President Obama needs to tell Attorney General Eric Holder to indict Dick Cheney, right now, for war crimes.
Just look at the statute, Title 18 of the U.S. Criminal Code, Section 2441. It says that someone is guilty of a war crime if he or she commits a "grave breach of common Article 3" of the Geneva Conventions. And then it defines what a grave breach would be.
"Our intelligence pretty much confirmed that Saddam's chief lieutenant met with Scarface in a Prague plastic surgery clinic, as cover to get illegal substances."
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Nate Silver: The right way to fix Wall Street's Pay
Between 1992 and 2007, pay in the securities industry roughly doubled in real dollar terms, from an already-high $119,064 per employee to an extraordinarily high $234,594 per person. That 97 percent increase was by far the highest of any of the 61 industry sub-classifications tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (the average American worker's pay increased by about 20 percent over this period).
About one-third of the inspections so far have turned up major electrical problems, according to interviews and an internal military document obtained by The Associated Press.
"They just popped up about 18 months ago,"
Bobby Jindal repeated the 'hope he fails' mantra earlier this week at a $2500 dollar a plate fundraiser. Fred Thompson awoke from his nap long enough to gum on a cigar and add his own amen. Somewhere, Rush Limbaugh snickered...
Meanwhile, across the country, tent cities have sprouted like weeds, the definitive legacy of the last administration, which DID fail--uterly, totally, completely. An administration supported by people like...Jindal...Thompson...and Limbaugh.
You'd think the degree of failure might shame these people into a measure of silence (to their credit, Bush himself and Condoleezza Rice have taken that route)...but you'd think wrong. And I guess it helps to have a media that's been carrying GOP water for so long that they rush to the defense of...Dick Cheney.
You know, maybe it's just me, but when I see Dick Cheney smugly preening about how he and George managed to "keep the country safe" after 9/11 - perhaps THE most ghoulish mulligan ever, and of course there are the anthrax attacks so conveniently swept under the rug - I think about the shipwrecked economy, or the trashed Constitution...or 8/29 (i.e., the flood - the closest thing we'd get to a dress rehearsal of some sort of attack)...or the open-ended wars daily costing us lives and money...and I wonder:
Why do they need to attack us again? Bush-Cheney did a bang up job all by themselves.
And the people who supported them--Jindal, Thompson, Limbaugh, et al, should be treated with the disdain they deserve. Their leader, and his system were DISCREDITED...completely. They've had enough chances to try again. They failed.
Why do they get treated with any measure of respect?
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See, the thing is about Grabby McEarmarks is that she fails to notice the most obvious things. If she had that ability, she would never have run for Veep, never have made half of the campaign statements that she'd made, never ever have appeared on the Tee Vee Machine, and never have become a public figure to begin with.Protesters in Juneau line the steps of the capitol building protesting Palin's rejection of stimulus money for education and the arts.
"I'm going to do what's best for Alaska," Palin said. "We just want to make sure that everybody has all the information regarding this opportunity, because with opportunity comes obligation. I think the fairest route to Alaskans is not to get their expectations up." [photo and quote from Capital City Weekly]
I've been to a lot of Palin protests, but this one on the steps of the Capitol building is the first time I remember Palin being present at one. Way to go Juneau for stepping out there and speaking for all Alaskans who couldn't be in the capital city.
Hence, I doubt she so much as noticed the protest five feet in front of her oblivious nose.
I, for one, would be willing to see an amendment to the Geneva Conventions that would make the employment of such robots a war crime, punishable by death. The idea that "oh, we can program these things to obey the laws of war" is laughable.
If we are so stupid as a species that we are going to start making terminator robots, then we will richly deserve the consequences.
Krugman on the financial crisis.
"This was nothing more than a snub — pure and simple," said a senior Senate Democratic aide.
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