Per the AP via Yahoo News:
Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s new government is considering offering amnesty to Iraqi insurgents who fought the U.S.-led occupation, perhaps even pardoning those who killed Americans.
A spokesman for Allawi said fighting with U.S. troops was “justified” as resistance to occupation.
“If he (a guerrilla) was in opposition against the Americans, that will be justified because it was an occupation force,” spokesman Georges Sada said. “We will give them freedom.”
More fun stuff going into the long weekend:
If you’re on really slow dial-up you might prefer this link though.
Thanks to Sid’s Fishbowl for the link!
One of the sections I didn’t quite get about Fahrenheit 9/11 was the big deal Moore made over one name being blacked out of Bush’s military records. It seemed to me that Moore was trying to go for the jugular but instead started chewing on a toenail. Fortunately, the excellent Dave Neiwert over at Orcinus helped fill in the blanks Moore left. Here’s the summary:
Bush’s military record should be a scandal not merely for what it contains (or rather, doesn’t) but because of the extent to which it has been tampered with and lied about in the past eight years or so.
The full post is here, has links to lots of detail backing up his claims that Bush’s records are a scandal, and is, like the rest of his blog, well worth reading.
Only 4 months left until Election Day!
Here’s a fun time-waster for the holiday weekend: a DIY portrait maker.
My portrait came out looking like this:
It’s not perfect – they didn’t have eye and hair shades that matched my own, and the hairstyle is a dressy one, not my day to day look – but it does give a sense of me.
Per Daily Dish and the Washington Times, someone is trying to get John Kerry condemned by the Catholic Church for heresy. The Times is a right-wing news rag and so far seems to be the only paper going with the story, so take it with a grain of salt.
I wonder whether any of the hundreds of pedophile Catholic priests were charged with heresy?
On June 10 2004, the IRS
sent a strongly worded letter to both the Republican and Democratic national committees, reminding them that tax-exempt charitable groups “are prohibited from directly or indirectly participating or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for public office.”
So what does the Bush campaign do? They send out a detailed 22-point plan to volunteers about how to bring their chruch members into the Bush fold.
The instruction sheet circulated by the Bush-Cheney campaign to religious volunteers lists 22 “duties” to be performed by specific dates. By July 31, for example, volunteers are to “send your Church Directory to your State Bush-Cheney ’04 Headquarters or give [it] to a BC04 Field Rep” and “Talk to your Pastor about holding a Citizenship Sunday and Voter Registration Drive.”
By Aug. 15, they are to “talk to your Church’s seniors or 20-30 something group about Bush/Cheney ’04” and “recruit 5 more people in your church to volunteer for the Bush Cheney campaign.”
By Sept. 17, they are to host at least two campaign-related potluck dinners with church members, and in October they are to “finish calling all Pro-Bush members of your church,” “finish distributing Voter Guides in your church” and place notices on church bulletin boards or in Sunday programs “about all Christian citizens needing to vote.”
Why don’t they just take our ads that say, “Jesus wants Bush re-elected” and be done with it?
Source: Yahoo! News.