July 2007
Birth control to be used on Hollywood's pigeon... →
Let Sibel Edmonds speak! →
“It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain...”
– Ron Paul
Fight The Justice Department's Copycrime Proposal! →
“Google is spreading its bets, and sees global potential in WiMAX. The standard...”
– Susan Crawford
“She “gets” the Internet better than any of the candidates, probably...”
– David Weinberger
“As fantastic a tool the Internet has become and can be, it still has not reached...”
– Who Will Be America’s First TechPresident?
Conservatives, Beware of Fred Thompson →
Iraq is facing a hidden healthcare and social... →
American gestapo — Abuse of power by National Park... →
“It is not in Israel’s interest—or our own—to continue to fuel increased...”
– Chris Hedges
“There are arguments you can make against programs, like Social Security, that...”
– Paul Krugman
Duo of Google and Sprint could put AT&T in a... →
“The problem for much of the USA with immigration is not so much immigration, but...”
– Bill Fletcher
Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy →
“What reinforces my feeling that we are at the vanishing point is the additional...”
– Jim Kunstler
Why do so many cruise ship passengers get sick? →
“What is the most vivid and compelling evidence of how broken our political...”
– Glenn Greenwald
“What I want to know is this: how could someone who was apparently killed from 10...”
– Justin Raimondo
“I want you to consider a movie made up of several short scenes in which ordinary...”
– Andrew Tallman
AMY GOODMAN: Do you see a replay in what happened in the lead-up to the war with Iraq -- the allegations of the weapons of mass destruction, the media leaping onto the bandwagon?
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: Well, in a way. But, you know, history doesn’t repeat itself exactly twice. What I did warn about when I testified in front of Congress in 2002, I said if you want to worry about a state, it shouldn’t be Iraq, it should be Iran. But this government, our administration, wanted to worry about Iraq, not Iran.
I knew why, because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.” I said, “Well, you’re too busy.” He said, “No, no.” He says, “We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq.” This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, “We’re going to war with Iraq? Why?” He said, “I don’t know.” He said, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.” So I said, “Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?” He said, “No, no.” He says, “There’s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” He said, “I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments.” And he said, “I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.”
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just got this down from upstairs” -- meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office -- “today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, “You remember that?” He said, “Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!”
“Whenever I have been in Gaza, I have been consumed by this melancholia, as if I...”
– John Pilger
Police in this Cincinnati suburb have turned to a... →
Futurist and inventor Kurzweil is working on a... →
“With the euro, whose importance as a trade and reserve currency has increased...”
– Michael Heinrich
Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World →
“We are asked, How are we going to keep our children safe on the Internet? when...”
– the cluetrain manifesto
“The Republicans are scared of the internet. They are scared of us. Giuliani has,...”
– Jeff Jarvis
“From the first days after the Abu Ghraib photos hit the airwaves, the torture...”
– BOVARD
“I hear so much from the right about how they love the troops. But they...”
– digby
iPhone+AT&T Bill=Uh-Oh →
WatchWinners of Yahoo Hack Day London 2007
Previously undisclosed documents detail how... →
Army's 'Debt Of Service' Leaves Vets Perplexed →
Final Moments Live as the News Helicopters Collide →
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day →