- # Feeling Bush's Pain: The president gets burned for trying to pull a re-election ad from 9/11 rubble. But that’s just one in a pattern of missteps. BY DAVID CORN, March 11, 2004
Friday, March 12, 2004
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:23:38 -0800
Anybody But Bush Update: Bush record replete
with rewritten histories and chucked promises
March 11, 2004
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http://www.anybodybutbush.info/archives/000211.html
Read about the Bush "bait and switch"
- CRESCENTS AND CROSSROADS
This week on http://www.openDemocracy.net, boundaries melt, worlds open,
hearts harden. Reinhard Hesse maps a Turkish-German love affair in cinema
and politics, Jo Wilding and Anita Sharma witness the flowering of
children and women in Iraq, and Johanna Mendelson Forman from the United
Nations Foundation learns lessons from Aristide's second fall in Haiti
Plus: Serving 45 years for a non-violent crime, Michael Santos watches
his fourth presidential election from Colorado, on the wrong side of the
prison walls
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THE WEEK'S TOP FIVE
THE NATION-BUILDING TRAP: HAITI AFTER ARISTIDE
Twice elected, twice ejected, Haiti's president Jean-Bertrand Aristide
blames the United States for his latest overthrow. Why did the
international community help Haiti in 1994 but ignore it this time, asks
JOHANNA MENDELSON FORMAN
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3600/haiti_1779.jsp
TURKISH HONEY UNDER A GERMAN MOON
REINHARD HESSE, at the Berlin Film Festival, sees one of Europe's most
intimate relationships growing branches in the lovers' hearts
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3600/hesse_1784.jsp
WOMEN IN IRAQ: BETWEEN FEAR AND FREEDOM
The condition of Iraq's women is a litmus test of the country's movement
towards civil rights and democratic governance. ANITA SHARMA on their
difficult journey
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3600/sharma_1776.jsp
THE TRIAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN
What kind of justice does the world owe the former Iraqi dictator?
Neither an international nor an Iraqi but a moral solution, argues
DOUGLAS MURRAY
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3600/murray_1778.jsp
THE LAND OF THE UNFREE: AMERICA FROM INSIDE
MICHAEL SANTOS, incarcerated in America since 1987, on what it's like to
witness the US elections from a prison cell
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3600/santos_1777.jsp
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Republican war drums
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Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility for Spanish Carnage
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Military Families vs. the War
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Thursday, March 11, 2004
- Dear MoveOn member,
Salon.com has just broken a major story detailing
how the Pentagon created a special office to
manipulate intelligence data on Iraq and WMDs. It's
written by Karen Kwiatkowski, a military officer
who watched this unit at work, telling us the
inside story in her own words.
Click here to read the full story:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/
The Salon story makes it even clearer than before
that the Bush administration deliberately misled
us in the run-up to the war in Iraq a year ago.
The problem was not bad intelligence -- it was
deliberate distortion of the facts.
It's Congress' duty to hold President Bush
accountable for misleading us. Please call your
Senators and Representative now:
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Washington, DC: 202-224-3841
Senator Barbara Boxer
Washington, DC: 202-224-3553
Congressman Xavier Becerra
Washington, DC: 202-225-6235
Make sure they know you're a constituent, then
urge them to:
"Censure President Bush -- formally reprimand
him for misleading us
about Iraq's WMDs."
Give them some reasons why Censure is necessary.
Some good ones include:
- 553 American soldiers have given their lives in
Iraq;
- Tens of thousands of our troops remain in
harm's way there;
- A year later, we seem to have no exit strategy;
- Thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed;
- The President took us to war based on
assertions he knew were untrue -- for more info, see
http://www.moveon.org/censure/ad-doc.html ;
- Congress has a constitutional duty to act as a
check on the president.
Please let us know you're calling, at:
http://www.moveon.org/callmadeall3.html?id=2442-3261555-2ltMRoWozc2eodQh8RnQqQ
The new Salon story is important, not only
because of its revelations about how the Pentagon
cooked the books on WMDs, but also because it's the
first piece by Salon's new Washington, D.C. bureau.
Strong, independent news sources are more
important now than ever, as
traditional media become increasingly
concentrated under the control of just a few corporations,
and with major outlets like CBS nakedly kowtowing
to Republican interests. In this context,
Salon's new Washington, D.C. bureau is a major step
forward for all of us.
We hope you'll take a few minutes to read their
important article today. You can access it at:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/10/osp_moveon/
Thank you.
Sincerely,
- Carrie, Joan, Noah, Peter, and Wes
The MoveOn.org team
Wednesday March 10th, 2004
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
By Karen Kwiatkowski, from
- Subject: Teachers = Terrorists?
Rod Paige, the Secretary of Education, called America's largest teachers' union a "terrorist organization." Sign the petition calling on President Bush to fire Rod Paige.
Dear MoveOn member,
Last month, President Bush's Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called America's largest teachers' union a "terrorist organization." Why? Because the union had the gall to insist that President Bush live up to his own promises to adequately fund education. Please sign our petition demanding that President Bush fire Secretary Paige.
http://www.FirePaige.org/index.asp?ms=1
This is typical behavior for the Bush administration. It says one thing - "no child left behind" and does another - under-funding its promises to our schools by $9.4 billion in its latest budget proposal. And when people dare to disagree with its policies, it questions their patriotism or labels them terrorists.
Secretary Paige uses insult to defend the indefensible. Not only did the president break his promise to fund the reforms, his current budget calls for cuts in support for schools over the next five years. And he still wants to take billions from public schools to pay for private school vouchers. So Paige resorts to slurs: even in his supposed apology, he dismissed teachers' growing concerns as "obstructionist scare tactics."
We teach our kids that name calling is not the right way to win an argument - in fact, it’s usually a sign that you don't have the facts on your side. Making our schools better is a tough job. We need a Secretary of Education who sees teachers and their representatives as partners in this effort rather than as enemies. Join us in calling on President Bush to find a better person for the job.
http://www.FirePaige.org/index.asp?ms=1
We thank the Campaign for America's Future for co-sponsoring this campaign with us. Please sign on today.
Sincerely,
--Carrie, Joan, Noah, Peter, and Wes
The MoveOn.org Team
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004
- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 07:18:39 -0800
((((((((((((((( Anybody But Bush Update: Bush
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March 09, 2004
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A list of Bush flip-flops
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
- FEATURED
ACTION: Urge
Justice Scalia to Recuse Himself
- ACTIVISM
OPPORTUNITY: Demand
a New Prescription for Medicare
- an
astonishing prohibition that bans Medicare
from asking drug companies for a volume discount
and - the
lack of a provision to allow states and individuals
from importing medicine from Canada, where
identical medicine is available at much lower
cost.
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Antonin Scalia to uphold the honor and reputation
of the Supreme Court. Justice Scalia should
recuse himself from a case involving Vice President
Cheney and secret meetings with oil industry
executives and lobbyists held to formulate the
Bush administration energy policy.
Special
note — we are NOT lobbying the Court to
take a particular position on this or any other
case — only urging Justice Scalia to act
with integrity.
Justice
Scalia’s recent actions — accompanying
Mr. Cheney on a private hunting trip, accepting
a valuable gift of transportation on Air Force
Two and access to a private hunting reserve
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The reputation of the Court is at stake, and
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Congress
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The
prohibition on negotiating bulk discounts is
particularly ludicrous when looking at the success
the Veterans’ Administration has had in
using exactly this type of system to reduce
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Urge
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Monday, March 08, 2004
- Dear MoveOn member,
MoveOn works for the same reason democracy does: when lots of people work together, they generate great ideas and accomplish great goals. That's why we need your help.
To get direction from our members, we have set up an online forum. There, you can share your ideas and goals for MoveOn and our nation. Comments are read and rated by other members and the best ideas float to the top. These help set MoveOn's course.
Take a few moments today to contribute to the Great Goals forum.
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The MoveOn Team