Obama’s Pick to Lead Afghan War Linked to Abuse of Prisoners & Secret Assassination Unit
Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal formerly served as commander of the Joint Special Operations Command from 2003 to 2008. During that time, he oversaw a secretive program to hunt down and assassinate suspected terrorists around the globe. Last year, lawmakers delayed Stanley McChrystal's nomination for a key position because of questions about prisoner abuse by forces under his command. Many of the reports of abuse center on Camp Nama, a US base near Baghdad's airport where Special Operations troops ran an interrogation and detention center.
Guests:Marc Garlasco, former intelligence and targeting analyst at the Pentagon. He’s now the senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch.
Tom Engelhardt, created and runs the Tomdispatch.com website, a project of the Nation Institute, where he is a fellow. He recently published an article about what General McChrystal’s nomination means for the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It’s called ‘Going for Broke:Six Ways the Af-Pak War Is Expanding’
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Show AllThe key to breaking the Congressional Democrats logjam
is forcing them to Enforce our Federal Anti-Torture Laws.
TORTURE IS A FEDERAL CRIME
SEE http://tinyurl.com/besdd3
It is Never Debatable and Never Morally Correct.
IT is a heinous Federal Capital Crime.
IT is evil whether done to Americans Or Muslims.
WHY IS OBAMA PROTECTING BUSH AND CHENEY?
They obviously violated Federal Law.
IS Obama SOFT ON CRIME ?
If you do nothing else for your Country today,
SIGN THE PETITION
To Prosecute Them For Torture
http://ANGRYVOTERS.ORG
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Re tell the truth June 10th, 2009 4:02 am, who says,
"...the green party was a disaster
here in ny.they cant even get on the ballot and have alot on internal strife."
As a member of the late Citizens Party, from the campaign of Dr. Barry Commoner to its final dissolution, I can tell you from personal experience that a lot, if not all, of that internal strife you've observed is the work of agents provocateurs bent on destabilization.
If third parties were not a serious threat to the status quo, the ruling elites wouldn't go to all that trouble.
yes yes i will. but they have to get their act together first and have a viable candidate. the green party was a disaster
here in ny.they cant even get on the ballot and have alot on internal strife.
The problem is not Bush or Barak. The problem is the system that leads to Barak Bushes. Put in a different Republican or Democrat and get the same outcome. Put in a third party candidate and the system will stop him/her. The problem is a system whose God is profit. The problem is capitalism.
I guess what is so bothersome to me is that any of obama's 'picks' seem to be coming from the bottom of a cesspool and it is disturbing to see this person, McChrystal, a general, from the special forces but SO obviously over the top crazy that there would be much better choices.
But I guess when one looks at the freaked and psyched out personal being picked, it can only mean that that is the way it will be done and there is no further discussion about the matter.
You can always count on Obama for hiring the usual suspects.
Hail the Empire! Hail Caesar Obama!
Now back I go to watching hours of TV and DVDs of constant violence and glorification of violence and war. We have the digital Coloseum in every household. Violence is always the answer to our problems, it is the way we are raised and socialized.
I agree. There will be a consequence for this constant state of war that the U.S. is promoting. As to what that will be is unknown. Never before in our recent history has the U.S. openly funded and agressively tried to pursue 2 wars simultaneously while trying to antagonize a third one(Iran).
Nah! Americans' too brainwashed. It's either Repugs or Dumbocrats.
Plus c'a change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Obama would not have been chosen by the Dems & gotten the millions in campaign contributions if he would not have done the bidding of the big money people. It just won't happen. And, as long as establishment media give him all the attention he wants, while ignoring anyone else who makes noise, such as most of the contributors to CD like Robert Fisk, Ralph Nader, Amy Goodman, et al., nothing will change.
Upton Sinclair made a big jump with his EPIC (End Poverty in California) during the depression when he ran for statewide office in that state. He drew very large crowds. When FDR saw him making inroads into Democractic votes, Sinclair was beaten with the velvet whip.
That's why the Dumbs blame Nader for making them lose the election in 2000. It's always someone else's fault. The fact that the Democratic candidate, Al Gore, was something less than stellar in terms of fundamental change, is not considered relevant by them.
Unless establishment media give equal time to those who represent change, not those who mouth the words, like Obama, it will never happen.
The U.S. has been at war since I was six years old. They'll always convince the people that there's someone out there who wants to steal our "American Way of Life," thus justifying their attacks, murder, torture, invasions, occupations, with the consent & participation of establishment media.
Eduardo Galeano says it best to Laura Flanders, "We have the habit of accepting madness as a normal way of life." Which is why people will not change, but will continue to vote for whomever media designate the current rock star.
The endless wars of the U.S. equal madness.
Engelhart is wrong, it isn't just a "bullet to the head", throats are being cut too.
Levin, why ask questions if you're going to answer them yourself?!
loaded question suck, people. that's not questioning....
What ever happened to the Motto of an Officer in the Military, An Officer and a Gentleman? Under the Bush/Cheney regime they became an Officer and a murderer and liar.
I never thought we could do any worse than Reagan and Bush Sr. Yet they seem to get worse than the one before.
Remember the song from Robert Altman's "MASH"? It was called "Suicide is painless". That should be our new National Anthem.
clinton, bush, obama = more of the same old how how about that for change
You would flunk a simple quiz on Bill Clinton's accomplishments. ;)
Rape, pillage, burn, destroy. We were supposed to have gone beyond that after WW-II. Instead, we have become like the Crusaders and the Vikings, raping, pillaging, burning. looting and destroying. Only now, the loot is opium and oil, which translates into big money and limitless power for the elite few.
Yeah, we know Obama is a mirror of Bush on security issues and war escalation.
So what now?
The question ought to be, does anyone calling themselves progressive willing to have the guts to vote for a Third Party?
This is a huge dilemma: we progressives can, have and do vote for alternative parties. However, given the stranglehold the D/R ruling duopoly has on political discourse, the MSM and money, it is almost impossible for alternatives to become known to the average American (who is working far more hours on average than any in the developed world, and has little time to do anything else but work and take care of basic family needs).
Add a piss poor education in general, especially in civics, politics, and economics (which have in many cases been cut out of public school curricula)
Whats more, the average American is bombarded with half-truths, distortions, propaganda, exaggerations and out right lies from birth and every day of his/her life.
We saw what happened even to Dennis K., a loyal D party member who did not toe the DLC line (he was barely able to retain his seat in the House). Same for Ron Paul and even worse for Cynthia M., Cindy Sheehan and many others. They are regularly "whitelisted", that is ignored, by the MSM and when they do make it into a story, they are smeared by the msm as crazy, whacko, lunatic fringe types, not to be taken seriously. They laugh at them, remember?
In short, it will take much more than progressives to vote for alternative candidates to change anything. We have seen this time and again. We need to revolutioize the system from the ground up. The revolution will not be televised