The King is Good

As are all powerful people.
The Tsar, they believed, would see their miseries and help.

Solitary confinement

On the cheap

If I onlyhada heart

The cowardly lion
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The intelligence failures that Bush reminds us of were manufactured in Doug Feith's office in the White House.

What shall we do

Is it ok to vote for a law you think is immoral,
or vote against a law you think is moral?
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For that matter, is it ok to vote for a law that is moral?
Isn't it redundant?

Lots of asteroids in the past

Luckily, those days are over.

State sponsored arms and drugs

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Cocaine goes from Afghanistan to Turkey. Everybody knows.

I pledge allegiance

to the heavens,
and to the earth on which I stand
and to the poorest, to the weakest
to liberty, to justice, for all.

Close Guantanimo Prison

Close Guantanimo.
Naval Station.

We are not on the wrong side

We are the wrong side
Daniel Ellsberg, regarding Vietnam

Non-proliferation, 1954 style, Vietnam

Hearts and Minds[@4:41] or
House of War p.549 note 151
George Bidault, French Foreign Minister, reports that Dulles
He took me aside, in the corner of a window at the Quai d'Orsay,
et il me dit "And if we were to give to you two atom bombs?"
And later, the Russians gave the Cubans 100.
Also Black Ops, Geraghty, p5.

Hang Victory

Let's focus on honor.

WTF are they pulling with Bolivia now?

[article] Rice targets jobs in Bolivia.
Let's pressure this socialist democracy.
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Unemployment was the number one issue in the 2002 election, and the failure of President "Goni" to deliver jobs was the cause of his ouster in 2003.
Yes, Bolivia has natural gas, which the vermin would like to get.

Shithead

Hayden claimed 'state-secrets' in the Rich Barlow case. Barlow had reported that Pakistan had the bomb and was conducting a market in nuclear technology. He was fired for trying to alert the administration to the A. Q. Kahn network.
[story]

Charlie Wilson's War

funds Pakistan's nuclear program.

1974/05: India surprises the west by exploding a nuclear weapon
1975/12: AQ Kahn steals nuclear secrets from the Dutch
1978/04: socialist Revolution in Afghanistan
1979/02: Islamic Revolution in Iran against the Shah
1979/07: Carter authorizes action against Afghanistan
1979/12: USSR invades Afghanistan.
1980/04: Carter's failed rescue of hostages
1980/09: Iraq invades Iran

1982: Charlie sends money to Pakistan to give to the Afghans.
1982/12: Rumsfeld greets Sadaam
1985: US sells 40 F16's to Pakistan as "Peace Gate I & II"
1987: Charlie sends stingers, some of which Pakistan sells
1987: Pakistan detonates an atomic bomb, in China. 1
1988/05: USSR begins to leave Afghanistan
1988: India leases three nuclear subs from USSR
1989: Pakistan modifies the F-16 to carry atomic weapons.

(15 years later)

2004/02: A Q Khan takes the fall and is pardoned.

Ironweed DVD club

[Special interest films].

A Crisis

Is a terrible thing to waste. [Richard Heinberg]

Con man

Sometimes it takes more than confidence.

Why do they hate us?

When we are so good.

In other news

China walks in space.

No Exit

[Art]