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What Bush Might Have Said If He Ever Told the Truth
Satire by Peter Fredson
December 2, 2005
Our courageous American hero, George Bush, Lord of Missions Accomplished, gave another of his cloned speeches the other day at Annapolis, to a captive audience of bright and shining cadets, who had no idea what evil genius awaited their service. Some phrases from his speech were taken from the Neocon Strategy for Victory handbook years ago.
SCENE: George I is sitting in his bedroom having a (…)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) — While the United States spends billions on troop support in Iraq, the people serving the meals, scooping the ice cream, and washing the dishes make as little as 50 cents an hour.
The U.S. military has paid Halliburton subsidiary KBR about $12 billion so far for so-called logistics support to U.S. military personnel in Iraq, the largest contract of its kind ever. Around 80,000 troops are served meals at dining facilities every day under the contract — the other (…)

by William Hughes
Washington, D.C. - On Dec. 1, 2005, a public hearing, sponsored by the Council for the National Interest, (CNI), was held on Capitol Hill, in Room SC-4 of the Capitol Building. (1) It dealt primarily with how the U.S. should exit from the immoral and unjust Iraqi War, which was launched based on a pack of lies. (2) The blood stained conflict has already taken the lives of 2,110 American military personnel, over 100,000 Iraqi civilians, and has cost the U.S. taxpayers (…)

The Abramoff affair: Corruption scandal threatens Republican control of US Congress
Michael Scanlon, a Republican political operative, publicist and former press spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, pled guilty November 21 to conspiring with lobbyist Jack Abramoff to bribe a Republican congressman and cheat several American Indian tribes out of tens of millions of dollars.
Scanlon’s guilty plea-and even more his agreement to cooperate fully with federal prosecutors and testify (…)

An intensifying battle over intelligent design (ID) to be taught in science classes has been emerging across the United States, alarming scientists and educators who consider ID as a political ploy to repackage religion under the guise of “alternative science” to undermine the scientific theory of evolution. Policymakers in 24 states are weighing proposals to introduce ID in their public school curricula. Whether ID is a religious belief or a scientific theory is at the heart of the (…)

Goss refuses to give Fitzgerald CIA leak damage assessment
Pentagon’s Wolfowitz and Feith espionage evidence before grand jury
George Tenet granted partial immunity to testify against White House
CIA: Plame outed to disrupt probe into Israeli attempt to plant WMD
Probe of 10+ legislators, high officials tied to drugs and 9-11 finance before jury
CIA Director Porter Goss is refusing to give special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald a subpoenaed damage assessment report written by former (…)

Taken from www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
The Cabal of Criminality and Iraq
The disaster in Iraq has continued to regress with the same velocity and intensity as when it first started, raging onwards in a classical resistance, guerilla-style form of urban warfare that usually befalls occupying invaders of alien lands, yet as 2005 ends and 2006 gets set to begin, in the minds of millions of Americans finally out of the hypnotic, denial-laced clouds of 9/11, the time has finally (…)

Venezuela’s Disloyal Opposition Serves the Bush Administration’s Narrow Ideological Interests, but Hardly Those of its Own Nation
In an arrant display of rank political opportunism, Venezuela’s faltering middle-class opposition parties have announced that they would boycott the December 4 legislative elections. Far from a principled and high minded move, this tawdry tactic represents a cynical decision on the part of the opposition to spare itself the inconvenience of once again having to (…)

President Bush’s Flirtation With Fascism By Bill Gallagher November 29, 2005 Detroit - The regime has already produced so many ignominious legacies that historians in the near future will be able to feast on the task of measuring the damage from the wretched deeds the Busheviks have wrought.
Certainly, the unnecessary pre-emptive war in Iraq, sold with lies, will echo for generations as a symbol of America’s failed experiment in empire cloaked as proselytizing democracy. Our actions in (…)

What Lost Iraq? How Ragtag Insurgents Beat The World’s Sole Superpower Ted Rall November 22, 2005 Most Americans were unaware that we had botched Afghanistan; most still are. I watched the Pentagon send in a miniscule 8,000-troop complement where, according to its top strategists, at least half a million occupation soldiers (stationed for at least 20 years) would have been needed to control the nation’s roads, pacify the provinces and establish the security essential for building an (…)