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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (8762)	10/10/2006 8:22:03 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

NK developed nukes under Bush, none at all under Clinton. You can spin that any way you like but the bottomline fact remains. The Axis Of Evil speech in particular was very stupid and amateurish. It was a pandering to the ignorant rightwing hawks and had nothing to do with dealing with reality. In fact it made reality much worse for our country.

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (8762)	10/10/2006 9:00:44 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

things going well for your new Bush Nation At Least 75 Bodies Found in Baghdad Since Monday By Christine Hauser The New York Times Tuesday 10 October 2006 At least 75 corpses have been found in the Baghdad area since Monday morning, authorities said today, most of them bound, riddled with bullets, and showing signs of torture. The grim discoveries reflected a familiar pattern of death-squad killings and sectarian violence in the Iraqi capital. A Ministry of Interior spokesman said today that 60 of the bodies were found in Baghdad in the 24-hour period ending this morning, while 15 more were discovered during the day today. In addition, at least five bombs exploded in the capital area, killing at least 14 civilians and 6 policemen, and injuring 23 people, the ministry and the police sources said. The discovery of the bodies recalled a day just over a week ago when as many as 60 corpses were found in the capital, many of them apparently shot in the head at close range after being tortured. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, a United States military spokesman, said at the time that such killings and other murders continued to claim more people in Baghdad than suicide bombings did. Recent attempts to quell the unrelenting violence in the capital and other parts of Iraq have achieved little so far, against a backdrop of growing militia dominance and sectarian killings that escalated after the bombing of a Shiite shrine in the town of Samarra in February. Since then, hundreds of bodies bearing marks of torture; assassinations and bomb attacks against government officials, civilians and Iraqi and foreign forces; and increasingly bold abductions have underscored the extent to which many areas of the capital and country are beyond the control of the authorities. American and Iraqi troops have continued to sweep Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods in a broad effort to control the capital. And last week, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki announced a new security plan that called for committees of neighborhood leaders to try to defuse sectarian crises in their own areas, in hopes of heading off the flare-ups of violence that are pushing the country to the verge of civil war. "We are doing this to end sectarianism in Iraq forever," said Mr. Maliki as he announced the plan last week. Today, officials said Iraqi political parties have agreed that every security checkpoint in Baghdad would have an equal number of Shiite and Sunni troops in an effort to ensure the security forces do not allow sectarian attacks, the first arrangement reached under the new plan, according to The Associated Press. Sunni legislators have accused Shiite lawmakers of focusing their efforts against Sunni militants while ignoring - or even assisting - Shiite militias. An entire police brigade was recently disbanded by the Iraqi Interior Ministry on the suspicion that some members of the brigade may have permitted, or even participated in, death squad killings. And for the first time since the war began in 2003, a curfew was imposed last week not only on vehicular traffic but also on pedestrians, banning them from the streets of the capital for one day. Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a United States military spokesman, said a number of factors, including an increase in suicide bombings and a rash of violence since the start of Ramadan late last month, had led military officials to ask the Iraqi government to impose the curfew. Today's violence included roadside bomb attacks that appeared to be aimed at an American military convoy, a neighborhood bakery, a minibus and an Iraqi police convoy. The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed today in Baghdad. Mr. Hussein and his co-defendants face genocide charges for the killing of Kurds in 1988. The chief judge in the case ejected Mr. Hussein from the proceedings and a co-defendant punched one of the guards and denounced prosecutors as "pimps and "traitors," Reuters reported.