Tribal war inna Babylon

It IS fun watching right wingers foam in rage at billionaire George Soros and his pledge to stop George Bush from being reelected. It appears they are utterly befuddled to discover a real live take-no-prisoners billionaire believes, as Soros does, that Bush is the “biggest threat to world peace”.

Conservatives are fuming over the $15.5 million that billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has pledged to defeat President Bush. But they’re also anxious to fight back and expose what they consider to be Soros’ “immoral” beliefs and atheist leanings.

Has the world come to an end? Not only is a billionaire plotting to destroy the Bush presidency, he is <Do you smell the sulphur and hear the mad cackling Satanic laughter?> an atheist too!

Several prominent conservatives told CNSNews.com that Soros’ “moral bankruptcy” would prove disastrous for the Democratic Party

Indeed, I’ve oft-noted that conservatives have a deep and abiding concern for the well being of the Democratic Party. How wonderful it is they are offering their condolences now, as the crocodile tears spill down their faces.

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Lawyers file FOIA request on behalf of ANSWER against FBI

On Monday, attorneys with the Partnership for Civil Justice and the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee filed a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) with the FBI on behalf of the ANSWER  Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism).

The FOIA request (pdf) follows media revelations of FBI domestic spying targeting the antiwar movement

Richard Becker, of the ANSWER Coalition National Steering Committee, said “The exposure of FBI harassment of the antiwar movement should be viewed in the context of the larger government campaign targeting all who disagree with their policies, and the larger struggle against the Bush administration’s policies at home and abroad.

Defend the first amendment. Sign the online petition opposing the FBI targeting of the antiwar movement.

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Iraq. bad moon rising

The nightmare begins, Robert Fisk

Indeed, more and more Iraqis were saying before Saddam’s capture that the one reason they would not join the resistance to US occupation was the fear that - if the Americans withdrew - Saddam would return to power. Now that fear has been taken away. So the nightmare is over - and the nightmare is about to begin. For both the Iraqis and for us.

Vatican spanks Dubya

In a move that seems certain to outrage the US administration, one of the Pope’s most senior officials yesterday expressed “pity” and “compassion” for Saddam Hussein, and warned that his capture might do more harm than good.

The Pope was fiercely critical of the Iraq war, which he repeatedly described as a “defeat for humanity”.

From Baghdad Burning

Today there were pro-America demonstrations in Baghdad organized by SCIRI and there were anti-America demonstrations in Tikrit, Falloojeh, Samirreh (where 11 Iraqis were killed- CPA claim they were ‘insurgents’), Baghdad, Imsayab and the biggest one was in Mosul. Thousands of students from the University of Mosul took to the streets with an anti-occupation demonstration and some of the residents joined them…

Political analysts and professors in Iraq think that Saddam’s capture is going to unite resistance efforts, as one of them put it, “People are now free to fight for their country’s sovereignty and not Saddam.”

Saddam’s total recall: the story of another american crony-dictator recalled to the factory

The irony of it all is that this is the man who was also lauded in the West during the 1980s as a great modernizer and the father of modern Iraq. The fact that he was also a strategic ally of the United States of America and helped to contain the so-called “threat” of Iran has also been conveniently forgotten.

DJ Mitchell comments in email

Bush said yesterday that Saddam Hussein would be accorded POW status.  Isn’t it a violation of the Geneva Convention to televize pictures of POWs?  I seem to recall an outcry in Washington when Iraq televised pictures of U.S. POWs.

Tanker explodes on Baghdad road

A fuel tanker explosion has killed 10 and wounded 15 at a busy crossroads in Baghdad, Iraq’s interior ministry says.

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