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2007-07-09T06:17:00.000-07:00

2007-02-08T08:16:00.000-08:00

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A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States

A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States

By Chalmers Johnson

Posted on Wednesday, February 7, 2007. Originally from January 2007. By Chalmers Johnson.

2007-01-25T01:28:00.000-08:00

http://home.ourfuture.org/sotu.html

State of the Union - By the Numbers

In his 2007 State of the Union address, President Bush will hail the state of the union as "strong", pointing to the growing economy, new jobs, and record home ownership. But for Americans worrying about how to make ends meet around their kitchen tables at night, the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Just look at the numbers, and how Bush's rhetoric has failed to match reality throughout his presidency...

2006-10-31T01:59:00.000-08:00

Beautiful.

AP Photo taken from La Jornada.

2006-07-18T01:34:00.000-07:00

We Fight Why? (Harpers.org)

2006-04-28T09:28:00.000-07:00

Neil Young's Living with War!

2006-04-12T09:52:00.000-07:00

Good riddance!

Peace!

2006-04-06T02:53:00.000-07:00

Just a reminder...

From The Student Peace Action Network of Syracuse University

2006-03-02T03:24:00.000-08:00

Repeat after me:

IMPEACH BUSH!

Let's save a little face.

2006-03-02T03:14:00.000-08:00

Wed, 01 Mar 2006

He knew it was coming.

Tonight, the AP revealed secret transcripts and video tape proving
that President Bush was briefed on the specific threats posed by Katrina before it
hit land and did nothing to keep us safe. Can you help spread the word by passing
on this note to 5 friends?

Click Here

2006-02-07T00:59:00.000-08:00

From t r u t h o u t:

February 2, 2006 | Jesus Calles, of El Centro, California, an activist on the "March of Migrants," places crosses on graves in a cemetery plot set aside for unidentified people who died trying to cross illegally into the US from Mexico.
(Photo: David McNew / Getty Images)

2006-01-02T02:10:00.000-08:00

Hello.

Harpers.org's 2005 Yearly Review.

Peace.

Goodbye.

2005-07-07T00:37:00.000-07:00

One more time:

2005-07-07T00:32:00.000-07:00

These are current photos from Iraq, shown at t r u t h o u t :

I don't know about you, but I think we should take some responsibility here...

Peace.

2005-07-06T05:25:00.000-07:00

says...

KARL ROVE: WORSE THAN OSAMA BIN LADEN

Go ahead and read it, jake.

Peace.

2005-06-13T01:19:00.000-07:00

Hey there. I guess it's time once again to reactivate this thing.

Iraq: the wrong war from www.opendemocracy.net

2004-11-23T08:06:00.000-08:00

nation Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway Glimmers of Hope Hang in there. Things may not be quite as good as Bush-lovers think. November 16th, 2004 11:05 AM

2004-11-08T04:51:00.000-08:00

...a bit late, but worth a read:

JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT Patriots Reject Bush "Reelection"

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GUILTY, DISGUSTED, AMERICAN

by Ted Rall

2004-11-03T02:07:00.000-08:00

The NYTimes' Interactive Graphic for 2004 US Presidential Election Results

2004-10-26T08:52:00.000-07:00

Forum: Self-Binding The United States pursued a multilateral strategy to secure peace and prosperity after World War II. Here's what the country risks in adopting unilateral approaches to new threats today or How America benefited from multilateralism--and the cost we bear by going it alone in a risky new century by Lisa L. Martin, www.harvardmagazine.com

2004-10-26T08:05:00.000-07:00

Weekly Review Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2004. By Roger D. Hodge.

also: Good Enough for Washington Posted on Monday, October 25, 2004. Considering the evils and hypocrisies of modern electioneering. Originally from “Editor's Easy Chair,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 64, iss. 381, pp. 466-467, February 1882. By George William Curtis.

2004-10-26T08:02:00.000-07:00

Polling truth Don't be confused by the tide of contradictory voter surveys. Bush is in trouble, writes US blogger Markos Moulitsas, Tuesday October 26, 2004 The Guardian

2004-10-26T05:18:00.000-07:00

A curious illustration: Found here.

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A Catalonian perspective on the U.S. election (in Castillian).

2004-10-25T02:27:00.000-07:00

The Village Voice: Features: Sucking Democracy Dry: The End of Democracy by Rick Perlstein Losing America's birthright, the George Bush way October 19th, 2004 10:40 AM

2004-10-21T10:07:00.000-07:00

JOCKS VS. GEEKS The Two Tribes of American Politics

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THE CASE AGAINST BUSH Ten Reasons America Needs a Change

2004-10-20T01:47:00.000-07:00

The New York Times > International > 'Catastrophic Success': Poor Intelligence Misled Troops About Risk of Drawn-Out War: "October 20, 2004
'CATASTROPHIC SUCCESS'
Poor Intelligence Misled Troops About Risk of Drawn-Out War
By MICHAEL R. GORDON"

2004-10-19T08:50:00.000-07:00

MotherJones.com | News: Aboard the Good Ship USS State of Denial By Tom Engelhardt In the final run-up to the election, we're still inside the American bubble, with the grimmer news happening offshore of American consciousness. October 18 , 2004

2004-10-19T03:11:00.000-07:00

The Village Voice: Nation: Voter's Digest: nation villagevoice.com exclusive The latest election fraud warnings Voter's Digest October 18th, 2004 3:20 PM

2004-10-19T00:43:00.000-07:00

's IMAGE CONTROL Leave No Particulate Matter Behind, by LOU BEACH. Plus, Filtered. JOHN POWERS ON... Desperadoes: Going nuts inside the debate bubble. DISSONANCE George Untethered We have an untethered president. It’s a good thing he doesn’t bite. BY MARC COOPER Indicting the Media: The mainstream press is covering the presidential campaign like the ninth race at Santa Anita. Hey, there are real issues in the White House Stakes. BY DAVID CORN OCTOBER 15 - 21, 2004

2004-10-19T00:35:00.000-07:00

Dirty tricks return to the sunshine state US election begins with voting in Florida dogged by controversy over faulty machines and disenfranchised voters Oliver Burkeman in Tallahassee, Tuesday October 19, 2004 The Guardian ¡Viva la Democracia!

2004-10-15T05:08:00.000-07:00

Guardian | Bush's best is not good enough Comment -> Bush's best is not good enough His story is only of war. At home, he offers merely evasion and denial Sidney Blumenthal Friday October 15, 2004The Guardian"

2004-10-13T09:17:00.000-07:00

Harpers.org's Weekly Review (for Oct. 11-18, more or less)!

2004-10-07T08:44:00.000-07:00

POTEMKIN DEMOCRACY A Laughably Fake Election in Afghanistan 10/5/04

2004-10-06T04:11:00.000-07:00

Check this out: Peace.

2004-10-04T03:42:00.000-07:00

LOSING OUR HEADS
Iraqi Insurgents are Butchers, Yet Not as Bad as Us

2004-10-01T18:20:00.000-07:00

September 30, 2004: Full text from the debate between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry. The moderator was Jim Lehrer of PBS. The transcript is provided by the Federal News Service.

2004-10-01T02:14:00.000-07:00

OCTOBER 1 - 7, 2004

Damn Polls
The weird science that gives George the edge right now
by Joshuah Bearman

2004-09-30T07:23:00.000-07:00

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2004-09-29T10:32:00.000-07:00

Baghdad Year Zero (Harpers.org): "Baghdad Year Zero Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopiaPosted on Friday, September 24, 2004. Originally from Harper's Magazine, September 2004. By Naomi Klein."

2004-09-28T09:37:00.000-07:00

TRIUMPH OF THE STULTOCRACY by Ted Rall, 9/21/04

2004-09-23T11:22:00.000-07:00

Worth a click.

2004-09-22T02:17:00.000-07:00

2004-09-21T09:22:00.000-07:00

Little Guantánamo by Ted Rall, 9/14/04.

2004-09-17T03:05:00.000-07:00

The Resort To Force By Noam Chomsky The Bush administration's elevation of force as a principle above all else has driven up the levels of terrorism, of violence, and of danger to our long-term survival. At MotherJones.com, September 16 , 2004

2004-08-06T04:02:00.000-07:00

What the ... !!!


		"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." George W. Bush, speaking truer than he knew.

From MotherJones.com!

2004-08-05T03:19:00.000-07:00

AMERICA'S LAST WAR, 8/3/04

2004-07-30T14:36:00.000-07:00

Sore Winners (And the Rest of Us) . . . in George Bush’s America. JOHN POWERS, in an excerpt from his brand-new book, a pop mythology of the Bush years, takes on The Apprentice, spoiled athletes, greedy CEOs and the politicians who brought us the war in Iraq. Plus, the Napoleon of Terror — Osama as Sore Winner. + Love and Loathing in Boston: What’s going down at the Democratic National Convention is nothing short of a passionate preamble to overthrowing government one more time. Or is it? MARC COOPER follows the dollars from the Fleet Center to fancy spreads of Wellfleet oysters and mango lobster cakes and overfed delegates basking in the attention of the nation’s most influential corporations. JOSHUAH BEARMAN watches Howard Dean make a case for the youth vote. HAROLD MEYERSON goes to the floor to see what party unity really sounds like. + A Considerable Town : Dump Bush ... er, never mind: Microsoft calls JAN STRNAD a hatemonger. But the only person he hates is George W. Bush; Free speech, milady: The good people of the Kingdom of Porn just want to have a ball. BY PETER GILSTRAP

2004-07-30T02:15:00.000-07:00

Four more years for Big Brother?
Mark Medish, , 26 - 7 - 2004 The policies and practices of the current United States administration are all too reminiscent of George Orwell’s dystopian fantasy, Nineteen-Eighty Four. It is time, says an influential Democrat, for Americans to wake up from their national nightmare.

2004-07-28T05:49:00.000-07:00

ANOTHER LIE. WILL MORE DIE? Bush Floats War Against Iran

2004-07-26T05:34:00.000-07:00

Recent stories by Rick Perlstein

The Church of Bush What liberal infidels will never understand about the president — Rick Perlstein talks to Bush admirers

The Jesus Landing Pad Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move — Rick Perlstein looks at the White House's connection to apocalyptic Christians

The Divine Calm of George W. Bush So Iraq's a mess and half the country hates you. Just keep praying. — Rick Perlstein examines how old-time religion is responsible for the President's preternatural peacefulness.

The Jobs of the Future Are a Thing of the Past Outsourcing and the sad little movement to stop it — If the outsourcing of white-collar jobs overseas began in earnest during the personnel shortage caused by the runup to Y2K, why, asks Rick Perlstein, is the movement to stop the flood so pallid and sad?

Flight of the Bumblebee Howard Dean May Be Dying, but He Sure Packed a Sting

Last Copter Out of Baghdad Bush Flees Iraq Mess On The Campaign Express — George Bush has relinquished his hardliners' dreams of setting up a peaceful, democratic Iraq, and has set a new goal: an end to the occupation by July 1, no matter what. Rick Perlstein examines the president's zeal to flee on the Karl Rove express.

Attention, Wal-Mart Voters Lost Jobs and Military Funerals Haunt Bush in the Heartland — Body bags and lost jobs haunt Bush in the heartland, calling into question whether Republicans can take the red states for granted; Rick Perlstein visits bars and workplaces and meets an increasingly disgruntled electorate.

Day of the Spoiler Inside Joe Lieberman's Kamikaze Campaign — Rick Perlstein goes inside Joe Lieberman's campaign and concludes that not only does the senator add nothing, he in fact mightily decreases the Democrats’ chances in 2004.

Come Out Fighting Boxing George Bush Into a Corner in 2004 — Is the surest way to win a presidential election to scare the bejesus out of the voters about what'll happen if the opponent becomes, or remains, president? Rick Perlstein explains why Democrats better get tough.

Orange County Anguish Searching for Someone, Anyone, Who Loves Governor Gray Davis — Why do middle-class Californians hate Gray Davis? Rick Perlstein reports.

From

2004-07-26T02:21:00.000-07:00

Axis of liars By hobbling a commission led by Washington careerists, the Bush administration has avoided taking responsibility for its failures, writes Bob Mulholland, Thursday July 22, 2004, The Guardian

2004-07-23T05:18:00.000-07:00

Who's in Charge Here? What the 9-11 Commission Report does not explain is why, on the morning of September 11, 2001, President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and other top officials were essentially missing in action By Gail Sheehy, July 22, 2004

2004-07-23T04:57:00.000-07:00

The Oil We Eat Following the food chain back to Iraq Posted on Friday, July 23, 2004. Originally from Harper's Magazine, February 2004. By Richard Manning.

2004-07-22T04:32:00.000-07:00

August 29, New York City
The World Says No to the Bush Agenda!

2004-07-19T00:33:00.000-07:00

They forgot to mention "Skull and Bones".

2004-07-16T03:13:00.000-07:00

[Disavowal] Negative Capability Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2004. The following assertions were collected from public statements made by George W. Bush and his official spokesmen since 1997. Originally from Harper's Magazine, May 2004.

2004-07-14T00:33:00.000-07:00

The Mother Jones Poll The Unhappy Majority | On the Road to Nowhere | Beyond Anger | The Full Results | Take the Poll | About the Poll

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MotherJones.com / News / dailymojo Notes from the Imperium And from a lost war (or the tunnel at the end of the dark). July 14, 2004By Tom Engelhardt

2004-07-13T08:13:00.000-07:00

MotherJones.com / News / Feature The Diddly Awards Honoring the jaw-dropping achievements of the 108th Congress Jack Hitt July/August 2004 Issue & MotherJones.com / News / dailymojo Devil in the Details Five questions for the Senate Intelligence Committee. -Bradford Plumer, July 13, 2004

2004-07-12T04:57:00.000-07:00

Exactly what is terrorism? +

2004-07-12T04:45:00.000-07:00

MotherJones.com / News / special_reports

The Unhappy Majority Beneath the partisan divide, America is discontented and desperate for change.

Michael Scherer
June 16 , 2004

2004-07-09T06:02:00.000-07:00

A Pseudostate Is Born The new Iraq doesn't measure up as a real country. Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com, June 29, 2004

2004-07-08T06:13:00.000-07:00

George Rex The multiple-choice madness of King George: A not-so-simple Independence Day quiz. By Stephen R. Shalom, July 5, 2004

2004-07-05T00:45:00.000-07:00

“The War President”
Bush photomosaic of Americans who have died in Iraq since the war president entered office.

2004-07-01T02:48:00.000-07:00

Features > June 22, 2004 The New and Improved Iraq By Juan Cole

2004-06-30T05:16:00.000-07:00

¡oy vey!

Word that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon donned a crown in a Senate office building and declared himself the Messiah while members of Congress watched during an awards ceremony in March is now causing a stir in Washington.

2004-06-28T01:00:00.000-07:00

Wooing the Vatican

Winning Grandma Millie’s Vote

Bush’s Condom Wars

key Supreme Court decisions affecting states’ rights

Powerlines

2004-06-18T00:55:00.000-07:00

JUNE 18 - 24, 2004 The Cheney Connection: Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into whether Halliburton paid some $180 million in bribes to Nigerian officials. It’s an allegation that the French government has been examining for a year, with the VP among the targets. BY DOUG IRELAND + Open City: Blame John Kerry for the abysmal showing at anti-war protests. BY STEVEN MIKULAN

2004-06-16T05:07:00.000-07:00

Sign on to support a powerful new ad apologizing to the Arab world for the torture at Abu Ghraib.

Also, call your Senators to reaffirm our opposition to torture.

Dear MoveOn member,

By refusing to hold
senior administration officials accountable, President Bush has failed
to fully repudiate the torture that occurred at Abu Ghraib. Every
passing day brings new photos and new news of how these despicable
techniques were sanctioned at the very top, but Bush won't even condemn
Rush Limbaugh for saying that the tactics were "brilliant" and the
troops were "just blowing off a little steam."

So it's up to us to
try to make things right. Our campaign to hold Donald Rumsfeld
accountable will continue. But today, there are two other ways we can
help -- joining an apology from Americans of faith to the world, and
helping pass a legal re-commitment to the Geneva Conventions and what
they stand for.

First, an important new group called FaithfulAmerica¹
is putting a very moving TV ad on the air in Arab countries. The ad is
a montage of American religious leaders -- Christian, Jewish, and
Muslim -- humbly expressing the regrets so many of us feel for what
happened.

You can watch the ad, sign onto it, and help get it on the air, at:

http://www.faithfulamerica.org/adclip.htm

At the end of the ad,
FaithfulAmerica will state the number of people who've signed on, so
the more people who endorse the message, the more effective it will be.

Please sign on today.

Second, the Senate has
an opportunity now to reaffirm our opposition to torture and our
commitment to the Geneva Conventions, which ban it. The Senate is
debating a bill authorizing Defense Department actions for this year,
and Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) has offered an amendment repudiating
torture and re-confirming our commitment to uphold international human
rights as specified in the Geneva Conventions.²

A vote on the Durbin amendment is expected early this week. Please call your Senators now, at:

Senator Dianne Feinstein

Phone: 202-224-3841

Senator Barbara Boxer

Phone: 202-224-3553

Urge them to support
the Durbin amendment to the Defense bill. Then say something about why
it's important to you that we repudiate torture and support the Geneva
Conventions.

Please let us know you're calling, at:

http://www.moveon.org/callrumsfeld.html?id=2944-3261555-WI_z2iDty5Vgg6rtIQqU5A

Thank you, for all you do.

Sincerely,

--Carrie, Joan, Lee, Noah, Peter, and Wes

The MoveOn.org Team

Tuesday, June 15th, 2004

Footnotes:

1. FaithfulAmerica is a new project of the National Council of Churches,
"an online community of people of faith who want to build a more just and compassionate nation."

2. For the full text of the Durbin Amendment, click here.

2004-06-15T09:21:00.000-07:00

MotherJones.com | News: "Orwell meets Kafka The U.S. runs a global system of injustice, purposely mounted in the legal and moral dark. May/June 2004 IssueBy Tom Engelhardt"

2004-06-15T00:33:00.000-07:00

... and justice for all. Photo «courtesy» of t r u t h o u t.

2004-06-11T01:07:00.000-07:00

My apologies to Juan José Millás, but I just gotta let my non-spanish-speaking brethren in on this (courtesy of Altavista's Babel Fish Translation):

An ingenuous one

Published in the Friday 11 June 2004 issue of El País.

If I find some moments I'll make it a bit more reader-friendly. But I hope you get the gist of it. Peace.

2004-06-11T01:01:00.000-07:00

JUNE 11 - 17, 2004 Reagan's Curtain Call

MARC COOPER sheds no tears as he tells the truth about Ronald Reagan. JOHN POWERS dissects the master of image. HAROLD MEYERSON remembers the day Reagan crowned Pali High’s homecoming queen and then, 15 years later, fired the nation’s air traffic controllers. STEVEN MIKULAN lines up in Simi Valley for a 90-second glimpse of the casket. And NIKKI FINKE recalls her days as Reagan’s jinx and reminds us that Bonzo was double-dealing and selectively forgetting long before Iran-Contra. + David Corn: No Fall Guy: Ex-CIA Chief George Tenet left plenty of incriminating clues pointing to George Bush’s blunders on Iraq. BY DAVID CORN

2004-06-11T00:58:00.000-07:00

While soldiers are dying in Iraq, Dick Cheney's old company Halliburton has defrauded the government of millions and charged for meals for the troops which were never delivered. Today, we're trying to raise $1.1 million to air a new ad in swing states that calls the Bush White House on its cronyism with Halliburton. Can you contribute to get it on the air?

Dear MoveOn member,

There are lots of reasons that things are going south in Iraq. President Bush alienated
the international community, lied to the world about the threat of
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, failed to plan for reconstruction .
. . and the list goes on. But there's another less talked-about reason
that things are turning out so badly: President Bush and Vice President
Cheney simply can't resist a chance to help their corporate friends
make a buck, even when it undermines the troops.

Today, we're launching
a new ad to call the Bush Administration on its ties to the
scandal-plagued company Halliburton. In just a year in Iraq,
Halliburton employees have accepted $6 million in illegal kickbacks
(1), the company overcharged taxpayers millions for gas (2), and
charged hundreds of millions of dollars for meals for our troops that
were never delivered (3). It's a perfect example of how Bush and
Cheney's taste for corporate cronyism has weakened our country and cost
taxpayers billions.

We know from polling
that for many people the Halliburton debacle illustrates a core
weakness in the Bush program, and helps convince independent voters to
vote against Bush. That's why it's so important that we get this ad,
which hammers that point home, in front of as many people as possible.
If we can raise $1.1 million, we can run the ad deep for a week in a
number of the key "battleground" states. Please contribute what you can
to help us get it on the air today at:

http://www.moveonpac.org/donate/halliburton.html?id=2927-3261555-nI9v7TRaAbVzQcB6wlOTxw

On that page, you can also read a full script of the ad and take a look at the story boards.

Revelations regarding
Halliburton's unethical and at times illegal behavior continue to pop
up at a regular pace. But perhaps more worrisome are indications that
the Bush administration isn't just turning a blind eye to Halliburton's
corrupt business practices -- it's actively helping the company along.
For example, Time Magazine exposed last week that newly disclosed
internal Pentagon emails suggest that the office of Vice President Dick
Cheney was instrumental in sealing an $18 BILLION no-bid contract for
the Vice President's former company (4).

Nor does Halliburton's
track record end at fraud. In a Pentagon audit, Halliburton was warned
that its food service facilities which serve our troops in Iraq were
dangerously unsanitary, with "blood all over the floor" of its
kitchens, "dirty pans," and "rotting meats ... and vegetables." (5) As
Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) put it, Halliburton is ultimately "a
company that arrogantly is overcharging when they can get away with it
and not providing the quality of service that they agreed to do." (6)

Vice President Dick
Cheney still holds hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of stock
options in the company.(7) So it's hardly surprising that the
Administration's response has been anemic, even when faced with clear
evidence that the company is bilking taxpayers.

That's why we need to get this ad on the air. Can you contribute to make that happen? Go to:

http://www.moveonpac.org/donate/halliburton.html?id=2927-3261555-nI9v7TRaAbVzQcB6wlOTxw

Sincerely,

--Eli Pariser

MoveOn PAC

June 10th, 2004

Footnotes:

1. Halliburton admits $6m kickbacks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3425043.stm

2. Halliburton: $61M Overcharge?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/12/politics/main588216.shtml

3. Halliburton Grilled Over Meals

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/02/eveningnews/main597566.shtml

4. Time reports Cheney hand in contract

http://www.iht.com/articles/522594.html

5. Contractor served troops dirty food in dirty kitchens

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/12/14/2003079545

6. See 5, above.

7. Cheney may still have Halliburton ties

http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/25/news/companies/cheney/?cnn=yes

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2004-06-09T02:01:00.000-07:00

t r u t h o u t - Bernard Weiner | Bush's 2004 Scandals for Dummies: "Bush's 2004 Scandals for Dummies By Bernard Weiner The Crisis PapersTuesday 08 June 2004"

2004-06-04T03:41:00.000-07:00

JUNE 4 - 10, 2004 David Corn Kerry’s Baggage What’s gone right — and wrong — in the campaign so far Dissonance Who’s on First? The Baghdad Hand (Over) Job by Marc Cooper On Head Over Heels Bush and Kerry’s Soft Spots by John Powers

2004-06-03T02:26:00.000-07:00

I could not resist...

... and this: President George Bush unveils Stealth-Fighter-On-A-Stick

2004-05-28T02:23:00.000-07:00

Dissonance Our Exit Strategy The delusional Bush, his quagmire and November by Marc Cooper MAY 28 - JUNE 3, 2004

2004-05-27T00:53:00.000-07:00

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2004-05-27T00:37:00.000-07:00

From the Al-Asharq Awsat paper, a pro Saudi, London based newspaper. Caption reads "Coming Changes." (Photo: The Washington Post) Courtesy of t r u t h o u t

2004-05-26T05:35:00.000-07:00

What Bush Should Have Said His Iraq speech was only a year late: By Fred Kaplan, Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 1:51 PM PT

2004-05-26T04:51:00.000-07:00

What do you think about Iraq?

http://www.moveon.org/iraqsurvey.html

2004-05-24T14:55:00.000-07:00

The time is now.

2004-05-24T13:42:00.000-07:00

Subject: Anybody But Bush Update: Bay of Goats
From: msanger@aol.com Add to Address Book
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 21:30:47 -0700

((((((((((((((((( Anybody But Bush Update: Bay of
Goats )))))))))))))))))

May 23, 2004

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http://www.anybodybutbush.info/archives/000229.html

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By MAUREEN
DOWD
Published: May 23, 2004

So let me get this straight:

We ransacked the house of the con man whom we
paid millions to feed us
fake intelligence on W.M.D. that would make the
case for ransacking the
country that the con man assured us would be a
cinch to take over
because he wanted to run it.

And now we're shocked, shocked and awed to
discover that a crook is a
crook and we have nobody to turn over Iraq to,
and the Jordanian
embezzler-turned-American puppet-turned-accused
Iranian spy is trying
to foment even more anger against us and the U.N.
officials we've
crawled back to for help, anger that may lead to
civil war.

The party line that Paul Bremer was notified
about the raid on Ahmad
Chalabi's house after the fact is absurd. The
Iraqi police, who can't
seem to do anything without us, were just
proxies. We were going after
the very guy who persuaded us to go after Saddam,
the con man the naïve
neo-cons cast as de Gaulle; the swindler who sold
himself to Dick
Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz as Spartacus.

One diplomat from the region grimly cited an old
Punjabi saying: "It's
very bad when grandma marries a crook, but it is
even worse when she
divorces the crook."

Mr. Chalabi's wealthy family was swept out of
Iraq in a coup in 1958
and he spent much of his life plotting a coup to
take back his
homeland, a far-fetched scheme that took on life
when he hooked up with
Mr. Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Doug Feith, who
had their own dream of
staging a coup of American foreign policy to do
an extreme Middle East
makeover.

The hawks dismissed warnings from their own
people — such as the Bush
Middle East envoy Gen. Anthony Zinni — that the
Iraqi National Congress
was full of "silk-suited, Rolex-wearing guys in
London." As General
Zinni told The Times in 2000: "They are pie in
the sky. They're going
to lead us to a Bay of Goats, or something like
that."

The C.I.A. and State Department, too, grew
disgusted with Mr. Chalabi,
even though State paid his organization $33
million from 2000 to 2003.

Cheney & Company swooned over Mr. Chalabi because
he was telling them
what they wanted to hear, that it would be simple
to go back and
rewrite the Persian Gulf war ending so that it
was not bellum
interruptus.

The president and his hawks insisted that only a
"relatively small
number" of "thugs," as Mr. Perle told George
Stephanopoulos last month,
were keeping the country from peace. Mr. Perle
said the solution was
"to repose a little bit of confidence in people
who share our values
and our objectives . . . people like Ahmad
Chalabi." The neo-cons still
think he can be Churchill.

On Thursday, an Iraqi judge, Hussain Muathin,
also lamented the actions
of "a small number of thugs." But he was
announcing warrants for the
arrest of thugs around Mr. Perle's own George
Washington, Chalabi
henchmen suspected of kidnapping, torture and
theft. Didn't we sack
Saddam to stop that stuff?

Now we're using Saddam's old generals to restore
order — reversing the
de-Baathification approach that Mr. Chalabi
championed — while Mr.
Chalabi snakes around like a bus-and-truck Tony
Soprano, garnering less
trust than Saddam in polls of Iraqis.

A half-dozen dunderheads who thought they knew
everything assumed they
could control Mr. Chalabi and use him as the
instrument of their
utopian fantasies. But one week after getting cut
off from the
$335,000-a-month Pentagon allowance arranged by
his neo-con buddies, he
glibly accepts the street cred that goes with
bashing America. And he
still won't give us all of Saddam's secret files,
which he confiscated
and is using to discredit his enemies.

Going from Spartacus to Moses, he proclaims to
America, "Let my people
go" — even as he plays footsie with the country
that once denounced the
U.S. as the Great Satan.

On Friday at Louisiana State University,
President Bush told graduates:
"On the job and elsewhere in life, choose your
friends carefully. The
company you keep has a way of rubbing off on you
— and that can be a
good thing, or a bad thing. In my job, I got to
pick just about
everybody I work with. I've been happy with my
choices — although I
wish someone had warned me about all of Dick
Cheney's wild partying."

Mr. Bush thought he was kidding, but too bad he
didn't get that warning
before Dick Cheney took the world on such a wild
ride.

E-mail: liberties@nytimes.com

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2004-05-21T01:19:00.000-07:00

David Corn: Conquest games: Just when Iraq gets ugly, neocons talk of taking over the world. Why are these people so nuts?

2004-05-21T01:06:00.000-07:00

https://www.moveon.org/hooded/

THE GRAY ZONE, How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib

Soldier Says Intelligence Directed Abuse

Officer Says Army Tried to Curb Red Cross Visits to Prison in Iraq

U.S. Faces Growing Fears of Failure: Wolfowitz Concedes Errors as Damage Control Continues

Statement of Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg, to the U.K.'s Stop The War Coalition

2004-05-17T03:33:00.000-07:00

THE GRAY ZONE: by SEYMOUR M. HERSH How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib. of 2004-05-24 Posted 2004-05-15"

2004-05-14T07:46:00.000-07:00

Hey there, check out for a huge load of article links to keep you buzzing on a Irak/U.S. aggression information high. Bzzzzzzzzzz. Peace

2004-05-04T02:26:00.000-07:00

http://www.anybodybutbush.info/archives/000224.html

ttagaris

read
the associated press article

2004-04-23T01:55:00.000-07:00

Save The Date! August 29, 2004, The World Says No to the Bush Agenda MASS WORLDWIDE PROTEST DURING THE 2004 REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN NEW YORK CITY From: United for Peace and Justice

2004-04-23T01:54:00.000-07:00

hello. how are you? here are some Ted Rall editorials.

PIN THE TALE ON THE DONKEY
Desperate, Bush Blames Democrats for Iraq

WHERE WAS THE AIR FORCE?
The Real Question on 9-11

CUT AND RUN NOW
Only Lunatics Keep Fighting an Unwinnable War

BILL CLINTON CAUSED 9/11

PRESIDENT KERRY

keep it peaceful.

2004-04-01T23:51:00.000-08:00

IF WAR IS WORLDWIDE, SO MUST BE DIALOGUE

This week on www.openDemocracy.net, our electronic roundtable about
terrorism, democracy and war after Madrid continues with contributions
from Mai Ghoussoub, Kirsty Hughes and John Lloyd.

John Hulsman in Washington seeks transatlantic unity against al-Qaida;
Sari Nusseibeh in Jerusalem measures Palestine’s future after Sheikh
Yassin; Sabine Freizer in Tbilisi uncovers the Uzbek market bombings and
Paul Rogers in Yorkshire places Iraqi fury in the context of a pattern of
violence across south Asia.

Plus: Antje Vollmer, vice-president of Germany’s Bundestag, resists the
conscription of Immanuel Kant into the “coalition of the willing”.

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PALESTINE’S PROSPECTS AFTER GAZA: AN INTERVIEW WITH SARI NUSSEIBEH
Israel’s killing of Hamas’s leader convulsed the region. But the leading
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longer-term view
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3705/benedikt_010404.jsp

IMMANUEL KANT AND IRAQ: A REPLY TO ROGER SCRUTON
The German Green politician ANTJE VOLLMER disagrees with the English
philosopher ROGER SCRUTON: the philosopher of reason and law would have
opposed the war
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3705/vollmer_010404.jsp

MIDNIGHT IN TASHKENT
The reclusive Central Asian state of Uzbekistan is reeling from a surge
of anti-state violence. A lesson for the autocratic Tashkent regime and
its international sponsors alike, says SABINE FREIZER
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3705/freizer_010404.jsp

HIJAB HYSTERIA: FRANCE AND ITS MUSLIMS
France has banned the Islamic headscarf in schools. Undemocratic and
illiberal, argues SVEND WHITE – but Muslims too must examine their hijab
obsession
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3705/white_010404.jsp

ATOCHA: A VIEW FROM WASHINGTON
After the Madrid terrorist bombings, America and Europe need to unify
against a common enemy, says JOHN C. HULSMAN of the Heritage Foundation
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In Iraq, ferocious violence; in Uzbekistan, market bombs; in southern
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2004-03-26T02:04:00.000-08:00

Secrets of Timothy McVeigh Lingering questions about the Oklahoma City bombing by Jim Crogan MARCH 26 - APRIL 1, 2004 + Powerlines: Drip. Drip. Drip. Former counter-terrorism honcho Richard Clarke is the latest high-level tattler from the Bush administration. BY HAROLD MEYERSON # Dissonance: Oh, stop the gloating over Richard Clarke. The fiends who want to do us in are still out there. BY MARC COOPER

2004-03-26T01:59:00.000-08:00

Urgent: Spread 9/11 and Iraq Revelations

https://www.moveonpac.org/clarkead.html?id=2487-3261555-xE9LEb2n3CqsdZQRdaDWEA

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/24/clarke_moveon/

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=39828

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/8260216.htm?1c

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/23/terror/main608107.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16192-2004Mar22.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/politics/23CLAR.html?hp

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/20/60minutes/main607622.shtml

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/politics/23CWOR.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13607-2004Mar21.html

2004-03-22T08:45:00.000-08:00

March 2004

.. Iraq, an overview; Kurdistan, what degree of separation? why Haiti’s revolution failed; Algeria, traumatised by past grief; Russia, nostalgic for the cosy old Soviet days; Balkans, democracy wobbles.. plus Germany remembers exodus and exile; France’s intolerance of Islam starts at school; Julio Cortázar, artist of encounters.. and more..

Next issue, April 12th

2004-03-22T08:43:00.000-08:00

Bush attacked on terrorism record Aides have rejected the criticism of President Bush A former White House security expert has accused President Bush of doing a "terrible job" of tackling terrorism.

2004-03-22T08:25:00.000-08:00

Carter savages Blair and Bush: 'Their war was based on lies' By Andrew Buncombe in Atlanta, 22 March 2004

2004-03-22T07:58:00.000-08:00

Honoring our troops

http://www.afrtrust.org/aboutcontributing.asp

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/opinion/19FRI1.html?hp

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0803/14paycut.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A4064-2003Jan16

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/110009_military25.shtml

2004-03-22T03:47:00.000-08:00

Bush ignored terror threat, claims ex-aide Former chief counter-terrorism adviser accuses Bush of doing "a terrible job" in protecting America against attack. What the papers say Special report: US elections 2004

2004-03-22T03:34:00.000-08:00

Ex-Advisor Says Bush Eyed Bombing of Iraq on 9/11, Fri Mar 19, 7:20 PM ET

2004-03-22T03:23:00.000-08:00

The Middle East, Still Dark in Bush's Gaze Flashlight on the Potomac by Kareem Fahim, The Village Voice, March 17 - 23, 2004