A few items you may have missed so far while the nation desperately seizes the opportunity to avoid our woes for a few days…And the “Liberal Media” helps to play along…
For the record, so far, at least 7 US Troops in Iraq have died in the 3 days since Ronald Reagan did…
From the AP, Rumsfeld in Singapore last Saturday, on losing the “War on Terror”:
The troubling unknown, he said, is whether the extremists — whom he termed “zealots and despots” bent on destroying the global system of nation-states — are turning out newly trained terrorists faster than the United States can capture or kill them.
“It’s quite clear to me that we do not have a coherent approach to this,” Rumsfeld said at an international security conference. [emphasis added]
(Now it occurs to you!)
From AP, Former Chief Weapons Inspector David Kay on the WMD Dead-Enders:
(Liar!)
From The Wall Street Journal on the Administration’s classified 100-page report on how they might avoid US Law and the Geneva Convention in order to use torture:
(And you thought Clinton had no respect for “The Rule of Law”?! Little did he know he actually had the “inherent authority” to set it aside!)
For more fun ways in which God was at work to help the Bushies understand that “The infliction of pain or suffering per se, whether it is physical or mental, is insufficient to amount to torture.” And “must be of such a high level of intensity that the pain is difficult for the subject to endure.” – see Billmon’s alarming and excellent side-by-side comparison of The Report and the Women of God who put it all together.
Now back to your previously scheduled week-long period of mourning.
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