Children, children, children!
Don’t you know the drill by now?
Our troubled, deeply vengeful and jealous gad, Yahweh made a sweet realestate deal, a swindle, really, with his chosen people at the historic, fatal expense of the entire rest of humanity, especially those pesky Philistines.
Forever would this chosen people be the first- beloved, sanctified brethren untill the conjoining of that one-third of the us citizenry (the one that believes adam and eve rode to church on dinosaurs) who believe that the convenant is just a shelter against armaggedon, and the coming 1,000 Reich .
To deny Israel and to seek a new, strange “justice and peace” would betray Yahweh and his immortal plan of domination by the good Israelites and their allies-in-arms (the us right-wing)
Therefore, Secretary Rice would definitely be going against God by promoting any kind of Justice in Palestine.
All that has flowed from the Bush doctrine (including the infamous attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania crash amoung many other mendacities)is directly connected to the mythology of the zionist/Christian right lobby.
Koresh (remember him?) was obsessed with the second-coming nightmare conflagration, as are many Americans, which is why all this has to be.
ead that Old Testament.  It has absolutely Nothing to do with Jesus and his new law of love and compassion.  The same law that compells humans to help other humans and even animals through life on this confused planet.
JEWS ARE GOOD PEOPLE:  Their fine, beautiful culture has saved this civilization and preservrd it in many ways over thousands of years.
Fot these two great faiths to be so obsessed withsuch an evil mythology...the next temple, the rapturing esapists to paradise, the final chosen 144,000, the convenential promises of the chosen people.... this is all not just big hogwash, it is the guiding hogwash behind so much of this planets tirtured history, especially recent history. Chritian Jihad; Zionist Jihad, yes, Islamic Jihad and beyond.
Come back, Moslems,comeback, Jews! Come back,Christians and everybody else.
Come together and help save this planet. The horrorfairytale is over. The polar caps are melting. We need eachother

Some good comments and to the point, but in punishment, it shouldn’t be just the soldiers and underlings who get punished. It should be the men who commanded and both the military officer and the politician.

Our Constitution provides the mechanism to punish wrong headed politicians. If it was right for the Republicans to pursue a president over his personal, but not illegal behavior and yet say the nation is too fragile for another empeachment over high crimes and misdemenors----should we really buy it? I think not.

Bush/Cheney should be empeached and if convicted removed from office and then tried in criminal court for the law breaking they admit and to much they pretend isn’t their doing. It is the Law.

It is still so hard to believe how such practices grew out of a country which preaches freedom and humanity as a byprofuct of a society heavily influenced by Christianity.

It gets back to a principle,........... believe the actions and not the words.

If our politicians refuse to chop down the immoral practices, too gross to be accepted in a humane society, then they are continueing to endorse it. And must be driven from the system.

A whole lot more need to be impeached besides the residents in the White House.

Extradition of possible rendition perpetrators?
Oh the irony!

Make sure you blindfold them, in transit, so they can have a tiny taste of their own version of justice.

The worst part is that the world holds the average American Citizen responsible...as they should and unfortunately the odds are against anything changing...really.
The Military Industrial Complex that runs America will allow only certain people to take the fall for such narrow minded stupidity.  Look at how quick the Dems went from promising to listen to The People yet once in a position of power...they sound like all other governmental zombies.
No, I think that to placate us, the system allows for some sacrificial scapegoats to fall but nothing will stop the machine except Awareness and Action.

Justice must be served accordingly. Those sub-animals have to pay their debts against humanity.

Here’s a question:  what if agents of a foreign country snuck into the United States and kidnaped someone off OUR streets?  Americans would be enraged.  How dare they?  But it is evidently okay for Americans to do it in other countries.  Also, what if the Italian courts convict any of the CIA agents, and their government subsequently sought extradition of those convicted?  Would George Bush honor our extradition treaty with Italy?  Of course not; Bush hasn’t honored any other kind of treaty we signed, so why should we expect him to honor this one.  For Bush, treaties are something other countries must honor, but not the U.S. 
The Republicans bemoan the loss of American prestige in the world should we leave Iraq.  Excuse me?  We’ve already lost it.  There is currently living in the U.S. a convicted terrorist who bombed a Cuban airliner, killing all the passengers on board.  American officials refuse to extradite him to Venezuela where he was tried and convicted.  Those officials don’t even deny that he did it; they simply refuse extradition because we don’t like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.  In other words, the Bush administration protects terrorists, so long as they terrorize other countries, not ours.  So how can you expect other countries to respect us when we don’t respect them?

Well, we know about the civil litigation insurance the government got for CIA officers in case they got sued in civil cases.

See the September 2006 Washington Post article at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2 006/09/10/AR2006091001286.html

or discussion, reminder and a couple more links about it at:

http://www.civilgideon.com/portal/index.php/site/artic le/insurance_separate_but_equal/

Maybe typical? You can do anything you want, as long as you have “liability insurance.”

What is it with these Italians?  Don’t they understand that the Bush Administration has the right to go anywhere in the world, and do anything it wants? Don’t they understand that the sovereignty of their country means nothing when stacked up against the hegemonistic, imperialistic, dreams of Bush fascism? How in the world is George Bush going to become the emperor of the world if a few pasta-lovers are permitted to thwart his ambitions?

Is it too much to hope that the figures with the real responsibity for authorizing such practices will be indicted as well?

Anyone not yet convinced that the United States has passed fully into dictatorship - and with the full connivance “mavericks” like John McCain or imagined civil libertarians like Sherrod Brown of Ohio - would probably benefit from an enema.

John Lowell

Wouldn’t it be great if these neocon creeps, and their loathsome henchmen, found their freedom of travel severely curtailed because of the threat of arrest for international crimes?

Soon they may find that they are only safe from arrest here or in dear little Israel. Sweet.