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  • The Bush/Clinton Nexus: America’s Future
    28 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Who Was That Ex-President I Saw You With Last Night?
    A reader inquires as to why Bill Clinton and Bush the Elder are so chummy these days. This is another case where just considering the political aspect of the news lets you down. A more helpful approach is to consider Clinton and Bush the heads of the two biggest political mobs in the country, a metaphor strengthened by a recent shot of the pair, both in shades, leaning back smugly in their chairs like a couple of big time dons. Sometimes (…)

  • The government lied to us all. That is a fact. Are you going to do something about it?
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The evidence for the US Government having deliberately lied to the people of this nation to trick them into supporting a war of conquest is now overwhelming. The Downing Street Memos, the "Dodgy Dossier", the forged Nigerian "Yellow Cake" papers, Colin Powell’s fraudulent presentation to the UN, .etc .etc .etc all establish a clear pattern of intentional deception.
    The government lied to us all. The mainstream media helped them do it. So did Israel. Yes, all those necessary hundreds of (…)

  • Bush administration crafting new message on Iraq
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stung by plummeting polls, the Bush administration is working on a new message about Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld road-tested it on the Sunday talk shows, and President Bush will flesh it out during a speech Tuesday night. The basic message, as articulated by Rumsfeld, goes something like this:
    1. "Progress is being made politically and economically" in Iraq.
    2. But the casualties could get worse over the next six months, and fighting could go on for "five, six, eight, 12 (…)

  • Terrorists Protect Their Own
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by PeopleJudgeBush
    Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up
    Luis Posada Carriles is a convicted international terrorist; yet the Bush Administration is protecting him and refusing to extradite him to Venezuela to stand trial for his crimes. In the meantime the US routinely violates international law: killing Iraqi civilians in an illegal war, imprisoning and torturing thousands of innocent people, acts which Amnesty International has condemned, as well as other crimes too numerous to (…)

  • BUSH’S IMPEACHABLE OFFENCES
    26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Compiled by "Son of a Bush"
    1) The now famous Downing Street Memo, along with the testimony of former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil constitute direct evidence of a decision by Bush to invade a sovereign foreign nation on entirely specious grounds.
    2) The decision to deploy chemical weapons in Fallujah came from Rumsfeld who no doubt covered his ass by receiving assent from Bush to use these banned weapons
    3) The decision by Bush to dig up dirt on UN diplomats when the General Assembly (…)

  • Twice fooled-shame on us: The case for impeachment
    26 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    June 25, 2005-George W. Bush stole the 2000 election and we let him get away with it. While the Democrats cried because Al Gore had won the vote, the Republicans counted their loot and planned the next heist. Crime does pay when the justices of the Supreme Court are in on the caper, and they can’t be impeached if the crooks control the Congress.
    At first, most of us (irrespective of politics) thought that, even though Bush was sort of a goofy guy, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the other retainers (…)

  • Bush is Delusional and he HAS NO EXIT PLAN
    25 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday rejected calls for a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari called on Americans to stand firm as six more U.S. troops were killed.
    "There are not going to be any timetables," Bush said after Oval Office talks with Jaafari. "I have told this to the prime minister. We are there to complete a mission, and it’s an important mission."
    At a news conference, both Bush and Jaafari insisted progress was (…)

  • The war president
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In this former imperial capital, every square seems to contain a giant statue of a Habsburg on horseback, posing as a conquering hero. America’s founders knew all too well how war appeals to the vanity of rulers and their thirst for glory. That’s why they took care to deny presidents the kingly privilege of making war at their own discretion. But after 9/11 President George W. Bush, with obvious relish, declared himself a "war president." And he kept the nation focused on martial matters (…)

  • Dump Bush and the Congress he rode in on
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the Northwest, most people I know have (at least) a healthy dose of scepticism towards Federal Government solutions to our problems. Even outside the more liberal population centers of Portland and Seattle, many Northwesterners have rejected the new paradigm and started working towards a better future. All around, farmers’ markets are spreading like wildfire, though these blazes only really threaten WalMart, Albertsons, and petro-chemical dependence. Or, take "conservative" Idaho. The (…)

  • Where are impeachers now that we need them?
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I have been retired for more than 20 years, so I know what Social Security means to the elderly. Yet we have President Bush still pushing his plan for personal accounts, which would be a disaster. They can use IRAs for that.
    Another thing that angers me is the snickering about the filing cabinets full of useless IOUs. The U.S. government promises to pay those. I realize that under the Bush administration they may be useless, because it wants to run the U.S. government as Bush did his (…)