My ultra-RW, fundy friend had a LTTE in today's Atlanta Constitution ..

[DemoTex]

I read it in the print edition at my breakfast place. I almost heaved my eggs. Basically he defends Halliburton and Cheney on the no-bid Katrina rebuild contracts. John often argues with me that Cheney is a good, decent man. Nuts-R-Us!
:puke:

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. What is a LTTE?

[drbtg1]

3. letter to the editor

n/t

[Maraya1969]

2. On WHAT defense? Maybe you should write a respond letter.

We can help you with that here.

[electropop]

4. Dick Cheney Before He Dicks You.

Love the picture!

[noahmijo]

5. You have an ultra-RW friend??

that's self social mutilation....dunno how you do it man that's gotta be rough.

[DemoTex]

9. He is a fellow airline pilot and aviation writer.

He used to work for me at an aviation magazine. We always got along swell if we avoided politics and religion. We don't talk much anymore .. since Bu$h stole the 2000 election. He knows I know, and I know he knows I know. That drives him crazy.

[mzteris]

6. how did that happen?

Your being "friends" with an ultra-rw fundie?

I mean, I can't even bring myself to call my brother and sister because of my feelings about their rwfundyism.....

I avoid rwingers like the plague whenever possible - I look at them and wonder - "WTF is WRONG with you? Are you just stupid? Selfish? Ignorant? Brainwashed? Or do you just not give a flying f' about anyone but yourself?" They make me feel physically ill.

[renie408]

7. Me too!!

I do have RW friends, but I live in SC. If I limited myself to Democrats, I would talk to like five people a month. But my sister and her whole family are PSYCHO RABID Freepers. For the past three years, my family has made excuses as to why we can't go to Thanksgiving or other things when they are held at her house. My mother's house is neutral territory, but my BIL will jump us if we go to his house.

[blm]

8. Ask him why a good, decent man tried to sabotage the investigation of BCCI

and coverup its financial network that funded terrorism throoughout the world.

Ask him why he told reporters that John Kerry was merely a "conspiracy theory nut" in an effort to derail the investigation.

Ask him if Dick Cheney ever apologized for his untrue accusations against Kerry once BCCI was exposed as being the funders of terrorism and closed down.

Good, decent men do NOT cover up for the financial networks and institutions that supported the efforts of terrorists for decades.

Had all the revelations in BCCI been allowed full exposure, which Kerry fought for and Cheney helped Bush1 to block, events like 9-11 would NEVER have happened and the people of the US would have been aware of the greater threat of terrorism over a decade ago.

[DemoTex]

10. Nor do good, decent men order up war crimes (CAUTION: Graphics)

But that is exactly what then-SECDEF Cheney did on 25 February 1991. I used to argue that point with him, too. Like I said, we don't talk much anymore.

Incinerated body of an Iraqi soldier on the "Highway of Death," a name the press has given to the road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq. U.S. planes immobilized the convoy by disabling vehicles at its front and rear, then bombing and straffing the resulting traffic jam for hours. More than 2,000 vehicles and tens of thousands of charred and dismembered bodies littered the sixty miles of highway. The clear rapid incineration of the human being suggests the use of napalm, phosphorus, or other incindiary bombs. These are anti-personnel weapons outlawed under the 1977 Geneva Protocols. This massive attack occurred after Saddam Hussein announced a complete troop withdrawl from Kuwait in compliance with UN Resolution 660. Such a massacre of withdrawing Iraqi soldiers violates the Geneva Convention of 1949, common article 3, which outlaws the killing of soldiers who "are out of combat." There are, in addition, strong indications that many of those killed were Palestinian and Kuwaiti civilians trying to escape the impending seige of Kuwait City and the return of Kuwaiti armed forces. No attempt was made by U.S. military command to distinguish between military personnel and civilians on the "highway of death." The whole intent of international law with regard to war is to prevent just this sort of indescriminate and excessive use of force.

http://deoxy.org/wc/warcrime.htm



The "Mile of Death". During the night of the 25th of February and the day of the 26th of February, 1991, Allied aircraft strafed and bombed a stretch of the Jahra Highway. A large convoy of Iraqis were trying to make a haste retreat back to Baghdad, as the Allied Forces retook Kuwait City. Many Iraqis were killed on this highway. Estimates vary on the precise number of Iraqis killed during the Gulf War. Very few images of Iraqi dead have been previously published.

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt04.html