Bad Deeds for 4-6-07

Hussein’s Prewar Ties to Al Qaeda Discounted by Pentagon – Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides “all confirmed” that Hussein’s regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a report declassified Thursday by the Pentagon. This came as Vice President Dick Cheney, appearing on the Rush Limbaugh show, reasserted the existence of such a pre-invasion connection

US Protects Iranian Rebels It Classifies As Terrorists – Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian opposition group based in Iraq, despite being considered terrorists by the United States, continues to receive protection from the American military in the face of Iraqi pressure to leave the country. According to U.S. documents, coalition forces regard MEK as protected people under the Geneva Conventions, and U.S. forces regularly escort the group on supply runs between Baghdad and its base. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government, which is developing increasingly close ties with Tehran, has stressed repeatedly that it does not want its country used as a staging ground for operations against Iran.

Bush says he won’t comply with Supreme Court ruling unless China and India do – While acknowledging Tuesday that he took ‘very seriously’ the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles as pollution, [Bush] set up a potential conflict with Congress by attaching two conditions to comply with the decision. Bush’s first condition is that compliance with the Supreme Court not hurt the economy. While answering questions about whether he would comply with the ruling, he said: “It’s going to require new technologies, which tend to be expensive, and it’s easier to afford expensive technologies if you’re prosperous.” The second condition was that nations like China and India would have to take the same kind of steps.

If you haven’t done so already, tell your friends that the EPA needs to show us their plan for complying with the Supreme Court’s ruling within the month.

Administration wants to decrease protection for endangered manatees although there were record deaths last year – The Florida manatee, this state’s imperiled environmental icon, in 2006 suffered its most dismal year on record. According to a memo sent from Fish and Wildlife to the White House, the agency was going to say that the manatee “no longer meets the definition of an endangered species.”

US offered to scare Iran while British sailors were detained – The United States reportedly offered to mount aggressive air patrols over Revolutionary Guards bases during Iran’s stand-off with Britain but was rebuffed by London.

CEO of Ford Saves President Bush – Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford’s hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week.

O’Reilly uses tragedy to attack immigrants – Bill O’Reilly has used the tragedy of the death of two young girls in Virginia Beach, VA, whose car was struck by a drunk driver, to launch an attack on illegal immigrants.
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FOX News compares Hillary Clinton to Nazi Goebbels
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Republican Mitch McConnell Says Democrats Want The Troops Dead

Fox News contributor Says, in Iraq, we didn’t kill enough Sunnis – He said, “Wasn’t the survival of Sunni men between the ages of 15 and 35 the reason there was an insurgency and the basic cause of the sectarian violence?”

Ann Coulter says she wants speedier genocide in Dafur – Coulter said,”These people can’t even wrap up genocide. We’ve been hearing about this slaughter in Darfur forever – and they still haven’t finished. The aggressors are moving like termites across that country. It’s like genocide by committee. Who’s running this holocaust in Darfur, FEMA?”

Regards,

Jim