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  • Bush should resign for lying about Iraq-U.S. needs plan for leaving Iraq
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush should resign for lying about Iraq
    We need to withdraw from Iraq immediately. Even our own generals tell us that our presence there is only making things worse. President Bush has violated the public trust with his snake-oil sales pitch for support for his invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation whose only fault was to suspend the sale of its oil in protest of the crippling sanctions that it was under.
    It is no secret that Bush was itching for regime change in Baghdad even (…)

  • America in Iraq "There is little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action"
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George W. Bush on President Clinton not setting a timetable for exiting Kosovo
    “Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.” George W. Bush, 4/9/99:
    “I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.” George W. Bush, 6/5/99 The failure of the Bush administration to plan for postwar Iraq compromised a swift military victory, and now (…)

  • The MSM Box Set
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Spin cycles are supposed to last little longer than 24 hours, especially when it’s bad news for Bush & Co. That is, perhaps, one reason why the Downing Street Memos (DSM) are causing such consternation in journalistic circles. A recent column by Newsday editorialist James Klurfeld, “Downing St. memos: Been there, knew that” (6-24-05), is of particular interest to me, since I live on Long Island, and because it is a fascinating window into the thought processes of an influential member of (…)

  • Supreme Court - Media Ignore Possible "Fascist" Play
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration is spectacularly good at sleight-of-hand tricks, directing public attention in one direction while they’re working diligently in another. The latest trial balloon of "probable" Supreme Court nominees is no exception.
    While everybody is worried about abortion rights and corporate power, a far more insidious agenda may be at play.
    Anti-abortion forces and women’s rights groups alike are up in arms about the possibility that the next nominee may or may not have an (…)

  • Bush ITV interview, pre-G8 summit - You can see how uncomfortable he is: Video/Text
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is the part of the interview on Iraq, and the last throes. You can see how uncomfortable he is without being in his cocoon...
    James Wolcott (http://jameswolcott.com/archives/20...) writes exactly what I was thinking. What the hell was with all that blinking? (song lyrics?)
    Video-WMP
    – http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Bu...
    Wolcott: But was more fascinating that Bush’s imperial tone was the fact that during these answers, he was blinking furiously. There’s nothing like a tight (…)

  • White House Scrambles to Stop Criminal Indictment of Rove
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Bush Administration is scrambling behind the scenes to stop a criminal indictment against Presidential advisor Karl Rove for disclosing classified information to reporters in an attempt to discredit a White House critic.
    Time Magazine emails turned over to a grand jury show Rove leaked CIA Operative Valerie Plame’s name to journalists after her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, went public with claims the Bush Administration knowing used false information to justify the invasion of (…)

  • Karl Rove Bio - Conservative or Crook?
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s hard to imagine how Karl Rove’s appearance could fit his role any more perfectly than it does.
    Portly, balding, malicious, simpering, he looks like a cross between Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper and the Third Reich’s Heinrich Himmler. And he acts like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and Henry Kissinger. Whom he also looks like. And not in a good way.
    Oh yeah, he’s a man who compromised national security, putting lives of American agents in danger. Wait, I forgot a word there. What (…)

  • Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron to Help Write Nat’l Energy Policy to Be Named Chair of FERC
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason Leopold
    The audacity inside the Bush administration never ceases to amaze.
    The latest example of chutzpah from Bush and co. is the announcement that Joseph Kelliher, a former policy adviser with the Department of Energy who currently serves as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that controls the country’s natural gas industry, hydroelectric projects, electric utilities, and oil pipelines and has played a critical role in the deregulation of (…)

  • Indefensible: Bush and Blair’s Secret Air War that Began in 2002
    5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Global Eye Heaven’s Gate
    By Chris Floyd
    This week, President George W. Bush gave a big speech "explaining" the Iraq war to the American people. It was the usual load of lying blather and false piety — deeply, even murderously cynical. But there’s no point in wasting a single thought over these clown shows anymore. Bush is a nasty little moral cretin fronting a gang of elitist thugs whose only concerns are loot and power. Nothing he says has the slightest credibility. Only his actions — (…)

  • Perfect 4th of July Dessert- Impeachment Pie
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SANTA CRUZ - David Jackman is not one to complicate his restaurant with indiscriminate kitsch.
    Yes, there’s the 2003 Thanksgiving Day President Bush Action Figure - a beaming plastic Dubya in a flight jacket, presenting a plastic turkey.
    And there’s the caustic collage on one wall of Chocolate, Jackman’s Pacific Avenue bistro, where he showcases favorite satiric images of the president and his administration.
    But all decor - and food - must be made, supervised, or selected by Jackman (…)