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• $1000 Reward for Getting Bush to Answer this Question
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  Democrats.com is offering a reward of $1,000 to anyone, professional journalist or citizen activist who gets President Bush to answer a particular question.
  The question is: "In July 2002, did you or your administration ’fix’ the intelligence and facts about non-existent Iraqi WMDs and ties to terrorism — which were disputed by US intelligence officials — to sell your decision to invade Iraq to Congress, the American people, and the world - as quoted in the Downing Street Minutes?" (…)

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• The ’I’ Word :Bush and Cheney have committed ’’high crimes and misdemeanors"
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  The impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse.
  Minutes from a summer 2002 meeting involving British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveal that the Bush administration was ’’fixing" the intelligence to justify invading Iraq. US intelligence used to justify the war demonstrates repeatedly the truth of the meeting minutes — evidence was thin and needed fixing.
  President Clinton was (…)

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• IS SIMPLE TRUST TOO SIMPLISTIC?
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  SIMPLE TRUST
  By Peter Fredson
  June 1, 2005
  I live in a small town where voter apathy is at least 50% and on a rainy day will go even lower. I have very few complaints about the administration of this town. The public utilities are well managed. The water is quite drinkable except when our river gets very low, and then the water smells faintly like the bottom of a fish tank. The streets are swept often, the street lighting is adequate, potholes are fixed fairly soon, trash is removed on (…)

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• Media Black Out Downing Street Minutes
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  Aggressive followers and participants in U.S. politics often have strong opinions about the Downing Street Minutes. Most other Americans have not heard of or are not clear about what the Downing Street Minutes are.
  How is this possible? Here we have the official government minutes from a meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top national security officials, including a briefing by Richard Dearlove, then-director of Britain’s CIA equivalent, MI-6, who had just returned from (…)

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• Fox News finally reports on Minutes/Memo-"Downing Street Memo Mostly Ignored in U.S."
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  WASHINGTON - A British government memo that critics say proves the Bush administration manipulated evidence about weapons of mass destruction in order to carry out a plan to overthrow Saddam Hussein (search) has received little attention in the mainstream media, frustrating opponents of the Iraq war.
  The "Downing Street Memo" - first published by The Sunday Times of London on May 1 - summarizes a high-level meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair (search) and his senior national security (…)

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• My Own Recent Conversations With U.S. Soldiers
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  This is an essay containing my own reflections of conversations I had this spring with active duty military persoonnel who have served in Iraq.
  I am a Navy Veteran. I served on the U.S.S. Yosemite, and in 1991 was deployed to the Persian gulf as a part of Operation Desert Shield. I recieved an honorable discharge in March of 1993.
  At some point during my service in the U.S. military, I realized that my own patriotism was being used against me to do the bidding of the rich elite that had (…)

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• Galloway Wary Of Staged Terror Attack As Pretext For Iran Invasion
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  George Galloway made worldwide headlines on May 17th when he appeared in front of a Senate committee on investigations, after its members accused him of profiteering from Saddam Hussein’s regime by receiving vouchers for oil, despite the fact that such allegations against Galloway had already been proven to be based on forged documents.
  Galloway did what no American on Capitol Hill could, he told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
  Galloway turned the tables and put the (…)

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• The Girlie-Bush Nuclear Option
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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  For the edification of a young writer on the BellaCiao website: "Ratification" is nowhere near the same word nor does it have anywhere near the same meaning as "Declaration." Remember The Constitution? "Congress SHALL declare war." The word "shall" does not allow any wiggle room, at all, but our cowardly Congress has found ways of squirming for more than 50 years, now. The last war that was legally declared by The United States of America was World War II when CONGRESS DECLARED WAR!! (…)

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• Minutes, not "memo"
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  AfterDowningStreet.org is calling them minutes, not memo...
  "THE DOWNING STREET MINUTES
  If any one looked objectively they would know.
  If anyone used a dictionary they would know.
  If anyone asked a secretary they would know.
  If anyone studied judiciously they would know.
  A memo is an inter-office communication.
  Minutes are the real-time record of a meeting, whose veracity is checked by all members attending, and are given to all members attending, and must be kept by all (…)

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• Conn. Sub Base a ’Minefield’ of Pollution
  1 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
  

  GROTON, Conn. -
  For decades, the land around the Navy’s oldest submarine base was a dumping ground for whatever it needed to dispose of: sulfuric acid, torpedo fuel, waste oil and incinerator ash. Now the Pentagon has proposed closing the base, leaving a huge swath of land that contains dozens of acres of polluted soil and groundwater, an Associated Press review of more than 1,000 pages of government documents found. ADVERTISEMENT
  The Submarine Base New London is among at least seven (…)

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