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  • For No Good Reason
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    You never want to say that brave troops in Iraq died for the mindless fantasies spun by a gang of inept politicians. But what else did they die for?
    For No Good Reason By Bob Herbert
    Monday 03 October 2005
    "You can keep the flowers blooming on their graves forever. It won’t change the fact that they died for nothing." Anti-war protester, circa 1969 It’s finally becoming clear on Capitol Hill, and maybe even in the White House, that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq. The (…)

  • Prosecutor in Plame Case May Seek Conspiracy Charges
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By E&P Staff
    Published: October 02, 2005 10:20 AM ET
    NEW YORK Many observers of the unfolding Plame/CIA case lament the revelations in the federal grand jury probe but suggest it may all be in vain because the level of malfeasance may not produce a specific criminal charge. But that doesn’t mean serious charges—including far-ranging ones, connecting the offices of Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney—could not be brought, via the "conspiracy" route.
    Prosecutor Patrick J. (…)

  • Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Near the end of a round table discussion on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos dropped this bomb:
    Definitely a political problem but I wonder, George Will, do you think it’s a manageable one for the White House especially if we don’t know whether Fitzgerald is going to write a report or have indictments but if he is able to show as a source close to this told me this week, that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved in some of these discussions.
    This would (…)

  • Bush is Falling, But the Democrats are Sinking Faster
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By RALPH NADER
    You would think that with all the troubles surrounding George W. Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress ­ from the life-costing bungling of Hurricane responses to the deepening quagmire in Iraq to the front page stories of corruption, self-dealing and national security leaks ­ you would think th Democrats would be in the ascendancy.
    Not so. The polls are plummeting for George W. Bush on a whole variety of questions, including the key approval rating being at a (…)

  • CONSUMER GROUP CALLS BUSH A "LAWSUIT HYPOCRITE"
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Laurie Beacham
    The Center for Justice & Democracy (CJ&D) today called the Bush Administration “the worst kind of hypocrite” for, on the one hand, denouncing injured consumers who file lawsuits, while at the same time filing its own case for civil damages against a manufacturer whose defective product endangered the President.
    It was revealed this week that the secret service purchased for use by high level officials, including President and Laura Bush, defective bullet-proof (…)

  • MARTIAL LAW DECLARES RESISTERS TO BE SHOT
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MARTIAL LAW DECLARED, RESISTERS TO BE SHOT
    By Peter Fredson
    A Political Satire
    In a surprise move that left many Americans gasping, Georgy W. Shrub was proclaimed as President-for-Life. Republican Senators gathered last night at midnight in a secret session and within an hour had given George Shrub all the powers he yearned for, had voted him in as President-for-Life and declared that any criticism of their move was treasonous.
    The smiling President-for-Life then swaggered down the (…)

  • Propaganda: Mantra politics
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. - Adolf Hitler It is well worth asking the following question: Why, specifically, was the phrase ‘war on terror’ adopted as a slogan by the US/UK (…)

  • Bush considers changes to Posse Comitatus Act...
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Oct. 1, 2005, 7:20PM
    Both right and left wary of giving domestic police power to military By STEWART M. POWELL Copyright 2005 Hearst News Service
    WASHINGTON - The law is from a bygone era, it has a Latin name and it’s never led to a prosecution, much less a conviction.
    Yet the mere hint that President Bush might try to tinker with the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act is stirring opposition across the political spectrum, prompting conservative and liberal activists to line up against any move (…)

  • Republicans Lie and Lie - ’06 budget
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’06 budget remains a scandalous lie
    Alan Guebert
    Since early spring, Republican aggies in both the House and the Senate have warned their farm and ranch constituents that farm program spending will be cut $3 billion over five years beginning with the 2006 federal budget.
    How did they arrive at that amount and timetable?
    Simple. They pulled both figures out of thin air early in the 2006 budget process when party bosses designed, then pushed, a budget "reconciliation" bill through (…)

  • Homeland Security Chief Chertoff, Not Brown, Was Responsible....
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Homeland Security Chief Chertoff, Not Brown, Was Responsible For Federal Response To Huricane Katrina We speak Knight Ridder reporter Alison Young about the Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff’s responsibilities and the shift of blame to former FEMA head Michael Brown. [includes rush transcript]
    Alison Young, Reporter with Knight Ridder who co-wrote a recent article called “Chertoff Delayed Federal Response, Memo Shows” about how Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff actually (…)