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  • OUTING BUSH
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OUTING BUSH
    August 13, 2005
    By Peter Fredson
    Like many people, I spent part of the past 5 years trying to decipher the complexities of the collective mind of George W. Bush. I have collected gigabytes of files concerning his activities, propensities, quotations, quirks, speeches, gaffes, emotions, ego-trips, prayers, threats, disdain, swaggering, smirking, and ties to influential individuals.
    I have linked some of Bush’s ties to Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, (…)

  • Vacation From Reality
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush is on vacation in Crawford, Texas, taking the same August-long break that he did in the summer before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The appeal of Crawford appears to be that it provides the President with an opportunity to put aside all the troubles of the world and to focus on fixing fences and clearing brush. After all, it was during his previous vacation that Bush ignored an August 6, 2001, briefing document titled: "Bin (…)

  • The Murder of Casey Sheehan
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Marjorie Cohn
    For seven days, Cindy Sheehan has been camped down the road from George Bush’s Crawford ranch where the President is on a five-week vacation. Cindy says she will never enjoy a vacation again. Her heart is broken. Her precious son Casey was murdered in George Bush’s war on Iraq.
    Cindy Sheehan is a patient woman. She will wait until Bush comes out and talks to her. She will wait until the man who ordered the invasion of a country that posed no threat to us explains why (…)

  • Why President Bush Should Not Speak to Cindy Sheehan
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan, speaking live on the Ed Schultz radio show (and elsewhere) on Thursday, August 11, said that the media and Congress have not held the president accountable for his actions. She added that the President’s decision on whether or not to speak to her, the Gold Star Mothers for Peace and the American people is the President’s accountability moment.
    Sheehan, the mother of Casey Sheehan, who died fighting for America in Iraq, has been holding a vigil outside the President’s (…)

  • Area mother joining the fray in Bush country
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Barb Ickes, Quad-City Times
    A couple of books on tape, a cell phone and some junk food are the only things keeping Caryn Unsicker company on the long road.
    The Silvis, Ill., woman set out Wednesday morning on a 1,000-mile pilgrimage from her home to President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. She probably won’t get but a few miles from the entrance to the sprawling retreat.
    But she has to go.
    Unsicker won’t know until she gets there today how many other mothers from across the (…)

  • This is George Bush’s accountability moment
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is George Bush’s accountability moment. That’s why I’m here. The mainstream media aren’t holding him accountable. Neither is Congress. So I’m not leaving Crawford until he’s held accountable. It’s ironic, given the attacks leveled at me recently, how some in the media are so quick to scrutinize — and distort — the words and actions of a grieving mother but not the words and actions of the president of the United States.
    But now it’s time for him to level with me and with the American (…)

  • Dear Congress Weinies
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Elected Officials,
    When are you all going to take back your constitutional authority from the maniac in the White House? If you all won’t protect us, who willl?
    We are seriously screwed and you all sit back and let the administrative branch take away our freedoms and foist criminals on us: people with no humanity or regard for our American Constitution or humanity. People like Alberto Gonzales and John Negroponte and most recently, John Bolton...torturers and murderers, to name a (…)

  • "Loyalty" And Other Matters
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Loyalty" And Other Matters Margie Burns August 09, 2005 Multiple references to George W. Bush’s “loyalty” to his personnel are a symptom of chronic shallow assumptions. Some fundamentals, here: The Chief Executive of the United States owes his loyalty to his country, not to a few insiders. If John Bolton and Stephen Hadley and Condoleezza Rice did wrong in their responses to 9/11 and their war-boosting against Iraq-and they did do wrong, repeatedly-then they should be asked to resign. (…)

  • DOES GOD NEED BUSH’S HELP?
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DOES GOD NEED BUSH’S HELP?
    August 9, 2005
    By Peter Fredson
    Theodore Roosevelt, he of the “Speak softly, but carry a big stick,” motto, at times rattled sabers, did considerable bullying, and did not hesitate to commit armed forces in dubious circumstances. He also was familiar with ‘yellow’ journalism, exemplified by the Hearst publications and seemed to enjoy the rough-and-tumble tactics of opponents who sought to slander his every move.
    He also said: "To announce that there should (…)

  • Holed up on a ranch, Bush won’t mix it up with ’Mom’
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MAUREEN DOWD
    W. can’t get no satisfaction on Iraq.
    There’s an angry mother of a dead soldier camping outside his Crawford ranch, demanding to see a president who prefers his sympathy to be carefully choreographed.
    A new CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans now think that going to war was a mistake and that the war has made the United States more vulnerable to terrorism. So fighting them there means it’s more likely we’ll have to fight them here?
    Donald (…)