Center for American Progress
Soon as I get the time, I will add this site to my Link Board. The Center for American Progress really does a bang-up job of highlighting information that you need to know to deal with the constant stream of disinformation and lies coming out of the Bush White House.
Most recently: their coverage of the Rice testimony before the 9/11 commission, and specifically the August 6th Presidential Daily Briefing entitled, ‘Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.’The highlights:
* The Bush administration hid the PDB, probably because it was called “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.” That is a bit embarrassing. “The American public deserves to know what President Bush knew and when.” Right on.
* There were “explicit and repeated warnings about al Qaeda attacks.” Rice claimed that the FBI sent warnings to field offices, but the commission member could find not a single piece of evidence to verify this.
* The administration did little or nothing to combat terrorism before 9/11. The administration even tried to cut counterterrorism funding.
OT-COURT CHALLENGES KOIZUMI’S PANDERING TO EXTREME RIGHT-WING WAR CRIMINAL FACTIONS!!!
Keep in mind that while the shrine is Japan’s Arlington National Cemetary, and there are a lot of “legitimate” reasons for a citizen not representing the entire country to visit, there never was any doubt that Koizumi was playing to the radical right like Sharon or Bush or rightists in France. It is Arlington, yes, but it is also Bitburg.
In a rare public rebuke, a court on Wednesday ruled that Junichiro Koizumi violated the Constitution by visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine as prime minister.
Um… that’s a bit off-topic, no?
While I agree with your sentiments, please stick to the topic of the post. In the future, I will move such comments to a past post that is most closely related to the comment.
Also, please note that an email address and URL are not necessary–no need to put up a fake email and web page address like you have in the past–just a name only is sufficient.
Thank you.
Well, as a matter of fact I think it is related. I read up on this, and it just seems like a pattern of resurgent nationalism and militarism. Symptom of a disease, if you will.