A: When they say they're not. This is so unbelievable...I guess that John Walker Lindh ought to be getting his pardon from Preznit Build'n A. Dynasty any day now...
Here's a news flash for Americans: Remember that country we invaded right after 9/11? You know: The one that actually had a connection to terrorists. It turns out that the Bush Administration now says that the Taliban are not terrorists.
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s the Christian Science Monitor reports: "When the US State Department issued its annual Country Reports on Terrorism ..., it listed numerous state-sponsors of terrorism, like Iran, and groups it considers foreign terrorist organizations, like Hamas, Al Qaeda, and Hizbullah. Conspiciously absent from the lists, however, was the Taliban.
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He says a political motive is behind this double standard. In order to gain a broad base of support, Afghan President Karzai has reached out to Pashtuns, many of whom were members of the Taliban. 'You can't call them 'terrorists' and at the same time reconcile with them,' Tarzi says."
You mean to tell me that the 1600 Crew would use crass political opportunism as policy. I'm just shocked.
posted by Jo Fish on 05.10.06 at 09:55 PM
Comments:
Terrorists are people that commit violent acts against civilians. They are committing terror. If it is simply a war between one country and another, it is not terrorism.
Well then...by your definition:
Nobody is at war with Germany, and a German civilian was abducted for five months and tortured. That makes the people that abducted him "terrorists".
He has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the "terrorist organization".
Here's what I'm talking about:
El-Masri alleges he was seized in Macedonia in 2003 and handed over to US officials, who brought him to Afghanistan as a terror suspect and mistreated him during a five-month detention. He says he was released without explanation in May 2004 in Albania.
The suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a human rights group, argues that El-Masri is innocent and was held for two months after Tenet was informed that his capture was a mistake.
There have been several reports of so-called 'extraordinary renditions' - capturing terror suspects and taking them to a third country - and torture in the US-declared war on terrorism.
Here's the spin on it from a well known conservative rag:
posted by: bolts on 05.14.06 at 10:13 AM [permalink]
Hello Mr. Fish, this is Leonard Clark. I'm just stopping in to thank you and all the folks at USNDEMVET blog for making this a great blog and to send you a campaign update that I just sent out and that I'm sure the mainline so called "free press" will ignore. Again, Mr. Fish, thank you and by the way if any of your readers could help here in Arizona with our campaign getting signatures that would greatly appreciated. We are getting close to the wire and it would be sad to miss by our required amount of signatures by a small amount thanks. Well, here's the campaign update and one last thing: GIV'EM HELL!
This is Leonard Clark. I am the other democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. I have been officially filed with the Federal Elections Commission for over a year as a candidate for this race even though I have not raised the $5,000 dollars that would require me to file.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe I am a personal victim of Mr. Kyl in that when I first filed to run for the U.S. Senate in Iraq (months before Pederson and a year before the other candidate) he had in my opinion a corrupt general or civilian leadership or both go after me like vicious dogs and I believe someone in the leadership of the U.S. Army carried out his or one of his friends desires to have my platoon go out on a section of road that was known to have already killed many other soldiers including some people I loved very much. I did not know if I would be "allowed" to return alive from Iraq but I thank GOD that some how I did.
I believe that I am not exaggerating when I tell you that I have collected a good many signatures and that if the people of Arizona continue to do so that they will hopefully put a candidate on the ballot who does not run from Neo-Con corrupt leaders like Senator Kyl. Again, I have seen personally, the results of gross icompetence and corruption of leaders like Senator Kyl in the worst form: the needless killing of my fellow soldiers in that we were sent out without proper equipment and that as a result of this icompetence and corruption personal soldiers I knew were killed.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope that you will know that I am a serious candidate supported by many serious grassroots people who feel they are being ignored. I and the rest of the people on our campaign: "Grassroots Democrats for Leonard Clark" only ask that the people of Arizona who do not know that I have returned alive from Iraq be told so and that I am keeping my pledge to them and my fellow soldiers (alive and dead) that I Leonard Clark a proud native of Arizona and child of the greatest mother and father who ever lived (Lillian and Roy Clark) am running as a Democratic Candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Ladies and Gentlemen, one last thing I would like to state is that some (not all) of the leadership of the U.S. States Army has lied and tried to smear me and my family name. This is the same leadership that lied about the Pat Tillman case. I am proud to have served in the U.S. Army but I believe that it is being destroyed by a few corrupt leaders who are foregoing their ethical duties to their men and to the constitution whom are throwing low ranking soldiers such as myself in jail while they clear themselves of "inhumane treatment of detainees.
They claimed through the central command (CENTCOM of The U.S. Army) that due to a "Freedom of Information Request" by NPR that they released private details of my punishment that would normally be kept under their own privacy laws (and I was assured by U.S. Army Lawyers that would be the case. There's just one thing wrong: Rene Gutel of the local NPR station (KJZZ) who worked on the story told me that she never on the behalf of NPR put in a "Freedom of Information Request on me" . The Public Affairs Colonel who stated this through U.S. Army Centcom was a Colonel whom I believe was stationed in Iraq at the time. I personally believe Mrs. Gutel over these same leaders who been proven to be liars in the past.
Thank you to the producers of this blog, for having the journalistic integrity to report my side of the story. More information can be found on my campaign at : thedamnliberal.com and a google search with leonard clark soldier blog will also shed more information. Thank you.
Leonard Clark
Democratic Candidate for the U.S. Senate in Arizona
Below, is a letter I just have just sent via the Internet to Senator Kyl and will be going on my website soon:
Mr. Kyl. It is you and your ilk in the Congress and in the Senate who continue to claim we are at war. But, sir, you disingenuously left out the fact that without a declared war against that first monster Al Qaida (the second one being your Fascist blood-money Industrial Complex hooligan friends that control the congress) that you have given your king and god George W. Bush a blank check to wage a war in which you and your Fascist ilk are not held accountable. Even Abraham Lincoln, had to answer to the Congress about little matters like generals who would not fight or why the confederates were winning.
Just as a child who goes to school must be held accountable by a report card you and your crooked politician friends must be held accountable.
After all, if you and your conservative ilk demand that our children be held accountable with grades on report cards then you too must set the example. But instead, all you and your congressional ilk can do is say that this undeclared war on the terrorist and our constitution will continue on for years and years and years. Hmm... sounds like your blood-money contracts will continue on and on for years while my fellow Americans and soldiers die (along with our constitution) in cold blood while you make your damn blood money.
Shame on you! Disgrace on you! You may be used to those other democratic leaders who run from you like victims running from vicious dogs but you sir, have met your match! You may tear me to shreds (like you tried to do in Iraq, when you found out I was running against you and had your corrupt general or generals helping you) but I will stand against you and your fasicst ilk for this is not just your country!
Of course, I do not imply violence like you and your thugs practice but in the end you and I will all meet our maker and our day of atonement!
Just remember: this damn liberal does not run from fascist Neo-cons like you!
P.S. If you think you are going to send your hooligans to harm my near family just know that the world is watching you and your fascist Neo-Con party's every move just like it did in Iraq when you came after me.
Leonard Clark
The Damn Liberal thedamnliberal.com
Inner City School Teacher
and Democratic Candidate for the U.S. Senate in Arizona
IMPEACH BUSH! NOT ONE MORE AMERICAN SOLDIER SHOULD DIE IN IRAQ! N.O.M.A.S. !
posted by: leonard clark on 05.14.06 at 11:24 AM [permalink]
