Olbermann Jumps On Condi Rice

   Having a few other jobs to do now and then, I sometimes miss things such as the episode on February 26 when Keith Olbermann tore into Condi Rice for not getting her facts straight while trying to compare Hussein to Hitler, White House point of view.

   Well I just watched that "Countdown" episode and Olbermann was ...Olbermann. what can you say?

   Here is the script and the video. you just have to watch it!!

   A sample:

TruthOut

 But, Secretary Rice, overthrowing Saddam Hussein was akin to overthrowing Adolf Hitler? Are you kidding? Did you want to provoke the world's laughter?

    And, please, Madame Secretary, if you are going to make that most implausible, subjective, dubious, ridiculous comparison; if you want to be as far off the mark about the Second World War as, say, the pathetic Holocaust-denier from Iran, Ahmadinejad - at least get the easily verifiable facts right: the facts whose home through history lies in your own department.                                                                 Your predecessors, Dr. Rice, didn't spend a year making up phony evidence and mistaking German balloon-inflating trucks for mobile germ warfare labs. They didn't pretend the world was ending because a tin-pot tyrant couldn't hand over the chemical weapons it turned out he'd destroyed a decade earlier. The Germans walked up to the front door of our State Department and said, "We're at war." It was in all the papers. And when that war ended, more than three horrible years later, our troops and the Russians were in Berlin. And we stayed, as an occupying force, well into the 1950s. As an occupying force, Madam Secretary!

  If you want to compare what we did to Hitler and in Germany to what we did to Saddam and in Iraq, I'm afraid you're going to have to buy the whole analogy. We were an occupying force in Germany, Dr. Rice, and by your logic, we're now an occupying force in Iraq. And if that's the way you see it, you damn well better come out and tell the American people so. Save your breath telling it to the Iraqis - most of them already buy that part of the comparison.

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1st Lt. Ehren Watada 2nd Court-Martial Set For July

Yahoo News

February 28,2007

SEATTLE - The Army has set a second court-martial for July 16 for an officer who refused to deploy to Iraq and spoke out against the war and the Bush administration.

The first military trial for 1st Lt. Ehren Watada ended in a mistrial Feb. 7, when the judge said he didn't believe Watada, 28, fully understood a pretrial agreement he'd signed.

On Friday, the Army refiled charges of missing movement and conduct unbecoming an officer. If convicted, Watada could be sentenced to six years in prison and be dishonorably discharged.

Eric Seitz, Watada's attorney, has said he will seek to have the charges dismissed on the grounds they violate the Constitution's protection against being tried twice for the same crime.

   The Bush Klingon Empire never gives up. Just like the Energizer bunny, they keep going and going.

   It is up to all of us to raise alot of hell with our elected officials and to make some noise everywhere so that we can to get this man out of this shit that the military is throwing at him. So, get to work!

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