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  • REASSESSING GEORGE W. BUSH
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    REASSESSING GEORGE W. BUSH
    By Peter Fredson
    March 24, 2006
    Ever since George Bush came upon the political scene I have been trying to divine the source, or sources, of his certainty. I realize that he has been anointed by friends, cronies, parents, fundamentalists, corporate executives, neoconservatives, and by the Old Testament God of his faith, and wrapped in cotton batting so that no critic or heretic can harass him.
    In his bubble of comfort and security, he can suck his thumb (…)

  • Media Yawns: Impeachment Movement Gains National Momentum By PETER PHILLIPS
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If a national movement calling for the impeachment of the President is rapidly emerging and the corporate media are not covering it, is there really a national movement for the impeachment of the President?
    Impeachment advocates are widely mobilizing in the U.S. Over 1,000 letters to the editors of major newspapers have been printed in the past six months asking for impeachment. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette letter writer George Matus says, "I am still enraged over unasked questions about exit (…)

  • Patriot Act theres only one provision I like
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    The Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy by James Bovard, March 22, 2006
    The American political system failed when Congress and the media recently rolled over in favor of extending the most onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Despite stark evidence of both the law’s abuses and widespread popular opposition, Bush got a rubber-stamp extension of a law that has come to symbolize boundless government intrusions since 9/11.
    The reenactment of the Patriot Act symbolizes how (…)

  • Iraq: Neocon Strategy Is One of Civil War by John Walsh
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arab News, March 24, 2006
    One of the abiding myths about the war on Iraq is that the neocons were too stupid to realize that they would confront an unrelenting, indigenous resistance to their occupation of Iraq. Unwittingly, the story line goes, they led the US into a conflict which has now produced a civil war.
    But this simply does not fit the facts. The neocons clearly anticipated such an outcome before they launched their war as Stephen Zunes documents in Antiwar.com: "Top analysts in (…)

  • Back to the Big Lie by John Nichols by The Nation
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, March 22, 2006
    Tossed a softball question during Tuesday morning’s press conference about whether he should be censured for ordering warrantless wiretapping of phone conversations "during a time of war," President Bush fell back on the lie that Americans must surrender liberties — and the rule of law, itself — in order to be made safe from terrorism.
    The question, a virtually verbatim repeat of talking points circulated by the Republican National Committee, was (…)

  • It’s criminal By Scott Ritter
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    03/22/06 "Alternet" — — As America reaches the third anniversary of President Bush’s decision to invade and occupy Iraq, there is for the first time the unsettling realization brought about by the clarity of acts that emerges only after the passage of time that something horrible has happened.
    This awakening of collective awareness on the part of the American people is reflected not only in the numerous polls which show President Bush’s popularity plummeting to all-time lows, largely (…)

  • The War Lovers By John Pilger 03/23/06
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ICH - NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN
    — - -The war lovers I have known in real wars have usually been harmless, except to themselves. They were attracted to Vietnam and Cambodia, where drugs were plentiful. Bosnia, with its roulette of death, was another favorite. A few would say they were there "to tell the world"; the honest ones would say they loved it. "War is fun!" one of them had scratched on his arm. He stood on a land mine.
    I sometimes remember these almost endearing fools when I (…)

  • God Forgive America
    23 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Instead of “God Bless America,” we should put “God Forgive America” bumperstickers on our cars. Americans, as participants in horrendous war crimes, should ask for forgiveness. America is a killer nation-not only do we kill Iraqis and Afghans, but we are in the process of killing ourselves.
    “After forming microscopic and submicroscopic insoluble Uranium oxide particles on the battlefield, they remain suspended in air and travel around the earth as a radioactive component of atmospheric (…)

  • Simpleton Says: Americans want to stop BUshco,and his immoral wars, try this
    23 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    on adj earnings i put 0 and add a note, def of torture , def of terrorism quote the patriot act that makes funding these organizations illegal put a ? and sign it and send it. you have until april 17th to amend 2002

  • Bad Governance, or Criminal Behavior? by Scott Ritter
    23 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted by Scott Ritter at 9:59 AM on March 20, 2006.
    Impeachment is the only recourse that can bring a halt to the madness in Iraq, and the insanity being planned in Iran and elsewhere. Blog Tools EMAIL PRINT 40 COMMENTS
    As America reaches the third anniversary of President Bush’s decision to invade and occupy Iraq, there is for the first time the unsettling realization brought about by the clarity of acts that emerges only after the passage of time that something horrible has (…)