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The Senate failed to garner enough votes Thursday to stop a filibuster against Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel.
Fifty-eight voted to move forward with the nomination, falling short of the 60 required to overcome the Republican filibuster and leaving President Barack Obama's nominee to take over the Defense Department hanging for at least another two weeks.
"It's just unfortunate that this kind of politics intrudes at a time when I'm still presiding over a war in Afghanistan, and I need a secretary of defense who is coordinating with our allies to make sure that our troops are getting the kind of strategy and mission that they deserve," Obama said Thursday in a "Google Hangout" online chat with supporters as the votes were counted on Capitol Hill.
Forty senators voted to hold up the nomination amid what they say are unanswered questions about Hagel's finances, as well as remaining tension between some Republican senators and the White House over the terror attack in Benghazi, Libya. The chamber largely voted along party lines, with the exception of four Republicans who voted with Democrats. One senator, Republican Orrin Hatch, announced present and Republican Sen. David Vitter missed the vote.
Republicans, however, signaled they're willing to allow the nomination to proceed after recess, when only a simple majority of 51 votes are required to stop a filibuster. The Senate is not in session next week.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin's office announced the Senate will take up another vote to move forward on Hagel on Tuesday, February 26.
Filibusters of cabinet officials are extremely rare, largely because senators typically believe a president has a right to pick the leaders of his government.
"I regret that Republican senators except the valiant four chose to filibuster the nomination," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor. "Republicans have made an unfortunate choice to ratchet up the level of destruction here in Washington. Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, it gets worse."
Obama suggested he thought Republicans were using the filibuster too often. Hagel is "imminently qualified to be secretary of defense and the idea that we would see an unprecedented filibuster -- just about unprecedented," he said.
The White House sent a letter to Capitol Hill Thursday stating that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Libyan President Mohammed Magariaf the same night as the attack. Obama, according to the letter, did not speak to the Libyan president until the evening of the day following the violence.


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SOURCE: The Hill (1-16-13)
Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Alexander, then chief deputy majority whip of the House. He holds an LL.M. degree in international financial law from the London School of Economics. He can be read on The Hill's Pundits Blog and reached at email@example.com.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and nominated by President Obama to serve as secretary of State, stands foursquare in a bipartisan national-security tradition that has served America well for generations. Former Secretary of State, National Security Adviser, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Army Gen. Colin Powell stands solidly in this bipartisan tradition. Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), nominated by President Obama to serve as secretary of Defense, whom Powell correctly called "superbly qualified," and who is currently chairman of the Atlantic Council and co-chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, similarly stands with this bipartisan security tradition.
It is important, and profound, that Hagel is strongly supported by so many former officials who served President Reagan and other Republican presidents and so many senior retired military officers, former U.S. ambassadors to Israel and leading diplomats who served presidents of both parties....
The prospect of a Secretary of State Kerry, Secretary of Defense Hagel and Gen. Eric Shinseki as secretary of Veterans Affairs would bring to the Cabinet extraordinary war experience, combat heroism and support for troops and military families that would inform all military, diplomatic and veterans-related decisions by the president.
Kerry possesses a depth of diplomatic and military experience and an ability to reach to friends across the aisles and contacts across the globe. He could become a secretary of State reminiscent of Gen. George Marshall, who served President Truman. I strongly agree with Powell that Hagel will be an outstanding secretary of Defense and have no doubt that Hagel's combination of support for diplomacy, when possible, and willingness to use sanctions or force when necessary will be apparent during confirmation hearings....
SOURCE: Guardian (UK) (1-17-13)
Nabila Ramdani is a Paris-born freelance journalist and academic of Algerian descent.
Given Algeria's savage history, it is tragic but hardly surprising that the In Amenas hostage standoff would end in a bloodbath. Army helicopter gunships arrived at the isolated gas field in the south-east of the country within a day of al-Qaida rebels launching their operation. There was no apparent attempt at negotiation – witnesses reported both captors and captives being indiscriminately strafed with machine-gun fire.
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed "gangster" said to have planned Wednesday's initial attack on the BP-run facility, knows the terror game inside out. He will not flinch at the loss of life, even if those who died include loyal lieutenants. Belmokhtar, 41, is the personification of an Algerian narrative that, in living memory, has involved the most destructive colonial conflict in modern history, and a civil war that claimed at least 250,000 lives.
Belmokhtar trained with al-Qaida in Afghanistan while still a teenager. He fought the Russians there, before returning home to pursue jihad against his own country's military. It was the army that nullified an Islamist victory in the 1992 elections, so starting the civil war that has come to define modern Algeria. Its violent legacy is as powerful as ever, making the country a tragically fitting battleground in the war against terror...
SOURCE: American Spectator (1-15-13)
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Plunder: Misgovernment in Washington.
Roe v. Wade, perhaps the most ostentatiously unconstitutional of many dubious Supreme Court decisions purporting to interpret the Constitution, was issued 40 years ago. Rather than settle the abortion issue, the justices triggered a bitter political conflict which continues unabated.
Roe represents tragedy. An unwanted pregnancy can cause serious, sometimes overwhelming, problems. Moreover, there are few more personal decisions than to terminate a pregnancy. Liberty and life seemingly come into sharp conflict.
But abortion is not a just another "choice." Rather, it is a flight from responsibility. Abortion is a response to choice, that is, the decision to have sex. Other than rape, sex is voluntary. Sometimes the result is an unwanted baby.
The question then is what to do? What is a person's responsibility for the earlier choice freely exercised? Abortion has become a leading means to avoid taking responsibility for the life created.
This goes as much for men as well as women....
SOURCE: American Conservative (1-14-13)
Leon Hadar, a Washington-based journalist and foreign policy analyst, is the author of Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East.
During the 2012 presidential campaign some of my libertarian friends would revert to the following talking-point: there is really no major difference between the foreign-policy agendas of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Obama has proved to be very different in his diplomacy and national security from the kind of peacenik he was portrayed as during his 2008 run for the White House, with the surge in Afghanistan, confrontation with Iran, military intervention in Libya, failure to challenge Israel, etc.
The bottom line was that Obama and Romney were supposedly cut from the same foreign-policy cloth, with both supporting an interventionist military approach in the Middle East and elsewhere. Therefore libertarians and conservatives who were critical of the neoconservative policies that had been promoted by President George W. Bush should not be fooled in the way some of them were in 2008 and should refrain from casting their ballot for Obama.
In fact, in advancing this Obama-and-Romney-are-foreign-policy-twins narrative, Republicans urged libertarians to vote for the Romney-Ryan ticket. The two Republicans were, after all, advocating more free-market oriented economic policies than the Democratic White House occupant. Many libertarians did that, or supported the presidential candidacy of Gary Johnson.
In retrospect, my personal decision to vote for Obama (which was denounced at the time) makes even more sense to me today, following Obama's decision to nominate Chuck Hagel as his Defense Secretary than it did last November.
Consider this post-Romney victory counterfactual...
SOURCE: WaPo (1-16-13)
Monica Hesse is a reporter at The Washington Post.
It's not like last time, and everywhere you look, someone wants to remind you of that.
Hotel rooms are still available (not like laaaast time) and there will be only two official inaugural balls (not like laaaast time) and nobody is going to wait for hours in a cattle-packed tunnel, waving their purple tickets. (Last time! So much fun!)
The gargantuan platform affixed to the U.S. Capitol has been growing for weeks, but worriers seem convinced that when Barack Obama steps onto it for his second inauguration, it just won't feel the same.
"No, there isn't quite the excitement there is with the first one," allows Buffy Cafritz, the Washington doyenne who has hosted inaugural parties since 1984. But then again, "I can't think of a second inauguration that was as exciting as the first," she says. "You know the man. You know his policies. It's normal."
Over at the Presidential Inaugural Committee headquarters, chief executive officer Steve Kerrigan argues that the second time around is equally wonderful — just different. Those two balls will hold nearly as many people as the 10 balls did last inauguration, he explains patiently. "We're almost doubling the size of the Commander-in-Chief's Ball."
But still there's this irritating perception that it's all a setup to a letdown. It's one we've been struggling with since the beginning of our country: The meaning of the second inauguration. How to summon the energy to do it all again.
Once more (with feeling)...
SOURCE: Guardian (UK) (1-14-13)
George Monbiot is the author of the bestselling books The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. His latests books are Heat: how to stop the planet burning and Bring on the Apocalypse?
How they must bleed for us. In 2012, the world's 100 richest people became $241 billion richer. They are now worth $1.9 trillion: just a little less than the entire output of the United Kingdom.
This is not the result of chance. The rise in the fortunes of the super-rich is the direct result of policies. Here are a few: the reduction of tax rates and tax enforcement; governments' refusal to recoup a decent share of revenues from minerals and land; the privatisation of public assets and the creation of a toll-booth economy; wage liberalisation and the destruction of collective bargaining.
The policies that made the global monarchs so rich are the policies squeezing everyone else. This is not what the theory predicted. Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman and their disciples – in a thousand business schools, the IMF, the World Bank, the OECD and just about every modern government – have argued that the less governments tax the rich, defend workers and redistribute wealth, the more prosperous everyone will be. Any attempt to reduce inequality would damage the efficiency of the market, impeding the rising tide that lifts all boats. The apostles have conducted a 30-year global experiment, and the results are now in. Total failure....
SOURCE: Truth-out (1-15-13)
Thom Hartmann is a New York Times bestselling Project Censored Award winning author and host of a nationally syndicated progressive radio talk show. You can learn more about Thom Hartmann at his website and find out what stations broadcast his radio program. He also now has a daily independent television program, The Big Picture, syndicated by FreeSpeech TV, RT TV, and 2oo community TV stations. You can also listen or watch Thom over the Internet.
The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says "State" instead of "Country" (the Framers knew the difference - see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia's vote. Founders Patrick Henry, George Mason, and James Madison were totally clear on that . . . and we all should be too.
In the beginning, there were the militias. In the South, they were also called the "slave patrols," and they were regulated by the states.
In Georgia, for example, a generation before the American Revolution, laws were passed in 1755 and 1757 that required all plantation owners or their male white employees to be members of the Georgia Militia, and for those armed militia members to make monthly inspections of the quarters of all slaves in the state. The law defined which counties had which armed militias and even required armed militia members to keep a keen eye out for slaves who may be planning uprisings.
As Dr. Carl T. Bogus wrote for the University of California Law Review in 1998, "The Georgia statutes required patrols, under the direction of commissioned militia officers, to examine every plantation each month and authorized them to search 'all Negro Houses for offensive Weapons and Ammunition' and to apprehend and give twenty lashes to any slave found outside plantation grounds."...
SOURCE: Alternet (1-13-13)
Steven Rosenfeld covers democracy issues for AlterNet and is the author of "Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting" (AlterNet Books, 2008)
For nearly a century after, its founding in 1871, the National Rifle Association was among America's foremost pro-gun control organizations. It was not until 1977 when the NRA that Americans know today emerged, after libertarians who equated owning a gun with the epitome of freedom and fomented widespread distrust against government—if not armed insurrection—emerged after staging a hostile leadership coup.
In the years since, an NRA that once encouraged better markmanship and reasonable gun control laws gave way to an advocacy organization and political force that saw more guns as the answer to society's worst violence, whether arming commercial airline pilots after 9/11 or teachers after the Newtown, while opposing new restrictions on gun usage.
It is hard to believe that the NRA was committed to gun-control laws for most of the 20th century—helping to write most of the federal laws restricting gun use until the 1980s.
"Historically, the leadership of the NRA was more open-minded about gun control than someone familiar with the modern NRA might imagine," wrote Adam Winkler, a Second Amendment scholar at U.C.L.A. Law School, in his 2011 book, Gunfight: The Battle Over The Right To Bear Arms In America. "The Second Amendment was not nearly as central to the NRA's identity for most of the organization's history."...
SOURCE: Salon (1-11-13)
... Unfortunately for [the NRA's Wayne] LaPierre et al., the notion that Hitler confiscated everyone's guns is mostly bogus. And the ancillary claim that Jews could have stopped the Holocaust with more guns doesn't make any sense at all if you think about it for more than a minute.
SOURCE: The Root (1-2-13)
Lawrence D. Bobo is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.
(The Root) -- Although 2012 did not produce the Mayan apocalypse, it did produce an unending drumbeat of claims for "postracial America." So much so, I suspect, that if Harlem Renaissance novelist and essay writer George Schuyler had lived through it, he would be inspired to write a whole new version of his classic novel Black No More.
In the main, the book is a biting satire of the dilemmas created by race and race prejudice in the United States, with the plot driven by the deeds of Harlemites Max Disher and his friend Bunny Brown. They concoct a way to make black people white. Yet as the book unfolds, the problems associated with race seem to infinitely multiply rather than vanish. There is a lesson for us there.
Think about all the grist for Schulyer's mill we received over the past year. In January of 2012, researchers declared it to be "The End of the Segregated Century." No sooner, however, had this conservative Manhattan Institute report come out than it became the subject of a wave of criticism. Of course, everyday experience and common sense makes it evident that distinctly black communities and "the ghetto" have not disappeared....
SOURCE: WaPo (1-10-13)
David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column and contributes to the PostPartisan blog.
It's telling that one of Chuck Hagel's favorite gifts to friends recently has been a biography of President Dwight Eisenhower, a war hero whose skepticism toward the military is a model for Hagel's own.
Thinking about Eisenhower's presidency helps clarify the challenges and dilemmas of Barack Obama's second term. Like Ike, Obama wants to pull the nation back from the overextension of global wars of the previous decade. Like Ike, he wants to trim defense spending and reduce the national debt.
This back-to-the-future theme is visible, too, in Obama's nomination of John Brennan as the new CIA director. A 25-year CIA veteran, Brennan wants to rebalance the agency back toward its traditional intelligence-gathering function and away from the recent emphasis on paramilitary covert action. More trench coats, less body armor, in other words. If Eisenhower is a model for Hagel, perhaps the superspies of the 1950s, Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, will be similar icons for Brennan.
But there's a darker side to foreign policy in the Eisenhower years, too...
SOURCE: TomDispatch (1-6-13)
Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, founder of the global climate campaign 350.org, a TomDispatch regular, and the author, most recently, of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.
Change usually happens very slowly, even once all the serious people have decided there's a problem. That's because, in a country as big as the United States, public opinion moves in slow currents. Since change by definition requires going up against powerful established interests, it can take decades for those currents to erode the foundations of our special-interest fortresses.
Take, for instance, "the problem of our schools." Don't worry about whether there actually was a problem, or whether making every student devote her school years to filling out standardized tests would solve it. Just think about the timeline. In 1983, after some years of pundit throat clearing, the Carnegie Commission published "A Nation at Risk," insisting that a "rising tide of mediocrity" threatened our schools. The nation's biggest foundations and richest people slowly roused themselves to action, and for three decades we haltingly applied a series of fixes and reforms. We've had Race to the Top, and Teach for America, and charters, and vouchers, and… we're still in the midst of "fixing" education, many generations of students later.
Even facing undeniably real problems -- say, discrimination against gay people -- one can make the case that gradual change has actually been the best option. Had some mythical liberal Supreme Court declared, in 1990, that gay marriage was now the law of the land, the backlash might have been swift and severe. There's certainly an argument to be made that moving state by state (starting in nimbler, smaller states like Vermont) ultimately made the happy outcome more solid as the culture changed and new generations came of age.
Which is not to say that there weren't millions of people who suffered as a result. There were. But our societies are built to move slowly. Human institutions tend to work better when they have years or even decades to make gradual course corrections, when time smooths out the conflicts between people.
And that's always been the difficulty with climate change -- the greatest problem we've ever faced. It's not a fight, like education reform or abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. It couldn't be more different at a fundamental level.
We're talking about a fight between human beings and physics. And physics is entirely uninterested in human timetables. Physics couldn't care less if precipitous action raises gas prices, or damages the coal industry in swing states. It could care less whether putting a price on carbon slowed the pace of development in China, or made agribusiness less profitable.
Physics doesn't understand that rapid action on climate change threatens the most lucrative business on Earth, the fossil fuel industry. It's implacable. It takes the carbon dioxide we produce and translates it into heat, which means into melting ice and rising oceans and gathering storms. And unlike other problems, the less you do, the worse it gets. Do nothing and you soon have a nightmare on your hands.
We could postpone healthcare reform a decade, and the cost would be terrible -- all the suffering not responded to over those 10 years. But when we returned to it, the problem would be about the same size. With climate change, unless we act fairly soon in response to the timetable set by physics, there's not much reason to act at all.
Unless you understand these distinctions you don't understand climate change -- and it's not at all clear that President Obama understands them.
That's why his administration is sometimes peeved when they don't get the credit they think they deserve for tackling the issue in his first term in office. The measure they point to most often is the increase in average mileage for automobiles, which will slowly go into effect over the next decade.
It's precisely the kind of gradual transformation that people -- and politicians -- like. We should have adopted it long ago (and would have, except that it challenged the power of Detroit and its unions, and so both Republicans and Democrats kept it at bay). But here's the terrible thing: it's no longer a measure that impresses physics. After all, physics isn't kidding around or negotiating. While we were discussing whether climate change was even a permissible subject to bring up in the last presidential campaign, it was melting the Arctic. If we're to slow it down, we need to be cutting emissions globally at a sensational rate, by something like 5% a year to make a real difference.
It's not Obama's fault that that's not happening. He can't force it to happen. Consider the moment when the great president of the last century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was confronted with an implacable enemy, Adolf Hitler (the closest analog to physics we're going to get, in that he was insanely solipsistic, though in his case also evil). Even as the German armies started to roll through Europe, however, FDR couldn't muster America to get off the couch and fight.
There were even the equivalent of climate deniers at that time, happy to make the case that Hitler presented no threat to America. Indeed, some of them were the same institutions. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for instance, vociferously opposed Lend-Lease.
So Roosevelt did all he could on his own authority, and then when Pearl Harbor offered him his moment, he pushed as hard as he possibly could. Hard, in this case, meant, for instance, telling the car companies that they were out of the car business for a while and instead in the tank and fighter-plane business.
For Obama, faced with a Congress bought off by the fossil fuel industry, a realistic approach would be to do absolutely everything he could on his own authority -- new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, for example; and of course, he should refuse to grant the permit for the building of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, something that requires no permission from John Boehner or the rest of Congress.
So far, however, he's been half-hearted at best when it comes to such measures. The White House, for instance, overruled the EPA on its proposed stronger ozone and smog regulations in 2011, and last year opened up the Arctic for oil drilling, while selling off vast swaths of Wyoming's Powder River Basin at bargain-basement prices to coal miners. His State Department flubbed the global climate-change negotiations. (It's hard to remember a higher profile diplomatic failure than the Copenhagen summit.) And now Washington rings with rumors that he'll approve the Keystone pipeline, which would deliver 900,000 barrels a day of the dirtiest crude oil on Earth. Almost to the drop, that's the amount his new auto mileage regulations would save.
If he were serious, Obama would be doing more than just the obvious and easy. He'd also be looking for that Pearl Harbor moment. God knows he had his chances in 2012: the hottest year in the history of the continental United States, the deepest drought of his lifetime, and a melt of the Arctic so severe that the federal government's premier climate scientist declared it a "planetary emergency."
In fact, he didn't even appear to notice those phenomena, campaigning for a second term as if from an air-conditioned bubble, even as people in the crowds greeting him were fainting en masse from the heat. Throughout campaign 2012, he kept declaring his love for an "all-of-the-above" energy policy, where apparently oil and natural gas were exactly as virtuous as sun and wind.
Only at the very end of the campaign, when Hurricane Sandy seemed to present a political opening, did he even hint at seizing it -- his people letting reporters know on background that climate change would now be one of his top three priorities (or maybe, post-Newtown, top four) for a second term. That's a start, I suppose, but it's a long way from telling the car companies they better retool to start churning out wind turbines.
And anyway, he took it back at the first opportunity. At his post-election press conference, he announced that climate change was "real," thus marking his agreement with, say, President George H.W. Bush in 1988. In deference to "future generations," he also agreed that we should "do more." But addressing climate change, he added, would involve "tough political choices." Indeed, too tough, it seems, for here were his key lines:
"I think the American people right now have been so focused, and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs and growth, that if the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody is going to go for that. I won't go for that."
It's as if World War II British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had declared, "I have nothing to offer except blood, toil, tears, and sweat. And God knows that polls badly, so just forget about it."
The president must be pressed to do all he can -- and more. That's why thousands of us will descend on Washington D.C. on President's Day weekend, in what will be the largest environmental demonstration in years. But there's another possibility we need to consider: that perhaps he's simply not up to this task, and that we're going to have to do it for him, as best we can.
If he won't take on the fossil fuel industry, we will. That's why on 192 campuses nationwide active divestment movements are now doing their best to highlight the fact that the fossil fuel industry threatens their futures.
If he won't use our position as a superpower to drive international climate-change negotiations out of their rut, we'll try. That's why young people from 190 nations are gathering in Istanbul in June in an effort to shame the U.N. into action. If he won't listen to scientists -- like the 20 top climatologists who told him that the Keystone pipeline was a mistake -- then top scientists are increasingly clear that they'll need to get arrested to make their point.
Those of us in the growing grassroots climate movement are going as fast and hard as we know how (though not, I fear, as fast as physics demands). Maybe if we go fast enough even this all-too-patient president will get caught up in the draft. But we're not waiting for him. We can't.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch (1-10-13)
Karen J. Greenberg, a TomDispatch regular, is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days and the co-editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib.
On January 11, eleven years to the day after the Bush administration opened its notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's deeply flawed movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, opens nationwide. The filmmakers and distributors are evidently ignorant of the significance of the date -- a perfect indication of the carelessness and thoughtlessness of the film, which will unfortunately substitute for actual history in the minds of many Americans.
The sad fact is that Zero Dark Thirty could have been written by the tight circle of national security advisors who counseled President George W. Bush to create the post-9/11 policies that led to Guantanamo, the global network of borrowed "black sites" that added up to an offshore universe of injustice, and the grim torture practices -- euphemistically known as "enhanced interrogation techniques" -- that went with them. It's also a film that those in the Obama administration who have championed non-accountability for such shameful policies could and (evidently did) get behind. It might as well be called Back to the Future, Part IV, for the film, like the country it speaks to, seems stuck forever in that time warp momentof revenge and hubris that swept the country just after 9/11.
As its core, Bigelow's film makes the bald-faced assertion that torture did help the United States track down the perpetrator of 9/11. Zero Dark Thirty -- for anyone who doesn't know by now -- is the story of Maya (Jessica Chastain), a young CIA agent who believes that information from a detainee named Ammar will lead to bin Laden. After weeks, maybe months of torture, he does indeed provide a key bit of information that leads to another piece of information that leads... well, you get the idea. Eventually, the name of bin Laden's courier is revealed. From the first mention of his name, Maya dedicates herself to finding him, and he finally leads the CIA to the compound where bin Laden is hiding. Of course, you know how it all ends.
However compelling the heroine's determination to find bin Laden may be, the fact is that Bigelow has bought in, hook, line, and sinker, to the ethos of the Bush administration and its apologists. It's as if she had followed an old government memo and decided to offer in fictional form step-by-step instructions for the creation, implementation, and selling of Bush-era torture and detention policies.
Here, then, are the seven steps that bring back the Bush administration and should help Americans learn how to love torture, Bigelow-style.
First, Rouse Fear. From its opening scene, Zero Dark Thirty equates our post-9/11 fears with the need for torture. The movie begins in darkness with the actual heartbreaking cries and screams for help of people trapped inside the towers of the World Trade Center: "I'm going to die, aren't I?... It's so hot. I'm burning up..." a female voice cries out. As those voices fade, the black screen yields to a full view of Ammar being roughed up by men in black ski masks and then strung up, arms wide apart.
The sounds of torture replace the desperate pleas of the victims. "Is he ever getting out?" Maya asks. "Never," her close CIA associate Dan (Jason Clarke) answers. These are meant to be words of reassurance in response to the horrors of 9/11. Bigelow's first step, then, is to echo former Vice-President Dick Cheney's mantra from that now-distant moment in which he claimed the nation needed to go to "the dark side."That was part of his impassioned demand that, given the immense threat posed by al-Qaeda, going beyond the law was the only way to seek retribution and security.
Bigelow also follows Cheney's lead into a world of fear. The Bush administration understood that, for their global dreams, including a future invasion of Iraq, to become reality, fear was their best ally. From Terre Haute to El Paso, Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, Americans were to be regularly reminded that they were deeply and eternally endangered by terrorists.
Bigelow similarly keeps the fear monitor bleeping whenever she can. Interspersed with the narrative of the bin Laden chase, she provides often blood-filled footage from terrorist attacks around the globe in the decade after 9/11: the 2004 bombings of oil installations in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, that killed 22; the 2005 suicide bombings in London that killed 56; the 2008 Marriott Hotel bombing in Islamabad that killed 54 people; and the thwarted Times Square bombing of May, 2010. We are in constant jeopardy, she wants us to remember, and uses Maya to remind us of this throughout.
Second, Undermine the Law. Torture is illegal under both American and international law. It was only pronounced "legal" in a series of secret memorandums produced by the Bush Justice Department and approved at the highest levels of the administration. (Top officials, including Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, evidently even had torture techniques demonstrated for them in the White House before green-lighting them.) Maintaining that there was no way Americans could be kept safe via purely legal methods, they asked for and were given secret legal authority to make torture the go-to option in their Global War on Terror. Yet Bigelow never even nods toward this striking rethinking of the law. She assumes the legality of the acts she portrays up close and personal, only hedging her bets toward the movie's end when she indicates in passing that the legal system was a potential impediment to getting bin Laden. "Who the hell am I supposed to ask [for confirmation about the courier], some guy at Gitmo who's all lawyered up?" asks Obama's national security advisor in the filmic run-up to the raid.
Just as new policies were put in place to legalize torture, so the detention of terror suspects without charges or trials (including people who, we now know, were treated horrifically despite being innocent of anything) became a foundational act of the administration. Specifically, government lawyers were employed to create particularly tortured (if you'll excuse the word) legal documents exempting detainees from the Geneva Conventions, thus enabling their interrogation under conditions that blatantly violated domestic and international laws.
Zero Dark Thirty accepts without hesitation or question the importance of this unconstitutional detention policy as crucial to the torture program. From the very first days of the war on terror, the U.S. government rounded up individuals globally and began to question them brutally. Whether they actually had information to reveal, whether the government had any concrete evidence against them, they held hundreds -- in the end, thousands -- of detainees in U.S. custody at secret CIA black sites worldwide, in the prisons of allied states known for their own torture policies, at Bagram Detention Center in Afghanistan, and of course at Guantanamo, which was the crown jewel of the Bush administration's offshore detention system.
Dan and Maya themselves not only travel to secret black sites to obtain valuable information from detainees, but to the cages and interrogation booths at Bagram where men in those now-familiar orange jumpsuits are shown awaiting a nightmare experience. Bigelow's film repeatedly suggests that it was crucially important for national security to keep a pool of potential information sources -- those detainees -- available just in case they might one day turn out to have information.
Third, Indulge in the Horror: Torture is displayed onscreen in what can only be called pornographic detail for nearly the film's first hour. In this way, Zero Dark Thirty eerily mimics the obsessive, essentially fetishistic approach of Bush's top officials to the subject. Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Cheney's former Chief of Staff David Addington, and John Yoo from the Office of Legal Counsel, among others, plunged into the minutiae of "enhanced interrogation" tactics, micro-managing just what levels of abuse should and should not apply, would and would not constitute torture after 9/11.
In black site after black site, on victim after victim, the movie shows acts of torture in exquisite detail, Bigelow's camera seeming to relish its gruesomeness: waterboarding, stress positions, beatings, sleep deprivation resulting in memory loss and severe disorientation, sexual humiliation, containment in a small box, and more. Whenever she gets the chance, Bigelow seems to take the opportunity to suggest that this mangling of human flesh and immersion in brutality on the part of Americans is at least understandable and probably worthwhile. The film's almost subliminal message on the subject of torture should remind us of the way in which a form of sadism-as-patriotic-duty filtered down to the troops on the ground, as evidenced by the now infamous 2004 photos from Abu Ghraib of smiling American soldiers offering thumbs-up responses to their ability to humiliate and hurt captives in dog collars.
Fourth, Dehumanize the Victims. Like the national security establishment that promoted torture policies, Bigelow dehumanizes her victims. Despite repeated beatings, humiliations, and aggressive torture techniques of various sorts, Ammar never becomes even a faintly sympathetic character to anyone in the film. As a result, there is never anyone for the audience to identify with who becomes emotionally distraught over the abuses. Dehumanization was a necessary tool in promoting torture; now, it is a necessary tool in promoting Zero Dark Thirty, which desensitizes its audience in ways that should be frightening to us and make us wonder who exactly we have become in the years since 9/11.
Fifth, Never Doubt That Torture Works. Given all this, it's a small step to touting the effectiveness of torture in eliciting the truth. "In the end, everybody breaks, bro': it's biology," Dan says to his victim. He also repeats over and over, "If you lie to me, I hurt you" -- meaning, "If I hurt you, you won't lie to me." Maya concurs, telling Ammar, bruised, bloodied, and begging for her help, that he can stop his pain by telling the truth.
How many times does the American public need to be told that torture did not yield the results the government promised? How many times does it need to be said that waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, 183 times obviously didn't work? How many times does it need to be pointed out that torture can -- and did -- produce misleading or false information, notably in the torture ofIbn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the Libyan who ran an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan and who confessed under torture that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
Sixth, Hold No One Accountable. The Obama administration made the determination that holding Bush administration figures, CIA officials, or the actual torturers responsible for what they did in a court of law was far more trouble than it might ever be worth. Instead, the president chose to move on and officially never look back. Bigelow takes advantage of this passivity to suggest to her audience that the only downside of torture is the fear of accountability. As he prepares to leave Pakistan, Dan tells Maya, "You gotta be real careful with the detainees now. Politics are changing and you don't want to be the last one holding the dog collar when the oversight committee comes…"
The sad truth is that Zero Dark Thirty could not have been produced in its present form if any of the officials who created and implemented U.S. torture policy had been held accountable for what happened, or any genuine sunshine had been thrown upon it. With scant public debate and no public record of accountability, Bigelow feels free to leave out even a scintilla of criticism of that torture program. Her film is thus one more example of the fact that without accountability, the pernicious narrative continues, possibly gaining traction as it does.
Seventh, Employ the Media. While the Bush administration had the Fox television series 24 as a weekly reminder that torture keeps us safe, the current administration, bent on its no-accountability policy, has Bigelow's film on its side. It's the perfect piece of propaganda, with all the appeal that naked brutality, fear, and revenge can bring.
Hollywood and most of its critics have embraced the film. It has already been named among the best films of the year, and is considered a shoe-in for Oscar nominations. Hollywood, that one-time bastion of liberalism, has provided the final piece in the perfect blueprint for the whitewashing of torture policy. If that isn't a happily-ever-after ending, what is?
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy (1-8-13)
Charlyne Berens is professor and associate dean at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward, from which parts of this article were drawn.
Having been there makes a difference.
Crawling on your stomach in the pitch dark while you hear the clink, clink of a column of Vietcong troops winding its way through the jungle only a few feet away. Fighting house to house, doorway to doorway in Saigon during the Tet offensive. Being wounded twice and promoted twice and decorated seven times.
Chuck Hagel was there -- in Vietnam from 1967-68, during some of the most intense fighting of the war. Now he is President Barack Obama's nominee to be America's next secretary of defense, and if he is confirmed, Hagel would be the first former enlisted man ever to lead the Defense Department. It's a safe bet that what he experienced in the jungles of Vietnam would make a difference in the way Hagel would approach his job at the Pentagon.
"War is not an abstraction," Hagel wrote in a piece for the Omaha World-Herald in 2004. "I know. I've been to war."
When he was in the Senate, Hagel tried to help his colleagues understand war through the lens of the people who would actually be doing the fighting and dying. "We see war up here in very antiseptic terms," he said. "We see it in bright policy terms. In human suffering terms? No." The terms are different, of course, for someone who has been there.
Years before he arrived in Vietnam at age 21, Hagel had already been interested in international relations. His friends teased him when he started subscribing to Time magazine in junior high.
But his experience in Vietnam intensified and shaped the adult Hagel's internationalist worldview. "Integration of the United States in the world is key," he said when I interviewed him in 2004. War may sometimes be an ugly necessity, but it is international relationships that maintain stability and security, he said.
The war Hagel confronted in Vietnam was ugly, indeed. Funny thing is, he wouldn't have had to go there...
SOURCE: Foreign Policy (1-7-13)
David Rothkopf is CEO and editor at large of Foreign Policy.
This Wednesday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Richard Nixon. Conventional wisdom says Nixon was brought down by Watergate. The reality was that he was undone as much by the divisiveness of the Vietnam years as by any of the marked and material flaws in his character. Distrust of the Washington establishment and of the ugly, costly war into which it had mismanaged America created a polarized, volatile atmosphere. Nixon gave his enemies the sword they needed to undo him and produce the kind of wrenching change the era seemed to demand.
John Kerry and Chuck Hagel are two products of that era. By extension so, too, is their new patron and soon-to-be boss: Barack Obama (even though Nixon's resignation took place just five days after Obama's 13th birthday). Obama's choices for secretary of state and defense, respectively, Kerry and Hagel are both veterans of the Vietnam war, and although one became a liberal Democrat and the other a conservative Republican, both were defined by their Vietnam experience. Both developed a willingness to challenge conventional military wisdom and a desire to avoid more Vietnams in the future. For Hagel, this ultimately meant breaking with his own party when he saw America's involvement in Iraq heading in a dangerous direction.
For Obama, whose political bar mitzvah, or coming of age if you will, took place in the America of Vietnam, his career has been largely shaped by the liberal traditions that arose in response to and in the wake of that war. Certainly, that seemed clear during the 2008 campaign, when Obama took the more dovish stance in the primaries versus then-Senator Hillary Clinton. But it has seemed less evident during his presidency, when not only did Obama bring Clinton and Bush Defense Secretary Robert Gates into his cabinet, but he also undertook a number of initiatives that suggested a deviation from that liberal tradition, from redoubling America's commitment to Afghanistan to military intervention in Libya to a major escalation in America's use of drone warfare, cyber warfare and special operations to project power worldwide.
The big question surrounding Obama and his second-term national security cabinet is whether the new team will reveal which of the seemingly contradictory impulses displayed by the president in his first term will ultimately be seen as his legacy. Are there clues in these choices that suggest an answer?..
SOURCE: Financial Times (UK) (1-7-13)
Gideon Rachman is a journalist who has been the Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator since July 2006.
If you needed confirmation that American liberals and conservatives inhabit parallel universes, just consider the reaction to last week's deal on the fiscal cliff. Conservatives saw a ruthless Barack Obama, ramming through his agenda. Liberals lamented a limp surrender by the president.
But these two very different lines of attack on Mr Obama have something important in common. Both liberals and conservatives remain addicted to the myth of the imperial president. They expect the occupant of the White House to be a towering figure – a Lincoln, a Roosevelt, a Johnson – who dominates politics and shapes history.
In reality Mr Obama is a prisoner of circumstances. He cannot pass laws or get a budget through without the consent of a House of Representatives that is controlled by his bitter ideological and political foes. No president – however brilliant, determined or wise – could create rational and effective policies from such circumstances.
Many liberals dreamt that Mr Obama would be set free by re-election. Without the burden of running for office, he would be the president of Hollywood dreams: speaking out boldly, vanquishing the bad guys.
Instead they are beginning to fear that Obama II will look much like Obama I...
SOURCE: New York Post (1-3-12)
Benny Avni is a New York Post op-ed contributor.
The Taliban seem to believe all they need to do now is wait 'til America hightails it out of Afghanistan (coming soon), then take the country back and remake it into the jihadi haven that Allah always intended it to be.
"They want to flee from Afghanistan just as they turned tail and ran from Vietnam," a Taliban statement boasted Wednesday. "When America faced utter destruction in Vietnam, they came up with the formula 'declare victory and run.' And [now they] want to utilize the formula of 'transfer security and run' here in Afghanistan."
Vietnam, of course, is where America lost its groove. But then we got it back, didn't we?..
SOURCE: WaPo (1-2-13)
Aaron David Miller is vice president for current initiatives at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has advised Democratic and Republican secretaries of state on the Middle East. His books include the forthcoming Can America Have Another Great President?
Who lost Syria? Comments of some U.S. senators, analysts and journalists, including the editorial board of this newspaper, suggest there is no doubt: Bashar al-Assad and his thugocracy are primarily responsible for the killings, but the tragedy of Syria is also a direct result of a terrible failure of leadership on the part of the international community, and of the United States in particular.
Syria, it is charged, is Barack Obama's Rwanda.
Don't believe it.
The idea that Syria was anyone's to win or lose, or that the United States could significantly shape the outcome there, is typical of the arrogant paternalism and flawed analysis that have gotten this country into heaps of trouble in the Middle East over the years.
One of the virtues of the Arab Spring/Winter is that Arab people came to own their politics — for better or worse. This sense of ownership was often painful to watch — democracy isn't always liberal — but it brought authority and legitimacy to the political turbulence roiling that region since late 2010. That made change real and home-grown. The United States and Israel were not central to the myths, tropes and narratives of these historic changes, nor should they be.
Some have argued for intervention by attempting to draw a parallel to Libya: We helped the rebels bring down Moammar Gaddafi, this thinking goes. Why not do the same in Syria?
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Location: Fenton,Mi.
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Why don't they tell what make and model of furnace they are complaining about. Also year it was put in?
Location: Flint, MI
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"Throwing control board bad code"
Our Trane furnace is just over a year old. Top of the line last year. We have replaced the transformer and the board. It is getting power to everything, but it is still showing the control board bad code(a new board was just put on today with a new transformer). What can cause this? Please respond asap as even though its "Spring", we are still getting snow and very low temp. Thank you.
Location: Nashville TN
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"Trane is not Trane"
Having read many of the reviews here, it has dawned on me most if not all of you all do not know Trane commercial does not manufacture Trane residential HVAC's. They are made by different manufacturers, so you cannot expect Trane commercial quality out of a Trane residential hvac unit. Most of the motors for the major central air and heat brands are made by Tecumseh, not Trane or Lennox or American Standard. It appears most of the homeowners here are expecting Trane commercial hvac quality out of Trane residential units and are astounded when it does not happen. There is a reason....
Location: Amesbury, MA
Years owned: 8
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"good but I also feed duped..."
I also feel duped.....Our Trane furnace was installed in 2003 and has functioned well, with one part needing to be changed at the one year service date, until last spring. Then I was getting no heat, so I called my service provider who told me the fan motor needed to be replaced. He was going to order the part, and assured me it wold be low cost. I turned on the furnace two nights ago - nothing...... back and forth for a couple days has resulted in the information that the original unit has been discontinued by the company and the only replacement available costs $1000.00. Bit of a shock!!! Since these furnaces are supposed to last at least 20 years, it seems strange that a company would discontinue a part for a furnace that is less than half that age.
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
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"Trane furnaces are rated # 19 out of 67?"
I am researching furnaces and central air conditioners. I now have a Lennox furnace and central air since 1982. I've only had one problem with the furnace for the last 29 years, a part was replaced (probably 10 years or more ago) which involved the electronic ignition. Every so often (estimated 2 years) I have to sand the ignition with sand paper which lights the pilot light, otherwise it keeps clicking. The furnace repairman told me to do that so it would light. I see the Trane is rated #1, but is #19 out of 67 furnaces! What are the names of the other 66 furnaces that are said to be ahead of Trane? I noticed there are a lot of negative reviews on all the furnaces! I think I will keep my old Lennox for that reason! Looks like all they make now is junk!
Location: Lincoln, NE
Years owned: 5
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"Clean Effects don't happen"
I have a Clean Effects air cleaner on my Trane furnace and I love the furnace, but the Clean Effects is a lousy unit. We moved five years ago and left an American Standard (Trane) high efficiency furnace and a Honeywell air cleaner with the vertical electrostatic wires; this unit worked great (supposedly 80% effective. At the new house we had a Clean Effects installed because of the greater filtering power 98% or so. We have had nothing but dust and lint in the house since. I will never buy another air cleaner from Trane. We did have the cells replaced under the recall, no difference.
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I plan to replace my 1 year old York single -stage with a Trane xc95 this Spring. Now I am really confused about the Trane from what I read here. My York will only run on the third speed or it overheats . The air noise it causes is too much for us to toletrate so we plan to buy a Trane XC95m which I understand is much quieter and more efficient too. Am I wrong ? I will welcome your feedback. Thanks.
Location: Gun Barrel City, Texas
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"To respond to your complaints..."
As any of you complaining about this product may know, it is built on an assembly line in a timely manor. The products that are failing are a result in poor vendors quality that Trane puts their name on. I do not work for Trane, or any other brand, but can see a trend in A/C and heating parts in the last 7 years. They are coming out of Mexico and China due to price. I work on all brands all the time, and can say that Trane is the one I have seen the least of. In the complaints given, most seem like they can be avoided with annual maintenance. A dirty ignitor will fail when used. A motor that has a small leak in the bearings will fail. A poorly installed system will have plenty of issues with air loss and efficiency. So spend the time and money to have the system looked at regularly to protect your investment. In final, if your technician doesn't seem to know enough about the product or system, send them on their way and demand another.
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"Repeated Service Calls"
Had my trane furnace for 5 years now. During the summers while running the AC, water would leak from the top of the furnace down the front and into the bottom section of the furnace. Over a three year period 8 service calls were required to try to stop the leaking. Fortunately, my area has several trane dealers, so I finally gave up on the dealer I was using and switched to another company, that company was able to fix the problem the first time and the three years of leaking were finally corrected. I've used the current company for two years now and so far so good. Like mentioned by some, many issues mine included have more to do with the people working on them than the product itself. A furnace/ac/humidifier/air cleaner is only as good as the people who work on it and back up that work. Be sure you have more than one dealer in your area.
Location: Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Just bought a xv95 furnace today. I also bought the warranty which means I have 10 years parts and labor for300.00. I hope I don't have to use this warranty as much as a lot of the folks writing reviews.
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Mobile Nations Passport Contest: Win the Ultimate Windows Phone Prize Pack!
Login to Windows Phone Central and leave a comment to this post to be entered to win the Ultimate Windows Phone Prize Pack!
Last week we rolled our new Mobile Nations Passport account system, which makes it easy for any member of Windows Phone Central to also participate across our other sites. With Passport, you have one account and to rule them all!
In honor of the successful roll out of Passport and thanks to our awesome friends at Gogo, we're celebrating with an amazing cross site contest. Each of our sites is running a contest giving away an Ultimate Prize Pack for their platform. And thanks to Passport, you can easily enter for a shot at winning each prize pack on each site.
How to Enter:
Step 1: Login to Windows Phone Central and leave a comment to this post to be entered to win the Ultimate Windows Phone Prize Pack!
Register or Login using the links at the top right corner of this site (see where it says Passport Is Live)
Step 2: Also enter to Win the Ultimate Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and webOS Wildcard Prize Packs:
Click on over to Android Central, iMore, CrackBerry and webOS Nation (<-- on those links) to go straight to the respective contest post for that site. Simply login on each site -- which is painless thanks to Passport -- and leave a comment there, as you're doing here, and you'll be entered to win that prize pack.
Step 3: Like Gogo on Facebook!
Our friends at Gogo -- the KINGS of Inflight Internet -- made it possible for us to run this Mobile Nations Contest. Gogo ROCKs. So be sure to click the button below and like them on Facebook. We'll love you. They'll love you.
Beyond the Grand Prize, we have awesome runner up prizes as well. Keep reading for more info on the prizes and for the full contest details. Contest is open worldwide and ends at Noon PT on Monday, November 19th. Don't waste time... Enter now! Good Luck!
Mobile Nations Passport Contest - Full Contest Details
Prize Packs:
Click the Prize Pack links to jump over to that site to enter to win it!
Runner Up:
- Nexus 7 Tablet (32GB) - 5 Gogo passes
Runner Up:
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- 5 Gogo passes
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- Only enter one comment per contest post on each site. If you enter additional comments, only your first comment will be counted towards entry of the contest.
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- Contest ends at 12 Noon PT on Monday, November 19th, 2012.
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There are 11062 comments. Sign in to commentAnik91 says:
Paintedeyes says:
omg i would love to winn!
nickster08 says:
I'll take this one too..
inteller says:
I'll keep my wants modest...like Surface sales...if I win I'll just take the 920 and you can donate the rest of the stuff to charity.
ryan heckendorn says:
Running Win 8 on my laptop. Would love to try it on a touch screen!!!
84guy says:
woot woot woot woot
mattx41 says:
I require these prizes. ;)
Sprint customer here.... unless sprint decides to add a new WP, looks like I'll been forced to change carriers. Mind as well change when I win some AWESOME prizes. Thanks Wpcentral for this opportunity!
nelsonpml says:
I want to WIN!!!
timhd says:
Yes please
matthoms says:
My dream would come true to get a surface!
Habanero Gabe says:
Sweet Deal! I'm in.
lyrebos says:
I'm in! Good luck to everyone!
Matpastor says:
Want :D
aeldes1 says:
HAAS599 says:
I hope I am a runner up!
robamacaf says:
ME ME ME! I don't want to beg....but plllllleeeease
Jawbone220 says:
Wow this is a rockin deal! Definitely in!
GoodGuyTX says:
Awesome contest!
zrex says:
Awesome so dang awesome!
mhpspeed says:
gimmie, gimmie, gimmie that.
Kevin Morales says:
What a nice price package :) Hope I win
marktrav44 says:
really want a surface
hiero says:
In! great!
gmantione says:
I'll be the kid who gets called up to collect my prize, but will be afraid to stand up because I'm pitching a tent.
dmbfire says:
Please and thank you!
zeekhan786 says:
Wow!!! Not going to lie this is like a dream come true. Id appreciate any/all of the above windows products. Fingers crossed =D
Eldwafio says:
been to android central and crackberry. this is the prize I'd most like to win though
alantsay says:
Go Mobile Nations!
black_lion says:
Man...a Lumia 920 and a Surface! Looks awesome!!
tommydaniel says:
Yes, please! This is awesome!
drunken scholar says:
Yes, please.
thenelson says:
Always wanted to try a windows phone but too broke to buy one!
jw82 says:
I never win anything!
Verkunder says:
Ah, do want. Want bad.
webbahboy says:
A wicked cool contest! I'm in! Thanks.
UpsimotoJet says:
GoGo Mobile Nations Gadget Giveaway! Woo-hoo!
Joey_G_1975 says:
Thanks - great collaboration of sites and platforms!
Kreblon says:
Damn. I'd really like to win this, but I'm not on Facebook. Oh well. Awesome contest though.
Anthony Alcaro says:
Couldn't hurt to try!
Glen Giggity says:
Nice birthday and christmas gift
nate1dawgg says:
Great contest to win!
ncsu4life says:
awesome contest make me a windows fan again!
ballnpaul43 says:
would be nice to win!
Snowman81 says:
Thanks for this chance! :)
SamTime says:
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
Javai43 says:
i'm in... pick me :)
doraemon_918 says:
Sweet Love these contests
procoder.net says:
Awesome stuff android central...my passport for ultimate android is open now..
jonduran86 says:
Win 8 and Surface tablet would be sweet. Awesome giveaway
Raza_8 says:
Love this site..visit everyday even before i join..great prizes
i hope i win..
rsridhar81 says:
Me me me....!
Mattspierce says:
In for Three
MatthewMk2 says:
Good luck every one!
Razanbuddu says:
scubasteve117 says:
Awesome contest! I love Mobile Nations! :D
Sukhpreet Kang says:
Wow amazing contest.. Hope I win!
rogerrhoads says:
no, me.
rupam95 says:
WPCentral! Awesome! Posting to Enter!
dzbeebo says:
Mobile Nations!! I Salute you for this great Contest!!
Wingless says:
jbizzlefosho says:
Lets do this!
guidorobben says:
im in.
djmikebrady says:
Yes Please!!
brdl04 says:
First!!!! Oh wait....
exiva says:
Awesome contest!
NFLPLAYBOOK says:
A full Widnows setup to go with my Windows 8 pc. Great.
darkfire2024 says:
andres.fortuna says:
Count me in. Windows all the way.
bimmin says:
Oh! Oh! Oh! Pick me! Pick me! *raises hand franticly*
dadueler says:
Nice, I'm in!
deltascrew says:
add me please!!
armstrong47 says:
Nice. This would be awesome to have. Thanks.
Kleen Jimi says:
congrats on passport going live! great opportunity!
gdejeu says:
TylerHilliard says:
This would be nice!
scoty024 says:
Holy crap! Let me win this.
dianimator says:
Want them! :)
pstellato73 says:
This would be awesome to have. Please, please please. I'm loving the Surface.
dsamuel says:
me too! the surface is sweet!
juanynfante says:
I want the surface to connect my l920 to it.
bilzkh says:
The best one could possibly ever hope for! :D
mrtito32 says:
Thanks for the Christmas Gift. You guys rock!!
Sihanouk says:
Why can't I hold all of these windows based devices? Even if I don't get a 920 but an 810, it's better than no Lumia at all!
andrewkim789 says:
I'm in! I never win in contests, pick me!! lol
manVSpan says:
mmmmmmm lumia
cam45fblax says:
This give-away is unreal...i want my surface sooooo baaaadddd
ianerlaz2 says:
I want to win it all!!!!!
andrewkim789 says:
sorry, duplicate :P
elversson says:
sweet. passport :D Raising my hands into the sky
bluescreenerr says:
Egin Tollkuci says:
Yes please
JasonG83 says:
Come on Universe, you owe me some good karma!
lorettaboy says:
Would love to win this although my productivity would slow to a crawl!
Asia Pickle says:
I'd love to win this. It would make my last 2 years of college so much easier.
thesocialshift says:
Might as well try.
webosisalive! says:
Omg what great prizes!!! Pick me!
TheKingsOfMS says:
Count me in for these great prizes!
eruptflail says:
Win ALL the prizes! Count me in!
Drugar says:
Amazing contest!
mrtito32 says:
Thanks for the Christmas Gift. You guys rock!!
puredrive07 says:
This would be the Ultimate X-Mas Gift!!!!
zakth says:
I'm in.
Felipe Garcia says:
This is great!!!...I hope I could win this!!!
Timmerax says:
I could go for a Surface and a Nokia! Cool contest
pagozahd says:
stevehopman77 says:
It would be great to be able to play with the surface tablet. I just want to be able to experience and let others know what it's all about with some Ballmer type hype!!
nosmohtac says:

What an awesome prize package!!!!

Devon Gilinsky says:
I never win these things.
cevansdust says:
Having...trouble....leaving comment...not enough....power
rethcork says:
Awesome contest from Mobile Nations and GoGo, good luck to everyone!
heelo says:
Yes, I will enter myself in this contest.
Somehow I feel like my chances of winning are less than they were when I played PowerBall.
Strijder says:
Yes please!
littleemp says:
This is the only platform that mildly intrigues me other than my favorite android :-)
Andrew Houlne says:
Thanks for the contest
naixent says:
Great contest!
wzp21261686 says:
I want a lumia 920!
freudator says:
I want it all
sumyunguy says:
Dan Robbins says:
I need all of these goodies to entertain my kids on long flights to visit family. Or else, they will sit next to you.
TripNFry says:
That has GOT to be the coolests prize pack ever!!
mordyf says:
Hosehead says:
Yes, please.
Dzuni22 says:
This is a great prize. I hope i get picked!
akamai07 says:
I would lve to win.
wraith404 says:
I'll take it.
derrell1978 says:
This is amazing, hope I win.
glass says:
This is a comment and I am making it.
Jannik says:
Yep, here!
TboWP7 says:
Nice contest!!! Mobile Nations You Rock
suavemezie says:
I have never win!
cre8tivspirit says:
Must have Ultimate Windows Prize pack!!! Mobile Nations Passport Rocks.
WPhan says:
Been a WPCentral follower since first getting my Focus but only just now signed on once seeing this contest. Hope I can win the Windows package as I'm so dying for a 920.
bundyo says:
Want one!
arjen82 says:
Will take that WP8 phone...
AttoWares says:
Really awesome, I would really want this prize!
josephan says:
Need a new Lumia 920 in white please.
Eric Mei says:
count me in. I want it!
JellyS says:
Oh 920, when will you be mine....
anthfett says:
I hope I win.
floedizzle says:
I'm in 100%!!! A 920 and a Surface would make for a perfect Christmas!
Copiondor says:
I would love this!
hopmedic says:
Count me in!
Trevor Randolph says:
i would love this :))))))
thezman says:
Heck yeah baby! Hook me up yo!
touchpadist says:
I I want to win!
I want to win!
kkoroneos says:
Give plix
miyacom6492 says:
Pick me and you will see, that I will be as happy as I can be!!!!
mmellado66 says:
I want a Lumia 920!!!!!
FaSSt2001 says:
Awesome prizes! Thanks for the contests!
Vvillegas134 says:
This... is... awesome!
scotty137 says:
This would be so awesome!!!!!
ericdroid says:
Pick me please!
jvblack82 says:
Yes Please.
globalnano says:
congrats to the successful rollout of your new account-system! :) i'm in!
Vyrlokar says:
I'm not a fan of the Modern (née Metro) UI, but I guess I could give it a try
mortent says:
I hope i win this
bmercer94 says:
Would definitely love the lumia, looks nice
drkknyt98 says:
I think we all know a winner when we see one! I hope that individual is me! WP8, Surface RT. It just can't get any better!
VMdoug says:
Would love a Surface!
fadenfisch95 says:
hm nokia lumia 920 sounds great ;D
Vencc says:
I'm in babyyyy
Jason Robitaille says:
Wow, sweet contest. Here's my entry :)
godofdoom999 says:
hmm surface sound good!
Indraunt says:
Comment made!
Stormwatch342 says:
WP8, Surface RT, and Win 8 .. Things are looking like were finally getting the great ecosystem we all wanted.
DanSmithKY says:
Please consider this as my entrance into the contest.
Mazlum says:
Would like to win the Ultimate Windows Phone Prize Pack!
ahabenezer says:
ChibiBlackSheep says:
The surface just looks so awesome!
genoist says:
I tried out the Surface tablet the other day. It's the first one that has made me want to stray a bit from Android!
beebl3brox says:
worldwide eh? lovely stuff.
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franknyarkoh says:
Great. Thanks to wpcentral for the cross integration.i love windows phones. I would be very happy to win one
judasmachine says:
Super yes please!!!
gmiterek says:
I need the Surface, I actually want it, but my needs are greater!!!
kjyc says:
passport is friggin' awesome!
CptFistastic says:
Thanks for the giveaway!
nanoPass says:
Sweet! Now that's a prize pack!
DaGodfathaa says:
hook it up
ahabenezer says:
Elmer Fernandes says:
This contest has the best gadgets of 2012, hope I win it, its the ultimate Windows dream. :D
Mazlum says:
Would like to win the Ultimate Windows Phone Prize Pack!
gummycat says:
Please, oh please!
Ry says:
Comment. :)
DallasFann says:
Really liking the site redesign
kbilly70 says:
Awesome contest! Now pick me!
Br1dge says:
great prize, thanks for offering
brent86 says:
gotta win one of these!
soconnorjr says:
I would love to win this, surface looks great
rkmike says:
Sign me up to win too please!
GKCarp says:
Pick me I really could use the windows pack :D
BriniaSona says:
Sweet. This would be an awesome gift for a certain someone
KaraNari says:
Thank you for hosting this contest :)
John Moore1 says:
I'm in!
paulnsx says:
yes please! would love a wp8!
NerdBoss says:
WPC is BEST
mjkep says:
1 cup of walnuts
Kevyn Degia says:
I want to win!! Italy here (no Surface yet available )
Masahiro says:
Wow. That was easy...
Crackberry_Canadian says:
I'm in
fanchettes says:
I so totally hope I win this!!
H Long says:
pick me!!!!!!!!!!
Rsudsy says:
ToastedSoul says:
all your base are belong to us
kstandish42 says:
I would die of excitement, if I won one of these prize packs. To get a windrows surface and a windows phone 8 would make me, as a technophile, the happiest nerd in all of the interwebs! Good luck everyone!
tantoabk says:
man i'd love to have all those goodies
Lasciviouss says:
I'm game!
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This is great, count me in
jkirkla says:
Thanks !
yocubed says:
add me to this one!!
Something Creative says:
i'd love to check out windows 8
tx_jaycee says:
would love to win here too!!
halocameo says:
What better than a Surface and a Lumia 920 - wow!
I want one!
pvcleave says:
I wouldn't mind winning this
Stephen.B says:
This is a crazy contest! So crazy! It would be nice if won; it would be a nice way to get me out of my windows phone 8 blues :( I want one :(
Danf says:
Nice prize package
grambo427 says:
Sure would be nice to win!
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Winnah, winnah!
Turkey dinnah!
drgeri says:
Count me in!!
jbrock31 says:
Entering with this comment!
Savannah Bell says:
I am so down for this.
bengiswex says:
big money, no whammy
mcauthorn says:
i'd like to win once.
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Sure would like to win this please :)
Montpbm says:
I need this amazing phone from this amazing contest.... :)
yodies says:
Great prizes--count me in!
BotanicalStig says:
Wow, awesome prizes. I'm in.
CanisCL says:
OMG awesome, I wanna win!!!! please pick me.
agmanuel says:
I'd love to win!! I love wpcentral!!!!
kalyhan says:
Nice prize pack! I really need a new device.
vieya says:
Let it be me. I'm poor.
DeWize1 says:
HO man, I would love to win this package, sign me up!
kevin_wsy says:
Thanks WPCentral!! This is so nice!
govind22 says:
Can I get 920
matiqi says:
YaBadabaduu, giev wp!
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Would love to be picked!
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Count me in!
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Pick me!!! Love you guys!
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Alex Styl says:
im in!
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A luxury of space for 3-season camping, the Kelty Parthenon 6 is incredibly roomy and full of organizational features to compliment any weekend of family camping. An internal dividing wall offers privacy not often found while camping.
With its innovative pole structure, spacious interior and convertible front vestibule, the Kelty Palisade 6 three-season tent is a cut above most camping tents. The Palisade 6 has a 109 square foot interior.