Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported...
 Read the rest of this post...

Bhutto had no business being in Pakistan but for Rice. Rare indeed does a government policy end in so spectacular a failure as having the bloody brains blown out of a former and potentially future head of state before millions of onlookers. It was in the name of the State Department's "Freedom and Democracy" agenda that Rice first conceived of the purely cosmetic notion of having the telegenic and politically pliable Bhutto pose as the duly elected spokesmodel, for what was to remain a brutal, military tyranny directed by the US to root out, torture, and exterminate every deemed pro-Taliban/Al-Queda lifeform in Pakistan from lizard up. Even in an Administration infamous for using plausible gullibility to exonerate its members from personal responsibility and guilt for catastrophic failures, surely this last, in a long, long line, of world historical blunders should compel that rarest of occasions in the Bush White House, a resignation for failure. Rice has got to go.  Read the rest of this post...

Under-Sec. of Defense Feith for "dirty tricks" operated as the neocon point man in the Defense Dept. But his channel of authority short-circuited SecDef Rumsfeld. Bremer, the presidential Proconsul in Baghdad received an order in writing from Feith to dissolve the Iraqi armed forces and civil service. The motive was to totally fragment Iraq so that it might never again be a threat to Israel or Saudi Arabia. In this, however, Israel was not consulted; in fact, Sharon advised against such decomposition; he worried that too deep a de-Ba'athification might leave Iraq short of technical bureaucrats and in chaos. Read the rest of this post...

Americans have a knack for psychoanalyzing their enemies. There are few histories of WW II or biographies of Hitler that do not go into his alleged psychopathology without ever having met him. But American Presidents are examined more in rationalist terms of: "what were they thinking?" GW Bush, for example, seems devoid of any empathy for the stress physiology imposed on American troops in Iraq-- most being mothers and fathers-- as a result of having been sent to Iraq, all intelligence blind, language deaf and culture dumb. PBS showed a segment recently covering a unit that lost seven troopers in an armored SUV to an IED, killed an innocent taxi driver and had to stand helpless as a large number of women and children were plummeted by shrapnel from a bomb, all in one day. Read the rest of this post...