The Iranian judiciary has shut down a website which has been critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration, something that can't happen in America, at least not yet.
President Bush isn't trying to use the American judiciary to shut down websites. He is simply grateful that the Supreme Court stopped ballot counting in Florida and appointed him president in the first place.
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The U.S. Senate won't get us out of Iraq, won't support the troops with more time at home, but they courageously condemned a newspaper ad.
By a 72-25 vote, they passed a resolution condemning an ad in The New York Times by the MoveOn.org. which taunted Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, as "General Betray Us" because he is a mouthpiece for Bush's ugly and outrageous war.
With wisdom and encourage like that, how can we fail?
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Against the Iraq war? Who cares?
No one is paying any attention. Not Bush, of course; not Congress; not the corporate media.
There was an antiwar/pro-impeachment rally in Washington, DC yesterday, the seat of government, the place where thousands of media eyes are focused.
It was almost invisible. Thousands of people marched, nearly two hundred were arrested. The print media yawned. I don't know what TV coverage was like, since I never watch TV news anymore, but newspapers paid it little mind.
A spot check of the Sunday front page of nearly 200 newspapers showed no significant interest in the story. There was no mention of it on the front page of most of the papers I checked.
There were a few exceptions: The Stockton, CA Record carried it on the front page; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had a front-page picture referring to a story inside; and the Louisville Courier-Journal carried a small story on the bottom of page 1.
The rest? zilch.
A paper in Illinois had a front-page lead story on a local soldier killed in Iraq, but not a word about the Washington demonstrations.
There were stories on donuts, property values, etc. And there were lots of stories on football.
But a demonstration in the nation's capital against trillion-dollar war that has killed thousands of Americans, and probably a million Iraqi's was too insignificant for the front page.
And the question of impeachment also raised by demonstrators? Hardly if ever mentioned.
Now get ready for the war against Iran.
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Nearly every American would be offended by the mere thought. The few who do think it are afraid to say so, for the crazy right which is in charge of our media and our government would scream and rant that anyone voicing such an opinion is, at the very least, a traitor. But it has to be said:
In our foreign-policy, we are getting more and more like Nazi Germany under Hitler, invading countries at the will of our Fuhrer.
Of course, Hitler attacked the military powerhouses of the day; we attack and sometimes invade helpless nations. In the past few decades alone, we have attacked Korea, Vietnam, Granada, Panama, Bosnia, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq... the list is incomplete.
And if we don't rein in the president and the Congress, the next attack will be on Iran. And God help us all.
In Usenet, the mention of Hitler is supposed to be a conversation stopper. But we had better take a hard look at our similarities to the monster of the 20th Century, before we become the monster of the 21st.
This can't be a conversation stopper; the conversation is just beginning.
I began promoting impeachment five years ago when Bush and the neocons, with a lot of help from the media, first lied us into war. I was writing at the time for an online magazine that saw itself as progressive, but the editor/owner was dismissive of my articles even as he ran them.
Most “liberals” in Congress are still afraid of impeachment, although they will offer you a dozen “rational” reasons why it’s a bad idea: it’s too late, Bush is self-destructing already, we don’t have the votes, if we don’t rock the boat democrats will be a shoe in, etc.
So I no longer promote the impeachment of Bush; well, not Bush alone, anyhow.
Can we impeach Congress?
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