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Destroying Iraq to Save It
An American general in Vietnam famously said, “We had to destroy the village to save it.” This has become the definitive expression of the macabre futility of war. Last week, we destroyed an entire city in order to save it (progress!), but our capacity to find that sort of thing ironic seems to have become shriveled and harmless.
US Election: Democracy in Question
US Election: Democracy in Question has a great summary of all the questions that are being asked about the 2004 election.
When asked if he was aware of any parallels to the present election, Zogby replied, “I’m certainly aware of the election of 1960.”
“It’s been discussed, overtly, the role that Richard Daley, and the role that Lyndon Johnson played, separately,” Zogby said, referring to an episode where the John F Kennedy campaign had supposedly asked, “How many votes do you have?”, the reply allegedly being, “How many votes do you need?”
Fallujah Horrors
“We don’t need you here! Get the fuck out of here! Bring back Saddam! Even he was better than you animals! We don’t want to die by your hands, so get out of here! We can take care of our own people!â€? […]
“They kicked all the journalists out of Fallujah so they could do whatever they want,� says Kassem Mohammed Ahmed, who just escaped from Fallujah three days ago, “The first thing they did is they bombed the hospitals because that is where the wounded have to go. Now we see that wounded people are in the street and the soldiers are rolling over them with tanks. This happened so many times. What you see on the TV is nothing-that is just one camera. What you cannot see is so much.�
Seek Election Irregularities And Ye Shall Find
In Volusia County, Florida, in 2000, Lana Hires, a county employee involved in elections, gained some notoriety when her named turned up in a memo to Diebold, asking them for advice on how to explain the fact that their machines had recorded “-16,022” votes for Gore when a recount was demanded. Diebold’s advice, and the story they stuck to, was that it was a “bad disk.” This would never have been discovered if Gore had conceded rather than demanding a recount; those negative 16,022 votes for Gore would be part of the permanent record.
This year the Black Box Voting team showed up in Volusia County personally when the county refused to comply with Freedom of Information Requests for voting record tapes. They were presented with a record tape but noticed it was specially printed up for them the day before and not signed by anyone. They found this, well, how to put it, curious. Expecially with Volusia County’s history. They demanded the real tapes and were stonewalled and threatened.
They went through a garbage bag they found outside, destined for the shredder. and found the real tapes.
Lo and behold, there were discrepancies between the real tapes and the ones they were given, especially in African-American voting districts.
Lo and behold, the discrepancies favored Mr. Bush.
They’re demanding a hand recount.
Bev Harris is going to turn out to be one of the people who saved Democracy in America, I suspect.