Make the bastards tow the line.

This "Crusade Against Evil" these Christian Conservative Republiscum launched which reverted America to the ugly days of the Vietnam War, has to be prevented from ever happening again.

The conman Christian in the USA flat out used the US military to fight their religious war against Islam. I find it amazing that such things continue to occur and wonder how any American could allow themselves to be used by the fairy worshippers when the Christian has a history of manipulating nations, Kings and Queens, and devestating their military every single time.

Crusaders have never beaten Islam. The Pope, the Bishops, the Bible Thumpers don't fight in the Crusades. They find King or Queen Dumbo to do it for them and get the Queen's military wiped out doing it.

King George W. Bush is the latest fool to Crusade for Christianity. He must have been drunk when Harvard was offering the lecture on world history and the Crusades. Only a fool would name a military action a Crusade. It was doomed from the beginning.

We need to stop treating these religious whack jobs as if they are above the law of man. They don't pay taxes, they aren't decried as lunatics for organized insanity to some non existent entity, they don't get held accountable for their actions.

All tax privileges granted organized religion in America, regardless of religion, should be removed. History teaches us that the King or Queen who sent his men to Crusade from the Christian and got his army butchered for it paid for it with his life, in the end.

History also teaches us that the Christian will quietly revert to the shadows for fear of being held accountable but he, too, despite all his efforts to the contrary, pays for the failed Crusade in in the end.

I say why wait for nature to take its course. Tax the bastards like they were normal people and see if they can survive.

says about Iraq. Senator Gordon Smith, Republican from Oregon, and one of the staunchest supporters of the invasion. What he said last week....

“I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal. I cannot support that anymore.”

Iraq Study Group: 

a bipartisan coverup of Washington’s war crimes

By Bill Van Auken
9 December 2006

A striking feature of the Iraq Study Group report is that its belated admission of the military-political debacle and catastrophic conditions created by the US intervention in Iraq excludes any assessment of how the “grave and deteriorating” situation in that country came to pass, and who bears political responsibility for it.

Instead, the document includes multiple denunciations of the Iraqi government for failing to provide essential services, create a functioning judiciary or foster economic progress. That the country was laid to waste by a US war and remains under military occupation—making Washington fully responsible for all of these failures—is simply passed over in silence.

As one member of the group, Democratic power broker Vernon Jordan, put it, the bipartisan panel made no effort to determine “how the house got on fire.”

www.wsws.org

STRAIGHT TO HELL

Jean Kirkpatrick

where she will meet all the torture victims of the Shah, Samoza, Pinochet, the South African and Rhodesian apartheid regimes, and the thousands of other who were tortured and killed by evil, insane murderous dictators who she defended. There she will experience what each and everyone of those tens of thousands experienced. It may take a while. Maybe after she's relived a few thousands of years of their horror, she will see things differently. Maybe not-->

Blood-Drenched Murderess 

Pimpslapped on 

"Third World Traveller"

Just as the career of Kirkpatrick's fellow death squad promoter John Negroponte spans from the Reagan government's crimes in Central America to the Bush regime's crimes in Iraq so too do the echoes of Kirkpatrick's pro-terror rhetoric from the early 1980s. When the US-trained Salvadoran army murdered three US nuns and a US woman lay missionary in 1982, Kirkpatrick notoriously tried to justify the killings by accusing the women of being political activists working for the Salvadoran guerrillas. What a contrast with the US government's reaction to the killing of four US mercenaries in Fallujah which led to the destruction of the city by thousands of troops backed up by artillery, armour and air-power.

On the other hand, Kirkpatrick's infamous lie about the four US women murdered in El Salvador is all of a piece with US government responses to the murder of Rachel Corrie by the Israeli army. Presumably we are to understand that activists have it coming to them simply for opposing US government policy - President Bush's puerile "with us or against us" indeed. Certainly, it is worth noting that this official US government mentality is nothing new. Hypocrisy and sadism have been the norm for decades engendered very clearly by ignorance and self-delusion.

One in Four Lebanese Holds U.S. Primarily Responsible for Israel/Hezbollah Conflict

United States cited most frequently after Israel itself

by Richard Burkholder

Forty percent of the Lebanese people feel Israel bears the most responsibility for last summer's devastating conflict with Hezbollah. But the entity next most likely to be assigned primary culpability is not Hezbollah, Iran, or Syria -- it is the United States. In fact, Lebanon's Shiite population is nearly as likely to attribute primary responsibility to the U.S. as they are to Israel itself.

Gallup Poll

Representative Cynthia McKinney
American Patriot

Updated: 11:23 p.m. ET Dec 8, 2006

WASHINGTON - In probably her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney has introduced a bill to impeach President George W. Bush.

The legislation from the Democratic congresswoman has no chance of passage and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment.

SHE HAS TWICE THE COURAGE 

OF ALL THE OTHER DEMOCRATS COMBINED

Newspapers this Sunday have their Opinion pages tuned into the field day event ’ Who is the Worst US President of all time?”

WashPost Editorials

Fear and Smear—> Smirk and Shirk

Thanks, Ted Rall

Bolton’s Tombstone

“His thick mosutache was least of his unpleasant characteristics. A thug & thief, an arrogant asshole, whose big-mouth and bull made him a laughing stock before the world. He was not able to follow-up on his grand schemes. Rot in hell, SOB!”

Do You Have What It Takes to 

Keep Supporting The Bush Administration?

1) Do you believe in a God, and are you willing to kill for your God, especially those who believe in a God other than your God?

2) Do you ignore the science that PROVES humans evolved from Apes?

3) Do you believe that YOUR God created the earth in 7 days and 7 nights only 6,000 years ago? And therefore do you believe man coexisted with dinosaurs, or else some asshole scientists CREATED fake fossils and placed them all over the world?

4) Do you hate your country, democracy, the Constitution, and every person on the planet who isn’t a neocon fundie corporate whore?

5) Do you think GWB actually won the elections in both 2000 and 2004?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, you are without a doubt a moronic neocon fundie lemming!!!

Thanks, Ted Rall

If the Neocons 

had not 

LIED US INTO THIS WAR

Saddam, at worst, would still be in power but under the close scrutiny of UN inspectors;

There would still be no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq;

Iraq still would not have been involved in 911.

Those who were involved in 911 would not have been granted a huge recruiting tool.

Iran would not be about to take over most of Iraq.

American Military would not be stretched to thin to deal with other dangers like Iran.

Iran would not be able to thumb its nose at America and build atomic weapons.

Iran would not be the dominant power in the Middle East as it will be once it takes over Southern Iraq which it will soon do.

US troops would have finished cleaning up Afghanistan instead of leaving it to warlords;

Real progress might have been made rounding up Taliban and al Queda in Afghanistan and Pakistan;

3000 US servicemen wouldn’t be dead and over 20,000 wounded;

The US would be hundreds of billions less in debt and might be able to afford education and medicine for its own citizens;

150,000 US servicemen would now be home with their families;

The US would still have its international partners in the terror war;

The US and UN could use their newfound influence to pressure Saddam into a peaceful transition of Iraq to a democratic government.

America would not be living with the shame of promoting torture.

George W Bush wouldn’t have his present reputation as an international war criminal.”

A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

by Howard Zinn
Published by City Lights Books | Available now
296 pages | ISBN: 0-87286-475-7 | www.citylights.com

1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book with, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, is about? What is it trying to communicate?

The book assembles my most recent writings on a variety of subjects, from the war in Iraq to essays on Eugene Debs, Henry David Thoreau, and Sacco and Vanzetti. The central theme is probably best expressed in the final essay, “The Optimism of Uncertainty,” in which I draw upon historical experience to suggest that the apparent power of governments and corporations is in fact fragile, that it rests on the obedience of the citizenry, and when that obedience is withdrawn, extraordinary change can take place.

2) Can you tell ZNet something about writing the book? Where does the content come from? What went into making the book what it is?

The book is really the idea of my editor at City Lights, Greg Ruggiero, who thought (and who was I to contradict him?) that my fugitive essays for the Progressive magazine and other publications deserved to be brought together, updated, and published as a book. Matt Rothschild, editor of “The Progressive,” where I am a regular columnist, graciously gave permission, and because he allows me to write on whatever subject I choose, there is a wide range of topics in the book. The editors at Princeton University Press allowed us to reprint my Introduction to a collection of Thoreau’s political writings. Deepa Fernandes agreed to let us use my introduction to her fine book “Targeted” on the immigration debate. We reprinted, with his permission, my introduction to David Cortright’s timely book on GI resistance to the Vietnam War. The magazine “Cineaste,” which has the most thoughtful and probing writing on the movies, offered to let me reprint the essay I wrote for them on the relatinship of film to the telling of history. The book also contains several essays that have never been published before.

3) What are your hopes for A Power Governments Cannot Suppress? What do you hope it will contribute or achieve, politically? Given the effort and aspirations you have for the book, what will you deem to be a success? What would leave you happy about the whole undertaking? What would leave you wondering if it was worth all the time and effort?

It is rare that any one book will have a cataclysmic effect on society — yes there was Tom Paine’s “Common Sense” and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and “The Communist Manifesto.” All any writer can hope for is that his or her book plays a small part in raising the consciousness of its readers, in pointing to new ways of seeing the world, in making them conscious of their own power when joined to others. So to talk about “success” is only reasonable if “success” is defined modestly. And if that is so, then a writer can never wonder if his or her book was “worth all the time and effort.”

4) A Power Governments Cannot Suppress has a beautiful cover photo taken during the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Were you on that march? Can you relay a story?

I was on the last leg of that march, the last twenty miles to Montgomery. We had spent the night before that — the thousands of people on the march — on a field of mud, because there had been a torrential rain, and so our sleeping bags rested on pure mud. As we came into the city of Montgomery, the streets were lined with people, mostly black, cheering and applauding. I decided that I didn’t want to stay for the speeches and ceremony that would take place in front of the state capitol. And so, tired, my clothes caked with mud, I decided to go home and made my way to the Montgomery Airport. At the airport I ran into my friend and former colleague, Whitney Young. He was arriving to be at the ceremony concluding the march. Whitney was a tall, distinguished looking black man. I was pretty disheveled. We decided to have a coffee together. The airport cafeteria in Birmingham was still segregated. Indeed, all over the South, the motto was “The Deep South Says Never.” But we decided to try anyway. We sat down. The waitress, a young woman, came over to us. I could see in her eyes her indecision. Then she turned to Whitney: “What will you have, sir?” I look at her uniform. On it was a huge button: “The Deep South Says Never.”

That is the point of much of what I say in the book. All those cries by the Establishment — “We will never give in…we will never cut and run…we will never end apartheid, etc. etc.” have turned out to be hollow claims, because when movements of people grow and become overwhelming, things change.

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For more information about A Power Governments Cannot Suppress and Howard Zinn’s upcoming media & speaking schedule, see: www.citylights.com
The following is the opening chapter from Howard Zinn’s new book A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, just published by City Lights.

No Peace for the Middle East

ICH - James Petras – Chances for a change in the direction of US Middle East policy are extremely unlikely. The reason is the growing power of the Jewish Lobby in Congress, the massive Zionist propaganda campaign in all the mass media, Olmert’s ‘nose leading’ of Bush, and a host of related activities. The end result is that Congress will not withdraw or reduce US troops and war funding for the Iraq War. Bush, with the support of McCain and Clinton, Liebermann, Reid and Hoyer, will push for more troops in pursuit of an all-out blood bath in Baghdad. The Baker Iraq Study Group under siege from the Zioncons and Zionlibs will be unable to deal with Israeli violence against Palestinians or enter into a dialogue with Syria and Iran on any but the most narrow and unpromising terms.

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