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[bacasper]

Bush's Death Wish

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, December 9, 2008; 1:10 PM

There is a sometimes weirdly symbiotic relationship between President Bush and the terrorist masterminds who inspired his war on terror.

Yesterday, for instance, Bush and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- the self-proclaimed ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks -- found themselves more or less on the same side, as Mohammed tried to plead guilty before a military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The torturer and the tortured share an eagerness to bring the current legal proceedings to a quick end before President-elect Obama, who has promised to abolish the military-commission process and close Guantanamo, takes over.

Bush is hoping for at least one "win" for his hugely controversial Guantanamo experiment, which has repeatedly run afoul of the courts. He wants Mohammed to die to show the system worked. And Mohammed, who the CIA admits was subjected to waterboarding, wants martyrdom. He wants to die to show the system is a mockery. It's kismet.

It's also more than a little reminiscent of Bush's odd pas de deux with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Although Bush famously called for bin Laden to be captured "dead or alive," Bush's policies have served as bin Laden's greatest possible recruiting tool and his defense of those policies has made him one of al-Qaeda's best publicists.

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[Kimbop]

[bacasper]

A leading column at the Washington Post is a left-wing blog?

I think I'm getting it now. No matter what source I cite, it is always some non-credible, left-wing "blog."

Yeah, OK...

[Kimbop]

Yes, it is a blog. It says so on his site; your link.

He types his opinions. I don't agree with most of his angles or conclusions. I assume you posted this to proliferate Bush-hatred, of which there is no shortage.

If Froomkin truly helmed a 'leading column', then perhaps it would not be relegated to the online version of the WP, which is a fairly balanced news source.

[bacasper]

Nowhere does it say it is a blog when I click on the story. It says "washingtonpost.com" and "Dan Froomkin, columnist."

I really think you are grasping at straws here for any way to discredit the story.

The fact remains that both Bush43 and Khaid Sheik Mohammed want the death penalty imposed in this case, no matter who is reporting the story nor where it appears.

[Kimbop]

I reiterate: this is a blog. Not that there's anything wrong with that; it doesn't give the source any less merit: I get most of my news from frontline blogs, as opposed to msnbc or foxnews.

See the "links to this blog":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

Even his crappy wiki page states he runs a 'blog'. (And I didn't edit it!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Froomkin

The WP website says so as well:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/NewsSearch?sb=-1&st=froomkin&

If you're learning something from this guy, all the power to you! And I'm sure there are some people on this board who appreciate what you've posted. If you're curious about what's really happening on the frontlines, here's another news source: (Or BLOG, as you seem to prefer)

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/02/guns-in-the-des.php

Or in Afghanistan:

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/compounds.htm

[sharkey]

kimbop, you just need to give up. the right wing is just awful at doing good things.. read a book

[bacasper]