Something happened in Virginia a few years ago. Pat Robertson puffed up his racist ego to a very great extent, and he made a pact with the devil. And, the Devil said, "Okay, Pat, I will make you a very powerful and wealthy televangelist if you give me your soul upon your death." And, Pat said, "Its a deal." And the Devil made Pat Robertson a very great and wealthy televangelist, and the time clock is ticking as the hour grows nigh.

What we need is a running tally on deaths in Afghanistan from 2001 to the present. These figures should be broken down as to who killed whom. This article says that the Taliban was responsible for 2/3 to 4/5 of the deaths. That still leaves a massive residue of circa 500-800 civilian deaths to lay at the feet of NATO and the USA.

Bang on the money.

Mullen is attempting to quiet the beat of war drums in his own ranks. Led by Cheney and Rumsfeld and others including their fair-haired boy, David Petraeus (now being groomed for the presidential campaign in 2012) the neocons agitate the troops for the war to link up US forces in Iraq with the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan - by invading Iran. This madness is the driving force in Israeli politics and on the American far-right dominated by Neocons, Christian-Zionists, the US National Socialist Party (Nazis) plus the resurgent the Aryan Supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan. This movement recently enjoyed the wholehearted endorsement of Billy Graham who laid his hands on Sarah Palin to bless her campaign for the presidency against Obama.

Mordechai Vanunu is the victim of massive and cruel state oppression. His case deserves far more public exposure than he has been given to date. Bravo to antiwar.com and Daniel Ellsberg for championing his case! Let's look forward to a time when Israel is compelled to comply with international law and open her nuclear weapons facilities to the IAEA - and she finally joins Iran as a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

A travesty of justice at this point. Let's pressure DOJ to appeal this absurd ruling.

Tsk, tsk - apparently the government of Israel will be mortified.

This story is fascinating. Apparently, five American residents living in the DC area were incubating jihad - then they were magically whisked away to Pakistan where they are now to stand trial. Was this a case of Pakistan arresting-capturing-kidnapping American residents - or rendition?