Gonzales Top Aide Resigns. So What?

   So the story continues with Alberto Gonzales and the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys who were dismissed because of " poor performance " which it is turning out to be not the case. We already know this part so let's get to the other stuff.

   You already know that Sen. Charles E. Schumer has suggested that Gonzales should step down from his position. It wasn't enough for Sen. Schumer to say it once as he did it a second time I guess to let Gonzales know that he was serious. Even Howard Dean said that Mr. Gonzales, "ought to be shown the door — he ought not to be in this administration. We have got to end corruption in our government. It is not OK to be corrupt."

    Gonzales is supposed to have something to say about all of the criticism that has been aimed at him later today.    Source

    Next up should be the Justice Department officials who weren't exactly truthful when questioned about these things by the Congress while they were under oath. Isn't that a form of lying?

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee said, "They're going to have to come up with some answers. If they don't, they're going to lose everyone's confidence."

   He also said that if the various reasons for the firings isn't corrected, "then the Justice Department and the attorney general himself are going to die by a thousand cuts."     Source

 

Gonzales also accepted the resignation of his top aide, Kyle Sampson

   By the way, Gonzales took time out of his busy schedule to accept the resignation of his number one aide, Klye Sampson, who neglected to tell some of the other Justice Department officials about his chat with Harriet Miers concerning the firings.

 

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Iran Delegate's Words Make U.S. And Israel Walk Of Speech

    The United States and Israeli delegations walked out of a speech by Iran's foreign minister ( Manouchehr Mottaki ) after he said that the United States and Israel were the biggest threats to peace in the middle east.    Source

Yahoo News

Mottaki told the world's top disarmament forum that Israel was the only country in the region that refuses to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last year acknowledged that his country had nuclear weapons — which Olmert denies doing.

   Mottaki said that nuclear Israel posed  "a uniquely grave threat to regional and international peace and security and requires to be seriously dealt with by the international community taking practical measures."

Referring to the " the Zionist regime," which he called Israel, he said  that Israel had "a long and dark record of crimes and atrocities such as occupation, aggression, militarism, state terrorism, crimes against humanity and apartheid."   Source

   It is said the Israel delegation made a little noise on the way out of the speech to show their displeasure with the remarks.

  I think that I will send them some Kleenex when I am done today!

  The U.S. and Israel left because they couldn't stand to hear the truth, which is no surprise to me.

 

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