This Week's Reeper Scandals

[BurtWorm]

So they won't go down the Memory Hole:

• George "Macaca" Allen's guards manhandle law student for asking question about Macaca's character.
  
  
• Don "The Gripper" Sherwood tries to bribe choked girlfriend with $500,000 to shut up till after Nov. 7.
  
  
• George "Stuck in Iraq" Bush uses botched Kerry joke to distract voters from US being stuck in Iraq.
  
  
• Electronic voting machines in Florida are found to register votes for Republican candidates when the Democrat is selected.
  
  
• Sequoia Machines in California are found to register multiple votes for candidates selected, enabling voters to cast as many votes for the candidate as they want to, instead of the single vote they're entitled to.
  
  
• Duncan "Sneak" Hunter has staff slip pink slip for the Iraq Reconstruction Inspector General into the conference report version of the funding bill (after it was already agreed to by House and Senate leaders) because the IG was too good at his job and found too much corruption in the reconstruction of Iraq.
  
  
• Web site Iraqi document archive designed to shame the CIA (via enabling armchair sherlocks to find evidence of WMDs in Iraq to justify the war three years after it began) turns out, through the posting of documents referring to a program **predating and not surviving the Gulf War**, to make available to anyone in the world who wants it a cookbook for making nuclear weapons.
  
  

Have I forgotten anything?

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. And the Haggard thing. Although I don't think that's in danger of being forgotten

[BurtWorm]

3. Oops!

I forgot. :blush:

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. *lol*

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Ted Haggard?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. sanitorium's demand that we post nuke secrets on the net. In arabic.

at the same time proving that there were no WMDs.

Watch Limpblah turn that around and claim that was the reason for the IraqNam invation. Except these nuke docs date to before 1991. before King George 1st's reign.

[BurtWorm]

6. Some might call this the #1 Reeper Scandal of the Week

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L02505276.htm


FACTBOX-Military and civilian deaths in Iraq
02 Nov 2006 11:52:22 GMT
Source: Reuters
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Nov 2 (Reuters) - An American soldier was killed on Wednesday in a roadside bombing west of Baghdad, the U.S. military reported.

A U.S. soldier died in a non-hostile incident in Anbar province on Tuesday, the U.S. military reported.

At least 105 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq last month, the biggest monthly total since January 2005 when 107 were killed.

Following are the latest figures for military deaths in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003:

U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 2,819

Britain 120

Other nations 119

IRAQIS:

Military Between 4,900 and 6,375#

Civilians Between 45,061 and 50,022*

# = Think-tank estimates for military under Saddam Hussein killed during the 2003 war. No reliable official figures have been issued since new security forces were set up in late 2003.

* = From www.iraqbodycount.net, run by academics and peace activists, based on reports from at least two media sources. The IBC says on its Web site the figure underestimates the true number of casualties.

[BurtWorm]

7. kick

[BurtWorm]

8. John "Shut It Down" Sweeney's wife called 911 on him

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001929.php

GOP Rep Stalling on Releasing Record of 9-1-1 Call
By Paul Kiel - November 3, 2006, 11:37 AM

Sweeney has said that recent reports of police documents showing he abused his wife were forgeries, and that he'd consent to releasing the originals so they could see they'd been duped. But for over a day and a half, he's declined to sign the official order to allow those docs to be made public.

As TPM readers no doubt know, The New York Daily News and Albany Times-Union both published accounts earlier this week of a police blotter report that showed that an officer had been called to the Sweeneys home in December of last year on a domestic abuse call. Sweeney's wife allegedly told a 9-1-1 dispatcher that he was "knocking her around the house," and when an officer arrived, he was told that Sweeney had "grabbed by the neck and pushed around the house," but that everything was fine now.

Sweeney responded to the report by claiming that the blotter report was forged. But oddly, the Sweeneys did confirm that there had been a 9-1-1 call -- but that nothing like what's alleged in the blotter report happened.

There's a very clear way to get to the truth, of course: the police could release the official report. To do that, all they need is a signed and notarized letter from the Sweeneys. Now, Sweeney has said that he would authorize the police to release the report. But somehow, despite the fact that numerous news organizations have offered to facilitate the process, Sweeney just hasn't gotten around to sending the police that letter.

And more than 24 hours after his promise to release the report, we're all still waiting.