[NYTr] But there's "good news" ? (A Pebble in Bush''s Shoe?)

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

[This follows a LARGE and particularly depressing chronicle of bad news
from AfterDowningStreet's Davod Swanson. See prior item called
"Staying in Iraq, Heading into Iran: MoveOn, Bush Juggernaut" 9/26/07
http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070924/069112.html

But here comes Swanson with a tiny bit of "good news." Oh, wow, whoopee!
The Senate vote was "a little less horrendous," says he. Swanson
follows this up with a Kucinich statement that deserves to be posted
separately, and a couple of brief paragraphs and links about the
interesting revelations on secret talks between Bush and Spain's Aznar
in 2003 -- which we've already distributed news about. And it's hard to
figure out why this is part of the "good news." Kucinich statement
follows. -NY Transfer]


sent by David Swanson - Sep 26, 2007

And the good news...

On Iran:

The Worst Two Paragraphs Were Taken Out of the Antagonize Iran
Amendment Before the Vote 

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/27197

This makes it a little less horrendous. This roll call differs from the
one posted earlier. According to this count, these senators voted
against the amendment: Biden (D-DE), Bingaman (D-NM), Boxer (D-CA),
Brown (D-OH), Byrd (D-WV), Cantwell (D-WA), Dodd (D-CT), Feingold
(D-WI), Hagel (R-NE), Harkin (D-IA), Inouye (D-HI), Kennedy (D-MA),
Kerry (D-MA), Klobuchar (D-MN), Leahy (D-VT), Lincoln (D-AR), Lugar
(R-IN), McCaskill (D-MO), Sanders (I-VT), Tester (D-MT), Webb (D-VA),
Wyden (D-OR), and Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL)
didn't vote. 

This would mean that: 

1) Webb finally did something right
2) Clinton continued to do things wrong 
3) Biden voted better than Clinton 
4) Obama is still trying to please/displease everyone


On Iraq: [posted separately, but it's here:]
Kucinich: Congress Must Stop Funding The War
http://afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/27198

And Yet Another Smoking Gun from War Lies File:

As if anyone cares, after all these pieces of evidence:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/keydocuments 

With the Senate Intelligence Committee on permanent vacation...

With Pelosi's table holding no room for impeachment...

ABC Reports:

"Weeks before the invasion of Iraq, President Bush told Spanish Prime
Minister Jose Maria Aznar that the attack would go forward with or
without a U.N. resolution condemning the government of Saddam Hussein,
according to a transcript of the private meeting obtained by a Spanish
newspaper....In the private conversation at the president's ranch in
Crawford, Texas, Feb. 22, 2003, Bush does not contradict his public
statements on Iraq [Hah! Read the previous sentence of this article.
Or the following sentence.], but he is much more direct and specific.
Speaking to reporters at his ranch publicly later that same day, Bush
left the impression that an invasion of Iraq was not inevitable."

Here is the Spanish report: http://tinyurl.com/2e5xds

and transcript: http://tinyurl.com/2fbjhy 

In the Spanish version, assuming I'm reading it correctly, we learn
that February 22, 2003, at Crawford (a week after the world's largest
ever public demonstrations in the US, Spain, and other nations opposing
the war), Bush told Aznar privately that he had determined already to
attack Iraq and would have troops in Baghdad by the end of March.