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Jan 18, 2005
Donald Rumsfeld Must Resign
Go to the site. Sign the petition.
This administration acts with such hubris and non-chalance regarding the terrible choices it has made. The election failed to produce democratic accountability. Now it is time for Rumsfeld to be treated to corporate accountability and get his well-deserved pink slip.
His performance has been one monumental failure after another. Not since the equally self-deluded Robert McNamara has the DoD been run so poorly.
Goodbye, Rummy!
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Jan 10, 2005
One: Acme Giant Boulder Kit
If you look closely, you can see the Coyote's feet sticking out from underneath.
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Jan 6, 2005
While many of us waited for the day that John Ashcroft would leave the Justice Department, we never really thought that his replacement could be even worse.
Turns out that we were wrong.
Current White House council, Alberto Gonzalez, started his first and inevitable step toward becoming AG with Senate judiciary committee confirmation hearings today. For those who hate to keep up on current events and trust the government to be fine stewards of freedom and democracy, Gonzalez is author of several memos that said that the Geneva Conventions are what they are cracked up to be and that torture (if you want to call it that) is only illegal if it results in death or organ failure. Really, I'm not making this up.
So who better to be the head law enforcement offical and defender of The Constitution.
Writing in today's New York Times, Mark Danner says it best:Mr. Gonzales is unfit because the slow river of litigation is certain to bring before the next attorney general a raft of torture cases that challenge the very policies that he personally helped devise and put into practice. He is unfit because, while the attorney general is charged with upholding the law, the documents show that as White House counsel, Mr. Gonzales, in the matter of torture, helped his client to concoct strategies to circumvent it. And he is unfit, finally, because he has rightly become the symbol of the United States' fateful departure from a body of settled international law and human rights practice for which the country claims to stand.Please be concerned about this outright foolishness. Please write your senators and tell them that you have no wish to be represented by a political lap dog who seeks to justify inhumane treatment of prisoners and finds the Geneva Conventions (the same set of treaties that are our troops own protections in the hands of foreign forces) "quaint" and outmoded.
Find your senators contact information at www.senate.gov.
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