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  • John McCain: L’Enfant Terrible
    12 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    John McCain: L’Enfant Terrible Posted by SusanUnPC Sunday, 09 July 2006 at 12:39 We have one enfant terrible — envoy John Bolton — at the U.N. Then there’s the Senate’s petulant John McCain. Stories about the perennial presidential candidate’s "irrational, explosive" temper and ugly anger and "foul language" regularly circulate in Washington whispers and, now, in the MSM.
    I just sent this e-mail to Other Lisa, a regular here, who is something of an expert — compared to most Americans — (…)

  • Thanks, George Bush And Joe Lieberman
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    Thanks, George Bush And Joe Lieberman By SusanUnPC, Author, No Quarter Monday, 10 July 2006 at 12:22 Iraq is madness. In the thread below, we began discussing the NYT story, "Baghdad Erupts in Mob Violence," which also features an unforgettable, searing image of the raped and murdered 14-year-old Iraqi GIRL (not woman, as if that much-discussed debate point mattered). Now this from the LA Times today, described by a diarist at Daily Kos:
    "Confidential documents that were obtained by the (…)

  • Michael Scheuer’s Glass House
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    Michael Scheuer’s Glass House By Larry C Johnson Monday, 10 July 2006 at 16:07 Former CIA analyst, Michael Scheuer hit the hypocrisy trail last week with his attack op-ed on the credibility of Richard Clarke and the FBI. According to Scheuer:
    Media teasers about the mini-series have said that Mr. Clarke — the former "terrorism czar" — and a senior FBI officer, the late John O’Neill, will be the heroes of the saga. If true, and if ABC’s fact-checkers are not diligent in verifying Mr. (…)

  • Reclaiming The Issues: "Why Is Bush Spying On Democrats?!?"
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    Reclaiming The Issues: "Why Is Bush Spying On Democrats?!?" By Thom Hartmann July 11, 2006 Every time Democrats and progressives speak out about George W. Bush’s spying on Americans without mentioning that he may also be spying on Democrats, they’re playing into Karl Rove’s "National Security Frame" and actually strengthening Republican electoral chances in November. To short-circuit this, Democrats need to invoke the ghost of Richard Nixon.
    If they don’t, even Pete Hoekstra’s new (…)

  • Was Bob Woodward Slam-Dunked?
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    Was Bob Woodward Slam-Dunked? by Robert Parry July 11, 2006 One of the most memorable behind-the-scenes accounts of pre-Iraq War decision-making was Bob Woodward’s story of an Oval Office meeting on Dec. 21, 2002, when George W. Bush and his top advisers reviewed the CIA’s case against Saddam Hussein for supposedly hiding weapons of mass destruction. Using flip charts, deputy CIA director John McLaughlin presented the evidence while President Bush watched impatiently. When McLaughlin (…)

  • Nationalize The US Defense Industry. Public Good Should Trump Private Greed
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    Nationalize The US Defense Industry Public Good Should Trump Private Greed By John Stanton July 11, 2006 In 1969 John Kenneth Galbraith penned a piece for the New York Times titled "The Big Defense Firms Are Really Public Firms and Should be Nationalized," arguing, among other things, that it was folly for defense contractors to claim that they were private corporations. Such claims made a mockery of free enterprise.
    Nearly 40 years hence, Charlie Cray and Lee Drutman have resurrected (…)

  • The Other Side of Bush’s Face
    12 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In the famous western movie "One Eyed Jacks", Marlon Brando, in jail, speaks to Karl Malden (The ex-outlaw hypcrite sheriff)..... "You’re a one-eyed jack, Dad", he drawls,"and I’ve seen the other side of your face" ********************************* George Bush is the definitive example of the "one eyed jack" referred to by Brando. In his early years he pretended to be a college student (while shooting drugs, womanizing and guzzling booze),then he became the phoney baseball team owner. When (…)

  • Joseph Wilson’s Continuing Fight
    11 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Joseph Wilson’s Continuing Fight By Bill Gallagher July 11 2006 Detroit - The vile symbiosis of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney poisons our nation, and their mutual madness infests and endangers the world. Never in the history of our republic has a vice president wielded so much power and the president permitted his subordinate to have such free rein in missions of malice.
    Those twin felons, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, seem warm and benign by comparison. Their (…)

  • Condi Vs. The Truth
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    Condi Vs. The Truth By Gordon Prather July 10, 2006 One of the first things Condi Rice didn’t do as secretary of state was to address the 2005 Review Conference of the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. She also didn’t allow the conclusions and commitments made at the 2000 NPT RevCon to even be discussed, much less reaffirmed.
    Instead, Condi sent Stephen Rademaker to inform the 2005 NPT conferees thusly:
    Britain, France and Germany, with our support, are seeking to reach a (…)

  • Congress Kept In Dark On Spying
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    Congress Kept In Dark On Spying Washington Correspondent Geoff Elliott 11 July 06 A SENIOR Republican congressman has hit out at the Bush administration’s intelligence practices, saying the White House concealed at least one large operation in possible violation of the law.
    The revelations by Peter Hoekstra, chairman of the powerful House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, deal a blow to President George W. Bush’s repeated assurances that the White House has complied with its (…)