It’s on now.

Suicide Terrorism.

Also, here, the Post, which supported and helped lie on behalf of each and every one of Bush/Cheney’s acts of mass murder, now admits to the public that,

“The departure of George W. Bush deprived al-Qaeda of a polarizing American leader who reliably drove recruits and donations to the terrorist group. …

‘They’re highly uncertain about what they’re getting in this new adversary,’ said Paul Pillar, a former CIA counterterrorism official who lectures on national security at Georgetown University. ‘For al-Qaeda, as a matter of image and tone [for some strange reason they still leave out "policy" here], George W. Bush had been a near-perfect foil.’”

May they burn in hell, for at least a little while.

Here’s one from the 12th on Free Talk Live with Ian, Mark and Sam. (Last hour).

And here’s one from (very early) this morning on Break the Matrix radio with Kurt Wallace. (starts at approximately 63:30)

Well shit. That didn’t take long.

Thanks to Lila Rajiva.

Suicide terrorism is a reaction to foreign occupation. And Israelis are real smart – but apparently only after they run out of bombs and bullets.

Two days after their last soldiers returned from Gaza, Israelis are asking increasingly whether the offensive had achieved anything other than spawning a new generation of potential suicide bombers.

The three-week war enjoyed massive popular support at the time but, with the guns silent, scathing criticism is emerging from the Left and the Right of Israel’s political divide.

The stated goal of Operation Cast Lead was to end Hamas’s constant rocket fire on southern Israel and weaken the Islamists’ grip on the territory. It has failed to achieve either. Hamas kept up its barrage of rockets to the very end of the campaign and has won new recruits for its cause. …

Sure Ron Paul would have done much more and much better, but I gotta hand it to the new emperor, his first day of executive orders banned torture, rescinded all memos regarding prisoner treatment written since 9/11/01, mandated an immediate return to Common Article III of the Geneva Convention, closed the CIA ghost prisons and granted access to the Red Cross, closed Guantanamo Bay, mandated a halt to the military commissions and instructed the job-holders to come up with a way to put actual terrorists on trial in U.S. federal courts while letting the rest of the innocent go free, and he’s ordered the DoJ to review the al-Marri case (he’s the legal resident arrested in Peoria and turned over to the Navy for indefinite torture/imprisonment, Padilla-style).

If I didn’t know what a horrible president Obama has already promised to be, I’d actually like him right now.

Okay Barack, if there is, in fact, such a thing as the law, you know what you have to do.

The Other Scott Horton, international human rights lawyer and contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, discusses the possibility of war crimes trials for the Bush administration, Sen. Cornyn’s attempted obstruction of Attorney General nominee Eric Holder on the basis of the threat of prosecution for former administration members, the appointment of Horton’s former colleagues from the Balkinization blog to the Office of Legal Council and other high level Justice Department positions, the possibility of prosecutions by foreign courts under “universal jurisdiction,” the newly-stated willingness of House Speaker Pelosi to pursue investigations into the torture programs, the future of the Guantanamo detainees and ghost prisoners, and the inadmissibility of statements obtained through torture.

MP3 here. (35:08)

Anders made a YouTube:

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