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Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
[Links to documents substantiating this report are at the bottom]
In August 2005, U.S. Congressman Curt Weldon disclosed that the 9/11 Commission did not report another lapse of intelligence in the period before the attack. Information about Mohammed Atta’s involvement with Al Qaeda, known at least a year before 9/11, had been concealed from the FBI. The 9/11 Commission failed in many ways.
In September 2003, I emailed the (…)

George Bush is on vacation in Crawford, Texas, taking the same August-long break that he did in the summer before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The appeal of Crawford appears to be that it provides the President with an opportunity to put aside all the troubles of the world and to focus on fixing fences and clearing brush. After all, it was during his previous vacation that Bush ignored an August 6, 2001, briefing document titled: "Bin (…)

In 1972, after many years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg wrote: “In that time, I have seen it first as a problem; then as a stalemate; then as a crime.”
That aptly describes three key American perspectives now brought to bear on U.S. involvement in Iraq.
The moral clarity and political impacts of Cindy Sheehan’s vigil in Crawford are greatly enhanced by the basic position that she is taking: U.S. troops should not be in Iraq.
Sheehan’s (…)

Conservatives are attacking her as a dupe of the left who’s exploiting her dead son. Some relatives have piled on too. But the grieving mother says her well-timed Crawford visit is "my idea, my mission, my vision."
By Farhad Manjoo
Aug. 13, 2005 | August was supposed to have been a quiet month for George W. Bush. Last year, the president cut short his customary weekslong vacation in order to campaign for reelection, so this year, unencumbered, he’d planned to spend more than a month in (…)

Racism is the terrorists’ greatest recruitment tool
by Naomi Klein
Hussein Osman, one of the men alleged to have participated in London’s failed bombings on July 21, recently told Italian investigators that they prepared for the attacks by watching "films on the war in Iraq", La Repubblica reported. "Especially those where women and children were being killed and exterminated by British and American soldiers ... of widows, mothers and daughters that cry."
It has become an article of (…)

The situation in Crawford this month could be thew difference between World War III or not. Do whatever you can to support the cause of the Veterans for Peace and Goldstar Mothers, etc. Go visit, send money, tell all your friends. I’ve read they are trying to organize a Woodstock 2005 for the"mother of all vacations" in Crawford this August. This song is dedicated to all true patriots doing whatever they can. Start singing everybody
peace, love, end the Bush Administration
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by Cindy Sheehan
My day started way too early today. After 3 hours of sleep, I was being shaken awake by someone at 6:30am telling me that the Today Show wanted me to be on their show. I had come into town to sleep in a trailer because my tent had been infested with fire ants. I turned the today show down for 7:15am, so we did it at 9:00am.
We had a very interesting day. We had Bush drive by really, really fast twice. I caught a glimpse of Laura. I was hoping after she saw me that she (…)

My country is in the grip of a president surrounded by thugs in suits
By Howard Zinn
08/12/05 "The Guardian" — — It has quickly become clear that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. We became familiar with that term during the second world war. We talked of German-occupied France, German-occupied Europe. And after the war we spoke of Soviet-occupied Hungary, Czechoslovakia, eastern Europe. It was the Nazis, the Soviets, who occupied countries. The United States (…)

Helmut Scholz is up for a fight - and the political establishment is running scared
by Simon Tisdall
Helmut Scholz is up for a fight - and the political establishment is running scared. The German left, he says, won’t be fooled again.
Speaking in Berlin this week, the international coordinator of Germany’s insurrectionary new electoral phenomenon, the Linkspartei (Left party), said the country was in crisis and the main parties had no solutions.
"We want to reattract people who have (…)

President Bush used to enjoy healthy support for his Iraq policy. But now freeway ’bloggers’ are speaking out, writes Rupert Cornwell
Feel like getting something off your chest against that iniquitous warmonger in the White House? Well, you can write a letter to your newspaper, tune in to liberal talk radio, or click to a reliably leftie website. Alternatively, you can take a drive on the highways of the United States.
These are the domain of the freeway bloggers, a breed that have (…)