government says 240,000, but this doesn't include Iraqis who have fled abroad or who may not have registered their move with the government.) The number of attacks on Shiite mosques increases every week: there have be...

While it’s not surprising that the party of social deviants would shelter pedophiles like foley and vicious psychopaths like bush, what is surprising is that 33% of American voters still support bush. Connie gets around town here in Redneck City more than I do doing chores and stuff during the week. She’s told me that she hasn’t met a bush supporter in a long time. That’s in none. The republican party isn’t much higher on the list of acceptability either. So, has the bush lost Redneck City? Even jeb, the ‘popular’ governor, has lost a lot of his sheen. For over six years, I’ve been talking to my neighbors, co-workers, people I meet in the street, and, of course, shop-dropping all over town. While my efforts have met with some success, I sure can’t take a lot of credit for this change of opinion. The area where I live is, without doubt, former bush country. There’s a lot of faded bush bumper stickers on cars and trucks. And all as faded as the republican party. Just up the road a couple...

by Bill Losapio This article was submitted to the Florida Tech Crimson Oct 3, 2006 “We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent.” -Statement by Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member James Warburg to The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, l950 “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” -Revelations 13:16 The New Torture Bill House bill H6166 (yup…) signed by the president, introduces, per the New York Times, “a dangerously broad definition of ‘illegal enemy combatant’…could subject legal residents … to summary arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal.” It essentially broadens the term so that it can be applied to “whomever a military tribunal says so,” to paraphrase freedomunderground.org . The PATRIOT Act T...

Deeper and Deeper The New York Times Editorial Thursday 05 October 2006 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100506E.shtml There is fresh evidence, if any more were needed, that excessive borrowing during the Bush years will make the nation poorer. For most of the past five and a half years, interest rates have been low, allowing the government to borrow more and more - to cut taxes while fighting two expensive wars - without having to shoulder higher interest payments. That's over now. For the first time during President Bush's tenure, the government's interest bill is expected to rise in 2006, from $184 billion in 2005 to $220 billion this year, up nearly 20 percent. That increase - $36 billion - makes interest the fastest-growing component of federal spending, and continued brisk growth is likely. According to projections by Congress's budget office, the interest bill will grow to $249 billion in 2007, and $270 billion in 2008. […] The result, as The Wa...

The pervert foley affair has certainly kicked this off the front pages. This is what we should be hammering on. He’s toast. ABC has mentioned that the information came from republicans. Another used kleenex tossed as distraction, much like ken lay and the duke cunningham. Many people I talk to are really unaware of this new act, much less the implications, but they sure do know the e-mails that foley sent. As much as foley is the revealed face of the corrupt perverts filling republican ranks and the leadership, the new Tyranny Act is more dangerous for the US. A viciously vindictive psychopath is sitting in the White House. And the next person to sit there may not be so “enlightened” as the bush. Do we really want to find out with this obscenity of a law on the books? Do we really want the war criminal bush and his corrupt criminal administration in power for the next 2 years? America faces many challenges ahead, as does the rest of the world. We really can’t afford to spend any more t...

Here’s a few puzzle pieces to ponder. Remember the new Tyranny Act. And also keep in mind that the republicans REALLY can’t afford to lose control of congress. Why wait for diebold when you can preempt the whole thing beforehand. Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs' By Nat ParryFebruary 21, 2006 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022106a.html Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a new target for the administration’s domestic operations -- Fifth Columnists, supposedly disloyal Americans who sympathize and collaborate with the enemy. “The administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue Fifth Column movements,” Graham, R-S.C., told Gonzales during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Feb. 6. […] Plus, there was that curious development in January when the Army Corps of Engineers awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root a $385 million contract to constr...

The president bush is a vindictive, little, insecure man. You do know, that he's just going to attach one of his super secret signing statements that says the Torture and Tyranny Act means just what he says it means, no more, no less. And the congress went along. Like with everything else. Frightened little shits. And now, a new case of pedophilia, aided and abetted, by the speaker of the house, and the rest of the republican leadership. And the corruption. Convictions and jail time for so many republicans and their sponsors. Nepotism. Cronyism. Bribery and extortion. Yes, and even murder. And now, even legal torture. With our money. They don’t even have the good taste to use their own, for chrissakes. And, in the meantime, those lost, bush, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue. Just gonna stay the course till he’s out of office. So, had enough yet? Military Commissions Act 2006—Unchecked Powers? by Anup Shah; Global Issues ; October 02, 2006 http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticl...

by Mary Pitt 10/1/06 As Congressmen and Senators, having felt the outrage of the American public at the conduct of the War of Choice, are pursuing the opportunity to keep their well-paying jobs in the upcoming election, more and more of them are announcing that they regret having voted to go to war. Their alibi is that they were the victims of faulty intelligence which caused them to misunderstand the situation. However, upon examination, it would appear that the pertinent intelligence which was faulty just may have been their own! If little old ladies out here in the Great Fly-Over, without advanced degrees and with scant access to news sources were aware that all the "intelligence" which was spoon-fed to the public by this administration was nothing more than selective propaganda, then why was it so difficult for Congressmen and Senators to see through it? It did not take a rocket scientist to connect the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center with the one whi...

Constituents, friends react to Foley's resignation September 29, 2006 The News-Press, Ft Myers, FL http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Dato=20060929&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=309290004&Ref=AR […] "It's never good when you lose a good congressman (mark foley r-FL)," said Lee County's GOP state committeewoman Jan Ganter. "I think the people lost a good servant. So, I regret it." […] Ganter said she questions the timing of the reports, given the election is 39 days away. Ganter said it's suspicious that the e-mails have popped up shortly after Republican Virginia Sen. George Allen was painted as a racist. "It's a big coincidence that all these things are happening to our fine conservative party," Ganter said. "It does make one wonder." […] Well, jan, it DOES make one wonder. What do you say, kids? Let’s just check some of the ‘ tools ’ (no pun intended). [http://tmars.iwarp.com/guerrilla_campaign/document/...

How Did We Come To This? by Phil Rockstroh 9/28/06 "True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that False Self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality ... and through this death a rebirth, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer." -R. D. Laing The pathology of American culture is as ubiquitous as its strip-mall ugliness. It is abundantly evident, in almost every aspect of contemporary life. From the predatory (to the point of psychopathic) practices of its morally scurvy pirates at the helm of the corporate/governmental ship of state, down to the pandemic enervation and proliferate anomie of its galley slaves languishing in their soulless cubicles -- from the genitalia-devoid mascots at Disney World to the genitalia-obsessed torturers of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo -- the soul-sickness spreads before us like George W. Bush's taunting, executioner's smirk. Ronnie Laing's profound dictum le...

9/28/06 Hi kids, Here’s the perverts who like to torture. Don’t take any candy from them. And especially, don’t accept rides from them. [http://tmars.iwarp.com/guerrilla_campaign/document/Hi_kids.pdf] Senate approves terrorism interrogation bill 9/28/06 7:01pm EDT http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060928/pl_nm/security_guantanamo_dc_13 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a bill setting rules for interrogations and prosecutions of foreign terrorism suspects, sending it to President George W. Bush to sign into law. Senate OKs bill for detainee trials, interrogations POSTED: 7:30 p.m. EDT, September 28, 2006 http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/28/congress.terrorism.ap/index.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate on Thursday endorsed President Bush's plans to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects, all but sealing congressional approval for legislation that Republicans intend to use on the campaign trail to assert their toughness on terrorism. The 65-34 vote means th...