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  • Why are they not in front of their cameras calling Bush a butcher?
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    I first want to thank Mark Parent and LiveJournal.com for bringing this video feed to the attention of many (English Version from Italian TV): US Chemical Weapons Attack on Iraqi Civilians.
    But before you watch this video which is 27 minutes in length, I want to strongly caution you that what you are about to see is so horrific and if you have children, under no circumstances are they to view this feed.
    While I have seen graphic photos of the “Bush War” in Iraq, I (…)

  • Nothing to Lose
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Not that the world beyond America’s shores could give two hoots about the U.S.’ internal squabbles anymore: after years of hoping for some inkling of resistance from the home front, the global community has likely had quite enough. But is there a stirring in the Belly of the Beast? Writer Daniel Patrick Welch, while skeptical, takes pleasure in the growing travails of the Bush cabal and hints that the heretofore neutered opposition may have grown some new appendages.
    By Daniel Patrick (…)

  • Rove and Cheney Are Now Caught In Fitzgerald’s Web. Will they Go Down too?
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The June 10th INR memo cited in the Libby indictment was written by Carl Ford, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research for Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman at the request of John Bolton, then Undersecretary of State for Arms Control who was asked to do so by Libby. Ford is the person who testified before a senate committee convened to question Bolton during his United Nations confirmation hearing that Bolton was a “bully.”
    by Jason Leopold
    Now it’s about the Niger (…)

  • Leave The Whining To Us
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    Remember the good old days when liberals were the victims? Today, one has to wear a raincoat not to get splashed by the cascade of crocodile tears cried by whiney conservatives plaintively screaming how they have been wronged. Has there ever been a wimpier group in the history of politics?
    This week, a dozen AIDS activists reportedly wearing body condoms were arrested after storming the Family Research Council’s Washington headquarters to protest the group’s deadly (…)

  • 1,100 Lawyers Leave Saddam Defense Team
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JAMAL HALABY
    AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Some 1,100 Iraqi lawyers have withdrawn from Saddam Hussein’s defense team, citing insufficient protection following the slayings of two peers representing co-defendants of the ousted Iraqi leader.
    In a statement obtained Sunday, the lawyers did not say whether Saddam’s chief Iraqi attorney, Khalil al-Dulaimi, was among those who withdrew. But the statement said other members of the team in Baghdad were continuing their duties under complex and (…)

  • Bush Administration rewriting history won’t change reality or restore credibility
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush and his national security adviser have answered critics of the Iraq war in recent days with a two-pronged argument: that Congress saw the same intelligence the administration did before the war, and that independent commissions have determined that the administration did not misrepresent the intelligence.
    Neither assertion is wholly accurate.
    The administration’s overarching point is true: Intelligence agencies overwhelmingly believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of (…)

  • Flashback: Senate told Saddam had WMDs and a fleet of UAVs capable of hitting the East Coast
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Ben Nelson
    I, along with nearly every Senator in this Chamber, in that secure room of this Capitol complex, was not only told there were weapons of mass destruction—specifically chemical and biological—but I was looked at straight in the face and told that Saddam Hussein had the means of delivering those biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction by unmanned drones, called UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles. Further, I was looked at straight in the face and told that UAVs (…)

  • House Budget Measure Is Pulled. Moderates Buck GOP Leadership In Both Chambers
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray
    House Republican leaders were forced to abruptly pull their $54 billion budget-cutting bill off the House floor yesterday, amid growing dissension in Republican ranks over spending priorities, taxes, oil exploration and the reach of government.
    A battle between House Republican conservatives and moderates over energy policy and federal anti-poverty and education programs left GOP leaders without enough votes to pass a budget measure they had framed (…)

  • Some kind of manly. Bush administration, dead to morality, says torture is the American way
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Molly Ivins
    AUSTIN, Texas — I can’t get over this feeling of unreality, that I am actually sitting here writing about our country having a gulag of secret prisons in which it tortures people. I have loved America all my life, even though I have often disagreed with the government. But this seems to me so preposterous, so monstrous. My mind is a little bent and my heart is a little broken this morning.
    Maybe I should try to get a grip — after all, it’s just this one administration that (…)

  • Anti-Terror Measure Rejected in Britain. Parliament Vote Deals Major Setback to Blair
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
    LONDON - The House of Commons on Wednesday soundly defeated an anti-terrorism measure championed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, dealing him one of the most significant political setbacks of his eight years in office.
    The lower house of Parliament voted 322 to 291 against a proposal to allow suspects in terrorism cases to be held for as many as 90 days without charge, up from the current 14. It was Blair’s first loss in a major vote in that house since he (…)