Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsNORTH KOREA, VIETNAM AND USAclipped by: klippetyclippers remarks: The same methods in the interrogations as our former and current enemies have conducted on POWs. We are in shabby company. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Iraqi prisoner had valuable intelligence, U.S. special forces believed, and they desperately wanted it. They demanded that expert American military trainers teach them the same types of abusive interrogation techniques that North Korea and Vietnamese forces once used against U.S. prisoners of war. The trainers resisted, according to testimony prepared for a Senate hearing Thursday; the methods were intended to elicit confessions for propaganda use, rather than gather intelligence. They were overruled and ordered to demonstrate on the prisoner in September 2003, early in the war. The interrogation went ahead before a lead trainer stepped in and stopped it. He and his team were sent home shortly thereafter. The review fits into a broader picture of the governments handling of detainees, which includes FBI and CIA interrogations in secret prisons. Greedy Bankers Power Hungry Govt Officialsclipped by: benzaclippers remarks: So we are to see the boast of Bush bubble burst before it reaches the shores of Africa leave alone victims of HIV/Aids and Malaria. Ahh these rotten politicians ... promises are made to surely break them. Whos to say that President Bushs generous and ambitious plan for HIV/Aids prevention in Africa or mosquito nets used against malaria - worth $15bn dollars - will survive the inevitable cuts? A poll in this weeks Washington Post indicated that only 9% of those polled believed the economy was sound. Just 14% of Americans think that the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest since the dog days of Vietnam and oil shocks in 1973. Whoever gets the keys to the White House will have his hands tied. It is like saying to a friend: "Go to the Caribbean, have a great vacation. Heres a dollar!" If the package passes, it will increase the budget deficit to $1.5 trillion. It could cost the average American household as much as $10,000. The Iraq war has cost more than $500bn so far. Broadly speaking, Democrats dislike it because it gives a handful of unelected officials a vast amount of money and power. Liberal PACs Ready Attack Ad on McCains Healthclipped by: jatflaclippers remarks: "..group of reporters"...3 hr. to review his medical records. That sounds like plenty of time for the current media mentality to find plenty of things wrong...if there were any. Oh, and the droopy eye-lid clip today....I have two of them; droopy eye-lids, that is. Liberal PACs Ready Attack Ad on McCain?s HealthTwo liberal groups ? one of them directed by a brother of the Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean ? will begin running a graphic attack advertisement Thursday morning raising questions about Senator John McCain?s health. Showing vivid and unflattering images of the fresh scar that appeared on Senator McCain?s face immediately after his last operation for melanoma skin cancer eight years ago, the commercial ends with a screen headline that reads, ?Why won?t John McCain release his medical records?? (Mr. McCain, 72, did invite a limited group of reporters to inspect more than 1,100 pages of his medical records in May, though he gave them only a three-hour window in which to review the documents.) the same two groups that recently released an advertisement questioning whether Mr. McCain?s time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam adversely affected his ability to lead. Dowd vs. Palin (cont.)clipped by: nchntedclippers remarks: The Lipstick Jungle!! After losing its moral superiority abroad with phony evidence for attacking Iraq, the U.S. has now lost its moral superiority in the financial arena. Once more, W. took the ball, carried it off the cliff and went biking. Doctor K prolonged the war in Vietnam to help Nixon get re-elected and then advised W. on Iraq that the only way to beat an insurgency and save face is to stick it out, no matter how many American kids and foreign civilians die. Summoning his old Harvard teaching days, Kissinger surely looked for a common didactic starting point: She has seen Russia. ?Goot. I haff seen it, too.? Kissinger probably explained détente and Metternich to Palin, while she explained the Iditarod and moose carving to him. They talked Russia, which is relevant. And Governor Palin spends so much time ostracizing reporters who might quiz her on NATO or the liquidity crunch that her press strategy is beginning to smack of Putin?s ? but less lethal. "CIA is taking over the churches" ?!clipped by: cakebellyclippers remarks: Case in point: Daniel Ellsberg. Once a seminary student, then an officer in Vietnam, and finally working for the nations highest intelligence organization, he was ordered to compile all the records of our war in Vietnam into a readable history. Ellsberg got them published by The New York Times, instead of keeping them secret. Otherwise known as the Pentagon Papers, these records showed how America deceived its own citizens and fostered a war in that far Southeast Asian country, of which we are still feeling the effects today. President Richard Nixon, to try to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, set up the "plumbers" spies who ransacked Ellsbergs psychiatrist office. Tricky Dick then used these same plumbers to tap the Democratic Headquarters in the Watergate office buildings. Other former CIA agents, like Phillip Agee and John Stockwell, told their stories of intrigue and American meddling in the affairs of other countries. All had a religious background and a penchant for telling the I didn?t think much when I met one of the evangelical pastors from an Assembly of God church, and he told me he was a former CIA agent. I wondered how he came by his faith. I thought he might have had to reconcile himself with what he had done for the United States government now that he was a pastor for the Lord. But then I met another, and then another. There seems to be a plethora of pastors who once worked as intelligence officers for the world?s largest spying corporation. Now, I?m not a paranoid person, and I don?t believe in conspiracy theories, but the thought of ex-CIA agents taking over fundamentalist congregations seems too weird. Because I remember when pastors were liberal and anti-war. I remember hearing of Catholic CIA agents who blew the whistle on atrocities committed in Vietnam and Central America. In fact, some of the best-known heroes of the left came from a religious background, entered the CIA and were appalled at what they were ordered to do. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2008/09/26
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