Dr. J.’s Short Shot, 10-20-06: “The Revolt of the Career U.S. Justice Dept. Employees”

Steven Jonas, MD, MPH 

If the Republicans do manage to lose control of even one House of Congress this year despite their massive Grand Theft Election machine, it will be for the following reasons: Iraq, the Foley Scandal, and the Republican Corruption Scandal. As to the last, here we are less than three weeks before the elections and the announcements of new investigations of corrupt and yes, even criminal, Republicans keep coming out of the Georgite Department of Justice. How could that be? History will one day record, I am sure, the Revolt of the Career Employees in the Department of Justice (yes, there are a few left). For surely, A.G. Gonzales, et al, are not really interested in the possibilty that Republican Congressman Weldon engaged in criminal influence peddling on behalf of his daughter or that Republican New York Sate Attorney General candidate DiPirro illegally bugged her husband, looking for a girl friend. Or a bunch of others. Both Weldon and DiPirro actually claimed that the investigations are “politically motivated.”

Well, in a way they are, but not on the part of Georgite politicians. You can bet your sweet pitooty that the few honest career professional lawyers and investigators left in the DOJ and the FBI, that first Ashcroft and then Gonzales tried to crush and force out of the Department but failed to, surely are. Yes indeed. It is the Revolt of the Career Employees.

Dr. J.’s Short Shot, 10-23-06: Pres. Ahmadinejad and Pres. Bush, Connecting Through God

Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

Back in 2004, the then Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, reported on a very interesting conversation he had had with George Bush. Referring to the “War on Terrorism” (otherwise known as the War on Flanking Maneuvers) Bush told Abbas that: “God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the US elections will come and I will have to focus on them (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=310788&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y).” (Well, Bush hasn’t done squat all about the Israel/Palestine conflict since the US 2004 elections either, but let’s not quibble.)  On October 19 past, President Ahmadinejad of Iran told us that: “I Have a Connection With God, Since God Said That the Infidels Will Have No Way to Harm the Believers (MEMRI, Special Dispatch-Iran, as reported by Iran News, 10-19-06).”  And so there we have it, a solution to the “Iran Crisis.” Both national leaders talk with the one God. Hopefully, the one God they talk to is the same one. Hopefully he/she will now tell both of them, “cool it, brothers. You have got to talk this thing out.” And then hopefully, since Bush will now know that he and Ahmadinejad both talk with God, Bush will pick up the phone and say, “You know, after my latest conversation with the almighty, who sends his (or her) best regards, I now know that we must talk first, bomb later, rather than the other way round. How about lunch?”

Dr. J.’s Short Shot, 10-27-06: How to Uncover the True US Energy Policy

Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

At the beginning of the Bush Regime, there was a famous meeting of “The Energy Task Force” between the Vice-President elect and the leaders of the petroleum industry. It has long been assumed that at the meeting the agenda was set for the entire Georgite energy policy and program, from the planned invasion of Iraq to secure the Kurdish oil reserves, to the withdrawal from the Kyoto Treaty on curbing global warming, to the domestic environmental policies that have ravaged the US environment for the benefit of both the oil and the other extractive industries. From the time that the occurrence of the meeting became known until now, Cheney has steadfastly refused to release any details of what went on at the meeting, along the way defying a court order to do so. So what would make him release those details? Well now we know.

Cheney endorses simulated drowning. by Mark Tran, dated Friday October 27, 2006, and published in Guardian Unlimited

“The use of a form of torture known as waterboarding to gain information is a ‘no-brainer,’ the US vice-president, Dick Cheney, told a radio interviewer, it was reported today.
“Mr. Cheney implied that the technique – a form of simulated drowning – was used on the alleged September 11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is being held at Guantánamo Bay.
“In an interview with Scott Hennen, a conservative radio show host in Fargo, North Dakota, on Tuesday, Mr. Cheney agreed with the assertion that ‘a dunk in water’ could yield valuable intelligence from terror suspects.”