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  • WHATEVER HAPPENED TO?
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WHATEVER HAPPENED TO?
    By Peter Fredson
    July 1, 2005
    The Price of Gasoline? Should we worry about it?
    The National Deficit? Should we worry about it?
    Those awful Weapons of Mass Destruction that Saddam had “imminently” poised to nuke the U.S. and destroy whole cities? Should we worry about them?
    Compassionate Conservatism? Should we worry about it?
    The Senate as a branch of the Oval Office? Should we worry about it?
    The extreme partisanship of Congress, with overt bullying, (…)

  • The Stain of Torture
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Having served as a doctor in the Army Medical Corps early in my career and as presidential physician to George H.W. Bush for four years, I might be expected to bring a skeptical and partisan perspective to allegations of torture and abuse by U.S. forces. I might even be expected to join those who, on the one hand, deny that U.S. personnel have engaged in systematic use of torture while, on the other, claiming that such abuse is justified. But I cannot do so.
    It’s precisely because of my (…)

  • Unbelievable...
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Not only can they not find WMD in Iraq,” I commented to E. as we listened to the Bush speech, “But they have disappeared from his speeches too!” I was listening to the voiceover on Arabiya, translating his speech to Arabic. He was recycling bits and pieces of various speeches he used over two years.
    E., a younger cousin, and I were sitting around in the living room, sprawled on the relatively cool tiled floor. The electricity had been out for 3 hours and we couldn’t turn on the air (…)

  • Editorial: ‘Stay the course’ bromides
    1 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it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”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 Speaking to a captive audience of soldiers at Fort Bragg, N.C., June 28, President George W. Bush resorted once (…)

  • MSNBC ’expert’ and US puppet Iraqi Prime Minister are lying to US: The Iraqi People want US to leave
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While Americans were President Bush’s primary target audience for his nationally televised address to the nation on Tuesday, Iraqis were also very interested in what he had to say.
    Walid Phares, a terrorism expert for MSNBC and senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, joined MSNBC’s Amy Robach on Wednesday to discuss how Bush’s words may be playing in Baghdad, Basra and all around Iraq.
    "Days ago I had met with the (Iraqi) prime minister at a meeting here in (…)

  • Tony Blair just as bad as Bush: Denies facts in Downing Street Memo-continues to link 9/11 to Iraq
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blair denies US rushed to war
    INTERVIEW: The British prime minister said ensuring victory in Iraq is more important than debating the case for invasion, especially when memos are taken out of context
    British Prime Minister Tony Blair firmly denied that the Bush administration signaled just months after Sept. 11 that a decision was made to invade Iraq, saying he was "astonished" by claims that leaked secret memos suggested the US was rushing to war.
    In an interview a day after US (…)

  • Tony Blair Confirms Authenticity of Downing Street Memo-51 Congressmembers File FOIA Request
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SAN STEFFAN / WESTMINSTER DATGANIAD I’R WASG PLAID CYMRU THE PARTY OF WALES PRESS RELEASE Wednesday 29 June 2005 - for immediate release
    The Prime Minister has confirmed the authenticity of a Downing Street memo in which Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, tells Mr Blair that the Bush administration was "fixing" the intelligence and facts about Saddam Hussein’s regime to back up a decision that had been taken to invade Iraq as early as July 2002.
    The Downing Street memo which (…)

  • Melbourne : Beazley commits to fighting IR reforms
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Opposition Leader Kim Beazley says the ALP needs to concentrate on holding the government to account rather than looking inward.
    On Thursday, Mr Beazley said he was turning his focus to the campaign by the ACTU against the government’s proposed industrial reforms.
    Speaking to a crowd of around 100,000 in Melbourne, Mr Beazley committed Labor to fight to wind back many of the proposed changes.
    A rally of similar number will wind through the streets of Sydney.
    Mr Beazley’s call follows (…)

  • Dangerous Incompetence
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The president who displayed his contempt for Iraqi militants two years ago with the taunt "bring ’em on" had to go on television Tuesday night to urge Americans not to abandon support for the war that he foolishly started but can’t figure out how to win. Skip to next paragraph
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    The Bush crowd bristles at the use of the "Q-word" - quagmire - to describe American involvement in Iraq. But with our soldiers fighting and (…)

  • The Nation Weeps as the President Lies
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Nation Weeps as the President Lies; a detailed annotated review of each of the flood of lies Bush told
    By Anthony Wade
    George W. Bush knows no shame. Having presided over the deaths of 1,700-7,000 American kids, for lies he propagated, President Bush used tonight’s message to extend his lies, and launch new, brazen mistruths. George Bush proved one thing tonight. He cares not what the American people think, and he further thinks they are too stupid to realize when they are being (…)