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Well, folks,....
ALBERTO GONZOLEZ RESIGNS!!
Just under a month ago, I predicted that Gonzo would resign in August, and that Bush would recess appoint someone in his place so as to avoid the Senate confirmation process. So far, we are right on track; rumor is that Chertoff will replace him, and there are numerous reasons to suspect he would have a hard time getting confirmed. Well,.... we'll see....
Meanwhile, a little housekeeping. It appears both Joseph the Cannon and myself are just completely indisposed for our respective reasons. Our deepest apologies, especially at this exciting time, but there is simply no getting around it. So we hope you will forgive our absence and not take it as abandonment, and keep looking for us to return, certainly within the week.
Take this opportunity to discuss amongst yourselves this fascinating moment in our history; yet another top-ranking Bush official has resigned, and resigned in disgrace. Lots of meat there, so have a good time. Share whatever stuff you might run across, as well. You're undoubtedly some of the most resourceful readers going. See you soon.
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My fav right now is the Siegelman/Justice Dept. hit... you can see it on Democracy Now.
http://tinyurl.com/2yls8q
Flo
Here is the source of the rumor about Chertoff:
"08.26.07 -- 12:29PM // link
Odd rumor of the day
U.S. News' Paul Bedard often does a good job keeping his ear to the ground, but his latest rumor is an odd one.
The buzz among top Bushies is that beleaguered Attorney General Alberto Gonzales finally plans to depart and will be replaced by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Why Chertoff? Officials say he's got fans on Capitol Hill, is untouched by the Justice prosecutor scandal, and has more experience than Gonzales did, having served as a federal judge and assistant attorney general.
For what it's worth, Bob Novak reported a month ago that "there are a number of cabinet members who would like to leave," but by all indications, Gonzales isn't one of them. Indeed, the AG's departure would likely be perceived as a defeat for the White House, which is perhaps the principal reason Gonzales is still the nation's chief law-enforcement officer. (Am I suggesting the president would keep an incompetent and dishonest Attorney General on the job out of spite? Yes.)
What's more, when Gonzales' troubles really started hitting the fan in March, Mike Allen was the first to report Chertoff was on a short-list of possible replacements, so I suppose there's some precedent to Bedard's rumor.
Color me skeptical. I don't doubt that if Bush were willing to replace Gonzales, he'd probably pick someone who stood a good chance of being confirmed, but I think it's probably an overstatement to suggest Chertoff is popular among lawmakers. Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has already called on Chertoff to resign.
And while it's certainly true that Chertoff is untainted by Gonzales' multiple DoJ scandals, he is tainted by his own DHS scandals, including the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, his "gut feeling" fiasco, and some controversial staffing decisions.
Regardless, that's the rumor. Take it with a grain of salt.
--Steve Benen"
Here is the link to Horton,s blog NO Comment:
http://www.harpers.org/subjects/NoComment
You spelled his name wrong in your headline.
FWIW, the gonzOlez misspell was intentional.
as a sort of embedded update, there has been some talk (thom hartmann, etc.) that there may have been something of a deal cut with bush on the wiretapping insanity that gonzo would go and bush would not do a recess appointment. that was actually the crux of my prediction, that bush would get him to resign while congress was on recess so he could do just that.
far as i can tell, if that was the deal, bush got more time, congress got their recess, and we got screwed. oh, and we got rid of gonzo!
however, if you think about it, that is not such the great plum when one considers just how wretched is the state of our justice department anymore. it's like so many other situations where these guys do all the damage that can possibly be done, and then it's not a fun toy anymore, they move on. a caller in to hartmann today suggested it was like ocean's 11, where they simply destroyed the casino by looting it, but had no intention of sticking around.
the damage is definitely done.
No, Dr. E, his name ends with an "S".
"Fortunately for Gonzales, he will probably soon forget he held the position and made a mockery of the judicial system" (read in comments on Slashdot)
a bit off topic but I was not sure where to put it. I sure do not want to upset someone in retreat..but..sorry Joseph.
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/
Wow, thanks Anon 8:26 for that nice amateur piece of Zionist propaganda.
Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah's promise whatever time it might take. The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him…
zionist or jihadist to much hate in this world
Thanks Clayton..Hyperman is not the kind of man I want in my tribe. He dodo bird but very unfortunately not "yet" extinct.
David Horowitz is a thoroughly unreliable commentator, or alternately, a most reliable propagandist.
Perhaps the angle he should address is why Israel made the huge mistake of helping create Hamas, granting it special permits and funding to create its humanitarian, relief and educational endeavors, in order to try to discredit Fatah in favor of Hamas. That is, Hamas is the Frankenstein of Israel's own making.
sofla
"Hyperman is not the kind of man I want in my tribe. He dodo bird but very unfortunately not "yet" extinct."
Anon 9:19, I know it's difficult to do for an history revisionist like you, but try to find a blog where your zionist history revision is the actual topic instead of polluting this one with your amateur stuff. This kind of zionist propaganda is not better than the shit getting out of holocaust denier's mouth, only a different flavor of the same crap.
There's no moral justification to what Israel is doing to Palestinians in the name of "God gave us that land 4000 years ago and they're only evil terrorists anyway so we can take their best land, their house, control the water and pile them up in prison villages where they can't do anything and if they resists by fighting back, it's only another proof that they're evil".
What I find the most ironic is that Jews were chased of Israel because the Romans accused them of being terrorists almost 2000 years ago (the Zealots).
Yo Hyperman..What is your solution to that vexing problem between Israel and Palestine? Did you know that Yasser Arafat was raised by his uncle "the grand Mufti of jerusalem" who headed an SS division fir HItler during the holocaust years?
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/recruited.html
"Yo Hyperman..What is your solution to that vexing problem between Israel and Palestine?"
It's not the Zionist or Hamas that have the solution.
"Did you know that Yasser Arafat was raised by his uncle "the grand Mufti of jerusalem" who headed an SS division fir HItler during the holocaust years?"
Get your fact straight instead of repeating non-sense you read in amateur zionist propaganda.
Arafat was born in Cairo to Palestinian parents.[1] Arafat's father, Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, was a Gazan with an Egyptian mother. He worked as a textile merchant in Cairo's culturally mixed Sakanini District. It should be noted that Arafat's clan, al-Husseini was based in Gaza and should not be confused with the well-known al-Husseini clan of Jerusalem. However since the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini and the Palestinian nationalist fighter Abdel al-Qadr al-Husseini belonged to the clan, he at times, claimed to be related for the purpose of entwining his heritage with Palestinian political lore.
Hyperman..your attempt to finesse geneologies and bloodlines beclouds the fact that the Mufti, Hitler and Arafat (and methinks you also), all suffer from that same disease..bloodlust and misery, crush Israel..crush the jews, and promote yourself in the process. Nice try but no stick of dynamite.
Hyper..here is some information about Nazi bloodlines..I have tons more on the subject so I guess we have duelling footnotes and mental tap dancing..so what else is new with us amateurs and armchairenthusiasts.
Al Quida (the offshoot of the Moslem Brotherhood initiated and energized by Hitler before WWll and after) is also a Nazi front.
See Hyper..the nazi philosophy and agenda is conquering methodically the Middle East as well as what is left of the Left, inside our country, since it swallowed up the Right already.
here below is a little history lesson for you smarty pants..
The Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini was later the notorious Nazi who mixed Nazi propaganda and Islam. He was wanted for war crimes in Bosnia by Yugoslavia. His mix of militant propagandizing Islam was an inspriation for both
Yasser Arafat and Saddam Husein: He was also a close relative of Yasser Arafat and grandfather of the current Temple Mount Mufti. "Arafat's actual name was Abd
al-Rahman abd al-Bauf Arafat al-Qud al-Husseini. He shortened it to obscure his kinship with the notorious Nazi and ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Muhammed Amin
al-Husseini." Howard M. Sachar, A HISTORY OF ISRAEL (New York: Knopf, 1976).
En Garde
Hyper..
The Bet Agron International Center in Jerusalem interviewed Arafat's brother and sister, who described the Mufti as a cousin (family member) with tremendous
influence on young Yassir after the Mufti returned from Berlin to Cairo. Yasser Arafat himself keeps his exact lineage and birthplace secret.
Saddam Hussein was raised
in the house of his uncle Khayrallah Tulfah, who was a leader in the Mufti's pro-Nazi
coup in Iraq in May 1941.
Nazi bloodlines ? Al Quida is also a Nazi front ?
oh boy...
I'm sorry, zionist or hamas propaganda is not "evidence" that Arafat was really linked to Mufti clan. And I imagine it would be too difficult for you to understand why some arab leaders would align themselves with the Nazi when they were struggling under the colonial control of the British and the French.
And what about Zionist collaboration with the Nazi ?
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/nazisupport.cfm
Hyper..every government has its "Nazi"(not see?) like, right wing..right? There are elements in Israel that suffer from that kind of ignorance and that kind of ferocity. Israel has countless parties with more wings then a dragonfly, and certainly has been creating a weapons cache on par with any nation in the world..no disagreement there.
Where do you stand on the mere existence of israel? Remember the entire Middle East is a patchwork quilt of man made, almost arbitrary borders as a result of WW l's aftermath, when the "allies" thgrough TE Lawrence's guerilla tactices, drove the Turks ( Ottoman Empire) out of its four hundred years of occupation.
Then the oil companies (first British and French then Americans joined in) swooped in and took over so the current nations (at each others throats because of ancient bloodletting cults), and their borders are like shifting sands.
a little more history..
Arab leaders and media outlets have long been addicted to comparing Israel to the Nazi regime, while at the same time demeaning the extent of the Holocaust. This obsession with defaming and antagonizing the Jewish people and state was on full display in recent months and reached a crescendo – or rather nadir – the day before Pope John Paul II visited the Temple Mount during his Holy Land pilgrimage. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, just hours before hosting the Pope, gave a series of press interviews, first telling the AP: "The figure of 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust is exaggerated and is used by the Israelis to gain international support… It’s not my problem. Muslims didn’t do anything on this issue. It’s the doing of Hitler who hated the Jews," asserted the acid-tongued Mufti – a figure appointed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "Six million? It was a lot less," Sabri repeated for an Italian newspaper. "It’s not my fault if Hitler hated the Jews. Anyway, they hate them just about everywhere." The Mufti finished the day with Reuters, charging, "We denounce all massacres, but I don’t see why a certain massacre should be used for political gain and blackmail." However, as a matter of record, there was a well-documented, thriving relationship between the Arab/Muslim world and Nazi Germany, with perhaps the most significant figure linking Hitler to the Middle East being none other Sabri’s very own predecessor, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini. Here is a brief review of that dark, overlooked chapter in history.
The Führer’s Mufti: After World War I, the Great Powers of Europe jockeyed for influence in the Middle East’s oil fields and trade routes, with France and Britain holding mandates throughout most of the region. In the 1930s, the fascist regimes that arose in Italy and Germany sought greater stakes in the area, and began courting Arab leaders to revolt against their British and French custodians. Among their many willing accomplices was Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini, who fled Palestine after agitating against the British during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. He found refuge in Iraq – another of Her Majesty’s mandates – where he again topped the British most wanted list after helping pull the strings behind the Iraqi coup of 1941. The revolt in Baghdad was orchestrated by Hitler as part of a strategy to squeeze the region between the pincers of Rommel’s troops in North Africa, German forces in the Caucuses and pro-Nazi forces in Iraq. However, in June 1941 British troops put down the rebellion and the Mufti escaped via Tehran to Italy and eventually to Berlin.
Once in Berlin, the Mufti received an enthusiastic reception by the "Islamische Zentralinstitut" and the whole Islamic community of Germany, which welcomed him as the "Führer of the Arabic world." In an introductory speech, he called the Jews the "most fierce enemies of the Muslims" and an "ever corruptive element" in the world. Husseini soon became an honored guest of the Nazi leadership and met on several occasions with Hitler. He personally lobbied the Führer against the plan to let Jews leave Hungary, fearing they would immigrate to Palestine. He also strongly intervened when Adolf Eichman tried to cut a deal with the British government to exchange German POWs for 5000 Jewish children who also could have fled to Palestine. The Mufti’s protests with the SS were successful, as the children were sent to death camps in Poland instead. One German officer noted in his journals that the Mufti would liked to have seen the Jews "preferably all killed." On a visit to Auschwitz, he reportedly admonished the guards running the gas chambers to work more diligently. Throughout the war, he appeared regularly on German radio broadcasts to the Middle East, preaching his pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic message to the Arab masses back home.
To show gratitude towards his hosts, in 1943 the Mufti travelled several times to Bosnia, where on orders of the SS he recruited the notorious "Hanjar troopers," a special Bosnian Waffen SS company which slaugh-tered 90% of Bosnia’s Jews and burned countless Serbian churches and villages. These Bosnian Muslim recruits rapidly found favor with SS chief Heinrich Himmler, who established a special Mullah Military school in Dresden.
The only condition the Mufti set for his help was that after Hitler won the war, the entire Jewish population in Palestine should be liquidated. After the war, Husseini fled to Switzerland and from there escaped via France to Cairo, were he was warmly received. The Mufti used funds received earlier from the Hilter regime to finance the Nazi-inspired Arab Liberation Army that terrorized Jews in Palestine.
The Arab Embrace of Nazism: Husseini represents the prevalent pro-Nazi posture among the Arab/Muslim world before, during and even after the Holocaust. The Nazi-Arab connection existed even when Adolf Hitler first seized power in Germany in 1933. News of the Nazi takeover was welcomed by the Arab masses with great enthusiasm, as the first congratulatory telegrams Hitler received upon being appointed Chancellor came from the German Consul in Jerusalem, followed by those from several Arab capitals. Soon afterwards, parties that imitated the National Socialists were founded in many Arab lands, like the "Hisb-el-qaumi-el-suri" (PPS) or Social Nationalist Party in Syria. Its leader, Anton Sa’ada, styled himself the Führer of the Syrian nation, and Hitler became known as "Abu Ali" (In Egypt his name was "Muhammed Haidar"). The banner of the PPS displayed the swastika on a black-white background. Later, a Lebanese branch of the PPS – which still receives its orders from Damascus – was involved in the assassination of Lebanese President Pierre Gemayel.
The most influential party that emulated the Nazis was "Young Egypt," which was founded in October 1933. They had storm troopers, torch processions, and literal translations of Nazi slogans – like "One folk, One party, One leader." Nazi anti-Semitism was replicated, with calls to boycott Jewish businesses and physical attacks on Jews. Britain had a bitter experience with this pro-German mood in Egypt, when the official Egyptian government failed to declare war on the Wehrmacht as German troops were about to conquer Alexandria.
After the war, a member of Young Egypt named Gamal Abdul Nasser was among the officers who led the July 1952 revolution in Egypt. Their first act – following in Hitler’s footsteps – was to outlaw all other parties. Nasser’s Egypt became a safe haven for Nazi war criminals, among them the SS General in charge of the murder of Ukrainian Jewry; he became Nasser’s bodyguard and close comrade. Alois Brunner, another senior Nazi war criminal, found shelter in Damascus, where he served for many years as senior adviser to the Syrian general staff and still resides today.
Sami al-Joundi, one of the founders of the ruling Syrian Ba’ath Party, recalls: "We were racists. We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in reading Nazi literature and books... We were the first who thought of a translation of Mein Kampf. Anyone who lived in Damascus at that time was witness to the Arab inclination toward Nazism."
These leanings never completely ceased. Hitler’s Mein Kampf currently ranks sixth on the best-seller list among Palestinian Arabs. Luis Al-Haj, translator of the Arabic edition, writes glowingly in the preface about how Hitler’s "ideology" and his "theories of nationalism, dictatorship and race… are advancing especially within our Arabic States." When Palestinian police first greeted Arafat in the self-rule areas, they offered the infamous Nazi salute - the right arm raised straight and upward.
The PLO and notably Arafat himself do not make a secret of their source of inspiration. The Grand Mufti el-Husseini is venerated as a hero by the PLO. It should be noted, that the PLO’s top figure in east Jerusalem today, Faisal Husseini, is the grandson to the Führer’s Mufti. Arafat also considers the Grand Mufti a respected educator and leader, and in 1985 declared it an honor to follow in his footsteps. Little wonder. In 1951, a close relative of the Mufti named Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa el-Husseini matriculated to the University of Cairo. The student decided to conceal his true identity and enlisted as "Yasser Arafat."
Writers: Paul Longgrear, Raymond McNemar
Source: Canadian Friends, International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem
http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/medigest/may00/arabnazi.html
I didn't find any source I could trust about the alleged Arafat - Mufti link. And what if it's true ? Does it change anything to the terrible injustices committed against Palestinians by Israel ? millions who had to flee after the destruction of their villages, houses, seizure of the best land, security fence cutting people from their work, illegal colonies inside Palestinians territories, daily humiliation of living in prison village, etc.
Why do Palestinians have to suffer more than the Germans for the holocaust ?
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