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  • WE ALL WANT ANSWERS
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WE TOO WANT ANSWERS
    By Peter Fredson
    June 30, 2005
    A headline from Reuters today reads:
    Bush says wants answers on Iran leader’s past
    The story continues:
    “President George W. Bush said on Thursday he wanted answers on whether Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a leader in the 1979 U.S. Embassy siege as some former hostages have said.”
    "I have no information," Bush told reporters. "But obviously his involvement raises many questions, and knowing how active people (…)

  • PRESIDENTIAL EBULLIENCE
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    PRESIDENTIAL EBULLIENCE
    By Peter Fredson
    June 30, 2005
    A comment from a reporter concerning George W. Bush’s speech on June 27th was that he was “ebullient.” . My collegiate dictionary describes ebullience as “A boiling up or over: overflow.” While ebullient is a “boiling up or causing such action; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling.”
    My computer WORD thesaurus describes ebullient as “cheerful, happy, fun, jovial, bright, and cheery.” I thought all those (…)

  • Kucinich: New Urgency to bipartisan efforts to pass "Homeward Bound" Resolution
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    Iraq Withdrawal Bill Critical and Timely
    There is a new urgency to our bipartisan efforts to pass House Joint Resolution 55, a bill to establish a plan to begin the end of the war in Iraq. Last night’s nationally televised speech by the President made it clear we are in Iraq for time indefinite. While the Administration relentlessly conflates Iraq and 9/11, the war in Iraq is not about Saddam and WMDs anymore. It’s about terror, terrorists, and anti-terrorists: the President told us that (…)

  • Mr President, I’ll fly my flag at half staff on July 4
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I was struck by the demeanor of the 700 soldiers in dress uniform attending the President’s speech last night at Ft Bragg. They were polite. The singular time there was applause came at the prompting of a White House Advance team person.
    The soldiers were the dignity and nobility in that room last night. Their Commander in Chief, our President seems to have a way with exploiting the dignity of our military and our loved ones deployed who are doing the grist of the ’hard work’ . The litany (…)

  • 15 Things Learned About Bush&Co.: An Impeachment List
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Though my degrees are in government and international relations, I hadn’t been part of the political arena in an activist way since "The Sixties" — roughly the Civil Rights Movement late-’50s through the anti-Vietnam War mid-’70s. Instead, after years of college teaching, I found myself more engaged in cultural work as a playwright, poet and newspaper reporter, and, for nearly two decades, as a theater critic.
    When 9/11 arrived, something snapped open in me, as it did for many Americans. (…)

  • Bush And Cheney Should Resign
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush And Cheney Should Resign Andre M. Hernandez June 29, 2005 Even the people who supported this corrupt administration have to admit that this has gone too far. The Downing Street Memos and the shocking revelations that have come out during the Haliburton Reconstruction Hearings have gone beyond the smoking gun needed to overhaul a system that has no fail safes to protect the American peoples interests. Bush and Cheney are two of the most corrupt leaders of this or any other nation in (…)

  • Ahead: Six Decades Of Humiliation
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ahead: Six Decades Of Humiliation Ted Rall June 29, 2005 NEW YORK-The world hates us more than ever, according to a new Pew Research poll of 16,000 citizens in 15 countries. Most Canadians think Americans are exceptionally rude. The Chinese say we’re violent and greedy. Nearly half of Turks—up from 32 percent a year ago—say they dislike Americans as individuals and America as a nation, according to the survey. Muslims have a "quite negative hostility toward America," says Pew president (…)

  • U.S. Capitol, White House evacuated after another small plane scare
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    WASHINGTON— Police briefly ordered evacuation of the U.S. Capitol and the White House after a private plane ventured into restricted airspace Wednesday evening.
    The all-clear came within minutes— well before the White House was fully evacuated.
    A private turboprop entered restricted airspace northeast of Reagan National Airport, according to a federal aviation official. Jets scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base and intercepted the plane eight miles northeast of the Capitol. As of 6:45 (…)

  • Representative Strickland to Bush "Just asking America to stay the course won’t cut it anymore"
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    As public support for the war in Iraq wanes, the majority of Ohio’s congressional delegation would not give a direct answer about whether the war has been worth the costs, according to a newspaper’s survey. However, following Tuesday’s national address made by President Bush, U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland, D-Dover, called for the president to answer the nation’s questions about the war.
    "Tonight, President Bush told America what we already know," said Strickland Tuesday. "Unfortunately, the (…)

  • Iraq memo has serious implications about war
    30 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Earlier this month, a piece of documentation relating to the war in Iraq was uncovered: The Downing Street memo; it is the most convincing proof yet that military action in Iraq was based on faulty, possibly nonexistent intelligence. Worst of all, the memo makes it perfectly clear that the lack of concrete information pertaining to Saddam Hussein’s possession of weapons of mass destruction was no secret to
    President Bush.
    The memo details British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s report on a (…)