Missed Opportunities due to fear of wiretaps

From recent NY Times headline:
"Some Democrats Are Sensing Missed Opportunities"

You think?
The non existent Alito filibuster comes to mind ...

However, the LA Times got one headline right:
A Eulogy for King, a Scolding for Bush

Our war criminal president has a lot of nerve showing up at this event. I just wish they would have decried him more clearly. Both Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King would have taken the opportunity to call down this despotic menace.

I particularly liked a letter to the editor in today's SF Chronicle.
After describing the righteous and unified patriotism after Pearl Harbor, it ends:
" Today, our country has never been so divided since the 1860s. Once again we are embroiled in war; however, this time the war was begun under false pretenses with questionable motives. Those people who slavishly adhere to "My president, right or wrong!" are not loyal to their country, they are loyal to a man and his rhetoric."

The part of the comparison to the civil war is apt. At this point if I speak to anyone who supports these child killers, I make it clear that I do not support "our" troops. These supposed "war" heros need to be brought home immediately to help rebuild New Orleans 9th ward and our nations failing infrastructure.

A telling story from a recent truthout.org article by Marjorie Cohn, " Military Hides Cause of Women Soldiers' Deaths"

Last week, Col. Janis Karpinski told a panel of judges at the Commission of Inquiry for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration in New York that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark.

This problem has become so acute that the Army has set up its own sexual assault web site. Support our troops, yeah right ...

This is the same Col. Karpinski who was "in charge" at Abu Gharib, but was unable to go to her command post during the evenings, held back by CIA intelligence officers and used as a "fall" person in the "investigation" into the ongoing torture in Iraq and else where.

Decisive acts of civil disobediance must be next. These corporate lackeys in both parties are destroying our great and free nation and yet I am certain that the robotic NSA email and web scanning program, the predecessor to the decried and illegal "Carnivore" program, is looking at all of our electronic posts without a warrant. This software is surely adding this to a file along with countless other Americans who like the American patriots of the late 18th century have the nerve to speak truth to power, who have the urge to love the real America and stand up for actual truth and justice based on reality and not ideology.