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  • British MP George Galloway: Calls for Bush, Blair, Koizumi, and Berlusconi to Stand Trial
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    British MP George Galloway appeared on Al-Jazeera discussing his recent visit to Washington. [To View this clip, visit ]. Additionally, he appeared on Abu Dhabi TV on November 20, 2004 and stated among other things the "U.S. and British governments will burn in ’Hell-Fires.’" [To view this clip, visit ]. The following are transcripts from the interviews:
    Al-Jazeera Interview
    "I am speaking for tens of millions, and maybe more, around the world, who know the truth about Iraq. Who know (…)

  • GULAG, SHMOOLAG
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    When Amnesty International described U.S. anti-terrorist prisons as “the Gulag of our time”, it gave the Bush Administration the ideal gift for the politician who has nothing: An opportunity to change the subject.
    Its over-the-top and historically dubious language allowed the president, the vice-president, the secretary of defense and many other Bushies to get everyone focused on syntax and away from the prisoner abuse issue.
    This is the second goodie the (…)

  • USA Today Editor: We couldn’t find The Memo
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At the end of this article, the USA Today editor explains why they haven’t printed anything on the memo until now, more than a month later: "We could not obtain the memo or a copy of it from a reliable source..." Sure. We’re supposed to believe that nobody at USA Today could find the link to the original article by the TimesOnline.uk? Blair’s office did not deny the authenticity, validating it as a source, and USA Today didn’t cover it for a month because it exposes Bush’s LIES. Ironically, (…)

  • Wreck It And Run
    8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wreck It And Run William Lind June 02, 2005 Among the many unhappy developments in American industry in recent decades has been the advent of "wreck it and run" management. A small coterie of senior managers takes over a company and makes a brilliant show of short-term profits while actually driving the business into the ground. They bail out just before it crashes, cashing in their stock options as they go, and leave the employees, ordinary stockholders and customers holding an empty bag. (…)

  • AP account of Downing Street question differs from that of White House, Washington Post
    8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Associated Press appears to have errantly revised a question asked by a Reuters reporter about the Downing Street minutes, RAW STORY has discovered.
    The AP transcript says the reporter asked a question which included the phrase, "intelligence and facts remain fixed" around the policy of removing Saddam Hussein, whereas the official White House transcript and account by the Washington Post asserted the reporter said "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy of removing (…)

  • BUSH REASSURES THE PUBLIC
    8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BUSH REASSURES THE PUBLIC
    By Peter Fredson
    June 8, 2005
    It was reassuring to hear, over the past several days, that George Bush and Tony Blair had only the best of attentions toward Saddam Hussein. They both denied any nasty memo charging them with plotting war against Iraq. They both reassured their publics that they had only peaceful intentions. In fact, both of them used the word “peace” several times. Would they do that to mislead? Are we not reassured by their sincerity?
    We (…)

  • Downing Street Memo, Say What?
    8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    June 7, 2005
    Downing Street Memo, Say What?
    “In exchange for our uniformed young people’s willingness to offer the gift of their lives, civilian Americans owe them something important: It is our duty to ensure that they never are called to make that sacrifice unless it is truly necessary for the security of the country. In the case of Iraq, the American public has failed them; we did not prevent the Bush administration from spending their blood in an unnecessary war based on contrived (…)

  • CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEY BONIFAZ ON BUSH AND BLAIR
    8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Evidence / From After Downing Street Dot Org Posted by downing on Jun 07, 2005 - 07:02 PM June 7, 2005
    STATEMENT BY CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEY JOHN BONIFAZ ON BEHALF OF AFTERDOWNINGSTREET.ORG ON TODAY’S JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT BUSH AND BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BLAIR
    President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair continued today to try to hide from the explosive revelations in the Downing Street Minutes.
    Neither President Bush nor Prime Minister Blair denied today that (…)

  • Bring It Down. Now.
    8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Downing Street Memo is the gift that just keeps on giving. And well it should. It is the smoking gun which proves that the gravest possible crime was committed by the Bush administration, and among its victims were the American people.
    I am more hopeful about American politics than I have been in a long time, though still cautious. For nearly five years now, the Bush administration has gotten away with murder - literally and figuratively - with seemingly immutable impunity, always (…)

  • Bush lied — people died!
    8 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush lied — people died.
    There, I’ve said it.
    Bush lied — people died.
    There, I’ve said it again.
    It’s no longer a debatable issue. The ’Downing Street Memo’ proves the "fix" was in. Bush had plans to invade Iraq long before 9-11, all he needed was an excuse. So he ’fixed the facts.’
    Yet, in spite of the fact that we now know that there were no weapons of mass destruction, that Saddam and Bin Laden had no real connection, that Saddam never was, and never could be, any real threat (…)