A humanitarian military intervention in Libya...? Glenn: "Please."

glenn has the same visceral reaction to glaring hypocrisy that i do...

[W]hat I cannot understand at all is how people are willing to believe that the U.S. Government is deploying its military and fighting this war because, out of abundant humanitarianism, it simply cannot abide internal repression, tyranny and violence against one's own citizens. This is the same government that enthusiastically supports and props up regimes around the world that do exactly that, and that have done exactly that for decades.

By all accounts, one of the prime administration advocates for this war was Hillary Clinton; she's the same person who, just two years ago, said this about the torture-loving Egyptian dictator: "I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family." They're the same people overseeing multiple wars that routinely result in all sorts of atrocities. They are winking and nodding to their Yemeni, Bahraini and Saudi friends who are doing very similar things to what Gadaffi is doing, albeit (for now) on a smaller scale. They just all suddenly woke up one day and decided to wage war in an oil-rich Muslim nation because they just can't stand idly by and tolerate internal repression and violence against civilians? Please.

yep... where's our "humanitarian intervention" in gaza...? ivory coast...? equatorial guinea...? nothing like displaying our true colors for all the world to see and, believe me, they see them... here in the u.s., we may allow ourselves to be deluded by the constant barrage of media and government propaganda, but most of the rest of the world gets it and stands by in amazement that we don't - or won't...

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Watching from outside the U.S. or looking on from the inside, insanity is still insanity

the criminal banksters go scot-free, government leaders current and former who shred the constitution with impunity are not held to account, yet another unapproved, illegitimate war is underway, our super-rich elites continue to amass ever more power and money thanks to the bought-and-paid for help of the media and their completely subservient elected officials, but what's important right now in this country to those elected officials...? un-fuckingly-believable...

1) Curtailing Abortion Rights

2) Defunding Planned Parenthood

3) Defunding NPR

5) Declaring English As America's Official Language

6) Reaffirming The "In God We Trust" Motto

man, i just don't fucking get it... the barn door is open, all the horses are gone, the structure is engulfed in flames, and they're cutting funding for the fire department and telling people if they're hungry, go lasso a horse and eat it... i don't know what planet i'm living on... i don't know if i'm crazy or if everybody else is... and there doesn't seem to be any end to it...

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The Speech President Obama Should Give about the Iraq War (But Won’t)

an excellent, sobering and very sad piece by juan cole...

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Sign the petition to support Senator Leahy's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Click on image to sign petition

as a country, we desperately need to do this... unless we squarely face what we as a nation have allowed to take place in our names, we stand little chance of ever regaining our national integrity and resetting our moral compass...

senator leahy...

With over 35,000 signatures to date, our petition at BushTruthCommission.com is rapidly building grassroots support for a commission that will uncover the truth about Bush-Cheney Administration abuses. I am humbled that so many Americans have stood up in support of establishing a truth and reconciliation commission, and grateful that our efforts have led the press, outside groups, my Congressional colleagues, and the White House to start taking this idea seriously.

We need to continue to show that the American people are committed to uncovering the truth about the misdeeds of the last administration -- so that we can ensure the same mistakes are not repeated.

As one of the earliest signers of the BushTruthCommission.com petition, I need your help to gather 50,000 petition signatures by next week. Please invite your friends and family to add their names to the petition today.

What little we know about the Bush-Cheney Administration's use of extraordinary rendition, torture, and secret legal memos to subvert the Constitution underscores the need for an independent inquiry.

When I first came to the Senate in 1975, the Church Committee was working to expose the excesses of the Watergate era. Last weekend's New York Times credited that effort with "[leading] directly to a series of reforms" curbing executive power and restoring the Constitution.

The time for asking questions and getting answers has come once again. In the words of Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., who served as chief counsel for the Church Committee and supports a new truth commission, "It may seem that we already know a lot, but based on my experience, I'm certain there's a lot that went on the last eight years that we still don't know."

Americans embrace this notion, with 6 in 10 supporting an investigation into Bush-Cheney Administration abuses. But that popular sentiment alone won't make it so, and we must keep the pressure on to consider establishing a truth and reconciliation commission.

sign it... it may not be the perfect plan but it's better than continuing to bury our heads in the sand...

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More of "we simply MUST face the reality of what we're doing"

i've posted several times on ali hussein, the poor little two-year old sadr city boy whose life was ripped away in an attack by u.s. forces... this slide show is courtesy of terrancedc at booman tribune... not pleasant viewing by any means, but essential viewing nonetheless to keep us mindful of the consequences of our actions as a nation...

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Deceit, pettiness, treachery, arrogance, ignorance and stunning callousness

morgan strong reviews the recent pbc frontline documentary on five years of the iraq war for robert parry's consortium news...

What the broadcast revealed was nothing new. Others have engaged the subject as thoroughly as did Frontline. What we did see in this broadcast, however, was a compilation of the deceit, pettiness, treachery, arrogance, ignorance and stunning callousness by those who took us into this vile war.

The key figures who promoted the war were Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Lewis Libby. Those names were not new, but a new motive for the war was revealed: the recognition of Israel by a new democratic Iraq.

thank goodness we have these chronicles of treachery... they serve as a foundation for the truth of this illegal and immoral war...

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Iraq: "There's no exit plan because there's no plan to ever exit"

john perry...

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A shameful anniversary - five years in Iraq

page one headline in today's wapo...

Five Years In Iraq

five years ago today, i was living in mexico and had the opportunity to watch my country initiate an illegal war from a south-of-the-border perspective... only a few days before, i had stood on the edge of the zocalo (central plaza) of the city where i lived and watched most of the young schoolchildren from the area assemble in protest against the coming invasion... in the simple, straightforward fashion of children everywhere, they had created their own posters and signs some of which brought tears to my eyes...

now, five years later, i am living in argentina, and preparing to spend the next two and one-half months in afghanistan, like iraq, a u.s.-sponsored wasteland... everywhere i go, i see that the world is so desperate for positive change... after listening to obama's speech yesterday and noting the positive response, i am heartened that maybe, just maybe, we're on the brink of seeing that change happen...

stay tuned...

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