Topic: Couldn't be so...
Stormy Monday: More Odd News
Bob Patterson, who appears in Just Above Sunset as both The World's Laziest Journalist and The Book Wrangler, has been strongly urging that all these posts here be made shorter, with much less commentary.
Bob offers this as an example of the format readers would probably prefer.
Yep, this has been in the news. Matt Drudge was all upset about it. I've seen lots of commentary. Perhaps it needs no more than this.PLAY ME OR TRADE ME
The Guardian newspaper in Britain is reporting that the Red Cross wants Saddam Hussein to be either formally charged or released.
If he is released, can he run for office in the new elections? Iraqis who resent the American presence could show their resentment by voting for Saddam.
Wouldn't that "tear it" as far as "why are we there?"
Isn't breaking one more international law preferable to the possibility that Saddam might get elected?
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As for the previous post here on the Washington Post pulling an Ellsberg and publishing the full Justice Department memo authorizing torture, at least if the CIA does the torturing, I shall only point.
A rather prominent law professor does a line-by-line, paragraph-by-paragraph, analysis here of this memo. Click on the link. Do your own reading and commentary.
Note the comedian Jay Leno adds this
Of course, my favorite new odd news items is this: When Bush met with the Pope last week in Rome he spoke to selected Vatican leaders requesting the Catholic Church support his reelection by publicly endorsing the US Republican Party and publicly condemning the Democratic Party, since, like the Church, the Republicans oppose abortion, want to ban gay marriage entirely, and also say embryonic cell research is actually a form of murder, infanticide.According to The New York Times, last year White House lawyers concluded that President Bush could legally order interrogators to torture and even kill people in the interest of national security -- so if that's legal, what the hell are we charging Saddam Hussein with?
You can click on the link for details. You can provide your own commentary.
Oh heck, what is there to say, after all? The Church is interested, but wary.
Whatever.
Posted by Alan at 10:13 PDT
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