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THIS IS HOW BUSH BRINGS THE TROOPS HOME; BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW
Army Chaplain Capt. Daoud Agbere, right, a Muslim cleric, prays for an American soldier after he was pronounced dead upon arrival at a military hospital in Baghdad, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, despite the efforts of Army Nurse supervisor Patrick McAndrew, left, to revive him. The soldier was fatally wounded in a Baghdad firefight with insurgents.
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Big Media has given ample space for administration officials and conservatives to spread falsehoods about relief efforts.
Eight Big Lies About Katrina
In the past week, Bush administration officials and conservative commentators have repeatedly used the national media to spread misinformation about the federal government’s widely criticized response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
1. Bush: "I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees"
On the Sept. 1 (…)

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1103003,00.html
This link will spell out just how to fabricate the things needed to get a high level federal job like Mr. Brown has with FEMA. Now if a private sector applicant or federal civil servant applicant will notice, most of their applications state they will be "dismissed" (fired?) for "lying" (misrepresentation) on their application. There must be some part of this Mr. Rove aka Mr. Bush does not understand....... Hmmmm...... (…)

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Based On a True Story
Stan Cox
In the past four years, much has been learned about the terrible events that unfolded on September 11, 2001. But a long list of questions remains unanswered. Certainly, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "9/11 Commission") failed to provide a theory that explains them adequately.
The following one-act play illustrates some of those remaining questions without (…)

CAMELOT, SPAMALOT
By Peter Fredson
September 9, 2005
I realize that most blogs this week are concerned with Hurricane Katrina, and rightfully so. But today I received an e-mail that was so outrageous, so ignorant, and exhibited such atrocious spelling errors that I must remark on it.
The e-mail purports to be from some enterprise that loans people money, a very serious matter, which surely requires some kind of accounting course and some knowledge of spelling and grammar to be (…)

Washington - Official United States admonitions against broadcasting images of cadavers in New Orleans floodwaters have prompted charges that America’s media helped cover up the slow United States response to Hurricane Katrina.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has taken much of the heat for the lack of organisation, asked news organisations not to show pictures of dead bodies.
US newspapers have published photographs of bodies floating in the city, devastated by flooding (…)

by John Byrne
In the wake of what the Wall Street Journal projected may be the most expensive natural disaster in American history, the Republican Leadership in the House of Representatives limited floor consideration of the $52 billion Katrina relief bill proposed by President Bush and voted to reject any Democratic efforts to amend the bill to include a wider array of relief measures, RAW STORY has learned.
Democrats said no one had even seen a copy of the legislation.
Voting along (…)

by Max Blumenthal
Every cloud has a silver lining. Hurricane Katrina has devastated New Orleans, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless, and plunging the entire city into chaos. In the hurricane’s wake, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its director, Michael Brown, forced out of his former job at the International Arabian Horse Association, with no credentials in disaster relief, have become targets of withering criticism. Yet FEMA’s relief efforts have (…)

By Charles Hawley in Berlin
America’s new ambassador to Germany, William R. Timken Jr., introduced himself to Berlin’s press corps on Tuesday. While many in Germany have been critical of Timken’s big business past, Hurricane Katrina was talking point number one.
In September 2001, one of newly appointed German Ambassador Daniel Coats’s first official duties was to accept German aid and solidarity offered in the wake of the devastating terror attacks in New York and Washington.
Fast (…)

Union called action; contract end date key
by Glen Martin
Most Bay Area residents may have celebrated Labor Day with prodigious quantities of beer and barbecue, but some marked it the old-fashioned way — by getting arrested.
Sixty-one union members and sympathizers staged a sit-down at the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Union Square in San Francisco to call attention to a yearlong dispute with 14 hotels over new labor contracts.
They were arrested, charged with misdemeanors for interfering (…)