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  • Bush’s words ring hollow at memorial
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I keep going to the memorials, though my head keeps telling me to stay away. It wipes me out for days. My heart tells me it is the least I can do.
    So I go, take my place next to the families of the soldiers who have died, and grieve alongside them.
    It astounded me the other day, sitting in the chapel at Fort Carson, how the loss of one man’s life simply rips to shreds the lives of so many other people.
    I guess I always knew this. Yet it comes home like a sledgehammer when you sit among (…)

  • QUOTES THAT DEFINE A PRESIDENCY
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    QUOTES THAT DEFINE A PRESIDENT
    Compiled by Peter Fredson
    I Cannot Tell A Lie......... George Washington
    A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand..... Abraham Lincoln
    The Only Thing We Have To Fear, Is Fear Itself..... Franklin D. Roosevelt
    I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. — Harry S. Truman
    Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Your Country.... John F. Kennedy
    Do you realize the responsibility I (…)

  • America Held Hostage: Say no to Bush’s open ended commitment- Demand a timetable for getting out
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A majority of Americans now realize that President Bush deliberately misled the nation to promote a war in Iraq. But Mr. Bush’s speech on Tuesday contained a chilling message: America has been taken hostage by his martial dreams. According to Mr. Bush, the nation now has no choice except to keep fighting the war he wanted to fight.
    Never mind that Iraq posed no threat before we invaded. Now it’s a "central front in the war on terror," Mr. Bush says, quoting Osama bin Laden as an authority. (…)

  • This July 4th: Will YOU be Offended?
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Lies?
    or...
    Spreading the Truth?

  • DEJA VUDOO
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DÉJÀ VU?
    By Peter Fredson
    It was instructive to read news items that I had saved from 1998. Here is a typical story, with attributions of 1998, but I changed items referring to Bill Clinton and substituted the name of George W. Bush as political satire.
    “In 1998 Republican commentators were asking Bill Clinton to step down. Last week several commentators asked George W. Bush to do the same.”
    “Opinion columns and editorials written in the hours that followed his latest comments, (…)

  • Bush’s Uranium Lies: The Case For A Special Prosecutor That Could Lead To Impeachment
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is clear that the Bush Administration made fraudulent statements about the threat that Iraq posed. However, there has been little analysis as to whether specific fraudulent statements about Iraq violated any specific criminal statutes, and thus are worthy of impeachment. A 23-page memorandum provides an analysis of one of the Bush Administration’s fraudulent claims, the claim that Iraq had recently sought uranium for a nuclear weapon.
    In summary that analysis of the current public (…)

  • BUSH MAY BE MANIC
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRESIDENTIAL MANIC BEHAVIOR By Peter Fredson July 2, 2005
    When President Bush pranced before a crowd of captive soldiers last Tuesday at Fort Bragg he swaggered, smirked, gesticulated, glad-handed, grinned, and in many respects acted as though he had swallowed a handful of uppers before coming on-stage. Yet, despite grandiose pronouncements about offering a new strategy, Bush gave the same basic speech he gave many times previously: staying the course, insurgents hating democracy, our (…)

  • Support for Bush Impeachment Now Higher Than Was for Clinton Impeachment
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This poll finding 42 percent of Americans favoring impeachment of Bush if he did not tell the truth about the reasons for war, puts support significantly higher than it was for impeachment of President Clinton.
    average support for impeachment and removal was 27% (11 polls)
    average support for impeachment hearings was 36% (6 polls)
    http://www.democrats.com/clinton-impeachment-polls
    http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/610#comment

  • Group of MPs to bring motion of impeachment against Tony Blair
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A group of MPs declared their intention to bring a motion of impeachment against the Prime Minister for High Crimes and Misdemeanours in relation to the invasion of Iraq. The charges are based on evidence presented in a report commissioned by Adam Price MP entitled A Case to Answer .
    The report which is co-authored by academics Glen Rangwala and Dan Plesch presents evidence that the Prime Minister deliberately distorted the intelligence assessments available to him in order to deceive the (…)

  • Poll: 42% Want Impeachment for Bush Lies
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No Bounce: Bush Job Approval Unchanged by War Speech; Question on Impeachment Shows Polarization of Nation; Americans Tired of Divisiveness in Congress-Want Bi-Partisan Solutions-New Zogby Poll
    President Bush’s televised address to the nation produced no noticeable bounce in his approval numbers, with his job approval rating slipping a point from a week ago, to 43%, in the latest Zogby International poll. And, in a sign of continuing polarization, more than two-in-five voters (42%) say (…)