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  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • No US answer to Iraq Conundrum
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AMERICA is facing the possibility of defeat in Iraq. The insurgency is as robust and as lethal as ever. Sectarian violence is on the rise, suggesting that civil war is just around the corner. Every day brings its terrible tale of carnage. There seems to be no safety anywhere and certainly not in Baghdad.
    Iraq under American occupation is slipping into uncontrollable chaos. This is the gloomy backdrop to the visit to Washington today of Iraq’s new president, Jalal Talabani.
    For both (…)

  • 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. (…)

  • Helen Thomas: Cut our losses in Iraq and get out
    3 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — President Bush should cut our losses and pull out of Iraq before more Americans — and Iraqis — are forced to make the ultimate sacrifice.
    If he does, he would be a hero and save lives.
    Instead, his reaction to the present fiasco in Iraq seems to be "full speed ahead."
    The president could gracefully withdraw from Iraq by asking the United Nations to take on a peacekeeping role in Iraq.
    If we were to pull out, as we should, the United States would be required to open its (…)

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

    By Lies?
    or...
    Spreading the Truth?

  • Time Coming For Bush To Pay The Piper
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Time Coming For Bush To Pay The Piper As Things Get Progressively Worse For US Troops In Iraq, The American People Will Exact Their Price On A Republican Administration That Has Split The United States In Two M’Hamed Ben Youssef June 27-July 3 Issue Things are getting worse and worse in Iraq where, according to an official report from the American Central Intelligence Agency - in flagrant contradiction to the optimistic declarations of the Republican administration - this country is (…)

  • 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, (…)

  • TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE U.S. ARMED FORCES:
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I hope every single member of the U.S. Armed forces will soon get to come home. You should all be home right now, and I wish all of you a safe return.
    However, I do NOT support what any of you are doing right now. I DO support your well-being and your good intentions, though. You all signed on to do a legitimate and honorable job - to defend the U.S. Constitution and the United States homeland from enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC. And, many of you believe that is what you are doing. However, (…)