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Michael Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com To appreciate these comments, readers need to review this Wall Street Journal article about the OU bomb.
It was written by Ryan Chittum and Joe Hagan. Chittum is an OU journalism graduate. OU president David Boren, mentor and patron of George Tenet, has worked frantically to convince the media that the death of bomber Joel Hinrichs was just an "individual suicide" by an "emotionally troubled" student.
It was quite a (…)

de William Greider
The country is overloaded now with explosive political preoccupations, too many to keep straight, but there is one more potential disaster lurking behind the headlines—the economy. Not to worry, say the newspapers. The White House assures us the Bush economy is going great. The Federal Reserve agrees. Notwithstanding the tempest that flattened the Gulf Coast, the Fed is worried that the economy is expanding too strongly—it might provoke price inflation. So, trying to (…)

Media Analysts Question Decisions by Miller, Newspaper’s Editors Regarding Leak
By Howard Kurtz
Media analysts assailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller and her editors yesterday for what they called a series of missteps and questionable decisions revealed in two lengthy articles about the problems of covering the CIA leak investigation while defending the embattled journalist.
Alex Jones, a former Times reporter who heads the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public (…)

By AMIR SHAH
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A former regional governor who oversaw the destruction of two massive 1,500-year-old Buddha statues during the Taliban’s reign was elected to the Afghan parliament last month, officials said Tuesday as results from two provinces were finalized.
Elsewhere, U.S.-led coalition forces killed four police officers after mistaking them for militants during an operation in the southern province of Kandahar, provincial Gov. Asadullah Khalid said. The (…)

Settler population grows as Sharon grabs more West Bank land than he returned in Gaza
by Chris McGreal in Jerusalem
At the northern edge of Jerusalem, on the main road to the Palestinian city of Ramallah, three towering concrete walls are converging around a rapidly built maze of cages, turnstiles and bomb-proof rooms.
When construction at Qalandiya is completed in the coming weeks, the remaining gaps in the 8m (26ft)-high walls will close and those still permitted to travel between (…)

Turns out we killed 18 kids in a airstrike today and Helen was trying to get some answers from our "err on the side of life" administration. Especially take a good look at Scotty’s response at the end... the lines between "us" and "them" are blurring.
Q Dispatches from Iraq said that yesterday we killed 70 people in Iraq, near Ramadi, including 18 children. I want to know what the President thinks of that.
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, first of all, I think you need to talk to the military, (…)

Published on Monday, October 17, 2005 by the Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin) Halliburton’s New Low in Treachery by Dave Zweifel
The Chicago Tribune produced an incredible story last week detailing how unsuspecting young men from poor countries are tricked into working in dangerous jobs for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq.
The two-part series retraced the journey of a group of Nepalese men who were lured to the Mideast with fraudulent paperwork that promised them jobs at a luxury hotel (…)

REVEALED: IDENTITY OF INTERNATIONAL FIGURE IN COURT CASE INVOLVING WAR CRIMES PROSECUTION
World Exclusive:
Regarding CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS’ October 14, 2005 EXCLUSIVE PRESS RELEASE:
COURT CASE INVOLVING WAR CRIMES PROSECUTION
Full story at:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/3651786.html October 18, 2005
Publication ban lifted on alleged war criminal
The lawyer bringing forward a war crime charge of torture against a world leader has (…)

by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
If some of its key publications are any indicator, much of the American left seems unable to face the reality that the election of 2004 was stolen. So in all likelihood, unless something radical is done, 2008 will be too.
Misguided and misinformed articles in both TomPaine.com and Mother Jones Magazine indicate a dangerous inability to face the reality that these stolen elections mean nothing less than the death of what’s left of American democracy, (…)

[Part of the text was accidentally deleted in the earlier attempt to post this commentary, so please ignore it.] Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation defines terrorism as the" unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. " The fear level has certainly been raised at the (…)