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I hope the democrats plan on doing something about this. So many innocent lives ruined by the idiot we call President. Saudi Arabia just freed 18 more Gitmo detainees after their return to their homeland. Obviously, these are NOT terrorists. Men who have done nothing wrong other than be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

By ANDREW O. SELSKY

The Pentagon called them “among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth,” sweeping them up after Sept. 11 and hauling them in chains to a U.S. military prison in southeastern Cuba.

Since then, hundreds of the men have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to other countries, many of them for “continued detention.”

And then set free.

Decisions by more than a dozen countries in the Middle East, Europe and South Asia to release the former Guantanamo detainees raise questions about whether they were really as dangerous as the United States claimed, or whether some of America’s staunchest allies have set terrorists and militants free.

The United States does not systematically track what happens to detainees once they leave Guantanamo, the U.S. State Department says. Defense lawyers and human rights groups say they know of no centralized database, although one group is attempting to compile one.

When the Pentagon announces a detainee has been moved from Guantanamo, it gives his nationality but not his name, making it difficult to track the roughly 360 men released since the detention center opened in January 2002. The Pentagon says detainees have been sent to 26 countries.

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Shame on them…….shame on the N.Y. theater that cancelled this play.

Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company has decided not to stage My Name is Rachel Corrie, the controversial play about an American peace activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer.

It was a decision based on the play’s merits, rather than the political controversy that dogs it, CanStage artistic producer Martin Bragg said in an interview with CBC.ca.

“It was an artistic decision,” said Bragg, who saw the play in New York. “It just didn’t work on stage.”

Based on the diaries of U.S. activist Rachel Corrie, who died trying to stop the Israeli army from destroying a Palestinian house, the play chronicles her life as an adolescent and young woman.

The play has been divisive since it was first produced in London earlier this year, with supporters admiring its depiction of young woman developing strong political convictions and others saying Corrie was naive and misguided.

A New York theatre decided against staging the play this spring, after Jewish groups said it expresses anti-Israeli sentiments.

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To read firsthand accounts of life, and death in Palestine, visit the website of Mohammad Omer, a student who lives in Rafah, Palestine. He has won the First National Ethnic Media Awards Youth Voices awardfor his Gaza on the Ground series.

My guess would be both. His life is riddled with failure, yet he remains cock’sure. Makes no sense! Someone (probably his mother?) must have given him positive reinforcement on every fuckup he’s ever committed. Kinda like petting your dog’s head and saying “good boy!” whenever you catch him peeing on the living room carpet.

It’s my belief that Bush has never been allowed to fully grow into a mature adult.

With Congress away, Bush reasserts independence

Independent stance could be short-lived

WASHINGTON: Immediately after the beating his party took in November, President George W. Bush indicated he had received a message that voters wanted change and he would serve some up fast: He ousted his defense secretary, announced a full’scale review of his war plan and contritely agreed with critics that progress in Iraq was not happening “well enough, fast enough.”

But in the past two weeks critics and even some allies say they have seen a reversal. He has shrugged off suggestions by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group that he enlist the help of Iran and Syria in the effort to stabilize Iraq. He has countered suggestions that he begin thinking of bringing troops home with public deliberations over whether to send more. And he has adjusted his view of the message voters sent in November away from Iraq, saying on Wednesday: “I thought the election said they want to see more bipartisan cooperation.”

In many ways, it is the president being the president he has always been - while he still can.

With Congress out of session, Bush sought to reassert his relevance and show yet again that he could chart his own course against all prevailing winds, whether they are coming in the form of bad-news election returns, record-low polls or the public prescriptions of Washington wise men.
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“I’m growing more disturbed every night by how isolated George W. Bush has become,” Joe Scarborough, the former Republican congressman, said on his MSNBC program last week. “Shouldn’t more Americans be disturbed at this unprecedented example of a White House that’s in - and you can only call it this - a bunker mentality?” The screen below him read: “Bush: Determined or Delusional?”

Source: Jim Rutenberg, International Herald Tribune

PAKISTAN TO MINE AFGHANISTAN BORDER

TRIPLE CAR BOMB ATTACKS ROCK BAGHDAD

200 DEAD IN NIGERIA PIPELINE BLAST

BRITISH MILITARY FINDS APPALLING IRAQI PRISON CELL

U.S. MILITARY CONSIDERING FOREIGN RECRUITS

U.S. DEATHS IN IRAQ SURPASS 9/11 TOLL

SUCCESS OF BUSH‘S AIDS PUSH HARD TO MEASURE DUE TO ACCOUNTING PROBLEMS

FEMA WASTE COULD DOUBLE

TEHRAN PROTESTS ARRESTS OF IRANIANS IN IRAQ

The Pentagon has announced plans to move additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region to be within striking range of Iran. We air an in-depth discussion between two of the leading critical voices on the Bush administration’s policy in Iran: former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, author of “Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change”, and Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist for The New Yorker magazine. [includes rush transcript]
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We turn now to the latest on Iran - the New York Times is reporting the United States and Britain will soon move additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region to be within striking range of Iran. Senior U.S. officers told the paper that the increase in naval power should not be viewed as preparations for any offensive strike against Iran. But they acknowledged that the ability to hit Iran would be increased.
The aircraft carrier Eisenhower and its strike group entered the Persian Gulf on Dec. 11. Another aircraft carrier, the Stennis, is expected to depart for the Gulf within the next month. The military said it is also taking steps to prevent Iran from blocking oil shipments from the Gulf.

Well today on Democracy Now we present an in-depth discussion between two figures who have critical of the Bush administration’s policy on Iran. Scott Ritter is a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. He recently wrote the book “Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change.” Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist for The New Yorker magazine. In October, Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh held a public conversation in New York about Scott Ritter’s new book.

To read the transcript or listen to this segment, go here