Embracing the whore called war destroys morality, and doing all this in a dishonorable cause compounds the damage.

This is the kind of thing which happens when Preznits and Rummy the SecDef and various executive officials say the Geneva Conventions don't necessarily apply. Remove the "Thou Shalt Nots", and there's a race to the bottom. In a race to the bottom, there is no finish line.

this is the kind of stuff that is bound to happen when troops are placed in untenable conditions by irresponsible and deceitful leaders with no clear objective or plan set forth. Insanity becomes a common response to insane situations...

With the stories of what happened in Haditha, and the murder of Imam Walid's family, and now this story and others coming so close on the heels of each other, it is starting to feel like an orchestrated desensitizing campaign by the MSM. I can imagine someone scheming "maybe we can lower the intensity of emotion in the anti-war segment of the population by overloading them with disgust and getting them to a point where these reports of atrocities generate nothing more than a 'ho-hum... there they go again... what else is new?'" attitude

Well, I've been rolling around the thought that the NYT publishing the story on the (previously-public) SWIFT program and the calculated outrage was nothing more than Rover calling in a chit from Judy's employers so he can stir up the base.

anybody following the space shuttle launch story?

I don't see how the MPP ad is controversial.

The Senate Banking Committee plans to hold hearings this week on a bill providing for such measures. It should be approved and signed into law by President Bush. New regulations requiring money service businesses like the hawala banks to register and imposing criminal penalties on those that do not are scheduled to come into force late next year. The effective date should be moved up to this fall, and rules should be strictly enforced the moment they take effect. If America is going to wage a new kind of war against terrorism, it must act on all fronts, including the financial one.

And all activities that appear to be seeking to avoid the reporting must be immediately reported.

Many well-known right-wing media figures -- including Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly -- are losing their Internet audiences, according to an analysis of Web site ratings by IPD Group and U.S. Politics Today. On the other hand, traffic for Moveon.org has risen. At U.S. Politics Today, we thought it might be interesting to see how the right-wing media machine was doing. Not well, it turns out.

none of which do you identify as being the source for your claim that SWIFT was known of by the public.

The fact that the US was tracing financial transactions has been known since day one. So Swift's website comments are no different than what any other financial would/did say. Even my little bank says so. It is meaningless without some outside emphasis.

You seem to have difficulty understand the concept. The fact that the US was tracing financial transactions

Keith takes on the SWIFT program and all that attack the NY Times. It may not have been such a secret after all. Count all the times Bush told the world that he was chasing down the terrorists money. Looks to me and Roger Cressey like there has been no damage done by the NY Times. Just another con game for this administration

Everyone knew we were doing it. They just didn't know who with and how. i.e. They didn't know we were using SWIFT.

With international cooperation on asset-freezes (as well as travel bans and arms embargoes under UN resolutions), we force terrorists into less reliable and more costly means of moving money.

5) Concerted international action through multilateral organizations and groups, notably the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) and the United Nations.

Where and how do you think the terrorists in Iraq get money to buy ammo and supplies??

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Last week, The New York Times disclosed details of a kinda-secret program that my Administration publicly announced in order to fight the global scourge of journalism. There is no greater threat to America than journalists, and I am committed to continuing to wage my War On Journalism. Oh, f*ck me with a shovelful of horny toads, I mean "Terrorism." Terrorism. This is what happens when I get all crazy mad. And believe me, I'm madder than a hungry cowpoke with a saddle full of biscuits galloping through a barren land without gravy. So for the New York Times to leak the "Duh!" obvious details of a program I told everyone about does great harm to the United States of America.