"U.S. service members stationed overseas could face a court-martial for patronizing prostitutes under a new regulation drafted by the Pentagon." - Wash PostNow, I'm sympathetic to the argument that many women around the world are forced into prostitution, and therefore this "human traficking" must be stopped. Having said that, this administration seems more interested in stopping our service members from having sex than in preserving their lives on the battlefield. Body armor? Nah. Soldiers having sex? Now there's an issue Bush cares about.
President Bush should order the Department of Defense to prohibit our military to visit brothels, sexually oriented businesses, and to use any government facility or equipment to view pornography. - Concerned Women for America, 5/11/04Yep, the fundies didn't want our troops having sex, or anything else that might bruise their innocent sensibilities, so Bush caved to them. Again, I get that this is a more complicated issue, but we're at war folks and these guys are dying. The last thing I'm worried about is whether they're paying for sex on what might be their last night on earth. Why is it apparently the FIRST thing our president is worried about? Read More......
A senior Iraqi official said Wednesday that a decision had been made to release a top female germ-warfare scientist for Saddam Hussein, but Iraq's leader and U.S. officials moved quickly to squelch the idea that she would be freed soon. Iraqi militants who beheaded two Americans have threatened to kill a Briton unless female detainees are let go....Read More......
The conflicting U.S. and Iraqi statements raised questions over who has authority in the country, even after the handover of sovereignty to Allawi's interim government in June. U.S. officials have been saying that they have been giving more decision-making power to Iraqis, including over security matters.
The U.S. military says it has two Iraqi women in custody, both high-profile security detainees held at an undisclosed location — Rihab Rashid Taha, a scientist who became known as "Dr. Germ" for helping Iraq make weapons out of anthrax, and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, a biotech researcher known as "Mrs. Anthrax."
Justice Ministry spokesman Noori Abdul-Rahim Ibrahim announced that "Iraqi authorities have agreed with coalition forces to conditionally release Rihab Rashid Taha on bail." He added that the decision "has nothing to do with the threat made by the kidnappers."
But soon afterward, a U.S. Embassy spokesman ruled out any immediate release. The two female scientists from Saddam's regime "are in our legal and physical custody. Legal status of these two and many others is under constant review," the spokesman said.
The agreement to free Yaser Esam Hamdi represents a stunning reversal for the Bush administration, which argued for more than two years that the former Taliban fighter was potentially so dangerous that he had to be detained indefinitely in solitary confinement with no access to counsel and no right to trial.Stunning is putting it lightly. Either Bush & Co. jailed an innocent man for two years without counsel and LIED about him being dangerous (when he wasn't), or they're letting a terrorist go scot free. Which is interesting since at the same time Bush was talking about letting a top female Iraqi prisoner go, Dr. Germ, in response to demands from the beheading terrorists in Iraq. Coincidental that yet another dangerous turr-ist is being let go by the Bushies right when things are getting too hot to handle in Iraq? I smell a deal. And a big fat favor paid to the Saudis. Read More......
A complaint filed with a Canadian broadcasting council has prompted evangelist Jimmy Swaggart to say he regrets talking about killing gay men in a televised worship service.Long stretch, indeed. You said you'd kill the man. How could anyone interpret that to mean, you know, that you'd kill the man? Read More......
Audio clips purporting to be of the Sept. 12 Swaggart service have circulated on gay-oriented Web sites, with Swaggart saying "I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry."
"And I'm going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died," Swaggart says, to laughter and applause from the congregation.
A complaint was sent to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, a self-regulating industry group that enforces broadcast standards, after a Toronto television station broadcast the service, said Ann Mainville-Neeson, the group's executive director.
Expressing regret, Swaggart is quoted in The Times-Picayune on Tuesday saying the remark "was a tongue-in-cheek statement best left unsaid. I won't make it anymore."
Swaggart explained he was talking figuratively about killing: "I've said it about other people, including other preachers."
Swaggart also dismissed contentions from gay advocacy groups that such language encourages violence against gay men and lesbians.
"Good gracious alive, it would be a long stretch of the imagination to come up with that," he said...
President Bush might have been able to say it was simply a slip of the tongue when he confused two terrorists in a campaign speech Monday in New Hampshire. Trouble is, he’s made the same misstatement at least 10 times before.Read More......
During remarks in Derry, N.H., Bush said the late terrorist Abu Nidal killed Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish American who died after being tossed — along with his wheelchair — off a hijacked cruise liner named Achille Lauro in 1985.
“Do you remember Abu Nidal?” Bush asked the crowd. “He’s the guy that killed Leon Klinghoffer. Leon Klinghoffer was murdered because of his religion. Abu Nidal was in Baghdad, as was his organization.”
He repeated the mistake Monday evening at a campaign event in New York City: “Abu Nidal was a cold-blooded terrorist killer who killed Leon Klinghoffer.”
Actually, it was Abul Abbas, the leader of a violent Palestinian group, who killed Klinghoffer.
The White House had no immediate comment on the mix-up....
Two Iraqi female prisoners being held by U.S. authorities in Iraq will not be released imminently, the U.S. embassy in Baghdad said on Wednesday. - ReutersOf course, note the use of the phrase imminently - still sounds like hedging to me. And oh what a change from 12 hours ago. Read More......
Financial and insurance industry officials have donated $20.7 million to Republicans this campaign season, compared with $11.4 million they have given Democrats, according to the nonpartisan Political Moneyline.com.
Three people and eight corporations -- including Sears and Cracker Barrel [and Bacardi USA and Westar Energy] -- were indicted Tuesday in an alleged scheme to make illegal campaign contributions through a political action committee formed by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Those charged included three men connected to DeLay's PAC, Texans for a Republican Majority: John Colyandro, James Ellis and Warren RoBold.
"The CIA laid out several scenarios. It said that life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better. And they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like."Not to mention, what Bush said is an outright lie. The CIA's National Intelligence Estimate said that "at best" stability in Iraq would be tenuous. It didn't say life could get better at all - it said AT BEST LIFE WOULD STAY THE SAME AND REMAIN PRECARIOUS. I mean, the guy outright lied.
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