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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/in...html?th&emc=th

• U.N. to Detail Kickbacks Paid for Iraq's Oil
  
  UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 26 - More than 4,500 companies took part in the United Nations oil-for-food program and more than half of them paid illegal surcharges and kickbacks to Saddam Hussein, according to the independent committee investigating the program.
  
  The country with the most companies involved in the program was Russia, followed by France, the committee says in a report to be released Thursday.

Wow. That surprising.

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Harriet Miers withdraws her nomination. President Bush "reluctantly" accepts it.

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What do I win?

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Alberto Gonzales?

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Moral of the Story: Harry Reid? Evil Genius.

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The same thing as the country, a chance for a righteous nominee and justice. Woo hoo. The Babyjesuschristsuperstar has scored a major victory here.

Bloated drunkard killer Ted Kennedy is on Today right now bloviating his foul spewings. Apparently he claims that a litmus test is wrong. Remember that liberals!!

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Nah, as much as I want Luttig, I'm now going with Ted Olson

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No. I think you're thinking of the J. Edgar Hoover files. You know, the secret ones burned along with his dress collection.

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Is Olson a "caretaker" justice then, kind of like the current Pope, because he's pretty old, isn't he?

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Janice Rogers Brown or Edith Jones.

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You know, sometimes I read these things you guys post, and I wonder what's the point, are you sending messages to each other in code? Jihad starts tonight?

S_A_M

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I think you are completely wrong if you think that nobody decries the internment of both Japanese and German Americans during WWII. Many Americans view that as one of the darkest periods of our modern history.

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More Miers.

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What are they currently giving away for correctly predicting the sun will rise tomorrow?

I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

I think McCarthy is fascinating because never before had a demented alcoholic channeled his obvious disease into such a monstrous power grab. Hitler was crazier than shit, but he wasn't a drunk. To think that McCarthy held the country in a white knuckle grip while simultaneously holding a fifth of Dewars in a similar grip is amazing. I like to drink, and I could never get as far as McCarthy. I'd collapse under the weight of my own indulgences on the way up. I'd sell out and join a lobbying firm and fritter away my days didling secretaries.

I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

Just below disco and tab collars.

I have here in my hand a list of 242 card-carrying members . . .
 

You may want to go back and read my early days on the PB when I would actually engage with these twits. Wouldn't use Dewars for anything other than rinsing my mouth though.

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I hear about the Japanese all the time but never about the Germans. The Japanese was clearly bad because all Japanese were thrown in. Not all Americans of German decent were thrown in but many were thrown in without a trial. I have never heard anyone condemn that.

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The issue in Korematsu etc. was not that it was done without a trial but that it was done solely on race, and a presumption that someone of a particular race posed a threat. If not all Germans were put in camps, presumably someone was being selective. And presumably they had a non-arbitrary basis for selection.

The issue of no trial is of course a fair one. We're still trying to figure it out today with respect to gitmo.

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He'll appease all the conservative types and is very confirmable.

And yes, it is preferable to go younger.

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A set of steak knives.

Third prize is you're fired.

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This may be because the Germans of concern were predominantly on the East Coast and you live in the middle of the area from which the majority of the Japanese-Americans were removed.

There's also some difference of scale -- a quick google reveals 11,000 German-Americans interned and 120,000 Japanese-Americans.

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Depends. If Fitz indicts, then Bush may not go with Alberto, because he won't want the controversy/fight. If Fitz acquits, I think Alberto gets the nod, and Bush enjoys a hhuge fucking resurgence from the depths. Expect a press conf with a smiling Bush saying "Its a new day," and patting Gonzales on the back.

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Do they seriously think that having the withdrawal today will in any way distract people from indictments, if any are issued? Sheesh.

ETA what a disappointment -- when I posted this, I thought today was Friday already. Damn.

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Interesting take, but doesn't it go the other way? If Rove/Libby is indicted, Bush's "political capital" is further diminished. Gonzalez apparently is palatable to the Senate, and so would be more confirmable (and he had nothing to do with the leak). If no indictment, the cloud is lifted and Bush may have renewed energy to fight for someone like Owen or Clement, or one of Penske's wackos.

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No, but better today before the indictments than after when it looks like she was pulled for that reason rather than the fig leaf of executive privilege and documents.

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Alito, Luttig, McConnell, Brown, Jones et. al. are "wackos"???

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Brown yes. And the rest of them were down around 10-15 on his list.

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FWIW, I completely agree with this reasoning.

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What was done to the Japanese sucked and was wrong. No question. But that is a side issue.

The point is that during WWII, any German that might have Nazi sympathies was thrown into a concentration camp by the US government. In addition, Nazi sympathisers were interviewed and asked their political views during the 1930s when we were not at war. Not a complaint from the liberals.

During the Korean War, when American fighter planes were being shot down by Soviets, and we were fighting the Chinese communists on the ground and there was a massive espionage campaign by the Soviets in the United States, some hollywood employees had to face a committee and lost their jobs because of their affiliation with the communist party. A party that was siding with the North Koreans against the United State and was being run by Moscow. And this was the crime of the century? This was a witch hunt?

Nothing happened to these people. If they had worked for me I would have fired them and told everyone I knew not to hire them.

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When was the last time a President couldn't get a Senate controlled by his own party to confirm a S.Ct. appointment? Roosevelt?

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2.

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I invented nominating Olson as the safe choice.

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1) When was the last time a President nominated such an obviously unqualified crony to the position?

2) The harping from the Left makes it clear that either (a) they are royally upset that they couldn't derail her themselves during public hearings, or, more likely (b) they are disgusted because the conservative outcry against a Bush nominee flies directly in the face of their constant accusations that the GOP follows every Bush word like a bunch of lemmings.

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You are a fucking liar. Care to retract that post?

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Congrats you and cooter can keep yourselves company in loserland. Say hi to Chuckie Schumer.

The babyjesi have shown their power. Bush gives us a conservative anti-Roe proponent or he gets cockblocked again@@!

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I am neither. I have a bad recollection. But you ought to look at your original list, which had a lot more names on it.

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I really was unaware of much harping from the "Left", whomever is encompassed by that term. There seemed to have been much greater and vocal opposition from the religious wingnuts, who were licking their chops over the possibility of a "final showdown" with the liberals over the SCOTUS nomination in the Senate.

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The bottom line is, who cares? It's time for real Americans to rally around the President in his war on Terror. Instead of worrying about past enemies we need to worry about putting the same type of hurt we put on the Nazis and Japanites onto the Syrians, Iranians and radical Islamists, including but not limited to the Gitmo detainees.

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1991.
Before that,
1972.