Becuase Everything Else Sucks

The Daily Connect: 05/15/08

By Manila Ryce
Published Thursday, May 15th, 2008, 3:42 am
Filed under: The Daily Connect

  • A new report released by the Council on Foreign Relations states that the United States’ 150-year-grip on Latin America has ended, and that the US should “engage Latin America on its own terms”.
  • The United States Navy has announced that it will reactivate its Fourth Fleet to patrol Latin American waters. The fleet was deactivated at the end of WWII, and the increased US presence is seen as a hostile response to recent electoral victories in Latin America which have put leftist indigenous movements in power. Hmmm, kind of contradicts the suggestions in the CFR report above doesn’t it?
  • Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been ordered to testify in a case involving the kidnapping of a terror suspect during a US Central Intelligence Agency extraordinary rendition program.
  • The Lebanese Army’s Deputy Chief Intelligence Brigadier General Ghassan Balaa, along with 40 other military officers loyal to the government, has resigned in protest at “the way the military handled the latest violence in Lebanon.” Their resignations, however, were reportedly rejected by the Army Chief General.
  • A US military press conference last week had to be canceled at the last minute when it was discovered that the explosives discovered in the Iraqi city of Karbala, which were to be presented as undeniable proof that Iran backs Iraqi Militias, were not of Iranian origin after all. The media event was canceled, the US military was left with a hard-on, and Iran is now officially classified by the Bush administration as “a tease”.
  • The US military shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, which killed two international journalists in 2003, was the result of the hotel being listed as a “possible target” by US troops rather than an accidental incident, says Retired Army Sgt. Adrienne Kinne.
  • Lance Armstrong holds two balls for cancer awareness.

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