Ling, Lee and the Gitmo Detainees

“Torture is a crime.”
citizenbfk

Said on the day of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is moved today from Gitmo to NY - soon he's going to have a trial. He must be one of the 'bad guys,' who we have evidence and charges filed against him.

And he only had to spend three years in a prison noted for torture, abuse, sexual and other humiliations before having his day in court.

Now the States whines about compassion for Ling & Lee.

Torture Facts, Info & Links

President Obama Appears on 'The Tonight Show'

“ Washington it's like American Idol ... But everyone is like Simon Cowell.”

                                                        Transcript, article and video, at: http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/benen/132628/president_obama_appears_on_%27the_tonight_show%27_%28watch_it%29/

Russian Reset Button U.S. Reset

"We reached an agreement on how 'reset' is spelled in both Russian and English - we have no differences between us any more,"

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Russian Foreign Minister, Mr Sergey Lavrov, after receiving a button from Sec. of State Hillary Clinton which used the wrong Russian word for ‘reset,“ and actually read: ”Here’s to overloading the fuse box on new relations.“

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COMMENT:
This underscores how difficult a whole treaty must if just one word can be wrong and one word was the whole message!

Now, put that in Arabic, and then wrap it up with a tendency of politicians, diplomats and nations to avoid any harsh truths, not counting the outright liar, the challenges of the world become clearer: we're a bunch of chattering chimps (and sometimes, chumps)

People have reported the word: Peregruzka, means 'overloaded or overcharged." When Ms. Clinton was told this she handled it well, laughed and said, "Well, we're not going to let you over charge us."

But I think the nuance of the word is like an electrical circuit being overcharged (not over charged like on a shopping trip, showing has misspeaking can lead to more and language skills are not easy.

I think the button tells the Russian's that our relationship was is like an overloaded fuse box...that needs to be reset (like you can reset fuses). Frankly, that's probably a pretty good way of looking at it.

What President Obama means by 'reset,' is still not certain. Perhaps he's thinking of his Blackberry PDA that occasionally needs to be reset. Or did he mean "reboot," like rebooting a computer?

The red button, though, was probably a better gift than giving the Russians and old fishing boot or something.

Thank God for small favors.

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Sources of False Intel Iraq Identified

"If we're not dead yet, it's time to wake up."

citizenbfk, commenting on Press Release, below

PRESS RELEASE: ISIS ACCUSED OF BLACK OPS - SOURCES OF FALSE INTEL IRAQ IDENTIFIED

Yesterday A.C.T. (American Citizens Together) published online in it’s weekly Political Action News the accusation that ISIS (Institute for Science and International Security

Last week's report by ISIS about Iran WMD and it's testimony at the Foreign Affairs Committee killed the truth and falsely spread lies and fear.

Also a report revealing the sources of a prime piece of false intel used to falsely justify the Iraq War was put online, revealing who from the Bush era Office of the Secretary of Defense and who from within the U.S. intelligence community created and planted the Niger uranium forgeries -- the forged documents claiming that Saddam Hussein was trying to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger.


See report at: http://www.americancitizenstogether.org/ACT/thesmokinggun/thesmokinggun.html

President Obama responds to Republican Stimulus Plan critics

“If you don’t stop telling lies about me,
I might start to tell the truth about you.”

President Obama, quoting President Lincoln