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Conservative icon Richard Vigeurie says GOP offers conservative voters nothing this election, Democratic House may help cut back on spending
by John in DC - 10/26/2006 09:11:00 PM

Richard Viguerie is commonly considered the father of direct mail marketing. He is one of "the" gurus of the entire conservative movement, going back decades.

Note that in this email he just sent to his list he not only blasts the Republicans, in shockingly harsh language, as offering voters nothing, he also says that it would probably be better if the Dems wont back one house of Congress.

And one final, very telling point. Viguerie provides a list of issues the GOP must focus on in order to win back ec economic and social conservatives - yet he doesn't mention one single social issue of concern to those who are commonly considered "social conservatives," the religious right. Abortion and gays are missing totally from his list. So are school prayer, the Ten Commandments, flag burning and pretty much every other issue the religious right cares and screams about.

We are witnessing the beginnings of a Republican civil war that is very much at odds with the current GOP leadership and the religious right.

Here's a portion of Viguerie's email
Read the Rest at : http://americablog.blogspot.com/

Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program (Hardcover)
Stephen Grey
BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)
With Dick Cheney now officially calling torture techniques such as waterboarding a "no brainer," it's time to read this timely book.

Remember,if we don't even know how many people are being spirited away without the right of habeas corpus and torture, we don't know how many people are dying while being tortured.

This isn't just about torture. It's about murder.

"Grey paints a disburing ethical picture of the war on terror and lays the responsibility for abduction and torutre at the doorstep of Washington, D.C."

"Grey takes an unflinching look at a horrendous practice that scorns Geneva Convention rules and is powered by corruption at the highest levels of governments worldwide."

"DOZENS of key terror suspects are still being held in unknown locations, despite President George Bush's declaration that the CIA is no longer operating secret jails.

High-level detainees such as Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the September 11 ringleaders, are now in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba but there are still "ghost prisoners" among more than 6,000 who have been questioned by America and its allies since 9/11."

From the publisher: In December 2005, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, assured the world that the flights of CIA private jets that have criss-crossed Europe since 9/11 had no role in the sending of prisoners to be tortured. 'The United States has not transported anyone, and will not transport anyone, to a country when we believe he will be tortured,' she said. Tony Blair assured Parliament: 'I have absolutely no evidence to suggest that anything illegal has been happening here at all.'

But as Stephen Grey reveals in "Ghost Plane", Rice's claims were a falsehood - and Britain's government has also turned a blind eye to a CIA operation that systematically out-sourced the harsh interrogation of its captives. Interviewing sources from the most senior levels of the current and former US administration, from the CIA's department of operations, Grey reveals how the agency's program, known by the euphemism 'extraordinary rendition', has transported hundreds of prisoners to foreign jails and its own secret facilities in the full knowledge they will face harsh torture. 'Of course we do torture', one former senior CIA operative told Grey.

'Imagine putting President Bush's head under water and telling him to raise his hand when he thinks he's being tortured. Give him the water-board treatment, and he'd be raising his hand straightaway.' From the dark cells of Syria's 'Palestine Branch' interrogation center - where inmates are detained for months on end in cells the size of coffins - to secret CIA jails in Afghanistan that bombard prisoners with 24-hour rock music, Grey uses the prisoners' accounts and thousands of CIA jet flight logs to weave a vivid tale of life inside this hidden 'extra-legal' netherworld that is America's international prison network.

Including interviews with pilots that flew the CIA's jets and packed with exclusive revelations, "Ghost Plane" reveals the extraordinary detective work that tracked down the Agency's covert aviation network. Grey shows how it emerged from the former Air America that flew in Vietnam and Laos.

Tracing the history of rendition back to the mid-1990s, he then shows how after 9/11 rendition expanded beyond recognition into what amounted to a systematic torture program - a terrifying world of endless interrogations, frequent transfers round the world, and detention without charge And all was authorised by the White House. [End of excerpt from the publisher.]

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October 26, 2006
POLITICS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#politics

· Fine Footwear for Democrats Only - It appears that democrats are
the only ones who wear "flip-flops!"
**The Black House On Pennsylvania Avenue - The extent of the US
government's illegal conduct--its lying, scheming, cheating,
torture, murder, sexual escapades, and covering up of criminal
activities-- is finally surfacing and it is breaking through the
once calm, sleepy, uninformed U.S. like the tip of an iceberg
from hell.
· Cheney Knows Some Call Him Darth Vader

WAR : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war