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  • Stop the madness
    22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To the Editor:
    Is this for real?
    Frist is investigated for the same thing Martha Stewart did time for. Delay is indicted. Now the Bush crime family has nominated a loyalist woman who has never been a judge to the Supreme Court.
    Please Republicans, take your party back and stop the madness.
    If Clinton had made decisions like this, he would have been brought up for impeachment and the firing squad.
    Dan Pike
    Rollinsford
    http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/10092005/letters/67232.htm

  • Bush publication ban lifted
    22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By matthew burrows
    Publish Date: 20-Oct-2005
    A Vancouver lawyer has won a procedural victory in her attempt to prosecute U.S. President George W. Bush under the Criminal Code.
    Gail Davidson, cofounder of an international group of jurists called Lawyers Against the War, expressed her delight on October 18 following the lifting of a publication ban on court proceedings against the U.S. president.
    “It’s great news, but really they had no choice,” Davidson told the Georgia Straight. (…)

  • WHITE HOUSE KNOWS ABOUT INDICTMENTS
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Wayne Madsen Report states that the White House is now fully informed about the nature and scope of the indictments handed down by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald this week.
    He cited a report of Attorney General Albert Gonzalez holding a meeting with Fitzgerald on Wednesday, at which the AG was briefed on the prosecutor’s findings, and the Grand Jury was released after brief questions.
    Madsen quotes "informed sources in Washington," as saying that Vice President Dick Cheney’s (…)

  • Sorry, Judy... Everybody Didn’t Get it Wrong on WMD
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Arianna Huffington
    In the Times’ Sunday Judy-Culpa, Judy Miller said of her woeful pre-war reporting: "WMD — I got it totally wrong... The analysts, the experts and the journalists who covered them — we were all wrong."
    To which a growing number of journalists are responding: No, we weren’t.
    Among them is Joe Lauria, a reporter who has covered the UN since 1990 for a variety of papers, including the London Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and the Boston Globe. He bridles at Miller’s (…)

  • The Bush nemesis
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Bush nemesis
    Rightwingers in the US are still not satisfied by the most conservative president in decades
    Sidney Blumenthal Thursday October 20, 2005 The Guardian
    President Bush is the most conservative president in modern times. He consciously modelled himself as the opposite of his father. A conservative revolt contributed to defeat of the elder Bush, who was fiercely attacked as a betrayer. In a classic case of reaction formation, George W Bush was determined never to make an (…)

  • A Small Victory: Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
    21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 20, 2005
    A Small Victory
    Prosecuting Bush in Canada for Torture
    By JUSTINE DAVIDSON
    On Monday, October 17th Gail Davidson and Howard Rubin along with Jason Gratl and Micheal Vonn representing B.C. Civil Liberties stepped into courtroom 55 of the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver with the hopes of lifting the publication ban which, since December of 2004 August, has kept the case out of the public eye. After a relatively short session of 45 minutes they emerged successful. "I (…)

  • Bush: “How do you know his life would have been good?"
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    This past week, I have had discussions with a number of people through emails where they have suggested that I back down in my criticisms of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton since she voted for the war and perhaps will be the Democratic candidate come 2008. But, if I want to remain truthful with my readers and have credibility, I simply have to stay the course. As an American that has been against this war from the start, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s vote for this war (…)

  • Kucinich introduces Resolution of Inquiry,demands documents from WHIG-Questions Iraq Reconstruction
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich Uses Resolution Of Inquiry To Demand Documents From White House Group That Developed Strategy To “Sell” War To The Public And Press
    Washington, Oct 20 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today introduced a Resolution of Inquiry to demand the White House turn over all white papers, minutes, notes, emails or other communications kept by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).
    “This group, comprised of the President and Vice President’s top aides, was critical in selling the (…)

  • Bush whacked Rove on CIA leak
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK
    WASHINGTON - An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair, sources told the Daily News.
    "He made his displeasure known to Karl," a presidential counselor told The News. "He made his life miserable about this."
    Bush has nevertheless remained doggedly loyal to Rove, who friends and even political adversaries acknowledge is the architect of the President’s rise from baseball owner to leader of (…)

  • BUSH HAD A SECRET COURSE
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHAT COURSE?
    By Peter Fredson
    October 20, 2005
    For over a year practically every Bush speech mentioned “Staying the Course.” First, it is well known that Bush employs Newspeak to disguise what he really means. The Bush regime is one of the most secretive in our history, and it spins whatever truth there might be in some pronouncement for maximum deniability.
    Second: “To stay a course” does not mean what Bush intends it to mean. “To stay a course” is a nautical phrase meaning “Stop (…)