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March 18, 2006
The recommendations continue regarding investigating grounds for impeaching George W. Bush as well as censure. Periodically we also read and hear about petition efforts to attack Bush, Cheney, or Rumsfeld.
The time for such actions has long passed. The term "arrogance of power" that was reiterated so often in analyzing the actions of President Richard M. Nixon three decades ago has been carried to new meaning through the ruthless exercise of power by an unelected ruling (…)

There can be no doubt what malign force is behind the massive spike in sectarian violence in Iraq ...The Pentagon ... Why ? They openly flouted the so called ’ Salvador Option’ 13 months ago ... From Newsweek of 1/14/05 : The Salvador Option ’ : " one pentagon proposal would send special forces to advise ,support, and possibly train Iraqi squads , most likely hand-picked Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathisers.... Why ? (…)

Frequently referred to as the "Senate’s leading liberal" , Sen. Ted Kennedy is strangely mute on the subject of the potential censure and/or impeachment of Unitary Executive Bush..... Back in the mid-70’s Teddy was remarkably active in bringing to an end the of reign of the mad King , Richard of Milhouse .... Today he huffs and puffs about Bush’s "incompetence" as commander in chief . In that regard he is echoing talking points first issued by his colleague , Sen. Dianne Feinstein of (…)

Katherine Gun was a translator at the Britain’s communications spy agency, General Communications Headquarters. In 2002, she leaked a top-secret memo to a British newspaper, revealing the U.S. was spying on U.N. Security Council members before their vote on the Iraq war.
Where are the whistleblowers about Iran?
It is exactly three years since the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq, and a little over three years since Martin Bright and his colleagues at the London Observer (…)

Jesus

“The concept of a ’preventive war’ does not appear in the Catechism of the Catholic Church." - Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI
The Pentagon - It’s the nerve center of the U.S. Department of Defense’s War, Death and Spending Machine. It’s a virtual city undo itself, located in the state of Virginia, with over 25,000 employees. Situated not far from the southern banks of the Potomac River, it rises directly opposite Washington, D.C. It may be the largest office building in the world, (…)

Riot policemen drag away an unidentified unionist from the PTT-Sud who was seriously injured on the Nation square in Paris, Saturday, March 18, 2006, during clashes between protesters and riot policemen, following a students and unionists demonstration against the First Job Contract, known as CPE.
The unionist was unconscious and in serious condition Monday, March 20, 2006, police and hospital officials said.
The PTT-SUD union claimed the 39-year-old man had been "violently trampled by a (…)

BUSH SARCASM AT ITS FINEST
By Peter Fredson
March 20, 2006
I saw a news item an hour ago which gave me great amusement. The headline read:
US wants new Belarus poll The story said: “The United States does not accept results of the Belarus election and believes the campaign that re-elected President Alexander Lukashenko was conducted in a ‘”climate of fear’", the White House said today.’”
What a coincidence. I was thinking exactly the same thing about (…)

Sen. Bob Byrd is frequently identified as the US. Senate’s leading Constitutional Scholar .... Here is what he said of George W. Bush on 10/20/05 : " Americans have been stunned at the recent news of the abuse of power by an overzealous president. It has become apparent that this administration has engaged in a consistent and unrelenting pattern of abuse against our Countries law abiding citizens and against our Constitution...." Well said... Sen. Byrd also wrote a book entitled (…)

American foreign policy has been weighed down for all too many years by an albatross hung round Uncle Sam’s neck, one that distorts our stance especially vis-à-vis Middle Eastern issues and ultimately works against U.S. interests in the region and around the world: that albatross is unconditional support for the state of Israel. Of course, saying this amounts to a hate crime in today’s political atmosphere, and it is almost impossible to criticize the Jewish state without being accused of (…)