Hey friends!

This past week, I've felt like I could be the next "Sicko Star" - I have a job, Yup, got "decent" health insurance, too, but ONE LITTLE UNEXPECTED medical situation, and there go my retirement savings!!

Nope, you sure can't afford to get sick in America! - Or even to find out you're NOT sick!

And that's my Independence Day statement, folks.

There IS no independence without gold-standard health care for ALL.

Mimi

I haven't seen SiCKO yet, but I plan to.  My grassroots buddy and poster here, heather Woodfield, recommends I bring my republican family members. That might be difficult.

In New York City, we had 2 of our Democracy for NYC members passing out flyers at SiCKO screenings telling people to call their Congressman about HR 676.  I really think we can make some progress on this, or make it an issue in the 08 elections so we can get a Congress that will make a difference.

I havent seen Sicko yet, but my wie and I have one motto.............stay out of the frickin hospital........

Now, I want you all to get up..get out of your chairs....stnd away from your computers and do one simple trick.....................look down at your feet...yes your feet.............now, IF you can see your feet (or even a big toe)..............the you may be OK......but IF you cant, that means your waistline is TOO big......................

Obesity, lack of exercise, poor diet, poor family history(no really ones fault), poor atititude, no preventaive health maintanence.................these and many more things will put you IN the hospital....................

Im not saying you have to go out and be the next jack Lalanne, but start small..simple walks everyday......watch the junk food..get away from the computer and tv..............go out and smell the roses.............forget about these worthless presidential candidates for awhiile, they dont give a rats ass about us anyways...........

Now, im off for 2.25 hours of biking......................

Good morning all!

My parents are with me this wknd so we're going to drive down to the *big city* to see Sicko. I'm not surprise Sicko won't be shown in our little podunk town. LOL.

Hope everyone has a brilliant wknd.

3. Hey Mike - When is the ironman?

I haven't gotten to see it yet either. I worked the Opening day out front of it, but didn't get to see it yet and today I have my Live Earth events, hopefully soon enough time to go to the movie.

please go to Michael Moore's site, if you didn't see my post on the other thread about the leaked letter from Blue Shild Insurance that went to see the movie to know what type of preparations they would need if any to handle.

and remember

Live Earth concerts being air all day on Sundance channel, along with highlights on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and

YOU CAN SEE THE WHOLE CONCERT LIVE STREAMING HERE:
http://liveearth.msn.com/

The NeoCons/Supreme Court/this administration=PNAC have caused so much pain, suffering and destruction in our world. I doubt God will be forgiving them anything.

Morning all -- My hubby and I went to see sicko last nite.

It is one amazing movie. Eye opening.

It isn't all about us, shows how other countries treat their citizens.

And Linda in NM, guess who sang the song for the closing credits?
Cat Stevens.

This country should be ashamed at the way it treats it's poor, in general it's citizens.

It is an abomination.

and cuba, well cuba is doing quite fine with it's health care.

anyone got a boat??

http://liveearth.org/broadcast.php

...including XM Sirius Worldspace and more

8.

linda b
Sat, 07/07/07
10:42 am

REALLY, way cool. Cat (Yusuf) has been really getting involved and engaged again.

The only good thing to happen by these NeoReo's are the people that have come back to involvement.

Have to go.

ENJOY and TAKE ACTION TODAY, all.

one phrase-we all know to wellj, is being used alot today:

YOU HAVE THE POWER!

one part of sicko that stuck with me - one gentleman from britain who used to be in parliament said the only reason that they have good health care is the govt is afraid of the people. they said that in france too. they get out and protest for the smallest thing.
he said in this country they keep us in fear = of bankruptcy, losing a job, student loan payments, terror alerts. keep em afraid and they will do what u want.

what are u going to do about it?

me, I am gonna give em hell.

Just watched Sarah Brightman, my favorite soprano, perform in China's Live Earth on BRAVO.

95.

Monica Smith
Sat, 07/07/07
6:04 am

.......
Anyway--------If former doesn't believe in government, it's probably because, like the Republicans, he's mistaking the function of the brakes for those of the engine.
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???
Monica, that's a HUGE, a PRINCIPAL mistake to SEPARATE both functions, imo.
In your terms, "vehicle" (economy) can't be controlled and balanced if those two functions are under authority of different "brains".
Brain should be the one only, having whole authority on the vehicle. That one "single" brain is WE, THE People.

I haven't seen Sicko yet since it isn't in our neck of the boondocks yet. We'd have to go down towards Orlando right now. Too far.

Repugs are enjoying attacking the messenger, Michael Moore, since they know that the majority of Americans supports "universal" health care. But we need "single-payer" health care which Moore supports. Two percent overhead just can't be done through HMO's.

Sicko and John Conyers are going to run with this issue. And hopefully Americans will all be supportive.

In your terms, = Using your terms,

Gore looked pretty good on DC Live Earth.  Tipper looks great. 

And today let's remember Dean's words that we have been here before, and  if we keep fighting there's a way back.  From 2004

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1374

Hey, all!

Thanks mucho, Heather, for the heads-up about HR 676.

I just webmailed the following to my Congressman:

"Dear Congressman Bilbray:

Please support H.R. 676, a bill to bring America up even with all the other civilized democracies in the world and provide health care to all.

In order to keep a sound, productive society, we don't blink twice at providing police protection, roads, and military defenders to everyone, free of charge. Health care is the same sort of thing. Healthy workers are productive workers and our whole nation would be the better for it.

Health care for all, as outlined in H.R. 676, also is entirely in line with Jesus' teachings to give medicines to the sick, for, "as you have done unto the least of these, so also you have done unto me."

Sincerely Yours,

[signature]"

I don't know if he will pay much attention to me... I was quite active in protests during the downfall of his predecessor Randy Cunningham, to the point of getting interviewed on TV once or twice. So I'm a tad infamous in the district. But it can't hurt to try... :>

P.S. Not only was Jesus right on about how we should take care of each other, but the Mount Soledad Cross figures prominently on Cong. Bilbray's House webpage... so I figured this might be some common ground I could talk to him on.

http://www.barackobama.com/

kudos to the biggest organizer of them all --

-- Al Gore:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/liveearth

The organizers of Live Earth should be proud of their achievement. 7.7.07 is likely to be one of the most significant days of action in the campaign against global climate change. It could not come at a more important time.

...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-kraus/al-gore-soothsayer-of-tr_b_55050.htm

Posted July 5, 2007 | 01:50 PM (EST)

The debacle of the Scooter Libby conviction and sentence commutation further "assaults" our Democracy

The popularity of Barack Obama finally makes sense after this week's Scooter Libby events. Al Gore is right again. There is an "assault on reason." We are living in a country starved for a vision: one of democracy and hope.

The stage is set for Barack Obama: Speaker for the Gospel of Hope. He speaks the words that call the discouraged and disheartened to contribute to him empowered to hope one more time. His voice has truly become the Voice of Hope, as Al Gore's is the Voice of Reason. It is in this context that his broad popularity finally makes sense. His words nourish those starving for these words.

As we listen to these two great men, a possible and hopeful future takes shape in stark contrast to the bleak and amoral present -- an America whose people are reeling from the daily "assaults" on our morality from the war on the Constitution and, in particular, our Constitutional rights, or the insane war on terror with its huge daily costs in green dollars and spilled red blood.

Democrats and Republicans alike, now is the time for you to stand up and speak the Truth from your hearts and minds. The only candidate to talk about the loss of the Constitution in the last series of debates was Senator Chris Dodd.

Where were you all before this week?

Inspire. Give voice to those who hunger for it.

Bring power back to the American people. Let them believe again!

It is time to hear all the voices of the Democratic candidates for President and for the media to encourage them to be heard.

... 

Why is Obama the only one who has figured out how to give voice to the thirst of the American people for what is truly "right"?

Why is Ann Coulter still on the air? She's a purposeful and inflammatory distraction.

Are we missing the basics or being so distracted that the people are not really hearing the voices of Senator Hillary Clinton, former Senator John Edwards, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Joe Biden, Senator Chris Dodd and all of the others?

Alas, why is Gore still the only soothsayer of the truth?

....The tease came in a bulletin issued by the State Department in June announcing that green cards for a wide range of skilled workers would be available to those who filed by July 2. That prompted untold numbers of doctors, medical technicians and other professionals, many of whom have lived here with their families for years, to assemble little mountains of paper. They got certified records and sponsorship documents, paid for medical exams and lawyers and sent their applications in. Many canceled vacations to be in the United States when their applications arrived, as the law requires.

Then they learned that the hope was effectively a hoax.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/opinion/07sat1.html?th&emc=th 

Here it is a little easier to read 

Dear Editor:

I sympathize with anyone who goes through time-consuming government bureaucracy, only to have their hopes dashed.  However, I have little sympathy for professionals from poor countries who abandon their home countries - simply to enjoy the decadent American consumer society of world riches. 

These professionals are human resources, more valuable than natural resources. They are intelligent enough to lead their countries to health and self-sufficiency.  Yet rich countries continue to drain-brain poor countries of their genius, for a little edge in profit and to save on training.

For years the AMA fabricated an impending "doctor glut," spending $10 billion (by around 2001) for lobbying Congress to reduce training hospital subsidies, in order to keep physicians in high demand and keep physician salaries high.  Now we have to import doctors?  The USA is guilty of moral malpractice.  We should be exporting doctors.

also dennis  is  sponser i  main sponser i forget everybody her elove john edwars a fahe  progssve thanks  guy   dennis  help with this bill

20.

Bravo rdorgan.

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I am beginning to see why Al Gore will probably not run for prez. Not only does he not want to, but as he claims he can do more good saving the entire world from a near catasrophe.

Surely one of our announced Dem candidates with the exception of Clinton can carry the load, perhaps not as well as Al could but well enough. With an Obama or Edwards leading the country in coordination with Al  Gore doing what he does and likes best, we can do some real good.

Not that I wouldn't support a Gore presidency in an instant. It's just that there are other alternatives that it looks like we must consider now.

The organizers of Live Earth should be proud of their achievement. 7.7.07 is likely to be one of the most significant days of action in the campaign against global climate change. It could not come at a more important time.

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rd,

Umm, I guess so................what would really make a HUGE impact is ofr people to give up their autos for 1 week...pedal, walk or take mass transit to work...........and see how it feels...........

former
Sat, 07/07/07
11:09 am
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I still think you are a computer....................

3. Hey Mike - When is the ironman?

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mary,

Just got back from 40 mile trek..............nice relaxing.........this one dog waits for me everytime, I let him know im coming with my celebrated duck call, then as he pounces I blow his drawers off in hi gear...................he can keep up for about 10 yeards and thats it.................

Ironman Florida is November 3rd in Panama City.................week 20 starts Monday..............

Cheers..have fun at Sicko..............get a large popcorn for me(and sneak in a coke too)

Mike -

I used to live in a neighboring city that had bus service for the 20 or so miles into the Dorchester section of Boston, where I worked at a local hospital called Carney (pronounced Cahney - like pahking ya cah) Hospital.

Well, I used to bike the 1/2 mile to the bus station to work the midnight shift. One time as I was locking up my bike at the station, someone stepped in front of me and yelled "give me all your money !".  Well, I noticed his buddy had snuck up standing behind me but of the two, the one in the front looked more menacing.

So, I pretended to reach for my wallet but instead grabbed the loose bike lock chain and started doing a chain-like gladiator swing move against the one in front of me.  He backed off a step. Then I lifted my bike and slammed the front wheel against the chest of the guy behind me and then I jumped on my bike and took off.

I pedaled a block, locked up my bike and was able to flag down the bus.

That was a good workout for me.

typo - Well, I used to bike the 1/2 mile to the bus station to work the midnight shift.

s/b - Well, I used to bike the 1/2 mile to the bus station in order to then hop on a bus to get to the hospital work the midnight shift.

28.

Oh, forgot to tell you that I got bruises and some splinters from the grazing blow of a loose 4x4 board that the guy behind me had picked up and swung at me as I started to get on my bike.

26.

Michael Ellis
Sat, 07/07/07
12:08 pm


I still think you are a computer........
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..lol, what do you mean?

With my MCS condition I cannot risk being around people who carry fragrances or chemical reeks on their bodies and clothes,  so I have to wait for it to come out on DVD.  Happily I just picked up a basic DVD player (Memorex) that does not trigger symptoms from the electronics - if I don't get too close to it, when it is running (warm.)

Well, I just renegged on my saving for myself my one "Imagine Gore Instead of War" button.

While at the Plaza today, a woman stopped and said "do I know about Live Earth?" Apparentlly her 11 year old son who can't wake up earlier than 9AM normally was up at 6:00AM to jump on line to watch the Live Earth Concert. That was after staying up watching the kick off.

Then her daughter who was standing there with her, said "I have a bear that says Al Gore for President", well, my heart just swooned. Al is really reaching the younger generation too, so i asked her if she would like my button and her face lit up.

Al Gore: "“I also am under no illusion that there is any position that even approaches that of president in terms of an inherent ability to affect the course of events."

Indeed, we need Al Gore to be President.

Time for a COOL change
Al Gore
2008

SF Court Rules E-Mail And Web Site Addresses Not Private

POSTED: 11:53 am PDT July 6, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court in San Francisco Friday upheld the right of government agents to gather information without a search warrant on the e-mail and Internet addresses used by a criminal suspect.

The 9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals said that "e-mail and Internet users have no expectation of privacy" in e-mail and Web site addresses.

The court said users should know that these messages are sent and Web sites are visited through third parties such as their Internet service provider and that the information is therefore not private.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/13635271/detail...

* rdorgan
Sat, 07/07/07
12:26 pm
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LOL.....I can picture that...........an interresting note on this area and new housing construction...of course, there are the $700k mansions(with little or no yard) all over the place, but just down the road from here are what we used to call "row houses" or 2 story single family houses nicely painted diferant colours but all lined up one after each other about 10 feet apart from each other...no yard in front but it reminds me of dwelings from the 1930s and 40s ........

I would seriously ponder getting a recumbent bike but people here drive like maniacs............

Off to lunch and then my favourite pastime....................a nap.  cheers

Republicans Uniting Around Proposal for 2008 Iraq Withdrawal

By Julianna Goldman and Laura Litvan

July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Congressional Republicans, increasingly voicing dissatisfaction with the course of the Iraq war, are beginning to unite around a proposal that may allow for a drawdown of U.S. combat forces by March 2008.

In the Senate, six Republicans are backing legislation introduced by Democratic Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado and Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee that implements the 79 recommendations of the Iraq Study Group.

While it doesn't set a deadline for withdrawal, it aims to create conditions that could lead to a redeployment of U.S. troops as early as the first quarter of next year. In the House, 33 Republicans support similar legislation.

``It's obvious today that we need a new strategy,'' Alexander said in an interview today. ``We expect more to join us.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a73cTD2DUx2k&refer=us

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Nope, not good enough.

As the article states, for Repugs up for election next year this is just enough to use for temporary cover until after the election.

We need a difinite complete withdrawal date w/o exception, not just reshuffling the deck.

Hello, all bloggers...saw SICKO last night at the opening in my town. Theatre was about 3/4 full. But they were mostly progressive folks who already know much of the content. Still, it was a great film that makes the case for national health care well.

The trip to Gitmo was perfect. 9/11 firefighters and responders trying to get health care in Gitmo and then receiving better treatment by Cuba than they get in the US. Priceless....

Just hope this film can be distributed as widely as Gore's Truth. Maybe through the churches like gore's was will reach a broader audience.

Everyone, go see it!

14.

See, you do have it wrong.  The vehicle, former, is the people.  

They ARE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS! wOOT!

Joan* In*Florida
Sat, 07/07/07
1:32 pm

Sounds like a half-assed proposal that will only prolong the death and destruction. this is what I'm afraid will happen. The rethugs will control the process and "get credit" for ending Iraq because the dems have no guts. Typical....

Re. Sicko. The part about the French system is really true. My Mother-in-law is in France and gets house calls from the doctor SOS. They come by and cook meals for her, do groceries, laundry etc. All to keep her independent in her home.

And when it comes time for her to go to assisted living there are various levels of care available. All paid for by the system. She does pay for some of it to go beyond even the French system but otherwise, it is all available.

Health care in the US sucks. and it kills people.

As prez, Gore will be able to even more effectively implement his GW program.  He said as much too.  He would also have tremendous power in areas he doesn't have now.

Gore, please run.  We mustn't give up hope. 

Hey gang -- keep forgetting to post to the lady on the previous thread that the prospect of quitting smoking is much worse than the actual act of quitting smoking. 3 days of flulike symptoms and you're in free, at least for me (former 2 pack a day girl-20 years smoke free-cold turkey'd). World's greatest basso smokes.

I'm listening to LiveEarth on Bravo altho R&R is not my cuppa T just to support Al. The Chili peppers and Genesis were pretty good. Bravo is doing a great job imo. Also, regardless of anything else, Al's administrative capabilities are unbelieveable. Someone above already mentioned this. Contrast this to a blog entry I just stumbled across on Frommers (Arthur Frommer ranks up their with Howard in my personal pantheon). He is talking about returning from a Travel Conference -- everyone's trying to figure out why tourism isn't up in USA while it is everywhere else. Mr. Frommer thinks it's due to the fact that people must wait weeks for an appointment to see about a Visa. I know I've been postponing going to Russia because you have to send off for a Visa even tho the hassle is pretty minimal. Imagine if you had to wait weeks just to get an appointment. Here's the link to the blog entry.
http://www.frommers.com/blog/2007/06/why...
Heres a taste from the Frommer blog:
As in so many other areas, the situation results from the sheer incompetence of the current administration. With so much at stake, with so much income, including tax income, to be enjoyed through added tourism, with so favorable a time for incoming tourism because of the weak U.S. dollar, the failure to create smooth and reasonably quick procedures for the issuance of visas is a catastrophic oversight, matched by so many similar oversights by the executive branch of government. Remember the response to Hurricane Katrina?

IMO, here's what's gonna happen.

The oil contracts will be signed soon enuf, one way or the other, for the repubs to start drawing down the troops and getting credit for it.  There's a lot of talk about redeployment from both sides.  I think that means redeploy to Iran.

Cheery thought.

Impeach Cheney!  It's doable even if stopping the stealing of oil isn't.

Elect Gore again!

I plan on seeing SICKO on Monday. 

Joan* In*Florida -

Thanks for the backup.

Hi, Linda. What are you doing outside the SICKO theatres? Please let us know....

I stopped smoking using "Smokers Anonymous" and those groups are everywhere.

For many people, smoking covers a lot of denied anger.  It did for me.  I immediately ended 2 toxic relationships with people who were not right for me; one man, one woman.  Whenever I was angry, anxious, frightened, I grabbed for a cigarette.

It's like being in Heaven now and my feeling are genuine and wide awake.  Nor can I drink anymore, so at times, even tho I feel it's like a triple martini day, accompanied by a pack of cigarettes, I have to move thru the feelings without the *luxury* of numbing out for awhile.  This certainly makes life interesting and worthwhile.

I love being free from addictions. (I also had to free myself from addiction to being loved by a man).

I still have chocolate.  LOL

And I can still rant against the WH, AIPAC and other nasties!  :-) 

* rdorgan
Sat, 07/07/07
11:55 am

We need more than a gospel of hope. Hope and "vision" is only halfway to doing something. How about some solutions and action. I know, Obama can be the ambassador of hope in an Edwards' Presidency.

We went to see SICKO here last night, as well.  On short notice, there were only about 15 of our DFALink group.

What impressed me was the refernce to democracy being the determinative ingredient.  It was a bit strange hearing it come from an Englishman.  So, I thought about it while I was picking currants, and it occurred to me that Republicans come to government with a different perspective than Democrats.

If, like Republicans, you think that the main purpose of government is to control the population and that any "services" are merely designed to mollify and mitigate the imposition of control, then the provision of more services under a socialist system merely looks like an effort to exert ever more influence and control over the population.  ( A municipal utility, for example, looks like a vehicle for restricting the residents' access to power, drinking water and a choice of residential areas).

If that's your mind-set, then you might logically expect that destroying the government's "command and control facilities" like electric plants, telephone exchanges and the potable water utilty might actually endear you to the people whose lives were controlled by these systems.  And, indeed, that seems to have been the expectation in Iraq.  Nobody would mind the infrastructure controlled by the socialist state being destroyed since the entrepreneurs in the society would rush in an rebuild them on the free market, free enterprise market.  That the citizens of Iraq might consider that THEIR community assets had been bombed, never occurred to the invading forces because the concept of popular government was not only absent from their thinking, but couldn't be imagined to exist in a socialist dictatorship.

For some reason, our military has bought into the conservative view of government as controlling and restricting the population--a condition that's made palatable by the opportunity to select one's oppressors at the ballot box.  That the agents of government are tasked with carrying out popular directives (the will of the people) doesn't even register.  Because, at best, the so-called "representatives" are acting in loco parentis.  From their perspective, the people can't be in charge because they are, like children, incompetent to make decisions for themselves or anyone else.

From the Republican perspective, representatives are to act not as agents on behalf of, but instead of the unqualified.

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I'm actually not satisfied with the disctinction.  An agent acts on behalf of someone who's simply physically absent, not incompetent to act on his own behalf.

How best to describe that? 

More Cheney impeachable offenses.  This article is fascinating.  The truth often wears a tin foil hat.  Will Congress let these criminals get away with shaping intel on Iran as well?

    Whistle-Blower's Fight For Pension Drags On
    By Lyndsey Layton
    The Washington Post

    Saturday 07 July 2007

Former defense official seeks private relief bill.

    From a cramped motor home in a Montana campground where Internet access is as spotty as the trout, Richard Barlow wakes each morning to battle Washington.

    Once a top intelligence officer at the Pentagon who helped uncover Pakistan's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, Barlow insisted on telling the truth, and it led to his undoing.

    He complained in 1989 that top officials in the administration of President George H.W. Bush - including the deputy assistant secretary of defense - were misleading Congress about the Pakistani program. He was fired and stripped of his security clearances. His intelligence career was destroyed; his marriage collapsed.

    Federal investigations found Barlow was unfairly fired, winning him sympathy from dozens of Democratic and Republican lawmakers and public interest groups. But for 17 years, he has fought without success to gain a federal pension, blocked at every turn by legal and political obstacles also faced by other federal intelligence whistle- blowers.

    "This case has been put before the Congress to right a wrong, and for various reasons, they've failed to do it," said Robert Gallucci, dean of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and an expert in nonproliferation. "It's infuriating."

    Barlow, 52, and his supporters want funding added to the defense authorization bill to be debated by the Senate when it returns from recess next week. The mechanism Barlow hopes to use - a private relief bill that benefits a specific individual - is increasingly rare and, in his case, still faces hurdles.

    Gallucci has known Barlow since the late 1980s, when Barlow was tracking the work of A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani scientist amassing materials to produce nuclear weapons. Some of the men setting policy at the Defense Department at the time of Barlow's firing - Stephen J. Hadley, Paul D. Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney - resurfaced in the current Bush administration, which Democrats and others have accused of shaping intelligence on the Iraq war to fit political goals.

    Barlow's intelligence work began at the CIA, where he analyzed nuclear programs in other countries. He contributed to the National Intelligence Estimates and presented findings to national security agencies, the White House and congressional committees. He received the CIA's Exceptional Accomplishment Award in 1988.

    The next year, he became the first intelligence officer for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, charged with analyzing nuclear weapons developments involving foreign governments. He answered to Gerald Brubaker, the acting director of the Office of Non- Proliferation. Supervising Brubaker was Victor Rostow, the principal director. Rostow reported to Deputy Assistant Secretary James Hinds, who reported to Assistant Secretary Stephen J. Hadley.

    At the time, the government was poised to sell $1.4 billion worth of new F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan to help the mujaheddin fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. But Congress, through two laws passed in 1985, had forbidden the sale of any equipment that could be used to deliver nuclear bombs.

    Barlow wrote an analysis for then-Secretary Dick Cheney that concluded the planned F-16 sale violated this law. Drawing on detailed, classified studies, Barlow wrote about Pakistan's ability, intentions and activities to deliver nuclear bombs using F-16s it had acquired before the law was passed.

    Barlow discovered later that someone rewrote his analysis so that it endorsed the sale of the F-16s. Arthur Hughes, the deputy assistant secretary of defense, testified to Congress that using the F-16s to deliver nuclear weapons "far exceeded the state of art in Pakistan" - something Barlow knew to be untrue.

    In the summer of 1989, Barlow told Brubaker, Rostow and Michael MacMurray, the Pakistan desk officer in charge of military sales to Pakistan who prepared Hughes's testimony, that Congress had been misled.

    Within days, Barlow was fired.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070707Z.shtml 

War crimes everywhere and the repugs are obstructionists. That's my new complaint instead of blaming the dems which I'll still do....but it's the repugs who are letting this monstrous ME policy continue.  I say we encourage them to oppose putz at every turn, tell them how wonderful they are, if they do so, and then vote the liars outta office. I do that with Gordon Smith who only wants to stay in power.

FOCUS | Afghan Civilians Caught in Crossfire
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070707Y.shtml
"The men told the same story, of how foreign troops bombed their villages long after the Taliban fighters had left, how the bombs killed women and children, goats and sheep, and how if they had one wish, it would be for the foreigners to leave," the Chicago Tribune's Kim Barker reports.

reshuffling chairs on the deck of the ... ?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070705/ap_on_el_pr/on_the2008_trail_15

Edwards adds staff, reshuffles roles

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer

Thu Jul 5, 7:15 PM ET

NEW YORK - John Edwards is reshuffling the ranks of his top staff, adding two prominent Democratic operatives as senior advisers and shifting some responsibilities from campaign manager David Bonior.

...

Bonior, a former Michigan congressman, would retain the title of campaign manager but step up his role as public spokesman for the campaign. He also is expected to travel extensively with Edwards.

The changes come after a disappointing fundraising quarter for Edwards and some communications challenges, including the continued fallout over his $400 haircuts and conne