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  • A Repost of "I Have Looked into Bush’s Soul and Saw Black" -Written by Me on May 27, 2002
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen!
    To My Fellow Americans,
    As you have read my past pieces on my blog, I always choose blue as my font color. But, today, I am using black because it mirrors how I see Bush’s soul. I wrote the below piece for Democrats.com on May 27, 2002 to put down my feelings how I viewed Pres. Bush back then.
    Many more events have transpired since I wrote this piece such as the “Bush War” in Iraq, but what has remained constant is the narcissism that I do see within this (…)

  • Poll: Many now saying war has left U.S. no safer
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dick Polman
    Bedeviled by the mounting casualties in Iraq and increasingly confused by the mixed messages emanating from war leaders, Americans in large numbers are losing confidence in the mission.
    New polls report that, for the first time, a majority of Americans reject President Bush’s contention that the war over there is making us safer over here. Indeed, barring major immediate progress in Iraq, 2005 may well be remembered as the year when public opinion went south and never came (…)

  • Bring ’Em On!
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bring ’Em On! The Bush Administration’s Top 40 Lies About War and Terrorism (links-annotated version) by Steve Perry 1) The administration was not bent on war with Iraq from 9/11 onward. Throughout the year leading up to war, the White House publicly maintained that the U.S. took weapons inspections seriously, that diplomacy would get its chance, that Saddam had the opportunity to prevent a US invasion. The most pungent and concise evidence to the contrary (…)

  • Sheehan Strategy
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jerry Fresia
    The strategy employed by Cindy Sheehan to hold President Bush accountable needs to be examined for its effectiveness. I believe her effectiveness is rooted in something that Martin Luther King pointed to as an essential feature of any effective non-violent action and that is the use of "confrontation" to make "the invisible visible."
    Recall, first, the Birmingham campaign of 1963. The campaign itself was dubbed Project Confrontation. "Instead of submitting to (…)

  • HOW HORROR CAME TO US
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Political Satire
    By Peter Fredson
    One day there lived a spoiled, impetuous, impatient, shallow, reckless, irresponsible lad that was somehow given religion, promised he would become rich and powerful, and that he could help kleptocrats and True Believers rule the world.
    Several hundred of them got together, thinking the young lad was pliable, gullible and sufficiently dumb to serve as their poster-boy. They also knew he had a rich and powerful daddy and had lots of “right” ideas for (…)

  • THE OPEN PORTAL OF BUSH’S MIND...
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Saturday (Aug 13), writer Peter Fredson posted an intriguing piece on this site, wherein he admits he shares the same problem with George Bush that most thinking people have — there is no doubt that Bush is a shallow, unlearned, idiotic bully; yet he maintains an eerie control over the entire government.
    Fredson writes:
    ’We must give them credit for manufacturing pretexts to take an entire nation to war, to fool an entire Congress, and most of the media, although the public seems (…)

  • Lula’s Sorry for Corruption Scandal, Promises Sanctions
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has asked for forgiveness from the Brazilian people for a scandal that has engulfed his government and promised that the guilty ones will be punished.
    In asking for apologies in a TV address to the nation, he insisted he knows nothing about the alleged corruption, including a cash-for-votes scheme in the Brazilian Congress, in which key members of his Workers’ Party (PT) are said to be involved.
    He also called for reform to the (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan : the Amazing Hypocrites
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fort Bragg | A Film by Chris Hume QuickTime DSL | 56K Windows Media DSL | 56K
    By Cindy Sheehan
    Wednesday 22 March 2005 - This past weekend was the two-year anniversary of the beginning of "shock and awe" of the US Government’s aggression in Iraq. If all you did was watch CNN, FOX News, or MSNBC, you would never have known.
    There were protests all across our nation. CNN called the over 800 protest events "barely a ripple." I spoke at a protest in Fayetteville, North Carolina where there (…)

  • Bush defends refusal to meet Cindy Sheehan "I think it’s important for me to go on with my life"
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush, noting that lots of people want to talk to the president and "it’s also important for me to go on with my life," on Saturday defended his decision not to meet with the grieving mom of a soldier killed in Iraq.
    Bush said he is aware of the anti-war sentiments of Cindy Sheehan and others who have joined her protest near the Bush ranch.
    "But whether it be here or in Washington or anywhere else, there’s somebody who has got something to say to the president, (…)

  • Someone Tell the President the War Is Over
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by FRANK RICH
    LIKE the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?
    A president can’t stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won’t stay with him. The approval rate for Mr. Bush’s handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in (…)