Bad Deeds for 6-1-2007

Detainee Abuse Was Planned in Detail – Many of the controversial interrogation tactics used against terror suspects in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo were modeled on techniques the U.S. feared that the Communists themselves might use against captured American troops during the Cold War, according to a little-noticed, highly classified Pentagon report released several days ago.

Bush Climate Plan is the Same Old Song – President George W. Bush’s plan to tackle climate change merely restates U.S. policy which has been ineffective in the past in cutting emissions blamed for global warming, the EU’s environment chief said on Friday

G8 greenhouse gas emissions rise: US is Biggest Emitter – Greenhouse gas emissions by leading industrialized nations have accelerated since 2000. The United States is the world’s biggest emitter; however, Russia, Italy and Canada have each had bigger rises than the 1.6 percent U.S. gain since 2000, when Bush won election to the White House. The revival of the Russian economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union is a main spur. Only Britain, Germany and France have cut back since 2000.

Raising Questions About 9/11 Gets an Army Sergeant Demoted for “Disloyalty” – Today, Donald Buswell’s job is taking care of some 40-plus wounded soldiers at San Antonio’s Fort Sam Houston medical center. But, Buswell has been where these men are — three years ago, he too was recovering from wounds received in a battle zone in Iraq. “I truly consider this an honor,” Buswell told his dad not long ago. Since joining the Army in 1987, he had risen to the rank of sergeant first class, serving in both Gulf Wars, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Korea. He ended up with shrapnel scars and a Purple Heart and, back in the U.S. after his last tour in Iraq, a job as intelligence analyst at Fort Sam Houston. He couldn’t have foreseen that one e-mail could derail his career and put him on his way out of the Army. Buswell wrote that he thought the official report of what happened on 9/11 at the Pentagon, and in the Pennsylvania crash of United Airlines Flight 93, was full of errors and unanswered questions. Fort Sam Houston’s chief of staff penned a letter accusing Buswell of “making statements disloyal to the United States.”

Bush Administration Begins New Arms Race
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Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia’s test-firing of new missiles this week was a response to U.S. plans to build missile defense sites across Europe, and suggested Washington is pursuing an imperialist policy that has triggered a new arms race.

Tell the Judge: Should Scooter Libby Get Off with Probation or Serve Prison Time? – Lewis “Scooter” Libby asks a federal judge to spare him prison time in the CIA leak case. U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said he received more than 150 letters on Libby’s sentencing. Over Libby’s objection, Walton said he would make those letters public.

Judge Reggie B. Walton’s contact information:

Telephone Number: 202-354-3290
Fax Number: 202-354-3292
Address:
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse
333 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001

Republican Senator Jim DeMint Says Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical weapons that still exist – During a luncheon speech to 100 constituents in Spartanburg, SC, DeMint took issue with the now widespread belief that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, saying the executed Iraqi dictator had “stockpiles of chemical weapons” that still exist.

Bill O’Reilly States His Priorities: It’s Not About All People; It’s About the White, Christian, Male Power Structure
Bill O’Reilly: “But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you’re a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have.”

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So Many War Dead That Ft Lewis Can No Longer Conduct Individual Memorial Services – Fort Lewis, which this month has suffered its worst losses of the war, will no longer conduct individual memorial ceremonies for soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, the post will hold one ceremony for all soldiers killed each month, the Fort Lewis acting commanding general, Brig. Gen. William Troy, wrote in a memo to commanders and staff last week. “As much as we would like to think otherwise, I am afraid that with the number of soldiers we now have in harm’s way, our losses will preclude us from continuing to do individual memorial ceremonies,” Troy wrote in the memo.

Regards,

Jim