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  • 4 More Years and Countless Tears
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wayne Besen
    Today President George W. Bush was sworn in, while the rest of us were just plain swearing.
    "No! This can’t F^*%*#^ be happening!"
    Yes, it did happen. The snow you saw in Washington was Hell freezing over. A president who squandered the surplus, ran up the deficit, damaged our international standing and launched a pointless war over weapons that did not exist was reelected.
    It was really pointless listening to his speech today. He has distorted reality so much that it (…)

  • Voter Turnout Won’t Be Enough To Legitimise Election...
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Voter Turnout Won’t Be Enough To Legitimise Election As The US Tries To Cook The Books, Iraq May Be Heading For Civil War Paul McGeough January 21, 2005 There is something truly remarkable about the Iraqi human spirit. Cast around for a comparison of the numbers that might vote next Sunday and Afghanistan is a good choice.
    There, more than 10.5 million signed up last year in a security environment that made a mockery of the international observance of fragile polls when only a handful of (…)

  • Story Of Husband’s Execution Contradicted By Relatives Who Say He Is Alive
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Threads Unravel In Iraqi’s Tale Story Of Husband’s Execution Contradicted By Relatives Who Say He Is Alive Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, January 20, 2005 An Iraqi woman who was granted refugee status in the United States after telling The Washington Post and U.S. officials that she had been imprisoned, tortured and sexually assaulted in Iraq during the 1990s appears to have made false claims about her past, according to a fresh examination of her statements.
    Jumana (…)

  • Crazy President, Crazy Nation
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Crazy President, Crazy Nation Margaret Kimberley January 20 2005 “...instructions given performers include a warning not to look directly at Bush while passing the presidential reviewing stand, not to look to either side and not to make any sudden movements.” - Scripps Howard News Service report on Bush inaugural activities.
    It is clear that George W. Bush is suffering from a terrible pathology, a sick paranoia. It has been pointed out by people who have known him and should have been (…)

  • Why We Fight
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    George W. Bush was sworn in today for his second term as the President of the United States. While the rich supporters gorge themselves on food and drink, while the controlled media fawn over the inaugural spectacle like awe struck schoolgirls, while the cronies of the administration regale themselves in ill-gotten power, soldiers die in the streets of Baghdad, brothers and sisters mourn, mothers weep, good, honest American citizens cringe in fear and disbelief.
    George W. Bush and his ilk (…)

  • Why Condolezza Rice Should Not Be Confirmed
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee concluded confirmation hearings for the office of Secretary of State, the presumptive appointee, Dr. Condolezza Rice, put on a display of the abrasive, uninformed style and lack of substance we can expect from her if she is confirmed.
    Rice sailed through most of the questions without providing substantive answers for the main part - much like her colleague, Alberto Gonzalez, in his confirmation hearing for Attorney General - and at one point, in a (…)

  • Coronation of Corruption : celebration of Exploitation
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Manuel Valenzuela
    At the apex of the highest mountain stand the facilitators of human corruption, in proud self-adulation, glorification and ego-driven debasement readying themselves with a forty million dollar celebration of pomp and circumstance, enjoying the comforts of luxury and unfettered power spun by the web of exploitation, for victorious do they see each other, this power-addicted and profit-hungry cabal of corporatist and elitist vermin, extolling both the virtues of (…)

  • The Inauguration and its protestors
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I am not watching the annoint....er....inauguration. Instead, I have C-SPAN2 on. It’s carrying the protestors. As much as I laud and support the protestors efforts, I also find the protest lacks something essential, especially coming as it does a few days after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
    What was it MLK brought to the civil rights movement? What’s the difference between MLK’s "I have a dream" speech and what the protestors are shouting today?
    It’s a rather difficult quality to put one’s (…)

  • Censored For Being Too Subtle. An Army Surgeon Loses His Weblog
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Censored For Being Too Subtle An Army Surgeon Loses His Weblog. The Reason: He Did Too Good A Job Illustrating The Casual Heroism Of Combat Kevin Horrigan 01/09/2005 The Pentagon reported last Tuesday that the number of U.S. troops wounded in the Iraq war had passed 10,000. Of the 10,252 wounded since the war began in March 2003, about half - 5,396 - were hurt so badly they couldn’t return to duty. The rest were patched up and sent back to work Also on Tuesday, in a not completely (…)

  • Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong Harry Browne January 15, 2005 You may remember that in 2002, the year before the Iraq War began, the United Nations Security Council ordered Iraq to produce a report detailing all of its biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons - past and present. Iraqi officials complied and produced an 11,800-page report on Iraq’s weapons programs. The report described all the chemical and biological weapons the country once had - where they came (…)