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  • How Blackwell and Petro Saved Bush’s Brain: And the rise of the right wing juggernaut in Ohio
    29 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The hotly disputed results of the 2004 presidential election have become entangled in a fundamentalist crusade over who will control Ohio. Extremist right wing screachers such as Pastor Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church, Ann Coulter, Alan Keyes, Ohio gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell and followers of Jerry Falwell, have taken center pulpit in an escalated war over what really happened when George W. Bush was allegedly re-elected in November, 2004, and who will occupy the (…)

  • Jesus Was No GOP Lobbyist
    29 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A tortured version of his message is being marketed for political gain
    What would Jesus filibuster? The question is bizarre, of course, but the fact that many prominent religious and political leaders believe that there is an answer surely marks our time as pretty strange.
    How quickly it has all happened - that the media, particularly television, has convinced itself that Christianity is little more than a Republican political action committee. When the pope died, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer (…)

  • Iraq occupation has failed; time to bring troops home
    29 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was the last question at the first "Lincoln-La Follette" Democratic dinner in Amery, Wis. (I know what you are thinking. Hey, Abe and "Fighting Bob" were Republicans. The answer from Amery was, "True, but today they would be Democrats. So we are adopting them.") The woman asked, "Why is no one outraged by this war?"
    I asked for a show of hands: "How many of you want to bring the troops home now?" Every hand went skyward but her question hung over the audience.
    Where is the voice of (…)

  • Under Cheney, Halliburton helped Saddam Hussein siphon billions from UN Oil-for-Food Program
    29 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 16, 2004-When the Iraqi Survey Group released its long awaited report last week that said Iraq eliminated its weapons programs in the 1990s, George W. Bush quickly changed his stance on reasons he authorized an invasion of Iraq. While he campaigned for a second term in office, Bush justified the war by saying that that Saddam Hussein was manipulating the United Nation’s oil-for-food program, siphoning off billions of dollars from the venture that he intended to use to fund a weapons (…)

  • Prime Time News Conference good time for press/public to hold Bush accountable for false statements
    28 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich: President Must Be Held Accountable At Prime Time News Conference President Has Made False and Misleading Statements On Iraq and Social Security; The Press And Public Must Hold Him Accountable
    WASHINGTON — April 28 — Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) issued the following statement on the President’s prime time press conference scheduled for this evening:
    "Tonight, the President will make a rare prime time appearance before the press and the nation. With our troops caught in (…)

  • All the Reasons Why "We can’t leave Iraq"...and Why All Those Reasons are Wrong
    28 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The cold injustice of the U.S. invasion of Iraq stands out starkly. The justifications for war were lies: Iraq had no nukes or bio-weapons. It had no ties with groups like al-Qaida. The British medical journal The Lancet estimates 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died in this war—while over 1,500 U.S. troops have also been killed. And there is no end in sight.
    The people of Iraq overwhelmingly see the U.S. as brutal occupiers—and these sentiments fuel the armed resistance. On April 9, over (…)

  • Iraq: We Are Winning, Not
    28 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In Bushzarro world, an undiminished “insurgency” over the period of a year is considered winning the “war” (occupation), according to Chairman of the Bushzarro Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers . “I’m going to say this: I think we are winning, okay. I think we’re definitely winning. I think we’ve been winning for some time.”
    Sure, General, we’re winning, and I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.
    According to Myers, since “coalition forces” (more accurately a loose and (…)

  • Casualty-hit US marines use dummies to fool rebels
    28 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    US marines who suffered the highest casualty rate of any unit in Iraq have revealed that they were so short of soldiers that they used cardboard dummies to fool insurgents into believing that they faced more men.
    Company E of the First Marine Division dressed the cutouts in camouflage shirts and placed them in observation posts to trick Iraqi rebels into thinking that they were manned.
    More than one third of the unit’s 185 troops were killed or wounded during its six-month tour last year (…)

  • SS Papers Raise Issue of Propaganda, National Security, and Possible Sex Scandals in the white house
    28 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Secret Service Papers Raise Issue of Propaganda, National Security, and Possible Sex Scandals in the White House; Bush, Old Media Hope No One Notices
    Secret Service’s Disclosure of "Temporary Appointments" Granted to "Jeff Gannon" Reveals That the Service Can Only Account for 49 Days of Security Clearance for Gannon Out of the More Than Two Years He Spent "Reporting" in the White House Press Corps
    By ADVOCATE STAFF
    We’ve covered the Gannongate scandal so many times in this space, we (…)

  • Dying Democracy.
    28 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I live in Canada where the government is about to collapse because of corruption.
    I see in Britain that it is almost certain that Blair lied about Iraq.
    I look to Washington and am revolted.
    Is democracy dying?If not,from where will the leadership with World vision come?