The Washington Note: The US Afghan opium strategy: Eradicating any chance of stability

Danger Room: Experts wonder if experts can be trusted

Blue Girl, Red State: Lt. Colonel Steven Jordan, the highest ranking member of the armed services to stand trial for the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib. He was not convicted of prisoner abuse, or of being a derelict officer. He was convicted of talking about what happened at the prison. BGRS also informs me that a group of progressive bloggers in Missouri have have recently launched a new site,  showmeprogress.com

The Opinion Mill: Why so glum, chum? It's Bushtemberfest!

Mad Kane's Political Madness: Limericks for GOP hypocrite, Senator Larry Craig

(Nicole: Our apologies for the delay in getting the Round Up published.  We've been experiencing technical difficulties.)

Sacraments Wholesale: Banking on poverty...loan sharking is big bidness in South Carolina

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting: Down the memory hole...

Norbizness: Multiple choice of perfidies, courtesy of 'The Left'

Spittle & Ink: A comic strip about bloggers? Checkitowt...

Bloggers Against Torture: Will be blogging non-stop for 24 hours to raise money for Amnesty International USA and to protest against Coalition torture and prisoner abuse.

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Preemptive Karma...SYRUPDATE...Blog Reload...
A Lie a Day...Night Bird's Fountain...Left to Right Partisan Politics Headlines

An emailer sent these in from NiemanWatchdog: Questions the press should ask:

Larry Wilkerson: Dogging the Torture Story

Reporters should demand that the two men most responsible for acts of torture by U.S. forces explain themselves, writes Colin Powell’s formerchief of staff -- who says a paper trail clearly links the practice of prisoner abuse to the upper reaches of the Pentagon and Vice PresidentCheney's office.

Philip E. Coyle: Our missile defense system is an expensive bluff

Which is Bush’s position: A) Our missile defense system can now defend the U.S., or B) It’s too new to predict success, or C) It has a reasonable chance of knocking out anything North Korea shoots at us? If you chose all three you would be correct; those are the answers Bush gave on July 6 and 7. And if you said the system flat out doesn’t work, you’d also be correct.

Henry Banta : Speculators – not supply and demand – are to blame for skyrocketing gas prices

A bipartisan Senate report, largely ignored by the media, says that there's no oil shortage and none is expected. Rather, it's massive, unregulated speculation that is costing consumers billions of dollars – and vastly enriching people like T. Boone Pickens.

Waging peace for humanity

writes an article about Amnesty International and the Bush Administration:

"On 6/3/05, the Bush administration lacked the courage to face its accuser directly. Jim Lehrer of Newshour on PBS moderated a discussion between Amnesty International and the Bush administration. The topic was Amnesty's recent allegations concerning prisoner abuse in the American version of Stalin's Gulag Archipelago. Amnesty sent William Schulz, their executive director in the United States. Lehrer invited the Pentagon to send a representative. Instead, they sent their proxy, Neil Livingston, CEO of Global Options, a security firm with expertise on the subject of terrorism...Read on

We need to come up a a new reward category for Bush. The "you suck so bad-I have to give you a promotion-so America looks good award"

via Talk Left: Only in America, folks. Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez, who was in charge of Abu Ghraib during the height of the prisoner abuse, is in line for a promotion by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Talk about adding insult to injury....read on

"Stop Blaming the Troops: The time has come to investigate the Bush Administration's role in the prisoner abuse and humiliation that has motivated our enemies in the war on terror and endangers the well-being of our fighting forces...read on"

Wesley mentioned this on his first appearance with Hannity and Colmes. Let's see how fast he gets back on.

Rumsfeld Says He Offered to Resign Over Abu Ghraib

By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday he twice offered his resignation to President Bush over the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, but both times was asked to stay in the job. I submitted my resignation to President Bush twice during that period and told him that ... I felt that he ought to make the decision as to whether or not I stayed on. And he made that decision and said he did want me to stay on," Rumsfeld said. He was speaking in an interview with CNN's "Larry King Live" program and a transcript was released in advance of its broadcast on Thursday evening.

I think it's more Bush's policy not to admit an error, than to actually want him to stay on. Do you think Bill O'Reilly will be mad because he didn't get that out of Rummy? Here's the video interview with O'Reilly if you missed it. here

Rummy appeared on Larry King and did indeed submit his resignation, not once but twice!

Video

He twice offered his resignation to President Bush over the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, but both times was asked to stay in the job. I submitted my resignation to President Bush twice during that period and told him that ... I felt that he ought to make the decision as to whether or not I stayed on. And he made that decision and said he did want me to stay on," Rumsfeld said.

Worth the read: Reason Magazine Online on what prominent conservative commentators have said about prisoner abuse.