War on Terror

We are exchanging spies that are not supposed to exist.
Really??
In this day and age, do we really need spies to start with?
Is that not what google is for??

If there is one phrase I'm sick of hearing the Liberal Left use it's "Moving forward".  The current administration and most of Congress repeat these words over and over.  It's no real surprise, however, given their number of mistakes and incompetent deeds that they want us to keep going forward and not look back.

When we caught the shoe bomber, they decided to make all of us, forever, take off our shoes.

When we caught the underwear bomber, they decided to escalate searches to invasive patdowns and ex-ray scanners.

When we got attacked on 9/11, they decided to invade an uninvolved country on made up intelligence.

Remember the tabaco wars?

Remember the breast implants scare?

When the economy started slowing down, they decided to spend billions of our money to fix their mistakes.

We really dont have to do everything big, just because we are big.

By now everybody has heard, read about, or maybe even experienced first hand, the tactics employed by the republican party and their operatives to disrupt town hall meetings at which healthcare reform is discussed.

Yes, its disruption without substance.It is not average citizens expressing their views. There is no view expressed when some load mouth just shouts down a meeting.

There is hope for democracy in Iran.

Not because of elections. Not because of people having the nerve to protest the elections results. Not because the international community is pressing for free and fair elections.

The real influence...Twitter and other social media. They are allowing the world to see what is actually happening in Iran and sustains the ever growing protests against what appears to be a stolen election.

Who says that Web2.0 does not equal democracy. It is the future of democracy, in suppresed countries and everywhere else for that matter.

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#What It’s Like to Chill with the Most Ruthless Men in the World
Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic:
 Confessions of a Female War Crimes Investigator

Cheney keeps defending the use of any method of interrogation on the basis that it kept the country safe during his administration and because valuable information was obtained. Does he really believe that any valuable information was obtained after waterboarding someone over 100 times?

Of course not! We know he is mean, even sadistic. Can he be that stupid?

There is no question that crimes were committed during the Bush era, all in th name of and supposedly justified by the war on terror and the 9/11 attacks.

There is some sense that we should just move on. That would be wrong.

Torture is and has always been considered to be illegal by our laws. Torture was authorized. Nobody seriously questions that. War does not excuse it. The unilateral expansion of executive power by Cheney does not excuse it or make it legal. Receiving legal opinions at odds with established law does not excuse it or make it legal.

What is it like to be the most unpopular president ever?

What is it like to leave a world at war and an economy in shambles?

What is it like to not realize that you were nothing but a pawn of people with real agendas?

Bush is giving exit interviews to the media. Cheney is still in an undisclosed location.

Will January 20th ever come...please!!

Obama has a chance to change a national policy that has run its course. Hasn't it?

Why are we still shunning Cuba now that Fidel is gone. His brother is giving clear signs that he wants to change the nature of the relationship.

Its time to stop isolating a country that simply embaressed us years ago.

We keep failing at regime changes. It didnt work in Cuba. It didnt work in Iraq. It didnt work with the Taliban. It simply does not work.