What Cheney Forfeited »
Posted By tehranchik 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Political OpinionThere isn't a tyrant anywhere who isn't more legitimate today because of Dick Cheney's adoption of torture as an American value.
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alanocu4 months, 3 weeks ago
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How about 0bama let Cheney take over the hard stuff while he’s still on the training wheels. I think it would work well for him. Anytime something goes wrong, he can say, “That’s that bad Cheney!” I think he’s already starting to miss blaming things on the Bush administration, so he will probably really like that. And we all don’t get nuked. Everyone’s happy.
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tehranchik4 months, 3 weeks ago
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AnteUp4 months, 3 weeks ago
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This is a recent article about our President looking forward
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to a new beginning with Uzbekistan and it's leader,Islom Karimov.
http://tinyurl.com/kk56mc
Islom Karimov? Who boils people ALIVE according to the former
Ambassador from the UK, Craig Murray. Why should anyone be disturbed that our big tent can include such people - strategically it must be a smart thing to do - no?
I actually have a picture of someone he boiled in my email -
and I cannot bring myself to open it. I used to have scorn for
my friends that said "No gruesome news - nothing ugly!" - "I don't like those stories - they're too upsetting". I always prided myself on being tough enough to see it, to know it and be
able to sort it out.....and you know, still sleep at night.
I am saddened that my world view has changed so much in such a short space of time.
I sometimes entertain the morbid thought that and me and mine - you know, the innocents you at one time had the hope and maybe the foolishness to bring into this world - are able leave this world before we have the pleasure of personally meeting all our new found "friends". That would be new found friends and former
Vice Presidents alike!-
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AnteUp4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Here's a stunning review (lifted from Amazon) on former Ambassador Craig Murray's
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book, Murder in Samarkand.
Few of us have done battle with a murderous dictator. "Murder in Samarkand" tells how a British Ambassador did so and survived, only to be stabbed in the back by his own Prime Minister. Tony Blair ignored diplomatic advice if it complicated his relations with George W. Bush. How the British Foreign Office tried but failed to dismiss Ambassador Murray for invented disciplinary offences is an individual tale of injustice. However, the gripping core of this story is of a young and studious Ambassador driven to take absurd risks in remote parts of Uzbekistan as he builds up a dossier of incontrovertible brutalities by his host government. Those who try to obstruct him find this experienced and slightly overweight scholar is no patsy. He disputes the lies of petty bureaucrats. He storms into a corrupt procurator's office and dismisses him as a criminal - a risky way to use an Ambassador's "full and plenipotentiary" powers. But it works. The bully is exposed as a coward in front of those he has bullied. There is even a snow-shrouded chase with President Karimov's goons in pursuit - no wonder film rights are under discussion.
The shocking part of this story - narrated with skill and honesty - is that, at heart, much of the British Foreign Office valued Ambassador Murray's reporting from his Embassy in Tashkent. Dealing with human rights abuses is never easy. Murray knew his way around the policy heavyweights at home well enough to make sure that a controversial speech critical of Uzbekistan had support from the human rights desks. But when the White House complained to Tony Blair and he passed this down the line, spines crumpled - from Foreign Secretary Jack Straw down. This book shows how diplomats can bring shame or honor to their country. There is a simple lesson for Tony Blair (and George Bush) to learn. If you ask diplomats who are trained to report truthfully, to tell lies, the lasting problems will come from the ones who obey you, not the ones who stick to their professional calling.
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I've always felt that what we believed and what we DID made us special.
I have begun to question whether the good guys and the bad guys are really the same
in our new 21st century reality.
The difference is in which side YOU are on as to whether you see the same actions
as those of a dictator, a terrorist, a monster, or as with the USA - the same deeds are
necessary to spread democracy and defend freedom. Is it solely our own interests
that determine that one monster is a friend, while his monster-twin is the enemy?
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