Posted on 18 November 2008 by Charley James | Comments (1) | Tags: also cover the hapless Army officers, authorized torture despite US laws, Bush would be pardoning himself, Bush’s Blanket Pardon For War And Torture, Charley James, Countdown, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Dubya considering issuing a “blanket pardon”, enlisted personnel who carried out illegal orders from, everyone involved in anything illegal in the Iraq and A, international treaties banning its use, it would allow an administration to do anything and esc, it would establish a “dangerous precedent” for future p, John Yoo, Jonathan Turley, NCOs, pardoning himself for Watergate would be an admission o, Paul Wolfowitz, remotely connected to torturing detainees during his se, Richard Nixon, self-pardon his Watergate crimes, shenanigans Bush & Co. might try pulling in their l, such a pardon would not only be “unprecedented” in Amer, the neo-con cabal surrounding the administration that n, whispered reports
by Charley James
As if we don’t have enough to worry about the shenanigans Bush & Co. might try pulling in their last 60-plus days in office, now comes whispered reports from Washington that Dubya is considering issuing a “blanket pardon” for everyone involved in anything illegal in the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions and – more [...]
Posted on 19 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 Dutch nationals, 120, 15 February 2003, 20:59:52, 21-million marched peacefully, 400-Americans, 665 countries around the world, Amsterdam’s DAM Square, bogged down in lip-sticked pigs, Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, civil war and internal destruction, CNN, co-opted by his national party’s leadership, conducted by a decorated war hero, Countdown, crying terrorist at every corner, Denis Campbell, desperately trying to seize a shred of military glory r, Dutch media village in Hilversum, election ‘officials’ poised to steal another election, fear smear and lies can win, flight suit carrier deck photo op, FOX, great national debate, Hans Blix UN report, hijacking of our global goodwill, Keith Olbermann, let the UN inspectors finish hunting for WMD’s, lies and misdirection like a cheap magic trick, Mission Accomplished, Monday, moral standing, MSNBC, not all Americans were like George W. Bush, rained bombs on Baghdad, shameful election campaign, silent candlelight vigil by the US Consulate, sits smothered by election silliness, That’s Countdown for this the 2000th Day since the decl, The Iraq Platform’s Faisel Nasser, the war barely merits an above the fold headline, two weeks before Election Day 2008, We deserve much better, we don’t listen to focus groups, ‘Shock and Awe’
by Denis Campbell
Keith Olbermann will utter the words: “That’s Countdown for this the 2,000th Day since the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq. I’m Keith Olbermann. Goodnight and good luck” thus closing Monday night’s MSNBC broadcast, two weeks before Election Day 2008.
If children have been born during this two year long Presidential campaign, imagine what [...]
Posted on 07 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 miles wide and 10 inches deep, 18 million votes, 4-more years, 527 groups, ads, ads so vile they are now in the Republican arsenal, Al Gore, Anglerfish, are too Democratic, attack ad machine, base is 10, because what’s at stake here is bigger than any one of, bitch slap, black community, burning through his fingertips, Bush = McCain, Bush fatigue, cathartic for the entire party, chum for the hungry masses and media sharks, clinton, conservative half, Countdown, delegates heard, democratic party, Democrats Abroad, do this, economic fatigue, EVERYONE has a bloody voice, everyone is toeing party line, Finding Nemo, flower children, general doom and gloom, get back in the line, get over themselves, Good Feeling’s Gone, good for Obama, group therapy, hates John McCain as nominee, her name should be placed in nomination, Hillary and Bill back to reality, Howard Dean, it’s about winning the damned election, Keith Olbermann, kow-towing to the Clinton’s, live in state of fear of upsetting, living in cloud-cuckoo land, machines. Tiananmen Square, Marlin, money is flowing, narcissistic ways, NBC Political Director Chuck Todd, Never bring a knife to a gunfight, no one dares upset anyone, nobody told you to go $20 million in debt Senator, now want everyone to pay for them, obama, on board, pay your money, polarisation in the nation, policy issue setbacks, preparing for 2012, Republican Party, RNC, run them over, should portend a Democratic landslide, special comment, study it further, stunt, Supreme Court justices, tabled every action, take a decision, take the mantel of leadership, the party will never forgive her, they know how to win elections, walked out of meeting wondering why we bothered coming, war fatigue, we’re too busy explaining our feeling, when the Democratic Party is divided they lose election, why should I support after the party after what they di, will backfire, won only three Presidential elections in the last 40-ye, you attacked Obama, you did that yourself
This line was uttered by Marlin the Daddy clownfish searching for his son in the film ‘Finding Nemo’ when he comes to the realisation that the light in the depths of the ocean he has been dreamily following is the lure of an Anglerfish. Barack Obama must feel the same way when a YouTube video of [...]
Posted on 01 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: aircraft carrier, Ari Fleischer, Barbara Bush, Bill Clinton, Bill O'Reilly, Christopher Cerf, Countdown, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, General Eric Shinseki, George W. Bush, Keith Olbermann, Kenneth Adelman, Mission Accomplished, MSNBC, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Victor Navasky, William Kristol
On 1 May 2003, President Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier in San Diego in front of 5,000 soldiers and Declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” Mission Accomplished said the banner behind their Commander in Chief. Every night MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann signs off his Countdown show by saying “That’s it [...]
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