Multiple Meltdowns Simultaneously

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Winter Patriot
Oct 14, 2008

In Iraq, “nervous negotiators” are trying to create an alternative pretext to “justify” the continuing war crime our “leaders” would prefer to describe as “liberation”. And the Iraqis have “opened bidding” on contracts to develop the oil fields; these contracts were supposed to have been awarded on a no-bid basis to a handful of big American-multinationals, but the ungrateful Iraqis, still smarting from their liberation, nixed that bit of “political reconciliation”.

Meanwhile, the “legal” proceedings at Gitmo have been revealed to be even more of a farce than we ever imagined, as

defense lawyers and human rights advocates charge that the fairness of the most significant proceeding at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is routinely undermined by incompetent interpretation.

The lawyers asked the court to order the government to produce an Arabic transcript of each hearing — a motion military prosecutors are resisting.

…….full article here