Ramblings of a Crowe: Gag Order

March 15, 2006

Gag Order < Anonymity

Saddam argued further with Abdel-Rahman, complaining about the closing of the session and insisting he wanted to help stop the violence. "I am trying to extinguish the fire with few drops of water," he said, according to a person close to the trial, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the judge's gag order.

If there is one thing in the world that needs to separate other than Church and State, it's Journalism and Judicial Proceedings.

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Fucking Duh:
Outgoing editor of Harper's magazine, Lewis Lapham, who recently criticized Bush for being "a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world’s evil", told Aljazeera.net the president should be impeached.

And from the same article, numbers that make me beam:

According to various polls, 63% of Americans believe invading Iraq was a mistake, 70% have lost confidence in George Bush, the US president, as a war leader and 72% of US forces in Iraq believe the US should be out by year’s end.

Too bad most of the US was too stupid to figure this out in the beginning. Three years? I weep for my country...

Then again, this article comes from Aljazeera...not exactly the pinnacle of truthful reporting and a stand out example of how to bias facts into your favor--or just make them up completely.
*sigh*

Posted by Zoso at March 15, 2006 01:22 PM

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Aljazeera...? *grunt* I don't TRUST no one whooze name I cain't per-nounce.

I mean, uh...

Does anyone else feel kinda trapped with this whole situation? I didn't vote for Bush (Man, I didn't care about either candidate, but it was my 18th birthday and everyone was all "OH SHI- 18 U HAVE 2 VOTE JUS PICK ONE, DAMN!") The sad part is, if a foreigner were to ask me what we're still at war about, I couldn't even tell 'em. I can't even trust my own government to tell it to me straight. WTF---seriously. What the hell's goin' on over there?

Posted by: J00kst3r at March 15, 2006 04:17 PM

CORRECTION! It was my 20th birthday. Man, 2004 election, right? 2001 attack... We've been at war for...almost 5 years now? Can't be. When did this start, again? It's almost like I blocked it out.

Posted by: J00kst3r at March 15, 2006 04:27 PM

I never understood the whole Iraq angle. Afghanistan, I understood. But Iraq? GW just pounding his chest and persuing personal vendettas, IMO.

Posted by: Zoso at March 15, 2006 05:14 PM