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funny thing. There is no mention on the Habeaus Corpus issue in politics here. Information is the new weapon. 4gw indeed.
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Busy Busy Busy.

Republicans run questionable race ads
BLACK MAN #1: "If you make a little mistake with one of your 'hos,' you'll want to dispose of that problem tout suite, no questions asked."

BLACK MAN #2: "That's too cold. I don't snuff my own seed."

BLACK MAN #1: "Maybe you do have a reason to vote Republican."
http://www.nysun.com/article/41648?page_no=1

Olberman calls Bush out on lying. In clear and inargueable terms
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/OlbermannSpecialComment-RIPHabeus.wmv

Al Qaeda says a long war in Iraq is good for them.

http://uscavonpoint.com/blogs/reconstructing_iraq/archive/2006/10/12/337.aspx?utm_source=onpoint+oct2006Ba&utm_medium=bulkemail&utm_term=al+qaeda&utm_campaign=onpoint+oct2006Ba&urlid=onpoint_alqaeda

Lind is straight talking
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On War #187
October 11, 2006

Why We Still Fight

By William S. Lind

At least 32 American troops have been killed in Iraq this month. Approximately 300 have been wounded. The battle for Baghdad is going nowhere. A Marine friend just back from Ramadi said to me, It didnt get any better while I was there, and its not going to get better. Virtually everyone in Washington, except the people in the White House, knows that is true for all of Iraq.

Actually, I think the White House knows it too. Why then does it insist on staying the course at a casualty rate of more than one thousand Americans per month? The answer is breathtaking in its cynicism: so the retreat from Iraq happens on the next Presidents watch. That is why we still fight.

Yep, its now all about George. Anyone who thinks that is too low, too mean, too despicable even for this bunch does not understand the meaning of the adjective Rovian. Would they let thousands more young Americans get killed or wounded just so George W. does not have to face the consequences of his own folly? In a heartbeat.

Not that its going to help. When history finally lifts it leg on the Bush administration, it will wash all such tricks away, leaving only the hubris and the incompetence. Jeffrey Hart, who with Russell Kirk gone is probably the top intellectual in the conservative movement, has already written that George W. Bush is the worst President America ever had. I think the honor still belongs to the sainted Woodrow, but if Bush attacks Iran, he may yet earn the prize. That third and final act in the Bush tragicomedy is waiting in the wings.

A post-election Democratic House, Senate or both might in theory say no to another war. But if the Bush administrations cynicism is boundless, the Democrats intellectual vacuity and moral cowardice are equally so. You cant beat something with nothing, but Democrats have put forward nothing in the way of an alternative to Bushs defense and foreign policies. On Iran, the question is whether they will be more scared of the Republicans or of the Israeli lobby. Either way, they will hide under the bed, just as they have hidden under the bed on the war in Iraq. It appears at the moment that a Congressional demand for withdrawal from Iraq is more likely if the Republicans keep the Senate and Senator John Warner of Virginia remains Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee than if the Democrats take over.

There is a great deal of material available to the Democrats to offer an alternative, much of it the product of the Military Reform Movement of the 1970s and 80s. Gary Hart can tell them all about it. There is even a somewhat graceful way out of Iraq, if the Dems will ask themselves my favorite foreign policy question, WWBD - - What Would Bismarck Do? He would transfer sufficient Swiss francs to interested parties so that the current government of Iraq asks us to leave. They, not we, would then hold the worlds ugliest baby, even though it was Americas indiscretion that gave the bastard birth.

But donkeys will think when pigs fly. A Democratic Congress will be as stupid, cowardly and corrupt as its Republican predecessor; in reality, both parties are one party, the party of successful career politicians. The White House will continue a lost war in Iraq, solely to dump the mess in the next Presidents lap. America or Israel will attack Iran, pulling whats left of the temple down on our heads. Congress will do nothing to stop either war.

By 2008, I may not be the only monarchist in America.

William S. Lind, expressing his own personal opinion, is Director for the Center for Cultural Conservatism for the Free Congress Foundation.
http://www.d-n-i.net/lind/lind_archive.htm