Richard Armitage runs into protocol barrier

[ixion]

NEW DELHI: In a break with the tradition followed by the erstwhile Vajpayee government, the visiting US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage will no longer be interacting here with the external affairs minister but with a minister of state (MoS), in keeping with his own junior position in the American hierarchy.

Armitage, who arrives here Tuesday for two days of consultations, will be hosted by National Security Adviser J N Dixit, who holds MoS rank, rather than by Natwar Singh. Singh's US counterpart in protocol terms is secretary of state Colin Powell.


... check out the picture of Armitage giving the ol Zeig Heil... looks like a nazi skin head to me...:evilgrin:










http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com:80/articleshow/775368.cms

[NNN0LHI]

1. I have heard this nuts name come up as possible CIA director

Unbelievable.

Don

[leftchick]

13. I heard that this morning also...

WTF?

[uhhuh]

2. Armitage is a potential Threat

They better make sure to strip search him at the airport, like we did to their defense minister.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=679547&mesg_id=679547

[Merlin]

3. Wonder which event was the retaliation.

Wonder if the strip search took place because they found out about this. Or vice versa.

Just to mess over India's mind, junior will probably announce--right before big Dick leaves for India, that he's the new CIA chief.

[UpInArms]

4. a bit of history on Armitage

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/10/1086749826916.html?oneclick=true

excerpt:

Armitage’s past helps explain why he now is interfering directly in Australian politics. He was indirectly connected with the Iran-Contra scandal when he served in the Reagan administration as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. He had direct knowledge of the diversion of funds, from arms sold to Iran (illegally – but approved by Reagan), that were syphoned through the CIA to the Contras (illegally – but again, approved by Reagan) for CIA-directed use against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

Armitage, like some other officials in the Reagan administration, did not like the illegality of the whole operation – but they did not come forward with their knowledge – and Armitage, in his Defense position, would most likely have known most of the details.

Armitage served in Vietnam during that war, but according to his biography on the State Department website he "left active duty in 1973 and joined the U.S. Defense Attache Office, Saigon". "Immediately prior to the fall of Saigon, he organised and led the removal of Vietnamese naval assets and personnel from the country."

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. The last paragraph indicates to me that he has been in the intel...

...business since 1973, sponsoring organization unknown.

[Merlin]

6. Armitage is almost certainly CIA, just like Poppy was.

People don't seriously talk about a guy like him for CIA director unless they know he's got experience in the Company. It's not unusual for CIA assets to camoflauge their affiliation and take jobs elsewhere in and out of the gov. In fact, it's almost always mandatory.

[starroute]

16. Armitage and CIA opium-smuggling in the late 70's

"After Saigon fell to the Vietcong and North Vietnamese in April-May 1975, the mercenary motives of Indochinese drug trafficking sponsored by a faction within American intelligence and covert military circles became considerably more transparent, and the abject perversion of American national security goals more pronounced. This transition coincided with the replacement of William Colby by George H.W. Bush as Director of Central Intelligence in January 1976.

<snip>

"With the election of Jimmy Carter, the mercenary faction within the American intelligence and covert military communities became even greedier and abandoned any pretense of aligning their entrepreneurial goals with American foreign policy interests. They would, however, continue to hide behind claims of 'national security' and 'protection of sources and methods' to shield disclosure of their wrongdoing.

"They were led by former CIA clandestine services chief Theodore Shackley, CIA operative Thomas Clines and Golden Triangle drug lords like Vang Pao (who managed production), current Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage (who managed transit through Thailand as an embassy employee, with the assistance of national police chief and CIA asset General Phao) and heir to Luciano's heroin network, Florida Mob boss Santos Trafficante, Jr. (who managed stateside sales)."

http://www.democracyunbound.com/remrewald.html


"It took Gritz and his team three days to negotiate their way through the wild and remote territory of Shanland. Eventually meeting with a bewildered Khun Sa, Gritz was told that there had never been any US POW's. However, during their conversation, Gritz asked why Khun Sa was so heavily involved in Opium, pointing out how many problems this caused for America. The reply was astonishing. Khun Sa stated that his entire Opium supply - 900 tons for 1989 - was bought by the US government.

<snip>

"Khun Sa instructed his secretary to read the names from his diary, but stipulated that the names he was going to reveal were old ones and not those he was presently doing business with. The US government officer responsible for buying the Opium crop was Richard Armitage - a high level and well known administration official. Armitage was working, the secretary read, with an individual named Santos Trafficante, who operated as Armitage's 'traffic manager.' Gritz was well aware of who Trafficante was - the legendary Florida 'Boss' of the Mafia."

http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/deep_black2.html


"During the period (1965 - 1975) CIA Chief in Laos, Theodore Shackly, was in the drug business, having contacts with the Opium Warlord Lor Sing Han and his followers. Santo Trafficano acted as his buying and transporting agent while Richard Armitage handled the financial section with the Banks in Australia. Even after the Vietnam War ended, when Richard Armitage was being posted to the US Embassy in Thailand, his dealings in the drug business continued as before. He was then acting as the US government official concerning with the drug problems in Southeast Asia. After 1979, Richard Armitage resigned from the US Embassy's posting and set up the 'Far East Trading Company' as a front for his continuation in the drug trade and to bribe CIA agents in Laos and around the world. Soon after, Daniel Arnold was made to handle the drug business as well as the transportation of arms sales. Jerry Daniels then took over the drug trade from Richard Armitage. For over 10 years, Armitage supported his men in Laos and Thailand with the profits from his drug trade and most of the cash were deposited with the Banks in Australia which was to be used in buying his way for quicker promotions to higher positions."

http://www.wethepeople.la/sa.htm

[seemslikeadream]

7. Behind Close Doors at the State Department

The Bush Administration had sought the "cooperation" of those, who were directly supporting and abetting the terrorists. Absurd, but at the same time consistent with Washington's broader strategic and economic objectives in Central Asia.

The meeting behind closed doors at the State Department on September 13 between Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad was shrouded in secrecy. Remember President Bush was not even involved in these crucial negotiations:

"Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage handed over a list of specific steps Washington wanted Pakistan to take".13 "After a telephone conversation between Powell and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Pakistan had promised to cooperate." 14 President George W. Bush later confirmed (also on the morning of September 13th) that the Pakistan government had accepted "to cooperate and to participate as we hunt down those people who committed this unbelievable, despicable act on America''. 15
Attacks by Michel Chossudovsky
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html


Richard L. Armitage former director of CACI guits to join Bush team

Civilian accused of killing ‘doing fine job’

MICHAEL SETTLE, Chief Political Correspondent May 06 2004

Executives from Virginia-based CACI International complained that they had still not been informed by their client, the US defence department, that their employee, working for the CIA as an interrogator, was involved in the abuse of inmates at Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad.
Jack London, CACI president, said: "The fact remains we are simply not able to confirm in any fashion any CACI employee was involved in the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison."
Ken Johnson, the company's president of US operations, added: "The employee questioned is still on the site and still performing the duties there and, by all accounts from our understanding, is doing a damn fine job."
It has been suggested the CIA contractor could escape any prosecution because US Army jurisdiction does not extend to American private contractors in Iraq.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/15501.html

Contractors act as interrogators

Control: The Pentagon's hiring of civilians to question prisoners raises accountability issues.

Founded in 1962 as a small consulting firm, CACI now has more than $1 billion in annual revenue. It specializes in information technology but also has branched into every corner of the Defense Department to become "essentially an odd-jobs provider for the federal government," according to Tim Quillin, an analyst for the investment banking firm Stephens Inc.

More than 90 percent of CACI's business comes from its main customer - the Pentagon - and other federal agencies, according to reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.


Among the company's former directors is Richard L. Armitage, who resigned in 2001 to accept an appointment from President Bush as deputy secretary of state.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.contractors04ma... ...


But these soldiers aren’t simply mavericks. Some accused claim they acted on the orders of military intelligence and the CIA, and that some of the torture sessions were under the control of mercenaries hired by the US to conduct interrogations. Two “civilian contract” organisations taking part in interrogations at Abu Ghraib are linked to the Bush administration.
California-based Titan Corporation says it is “a leading provider of solutions and services for national security”. Between 2003-04, it gave nearly $40,000 to George W Bush’s Republican Party. Titan supplied translators to the military.
CACI International Inc. describes its aim as helping “America’s intelligence community in the war on terrorism”. Richard Armitage, the current deputy US secretary of state, sat on CACI’s board.
No civilians, however, are facing charges as military law does not apply to them. Colonel Jill Morgenthaler, from CentCom, said that one civilian contractor was accused along with six soldiers of mistreating prisoners. However, it was left to the contractor to “deal with him”. One civilian interrogator told army investigators that he had “unintentionally” broken several tables during interrogations as he was trying to “fear-up” detainees.
Lawyers for some accused say their clients are scapegoats for a rogue prison system, which allowed mercenaries to give orders to serving soldiers. A military report said private contractors were at times supervising the interrogations.
Kimmitt said: “I hope the investigation is including not only the people who committed the crimes, but some of the people who might have encouraged the crimes as well because they certainly share some responsibility.”
Last night, CACI vice-president Jody Brown said: “The company supports the Army’s investigation and acknowledges that CACI personnel in Iraq volunteered to be interviewed by army officials in connection with the investigation. The company has received no indication that any CACI employee was involved in any alleged improper conduct with Iraqi prisoners. Nonetheless, CACI has initiated an independent investigation.”
However, military investigators said: “A CACI investigator’s contract was terminated because he allowed and/or instructed military police officers who were not trained in interrogation techniques to facilitate interrogations which were neither authorised nor in accordance with regulations.”

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:LGgQIc6IKxoJ:south... ...

CACI is among an elite group of Washington area companies that do classified work for the federal government. The company, formed in the 1960s, first caught the government's eye with a computer language it developed that could be used to build battlefield simulation programs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5677-200...

- Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State is president and partner of Armitage Assoc. LLP, was a Boeing consultant, a Raytheon consultant and an advisory board member. Armitage was also President Bush's special emissary to Jordan's King Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. Armitage has also worked in the past for Halliburton.
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=45246&gro...

From March 1992 until 1993, Armitage as ambassador, funneled U.S. dollars into the new independent states of the former Soviet Union. In January 1992, the Bush Administration's desire to cozy up to the NIS (and their oil) resulted in Armitage's appointment as Coordinator for Emergency Humanitarian Assistance.

During this time Armitage took on the other international patronage projects that normally follow war, accommodating the assuagement of the European Community, Japan and other donor countries.

Armitage owns Electronic Data Systems stock worth $250,001 to $500,000 (EDS is the 49th largest defense contractor, and lobbies the Defense Dept. over various appropriations issues), General Electric stock worth $500,001 to $1 million, Merck & Co. stock worth $100,001 to $250,000 (Merck lobbied the Defense Dept. over the Biological Weapons Convention implementation protocol), and Verizon Communications stock worth $250,001 to $500,000.

Armitage also worked as a consultant to Halliburton. Armitage is a former co-chairman of the U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce. He was instrumental in the reconstruction of the emerging economies of the former Soviet republics, after the fall of the Communist empire; along with Condi Rice, who rode herd on the Bush cabal's bid for U.S. control of the Caspian oil.
http://www.ifpafletcherconference.com/army2000/bios/arm...
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/outside/commentary... ...

AccuPoll has teamed with Electronic Data Systems to jointly bid on voting system opportunities. EDS is a leading global information technology services company for over 40 years, and one of the leading systems integration companies in the world, with over 140,000 employees and annual revenues in excess of $21 Billion. EDS will provide deployment, training, and customer support services to state and local governments. Management believes that EDS currently has relationships with, or does business with, more than seventy percent of every federal, state and local government in the United States.

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:wH5Q2g-CjDAJ:www.a... ...


On 9-6-2000 Nothrup Grumman Corp. acquired the government IT
market through Federal Data Corp/FDC whose customer base included NIH, NASA and FAA. FDC was folded into Northrup Grumman's Logicon, Inc. whose expertise is in command, control and communications; intelligence;weapons systems; training and simulation.

The Carlyle Group had bought FDC in 1995, The Carlyle Group assisted in this transaction too which was announced on 9-11-2000!
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0911/news-fdc-09-1...


Armitage Pledges to Deepen U.S.-Pakistan Alliance
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage pledged on Monday to deepen Washington's ties with Pakistan, dismissing talk of cracks in the relationship after meeting President Pervez Musharraf.

Last week Armitage said some in Pakistan's security community were less than enthusiastic about working with the United States, especially in tracking down Taliban and al Qaeda militants along the Afghan border.

Pakistan has also expressed deep reservations about Washington's decision to allow Israel to sell an advanced early warning radar system to India, saying it would create an arms imbalance in South Asia.

"We are very interested in having a full relationship with Pakistan, not simply one based on the global war on terror, the one that covers the entire gambit -- economic, social, political as well as of course security," Armitage said in Islamabad.

more..................

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNew... ...




Bush's Armitage drug dealing ties letter & Nguyet Thi O'Rourke


Bush's Armitage drug dealing ties letter & Nguyet Thi O'Rourke
Secret Agent Man
http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/07/naureckas2507.h...

Nguyet Thi O'Rourke
The article was about Armitage's relationship with a woman named Nguyet Thi
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage
DEPT. OF DEFENSE

O'Rourke, a Vietnamese immigrant convicted of running a gambling operation in Northern Virginia. Armitage had already attracted the attention of the President's Commission on Organized Crime by writing a glowing character reference for her in conjunction with her trial, on Pentagon stationery no less. What our article added was the juicy personal angle that has become a requirement for killing a nomination. It seemed that when the Arlington Police raided O'Rourke's house, they discovered some unusual photographs: They showed a nude O'Rourke holding another photo, which depicted her and Armitage wearing swimsuits.

The most obvious motive for taking such photos was to give O'Rourke some kind of leverage over Armitage; even though they didn't prove anything in themselves, they certainly implied an intimate relationship between a high-ranking government official and an organized crime figure. At the very least, they raised the question of why the official had put himself in a position where a mobster might think she could blackmail him.

more..............

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:uS1jTErAt0E:intern... ...

complaint letter to BushSr regarding alleged drug dealing ties to Armitage
http://www.dcia.com/bush.html

Ross Perot's probes of Armitage -
http://www.dcia.com/perot.html

And Richard Armitage's remark at the 9/11 Hearings

"Covert action...doing The Lord's work..."
In regards to popularizing covert action

[Merlin]

11. Well this clarifies the strip-search incident and the Indian slap-in-face

"Armitage Pledges to Deepen U.S.-Pakistan Alliance
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage pledged on Monday to deepen Washington's ties with Pakistan, dismissing talk of cracks in the relationship after meeting President Pervez Musharraf.
... etc."

So there's a little war going on between Armitage and India.

[seemslikeadream]

12. DEEPEN? Can he get any deeper

A Blind Eye to the Islamic Bomb

http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/trans.php3?dte=2004-06-2...


http://www.alba-valb.org/index.html


The Real Reason Tenet and Pavitt Resigned from theCIA on June 3rd and 4th

Mithras61
I was under the impression that executive privilege only extends...
for 6 weeks after the advisor is no longer a sitting advisor. That means Tenet would be free to testify, under compulsion if necessary, after about the end of August. If my math is correct, that would put it right before the Repukelican Mational Convention. I wonder, do you suppose that has any impact on the timing of the resignation?


COUP D'ETAT:
The Real Reason Tenet and Pavitt Resigned from the
CIA on June 3rd and 4th
Bush, Cheney Indictments in Plame Case Looming

Under Executive Privilege, a principle intended to protect the constitutional separation of powers, officials in the Executive Branch cannot give testimony in a legal case against a sitting President. The Bush administration has invoked or threatened to invoke the privilege several times. Dick did it over the secret records of his energy task force and George Bush tried to use it to prevent Condoleezza Rice from testifying before the "Independent" Commission investigating September 11th.

Former officials of the Executive Branch are, however, free to testify if they are no longer holding a government office when subpoenaed or when the charges are brought.

http://www.fromthewilderness.c ...

more from link

The special prosecutor has been focusing on Bush, Cheney, presidential counselor Karl Rove, Cheney's chief of staff Lewis I. ("Scooter") Libby, Cheney assistants David Wurmser and John Hannah, and National Security Council officials Elliott Abrams and Stephen Hadley.

Recently, CIA Director George Tenet and Plame's ultimate boss, Deputy Director of Operations James Pavitt, suddenly resigned within hours of one another. Intelligence sources have said the two have been cooperating with Fitzgerald's investigation of the Plame/Brewster-Jennings leak and the damage to U.S. clandestine operations which globally track the flow of WMDs.

Sensitive CIA operations that were compromised by the leak included companies, government officials, and individuals associated with the nuclear smuggling network of Pakistan's chief nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. In addition, the identities of U.S. national and foreign agents working within the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, North Korea's nuclear laboratory in Yongbyon, Pakistan's Kahuta uranium enrichment plant, banks and export companies in Dubai, Islamabad, Moscow, Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Liechtenstein, Cyprus, and Kiev, and Kuala Lumpur, and government agencies in Libya, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Iran were severely compromised. The CIA has reportedly given Fitzgerald highly classified details on the damage done to the CIA's WMD tracking network.

According to Department of Justice insiders, the length of Fitzgerald's 70 minute interview of Bush was significant. Only one other prosecutor's interview of a sitting president lasted as long, that of Iran-contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh's questioning of the late Ronald Reagan. However, in that case, Walsh concluded after the interview that Reagan actually did not know what had transpired in his administration with respect to the scandal. Today’s officials may not be so fortunate.


seemslikeadream

If this planet blows to pieces this year, thank Khan Labs' and Bush

You may never have heard of Khan Laboratories, but if this planet blows to pieces this year, it will be thanks to Khan Labs' creating nuclear warheads for Pakistan's military. Because investigators had been tracking the funding for this so-called "Islamic Bomb" back to Saudi Arabia, under Bush security restrictions, the inquiry was stymied. (The restrictions were lifted, the agent told me without a hint of dark humor, on September 11.)

Noam Chomsky, who read the story on page one of the Times of India, has wondered, "Why wasn't it all over US papers?

.. A top-level CIA operative who spoke with us on condition of strictest anonymity said that, after Bush took office, "There was a major policy shift" at the National Security Agency. Investigators were ordered to "back off" from any inquiries into Saudi Arabian financing of terror networks, especially if they touched on Saudi royals and their retainers. That put the Bin Ladens, a family worth a reported $12 billion and a virtual arm of the Saudi royal household, off limits for investigation.

I probed our CIA contact for specifics of investigations that were hampered by orders to back off of the Saudis. He told us that Khan Laboratories investigation had been effectively put on hold.
http://www.gregpalast.com/deta ...


Why no trial for the world's biggest criminal?


Pardon for scientist who sold atom bomb secrets
By Ahmed Rashid in Lahore and Robin Gedye

Pakistan is likely to pardon without trial the father of the country's atomic bomb even though he has confessed to selling nuclear technology to rogue states, a senior government official told the Telegraph yesterday.

Another promised international indignation in the event of pardon. "He is the world's biggest criminal, involved for 27 years in selling nuclear technology. If you let him off with a slap on the wrist, then what kind of message are you sending to others?" he said.

Mr. Khan has let it be known that he is prepared to blow the whistle on the army's involvement. A cabinet minister revealed that Mr. Khan's daughter, a British citizen, had traveled to London with papers that could incriminate generals and other Pakistani leaders, including the former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new ...

varun
Pakistani nuclear sicentist offers public apology...
...and gets a slap on the wrist..
http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne ...

Pakistani Nuclear Scientist Takes the Rap for Leaks
57 minutes ago Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo!

By Mike Collett-White
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Top Pakistani scientist and national hero Abdul Qadeer Khan made a dramatic personal apology Wednesday for leaking atomic secrets, the latest twist in a proliferation scandal stretching from Libya to North Korea (news - web sites).
In a somber address on state television, Khan, revered at home as the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, absolved the government and fellow scientists of any blame in an apparent bid by all concerned to draw a line under the damaging affair.
Commentators said his confession smacked of a cover-up, possibly part of a wider agreement to spare the powerful military unwanted scrutiny in any trial and allow President Pervez Musharraf to avoid pressure from Islamists and nationalists...


seemslikeadream
Nuclear betrayal apology
But his claim to have arranged it all himself has been met with widespread skepticism.

Western diplomats said the middlemen operated in Germany, Netherlands, Malaysia and United Arab Emirates.

As a direct result of the Pakistani revelations, it was revealed yesterday a Malaysian company controlled by the son of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was being investigated for possibly supplying machine parts for Libya's nuclear weapons programs.
Malaysian special branch police began the investigation after the CIA in the US and Britain's M16 informed them in November that boxes of machine parts bearing SCOPE's name were found in five containers seized in a ship off Italy in October.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com ....

Pakistan pardons rogue nuke scientist
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has pardoned a scientist who confessed to leaking nuclear weapons secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea and says the country will not allow international supervision of its nuclear programme.
Musharraf also said Pakistan would not hand over any documents to the International Atomic Energy Agency, submit to an independent inquiry or allow the United Nations to supervise Pakistan's nuclear programme.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsP ... §ion=news

ElBaradei says A.Q.Khan just tip of nuclear iceberg
"Dr.Khan was not working alone," International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters, adding he had help from people in many countries.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenew ...



bos1
Because of how deep it goes
in terms of international megabillion dollar syndicates of arms and drug running operations running the US gov't. As the Sibel Edmonds and David Schipper stories are just the latest indications. That is why no trials for these guys, unless there is a factional battle or change of window dressing.

Background: David Schippers, US House Judiciary Committee Head Prosecutor (head prosecutor of Clinton's impeachment) had FBI sources telling him of warning of a terrorist attack in Manhattan 6 weeks before Sept.11 and no one wanted to hear it -- congressmen, Ashcroft.

interview http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_I ...

Sibel Edmonds was approached by another FBI translator and offered huge amounts of money to cover up intelligence reports with certain names in it, intelligence reports dealing with money laundering, drug trafficking, a support network for terrorism, people in high places in politics. When she reported it to her superiors she was offered bribes to forget about it, eventually fired, and the SLAPPED WITH A GAG ORDER by Ashcroft.

Her story also involves how corruption, infiltration and incompetence in the FBI that led to the 9/11 attacks.

Sibel Edmonds interview http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=2917 :
Another article http://villagevoice.com/issues/0421/mondo1.php

[hang a left]

18. "Covert action...doing The Lord's work..."

Just as I have been trying to give up those tin foil hat theories regarding the Illuminati.

Man, there are some wicked people in the BFEE.

[varun]

8. Armitag's Agenda

...is to coax India to send her troops to Iraq.

Its not gonna work, Big Boy...especially with the new Left of center Government in New Delhi.

[goclark]

9. Armitage is also the BEST PAL of Colon

When I learned this it gave m a big clue about what a neo con Colon is now. How could your BEST PAL be so politically different than you are,they are thistight.

[SoCalDem]

10. He always reminds me of a James Bond villain

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo.cms?msid=775375

[Neshanic]

19. Bwahaaaaa...the guy that throws the hat?

[Fritz LeChat]

14. In Other News Today...

The White House announced the staff mess will now offer Freedom Relish in lieu of India Relish which is no longer available... Move along.

[SoCalDem]

15. and of course.. India Ink will now be known as Freedom Ink..

:)

[newyawker99]

17. Hi Fritz LeChat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: