The irony of the 2004 election is that it was the last-minute release of an alleged Osama bin Laden tape that John Kerry believes lost him the election. Whatever the merits of Kerry’s judgment, the irony is that bin Laden ended up with the candidate he undoubtedly preferred: George W. Bush.
Beginning with 9/11 — and Bush’s failure to protect America against hijackings that he and Condoleezza were warned about in advance, but took no security actions to stop, resulting in the September 11th (…)
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The Longer Bush Stays in the White House,The More That the National Security of the US is Endangered
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Katrina, Time for Revolution
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Carolyn Bennett
After week long images of displaced, desperate black Americans dubbed refugees and looters by a race-based U.S. press followed by race-based outrage from the usual headline grabbers, I must say something. But what can I say about death and disorder caused by Americans’ apart-ness, and flawed federal leadership?
Katrina did not have to break levees, flood cities, and destroy lives. What combined to cause horrendous deaths and despair, particularly in the jewel among the (…) -
Critical Information for all Katrina victims, refugees, survivors
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsIsraeli citizens that made their homes in the illegal (under international law) settlements in Gaza, are to receive between $200,000 - $300,000 each to relocate- paid for by US taxpayer dollars.
"Settlers, who were encouraged by the Israeli government to move to settlements, are entitled to compensation," says Sarit Michaeli, spokesman for B’Tselem, the independent Israeli information centre for human rights in the occupied territories.
Israel has negotiated a $2.2 billion dollar gift (…) -
Impeach Bush Now, Before More Die
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsThe raison d’etre of the Bush administration is war in the Middle East in order to protect America from terrorism and to insure America’s oil supply. On both counts the Bush administration has failed catastrophically.
Bush’s single-minded focus on the "war against terrorism" has compounded a natural disaster and turned it into the greatest calamity in American history. The US has lost its largest and most strategic port, thousands of lives, and 80% of one of America’s most historic cities (…) -
Now, Democratic Senators, will you please draft articles of impeachment?
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
8 commentsTo all U.S. citizens in the bellaciao community:
I urge each and every American citizen reading these pages to write, email, phone, meet face-to-face, use the Goodyear Blimp, whatever it takes, to ask your senators, in the strongest tones possible, to write articles of impeachment of the President of the U.S.
We have more than enough evidence that this president has deliberately committed acts of treason, willful neglect of a planning and recovery, and depleting the funding of the Gulf (…) -
Challenges to Bush leadership mount as poll numbers slide
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Brian Knowlton
President George W. Bush faced increasingly bitter political challenges Sunday from local and state officials in the battered Gulf Coast as he struggled to show mastery over a disaster that his administration now acknowledges almost surely claimed thousands of lives and had yet to bare its full, ugly toll. A Louisiana senator, Mary Landrieu, said she was so angry about federal failures and second-guessing that if she heard any more criticism, even from the president, (…) -
For Bush, Next Moves Are Key to Rest of Term
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Dan Balz
The first week of September 2005 likely will be remembered as one of the most troubled weeks of George W. Bush’s presidency, a time in which natural disaster combined with bureaucratic bungling in ways that threatened to inundate an administration already on the defensive.
Even before Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast last Monday, Bush was buffeted by public dissatisfaction over the war in Iraq and consumer outrage over rising gasoline prices. But the federal (…) -
Bush returns to Gulf Coast to view damage
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
President Bush planned a return to the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast Monday for a third look at Katrina’s effect with visits to Baton Rouge, and Poplarville, Miss.
But none of his activities - including a stream of Cabinet secretaries and other high-level federal officials to the area and on the airwaves Sunday - have quieted the complaints that Washington moved too slowly in the storm’s aftermath.
Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, just south of New Orleans, broke down on NBC’s (…) -
A Failure of Leadership : "Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead"
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
35 commentsby BOB HERBERT
Neither the death of the chief justice nor the frantic efforts of panicked White House political advisers can conceal the magnitude of the president’s failure of leadership last week. The catastrophe in New Orleans billowed up like the howling winds of hell and was carried live and in color on television screens across the U.S. and around the world.
The Big Easy had turned into the Big Hurt, and the colossal failure of George W. Bush to intervene powerfully and immediately (…) -
’US Troops mutiny in Iraq’
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsUS Embassy in Baghdad inquires into reports that American troops in Iraq have mutinied against their officers.
WMR has learned that the US embassy in Baghdad is checking into reports that U.S. troops in Iraq, including National Guardsmen, Army and Marine Corps Reserves, and regular military troops from Louisiana and Mississippi, have mutinied against their officers and are demanding to be immediately sent back home to help their families.
It is not known whether the reported mutinies (…)