Wednesday June 13th 2007

Collateral genocide
Must Read - A quote...."Two elements are necessary to commit the crime of genocide: 1) the mental element, meaning intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, and 2) the physical element, which includes any of the following: killing or causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births; or forcibly transferring children to another group."

See also....The Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
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The Perfect (Sine) Wave
Must Read - A quote...."Looking idly at the front page of last Wednesday's Washington Post Express as I rode the Metro to work, I received a shock. It showed a railroad station in Iraq, recently destroyed by an American air strike. So now we are bombing the railroad stations in a country we occupy? What comes next, bombing Iraq's power plants and oil refineries? How about the Green Zone? If the Iraqi Parliament doesn't pass the legislation we want it to, we can always lay a couple of JDAMs on it."

Has Baghdad Captured Petraeus?
Must Read - A quote...."When top British general Sir William Howe marched his powerful professional army of Redcoats, American Loyalists, and German mercenaries into Philadelphia in 1777 it appeared the American Revolutionary War was over."

The Siege of Baghdad
A quote...." 06/13/07 "ICH" -- -- - It’s funny, in a sad sick almost perverse sort of way, but it seems the only people who listen to George Bush and take him seriously anymore is the insurgency. Several months after his royal hind ass made his now famous “bring em on” statement the insurgency issued their own proclamation saying in affect, we have brought it on do you have anything else you wish to say to us? "

Iraqis Accuse U.S. Of Bombing Shrine
A quote...."Both Sunni and Shias Iraqis have accused the U.S. of being behind the bombing the al-Askari shrine in Samarra, one of the holiest Shia religious sites, in order to further incite sectarian violence between the two rival Islamic groups and provide a justification for the American surge."

British could quit Iraq sooner than expected
A quote...."Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, hinted yesterday that there could be an accelerated withdrawal of troops from Iraq.  -  He said the Armed Forces were in danger of being significantly "damaged" if they continued to fight in the same numbers abroad.  -  After returning from a trip accompanying Gordon Brown to Iraq, Mr Browne appeared to pave the way for further substantial reductions of troops in Basra."

[US] Army in retreat over 'stop loss'
A quote...."Perhaps 80,000 soldiers are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan under “stop loss” requirements – clauses in their contracts which mandated compulsory service after the end of their terms, if the military required it. Few read the small-print which contained these clauses or worse, they had no choice. Lawyers for disgruntled soldiers have requested copies of their clients’ contracts which then were received with the page mandating “stop-loss” extensions missing."

Hamas holds much of Gaza Strip
A quote...."GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas forces tightened their hold Wednesday on the last remaining Fatah strongholds in the Gaza Strip as forces loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas fled to Egypt and appeared to be on the verge of collapse."

Syrian and Iranian Generals in Intensive War Consultations
War Alert - Must Read - A quote...."The regime heads in Tehran are basing their common front with Damascus on intelligence reports whereby the US and Israel have drawn up plans for coordinated military action against Iran, Syria and Hizballah in the summer.

"According to this hypothesis, Iranian leaders foresee the next UN Security Council in New York at the end of June or early July ending with an American announcement that the sanctions against Tehran are inadequate because Russia and China has toned them down. Therefore, the military option is the only one left on the table. The ayatollahs have concluded that US president George W. Bush is determined to bow out of office on the high note of a glittering military success against Iran to eclipse his failures in Iraq."

"They believe he will not risk the lives of more Americans by mounting a ground operation, but rather unleash a broad missile assault that will wipe out Iran’s nuclear facilities and seriously cripple its economic infrastructure."

"According to the Iranian scenario, the timeline for hostilities has already been fixed between Washington and Jerusalem - and so has the plan of action. The US will strike Iran first, after which Israel will use the opportunity to go for Syria, targeting its air force, missile bases and deployments, as well as Hizballah’s missile and weapons stocks which Iran replenished this year."
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Assad ignored Israeli message; PM's aides divided over whether Syria wants talks
War Alert - A quote...."The U.S. administration opposes a renewal of Israeli-Syrian negotiations and believes efforts should be focused on the Palestinian track, Tom Casey, State Department deputy spokesman, told a media briefing on Friday."

It's incredible....the US DemoRepubs are practically goading Israel to go to war against Syria.  Who would have thunk it?  After all, it's not like Olmert really needs to be goaded, if it weren't for the abysmal polls he's been receiving lately, he'd already be at war with Syria.

All they need now is another pretext.  Since kidnapping Israeli soldiers is soooooooo passé these days, perhaps they'll have to arrange something a little more provacative. - mpg
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The American People Voted for Change and Instead, They Got the Democrats
A quote...."After more than six years of what many experts agree to be the most incompetent and corrupt administration in the history of the United States, George W. Bush continues to enjoy the full support of some 65 percent of his party's base. Considering the enormity of the failure inflicted upon the nation and its reputation -- Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and secret prisons -- one might be surprised to realize that so many of the Republican faithful continue to support Mister Bush. And, to be sure, it is a rather sobering reality."

Are they kidding?
A quote...."The Bush administration now maintains that Iran is arming the Taliban. This, despite the fact that Iran and the Taliban are old enemies. This, despite the fact that Shi'ite Iran supported the effort to oust the radically Sunni Taliban. U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns made this accusation without qualification even though Defense Secretary Robert Gates said something quite different recently:"

U.S. Missile Plan in Europe a Way to Bilk American Taxpayer
A quote...."MOSCOW: The proposal made by Vladimir Putin to George W. Bush at this year's G8 summit in Heiligendamm will be difficult to refuse. Why put radar bases and missile interceptors in the Czech Republic and Poland to protect Europe from "rogue states" - by which the USA means Iran - when there is a much simpler, cheaper and more effective solution even closer to the Iranian border?  -  The "Daryal" early warning system is located in Gabala, Azerbaijan, just 180km [111 miles] north of Baku. Switching the location of the base would therefore appear to benefit everyone."

America's Fragile Republic
A quote...."Ali al-Marri, a Qatar citizen, was arrested on Dec. 12, 2001, in Peoria, Illinois, while living with his family and studying computer science at Bradley University. Though initially charged with credit-card fraud and lying to federal agents, al-Marri was transferred into military custody in 2003 as an alleged “enemy combatant” and placed in the Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina.

The Bush administration claimed al-Marri was a “sleeper agent” who trained at Osama bin Laden’s camp in Afghanistan and entered the United States in the summer of 2001 with the intent of disrupting the U.S. financial system." - bold/italics by website author.

So if the "authorities" even think you might some day in the future, become a terrorist, they can seize you, hold you indefinitely, torture you, threaten your wife with rape, and threaten to kill you.

This country has absolutely hit rock bottom. - mpg
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War Foretold
A quote...."When I resorted to Mark Twain's writings I attempted to escape, at least temporarily from my often distressing readings on war, politics and terror. But his "The Mysterious Stranger", although published in 1916, still left me with an eerie feel. The imaginative story calls into question beliefs that we hold as a "matter of course" ? a favorite phrase of his. It summons the awful tendencies of "our race": our irrational drive for violence, be it burning 'witches' at the stake or engaging in wars that only serve the "little monarchs and the nobilities."

Tony Blair has turned Britain into a land where we are all prisoners
A quote...."Even George Orwell would be shocked. He described the sinister machinations of a totalitarian police state in his novel, 1984, and laid bare the danger of eroding our basic civil liberties, including the right to freedom of speech and the right to privacy.  -  Although he famously coined the phrase 'Big Brother is watching you', even Orwell cannot have foreseen just how prescient those words would prove to be."
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Blair Calls For Chinese Style Net Controls In the UK
Must Read - A quote...."Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair has savaged online media today in a speech in which he declared war on the free press by hinting at new restrictions on internet journalism and suggested that the media should be brought more into line with the government."

For more on Blair's attitude about the press see.........The Assassination of Journalists - Protected by States Secrets
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How to Sell a War - Marketing an Invasion
Must Read - A quote...."The war on Iraq won't be remembered for how it was waged so much as for how it was sold. It was a propaganda war, a war of perception management, where loaded phrases, such as "weapons of mass destruction" and "rogue state" were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience: us."

For more on this issue see....Fake Intel
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Poland Itself Must Investigate Secret CIA Prisons
A quote...."Commentary by the editors of the Foreign Department of Gazeta Wyborcza on the report of European Council on secret CIA prisons in Poland  -  Denials by current heads of Security and the highest-ranking politicians will not suffice. ... Our national interest requires that Poland should defend its image as a country rule by law."

Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures
A quote....The highest ranking UN official in Israel has warned that American pressure has "pummelled into submission" the UN's role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report.  -  The 53-page "End of Mission Report" by Alvaro de Soto, the UN's Middle East envoy, obtained by the Guardian, presents a devastating account of failed diplomacy and condemns the sweeping boycott of the Palestinian government."

A New Assertiveness for Latin American Governments
Must Read - A quote...."The relationships between governments and investors - especially transnational corporations -are changing rapidly, and this is especially true in Latin America today. Last month, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua surprised many international observers by announcing that they would withdraw from the World Bank’s international arbitration body, the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The ICSID is a place where - under prior arrangement - foreign investors who have a dispute with a host government can submit their case to binding arbitration."

Good for them.  Any citizenry of any country that allows its leaders to borrow from the World Bank or I.M.F. is simply begging to be impoverished. - mpg
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Colombia ordered to pay millions in massacre case
A quote...."BOGOTA (Reuters) - In a ruling hailed as a landmark by human rights advocates, the Colombian government has been ordered to pay damages over a 1989 massacre of state investigators by army-backed militias.  -  The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered more than $5 million (2.5 million pounds) in damages be paid to relatives of 12 investigators killed by right-wing paramilitaries in the northern hamlet of La Rochela  -  The decision, which cannot be appealed, marks the first time the state has been found guilty of involvement in the murder of its own agents."

Here's an idea, how about the people of the United States get together and ask the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to re-open the 9/11 investigation? - mpg
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Who Is Hans von Spakovksy?
A quote...."During his tenure in the U.S. Department of Justice, Hans von Spakovsky made it harder for Americans to vote.  -  Now the Bush administration has nominated him to the Federal Elections Commission. If confirmed by the Senate, he could influence election law in this country for the next three election cycles, a prospect that should alarm all who care about the right to vote.  -  As an attorney in the civil rights division of the Justice Department from 2001-2005, von Spakovksy did everything in his power to minimize the vote, particularly of minorities and Democrats."

Bush lashes out at foes in Congress as he heads home from European trip
A quote...."They can try to have their votes of no confidence, but it's not going to determine - make the determination who serves in my government," Bush said, adding, "This process has been drug out a long time, which says to me it's political."

This editor does not believe it's the "process" that’s been "drug[ed] out", it's much more likely that it's the speaker who has been "drug[ed] out”. - mpg
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Rather: 'Moonves doesn't know news'
A quote...."NEW YORK — Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather escalated a feud with the network Tuesday, saying CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves "doesn't know about news."

Spanish property boom ends amidst share panic
A quote...."Spanish property values took a massive hammering recently, as fears grew that the market boom had ended. Amidst panic amongst investors and property developers, some companies saw large percentages of their share price wiped out in a few hours."

UPDATE 2-U.S. May home foreclosures up 19 pct-RealtyTrac
A quote...."NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) - U.S. home foreclosures in May jumped 90 percent from a year earlier, reflecting a poor spring housing market and foreshadowing even higher levels later in 2007, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Tuesday."

Tuesday June 12th 2007

'Kill Anyone Still Alive': American Special Ops in Somalia
Must Read - A quote...."How many people did American forces actually kill when they attacked refugees fleeing from the U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia last January? We know from reports by Oxfam, the Guardian, the Associated Press and Reuters that dozens of innocent civilians were slaughtered near the Kenyan border, including villagers and nomadic tribesmen "mistakenly" targeted by American gunships seeking to kill alleged al Qaeda operatives who may or may not have been among the refugees. But a new story in Esquire magazine -- detailing the creation of America's most recent military satrapy, the Africa Command -- provides disturbing information that the post-invasion killing by American operatives in Somalia was far more extensive -- and deliberate -- than previously known."

The Afghans are sick of our armies killing their people
Related article - A quote..."The scale of civilian casualties at the hands of British and US forces is losing us the war - as I know from experience  "

The CIA and the 'Terrorist' Plot
A quote...."When asked what he thought of Western Civilization, Gandhi reportedly replied that he thought it would be a good idea.  -  One could very well speak in the same vein of the entity called the Central Intelligence Agency. It might be useful if the federal government (once thrown back into its constitutional cage, of course) had an agency devoted to collecting relevant intelligence, rather than what it has now – a body involved in propagating turmoil, terror, and subversion throughout most of the world. "

See also....[JFK] - Terror plot suspect worked for the CIA's airline
See also....The Uses of Fear - 11-11-06 - mpg
See also....The JFK “plot”: another grossly inflated threat
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The War on Consciousness
A quote...." 06/12/07 "ICH" --- -- We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The global war on terror that is being fought around the world is an embodied reflection in the material world of a deeper, more fundamental war that is going on in the realm of consciousness itself."

Tomgram: Engelhardt and Turse, The Bush Administration's Fighting Words
Related article - Must Read - A quote...."From "mission accomplished" through those endless "turning points" and "tipping points" up to the "brink" of "the abyss" and "the precipice," and back again, American officials, military and civilian, in Baghdad and Washington, have never spared the images or the analogies. (Do you remember when our President and Secretary of Defense, for instance, were eagerly talking about taking those "training wheels" off the Iraqi "bicycle" and letting the Iraqi child peddle on his own into Democracy-land?) Reality be damned, they've had a remarkable way, over the last four years, of turning phrases and pretzeling language to suit their needs and the needs of a war that existed largely in their imaginations rather than on the ground. In recent months, backs against the verbal wall, these spinmeisters have begun spinning ever more wildly -- mixing metaphors, grasping at rhetorical straws, and stretching credulity at every turn, if not turning point."
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CIA letter supports assertion that OBL “confession video” was a sting operation
A quote...."For over 18 months the Muckraker Report has been attempting to secure any of this type of documentation from the government relevant to the discovery and authenticity of this video.  The FBI claims that the material I requested is located in an investigative file which is exempt from disclosure pursuant to Title 5, United States Code, Section 552, subsection (b)(7)(A). Title 5, United States Code, Section 552, subsection (b)(7)(A) states: Records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information (A) could be reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings."

MY GAWD......Mr. Ed Haas is actually "requesting documents"!  He's actually "investigating" and "asking questions"!  He's trying to "discover the facts" !

Isn't it a tragedy that the entire main-stream-mass-media establishment of this country can't bring themselves to do the same?   Think of it, all those expensive Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. educations going to waste....than again maybe our main-stream media people are doing exactly what they've been "trained" to do by these "illustrious institutions of higher learning"....absolutely nothing. - mpg

For more on the two articles shown above see....Fake Intel
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British Parliament Rejects Iraq Inquiry
A quote...."LONDON - The House of Commons on Monday rejected a motion by the opposition Conservative Party calling for a formal inquiry into the British government's decision to go to war in Iraq."

For more on this see....White Man's Burden - 12-20-06 - mpg
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Wall Street, Iraq and the Declining Dollar
A quote...."We are continuing to import 60 percent of the 20.6 million barrels of oil we use daily. And though the size and stability of our economy is likely to insure a demand for the dollar at some level, oil that anyone can buy for hard currency may be getting scarcer. Governments have begun to do deals aimed at taking oil off the market for their own account--deals like the ones China has done with Angola, Brazil, Iran, Nigeria, Venezuela and Sudan. South Korea has just announced it will follow suit."

Entire 82nd Airborne is deployed
War Alert - Published: Jun 09, 2007 12:30 AM - A quote...."For only the second time since World War II, all of the division's combat infantry brigades will be at war. Other 82nd units are deployed also, bringing the total overseas to nearly 17,000 paratroopers."

A glance at the world's top 10 military spenders
A quote...."STOCKHOLM, Sweden: A look at the world's top 10 military spenders in 2006, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The list shows the amount each country spent on weapons in 2005 dollars, and the share of world arms expenditures."

Man Faces 7 Year Sentence Under "Wiretapping Law" For Filming Police
A quote...."A man has been charged in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with filming police officers during a routine traffic stop and faces up to seven years in prison for "wiretapping". - Kelly, just 18 years old, is obviously extremely scared and has apologized profusely for not knowing the law. he has sought the help of the ACLU in the case. - The charge is invalid because it flouts privacy laws. Under the fourth amendment the expectation of privacy is not reasonable at such public places as automobile thoroughfares.  -  In other words filming on a public highway cannot be classed as an invasion of privacy."

So let’s get this straight.  The "authorities" can watch us through their surveillance cameras, tap our phones, open our mail, access our bank accounts, obtain our medical records, seize us, render us, torture us and murder us without due process of law....and it's constitutional.  But if you film them on a public highway you get seven years!  The officer and judge involved should be sued for millions, there's no excuse anymore for this blatant perversion of the US constitution. – mpg
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Neocon “Scholars” Call for Dismembering Bill of Rights
A quote...."Imagine my surprise. A “guest scholar at the center-left Brookings Institution,” Benjamin Wittes, wants to gut the Second Amendment. Wittes told CNSNews “that rather than try to limit gun ownership through regulation that potentially violates the Second Amendment, opponents of gun ownership should set their sights on repealing the amendment altogether. - Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett, however, did not limit his comments to the Second Amendment, suggesting instead that much of the Bill of Rights has “no contemporary relevance.” As an example, Barnett cited the Fourth Amendment. “Sure it was fine that persons should be secure in their papers and effects back in the old days when there wasn’t a danger of terrorism and mass murder.” According to the professor, the Fourth Amendment is “archaic [and] we don’t need it anymore.”

Ron Paul vs. the Retarded Democrats
A quote...."As I sat watching the latest Republican presidential debate in my living room last week, I was certain I had heard the arguments being made by the leading Republican candidates on Iraq before. Then it dawned on me; I had heard almost exactly the same words three years ago. Those same arguments had come out of the mouths of John Kerry, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton during the 2004 election campaign."

Monday June 11th 2007

Gates again turns to Navy for Joint Chiefs
War Alert - A quote...."WASHINGTON — In choosing to recommend an admiral as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has for the second time given a high-profile job to someone from the Navy — a service that has, for the most part, worked only on the fringes of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

The Neoconservative Threat to American Freedom
A quote...."06/11/07 "ICH  " -- - The Bush/Cheney White House, which told the American people in 2003 that the Iraqi invasion would be a three to six week affair, now tells us that the US occupation is permanent. Forever.  -  Attentive Americans of which, alas, there are so few, had already concluded that the occupation was permanent. Permanence is the obvious message from the massive and fortified US embassy under construction in Iraq and from the large permanent military bases that the Bush regime is building in Iraq."

Officials: U.S. Troops Kill Afghan Police
A quote...."KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. forces mistakenly killed seven Afghan police and wounded four in an apparent friendly fire incident early Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said.  -  Police manning a remote checkpoint in Nangarhar province said an American convoy backed by helicopters approached and opened fire despite their protests and calls for them to stop."

They were "rag heads" anyway....so who cares?  After all in a few years....or months,  they were just going to turn against the US anyway, one dead "rag head" is just one less terrorist to fight.  Ain't that right? - mpg

>>> Sudan (and everybody elese) is a secret partner of U.S. <<<

Sudan is secret partner of U.S.
A quote...."Washington //  Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq - an example of how the United States has continued to cooperate with the Sudanese regime even while condemning its role in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur."

This idea was posted at ICH
Compare this - U.S. arming Sunnis in Iraq to battle old Qaeda allies   To this - US says Iran arming Sunni groups
After awhile you begin to think wars are actually funny.

C'mon folks, all you people reading this blog have got to be thinking this is pretty amusing right about now- mpg


OK....maybe it's not so amusing.

Given the three articles shown above one must conclude that the US government is currently supporting, directly or indirectly, every "terrorist", "extremist", "wahhabist", "fundamentalist" and  "jihadist" group or faction currently present in the Middle East that espouse xenophobic, divisive, vicious, anti-nationalistic, anti-democratic, sectarian philosophies.

What the US is NOT supporting are any Muslim groups that legitimately represent the aspirations of the local population. Such as most of the Sunni and Bathist insurgents along with the Mahdi army in Iraq.  The Pushton and Taliban groups in Afghanistan, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hammas in Palestine.

By the way, two of these groups, Hammas in Palistine and Hezbollah in Lebanon, won overwhelming victories recently in internationally monitored, free and fair elections, whereupon they were both promptly attacked by Israel with the support of the United States.  Attacks which are continuing to this day.


In other words the same "axis of evil" - The Bushist Neocons and DemoRepubs  in America, the Blairites in Britain, Olmert and his gang in Israel and the Saudi Royals SIX YEARS AFTER 9/11 are STILL supporting dozens of "terror groups" through out the Middle East, just as they did prior to 9/11.

Get the hint folks? – mpg
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Iraq's Workers Strike to Keep Their Oil
A quote...."The Bush administration has no love for unions anywhere, but in Iraq it has a special reason for hating them. They are the main opposition to the occupation's economic agenda, and the biggest obstacle to that agenda's centerpiece - the privatization of Iraq's oil. At the same time, unions have become the only force in Iraq trying to maintain at least a survival living standard for the millions of Iraqis who still have to go to work every day, in the middle of the war."

Cheney's Iran-Arms-to-Taliban Gambit Rebuffed
A quote...."A media campaign portraying Iran as supplying arms to the Taliban guerrillas fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, orchestrated by advocates of a more confrontational stance toward Iran in the George W. Bush administration, appears to have backfired last week when Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Dan McNeill, issued unusually strong denials."

Kuwait says US cannot use bases for any Iran strike
A quote...."Kuwait, a staunch US ally, said on Monday it would not allow the United States to use its territory as a launch-pad for any attack on Iran over its nuclear programme.  -  "The United States did not ask (to use Kuwaiti military facilities for any attack) and even if it did, we will not allow anybody to use our territory," defence and interior minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah told reporters."

Translation : Cheney and his thugs privately put out some feelers about using our air bases regarding their upcoming plan to bomb Iran - we want the WHOLE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND - the answer is NO!
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Sic Semper Tyrannis: A Slap in the Face of the Crawford Caligula
Two quotes....

Lebanon, Burning

While Lebanon burns