source: http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3952&cid=6&sid=20

Like children playing with dynamite, Western intellectuals,
journalists, and diplomats fantasize that they are achieving results
in the Middle East with their words, promises, apologies, money, and
concessions...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/washington/03intel.html?hp

Justice Dept. Sets Criminal Inquiry Into C.I.A. Tapes

By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: January 3, 2008

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said Wednesday that
the Justice Department had elevated its inquiry into the destruction
of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation videotapes to a formal
criminal investigation headed by a career federal prosecutor.

The announcement is the first indication that investigators have
concluded on a preliminary basis that C.I.A. officers, possibly along
with other government officials, may have committed criminal acts in
their handling of the tapes, which recorded the interrogations in 2002
of two operatives with Al Qaeda and were destroyed in 2005.

C.I.A. officials have for years feared becoming entangled in a
criminal investigation involving alleged improprieties in secret
counterterrorism programs. Now, the investigation and a probable grand
jury inquiry will scrutinize the actions of some of the
highest-ranking current and former officials at the agency.

Gnostic wrote:

Great. Now look up all his cases where he caught someone smoking a joint and
sentenced them to 50 years of chronic butt-rape, and get them all reversed.
Or, better yet, transferred to him.

He probably had an extra-long jerkoff session after passing each sentence!

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Huckabee_supporters_get_warning_let_01022008...

Huckabee supporters get warning letters

Ministers Who Support Huckabee Receive Anonymous Warning Letters

NAFEESA SYEED
AP News

Jan 02, 2008 19:42 EST

Iowa pastors who support Republican Mike Huckabee for president have
received letters warning them that getting involved in politics could
endanger the tax-exempt status of their churches.

Several pastors who have publicly backed Huckabee, a Southern Baptist
minister who has support from many evangelicals, said they have
received the letters, which have no return address. They have arrived
in the weeks leading to Thursday's precinct caucuses.

Two letters were sent to the Rev. Brad Sherman, of Solid Rock
Christian Church in Coralville. The first arrived a couple weeks ago
and warned that he could be prosecuted for his support of Huckabee.

"I just laughed. No one lands in jail for this," Sherman said.
"Somebody is trying to intimidate Christians from getting involved."

Who Do We Vote For This Time Around? A Letter from Michael Moore

Friends,

A new year has begun. And before we've had a chance to break our New Year's
resolutions, we find ourselves with a little more than 24 hours before the
good people of Iowa tell us whom they would like to replace the man who now
occupies three countries and a white house.
Twice before, we have begun the process to stop this man, and twice we have
failed. Eight years of our lives as Americans will have been lost, the world
left in upheaval against us... and yet now, today, we hope against hope that
our moment has finally arrived, that the amazingly powerful force of the
Republican Party will somehow be halted. But we know that the Democrats are
experts at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and if there's a way
to blow this election, they will find it and do it with gusto.

400%% rise in oil prices to cause the worst depression in history due to
Bush's obsession with his legacy.

December 13, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
The Man From Target
By GAIL COLLINS
Huckabee! Huckabee! The man of the hour! What is it that voters love so much
about this guy? Is it a hitherto inchoate yearning for a president who knows
less about international affairs than they do? Hope that a man who can lose
100 pounds could also get rid of the federal deficit?

Mike is soaring ahead in the early polls, in a surge to the front of the
pack that suggests Republicans cannot come to grips with the idea that they
are supposed to nominate either Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani for president.
There has to be a way out! What about Huckabee? He has a good heart! True,
his brain doesn't seem to have a single thought about foreign policy or know
much about domestic policy, for that matter. But one well-functioning body
part is better than nothing.

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Nothing new there!

Why are you posting to alt.idiots? You must feel at home there!

Laugh laugh laugh!

Letter to a Liberal Friend
The Left and Ron Paul
http://www.counterpunch.org/

By JEFF TAYLOR

"Equal rights for all; special privileges for none."

"Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful,
must be reasonable . . . the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must
protect, and to violate which would be oppression."

"[The purpose of representative government is] to curb the excesses of the monied
interests."

"The influence over government must be shared among the people. If every individual
which composes their mass participates in the ultimate authority, the government will be
safe; because the corrupting of the whole mass will exceed any private resources of wealth."

"Peace, then, has been our principle, peace is our interest, and peace has saved to the
world this only plant of free and rational government now existing in it."

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."

-- Thomas Jefferson

You asked for a treatise to explain my support for the "lunatic" Ron Paul. Since you asked,
I'll send you some thoughts.

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Nothing new there!