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The sentencing of Judith Miller to jail for refusing to disclose her sources is the direct result of the culture of unaccountability that infects the Bush White House from top to bottom. President Bush’s refusal to enforce his own call for full cooperation with the Special Counsel has brought us to this point. Clearly, the conspiracy to cover up the web of lies that underpinned the invasion of Iraq is more important to the White House than coming clean on a serious breach of national (…)

Tigris dam damns Assur The Iraqi government is building a dam which will obliterate the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire Martin Bailey , The Art Newspaper
LONDON, July, 2005 - The Iraqi government is building a dam which will destroy the ancient city of Assur, the former capital which gave its name to Assyria. Although it has received no publicity outside Iraq, the dam across the Tigris is likely to result in one of the greatest archaeological losses of modern times. John Curtis, the (…)

GLENEAGLES, Scotland, July 6 (Xinhuanet) — The streets of Edinburgh looked quite normal on Wednesday except a heavy presence of police and some boarded up shop windows in downtown areas. With the fast-approaching Group of Eight (G8) summit in Gleneagles some70 kilometers way from the Scottish capital, Scotland is all drummed up to ensure a safe summit.
On Monday, violent clashes took place on a high street of Edinburgh when over 1,000 anarchists and members of the so-called Carnival for (…)

Bush should resign for lying about Iraq
We need to withdraw from Iraq immediately. Even our own generals tell us that our presence there is only making things worse. President Bush has violated the public trust with his snake-oil sales pitch for support for his invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation whose only fault was to suspend the sale of its oil in protest of the crippling sanctions that it was under.
It is no secret that Bush was itching for regime change in Baghdad even (…)

George W. Bush on President Clinton not setting a timetable for exiting Kosovo
“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.” George W. Bush, 4/9/99:
“I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.” George W. Bush, 6/5/99 The failure of the Bush administration to plan for postwar Iraq compromised a swift military victory, and now (…)

Documents show the fix was in
Speaking on May 15 in Baghdad, Condoleezza Rice made an outrageous statement: "You see, this war came to us, not the other way around." Could there be anyone left in the U.S., let alone the Middle East, who believes this bald-faced lie?
The truth has trickled out slowly — the truth so sickening that none of us want to believe it. But it’s finally out: The Bush administration, from its very first weeks in office, planned a military operation to overthrow (…)

Spin cycles are supposed to last little longer than 24 hours, especially when it’s bad news for Bush & Co. That is, perhaps, one reason why the Downing Street Memos (DSM) are causing such consternation in journalistic circles. A recent column by Newsday editorialist James Klurfeld, “Downing St. memos: Been there, knew that” (6-24-05), is of particular interest to me, since I live on Long Island, and because it is a fascinating window into the thought processes of an influential member of (…)

People who write about politics are
often accused of being too
cynical. Truth is, it’s hard to be cynical enough to keep up with the professionals. Take that contemptible speech White House apparatchik Karl Rove gave recently accusing liberals of wanting to offer "therapy and understanding" to the 9/11 terrorists. This in the face of 420-1 and 98-0 votes in Congress to make war on Osama bin Laden and his Taliban allies in Afghanistan. Back then, I figured that was the Bush (…)

The Bush administration is spectacularly good at sleight-of-hand tricks, directing public attention in one direction while they’re working diligently in another. The latest trial balloon of "probable" Supreme Court nominees is no exception.
While everybody is worried about abortion rights and corporate power, a far more insidious agenda may be at play.
Anti-abortion forces and women’s rights groups alike are up in arms about the possibility that the next nominee may or may not have an (…)

This is the part of the interview on Iraq, and the last throes. You can see how uncomfortable he is without being in his cocoon...
James Wolcott (http://jameswolcott.com/archives/20...) writes exactly what I was thinking. What the hell was with all that blinking? (song lyrics?)
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Wolcott: But was more fascinating that Bush’s imperial tone was the fact that during these answers, he was blinking furiously. There’s nothing like a tight (…)