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By ANDREW E. KRAMER
Published: September 22, 2007

BAGHDAD, Sept. 21 — American diplomats on Friday resumed travel in convoys escorted by Blackwater USA, the private American security contractor, three days after the Iraqi government banned the company following a shooting in wh... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/108 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:02:38 This weekend I have been disturbed by two things. The first is the Chimp's shameless pardon of Libby. Why does this guy get absolutely NO JAIL TIME, after he was found guilty by a jury of his peers? The $250K fine is simply not sufficient as a trade-in for confinement. Leaving the punishment as ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/107 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:13:52 on the Gonzales years at Justice?

There are some great quotes out there from both sides of the aisle:

Sen. Arlen Specter, top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee:

"It's embarrassing for a professional to work for the Department of Justice today."

"It is hard to see how the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/106 Tue, 15 May 2007 22:26:13 Rory Stewart's book about his 2002 walk through Afghanistan, is a remarkable footnote.

"Critics have accused this new breed of administrators of neocolonialism. But in
fact their approach is not that of a nineteenth-century colonial officer. Colonial
administrations may have bee... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/105 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:59:19 By Andrew Cohen

Part II: Alberto Gonzales, Presidential Enabler
The career of Alberto R. Gonzales, before he ascended to the office of Attorney General of the United States in early 2005, is marked particularly by three episodes that link directly to the quality and nature of the job he has perf... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/104 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:43:04 Rebecca Solnit
Wednesday March 14, 2007
The Guardian

Was I a good American? How good an American was I? Did I do what I could to resist the takeover of my country and the brutalisation of my fellow human beings? How much further could I have gone? Were the crimes of the Bush administration tho... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/102 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:49:52 Special Report
Rough Justice - The Case Against Alberto Gonzales
Part I

By Andrew Cohen

Posted at 12:47 PM ET, 03/13/2007
Alberto Gonzales: A Willing Accessory at Justice
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales is the 80th attorney general of the United States and if recent events in the la... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/103 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:18:30 Published: January 18, 2007

Of the many ways that President Bush has trampled civil liberties and the balance of powers since the 9/11 attacks, one of the most egregious was his decision to order wiretaps of Americans’ international calls and e-mail without court approval. It was good news, then,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/101 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:12:05 Niyazov, dead President-for-Life of Turkmenistan.

The Turkmenbashi
. ordering the construction of an ice palace near the capital in spite of Turkmenistan's
climate and pressing social needs, while * is conducting the never-ending war and is building
the biggest U.S. Embassy in Ira... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/100 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:06:22 by Dean W. Richardson, D.V.M.

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In my experience, the unique feature to Barbaro's case is that we have managed to at least get this far despite two simultaneous problems. Each of them alone often has been cause for euthanasia. I think it is a fair statement to say that our management chal... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/99 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:59:59 The Times November 09, 2006

Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/97 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:23:37 We have two of the most substantively devastating releases that could possibly occur just a few days prior to the midterm election day. Vanity Fair http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612 brings a preview of an article that will be available December 6 in which prominent ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/96 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:37:40 Thank you, Alberto Fernandez, for being far enough up in the State Department that you are able to get your comments made part of the public record. Thank you, for your remarks that underscore what many Americans already knew, but perhaps the slow 30 percenters want to ignore: "that there is a str... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/95 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:22:24 Daily Star Lebanon

By Nader Hashemi
Commentary by
Tuesday, September 12, 2006


How can one rationally explain the rise of Islamic fundamentalism today? In the age of reason, rationality and secularism, why have large numbers of people in the Muslim world gravitated toward and embraced a ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/94 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:58:40
By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 11, 2006; Page A12

Vice President Cheney offered a veiled attack yesterday on critics of the administration's Iraq policy, saying the domestic debate over the war is emboldening adversaries who believe they can undermine the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/93 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:08:49 Daily Star Lebanon
Thursday, September 07, 2006

George W. Bush would like Americans to believe that he is a heroic president boldly taking on the challenge of what he calls "the great ideological struggle of the 21st century." In a series of speeches on the "war on terror," Bush has likened this... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/92 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:34:11 By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Published: September 4, 2006

You can cradle it in your hands, this small shoe-box-size container filled with one of humankind’s greatest creative achievements.

It is a complete edition of Mozart’s works, 170 CD’s in color-coded paper sleeves: aquamarine for opera, purple fo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/91 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:56:58 Here is a list of search engines that might be useful:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003240179_ptschoolsites02.html

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/90 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:28:49 The Daily Star--Lebanon
By Peter Galbraiyh
Commentary by
Saturday, September 02, 2006

In his most recent justification of his Pentagon stewardship, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reached back to the 1930s, comparing the Bush administration's critics to those who, like US Ambassador to Bri... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/89 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:57:05 By Les Christie, CNNMoney.com staff writer
August 31 2006: 1:22 PM EDT

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If you equate education with intelligence, then the smartest city in the United States is Seattle - 52.7 percent of its residents age 25 or older have completed a Bachelor's degree or higher.

S... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/88 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:50:45 Monday August 28, 2006
The Guardian


In March this year, a man with a passion for Portuguese football, living in a city in Florida, was drinking heavily because his wife was having an affair. He typed his troubles into the search window of his computer. "My wife doesnt love animore," he told t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/87 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:23:34 By Susan D. Moeller
Saturday, August 26, 2006

"Correspondents have a job in war as essential as the military personnel," wrote Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in a memorandum drafted in the worrisome days before the Normandy invasion. "Fundamentally, public opinion wins wars." One of the greatest weap... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/86 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:07:27 NYT
By THOM SHANKER and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: August 16, 2006

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — President Bush made clear in a private meeting this week that he was concerned about the lack of progress in Iraq and frustrated that the new Iraqi government — and the Iraqi people — had not shown greater pu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/84 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:07:11 Lebanon Daily Star
Saturday, August 05, 2006


Editorial


Already the siege of Lebanon, which has been billed as another battle in the "war on terrorism," seems reminiscent of the war on Iraq, where a foreign army marched in with no concrete plan to restore peace and stability. Instead of ha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/83 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:34:27 Saturday August 5, 2006
The Guardian


Everyone has their own tipping point. For some it was North Korea's decision to fire missiles over the sea of Japan last month; for others it was the transcript of Bush and Blair rap-speaking at the G8; the relief into which the number of Iraqi dead has be... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/spindrifter/82 Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:15:23