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  • The Longer Bush Stays in the White House,The More That the National Security of the US is Endangered
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The irony of the 2004 election is that it was the last-minute release of an alleged Osama bin Laden tape that John Kerry believes lost him the election. Whatever the merits of Kerry’s judgment, the irony is that bin Laden ended up with the candidate he undoubtedly preferred: George W. Bush.
    Beginning with 9/11 — and Bush’s failure to protect America against hijackings that he and Condoleezza were warned about in advance, but took no security actions to stop, resulting in the September 11th (…)

  • Impeach Bush Now, Before More Die
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The raison d’etre of the Bush administration is war in the Middle East in order to protect America from terrorism and to insure America’s oil supply. On both counts the Bush administration has failed catastrophically.
    Bush’s single-minded focus on the "war against terrorism" has compounded a natural disaster and turned it into the greatest calamity in American history. The US has lost its largest and most strategic port, thousands of lives, and 80% of one of America’s most historic cities (…)

  • Now, Democratic Senators, will you please draft articles of impeachment?
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To all U.S. citizens in the bellaciao community:
    I urge each and every American citizen reading these pages to write, email, phone, meet face-to-face, use the Goodyear Blimp, whatever it takes, to ask your senators, in the strongest tones possible, to write articles of impeachment of the President of the U.S.
    We have more than enough evidence that this president has deliberately committed acts of treason, willful neglect of a planning and recovery, and depleting the funding of the Gulf (…)

  • Challenges to Bush leadership mount as poll numbers slide
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian Knowlton
    President George W. Bush faced increasingly bitter political challenges Sunday from local and state officials in the battered Gulf Coast as he struggled to show mastery over a disaster that his administration now acknowledges almost surely claimed thousands of lives and had yet to bare its full, ugly toll. A Louisiana senator, Mary Landrieu, said she was so angry about federal failures and second-guessing that if she heard any more criticism, even from the president, (…)

  • For Bush, Next Moves Are Key to Rest of Term
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Dan Balz
    The first week of September 2005 likely will be remembered as one of the most troubled weeks of George W. Bush’s presidency, a time in which natural disaster combined with bureaucratic bungling in ways that threatened to inundate an administration already on the defensive.
    Even before Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast last Monday, Bush was buffeted by public dissatisfaction over the war in Iraq and consumer outrage over rising gasoline prices. But the federal (…)

  • Bush returns to Gulf Coast to view damage
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Bush planned a return to the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast Monday for a third look at Katrina’s effect with visits to Baton Rouge, and Poplarville, Miss.
    But none of his activities - including a stream of Cabinet secretaries and other high-level federal officials to the area and on the airwaves Sunday - have quieted the complaints that Washington moved too slowly in the storm’s aftermath.
    Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, just south of New Orleans, broke down on NBC’s (…)

  • A Failure of Leadership : "Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead"
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by BOB HERBERT
    Neither the death of the chief justice nor the frantic efforts of panicked White House political advisers can conceal the magnitude of the president’s failure of leadership last week. The catastrophe in New Orleans billowed up like the howling winds of hell and was carried live and in color on television screens across the U.S. and around the world.
    The Big Easy had turned into the Big Hurt, and the colossal failure of George W. Bush to intervene powerfully and immediately (…)

  • THOSE MISSING BUSH SPEECHES
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BUSH MISSING SPEECHES
    By Peter Fredson
    A Slight Satire
    September 5, 2005
    Due to the annoying interruption of GWB’s vacation by the wrath of God in the Gulf Coast, Mr. Bush will be unable to give some of the speeches he had prepared to enlighten the American public on the State of the Nation, particularly in Iraq.
    Therefore I have taken the liberty by virtue of divine guidance to give the main excerpts from the tragically missing speeches so people can tell what GWB was thinking. I (…)

  • Question: Is Dick Cheney Dead?
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Missing VP raises health questions again
    by Greg Lloyd Smith
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 09/05/05 — Is it just me or is someone missing? Thinking out loud, has anyone noticed that U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney has not been heard from recently? Oh, I know, he’s on vacation, but no interviews, no photo-ops, nothing. I would have thought that we should have heard his take on the recent debacle in New Orleans or at least the party-line about how the government is doing ’all that it (…)

  • At the very peril of the United States, Bush appropriated $ billions for War!
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    Never in my wildest nightmares did I ever think that I would hear the word refugee used in relation to the citizens of the United States of America. But, thanks to Hurricane Katrina, our worst nightmare has come true.
    Some may say "I cannot believe this is happening to us" and my reply to them is similar situations have happened across the globe for a very long time and it stands to reason and given the stupidity of this government, our time would come.
    My heart (…)