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Runner is now? This from the Associated Press:
Kerry
pic for a happy Thursday GOP
paying "affiliates" 30% on donations they acquire for
Republicans This was brought to my attention by my Democratic District Leader, Marc Landis. Calvin
Trillin in The Nation "On the Prime-Time Schedule for the Republican National Convention" -- by Calvin Trillin
MoveOn.org
says: "The numbers tell the story" 1
President:
Trying to score political points. All
Senators, by state, are listed with phone numbers here. The
Senate Intelligence Committee
report: passing the buck and compounding lies The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee's report states that the Bush administration didn't pressure the CIA to find evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In other words, the report says: Shrub, go ahead and pass the buck--let's blame it all on the CIA being dopes. But the Democrats on the committee commonsensically disagree, and so do I. If Bush didn't knowingly mislead America into invading Iraq, but instead just fell for bad CIA intelligence, then: *WHY did the Bush administration (not the CIA!) set up a secret office in the CIA created to be, in the words of Mother Jones, a "lie factory" that looked for and exaggerated (and possibly invented) only evidence that would further the case for invading Iraq, ignoring and even bullying CIA officials who questioned their so-called findings. *WHY did the CIA reject Bush administration claims that the threat from Saddam was imminent? *WHY did Rumsfeld and others thirst right after 9/11 to attack Iraq instead of Afghanistan? *WHY did Bush go beyond CIA assessment and begin citing specters of destruction like the "mushroom cloud." *WHY did Bush & Co.--who leave no defense contractor behind--hype the war and think of it as something that had to be sold. Remember what White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card told The New York Times about why the Bush administration was waiting on its PR offensive about invading Iraq until after Labor Day? “From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce a new product in August,” *WHY did The White House assassinate the character and career of Ambassador Wilson and traitorously blow the cover of the ambassador's wife--an American spy in Muslim Africa--when Wilson found proof that the CIA was citing forged documents. Shouldn't Club Shrub (a.k.a. The White House) have been thrilled? (Ambassador, I'm glad you found this doctored "evidence." We could have been accused of going to war under false pretenses! No, instead Bush told Wilson to Shut up!) The
Rock
Daily
Kerry pic Daily
Kerry pic Samarra
attack kills five U.S. Marines, one Iraqi Nat'l Guardsman What's interesting to me in this story is that al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad movement falsley claimed that their attack on Thursday killed dozens of Americans but hundreds of Iraqis. I assume these lies are meant to spook Iraqis into having nothing to do with Americans; but, when Iraqis suffer worse than the Americans in such attacks, mightn't resentment build against al-Zarqawi? Or, is al-Zarqawi hoping that Americans will come to be resented, by portraying them as suffering less, suffering unequally, suffering as targets while the Iraqis suffer as the real victims of U.S. occupation? I don't
know. But, I would think that al-Zarqawi could be over-playing his
hand here. (Let's hope!) Many Iraqis, surely, must be thinking:
"Hey, this guy kills more of us than he kills Americans!" Iraq:
more violence; pipeline sabotaged; hostage-taking reaching crisis
proportions Fahrenheit
9/11's soul If you haven't seen the film, please do. Daily
Kerry pic Commonsense
courtesy of Brian Lehrer
New
Site design evolving U.S.
dead in Iraq and Afganistan tops 1,000 Pentagon:
Bush's service records were destroyed Daily
Kerry pic The
sound of breaking news is...German... Allegation:
Bush administration tells Pakistan to produce bin Laden during Democratic
Convention Daily
Kerry photo Gen.
Wesley Clark (Ret.) blasts Bush war Clark followed Eleanor Kjellman, a Vietnam veteran whose son is serving in Iraq. Kjellman's accusation against the Bush-Cheney administration was sharp, "They are big on aircraft carrier landings and sneaking into Baghdad at night to serve turkeys to soldiers. But they are working against the soldiers and their families between ‘photo-ops.’” |
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