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The Memo raises the question: Did the President, the Vice President and other high level officials deliberately fabricate intelligence to convince a gullible public to accept war? These are high crimes and misdemeanors, impeachable offenses to say the least. And with the carnage in Iraq, they could all go to trial for war crimes. Is it any wonder that Bush and Co are running away from the questions?
Mr. Bush has refused to respond to the allegations, sending his PR man Scottie McClellan (…)

Q Scott, is the insurgency in Iraq in its last throes?
MR. McCLELLAN: Terry, you have a desperate group of terrorists in Iraq that are doing everything they can to try to derail the transition to democracy. The Iraqi people have made it clear that they want a free and democratic and peaceful future.
And that’s why we’re doing everything we can, along with other countries, to support the Iraqi people as they move forward. The fact that they are making great progress on the political front (…)

By Peter Fredson
Every morning I turn on TV to see what is happening in the world. I keep doing this despite the fact that I rarely learn what is really happening. Let me explain.
At the beginning of the “news hour” there are 5 to 7 advertisements for toilet deodorants, toothpaste, soft-drinks, suppositories, male enhancement pills, cars new and used, and self-promotional ads for the news services. Then the “anchors” come on, exchange pleasantries, mention the latest movie or (…)

CONDI RICE SATIRE?
By Peter Fredson
June 20, 2005
Today I saw a news item about Condoleezza Rice that had me wondering about her sincerity.
Here are some quotes direct from the great George Bush sycophant:
"We are all concerned for the future of Egypt’s reforms when peaceful supporters of democracy — men and women — are not free from violence. The day must come when the rule of law replaces emergency decrees, and when the independent judiciary replaces arbitrary justice," (…)

by Bob Nichols Project Censored Award Winner (Oklahoma, Red State, Dumbfuckistan) June 19, 2005 - The sophisticated urban assault newspaper, the conservative New York Times did their dead level best to spin a silk purse out of a bloody pig’s ear today with the latest poll showing that 2/3 of Americans disapprove of President Bush. The giant corporate flagship newspaper also did much hard work to save a real suck-ass Congress while 75% of real Americans hate Congress, more or less, with (…)

NEW YORK It was a week when opinion polls showed a plunge in support for the Iraq war, and the Downing Street memos finally made it into hundreds of newspapers across the nation. The congressman who turned french fries into freedom fries on Capitol Hill revealed he’d had a change of heart on Iraq, and now was in favor of U.S. withdrawal. On Saturday, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nevada told U.S. News, "Things aren’t getting better; they’re getting worse. The White House is completely (…)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 06/19/05 — Speaking during his weekly radio address Saturday, George W. Bush told Americans that the U.S. was forced into the war in Iraq because of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
"We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens," Bush said.
In fact, there will always be people ’out there’ who want to harm (…)

A Nagasaki Report By George Weller June 19, 2005 American George Weller was the first foreign reporter to enter Nagasaki following the U.S. atomic attack on the city on Aug. 9, 1945. Weller wrote a series of stories about what he saw in the city, but censors at the Occupation’s General Headquarters refused to allow the material to be printed. Weller’s stories, written in September 1945, can be found below.
NAGASAKI, Sept.8 — The atomic bomb may be classified as a weapon capable of being (…)

Hassan Juma’a Awad and Faleh Abbood Umara took a quiet boat tour Friday through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, thousands of miles from the port city where they live and work in Basra, Iraq.
Less than two weeks after allied forces entered the southern port city of Basra in 2003, Awad, Umara and other labor activists started the General Union of Oil Workers.
Such unions were outlawed under Saddam Hussein’s rule. And the union still may be illegal, the pair explained after the (…)

A Soldier’s Thoughts It Was Still Dark....... Zachary Scott-Singley May 04, 2005 It was still dark. I got dressed in that darkness. When I was ready I grabbed an MRE (meal ready to eat) and got in the truck. I was going to go line the truck up in preparation for the raid we were about to go on. The targets were three houses where RPG attacks had come from a few days prior. Sitting there in that darkness listening to the briefing on how we were to execute the mission, I let my mind wander (…)