Soldier says anti-Muslim racism encouraged/tolerated in Army

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Saturday June 03, 2006 · 8:07 AM PDT

2006/06/03 · 08:07

HADITHA MASSACRE BODIES, INCLUDING SMALL CHILD

"War forms its own culture. It distorts memory, corrupts language, and infects everything around it.... War exposes the capacity for evil that lurks not far below the surface within all of us. Even as war gives meaning to sterile lives, it also promotes killers and racists." - Chris Hedges, NY Times

This story from a year ago is really disturbing and it puts to the lie the meme that a "few bad apples" are to blame for Haditha and Abu Ghraib. I do not blame the soldiers, I blame Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld for letting the military get out of control. The story was told by Army mechanic Adian Delgado last year.

"Guys in my unit, particularly the younger guys, would drive by in their Humvee and shatter bottles over the heads of Iraqi civilians passing by. They'd keep a bunch of empty Coke bottles in the Humvee to break over people's heads."
I said to them: 'What the hell are you doing? Like, what does this accomplish?' And they responded just completely openly. They said: 'Look, I hate being in Iraq. I hate being stuck here. And I hate being surrounded by hajis.'"

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Wednesday May 31, 2006 · 8:14 AM PDT

2006/05/31 · 08:14

British Copter Shot Down With Missile Over Basra Slum

The new Iraqi PM has vowed to crush rebellious Shia militias with an "Iron Fist", declaring Barsra to be in a month-long State of Emergency. The British are starting to be killed in larger and larger numbers and a Brit TV crew was attacked. Problem is the Shia militia and warlords run Basra and most of the south already.

Is the real Iraq War just starting now, where the occupying coalition has to fight the Shia as well as the Sunnis? Is Iran supplying heat-seeking missiles and improved IEDs?

A British helicopter was shot down with what the Brits suspect was a heat-seeking Strela missile.

If the Shia fight Bushco and Blairco, is the war lost? Would Bush start a draft to hang on to the oil, or would he just stay and keep hiring expensive mercenaries as he is doing now while the coailition gets increasingly cut up?

Or is all this lies by the neo-cons to gather excuses to invade Shiite Iran? Read More

Kerry-Hinchey Bill Repeals $28 Billion in Big Oil Tax Breaks

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Thursday May 04, 2006 · 12:12 PM PDT

2006/05/04 · 12:12

Here's the latest from the Dems on high gas prices and tax breaks for Big Oil! Do you agree or disagree with this measure.

What would you do with the $28 billion? Pay down the deficit? Fund education? Health insurance for more people? Fund the new concentrating photovoltaics designs that will soon supply solar power at $3 a watt?

Or what?

Sen. Kerry & Rep. Hinchey Introduce Measure To Repeal More Than $28 Billion In Wasteful Tax Breaks & Subsidies For Oil Companies
Washington, DC -- With oil companies experiencing huge, record-breaking profits at the expense of Americans who are facing historic prices at the pump, U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) have introduced legislation that would repeal at least $28 billion in tax breaks and subsidies for the country's oil and gas companies. Hinchey introduced the Energy Fairness for America Act in the House today and Kerry unveiled it in the Senate last week.

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Sunday April 23, 2006 · 11:25 AM PDT

2006/04/23 · 11:25

WELCOME TO CRAZYLAND!!

Joe Klein had recently stated on ABC's This Week that using nukes against Iran must be kept "on the table".

Now progressive blogger Mike Stark has made him take those words back on the Jim Bohannon radio show.

First the pundwit's call for the Nuclear Option: Read More

Bob Ney Going Down! Criminal Lie, Quid Pro Quo says Jack - Sherlock Photo UPDATE

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Friday April 21, 2006 · 3:11 PM PDT

2006/04/21 · 15:11

Republican Bob Ney is going down! Jack is turning state's evidence of Quid Pro Quo and fraud to prosecutors.

Happy Abramoffukkah!

Ney misrepresented trip's purpose
In addition to likely misreporting its true cost, Ney also listed the sponsor of the trip as the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative thinktank. It later emerged that the trip was paid for by Abramoff's Capital Athletic Foundation. Members of Congress are prohibited from taking trips paid for by lobbyists.

More! Read More

Michael Savage: "Kill 100 Million Muslims", Helps al-Queda

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Thursday April 20, 2006 · 5:02 PM PDT

2006/04/20 · 17:02

This could really wake some people up to the insanity of the Far Right--hate radio host Michael Savage has called for the death of 100 million Muslims to save America. There was a previous diary but it did not give the Web site to email advertisers of Savage's show nor did it point out how this helps Osama Bin Laden to recruit on this point that the West is conducting a genocidal Crusade against Islam.

And it got few comments. Let's get this going in the ECHO CHAMBER, because it's too fruitful to let die:

SAVAGE: [Intelligent, Welathy People] are very depressed by the weakness that America is showing to these psychotics in the Muslim world. They say, "Oh, there's a billion of them." I said, "So, kill 100 million of them, then there'll be 900 million of them." I mean, would you rather die -- would you rather us die than them? I mean, what is it going to take for you people to wake up? Would you rather we disappear or we die? Or would you rather they disappear and they die? Because you're going to have to make that choice sooner rather than later.
http://mediamatters.org/...

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Monday April 17, 2006 · 3:24 PM PDT

2006/04/17 · 15:24

KHUZESTAN, IRAN IS WHERE THE OIL IS, AND WHERE THE U.S. AND U.K. ARE APPARENTLY ARMING AND HELPING AN ARAB REBELLION:

THE NEO-CON VIEW OF GRABBING IRAN'S OIL:

A MAP OF "AL-AHWAZ" (Formerly Southern Iran):

Notice how the map of the "al-Ahwazi" independence movement corresponds conveniently with the reported battle plans of the neo-cons for Khuzestan and the southern coast

Some here at DailyKOS know I've been concerned that the neo-cons plan to invade Iran, not all of Iran but just the oil-bearing province of Khuzestan and the southern coast adjacent to the shipping lanes. This article reports that in 2003, the neo-con mantra was "REAL MEN GO TO KHUZESTAN", which the author then used as the title of the article.

Earlier Diary:Intel Official: Cheney Orders Violence Inside Khuzestan Read More

Intel Official: Cheney Orders Violence Inside Khuzestan (w/Poll)

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Friday April 14, 2006 · 9:03 PM PDT

2006/04/14 · 21:03

"We are already at war" - UN official to RAW STORY.

Cheney and Rummy are out-manuevering Condi for control of the Oil Wars and are putting the conquest of the Iranian oil fields in Khuzestan closer and closer. Raw Story reports:

The Pentagon is bypassing official US intelligence channels and turning to a dangerous and unruly cast of characters in order to create strife in Iran in preparation for any possible attack, former and current intelligence officials say.
One of the operational assets being used by the Defense Department is a right-wing terrorist organization known as Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), which is being "run" in two southern regional areas of Iran. They are Baluchistan, a Sunni stronghold, and Khuzestan, a Shia region where a series of recent attacks has left many dead and hundreds injured in the last three months.

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Thursday April 06, 2006 · 5:16 PM PDT

2006/04/06 · 17:16

Congressman Mo Lashes Bush good in this one! Calls him an Absolute Disgrace AND A liar. Hinchey explains that Bush knowingly committed a crime when he lied to Congress about the 16 words.

IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"If what Scooter Libby said to the grand jury is true, then this latest development clearly reveals yet again that the CIA leak case goes much deeper than the disclosure of a CIA agent's identity to the press. The heart and motive of this case is about the deliberate attempt at the highest levels of this administration to discredit those who were publicly revealing that the White House lied about its uranium claims leading up to the war. The Bush Administration knew that Iraq had not sought uranium from Africa for a nuclear weapon, yet they went around telling the Congress, the country, and the world just the opposite.

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Friday February 24, 2006 · 10:37 AM PST

2006/02/24 · 10:37

"The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." "

HOW THE REALITY-BASED COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATS AND MODERATE REPUBLICANS SEE A WAR WITH IRAN:

Reality-Based Community Fantasy Analysis: The US and UK cannot invade and hold Iran, it would take 600,000 troops to control such a large area containing 80 million people. Read More

Battle Plan for Iran: The Khuzestan Gambit (90% of Iran's Oil)

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Thursday February 23, 2006 · 6:09 PM PST

2006/02/23 · 18:09

Ever hear of Khuzestan? Well you're about to hear a lot more about it soon, because that appears to be the only province of Iran that we're actually going to take control of in the up-coming war with Iran.

It's the province where 90% of the currently producing oil fields are located (see maps above). And it's right next to all our forces in Iraq, so--with an indigenous Arab rebellion--we can easily take Khuzestan on the tired old WMD and democracy excuses. All without the 600,000 troops estimated for a full conquest of all Iran. Read More

Bush Guts National Security, Allows Sale of 6 Ports to U.A.E Co.!

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Thursday February 16, 2006 · 6:53 PM PST

2006/02/16 · 18:53

The other diary on this was wrong and skimpy, so I stepped in. This is very imPORTant, you might say.

Forget LIHOP, this is pure MIHOP! How in the name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster could Bush do this, unless he truly does want to leave the barn door wide open for another attack!

This is the most outrageous --

If the Dems don't come out swinging on this one... Hillary too, Goddamit!

White House Defends Port Operations Sale
AP - 13 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration on Thursday rebuffed criticism about potential security risks of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over significant operations at six major American ports.
Lawmakers asked the White House to reconsider the deal.
The sale to state-owned Dubai Ports World was "rigorously reviewed" by a U.S. committee that considers security threats when foreign companies seek to buy or invest in American industry, National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones said.
http://news.yahoo.com/...

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