Breaking: Sharon being indicted for Corruption (CNN)

[Mari333]

no link yet.
just saw it on the screen said Just In, Sharon being indicted for Corruption.
anyone have a link?

[proud patriot]

1. Wholly Moley

:wow:

[thebigidea]

2. couldn't happen to a nicer sack of shit... BE GLAD.

Cheney, you're next!

[sistersofmercy]

5. I'll second that sentiment.

[Zhade]

40. I will always BE GLAD when fascists get taken down.

Down with Sharon!

[mountainvue]

55. Agreed.

There is hope yet.

[Nlighten1]

3. Yippeee!

[PartyPooper]

4. Uh oh!

Now what?

[Gimel]

6. Recommendation by state attorney Arbel

The indictment hasn't happened yet.

[Name removed]

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[thebigidea]

15. a potential indictment would probably go the way of IDF "investigations"

but still, its nice seeing "Sharon" and "corruption" in the same sentence.

[aquart]

24. How? When it's been publicly announced?

And where was this indictment called "potential"?

[thebigidea]

29. where was it called potential? I dunno, when I just called it potential.

Here are other things I'd call it:

A hypothetical indictment. An eagerly awaited indictment.

A richly deserved indictment.

If there was an indictment, what would you call it?

[Gimel]

42. Here

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/409252.html

[kysrsoze]

48. They should add charges for murder in '82.

But if it takes this to get him and his cohorts out of office, I'm OK with that too. I hope this prick goes to jail.

[stepnw1f]

7. About Time

This guy is a another right-wing extremist. Maybe after he's gone we can help bring peace to both Israel and Palestine.

[Layman]

63. Yeah right

Like that peacenik Netanyahu or that wolf in sheep's clothing Peres is going to anything differently.

[Name removed]

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[CaptainClark23]

9. I'd say this was good news but...

that POS won't let go easily.

another cornered, wounded animal on the geopolitical scene.

donning my foil, I shudder to think what he and the BFEE can dream up to hold onto power.

[LeftCoast]

10. Does this force him to step down?

Anyone up on the legal/political ramifications?

[Chicago Democrat]

33. That is what I heard.

If he's indicted he has to step down until trial is over. Sharon said he wasn't stepping down tho.

[Mari333]

11. This article from January 2004 spells out some of why hes in trouble

http://www.iht.com/articles/126021.html

[TacticalPeek]

12. Sharon has caught it! He has caught the WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH!

from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce


WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.



Should you ask me whence this laughter,

Whence this audible big-smiling,

With its labial extension,

With its maxillar distortion

And its diaphragmic rhythmus

Like the billowing of an ocean,

Like the shaking of a carpet,

I should answer, I should tell you:

From the great deeps of the spirit,

From the unplummeted abysmus

Of the soul this laughter welleth

As the fountain, the gug-guggle,

Like the river from the canon ,

To entoken and give warning

That my present mood is sunny.

Should you ask me further question --

Why the great deeps of the spirit,

Why the unplummeted abysmus

Of the soule extrudes this laughter,

This all audible big-smiling,

I should answer, I should tell you

With a white heart, tumpitumpy,

With a true tongue, honest Injun:

Ariel Sharon, he has Caught It,

Caught the Whangdepootenawah!



Is't the sandhill crane, the shankank,

Standing in the marsh, the kneedeep,

Standing silent in the kneedeep

With his wing-tips crossed behind him

And his neck close-reefed before him,

With his bill, his william, buried

In the down upon his bosom,

With his head retracted inly,

While his shoulders overlook it?

Does the sandhill crane, the shankank,

Shiver grayly in the north wind,

Wishing he had died when little,

As the sparrow, the chipchip, does?

No 'tis not the Shankank standing,

Standing in the gray and dismal

Marsh, the gray and dismal kneedeep.

No, 'tis peerless Ariel Sharon

Realizing that he's Caught It,

Caught the Whangdepootenawah!


:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[donsu]

19. indeed and truly

nt

[Gloria]

50. Ah, A fellow Bierce-y!!!! Here's his definition of PATRIOTISM...

Here's one of my faves...

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name...
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as that last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first....



(I love Bierce...my copy dates back to 1968!)

[TacticalPeek]

54. The Biercean Quotation Dilemma

QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.

[Purveyor]

13. Prosecutors recommend charging Sharon-Israeli TV

JERUSALEM, March 27 (Reuters) - Israel's chief prosecutor will recommend indicting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a long-running corruption case, Channel 2 television said on Saturday.

Reuters Link

[Paragon]

16. God, the news networks suck on the weekends

You'd think they'd break into their prepackaged crap like Headliners & Legends and In The Money to cover ACTUAL news...

Can't even get info on this on Headline News -- and I won't tune in elsewhere to read a fucking ticker on the bottom of the screen.

I'll check back in a while after the story's developed...

[sampsonblk]

20. Nooooooo...

Janet Jackson was on Headliners & Legends. That was too awesome to interrupt!

[johnfunk]

38. But, but, but... it's all about her BREAST!

Please, please, PLEASE get your priorities straight and support our Popular Wartime Preznit ©! There's a Culture War that Chimpy has to win...

[sampsonblk]

51. Wuss Rawng Wit Breasts??

I honestly can't see the problem with taking a few minutes out to observe the un-natural beauty of a pair of first-rate bresses.

[Merlin]

52. Sharon's? Yuccck!

Ewwww!

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. I wonder if this will force Sharon to cancel

his trip to the US to see Bu$h next month? This was one of the reasons they've been putting this meeting off and it won't look good in the campaign ads for Bu$h to be standing with someone who is under indictment?

We'll see how good a relationship Sharon has with W, once W decides he's a political liability.

[TheWebHead]

18. hmmm.. wonder why Faux News isn't reporting this yet

j/k

[yardwork]

25. They haven't been told how to spin it yet!

[truthisfreedom]

21. LINK REUTERS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x448369

why was my post destroyed?

[aquart]

22. My, my, my.

When anyone says to himself, "By virtue of my virtues, I am entitled..." THAT is the beginning of corruption. Sharon has given his life to his country, but he thinks that means he's entitled...

No. He may be far too bitter to rule. God knows, what he's seen, he has reason, but that isn't reason enough.

[shanti]

46. can you think of someone else in power

that also holds that sense of entitlement? c'mon, it's not hard;-)

[Moderator]

23. WARNING

At the first sign of Israel vs Palestine stuff in this thread, it is getting locked down. Behave yourselves, people.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

34. Good grief.

[Just Me]

26. I am all for the rule of law being applied to this man,...

,...and all those who act above/beyond/in spite of it.

[frank frankly]

27. kick

:kick:

[ck4829]

28. We should bring up his 1982 war crimes

Sharon should not escape what he did back in 1982. Yassin did not escape what he deserved, and so I think Sharon should get what he deserves too by being charged with his involvement in Sabra and Shatilla.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

30. Here's a link: not indicted yet

Israeli Prosecutors Recommend Charging Sharon-TV

Saturday, March 27, 2004 1:50 p.m. ET

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's chief prosecutor will recommend to the attorney general that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should be indicted in a long-running corruption case, Channel 2 television said on Saturday.

The report said State Attorney Edna Arbel had concluded there were sufficient grounds to charge Sharon with bribery in connection with a real estate deal involving his son, Gilad, and land developer David Appel, a stalwart of the prime minister's ruling right-wing Likud party.

A final decision of whether to indict Sharon rests with Attorney General Menachem Mazuz once he receives Arbel's recommendations. There was no immediate official confirmation of the report

Sharon, 76, has in the past denied any wrongdoing but analysts have said Sharon would probably be forced from office if he were indicted.

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=842118&tw=wn_wire_story

[daleo]

44. Methinks he will get a pass from the A.G.

Just a hunch and I sign I have become perhaps too cynical.

[shadu]

31. May I bring the leg irons and lead him away?

[Judi Lynn]

32. Never thought this could happen. Thanks for the nooz! n/t

[Rex]

35. Maybe Sharon and Bush can share a jail cell.

Dick can also join them.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

36. That would be a...

...rather ugly menage a trois, wouldn't it?

[lebkuchen]

37. Please, god, let Tom Delay be next.

[Robbien]

41. You can help get an ethics inquiry started

According to this article

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x42046

Democracy 21, a watchdog group, has taken up this suggestion, sending a letter to every House member detailing the ethical flaws in Mr. DeLay's charity scheme. Democracy 21 cites little-known rules saying that if just one member has the courage to forward the complaint formally, the ethics panel may have to take it up. Any takers in the House?

Write your representative and ask that they forward Democracy 21's complaint. All it needs is one representative to get the ball rolling.

[tkmorris]

64. If looking for a member willing

AND if there is a real case to be made you should write to Robert Wexler. The man does not care for DeLay at all and is looking for a way to make a mark. I firmly believe he is a potential Presidential candidate circa 2016-2020.

[Zhade]

39. Could it be that a fascist will be brought to justice?

If so, I for one will BE GLAD when the war criminal is sentenced for his crimes.

Hopefully this is the first of many such charges. We'll see if justice prevails and the murderer Sharon is locked away where he can no longer destabilize any hopes for peace.

[Jacobin]

43. Kill people??? Okay, no problem. Take a kickback? Aeeeiiiiiiiii

Send him to the Gulag!!!!!!

Funny place, that.

Reminds me of Murka.

[Zhade]

57. I was thinking the same thing.

NT!

[Chicago Democrat]

58. The End of Irony

Michelle Pfifer on every drug kidnapped by terrorists on every drug being filmed by a director on every drug. Oh, darn its been done already.

[Disturbed]

45. Good news.

I will send a note to my House Reps. regarding Delay.

[Bride of Cthulhu]

47. huzzah

Couldn't happen to a more deserving fellow.:7

[Bonhomme Richard]

49. And the walls..keep tumblin down....and the walls keep....

tumblin, rumblin.

[Merlin]

53. This man has singlehandedly put PEACE decades behind schedule.

What a scumbucket. Nothing would be to severe for this son of a bitch.

[Cassandra]

56. Singlehandedly? Hardly!

He's had lots of help from Arafat, Hamas, Hezbollah and others.

[Merlin]

62. Yes. He has helped put those jerks on the map.

With his insane policies of ovetrumping violence he has turned the ME into a hell on earth, and eliminated any hope of peace while he remains in power.

He is a reckless, ruthless idiot.

[Cassandra]

65. Which "he" are you talking about?

Your comment could apply to any of them. You can't have a fight by yourself, you know.

[Almost_there]

59. Who's next in line?

Assuming that this comes to pass, who is the one that would be tapped to run Israel? This scandal has been brewing since day one of his administration, I thought the night he took office this was out, if not even before.

Just curious is anyone has any idea who might be next. Getting him out might just help the Middle East situation a bit. He had started to pull settlers and seemed open to normalize relations with Palestine and others, which is amazing considering Sharon's war history. The problem with news like this is sometimes, it is better to have the devil you know than the devil you don't...

~Almost

[Zhade]

61. "...who is the one that would be tapped to run Israel?"

Excellent question.

[Snazzy]

60. "Can't we veto?"

Shrub Briefing, 3/29

[Moderator]

66. locking

now that we have a story on it with an accurate headline.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=449505