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The
`Ignoble Liars' Behind Bush's Deadly Iraq War,
by Jeffrey Steinberg
April 18, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
"Cheney asserted that Saddam Hussein was
actively pursuing the acquisition of nuclear weapons,
when, days earlier, International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) chief weapons inspector Mohammed El-Baradei
had testified before the UN Security Council that
the allegations were based on documents determined
to be forgeries." |
Bush
May Invoke 9/11 Executive Privilege and Secrecy,
by
Tom Flocco
May 3, 2003,
TomFlocco.com
"Proof
of prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks is
continuing to trickle out of the purportedly ³leak-proof²
White House, as more corroborative chickens of 9/11
are coming home to roost..." |
Washington
shelved report of 44-trillion-dollar deficit
Thu
May 29, 2003 8:53 AM ET
"In the midst of negotiating a steep tax cuts
package, the US government shelved a report that
showed the United States faces future federal budget
deficits of more than 44.2 trillion dollars."
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Is
There Anything Left That Matters? by
Joan Chittister, OSB
Thursday,
May 29, 2003, National Catholic Reporter.
"Finally,
they told us that we were invading Iraq to destroy
their weapons of mass destruction. Now they say
those weapons probably don't exist. Maybe never
existed. Apparently that doesn't matter either.
Except
that it does matter." |
Denial
and Deception,
by Paul Krugman
Tuesday,
June 24, 2003 The New York Times
"There is no longer any serious doubt that
Bush administration officials deceived us into war.
The key question now is why so many influential
people are in denial, unwilling to admit the obvious."
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White
House in Denial,
by Nicholas D. Kristof
June 13, 2003, The
New York Times
"...Mr. Tenet and the intelligence agencies
were under intense pressure to come up with evidence
against Iraq. Ambiguities were lost, and doubters
were discouraged from speaking up." |
Duped
and Betrayed, by Paul Krugman
June 6, 2003, The New York Times
This
article is about the most recent tax cut bill.
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Stating
the Obvious,
by
Paul Krugman
May 27, 2003,
The New York Times
Do
the extreme Republicans really want an economic
train wreck? |
Toward
One Party Rule, by Paul Krugman,
June 27, 2003, The
New York Times
"We
may be heading for a replay of the McKinley era
in which the nation was governed by and for big
business." |
Bush's
Scorched Earth Campaign, by Neal Gabler
June 8, 2003, The Los Angeles Times
"The
presidency's real goal is to disable the Democratic
opposition, once and for all." |
Former
Bush Intelligence Insider Assails Counterterrorism
Tactics:
Beers says enemy is underestimated,
by Laura Blumenfeld
June 16, 2003, The
Boston Globe |
What
you can do about Bush, by Harley Sorensen
June 23, 2003, The
San Francisco Chronicle
"Folks,
Bush has gone too far, too many times. He is a one-man
wrecking crew, destroying, bit by bit, what decent
men and women have created and improved upon for
227 years. We
have to stop him. We have to do it soon. If we don't,
we won't have an America to protect." |
911
Top 500 Questions New - Updated,
by Nico Haupt,
5-8-2 -
Rense.com |
Liberals
vs. Conservatives? It's the Corruption, Stupid,
By
Maureen Ferrell
May 20, 2003,
On
Buzzflash.com
"...duped
citizens continue to make this an issue of "liberals
versus conservatives," while missing the larger
point. Attacks on George Bush are not attacks on
America and this game of "which team are you
on?" is just plain stupid." |
Dereliction
of Duty,
by Paul Krugman
June 17, 2003, The
New York Times
"Behind the rhetoric - and behind the veil
of secrecy, invoked in the name of national security
but actually used to prevent public scrutiny - lies
a pattern of neglect, of refusal to take crucial
actions to protect us from terrorists." |
Rolling
Back the 20th Century,
by WILLIAM GREIDER
April 24, 2003,
From
The Nation
"George W. Bush, properly understood, represents
the third and most powerful wave in the right's
long-running assault on the governing order created
by twentieth-century liberalism." |
Guilty
for 9-11
Section 3: Bush in the Open,
by Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel
Posted: January 18, 2002, from
the Emperor's Clothes
"...this stand-down of the air protection systems
could not have occurred absent the involvement of
top officials. We have named George Walker Bush,
Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard B. Myers."
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Bush's
Fiscal Policy Not Creating New Jobs,
by Seth Sandronsky
Posted: July 9, 2003, from
Alternet
"...the administration had forecast the creation
of 1.4 million new jobs by year-end 2004 after its
most recent tax cut became law. Against that backdrop,
913,000 workers joined the ranks of the unemployed
between March and June, according to the Labor Department."
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Bush's
secret plan to win in '04,
by Harley Sorensen
Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2003,, on
Smirking Chimp
"The New Yorker magazine
was so impressed by Mr. Bush's proposal that it
did the math. And the way the math comes out is
one job for every $550,000 of rich-folks tax cut."
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We
Used to Impeach Liars,
by William Rivers Pitt
Posted: June 4, 2003, on
Rense.com
"...the threats surrounding weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq were wildly overblown by the
Bush administration for purely political reasons."
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Clip
'n Save Guide To WMD Lying,
by Lunaville.com
Posted: June 11, 2003, on
Rense.com
Just as the title suggest: All of the quotes from
the Administration exposing their lies. Now Bush
is trying to pin the blame on the CIA. Here's the
ammo you need not to let him. |
Why
the CEO in Chief Needs an Audit, by Richard
Cohen
Thursday, July 10, 2003; Page A23, The Washington
Post
"It therefore should come as no surprise that
George W. Bush, a Harvard MBA after all, is doing
what other CEOs do when they get into trouble. In
his case, he's "restated" his reasons for going
to war." |
Pattern
of Corruption, by Paul Krugman
Tuesday, July 15, 2003,
The
New York Times
"So the Iraq hawks set out to corrupt the process
of intelligence assessment. On one side, nobody
was held accountable for the failure to predict
or prevent 9/11; on the other side, top intelligence
officials were expected to support the case for
an Iraq war." |
20
Lies About the War, by
by Glen Rangwala and Raymond Whitaker
Published
on Sunday, July 13, 2003, by the lndependent/UK
"Falsehoods
Ranging from Exaggeration to Plain Untruth Were
Used to Make the Case for War. More Lies are Being
Used in the Aftermath."
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THE
SELLING OF THE IRAQ WAR
The First Casualty, by John B. Judis & Spencer
Ackerman
Post
date: 06.19.03 Issue date: 06.30.03, The
New Republic
"The
United States may have been justified in going to
war in Iraq--there were, after all, other rationales
for doing so--but it was not justified in doing
so on the national security grounds that President
Bush put forth throughout last fall and winter.
He deceived Americans about what was known of the
threat from Iraq and deprived Congress of its ability
to make an informed decision about whether or not
to take the country to war."
An extremely long article but one of the best
we found on the this topic. |
Tenet:
Wolfowitz Did It, by JASON LEOPOLD
July
19, 2003, Counterpunch
"...the
Office of Special Plans, using Iraqi defectors from
the Iraqi National Congress as their main source,
rewrote some of the CIA's intelligence to say, undeniably,
that Iraq was hiding some of the world's most lethal
weapons. Once the intelligence was rewritten, it
was delivered to the office of National Security
Adviser Condoleeza Rice, where it found its way
into various public speeches given by Vice President
Dick Cheney, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
and Bush, the Senators said." |
A
Nation of Victims, by Renana Brooks
June
12, 2003, The
Nation
"President
Bush, like many dominant personality types, uses
dependency-creating language. He employs language
of contempt and intimidation to shame others into
submission and desperate admiration." |
Passing
It Along, by Paul Krugman
July
18, 2003, New
York Times
"It
has been obvious all along, if you were willing
to see it, that the administration's claims to fiscal
responsibility have rested on thoroughly cooked
books." |
Nothing
Left To Lie About
With BushCo reaming the nation on just about every
possible front, is implosion imminent?,
by Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
July
16, 2003, SF
Gate
"And
the lies, the flagrant GOP bitch slappings of the
American public, the maniacal jabs straight in eye
of truth with the icepick of utter BS, have just
reached some sort of critical mass, some sort of
saturation point of absurdity and pain and ridiculousness
and you just have to stand up and applaud."
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Unemployment
At Highest In Nine Years - Bush 'Concerned'
7-3-3,
From
Rense.com
"The
economy has lost 394,000 jobs since January and
more than 2.5 million over the past two years."
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Weakest
Link
Why Bush will be vulnerable on the economy in 2004
7.10.03, From The American Prospect Online
"Well,
this writer thinks the administration is whistling
past the graveyard. Here's why the economy is likely
to rain on George Bush's 2004 election parade: For
starters, the unemployment numbers are truly awful.
Since Bush took office the economy has shed almost
2.5 million jobs, the worst performance since the
administration of Herbert Hoover. A weak job market
also means flat or declining wages and benefits
for those employed." |
The
$44 trillion hole? Recent study says Social Security,
Medicare shortfalls could be far bigger than previously
thought.
May 29, 2003: 3:46 PM EDT, By Mark Gongloff, CNN/Money
Staff Writer
"The
implications of the study, which looks beyond the
75-year window the government currently uses for
its estimates, could be staggering -- meaning that
if the federal government wants to meet its Medicare
and Social Security obligations in coming years,
it would have to raise taxes, slash federal spending,
or both. " |
The
Bush Economy
Bush Lies And Wins, You Lose
02.15.03, From Bush Watch, edited by Politex
"The Bush deficit of $304 billion, the largest
in history as well as the most precipitous, is pre-budget.
With the new Bush budget in place, our deficit is
$5.4 trillion over ten years. (Bush is back-loading
the deficit so the entire economic penality of what
he is doing will not be readily apparent until after
he is out of office.)" |
Connect
the Enron Dots to Bush: Enron is Whitewater in spades,
by Robert Scheer
December 11, 2002, from the LA
Times
"This
isn't just some rinky-dink Recent land investment
like the one dredged up by right-wing enemies to
haunt the Clinton White House--but rather it has
the makings of the greatest presidential scandal
since the Teapot Dome. Dec. 11, 2001."
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Enron
and the Bush administration: kindred spirits in
fraud and criminality
by David Walsh
18 January 2002, from
the World
Socialist Web Site
"It
is pointless at the moment to speculate whether
or not Enron will prove the present government¹s
undoing. The more critical issue is grasping the
extent to which Enron as a criminal and parasitic
enterprise expresses the social essence of the Bush
administration and the American ruling elite as
a whole." |
All
The President's Enrons,
by Frank Rich
July 6, 2002, from
the NY
Times
"The sight of a corporate crook being led away
in handcuffs, Giuliani-style, would do far more
to restore confidence in Wall Street than any more
presidential blather. Mr. Bush says that only "a
few bad actors" are at fault. Why is the administration
so lax about bringing them to justice?"
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One
Way Discussion on Energy
March 28, 2002, From
the NY Times
OpEd |
Toxic
Deception: Whitman Misleads 'Today' Show Viewers...
And The Rollbacks Roll On
Published: Mar 19 2002, from
TomPaine.com
"It was a toxic deception: Two days earlier,
Whitman approved a two-year delay of Clean Air Act
rules that would cut toxic emissions from 80,000
industrial sources. The rules -- among scores of
Clean Air Act deadlines that the EPA is currently
violating -- are already more than a year overdue."
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The
New EPA: Protecting Polluters EPA Administrator
Christine Todd Whitman's Tenure Is Marked By Rollbacks
and Missed Deadlines,
by Steven Rosenfeld
Published: Mar 18 2002, from
TomPaine.com
"The
EPA is doing a terrible job in controlling emissions.
It has missed every single deadline in recent memory
for controlling toxic air pollution. As a result,
almost half of the industries that emit major amounts
of toxic air pollution are still not regulated."
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Global
Warming is Now a Weapon of Mass Destruction: It
Kills More People Than Terrorism, Yet Blair and
Bush do Nothing,
by John Houghton
Published on Monday, July 28,
2003, by the Guardian/UK
"...
impacts of global warming are such that I have no
hesitation in describing it as a "weapon of mass
destruction". |
Who
Profits from Erasing Iraq's Debt?,
by Heather Wokusch
Published on Monday, July 28,
2003, by CommonDreams
"At
stake is more than $184 billion of pending contracts
and debts against Iraq, many of which transpired
before the 1991 invasion of Kuwait. In other words,
even deals inked when Saddam Hussein was considered
a US ally could now be considered odious debt."
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The
Bush Doctrine, R.I.P.,
by Frank Rich
April 13, 2002, From the New
York Times
"It
takes some kind of perverse genius to simultaneously
earn the defiance of the Israelis, the Palestinians
and our Arab "allies" alike and turn the United
States into an impotent bystander." |
A
Real Look At GDP And The War Economy
Safe Money Report.com
August 5, 2003, From Rense.com
"Defense
spending contributed more than three-quarters of
the 2.4% growth rate. Without defense spending,
the economy barely grew at all." |
Population
Control Politics
July 23, 2002, From The New
York Times
"There
is a mind-bending illogic behind the Bush administration's
decision yesterday to withhold $34 million from
the United Nations Population Fund, which is working
in China despite continued practices there of coerced
abortion and sterilization."
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Rove's
Way,
by MATT BAI
October 20, 2002, From The New
York Times
"White
House tours don't pass through Karl Rove's office,
but most everything else around the presidency does.
Rove determines which lobbyists and supporters get
access to the White House, and he weighs in with
Bush on every major domestic-policy decision, from
stem cells to farm subsidies." |
Ignoring
a Growing Peril,
by BOB HERBERT
June 6, 2002, From The New York
Times
"The
Bush administration has acknowledged that the U.S.
will experience far-reaching and, in some cases,
devastating environmental consequences as a result
of global warming. But it does not plan to do much
about it."
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Every
Breath You Take,
by Paul Krugman
November 26, 2002, From The
New York Times
"Last
week the Bush administration announced new rules
that would effectively scrap "new source review,"
a crucial component of our current system of air
pollution control. This action, which not incidentally
will be worth billions to some major campaign contributors,
comes as no surprise to anyone who pays attention
to which way the wind is blowing (from west to east,
mainly - that is, states that vote Democratic are
conveniently downwind)." |
Vets
served and sacrificed yet Washington plays politics,
by Myriam
Marquez
Published July 24, 2003, From
The Orlando Sentinel
"During
the 2000 campaign, Bush promised vets their due,
yet the White House now threatens to veto any legislation
that would grant parity. Even a congressional compromise
reached last year that would give the most severely
disabled retirees with combat-related injuries or
illnesses a fair shake has been stuck in a bureaucratic
limbo of rule-making to see who would qualify --
at best, only about 5 percent of all disabled career
military." |
Missile
Defense: The Untold Story,
by BILL
KELLER
December 29, 2001, From The
New York Times
"In
the nearly 40-year fight over building weapons to
shoot down incoming missiles, the proponents have
generally fallen into two camps, the dreamers and
the schemers." |
A
Fiscal Fantasy,
by PAUL
KRUGMAN
January 22, 2002, From The New
York Times
"The
proposed tax cuts are also heavily tilted toward
the wealthy. Two-thirds of the population would
receive nothing at all; well over half of the total
goes to people earning more than $200,000 per year." |
Truth
and Lies,
by PAUL
KRUGMAN
September 2, 2001, From The
New York Times
"Mr.
Bush promised not to dip into the Social Security
surplus; he has broken that promise. Critics told
you that would happen; they have been completely
vindicated. Mr. Bush told you it wouldn't; he lied."
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Twilight
Zone Economics,
By PAUL
KRUGMAN
August 15, 2003, From The New
York Times
"But
while the growth and new claims numbers were good
news, they didn't tell us that the economy is improving.
All they said is that things are getting worse more
slowly." |
Fight
Club,
by MATT
BAI
August 10, 2003, From The New
York Times
"Outside
of Washington, only Stephen Moore's relatives have
ever heard of him -- and even some of them would
probably have to think on it a while. But in this
era after campaign-finance reform, as the fund-raising
dominance of the two parties diminishes, it's the
people you've never heard of who will change the
course of politics, and Moore seems bent on taking
a hammer to George W. Bush's carefully sculptured
majority party." |
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US
admits it used napalm bombs in Iraq,
by Andrew Buncombe in Washington
10 August 2003, Independent.co.uk
"We
napalmed both those [bridge] approaches," said
Colonel James Alles, commander of Marine Air Group
11. "Unfortunately there were people there ...
you could see them in the [cockpit] video. They
were Iraqi soldiers. It's no great way to die.
The generals love napalm. It has a big psychological
effect."
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ŒLet
Them Eat Cake¹ Economics: Bush is a regular guy
who doesn¹t care a whole lot about regular people.
The first is a political asset. The second is his
greatest vulnerability,
by Jonathan Alter
July 28, 2003, Newsweek
"But
God forbid he admits that his huge tax cuts are
in any way relevant. That would risk saying something
inconvenient and true." |
Campaign
Reform Farce
April 9, 2002, The New York
Times
"Only
the most confirmed cynic would have imagined that
after passing a historic campaign reform bill last
month, Congress would start undoing its achievement
right away. Yet that is exactly what is happening
this week in Washington." |
Missing
Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Is Lying About The
Reason For War An Impeachable Offense?,
by John Dean
June 6, 2003, Findlaw
"Presidential
statements, particularly on matters of national
security, are held to an expectation of the highest
standard of truthfulness. A president cannot stretch,
twist or distort facts and get away with it."
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Whistleblower
on Niger uranium claim accuses White House of launching
'dirty-tricks campaign',
by Kim Sengupta
August
4, 2003, The Independent
UK
"The
former American diplomat who exposed false claims
that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium from Niger
has accused members of the Bush administration of
a dirty tricks campaign against him."
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The
human cost of the 'war on terror',
by John Pilger
July 31, 2003
"Every
day now, in the United States, the all-pervasive
media tell Americans that their bloodletting in
Iraq is well under way, although the true scale
of the attacks is almost certainly concealed."
|
Pentagon
Office Home to Neo-Con Network Analysis,
by Jim Lobe
August
7, 2003, Ipsnews.net
"An
ad hoc office under U.S. Undersecretary of Defence
for Policy Douglas Feith appears to have acted as
the key base for an informal network of mostly neo-conservative
political appointees that circumvented normal inter-agency
channels to lead the push for war against Iraq." |
IRAQ'S
NUCLEAR FILE : Inside the Prewar Debate Depiction
of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence,
by Barton Gellman and Walter Pincus,
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday,
August 10, 2003; Page A01
"But
the danger of a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein, more
potent as an argument for war, began with weaker
evidence and grew weaker still in the three months
before war." |
Civilian
War Deaths in Iraq
To:
Mr. Jude Wanniski
From: Dr. Mohammed Al-Obaidi, General coordinator
of the Iraqi Freedom Party
August 21, 2003
"After
more than five weeks of intensive and thorough investigations
carried out by hundreds of our party's cadre, which
included all villages, towns, cities and some of
the desert areas etc. affected by the aggression
(with exception of the Kurdish area), and also by
interviewing hundreds of undertakers, hospitals
officials and ordinary people in these places, the
figure of civilians killed since the beginning of
the invasion came to 37,137. This figure does not
include militia, paramilitary or Saddam's Fiday'een." |
Now
We Are The Iraq Extremists,
by John Pilger
8-22-03 , The
Daily Mirror - UK
"The
"liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken
people. The Americans and British, partners in a
great recognised crime, have brought down on the
Middle East, and much of the rest of the world,
the prospect of terrorism and suffering on a scale
that al-Qaeda could only imagine." |
Drowning,
First-Class Style,
by James K Galbraith
May 7, 2003 , appearing
on Tom Paine
"Today
almost nine million are unemployed. Many millions
more are underemployed, and most of all, underpaid.
That is our economic problem. Bush and company did
not entirely create these conditions, but they have
done nothing to make them better and much to make
them worse." |
Gore
Vidal Delivers Chilling Predictions of Despotism
A Wry Scourge On The Attack,
by Arthur Jones
8-1-03, National Catholic Reporter
NCRONLINE.ORG and appearing on rense.com
"Yes,
it is -- was -- about oil and, of course, giving
the Cheney-Bush junta's friends like Halliburton
vast contracts to rebuild what we have carefully
knocked down." |
Amnesty:
'War on Terror' Has Made World Worse,
by Gideon Long
May 28, 2003,
Reuters
"Washington's
"war on terror" has made the world more dangerous
by curbing human rights, undermining international
law and shielding governments from scrutiny, Amnesty
International said on Wednesday." |
Life
and Death on the Front Lines: The Things That Keep
Us Here
by CAOIMHE BUTTERLY in Baghdad
August
20, 2003, from Counterpunch
"The
car that carried Anwar's family into a line of fire
that pumped more than twenty bullets through the
windshield and chassis into the warm living flesh,
vital organs and skulls of her husband and children
remains outside." |
Ken
Lay-George W. Bush Contacts Date Back To 1994,
by Reed Irvine
2-8-02,
NewsMax.com appearing on Rense.com
"Former
Enron chief executive Kenneth Lay's contacts with
President George W. Bush date back to 1994 before
he became governor of Texas, The Dallas Morning
News reported Thursday." |
MAD
MEN ACROSS THE DESERT WALKING DEAD,
by Novakeo
September 2, 2003 issue of Ether Zone
"Dead
men walking, that is what our troops in Iraq have
become not to mention the Iraqi natives. Slow poison
death in the heat of the Iraqi desert, where dust
particles are in the plenty which just happens to
be radioactive courtesy of the United States and
British governments." |
The
China Syndrome,
by Paul Krugman
September
5, 2003, The
New York Times
"A
funny thing happened this week: the Bush administration,
with its aggressive unilateralism, and its contempt
for diplomacy and international institutions, suddenly
staked its fortunes on the kindness of foreigners."
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Don't
Say We Were Not Warned About This,
by Robert Fisk
9-5-3,
The Independent -
UK
"How
arrogant was the path to war. As President Bush
now desperately tries to cajole the old UN donkey
to rescue him from Iraq - he who warned us that
the UN was in danger of turning into a League of
Nations "talking shop" if it declined him legitimacy
for his invasion - we are supposed to believe that
no one in Washington could have guessed the future."
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America's
Hidden Military Casualties In Iraq,
by Jason Burke in London and Paul
Harris in New York
9-14-3,
The
Observer - UK
"The
true scale of American casualties in Iraq is revealed
today by new figures obtained by The Observer, which
show that more than 6,000 American servicemen have
been evacuated for medical reasons since the beginning
of the war, including more than 1,500 American soldiers
who have been wounded, many seriously." |
We're
losing the war in Afghanistan, too,
by John Sifton
August
21, 2003, Salon
"A human rights worker reports from the other
front in the U.S. war on terror, where warlords
rule supreme, music is once again banned, journalists
hide from gunmen, and even the streets of Kabul
are filled with fear." |
My
government went to Afghanistan and all I got was
this stupid pipeline, by
Ted Rall
©2002,
Citypaper.net
"As
the Pentagon was laying out targets, the State Department
was mapping pipelines." |
The
Tax-Cut Con,
by Paul Krugman
September
14, 2003,
New York Times
"All
politicians say they're for public education; almost
all of them also say they support a strong national
defense, maintaining Social Security and, if anything,
expanding the coverage of Medicare. When the "guy
on the news" asks whether we can afford a tax cut,
he's asking whether, after yet another tax cut goes
through, there will be enough money to pay for those
things. And the answer is no." |
The
Military's Bloated Budget: It hasn't been this big
in 50 years - Here's how to trim the fat,
by Fred Kaplan
September
12, 2003, Slate
"This year, if all goes as President Bush plans,
the United States will spend more money on the military
than in any year since 1952, the peak of the Korean
War."
|
Washington
Insiders' New Firm Consults on Contracts in Iraq
by DOUGLAS JEHL, The New York Times
September
30, 2003, Yahoo
News
"A
group of businessmen linked by their close ties
to President Bush, his family and his administration
have set up a consulting firm to advise companies
that want to do business in Iraq, including those
seeking pieces of taxpayer-financed reconstruction
projects." |
US
Soldiers Bulldoze Iraqi Farmers' Crops, Orchards,
by Patrick Cockburn in Dhuluaya
October
11, 2003, An Independent/UK
article also
appearing on rense.com
"US
soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from
loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date
palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central
Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment
of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas
attacking US troops." |
Don't
Look Down,
by Paul Krugman
October
14, 2003, New York Times
"And
there's one thing I can't help noticing: a third
world country with America's recent numbers - its
huge budget and trade deficits, its growing reliance
on short-term borrowing from the rest of the world
- would definitely be on the watch list."
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Economist
tallies swelling cost of Israel to US,
by David R. Francis, Staff writer of The Christian
Science Monitor
December
9, 2002, Christian Science Monitor
"Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States
about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's population,
that is more than $5,700 per person."
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The
Spin is Not Holding,
by David Corn
October
4, 2003, The Nation
"The
spin is not holding. Facing two controversies--the
Wilson leak...and the still-MIA WMDs--the White
House has been tossing out explanations and rhetoric
that cannot withstand scrutiny." |
CIA
Identity Leak Far Worse Than Reported,
by Warren P. Strobel
October
11, 2003. Knight Ridder Newspapers
"It's
just a 12-letter name - Valerie Plame - but the
leak by Bush administration officials of that CIA
officer's identity may have damaged U.S. national
security to a much greater extent than generally
realized, current and former agency officials say."
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The
Bechtel Corporation, by
Mick Youther
October
3, 2003, Intervention Magazine
"A
history of poor planning, mismanagement, cost over-runs,
and environmental destruction lands Bechtel Corporation
a sweetheart deal in Iraq -- and American taxpayers
pick up the tab!" |
Where
was George?, by
Eric Alterman
September
18, 2003, The Nation October 6, 2003 issue
"September
11 is often said to be the defining moment in the
Bush presidency, even of modern history. How strange,
therefore, that Bush's behavior that moming-along
with that of his Administration-is almost never
examined in any detail." |
Spending
$87 Billion to Defend and Rebuild Iraq
Do the Numbers Add Up?,
by Mary Boyle
October
21, 2003, Common
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Ashcroft
Justice Department tries to hide criticism of
self in diversity audit
by DAVID JOHNSTON and ERIC LICHTBLAU
October
31, 2003, The
New York Post
"An
internal report that harshly criticized the Justice
Department's diversity efforts was edited so heavily
when it was posted on the department's Web site
two weeks ago that half of its 186 pages, including
the summary, were blacked out."
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Making
the troops pay twice, by
Dan Carpenter
November
9, 2003, Indystar.com
"If
you notice there are more veterans to honor this
Veterans Day than there were last year, thank
the Bush administration and the Republican Congress.
If
you want more help for those veterans, better
ask the Democrats."
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Bush
ally's firm vies for Medicare cards,
by Wayne Washington and Susan
Milligan, Globe Staff
December
12, 2003, Boston Globe
"A
Texas company owned by a campaign contributor
and former business associate of President Bush
could profit if Medicare endorses its drug card
program under guidelines set by legislation the
president signed into law on Monday, according
to a report released yesterday by a research group
run by a former Clinton administration official."
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Court:
Terror Suspects Must Get Lawyers,
by DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press
Writer
December
18, 2003, AP
Story
"A
federal appeals court ruled Thursday for the first
time that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay Naval
Base in Cuba should have access to lawyers and
the American court system. The
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web
sites)' 2-1 decision was a rebuke to the Bush
Administration."
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Ozone
Layer 'Sacrificed' To Lift Re-Election Prospects,
by Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
November
24, 2003, The
Independent - UK
"His
administration is insisting on a sharp increase
in spraying of the most dan | | |
