Month: June 2007

Will there actually be some justice rendered to a Bush administration top dog?

Federal judge Reggie Walton ruled today that convicted felon Irving “Scooter” Libby must begin serving his prison sentence within the next several weeks.

This will send the NeoConservatives and other pro-war types into Full Indignation/Rage.  They will redouble the pressure on Bush to pardon Libby before he sets one foot inside of a penitentiary.

Oh, the photo opportunities…..

This summer could be more entertaining than I expected….

Comments & hooting welcome at my blog here.

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Antiwar.com Webmaster Eric Garris will be the guest on The Show with Hal Ginsberg on KRXA-AM in Monterey, California (540 on the AM dial), in the 1-2pm hour, Pacific time (4-5pm Eastern time). Garris is scheduled to start 6 minutes after the hour. He will be talking about the war in Iraq and preparations for war against Iran.

MP3 here.

In this selection from “World War I As Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals,” Murray Rothbard connected the moralistic prohibitionism of the early “progressives” with the militaristic world-saving spirit of Wilsonian internationalism in a way that made me laugh out loud:

“The Anti-Saloon League thundered that ‘German brewers in this country have rendered thousands of men inefficient and are thus crippling the Republic in its war on Prussian militarism.’ Apparently, the Anti-Saloon League took no heed of the work of German brewers in Germany, who were presumably performing the estimable service of rendering ‘Prussian militarism’ helpless. The brewers were accused of being pro-German, and of subsidizing the press (apparently it was all right to be pro-English or to subsidize the press if one were not a brewer). The acme of the accusations came from one prohibitionist: ‘We have German enemies,’ he warned, ‘in this country too. And the worst of all our German enemies, the most treacherous, the most menacing are Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz, and Miller.'”

A neighbor of mine, Hrag Vartanian, writes today in his blog about the NYT‘s Nicholas Kristof’s Iraq Poetry Contest. One entry that particularly moved him was by a fourth grader from the South Bronx whose father apparently was killed in Iraq. I wonder what young Raphael’s peers will think of this war and this president when they grow up and begin influencing the historical narrative. At least kids whose fathers died in WWII labored under the delusion that their dad helped saved the world.

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Former ambassador Edward Peck discusses the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 and the cover-up.

MP3 here. (16:56)

Peck, a former U.S. chief of mission in Iraq and former ambassador to Mauritania, was deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration.