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  • War in Iraq has gone too far
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anyone honestly believe one can impeach and convict a sitting Republican President with the Senate in the hands of the Republican party? Let’s be realistic here: If there was gross misuse of the available intelligence on Iraq by the executive branch of the government, then there was attendant gross negligence on the part of the legislative branch of the government not to verify the faulty intellligence. They couldn’t impeach and convict Bush if they wanted to because their own job (…)

  • Flip Flopper Alert: The Bush Administration Was For Amnesty International Before It Was Against It
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush Administration Was For Amnesty International Before It Was Against It
    Tonight, Vice President Cheney will appear on CNN’s Larry King Live and reportedly condemn a recent Amnesty International report that faults the U.S. for its treatment of detainees in the war on terror. Cheney has said:
    For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don’t take them seriously.
    Other Administration officials have similarly (…)

  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Response to President Bush
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AI Index: AMR 51/087/2005 (Public) News Service No: 149 31 May 2005
    USA: Response to President Bush
    President Bush again failed to address longstanding concerns regarding US detention policies and practices in the context of the "war on terror", Amnesty International said in response to his comments today.
    At Guantánamo, the US has operated an isolated prison camp in which people are confined arbitrarily, held virtually incommunicado, without charge, trial or access to due process. (…)

  • IS ANYONE OUT THERE LISTENING?
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Maybe that’s the wrong question. Maybe I should ask if anyone out there is SCREAMING! I know I am, and I’m ready to blow.
    The corporate media are the common enemy of the American people and they have to be treated as such. They have to be made to feel the anger of the public. They have to be made to feel ashamed of what they are doing.
    The man holding the news conference used that phrase again, the one about our winning in Iraq, and they let him get away with it. The pseudo journalists (…)

  • Downing Street Minutes - Throw your congresscritter a life-saver
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STRATEGY SESSION: for when you call your Congressperson/Senator, who may have voted for the IWR, and, having done so, may be too fearful or ashamed to admit he or she made a mistake... MAYBE all they’re looking for is a graceful way out...
    Please consider planting this seed.
    Please hear me out -
    ALL they have to say is TEN WORDS: "Because I TRUSTED my president. And he LIED to me."
    Two little sentences. Five words per sentence. That’s ALL any of them have to say, if they voted for (…)

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger received contributions from coin dealer at center of Ohio investment scandal
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won’t return $10,000 in contributions he received from a coin dealer at the center of an Ohio investment scandal, a spokesman said Friday.
    Coin dealer Thomas Noe gave the money last year to a Schwarzenegger fund that supports the Republican governor’s legislative priorities, such as limiting state borrowing to balance the budget.
    Ohio’s Inspector General is investigating Noe’s investment of $50 million in state money in rare coins, while federal (…)

  • WHY RUMSFELD SHOULD GO
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    Let’s give Donald Rumsfeld the benefit of the doubt. He’s not a war criminal. He never wrote any memo authorizing specific techniques for abusing prisoners. He doesn’t believe in abusing people. He’s an amusing guy. He used to be a media superstar in the Bush family firmament. The President called him the best Secretary of Defense in our country’s history.
    But it’s time for him to go. And here’s why.
    One of the principal reasons the United States has a Secretary of (…)

  • Groups Urge Bush Not to Offer Military Assistance to Indonesia
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John M. Miller
    More Than 50 Groups Urge Bush Not to Offer Military Assistance to Indonesian President
    A wide range of U.S. organizations today urged President Bush not to offer military assistance to Indonesia when he meets President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tomorrow. The groups further called on Bush to raise concerns about ongoing human rights violations and the failure to bring to justice members of Indonesia’s security forces responsible for human rights violations in Timor-Leste (…)

  • War in Iraq has gone too far
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This war in Iraq has just gone too far and it’s now time to start talking impeachment.
    With all the evidence available, and the new information emerging regarding the lies, twisted truths and selective intelligence that brought us into an unprovoked and unnecessary war, it’s time for the nation to hold responsible the man sitting where the buck stops at the White House. I find it untenable that we would almost impeach one president for engineering and condoning a break-in and impeach (…)

  • Administration officials expressed misgivings on Iraq October 8 2002:Backs up Downing St Memo
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — While President Bush marshals congressional and international support for invading Iraq, a growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in his own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration’s double-time march toward war.
    These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses — including distorting his links to the al-Qaida terrorist network — have (…)