New SoD - same SoB from Iran-contra
Always expect the worst from this administration.
We may have just gone from worst to worse yet.
Robert Gates, the 63-year-old career intelligence officer chosen to replace Donald Rumsfeld the Pentagon . . . was first nominated as CIA director in 1987 by Ronald Reagan but withdrew amid questions over his and the CIA’s role in the secret sales of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to Nicaragua’s Contra rebels - the accusation against him being that he hid the truth about the Iran-Contract affair from Congress.
He was nominated again by the first President Bush and led the CIA from 1991 to 1993.
Mr Bush described him today as "a steady, solid leader who can help make the necessary adjustments in our approach to meet our current challenges".
Hope for the best - prepare for the worst.
QRS & Company,
Good Luck and Keep up the Good Fight!
If you don't hear from me in a while, or not as often, don't fear. Keep up the good fight, and when I'm needed, I'll show my support.
Take care. ;)
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http://mosnews.com/news/2006/11/08/russianresolution.shtml
Russia Blasts West for Countering Anti-Racist UN Resolution
Created: 08.11.2006 12:18 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 12:20 MSK, 19 hours 42 minutes ago
MosNews
Russia has proposed a resolution aimed at countering racism and xenophobia to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday and accused the West of trying to soften the document and to play down its urgency.
Russia’s representative to the UN General Assembly, Andrei Nikiforov, presented the draft “On inadmissibility of actions that lead to escalation of the modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.” The official said that the resolution was submitted in order to counter attempts of modern racists and neo-Nazis to revise the results of the Second World War and justify the Nazism.
He also added that the Western countries and their allies were attempting to soften the text of the draft, to “neuter” its content and to play down its urgency.
In his speech in the UN Nikiforov mentioned the rising nationalism in Estonia, where authorities approved the meetings of Waffen SS veterans while destroying the monuments to Soviet soldiers who perished in the Second World War. Russian official expressed the surprise with the fact that Estonia’s actions are not denounced by the Western countries.
At the same time, the Russian representative said that the resolution was not about some particular countries. The document says that the Convention signatory states should, in particular “denounce all kind of propaganda and all organizations based on ideas of racial superiority or that try to justify and encourage racial hatred and discrimination in any form; announce criminally punishable by law any dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred.”