Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for July 26, 2006
BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE
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Looking at the utter chaos that is evolving in the Middle-East from Bush’s war in Iraq, it’s beginning to look as though, gasp, the “evil-doer”, Saddam Hussein, just might have been a thread of stability in the Middle-East!
World Media Watch for July 26, 2006
WORLD MEDIA WATCH
1//The Daily Star, Lebanon--TURKISH PREMIER CALLS FOR NATO TO JOIN FIGHT AGAINST KURDISH REBELS IN NORTHERN IRAQ (Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for NATO to join the combat against mounting violence by Kurdish rebels holed up in northern Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported. "NATO, just as it stepped in to join the struggle against terrorism in Afghanistan, should ... perform the same duty here," Erdogan told reporters. Erdogan's call came as Ankara becomes increasingly exasperated by US reluctance to crack down on rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party [PKK], based in the mountains of northern Iraq since 1999.)
In the real world, there are repercussions for incompetence. But Not in Bush world
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
In the real world, there are repercussions for incompetence.
But not in Bush world.
After years of failure, the man who would be king announced yet another "new" plan to stop the death and bloodshed in Iraq.
Jim Ridout: Heads in the Sand, or Mad Men and Mad Cows
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Jim Ridout
The deaths in Iraq have surged once again as the number of Iraqi civilians killed in June rose to 3,000 and the death toll of American heroes just keeps climbing. All of this after President Bush and the Republican Party seized the day to celebrate the death of Zarqawi and the promise of progress and an example of success.
BuzzFlash Mailbag for July 25, 2006
BUZZFLASH MAILBAG
Subject: Mailbag ... 7/24/06
First...some housekeeping...I saw two hearings on C-span this weekend...wondered if anyone else saw them...One about how horrid the Medicare drug presc. plan was...how that donut hole works, and how it hurts the most ill of this nation. It made me so mad...to think that we pay prescription drugs for the likes of Dick Cheney...Bush and Rumsfeld...it is just a horror.
First There Was Scalito. Now Mini-Clarence Thomas is a Federal Judge
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
Bush nominee Jerome Holmes was confirmed today 67-30 by the Senate to be a federal judge for the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Holmes, who is African-American, is considered to be heavily conservative and is openly anti-affirmative action, much like Justice Clarence Thomas.
Tom Wieliczka: Neocon Politicians Never Learn From History
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
How ironic that Bush is so concerned about trying to get Democracy to spread throughout the Middle East. And to think how Bush has done everything possible to pull the rug out from under our feet with our own Democracy!
Is Anyone NOT Suing Bush These Days? His Lawyers Must be as Sick of Him as We Are
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
We all know about the various ways that George Bush has broken the law. It's fair to say at this point that he's actually a career criminal since illegality has become such a staple of his presidency. However, various powerful groups have started turning up the heat on his blatant attempts to declare himself dictator.The Supreme Court case striking down Bush's Guantanamo Bay tribunals is still fresh in our minds, where a majority of Justices declared that there is in fact some limit to his wartime powers (namely, the Constitution). Valerie Plame is suing for the leaking of her CIA identity, and a number of groups are suing phone companies for complying with NSA wiretapping. These are just a few of the pending legal actions against Bush's corruption.
COMMENTARY BY WILL DURST
It was quite a performance the President put on at the G- 8 Summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia this year. If you, like me, understand the phrase “quite a performance” to mean “whoa, dude, chill.” Maybe a switch to decaffeinated is in order. “Yo, Blair.” That’s how he hailed the Prime Minister of Great Britain at a photo op at the closing of the conference. “Yo Blair.” Sounds like how I might greet one of my friends, but you know what, I’m not the President of the United States of America at a major world summit. Which, as Martha Stewart says, is a good thing.
Michael Winship: Come Back Uncle Walter, Don't Leave Us!
A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Michael Winship
Last Thursday night, I was a guest at the screening of a new, first-rate, public television documentary, "Walter Cronkite: Witness to History," part of the PBS series, "American Masters." It airs Wednesday night, July 26 (check your local listings).
