Long article on the how both the Haitian rebels and the Aristide govt. was up to its eyebrows in drug trafficking. Free registration required.
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05/16/2004 12:28:32 AM ||
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They're trafficing in drugs in Haiti? Who would have thought. Geez, there is drug trafficing in every burg, county, city, high school in the world. Except NK. They keep a check on that type of Posting.
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The Ministry of Defense said Arctic veterans were awarded the Atlantic Star medal, which also went to sailors serving on trans-Atlantic convoys during the war.
But the protesters want a separate medal - the Arctic Star. They said time was running out for the government to honor the estimated 3,000 surviving Arctic veterans.
I guess they have one medal and want a 2nd.
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Im say give 'em another metal. It will encourage their kids.
(2004-05-10) -- Photographs of alleged hazing of inmates in Iraqâs Abu Ghraib prison by U.S. military personnel and contractors constitute "works of art, protected as free speech," according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Democrat presidential hopeful John Forbes Kerry.
"These photos dramatically symbolize the often hopeless struggle of oppressed proletarians against the military-industrial complex," said an unnamed ACLU spokesman. "If these pictures had been taken in the United States, they would be praised by the critics and go on a nationwide museum tour funded by the National Endowment for the Arts."
Democrat president hopeful John Forbes Kerry agreed that the photographers were "simply expressing their opinions about the war."
"Whether itâs throwing oneâs war medals on the White House lawn, burning an American flag or taking photos of frightened prisoners," said Mr. Kerry, "itâs all protected speech. Who are we to judge how another person chooses to express himself or herself."
Posted by: Korora ||
05/16/2004 12:02:26 AM ||
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I'd be falling out of my chair if it wasn't for the fact that I can seriously see them doing that.
I went looking for a similar article on The Onion archives ("ACLU Defends Nazis' Right to Burn Down ACLU Headquarters"), but found that they converted it to a membership site. Damn.
Posted by: The Doctor ||
05/16/2004 16:07 Comments ||
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What about the snuffy video of Nick Berg? Is that also art, and thus protected free speech?
What if al Qaeda did a snuff video of ACLU members, is that protected free speech and art?
These ACLU chaps do alot under the protection of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who give their lives, if need be, to protect their right to trash America.
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Posted by: Mike Sylwester ||
05/16/2004 11:35 ||
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Mike, if you're just going to post opinion pieces of your own, and I think this post counts as such, the way you've presented it... pricing information for typepad can be found here.
As for the actual content, it all seems to revolve around the idea that putting women's underwear on someone's head and taking pictures would constitute effective torture of the sorts of hard cases who blow up busses full of schoolkids and say it's the will of allah, and that it really was an approved military intelligence program.
Other nonsensical ideas are that higher-ups would approve of the program, and then turn around and prosecute the people implementing it, _long before_ it became public knowledge. If they were that evil to want to abuse prisoners and get away with it, all they had to do was give in to the blackmail these pathetic excuses of soldiers and their relatives tried to do earlier this year.
As it is now, it appears the surest way to get derided in the public press by the hypocritical "enlightened people" as a war criminal is to actually go ahead and prosecute what war crimes you discover committed by the troops.
Posted by: Phil Fraering ||
05/16/2004 16:18 Comments ||
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Phil: The posting itself is entirely factual and newsworthy. The only opinion here is that Cambone might be a cellmate of the seven "bad apples." It's an absolute certainty that he'll go to prison for perjury.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester ||
05/16/2004 16:59 Comments ||
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Mike, if reportage by Seymour Hersch were all it took to put someone away, yeah, he might be certain that he'd go to jail for perjury, but he'd have about eighty percent of the DoD (including soldiers) going to jail along with him, and we wouldn't have an army left to defend ourselves (or we'd have to get the BATF's armored platoon to work together with the Michigan Militia as the infantry).
Posted by: Phil Fraering ||
05/16/2004 17:08 Comments ||
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I was tortured when I became a shellback. I've repressed it all these years. [tears streaming down my face]
Posted by: Super Hose ||
05/16/2004 17:17 Comments ||
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Excellent points, Phil! Thank you.
It's clear that MS wants to "clean house" at the Pentagon and probably stop the war with the help of Seymour "I broke My Lai" Hersh.
Good luck with that!
This "prison abuse" story has had about all the legs a faux story should have.
The only thing that made it a "story" for the Left were the tabloid-friendly pictures.
But there is no "there" there and it's time for this 2-week funhouse ride from Hell of the American people to end.
IslamoFacism and the Partisan Media delenda est.
Posted by: Jen ||
05/16/2004 17:35 Comments ||
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Super Hose,
Don't forget the blue nose and golden dragons.
Some of those were almost as bad as the "prison abuse" photos and we all did it voluntarily. And I don't even want to remember my chiefs initiation. Luckily, I can't remember most of it.
Col. Robert Morgan, commander of the famed Memphis Belle B-17 bomber that flew combat missions over Europe during World War II, died late Saturday of complications from a fall, his wife said. He was 85. Morgan was hospitalized April 22 with a fractured neck after falling following an air show at Asheville Regional Airport, said Carole Donnelly, spokeswoman for Mission Hospitals, where Morgan was treated. His wife, two daughters, a close family friend and two ministers were at his side when he died. A native of Asheville, Morgan gained fame as the pilot of the Memphis Belle, which flew 25 combat missions over Germany and France during World War II. Morgan co-authored a book about some of his experiences, ``The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle,'' with Ron Powers.
Back in the days when flying 25 combat missions was a near death sentence. Thank you, Col. Morgan!
Posted by: Steve White ||
05/16/2004 12:26:03 AM ||
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Thank you Col Morgan and rest in peace you have earned it.
Posted by: Major Major Major Major ||
05/16/2004 14:38 Comments ||
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I have not read it. Our peacenik professor gave us a choice of Catch 22 or MASH and I read the latter.
Nevertheless, I am aware that Yossarian and Major+ are characters and that Y's post is probably a quote.
What is the point of appending this to the original message?
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In WWII, to make it back from 25 missions was a Big Deal.
RIP Col. Morgan and all the crew of the Memphis Belle.
Posted by: Jen ||
05/16/2004 17:29 Comments ||
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Im'a sorry AC didn't mean to raise feather. It just that later in the war the mission number kept raising and raising and raising by the time I got to the great big siege of Bologna I've already had 67 missions and one of those was with the Snowdens of yesteryear. I'm mean no disresect. GET MY ASS OUT OF HERE THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL ME
A US financial firm has emerged as central to a secret multi-million dollar plan by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to bail the country out of a food shortage and prepare the way for his election victory later this year. Last week Mugabe forced the UN's World Food Programme crop assessment team to leave the country fearing that it would expose the dire harvest. Such a disaster would fly in the face of Mugabe's claims of a bumper harvest and prove that his controversial land reforms have failed. There has been a huge drop in production caused by land seizures from white farmers with much of the land lying fallow. Sources claim that Mugabe has struck the secret deal with a group of US firms to provide thousands of tonnes of grain in exchange for tobacco and minerals. Insiders allege one of the US companies involved is Sentry Financial International in Salt Lake City, Utah. Details of hugely profitable tobacco-for-maize swaps, leaked to The Observer, involve Sentry and the state-controlled Grain Marketing Board. Last year Sentry was involved in a deal to exchange 300,000 tonnes of maize and wheat for tobacco and minerals. Sources claim some 70,000 tonnes of grain will arrive in Zimbabwe this month under an agreement shrouded in secrecy because of its political sensitivity. Sentry's vice-president Kirk Heaton said his company was doing business in Zimbabwe but 'the details are confidential'.
"I can say no more!"
Zimbabwe needs an estimated 900,000 tonnes of food this year. Opposition politicians claim Mugabe's Zanu-PF party will use food to buy votes in forthcoming elections and starve opposition areas.
Just like last time.
Posted by: Steve White ||
05/16/2004 12:16:26 AM ||
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If it's true, Sentry will deserve the backlash that it gets.
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Er, um, mistah, so who exactly is going to produce a bumper crop of tobacco, and dig for chrome and rubies when the whole place is becoming a desert, with a work-force more than decimated by AIDS. Big change coming down there at some stage, let's hope. The deal's probs connected to ANC, Mbeki goof-balls and their recent great showings at majority votings.
I'm off to try googling "ANC+Sentry Financial Int".
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Has Bob only targetted the maise farms for redistribution and left other crops and industries untouched?
Posted by: Super Hose ||
05/16/2004 16:43 Comments ||
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What drivel! Zimbabwe is selling stuff to buy food, and suddenly its a conspiracy involving an evil American corporation. And the Left wonders why people don't take them seriously. Even Mike Moron could do better than this.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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