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POPSThe LA Times says the time has come for the U.S. to leave Iraq The Lost Angeles Times, which backed the surge originally, has come to the conclusion, as have most Americans, that it is not working, and we cannot expect or brave soldiers to monitor Iraq's civil war. But Bush remains stubborn, even in light of his 28% approval rating and flaunts the will of the people who pay his salary. I wonder how the 08 Republican presidential candidates enjoy sinking into the mud because of their war mad leader.
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POPSPrisoners Tortured, Killed in Afghanistan by US Army Part 1 of an exclusive by the LA Times on self-admitted detainee abuse and deaths at the hands of US Special Forces. The subsequent military cover-ups could go as far back as 2002. Most of the bases singled out by the agency were under the control of National Guardsmen with the Alabama-based 20th Special Forces Group. The compound at Gardez, then occupied by ODA 2021, was portrayed as one of the worst. Detainees there alleged they were beaten, kicked, doused with cold water and deprived of sleep for days at a time. ... "You have so much freedom and authority over there," one member of ODA 2021 said. "It kind of makes you feel like God when you're out there in cowboy and Indian country."
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POPSName that party! I can't believe the media is still playing these stupid games. If it were a republican, that fact would be in the headlines.
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POPSCanada Hears What The U.S. Censored at Emmys Only in the U.S. was Sally Field's comments about war censored as being inappropriate for audience ears on Fox. Here in Canada, where CTV ran the broadcast, her full comments were heard, and believe me, nothing at all of a sexual or inappropriate nature was said by Ms. Field. The word that Fox cut was goddamn. But, according to the FCC, goddamn is NOT a banned expression from broadcast TV. What the hell is going on in the states that free speech is so under attack?
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POPSSo Much For Supporting Our Troops
President Bush is constantly bragging about how he and his administration always put the needs of our troops first and foremost in their considerations. Money is no object when it comes to supporting our troops says our president. And now we learn from both the Washington Post and the LA Times that inpatients and outpatients and Walter Reed Army Hospital, the number one military hospital in the country if not the world, does not have the funds to hire enough help to keep track of our soldiers when they are injured, or to keep the facilities in which they are treated and housed in livable condition. Our wounded heroes share their rooms with cockroaches, mice and rats, along with moldy wall paper and all around filth. This is a disgrace and I hope the next time the president holds a news conference and brags about supporting the troops again, the press on hand will confront him with this disgraceful information and demand clear and honest answers from him.
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POPSImpeach Cheney If you think Cheney should be impeached, don't you think it would be a good idea to sign?
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POPSMore Blood for Oil Why is it that the greediest always seem to rise to positions of power which enable them to exploit the masses?
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POPSUnderstanding the Natives "You must immediately leave the area," "Get down from the pole" and "This area has been declared an unlawful assembly." -LATimes
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POPSCollege RAPE: 20% to 25% Statistics: LATimes "A 2006 survey of sorority women at the University of Virginia, for example, found that only 23% of the subjects whom the survey characterized as rape victims felt that they had been raped -- a result that the university's director of sexual and domestic violence services calls "discouraging." Equally damning was a 2000 campus rape study conducted under the aegis of the Department of Justice. Sixty-five percent of those whom the researchers called "completed rape" victims and three-quarters of "attempted rape" victims said that they did not think that their experiences were "serious enough to report." ...LATimes
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POPSAn unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton This from the LATimes! I don't believe this is news; political campaigns =corruption. Mrs. Clinton's campaign is suspect due to the recent revelations with Mr. Hua (sp), her husband's past suspicious connections with Chinese donations, the sheer amount of dollars in her treasure chest. I just wish the *journalists* would investigate campaign corruption as aggressively as they did Florida's ballots and voting machines in 2000.
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POPSLA Times Swallows for TNR Are you kidding me? "It's also not at all clear to any fair-minded reader what the telephone transcripts actually show" WHAT? After hearing their continued defense of this guy, then reading the phone transcript tells me that the TNR guys were trying to hold on to this military-bashing with every last shred of fingernail and dignity. What a load of crap from this LAT guy. Every reference to blogs and mags that tried to get at the underlying B.S. are derogatory. AND WHAT'S MORE~they still haven't retracted it. It still, after all this, sits out there like a festering, fetid load long devoid of any telltale steam. ;-)
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