Friday, September 29, 2006

What Does This Country Really Stand For Now



A Total Rollback Of Everything This Country Has Stood For:
Sen. Patrick Leahy Blasts Congressional Approval of Detainee Bill * The Senate has agreed to give President Bush extraordinary power to detain and try prisoners in the so-called war on terror. The legislation strips detainees of the right to challenge their own detention and gives the President the power to detain them indefinitely. The bill also immunizes U.S. officials from prosecution for torturing detainees who the military and the CIA captured before the end of last year. We get reaction from Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq¹s Green Zone
Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor and former Baghdad bureau chief
Rajiv Chandrasekaran has written a behind-the-scenes account of the Bush
administration appointees who ran Iraq after the US invasion. Invoking the
embattled ex-Director of FEMA, Chandrasekaran calls them Michael Brown
x100.
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More Help for Mental Scars of War
Gold Star Mother Raises Funds to Help Soldiers Cope With Mental Scars of War
The mission of the Evan Ashcraft Memorial Foundation is to provide grants to returning soldiers and their families for treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), thereby fulfilling Evan's wish to help others.

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