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  • Memo to PM: Action speaks louder than Words
    17 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Artful Dodger, Tony Blair, would like us to believe that he does not support the neocon madmen’s intention to attack, let alone nuke, Iran. An article in The Scotsman claims government sources saying that Blair has informed Bush that Britain "cannot offer military support to any strike on Iran, regardless of whether the move wins the backing of the international community."
    "We will support the diplomatic moves, at best," a Foreign Office source told Scotland on Sunday. "But we cannot (…)

  • Empty boasts on weapons labs
    17 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    LAST WEEK, it was the allegation that President Bush himself authorized leaks of intelligence to attack Joseph Wilson, the government’s envoy who found no evidence of nuclear material transfers between Niger and Iraq. Wilson said Bush’s use of intelligence ’’was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."
    This week brings a new twist to the exaggerations. In his February 2003 presentation to the United Nations the month before America invaded Iraq, then-Secretary of (…)

  • Letter to Col. Adkins Who Said Bush Must Go.
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To Colonel James A. Adkins US Army Retired,
    I want to commend you as I read your comments concerning Pres. Bush: “I am no longer a Republican. Now I think the president needs to go. His failure to hold subordinates accountable now places the blame for his administration’s incompetence squarely on his shoulders” At this point the handling of this war transcends party lines. I am a Democrat where I was and still am opposed to this war in Iraq. I feel that this is an American issue and (…)

  • Stop Bush before he attacks Iran
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jesse Jackson
    Here we go again. The administration says ’’regime change’’ is needed. Warnings are issued about the threat posed by the ’’madman’’ who leads the oil-rich country. Alarming intelligence estimates are leaked about nuclear weapons programs. The vice president warns ’’monumental consequences’’ if the alleged efforts to develop nuclear weapons are continued. Neoconservatives call for military action. Administration operatives express scorn for international monitoring. The (…)

  • Final Jeopardy: Asking the Right Question About the President’s Involvement in the CIA Leak Affair
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Elizabeth de la Vega
    The latest in a parade of horrors emanating from the Bush administration appeared Thursday in the form of a revelation buried in papers filed in federal court by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in his investigation into the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, now under indictment on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice, told the Grand Jury Fitzgerald convened that President Bush (…)

  • "Invisibility Looks Good on You" The Rebuking and Scorning of Cynthia McKinney
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DAVID VEST
    A Washington press corps that stood idly by while Bush and Cheney plundered the country, wrecked the environment, spied on Americans without a warrant, tortured civilians and lied the country into a war that will only get worse, woke up one morning and collectively decided: "Let’s all play Get Cynthia!"
    Let’s get her for being too outspoken, bringing up the wrong issue at the wrong time, failing to get with the program, becoming a distraction, leaving House Majority Leader (…)

  • Why Iraq Was a Mistake: A military insider sounds off against the war and the "zealots" who pushed i
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By LIEUT. GENERAL GREG NEWBOLD (RET.)
    Two senior military officers are known to have challenged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the planning of the Iraq war. Army General Eric Shinseki publicly dissented and found himself marginalized. Marine Lieut. General Greg Newbold, the Pentagon’s top operations officer, voiced his objections internally and then retired, in part out of opposition to the war. Here, for the first time, Newbold goes public with a full-throated critique:
    In 1971, (…)

  • The war WITHOUT Rumsfeld?
    14 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everyone wants Rummy to go and I fully support that. His arrogance and faulty planning have cost the US and Iraq many problems that might have been ameliorated had recommended better planning been heeded and implemented.
    But we are where we are. Of course we were wrong to begin with, and have no business invading and "liberating" a country which proposed no real threat to us. The question now is, would we have had more success if we had gone in with twice the troop force initially? and (…)

  • Cry Armagaddon and let loose the dogs of war!
    13 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Freddy vs.Jason? Alien vs. Predator?....only movies, and not even good ones at that.
    But what about a new dopey scenario, not invented in Hollywood? BUSH vs. AHMADENIJAD?
    For the first time in history the outdated End Times script is being dusted off by BOTH sides of the international political spectrum, giving rise to possible self fullfillment of an event not only predicted in the Bible but in Islamic text!
    Most who live on this planet realize that mankind often seems obsessed with (…)

  • `FITZ’ LET CHENEY, BUSH OFF HOOK
    13 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The much lionized Patrick Bulldog ’ Fitzgerald let Bush and Cheney off the hook...... The Jesuit-trained prosecutor noted the following in his bill of indictment issued against I. LewisScooter’ Libby in the fall of 2005 : " Libby was obligated by applicable laws and regulations . including Title 18 ,United States Code 793 ,..... not to disclose information to persons not authorised to receive such information and otherwise to exercise proper care to safeguard classified information against (…)