though this will be dismissed as ‘conspiracy theory’, maybe these detainees who are not acknowledged and those who have been killed, know something about 9/11 that the u.s. government doesn’t want revealed.

John Wayne was a movie actor. Risk is a board game played by stoned frat boys.

We are now seeing the real world results of decisions made by chickenhawks who think they own the world. “New American Century” indeed.

You can be sure that John Negroponte won’t.

There is a simple solution that would put a stop to these war criminals: Prosecute Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney under 18 U.S.C. sec. 2441, the U.S. federal criminal statute that makes it a war crime for an American citizen anywhere in the world to commit a “grave breach” of the Geneva Conventions. Is there any doubt that abolishing the protections of the Geneva Conventions and ordering torture and cruel, degrading, and humiliating treatment of prisoners under the U.S. government’s control are “grave breaches” of the Conventions?

Obviously Abu Gonzales will never prosecute his buddies, so we need another Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate this bunch and prosecute them as the war criminals they are.

Sadly, the Bush Cabal will stonewall any such appointment. Our only real chance to bring them to justice is for the Congress to go overwhelmingly Democratic in 2006, at which point real investigations, with subpoena power, can begin.

Dilawar? goatherder?

Maha — I haven’t seen mention of Billmon’s post today which is a first cousin of your “Secrets and Shame.”

In case that embed doesn’t work: http://billmon.org/archives/002330.html

Powell, by the way, has a brilliant line: It is cocktail chatter and pure sport.

That’s it, isn’t it? This is what passes now for conventional wisdom. I remember Tom Brokaw years ago in front of the White House angry that Nixon had been pardoned. Years later, he embarrassed himself defending Robert Novak after he outed Valerie Plame and lied about his involvement. Washington has become a dangerous drug for too many people who stay too long and hear the seductive and insiduous chatter of Washington power lunches. In a different context, my mother used to observe, rather drily I might add, that it’s called: keeping up with boys.

I just finished Squandered Victory by Larry Diamond.It’s very strange to read the book knowing that Abu Ghraib was taking place and that the Pentagon was building a worldwide archipelago of detention centers as dozens of Americans were roaming Iraq trying to set up democracy centers and sell democracy.

Is this just incompetence? Or do we have a potemkin administration and a Cheney/Rumseld administration that exist side by side?

Sometimes I think the issue is simpler. These are right wing John Birch types who have spent their whole lives reacting to the times without any examination of all the contradictions in their cherished observations or all the views that are ten to a hundred years out of date. We’re witnessing perhaps an eclectic right wing ideology driven by misplaced nostalgia.

I hope I live long to read what historians say twenty years from now.

But what has he done about it? With the exception of Krugman, I hold all of these corporate press/media people responsible for what has happened to this country. Solely reponsible? No, but they played a critical part. Without their support of the eight-year witch hunt against Clinton, the two-year smear against Gore and the whole bullshit legend of Shrub, the Brave and Bold, the ‘adults in charge,’ the lies, the lies and the failure to tell the truth.

They all went along with it. They suffer nothing in consequence. It is cocktail chatter and pure sport.

I don’t mean to pick on Herbert, but when was it he went into his bosses and told them he was going to quit if they didn’t clean up their act? Has he mentioned to Pinch that if he doesn’t get rid of Judith Miller that he is walking and taking anyone he can convince with him?