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The Sham of the Padilla Trial : "Jury selection in the Jose Padilla case is now under way in federal district court in Miami, but the trial is nothing more than a sham. Why? Because no matter how the jury rules, Padilla is almost certain to remain incarcerated for a long time. If Padilla is convicted by the jury, the judge will likely sentence him to serve much of the rest of his life in a federal penitentiary for having conspired to violate federal criminal laws against terrorism. "

Star-Telegram.com | 05/01/2007 | War costs grow in money, lives : "WASHINGTONThe bitter fight over the latest Iraq spending bill has all but obscured a sobering fact: The war will soon cost more than $500 billion. That's about 10 times more than the Bush administration anticipated before the war started four years ago, and no one can predict how high the tab will go. The $124 billion spending bill that President Bush plans to veto this week includes about $78 billion for Iraq, with the rest earmarked for the war in Afghanistan, veterans healthcare and other government programs."

AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Moyers on Media's War Pt 1 [VIDEO]

AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: George Bush Receives Purple Heart Award : "Did you know that George W. Bush was a war hero? I know that this development comes as a shock and surprise to many progressives who are familiar with Bush's military career, but he received a Vietnam-era Purple Heart award a few weeks ago in the Oval Office. Seriously. "

Poor George Tenet; He Still Doesn't Get It - by Ray McGovern George Tenet's book shows that he remains, first and foremost, a politician – with no clue as to the proper role of intelligence work. He is unhappy about going down in history as "Slam-Dunk Tenet." But, George protests, his famous remark to President Bush on Dec. 21, 2002, was not meant to assure the president that available intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was a "slam dunk." Rather he meant that the argument that Saddam Hussein had such weapons could be enhanced to slam-dunk status in order to sell war on Iraq. Those of you who tuned in to CBS' 60 Minutes Sunday night heard Tenet explain what he meant when he uttered the words he now says everyone misunderstood or distorted in order to blame him for the Iraq war. What he says he meant was simply: "We can put a better case together for a public case." [sic]

The War Profiteers - Lawyer: Haditha Officer Up for Medal : "Lawyer: Haditha Officer Up for Medal By Thomas Watkins Associated Press April 26, 2007; 12:53 AM San Diego - Even as the government was investigating whether a Marine officer failed to probe the death of 24 Iraqi civilians, he was being recommended for a Bronze Star medal partly for his actions the day of the killings, his attorney said Wednesday. First Lt. Andrew A. Grayson, of Springboro, Ohio, was in a team of intelligence operatives that inspected the scene of the Nov. 19, 2005, attack in Haditha. The killings were carried out by a Marine squad in the aftermath of a roadside bomb explosion that left one Marine dead."

A few minutes ago I was watching George Tenet on CBS 60 MINUTES. That guy is basically a human scum. He presided over the largest torture chambers established by his government; he transferred people to get tortured by friends of the U.S; he presided over giving and receiving lies of information about Iraq’s WMD (all that chemical and biological weapon garbage). Yet he comes and says the National Intelligent Estimate he presented over was the best thing he could do to implicate Saddam and clear the way for invasion. (That estimate before the war invented LIES, LIES AND LIES) you think the scum would regret for his participation in a rape of Iraq? No! the garbage man as he is, he couldn’t even capture or kill Osama and his murderous bunches after they slaughter more than 200 hundred innocent people in East African bombs (in Kenya and Tanzania) in 1998 way before 2001 attack by the terrorist group! Tenet was the director then! He has been described [Osama]by the White House as "the...