War on Terrorism

Retired Thugs

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Amy, at The Fifty Minute Hour, asks why thugs like Idi Amin live out a cush life instead of spending it spread out on a hill of fire ants(my words, not hers):

The current theory among many Ugandans is that there’s a Muslim conspiracy to protect dictators afoot:

“Why no extradition and trial? One Ugandan theory argues that the Saudis simply will not let an African Muslim potentate be toppled, tried and convicted by a predominantly Christian African state. That’s an argument loaded with religious and ethnic explosives, too hot and politically incorrect to touch. However, East Africans I know believe it. Post 9-11, it may not seem so outlandish.”

The argument, true or not, raises an obvious question. Why is the international community willing to bow to the will of Saudi Arabia on the issue of human rights in Africa? The Saudis certainly have an opinion as to what should happen to dictators like Amin, but why does their view prevail?

Read her interesting answers here. Andrew Case, in the comment thread, suggests what I think may often be the answer: the unbothered retirement was the payoff for the thug(s) to step down.

If Blair Falls can bush Stand

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Bilmon doesn’t think the US has the stuff anymore to take out a president:

Here in land of the fairly free and the not-so-brave, that wouldn’t make much difference, I suppose, since we seem to have lost our taste for White House scandal — not to White House accountability — once Bill Clinton put his slick willy back in his pants. But the British appear to still take these things fairly seriously.

But if Blair really does fall can you imagine the new set of lies and misdirection we will be subject to as the Republican controlled House and Senate dodge their responsibility.
And then again, the bushies may have laid the groundwork for trying to pull their fat out of the fire:

Senior officials in the Bush administration believe Kay’s weapons discoveries should have been revealed as they were made. However, a decision, approved by President Bush, was made to wait until more was discovered and then announce it — probably in September.

See The Left Coaster for more details on Blair’s travails.

Fair and Balanced Report

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Here is today’s fair and balanced report. First, South Knox Bubba has the headlines (do not drink your coffee while reading); second, Neal Pollack provides a fair and balanced report on bill’s blackout activities (and now you know why he is trying to divert attention to Hillary, and third, Tegan writes about and links us to the Fox court filing which is full of great quote material such as the Orwellian

15. FNC’s balanced approach to reporting the news has become extremely popular…

and o’reilly’s fair and balanced version of his own show

17…”The O’Reilly factor” bills itself as a “No-Spin Zone” and the goal of the program is to present the audience with the straight facts while allowing the audience to reach its own conclusions about the news.

And in full bushian mode of saying one thing and doing another:

20. To reflect its unique approach to the reporting of news, FNC adopted the slogan “fair and Balanced”, along with the phrase “we Report, You Decide” at the time of the network’s inception.

Folks: watch it, read it, you decide.

Raining on the bush parade

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Moorish Girl says A Storm is Brewing. Check out this Washington Post article:

The new information indicates a pattern in which President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their subordinates — in public and behind the scenes — made allegations depicting Iraq’s nuclear weapons program as more active, more certain and more imminent in its threat than the data they had would support. On occasion administration advocates withheld evidence that did not conform to their views. The White House seldom corrected misstatements or acknowledged loss of confidence in information upon which it had previously relied:

Yep, I think its brewing and can see the lightning on the horizon.