US Compares 9/11 Trials to Nuremberg
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration has instructed U.S. diplomats abroad to defend its decision to seek the death penalty for six Guantanamo Bay detainees accused in the Sept. 11 terror attacks by recalling the executions of Nazi war criminals after World War II.
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The unclassified cable was sent by the State Department to all U.S. diplomatic missions worldwide late on Monday.

Difference in scale:
9/11 suspects condemned by dubious evidence obtained through torture and long confinement are accused of almost 3,000 murders.

Nuremberg suspects were condemned by a mountain of evidence, obtained by their own documentation and eye witness victims, were accused of 6,000,000 murders.

Bush administration crimes against the Iraqi people below:

The United States was forced to come on board with a Bali compromise after all the other countries united against the US. That left Canada isolated and forced to come on board too.
Our Canadian Minister of the Environment, Mr. Baird was a lonely, miserable failure.
Environment Minister called 'fossil of the day' after drawing ire of activists by sending underling to represent Canada at meeting

This diary is an email from my brother, a Vietnam vet. He lives on the other side of the line, in the USA, I live in Canada and we banter back and forth. He is my main reason for being interested in US politics. This is about Joan Baez:

Joan Baez arrives for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, in...

This is a list from Breast Cancer Options

I have been doing a lot of searching since my diagnosis of breast cancer in January of this year. This list seems to summarize other information I have found. My life-style was low-risk for breast cancer and yet...

The question remains in my mind, could I have been more careful? I believe that a year of stress ending in an emotional family crisis was the door that opened the way for cancer in my case. That information however is not in my medical chart.

April 2, 2007
PROVO, Utah - Some students and faculty on one of the nation’s most conservative campuses want Brigham Young University to withdraw an invitation for Vice President Dick Cheney to speak at commencement later this month.
Cheney may face tough crowd at graduation

Oh, Cheney is so funny. Here he is at the Press Dinner for President:

He took a few lighthearted jabs at his predecessor, noting that former Vice President Al Gore’s house uses an above-average amount of energy. "Many argue that global warming is manmade," Cheney said, "and it looks like they found the man."

- The Family Planning program authorized under Title X of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), and

- The Adolescent Family Life (AFL) Demonstration and Research program authorized under Title XX of the PHSA

WITH YOUR MONEY.

A US Army soldier has pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and helping murder her and her family.

A criminal investigation began in June into the killing of the family of four in their home in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, in March 2006.

Specialist Barker is one of four US soldiers charged with murder.

The Coast Guard has conducted 24 live-fire weapons training exercises across the Great Lakes since January, firing machine guns, rifles and 9 mm guns unnecessarily -- endangering fishermen, ferry boats, sailors and small boats using the lakes. It's a disaster waiting to happen.

LaCross Tribune

The US Coast Guard wants 34 more massive live fire zones which will drop seven thousand pounds (Coast Guard figure) of lead pellets into the Great Lakes. They argue that these live fire exercises are necessary practice as a defense against terrorism.  And yet experts have warned us that environmental degredation, global warming and climate change are more of a threat than international terrorism.

This beautiful little girl is crying for her brother.

Halifax was one of a number of communities in Atlantic Canada that hosted 21,000 passengers after air traffic was shut down over the United States in the wake of the attacks.

But some Haligonians are not buying it, they think that she is there to get more Canadian troops into the slaughter that is now going on in Afghanistan.

Actually it was greed and poorly planned development that led to this water shortage. Invite a million tourists to your small town to drink all your water, fill the hotel swimming pools, water the golf courses and what would you exptect?

During the high months of the summer vacation season, Tofino more than triples its permanent population of 1,700.

The attack came 30 km northeast of Hasbaya, and the victims were mostly civilians, police said.
Three Lebanese army vehicles were hit and set ablaze, they added. Several civilian vehicles were also struck.
Jib Jannin is 35 km northeast of Marjayun, and Kefraya is 7 km northwest of Jib Jannin.

He wonders why 3 months have elapsed since that day when he found two school boys, sons of the murder victims standing outside their burning home, weeping. Three months before an investigation is underway into the atrocity. He is told that a soldier has confessed and the US Military wants to know the truth.

Steven D. Green, charged, 4 others involved.

(Digression: Just to clear some things up, "air assault" does not equal air strikes. There are no JDAMs being dropped, and there are no fixed-wing aircraft involved at all, except maybe for surveillance. An air assault is the 101st Airborne's way of inserting troops into a battlespace. There is so far no evidence of bombardment of any kind. Also, it's a telling example of how "well" things are going in Iraq that after three years, the U.S. is still leading the fight and conducting sweeps in an area that has been swept/contained/pacfied/cleared five or six times since 2004. How long before the U.S. has to come back again?)

The New York Times' article title last night:
For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats

The New York Times' article title this morning:
Muslim's Blunt Criticism of Islam Draws Threats