NYT Editorial & Op-Eds (7)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17sun1.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
Photographs and Kangaroo Courts
“Mr. Obama was wrong when he flip-flopped and decided to resist orders by two federal courts to release the photos. We fear he is showing the same lack of resolve when it comes to Mr. Bush’s kangaroo courts — the tribunals at Guantánamo that Mr. Obama denounced passionately and frequently during the 2008 campaign.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17rich-5.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
Obama Can’t Turn the Page on Bush, by Frank Rich
“Even Cheney and Pelosi unite around more disclosure.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17dowd.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
Cheney, Master of Pain, by Maureen Dowd
“Pelosi, another glossy Miss California, revealing too much.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17exum.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
Death From Above, Outrage Down Below, by David Kilcullen and Andrew McDonald Exum
“Drone attacks in Pakistan are doing more harm than good.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17goldberg.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
Israel’s Fears, Amalek’s Arsenal, by Jeffrey Goldberg
“What Obama needs to know about Netanyahu and a nuclear Iran.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17gillespie.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
Paying With Our Sins, by Nick Gillespie
“To ease our deficit woes, legalize and tax every vice.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17kristof.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
This Mom Didn’t Have to Die, by Nicholas D. Kristof
“In stops at hospitals in West Africa, seeing the fire threat of pregnancy.”
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We will never rest easy until there is a real transparency as to what really happened to so many items, such as the Rumsfeld reign over DoD. mb
Posted on 17-May-09 at 1:21 pm | PermalinkSo true. Yet one thing has gone unspoken as yet. Given the number and severity of lies (WMDs in Iraq, a connection between Saddam and 9/11, “the U.S. does not torture,” etc.) that have led to revelations (there never were WMDs, there was no connection b/w Saddam and 9/11, the U.S. does torture, etc.), can it be long before we find that the “official story” of the 9/11 attacks – that “19 fundamentalist Arab terrorists with knives and boxcutters hijacked four airliners and crashed them into buildings, fooling the entire military, intelligence and aviation apparatuses of the U.S.” – is of a piece with the other lies, and that, as the alternative theorists like to say, “9/11 was an inside job?”
After all, the 9/11 Commission co-chairs (Tom Kean, Lee Hamilton) state specifically in their book that they were stymied by the Bush Administration at every turn, that they were so certain that the Defense Dept. and FAA were lying that they almost ordered a separate Justice Dept. investigation in that regard, and that, in their own words, “The Commission was set up to fail.” Add to this the almost absurd number of conflicts of interest of the Commissioners, the presence of Philip Zelikow as Executive Director, and some of the hopelessly ludicrous testimony, and even a hardened “anti-conspiracist” might find it hard not to be just a little (if not alot) skeptical of the “official story.”
Peace.
Posted on 17-May-09 at 5:03 pm | Permalink