Although, President Bush was blasted this week from those on the left for the “rendition” program, it was actually Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger and Richard Clark who developed this practice.
The national headline this morning was that 18 people were killed in Iraq.
2005 leaves us with a new class of victims.
Two separate rulings on Friday paint a bleak picture for the US Catholic Church.Mitchell Garabedian, a lawyer representing 55 of the abuse cases against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, is seen in a 2002 file photo.
A UN official who declined to tour Guantanamo Bay Detention Center after he was told he would not have unlimited access to detainees, accused the US of force-feeding detainees at the prison.
This is startling news!
Today the Justice Department finally opened an investigation into the leak of classified information on domestic surveillance programs.
This is what Senator Jay Rockefeller said in a July 26, 2004, press release: “Our top priority is to ensure the best intelligence capability possible and we must be guided by certain principals.
Craig Murray, Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan, has been portrayed in the media as a colourful and dotty rogue with a penchant for bars, girls, Range-Rovers and outrageous breaches of diplomatic protocol.
Predictions for ’06 And, here are the Top 10 Blame Bush Moments from 2005.
Poor little Snuppy Doo!
Now that the Christmas, er… I mean the Holiday Season is over, the ACLU refocused on the Bush Administration in its latest ad, sentencing George Bush to the same fate as Richard Nixon for listening in as foreign terrorists called their contacts in America.
Milbloggers Matt at Blackfive, GreyHawk at the Mudville Gazette and Lt.
The good news is that Palestinians are optimistic with 68% feeling general optimism for the future.
Russia published initial reports today blaming local police and officials for the most horrific terrorist attack in Russian history.
Wacky Suzanne Osthoff who was just released by her captors in Iraq believes that hostage-taking is a perfectly reasonable means for encouraging Western governments to supply more humanitarian aid to the Sunnis of Iraq.
Claudia Rosett ends the year with an Oil for Food Scandal thriller!(via Free Thoughts)Curiously, the name on the mailbox for the “aunt’s apartment” was that of the man in charge of the Oil for Food Program himself… “Benon Sevan.” Claudia Rosett won’t let you down on her last piece for the year on the UN Oil for Food Scandal in the Wall Street Opinion Journal.
Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Standard has been researching the contacts between Saddam’s Iraq and Al Qaeda for several years.
PALESTINIAN GUNMEN EXCHANGED FIRE IN GAZA EARLY TODAY, CRITICS FEAR ABBAS IN UNABLE TO ENFORCE SECURITY,VIDEO HERE As Gaza battles escalate between factions and before elections planned for next month, Israel fears a Palestinian Collapse.Palestinian gunmen from the Fatah movement take position on the roof of a government building after storming the building, northern Gaza Strip, December 27, 2005.
Bill Roggio at Threats Watch was more than mildly upset with the Washington Post for the flaws in its Monday article on Information Operations: Monday’s Washington Post featured an article written by Jonathan Finer and Doug Struck titled s, Money Now Weapons in Information War – U.S.
Although director Steven Spielberg calls “Munich” his “call for peace” the mastermind behind the Munich attacks says he doesn’t regret his role in the operation.
Juan Cole laid out his “10 Myths on Iraq” today to set the record straight for all of his readers who have not been paying attention to any of the successes in Iraq.
HATEFUL PROTESTERS FROM THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH PICKETED THE FUNERAL OF ST.
IRAQI OPPOSITION PROTESTERS TOOK TO THE STREETS OF BAGHDAD TODAY BUT THEIR NUMBERS DWINDLED SINCE THE WEEKEND,VIDEO HERE As Mohammed at Iraq the Model was saying yesterday the political situation in Iraq seems have subsided in the last 48 hours.
A year after the devastating Asian tsunami, the amazing survivors of the disaster that killed an estimated 230,000 people in southeast Asia are still struggling to put their lives back together.
Let’s see… It has been 11 months since George Bush made his historic Inaugural Address to seek and support democratic movements in foreign lands.
Touching on mortal sin, $9.5 million, homosexuality, Polish Catholics, promiscuity, excommunication, and Senator John Kerry,… this is not your average Christmas Tale.
“As long as I am alive, I will not be resigned to being a slave.” Feng BingxianDuring his trial for organizing protests in China.December 26, 2005 “They accused my father and the other three defendants of ‘disrupting social order’, which is groundless, since we only gathered around 200 people to stand in front of the provincial government and ask them to negotiate.
This was predictable.
After the tsunami last year, Baby 81 was caught in a desperate custody battle with 9 sets of parents.
Over 90 people have come down with a mysterious illness in Chechnya.
COLIN POWELL HAD SPECIAL WORDS FOR THE TROOPS WHO ARE SERVING AWAY FROM HOME DURING THE HOLIDAYS,VIDEO HERE This is the second major interview in ten days where Colin Powell has defended the Bush Administration since he was attacked by a former aide.
Mahmoud Abbas prays at the Catholic Midnight Mass in Bethlehem.
Antiphon for Monday Vespers in the 4th week of Advent: O Flower of Jesse’s stem, you have been raised up as a sign for all peoples; kings stand silent in your presence; the nations bow down in worship before you.
Russell Crandall was appointed Director for Western Hemisphere Initiatives, one of five advisors for the Western Hemisphere to the President and National Security Advisor.
If you read Steven Weisman’s article today in the New York Times on former embittered Powell aide Lawrence B.
The mainstream media today likens body slamming, screaming, blood on his hands, f***ing shameless, “He lied to us.”, cussing, crack up, Al Franken to the legendary Bob Hope.
Despite Bethlehem’s largest Christmas celebration in years, Senior Roman Catholic Leader Michel Sabbah just sees a prison.Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah sprays water in front of the Nativity Church in the Biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem.
Fears of sectarian strife subsided on Saturday after President Talabani gathered Iraqi leaders for meetings on how best to deal with election disputes.
Despite constant attacks and the refusal to emphasize any of the terrific economic numbers and progress in the Mideast by the media, President Bush has bounced back to 50% approval in performance as president.
“Our victory as a government, our real victory, is that the election process included all political groups,” al-Jaafari said.
Dutch arms merchant who sold Saddam chemicals is convicted of war crimes as a Hague Court claims Saddam waged genocide against the Kurds.Iraqi Kurds celebrate after hearing the verdict outside the Court in The Hague, the Netherlands Friday Dec.
The 249-seat Afghanistan House of Representatives, or the Wolesi Jirga, held session this week.
Irani Opposition protesters gather in Vienna before EU nuclear talks with Iran.
In an interview with the Washington Monthly liberal blogger Daily Kos, Marcos Moulitsas, says “It’s all about winning” and shows no remorse for his outrageous comments in June 2003 about the murdered American contractors in Fallujah: I hate Washington,” says Markos Moulitsas Zuniga… When Moulitsas says Washington, he’s not talking about Bush’s Washington with its pitched partisan camps and pay-to-play ethos.
Prairie Pundit has the distressing story on how Bin Laden gained knowledge that we were listening in on his cell phone conversations in 1998 and what it was that tipped him off to it.
TONY BLAIR MADE A SURPRISE CHRISTMAS VISIT TO SOUTHERN IRAQ TO PRAISE BRITISH TROOPS,VIDEO HERE British troops were happy to see Leader Tony Blair.British Prime Minister Tony Blair (C) poses with British troops based in Basra, Iraq December 22, 2005.
John Hinderaker at Powerline discusses the NSA matter today including this point: If our soldiers or intelligence agencies discover a terrorist in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere, the President or his designees can order an air strike or other attack to kill him.
The US has a long history of using propaganda to shape foreign public opinion in favor of US policy.
Umm… This is an absolute riot, from St.
The White House Wakes Up David White, a former speechwriter for the Bush Administration, wrote on Wednesday in the New York Sun and American Enterprise Institute on how the Bush team has FINALLY come out of hibernation and how the democrats have gone back into their anti-war fantasyland of a strong defense by one thousand options.
After Crips Co-founder Tookie Williams was put to death last week, activists in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hometown of Graz, Austria started a petition to remove Arnold’s name from the city stadium.
Not to bust a big liberal bubble or anything, but John Schmidt at the Chicago Tribune explained how President Bush had legal authority to wiretap: President Bush’s post- Sept.
BESIDES GARDENING, SADDAM SAYS HE WAS BEATEN EVERYWHERE ON HIS BODY AND STILL HAS THE MARKS TO PROVE IT,VIDEO HERE What will the New York Times say about this?
The Beijing backed Hong Kong government suffered a defeat to democracy legislators today who voted down their reform package.
The “Bush Hating” label is from articles on Judge Robertson from last year!
TigerHawk has thoughts.
CRIPS CO-FOUNDER TOOKIE WILLIAMS WAS LAID TO REST TODAY,VIDEO HERE The Tookie Legacy: In 2004 alone, in the City of Los Angeles alone, gang-related crimes accounted for 291 homicides, 717 attempted homicides, 2616 felony assaults, 61 attacks on police officers, 2308 robberies, 44 kidnappings, 36 rapes, 754 acts of witness intimidation, 20 acts of extortion, and 188 carjackings.
Not even 48 Hours into office and Bolivian President Evo Morales Praises Castro and calls Bush a terrorist.Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales waves to supporters in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
BILL OREILLY GOES OFF ON VICENTE FOX, MEXICO AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,VIDEO HERE “There was a lot of criticism about the Berlin Wall, and the wall that Israel is building along its border with Palestine, and now it´s happening here…” …Except that the Berlin Wall kept people in instead of out.Three layers of fences separate the U.S.
