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  • Flashback: Cheney Chief-of-Staff Named as Plame-gate Leaker
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cheney Chief-of-Staff Named as Plame-gate Leaker: Flashback
    Cheney Chief-of-Staff Named as Spy-gate Leaker by Justin Raimondo October 2, 2003
    MSNBC’S Buchanan & Press scored a major scoop on Wednesday, all but unmasking the high government official who "outed" a CIA operative via a July 14 column by Robert Novak. Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst who worked with Valerie Plame, the reported agent, all but identified "Scooter" Libby as the government official who outed her – and (…)

  • Who’s the terroist, again?
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Over the Pentagon’s objections, a federal district judge has ordered the release of Abu Ghraib photographs and videotapes that the Pentagon has been keeping secret from the American people. U.S. Senators who have viewed the material expressed shock and disgust at what they saw, which is saying a lot.
    The government claims that disclosure of the materials will incite terrorist actions against Americans.
    What?
    Wait a minute! I thought the government’s position was that terrorists hate (…)

  • Israel will stand by DeLay (George Washington Rolls in his grave)
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    [see 1996 Israeli policy paper & then a word from an American revolutionary - George Washington]
    WASHINGTON - The first public appearance of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) after being indicted and forced to leave his leadership position was at Wednesday night’s dinner hosted by "Stand for Israel," a group of Israel-supporting evangelical Christians and Jews led by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein.
    "It’s really good to be here among so many old friends and brothers and sisters in the cause for (…)

  • Retired general: Iraq invasion was ’strategic disaster’
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    September 29, 2005
    WASHINGTON — The invasion of Iraq was the "greatest strategic disaster in United States history," a retired Army general said yesterday, strengthening an effort in Congress to force an American withdrawal beginning next year., Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, a Vietnam veteran, said the invasion of Iraq alienated America’s Middle East allies, making it harder to prosecute a war against terrorists.
    The U.S. should withdraw from Iraq, he said, and reposition its (…)

  • Global Eye: Captain Courageous
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published: September 30, 2005
    Quietly, firmly, relentlessly, the good captain laid out the list of atrocities committed at the order of the enemies of freedom: "Death threats, beatings, broken bones, murder, exposure to elements, extreme forced physical exertion, hostage-taking, stripping, sleep deprivation and degrading treatment." A catalogue of depravity, all of it designed — with diabolical sophistry — by self-exalted men cloaking their violent perversions with sham piety and righteous (…)

  • I stumbled across the PNAC, honestly thinking at the time it was someone’s idea of a bad gag
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Katrina Wilcox: An Interview with Mark Drolette
    Special BRAD BLOG / Velvet Revolution coverage
    of the Sep 24-26 Rally in D.C.
    Guest blogged by Katrina Wilcox
    We’re off to see our Representative today. While we’re away - here’s another interview for you. When I was desperately searching for something that would hold this administration accountable, I came across The March of the Madder’n Hells by Mark Drolette.
    http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=21662
    1. What caused you (…)

  • Congress Gives the Bushies $50 Billion For War (without even being asked)
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senate measure would push Iraq, Afghanistan war costs to $400 billion
    By Liz Sidoti The Associated Press
    WASHINGTON - The Senate would give President Bush $50 billion more for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a $440 billion defense-spending measure a panel approved yesterday.
    The House already has approved $45 billion more for the wars as part of its $409 billion version of the bill providing money for the Defense Department for the budget year that begins Oct. 1.
    Both the (…)

  • Walter Wolfgang: ’We have been lied to about the war. I dared to speak the truth’
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    By Walter Wolfgang
    My case is not important. But what happened to me when I was ejected from the Labour conference - simply for a one-word protest during Jack Straw’s speech this week - tells us there is something deeply wrong with the culture of our Government under Tony Blair.
    We have been lied to about the war. But not only that. The party has been manipulated so that it has not been allowed to discuss the issue properly.
    Indeed, the Labour leaders have got so nervous of criticism (…)

  • What Opposition Party?
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    Iraq War going to hell, with U.S casualties approaching 2000 dead and 25,000 wounded, at a cost of $200 billion and rising.
    Poverty in America on the rise in a period of supposed economic growth.
    Republican Party a cesspool of corruption.
    White House being investigated for outing undercover CIA agent.
    Abortion rights under serious threat and civil liberties on the chopping block, with the Supreme Court being packed with right-wing judges.
    New Orleans, just drying out from (…)

  • John Nichols: GOP doves once cooed exit strategy
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s anti-war quiz time.
    Who made the following statement: "I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now."
    Was it: A. Cindy Sheehan? B. Phil Donahue? C. Michael Moore? D. A prominent politician who was not afraid to dissent in a time of war?
    Answer: D.
    Defenders of the occupation of Iraq have responded to last weekend’s large anti-war demonstrations - which saw (…)