I'll bet the White House won't be talking much about Jesse Jackson's comment.

"Saddam's heinous crimes against humanity can never be diminished, but he was our ally while he was doing it," he said Friday. "Saddam as a war trophy only deepens the catastrophe to which we are indelibly linked."

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/30/saddam-reaction.html

on target. He remains one of the most powerful voices in progressive politics.

is he ever!! That's one MIGHTY profound TRUTH!!

Well said Jesse

It is much, much easier for them to continue to portray Jackson as an irrelevant buffoon.

Sometimes he just needs to be quiet; today he is right on.

in one sentence.

K&R

I think I'll send that to the editors of my local paper.

during clinton`s presidency,nothing get`s in the way of halliburton.

Probably not. The truth rarely does.

and the truth shall set you free... but America enjoys being tangled up in lies

They let * have his way with him.

even the the Democrats should never had voted for the IWR, when bush violated its terms it was their obligation to do something about it, and they didn't

I am not particularly optomistic that they will be any more courageous when the take over, but I have no doubt it would be much worse if we lost in 2006

Dems in 6 damn years. Whether in the minority or majority, "No" means No. It stands on the record and it stands for your principles.

Democrats are responsible for letting Bush ruin AmeriKa with war, torture, tax cuts, and a fake drug program.

It is unfair to condemn the whole Democratic Party for the actions of the Pro-War minority. This is a meme perpetuated by the bush* administration, the lap dog media, and the Corporate owned Democrats.


The Democratic Party Honor Roll
These Democrats should be remembered for their principled stand against the WAR Machine.

IWR

United States Senate

In the Senate, 21 Democrats, one Republican and one Independent courageously voted their consciences in 2002 against the War in Iraq:

Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii)
Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico)
Barbara Boxer (D-California)
Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia)
Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota)
Jon Corzine (D-New Jersey)
Mark Dayton (D-Minnesota)
Dick Durbin (D-Illinois)
Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin)
Bob Graham (D-Florida)
Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii)
Jim Jeffords (I-Vermont)
Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts)
Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
Carl Levin (D-Michigan)
Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland)
Patty Murray (D-Washington)
Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island)
Paul Sarbanes (D-Maryland)
Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan)
The late Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota)
Ron Wyden (D-Oregon)

Lincoln Chaffee (R-Rhode Island)


United States House of Representatives

Six House Republicans and one independent joined 126 Democratic members of the House of Represenatives:

Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii)
Tom Allen (D-Maine)
Joe Baca (D-California)
Brian Baird (D-Washington DC)
John Baldacci (D-Maine, now governor of Maine)
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin)
Xavier Becerra (D-California)
Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon)
David Bonior (D-Michigan, retired from office)
Robert Brady (D-Pennsylvania)
Corinne Brown (D-Florida)
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)
Lois Capps (D-California)
Michael Capuano (D-Massachusetts)
Benjamin Cardin (D-Maryland)
Julia Carson (D-Indiana)
William Clay, Jr. (D-Missouri)
Eva Clayton (D-North Carolina, retired from office)
James Clyburn (D-South Carolina)
Gary Condit (D-California, retired from office)
John Conyers, Jr. (D-Michigan)
Jerry Costello (D-Illinois)
William Coyne (D-Pennsylvania, retired from office)
Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland)
Susan Davis (D-California)
Danny Davis (D-Illinois)
Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon)
Diana DeGette (D-Colorado)
Bill Delahunt (D-Massachusetts)
Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut)
John Dingell (D-Michigan)
Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas)
Mike Doyle (D-Pennsylvania)
Anna Eshoo (D-California)
Lane Evans (D-Illinois)
Sam Farr (D-California)
Chaka Fattah (D-Pennsylvania)
Bob Filner (D-California)
Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts)
Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas)
Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois)
Alice Hastings (D-Florida)
Earl Hilliard (D-Alabama, retired from office)
Maurice Hinchey (D-New York)
Ruben Hinojosa (D-Texas)
Rush Holt (D-New Jersey)
Mike Honda (D-California)
Darlene Hooley (D-Oregon)
Inslee
Jackson (Il.)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson, E.B.
Jones (OH)
Kaptur
Kildee
Kilpatrick
Kleczka
Kucinich
LaFalce
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
Lofgren
Maloney (CT)
Matsui
McCarthy (MO)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McKinney
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Menendez
Millender-McDonald
Miller
Mollohan
Moran (Va)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Owens
Pallone
Pastor
Payne
Pelosi
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Reyes
Rivers
Rodriguez
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sabo
Sanchez
Sanders
Sawyer
Schakowsky
Scott
Serrano
Slaughter
Snyder
Solis
Stark
Strickland
Stupak
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Udall (NM)
Udall (CO)
Velazquez
Visclosky
Waters
Watson
Watt
Woolsey
Wu


The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those
who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.

"We oppose the death penalty in all cases, regardless of the individual or the crime," said Rob Tinline, spokesman for the British Foreign Office. "(But) it's an Iraqi trial, with Iraqi defendants, in an Iraqi court — it's a decision for the Iraqi authorities."

It's a decision for the Iraqi authorities - but only a week ago British forces attacked an Iraqi police station:

"BAGHDAD, Dec. 25 — Hundreds of British and Iraqi soldiers assaulted a police station in the southern city of Basra today, killing seven gunmen, rescuing 127 prisoners from what the British said was almost certain execution and ultimately reducing the facility to rubble."

Iraq authorities is a term that can be used indiscriminatedly, at will, at opportunity - meaning: "The Iraqis that do what WE want them to do".

there it is.

They are one in the same propaganda, spin and thought controlling machine.

"Saddam's heinous crimes against humanity can never be diminished, but he was our ally while he was doing it."

Not just our ally? Didn't we arm him?

It went to a bad cause through BNL to friends of Bush, Kissinger, Reagan, Thatcher, etc.

Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994.

http://foi.missouri.edu/evolvingissues/iraqgate.html

I R A Q G A T E
1 9 8 0 - 1 9 9 4

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/iraqgate/iraqgate.html

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I respect & admire Rev Jackson w/o qualification.

....Donny boy Rumsfeld should have been second in line for the hangmans noose. Oh yea, the rest of the * crime family should have been hanged as well. Justice, you want justice? Fat chance; not in this country.

cost him. No doubt.

Run Jesse, run!

I hope in the future that we as a country are less concerned about the private phone conversations of americans, and more with the disclosure of the actions being taken by are elected officials.

Ford calling Cheney "pugnacious" and that Rumsfeld had changed so much...

bush has Saddam's revolver. You think he'll ask for the noose, too?

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and the republican controlled congress for all those years. But you won't talk about that, will you? Enjoy your stay. C U Next Tuesday.

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It's nice to get out of the insane asylum from time to time, isn't it? :crazy:

No Air America to listen to...

Thom Hartmann is on Air America right now.

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Maybe one day you'll realize your hate is being directed at the wrong people.

They embraced Saddam AFTER he used the weapons we sold him on his own people. Now we have seen to it that he has been killed for doing these actions, even if we let it slide all those years ago (when the REPUBLICANS were in the White House). Nice attempt at projecting, but YOU and YOUR FRIENDS own this one lock, stock, and shock and awe!

Buh Bye now.