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Amnesty International To Canada: Arrest ‘War Criminal’ George W. Bush When He Attends Economic Summit Next Week!

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TIM MAK: The human rights group Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest former President George W. Bush when he attends an economic summit in the province of British Columbia next week.

The group accused Bush of “responsibility for crimes under international law including torture.

George W. Bush

Amnesty International asked that Canada either prosecute or extradite Bush for violations that they allege took place during the CIA’s secret detention program between 2002 and 2009. The organization wrote a 1,000 page memorandum addressed to Canadian authorities to make the case for human rights violations by the 43rd president.

“Canada is required by its international obligations to arrest and prosecute former President Bush given his responsibility for crimes under international law including torture,” Susan Lee, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said in a statement. [ READ MORE ]

PLAYLIST: George W. Bush — A War Criminal — Bush’s cabal directed an illegal war on Iraq, based on blatantly falsified evidence. His claims of weapons of mass destruction(WMDs) and a connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda were patently false.

The ding-bat ended up causing the deaths of over a million+ innocent Iraqi women and children and thousands US soldiers.

That’s premeditated murder!

Bush sanctioned extreme torture ? severely violating the constitution of the United States, and screwed a healthy economy turned over to him by Bill Clinton big time, resulting in the current economic mess.

Bush has perverted, distorted and tarnished America’s image beyond repair.

Quoting the late Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts: “To many people in the Middle East, the symbol of America is not the Statue of Liberty but a prisoner standing on a box wearing a dark cape, a dark hood on his head, afraid he is going to be electrocuted.” [ READ MORE ]

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ELSEWHERE, THE OBAMA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME FESTERED IN RIGHT-WING CIRCLES:
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Sean Hannity: “Defeating Obama’s My Number One Goal Right Now”

Hannity Tells Hank Williams Jr. He’s “Glad” He Didn’t Apologize For Comments About Obama And Hitler

Once Again, Fox’s Eric Bolling Is Upset That Obama Drank Beer

Straight News? Fox’s MacCallum Asks Why Congress Isn’t Working On “Repealing Obamacare” And Other GOP Pet Issues

Doocy Teases “Fair And Balanced Debate On Class Warfare” By Asking If Obama Is “Fueling The Protests”

Tucker Carlson: “The Truth Is, It’s Impor– You Know, Republicans Feel Like It’s Really Important To Beat Obama”

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Anwar Awlaki: Bloodthirsty War Criminal Dick Cheney, Daughter Liz in Tow — Demands an Apology From Obama!

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Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine: A few months after Barack Obama was sworn in as president, Dick Cheney sat down with Sean Hannity for — I couldn’t call it an “interview,” more of an exchange of talking points — in which he lambasted the new president for coddling terrorists.

The conversation took the form of Hannity launching the attacks, and Cheney endorsing them. Obama lacks “the courage to call it a war on terror,” right? Right. “It’s telegraphing weakness,” right? Right. Obama loves Chávez, Ortega, Iran, and Mexico (Mexico?), so obviously he doesn’t understand the war on terror, right? Right. Cheney chimed in that Obama’s policy amounted to, “we don’t have to be as tough and aggressive as the Bush administration was.”

Following the killing of Anwar Awlaki, the administration’s latest success in a stepped-up campaign of targeting Al Qaeda, Cheney is back in the news again. Unsurprisingly, Cheney is not offering any apologies. Instead he’s demanding that Obama give one — to him. [ READ MORE ]

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USER “First_And-Ten’s” COMMENT ON CHENEY’S PIC BELOW: His head looks like it has the texture of a salamander‘s egg. I would not be shocked to discover he has a room where he sheds his skin every 2 months and collects them.

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9/11 Ten Year Anniversary

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It seems like ten seconds, not ten years, have passed since our nation was attacked on September, 11, 2001. The horrific images of that fateful day (the plane smashing into the iconic skyscraper, people jumping to their death from the towering inferno, the collapse of both towers) haven’t been dimmed by time, they remain sharp and clear in our minds.

Where there was once smoldering ruins at Ground Zero, there is now a National September 11 Memorial, and the new Freedom Tower has begun its ascent to the heavens. Violence and hatred has never quashed the human spirit, and that hallowed ground on lower Manhattan will soon be bolder, and more magnificent than ever.

“Closure” is a cruel myth, the families of the victims of 9/11 will carry their emotional scars to their graves. But Americans are resilient, and many of those most impacted by 9/11 made a U Turn after that evil day and dedicated the rest of their lives in service to their communities.

It’s often repeated that the terrorists won because in the aftermath of 9/11, we got entangled in two interminable wars, spent billions on security measures, and passed the Patriot Act which tramples on our civil liberties.

While it’s true that going to war against Iraq was a colossal mistake, and we should have pulled our troops out of Afghanistan years ago, al Qaeda didn’t win. We emerged from the fires of 9/11, a stronger and more unified nation. We learned that the strength of our nation isn’t in its towers that touch the heavens, but in the indomitable spirit of the American people.

The terrorists will never win, terrorism will never destroy us. Only we can destroy ourselves, if we fail to realize that we are still one people, indivisible. In the days and weeks immediately following 9/11 we weren’t blue states and red states, but the UNITED States of American. Today bipartisanship is a dirty word in Congress, and we have let our political differences divide us.

Let’s come together as a nation once again. Instead of letting politics divide us, let us celebrate the wonderful freedom that we enjoy to express our political views. Nothing will enrage and confuse our enemies more than witnessing an America that is unbowed, united and undeterred from advancing the cause of liberty.

By Robert Paul Reyes

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President Obama Attends 9/11 Memorial Service in NYC

President Obama Attends 9/11 Memorial Service at the Pentagon

Weekly Address: President Calls For Unity On 9/11 Anniversary

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It Just Makes You Proud

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   Columnist – John Sammon
Columnist - John Sammon. Click to view larger picture.It just makes you proud.

Think of it, the United States, the most powerful and richest country in the history of the world, has not in 10 years been able to decisively defeat a group of ragged vagabond hit-and-run insurgents some of whom don’t even have shoes on their feet.

The United States, the country instrumental in the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and which outspent the Soviet Union into ruin during the Cold War arms race, now takes on two pigmy countries so backward some of their citizens still ride camels and live in mud huts.

The United States, the modern Roman Empire.

It just makes you proud.

The war that we entered into under false pretenses, weapons of mass destruction that weren’t, to a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq that wasn’t. In fact, al-Qaeda wasn’t in Iraq until we blundered them there by starting the war.

Americans, some of them, like to say, “they started it, they attacked us” (meaning 9-11). But when they say “they,” they can’t mean Iraq. Even Bush finally admitted it. And it wasn’t directly the Taliban, though they provided safe havens for the conspirators, who were in fact mostly Saudis.

Now, none-other than Leon Panetta, the new defense secretary, says we’re going to focus on al-Qaeda and less on fighting Iraqis and Afghans. If the original focus wasn’t the right one, then we must have been wrong. That’s their sly way of admitting they were wrong, without admitting it.

Too bad for a million dead Iraqis caught in the crossfire, but like senators in the old Roman Empire would have rationalized, mistakes have to happen. Or to quote Stalin, when you chop down a tree, splinters fly. Of course, it’s tough to be a splinter.

John Pilger’s ‘The War You Don’t See’ — Atrocities & War Crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan

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The media obediently went along with all this and for good measure avoided showing American servicemen coming home in caskets to complete the deception. To their everlasting shame the media network sycophants sucked up to the drumbeat flag waving and failed in their patriotic duty to ask tough questions of officials and hold them accountable.

It just makes you proud.

Panetta added that the new focus will no longer be on surging around impoverished countries with a huge army and using overwhelming high-tech military force. He said instead we would defeat al-Qaeda, but he didn’t specify (they never do) what exactly he meant by defeat. Does that mean there will no longer be any members of the terror organization walking free on the loose? They’re all in jail or dead?

Does that mean al-Qaeda representatives will sign a formal surrender document?

Most reasonably sane people would agree there isn’t much likelihood of either of those scenarios happening. The American people who are paying for it have a right to know what exactly we’re trying to do.

What is meant by defeat? We don’t know. Neither apparently does Panetta. Nobody knows.

The American people don’t care. Like the media.

It just makes you proud.

Nobody will ask Penetta what he means by defeat, no one will ask him to be more specific. That’s because it’s not a war of specifics. It’s a war of allusions, a war of spoken asides, vague assurances casually given and forgotten and never clarified, of alleged progress made, of ground occupied, of the some-day hoped-for ability of the regimes we set up in power to survive.

It’s all vague.

In the meantime, the war goes on, a war between the most powerful country in the history of the world, the richest, and a ragtag group of insurgents in one of the poorest regions of the earth. This is a war that’s not really a war beyond ideologies because there are no front lines or capital cities to capture and the other side doesn’t really have a uniformed army with the equipment of a formal army.

Like a train that runs down a track driverless of its own accord, the pseudo war seems to have a life of its own. The American people don’t demand of their so-called leaders explanations about what we’re trying to do in these countries. Nobody knows. We don’t ask and they don’t tell.

Instead they make vague asides, like Penetta did, using the word “defeat.” What constitutes defeat? We don’t know. Obama used the word “progress.” Exactly what progress have we made? We don’t really know, and you yourself don’t know because you can’t explain it, and if you did know, you could.

Don’t say it’s killing Bin Laden. That’s too simple and doesn’t account for a million Iraqis killed.

It’s a war of shadows with real dead, but also references too vague to allow for the sunlight of reason, like the runway train, with no one in charge, going down the track. We watch it go by and hope things will work out.

This war is a war not only to defeat them in a way our government doesn’t know and can’t explain, it’s as much a war to reassure you, and keep you compliant. They use the word “withdraw,” they say they’ll “withdraw” troops. They pull out 10,000, but leave 50,000. New troops take their places. Over time, you forget about the promise, that really wasn’t a promise meant to be kept at all, but an offhand, sort of easily discarded cheerful-positive-sounding not-really-serious half-believed subterfuge.

Even now they’re asking the Iraqis and Afghans if we should stay.

Nobody cares. Nobody asks. The bureaucrats just keep getting away with it because it’s the kind of war where you can not care and unless somebody you personally know is killed, you ignore it and go about your everyday business.

This war and the lead-up to it represent the Watergate that wasn’t investigated, the Vietnam that wasn’t protested.

It’s not your business. You didn’t make it your business.

You wave the flag on July 4.

It just makes you proud.

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Bin Laden Killing: The Only Credit Bush Deserves is a Life Term in a Super-Max Prison; GOP Holds First Primary Debate in S.C.

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The New York Daily News reported on Wednesday that George W. Bush wouldn’t be at Ground Zero with President Obama Thursday in part because he feels his team is getting short shrift in the decade-long manhunt for Osama Bin Laden.

   Obama Meets 9/11 Families at Ground Zero
Obama Meets 9/11 Families at Ground Zero

“[Bush] viewed this as an Obama victory lap,” a highly-placed source told the Daily News Wednesday.

“He doesn’t feel personally snubbed and appreciates the invitation, but Obama’s claiming all the credit and a lot of other people deserve some of it,” the source added.

“Obama gave no credit whatsoever to the intelligence infrastructure the Bush administration set up that is being hailed from the left and right as setting in motion the operation that got Bin Laden. It rubbed Bush the wrong way.”

Bush spokesman David Sherzer said Bush “appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight.”

The Credit That Bush Deserves

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Who Killed Osama bin Laden? Eleven Bush administration officials come out of their hidey-holes to take credit for Osama bin Laden’s death.

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Fox’s In-House Baboon Glenn Beck Bashes Obama’s Ground Zero Visit Again: “This Is A National Tragedy,” It’s Like He’s “Pinning A Medal On Himself

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Bush’s cabal directed an illegal war on Iraq, based on blatantly falsified evidence. His claims of weapons of mass destruction(WMDs) and a connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda were patently false. The ding-bat ended up causing the deaths of over a million+ innocent Iraqi women and children and thousands US soldiers.

That’s premeditated murder!

Bush sanctioned extreme torture — severely violating the constitution of the United States, and screwed up a healthy economy turned over to him by Bill Clinton big time, resulting in the current economic mess.

The War Crimes Act of 1996, provides penalties up to the death penalty for abuse of military detainees. Bush also “gravely breached the Geneva Conventions,” to which the U.S. is a party.

Another Fox Asshole Eric Bolling Reads List Of People His Viewers Want Waterboarded — Including President Obama

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REFERENCES:

1. Right-Wing Media Tout Bin Laden Death As Victory For Torture, Ignore Dispute
2. GOP Hypocrites Who Have Repeatedly Attacked Obama As ‘Weak on Terror’ Now Busy Transplanting ‘Bin Laden Credit’ To ‘War Criminal’ George Bush.
3. Lost at Tora Bora: How Osama Bin Laden Eluded Bush in Eastern Afghanistan.
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Notes: First Republican ‘Primary’ Debate (Greenville, South Carolina, 05/05/2011) — Only five GOP hopefuls took part, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), former Sen. Rick Santorum (PA.), former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, and former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain.

It wasn’t a feast of fearmongering like the 2007 New Hampshire debate, because the real lunatics — Gingrich, Palin, Huckabee and Trump were missing in action.

   First Republican “Primary” Debate — The “Jokester LineUp”
First Republican 'Primary' Debate (Greenville, South Carolina, 05/05/2011) -- Only five GOP hopefuls took part, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain.

One lone lunatic hyena participated — the homophobic abortion-terrorist, Rick ‘Man on Dog‘ Santorum. The former PA Senator slipped in a “Bush on Obama Smear” ….. Mr. Santorum called President Obama’s foreign policy “a continuation of Bush policies,” otherwise most of the attacks on Obama were on the economy and health care.

The token black man in the debate, His Minstrelsy Herman Cain, performed his usual “Jumping Jim-Crow” antics — to the satisfaction of the predominantly white racist gaze.

The vast majority of the people sitting in with Republican pollCOOKster Frank Luntz said Cain had won the debate with his “directness” and “straightforward” delivery — READ: Clown Act. (This despite the fact that when asked about what he would do in Afghanistan, he replied that he would rely on “the experts and their advice and their input.”

Luntz appeared blown away by the response to Cain, which he cast as unprecedented. “Something very special happened this evening,” he said.

Yeah, something special alright — a black man who will never, repeat NEVER be elected to the highest office by a thoroughly racist Republican electorate — won the debate!

What a joke!

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