WTF Is It Now?!?

"I am not convinced"
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Deep U.S.-European divisions over Iraq were laid bare on Saturday as U.S. officials said European reticence over war was harming transatlantic ties, while Germany insisted peace should be given a chance.

Donald 'Warboner' Rumsfeld said many in Europe had failed to see the danger of new security threats thrown up by the end of the Cold War and said Washington's main concern was states like Iraq acquiring weapons of mass destruction and passing them onto terrorists.

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Germany agreed that the end of the Cold War had disturbed the balance of power in the Middle East but said Islamic extremists and not Iraq posed the main threat and bringing peace to Israel should be the first priority. He also questioned whether the U.S. public was ready for the long-term occupation that would be needed after an Iraq war.

Waving banners displaying anti-war slogans and blowing whistles, about 6,000 protesters took to the streets of Munich amid heavy snowfall on Saturday to demonstrate against the conference and the threat of military action against Iraq.


Not scared yet?
Justice Dept. Drafts Sweeping Expansion of Anti-Terrorism Act - Center Publishes Secret Draft of ‘Patriot II’ Legislation

The misdministration is preparing a "bold, comprehensive sequel" to the USA Patriot Act passed after September 11, 2001, which will give the government new powers to increase domestic intelligence-gathering, surveillance and law enforcement prerogatives, and simultaneously decrease judicial review and public access to information.

Dr. David Cole, Georgetown University Law professor and author of Terrorism and the Constitution, reviewed the draft legislation at the request of the Center, and said that the legislation “raises a lot of serious concerns. It’s troubling that they have gotten this far along and they’ve been telling people there is nothing in the works.” This proposed law, he added, “would radically expand law enforcement and intelligence gathering authorities, reduce or eliminate judicial oversight over surveillance, authorize secret arrests, create a DNA database based on unchecked executive ‘suspicion,’ create new death penalties, and even seek to take American citizenship away from persons who belong to or support disfavored political groups.” - Read more here.



Nothing to see here, move along...
Huh.
Hardly anything in the news today regarding the UK dossier on Iraq - the one Colin Powell cited as he addressed the United Nations this past week - the one that was plagiarized from documents that were 12 years old.


"Shut up! Shut up!"
By popular demand, the transcript to Oh'Really's show where he called Mexicans "wetbacks" is here.

Transcript and audio of the Jeremy Glick interview is here.

Unbelievable.