Memnison Journal

..of the Bush administration, a casualty of the war on terror, troubled and victimized soul that he is.

Details after the cut.

A reader of Andrew Sullivan’s blog writes:
But both of us have to realize what they’re up against: a nation of voters just like…my mom. She’s a lovely woman, Andrew. I love her to death. Sweet, kind, generous–she’s got it all. But whenever I try to talk to her about torture, warrantless wiretapping, the Military Commissions [...]

“It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer has done what has been done.”
Cardinal Richelieu, in The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
See inside for an analysis of the fallout  I expect from the CIA  torture tapes destruction. 

Agent Hubbard:  Come on General, you’ve lost men, I’ve lost men, but you - you, you *can’t* do this! What, what if they don’t even want the sheik, have you considered that? What if what they really want is for us to herd our children into stadiums like we’re doing? And put soldiers on the [...]

“A ‘military victory’ in the sense of total control over the whole territory {of Iraq}, imposed on the entire population, is not possible.”
-Henry Kissinger, April 1, 2007
“During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose [...]

One of the campaign experts who got Bush elected is saying - Bush is a terrible leader, and I helped get him to stop trying to persuade the center and just whip up the right wing base to run things. Maybe that was a bad idea? Eeeeeeh - could be!
The theory and practice [...]

Chinese cops: ‘Ya know, torture isn’t the cure-all that we thought it would be.’
GOP House: ‘Ya know, it’s too much trouble to take care of these spending bills to keep the country running.  Let’s dump it off on the Democrats for next year, and go home.’
Compassionate Conservatives in Massachusetts: ‘Ya know, it’s expensive to run [...]

Senator Feingold: (read it all)
We can and must fight terrorism aggressively without compromising fundamental American values. We must remember what the Army Judge Advocate General told me at a Judiciary Committee hearing this [...]

Speeches from Senators Obama and Clinton on the bill.  A part of it below from Clinton:
 How would General Washington treat these men? The British had already committed atrocities against Americans, including torture. As David Hackett Fischer describes in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, “Washington’s Crossing,” thousands of American prisoners of war were “treated with extreme [...]

As many predicted, McCain and the others have decided to kiss the ring and return to the fold; the ‘compromise’ over torture basicially says: the President can do what he likes, and the torturers have immunity under the law.  Great system, eh wot?
Between that and McCain’s comment that er, Falwell was jes’ funnin’ around when [...]

Susan pointed out this to me: The Cafe Press store for Olbermann stuff.
Froomkin with a summary on reaction to the White House push for shredding the Geneva Convention on prisoner treatment.
one quote:
“The reason President Bush has been trying so frantically to get Congressional passage of his plan to interrogate and try terror suspects is that [...]

Yes, these are bad guys. Why can’t you say in public what you’re doing to them?
Yes, there’s a lot of need for recovery money for the effects of 9-11. Where did the loan money go, and how is Bill Clinton responsible for that one?
Yes, there’s been no accountability from the press and Congress [...]

There are now 2.5 billion cellularly connected phones, and all of them seem to be in the hands of Chicago commuters.
Charges that the EPA and city of New York soft-pedaled air quality readings in lower Manhattan after 9/11. Toxics? What toxics?
When in doubt, get those women out of Mecca.
“if you’re Paris Hilton , [...]