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Archive 10/10/2003 Novak Revealed A Source in July of 2001: According to Novak, "Disclosing confidential sources is unthinkable for a reporter seeking to probe behind the scenes in official Washington, but the circumstances here are obviously extraordinary" - Circumstances Don't Get Much More 'Extraordinary' than those surrounding 'Plame-Gate', Bob! (10/10) Terrorist Hopeful Pat Robertson Said Someone Should Blow Up the State Department with a Nuclear Bomb (10/10) John Dean: "If Newsweek is correct that Karl Rove declared Valerie Plame Wilson "fair game," then he should make sure he's got a good criminal lawyer, for he may need one. I've only suggested the most obvious criminal statute that might come into play for those who exploit the leak of a CIA asset's identity. There are others." (10/10) Bush Officials Bend Iraq Facts Till They Break (10/10) Latecomer Clark has Unusual Strategy (10/10) Krugman: "In the months after 9/11, a shocked nation wanted to believe the best of its leader, and Mr. Bush was treated with reverence. But he abused the trust placed in him, pushing a partisan agenda that has left the nation weakened and divided." (10/10) Governor Schwarzenegger?: "He has no political experience, no policies and a cupboard full of skeletons. So what does the rise of the Terminator tell us about the state of American politics? And should we be worried?" (10/10) *** 7/09/2003 White House Failed to Consult Rumsfeld on Shake-Up: "I'm really quite surprised by all the froo-frah about this memo," Rumsfeld Said. "It's a little, short, one-page memo." - Yeah, and One of Bush' Big Lie's was just "16 words" (10/09) Don't Believe the Government's Line on 911? Check Out this Meticulously Footnoted Article and Prepare for Your Jaw to Drop (10/09) US Patriot Act Looks Like Tentacles of Totalitarianism (10/09) Al Gore Would Rather be Roger Ailes than President (10/09) *** 7/08/2003 OUTRAGE: Cover-Up in Treasongate - "White House lawyers are screening documents submitted as possible evidence to determine who leaked an undercover CIA officer's identity, mindful that officials from the president on down have expressed doubt that the leaker will be found." (10/8) PM Howard Censured by Senate Over Iraq Lies: What About Bush??? (10/8) New Watergate Soaks Bush White House (10/8) Vouchers Sure to Hurt Those Most in Need: The School-Voucher Crusade is a Fraud Founded on a Myth (10/8) Right Wing Enraged by Bush Lies: Yes, Bush lied (10/8) A Tribute to Weapons Inspectors: The UN Knew Full Well That No WMD Would be Found in Iraq (10/8) *** 10/07/2003 Lies, Lies, Lies: Revelation Casts Doubt on Iraq find - "The test tube of botulinum presented by Washington and London as evidence that Saddam Hussein had been developing and concealing weapons of mass destruction, was found in an Iraqi scientist's home refrigerator, where it had been sitting for 10 years, it emerged yesterday." (10/7) Bush Admits That the Outing of Plame is a Crime: "This is a serious charge, by the way. We're talking about a criminal action." (10/7) Republicans Unsure of Bush's Chances for 2004 Election: "In a sharp reversal, Republicans who just months ago daydreamed about a 2004 election landslide now worry that President Bush is losing control of events at home and abroad and faces a real chance of leading the party to defeat." (10/7) GOP Pollsters Insist Dean Can Beat Bush (10/7) Right-Wing 'Scholar' Urges Rich Nations (i.e. The US) To Take Over 'Failed States' (i.e. Every Other Nation) to 'Lift the Curse of Natural Resources' (i.e. Pillage and Plunder) (10/7) *** 10/06/2003 Lies, Lies, Lies: Cook Says Blair Accepted Before War That '45-minute' Claim was Bogus - Ex Minister's Diary May Prove to be the Final Nail in Blair's Political Coffin (10/6) Schwarzenegger's Love Child Scandal (10/6) McClintock Calls on Schwarzenegger to Resign If Charges Prove True (10/6) Davis Calls for Criminal Investigation into Schwarzenegger's Alleged 'Sexual Battery' (10/6) Gore Knows Where the Political Battles are Won: Eyes CBC-Launched Cable Company (10/6) Mice To Test Bush's Food For Poison (10/6) *** 10/05/2003 Lies. Lies, Lies!!!!!: Newsweek to Reveal Details That Undercut the White House Line on the 'Plame-Gate' Leak (10/5) Thirty-Four Pages of Internal Enron Memoranda Detail Tryst Between Schwarzenegger, Ken Lay and Michael Milken: It Turns Out That Schwarzenegger Knowingly Joined the Hush-Hush Encounter as Part of a Campaign to Sabotage a Davis-Bustamante Plan to Make Enron and Other Power Pirates Then Ravaging California Pay Back the $9 Billion in Illicit Profits They Stole from its Citizens (10/5) Lies, Lies, Lies: Bush Promised That the Cost of Rebuilding Iraq Would be Paid for by Iraq's Own Oil Revenues. Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Later We Find Out That the Administration's Assertions Were at Odds with a Much Bleaker Assessment of a Government Task Force Secretly Established Last Fall to Study Iraq's Oil Industry (10/5) Lies, Lies, Lies: Cook Says, 'Blair admitted to me that Saddam had no usable WMD' (10/5) Real US Unemployment Rate is 9.7%: "Many of the people who do have jobs are working only part-time. According to the Labor Department, if you add all the workers "marginally attached" to the labor force -- out of work and not looking for work -- to all those working part-time and those unemployed and looking for work." (10/5) *** 10/04/2003 Wesley Clark Called for an Independent Probe of the Bush Administration's Use of Intelligence Before the Iraq War, Calling it "Twisted" and Possibly Criminal (10/4) Suspicion Centers on Lewis Libby: "Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff helped hype the Iraq threat and discredit Joe Wilson. But while the White House has denied Karl Rove is the leaker, so far it's left Libby twisting slowly in the wind." (10/4) Lies, Lies, Lies: David Kay Claims About Iraq Nukes Lack Evidence - "An expert close to the U.N. nuclear watchdog Friday cast doubt on new U.S. claims that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had been planning to revive its atomic weapons program until the U.S. invasion in March." (10/4) Lies, Lies, Lies: David Kay's Bacteria in Iraq Means Nothing (10/4) Debunking Right Wing Spin: Four Separate Ex-CIA Employees are Now on the Record Saying Plame was Undercover and Ran a Network of Informants, and a Fifth who Knew Wilson and had 24 Years at the Agency Says He Didn't Know Plame Worked There ?— Which Means Her Status was Hardly Common Knowledge. (10/4) Bush Expresses Support for Limbaugh: "Rush is a great American." (10/4) Bush's 'Great American' is a Total Racist: What does That Tell You About Bush? (10/4) Bush Projected That His Tax Cut Package, Which Took Effect in July 2003 and was Titled the ?“Jobs and Growth Plan?”, would Create Would Raise the Level of Growth Enough to Create 344,000 New Jobs Each Month: So Far Reality Lags Bush Promises by 672,000 Jobs (10/4) John Dean Says Plame and Wilson Should Sue the Bush Administration (10/4) Study: Wrong Impressions Promoted by fox News Helped Support Iraq War: "...it does appear likely that support for the war would be substantially lower if fewer members of the public had these misperceptions." (10/4) Rush's Drug Abuse Probably Caused His Deafness (10/4) *** 10/03/2003 Cheney Chief-of-Staff, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby Named as Plame-Gate Leaker: Cheney Can't be Far Behind (10/3) Schwarzenegger: "I Admired Hitler" (10/3) Confidence in Bush Slipping: Foreign Policy Hits New Lows (44% Approval), Half of Americans (50%) Don't Have Confidence in His Ability to Handle an International Crisis, and a Majority (53%) Now Believes the War in Iraq Wasn't Worth it (10/3) Perfect Example of the Dangers of Media Deregulation: American Media, Owner of Virtually Every Major Tabloid in the US Promised Joe Weider (Arnold's Maker) That They Would 'Lay Off' the Groper After Executing with Weider a $350 million Business Deal (10/3) Krugman: 'Slime and Defend' (10/3) *** 10/02/2003 Valerie Plame - Gate XIV: Ashcroft Gave White House 12 Hours to Destroy Any Documentation Relating to 'Plame-Gate' (10/2) Valerie Plame - Gate XV: Ambassador Joseph Wilson: "I will be Revealing the Names of Everybody Who Called Me and Cited White House Sources or Cited People Specifically." (10/2) Rush Limbaugh Caught in Drug Sting (10/2) Four of the 19 Suspected 911 Hijackers has Turned Up Alive! (10/2) Poll: Nearly 70% of America Believes a Special Prosecutor Should be Named to Investigate Allegations that Bush Administration Officials Leaked the Name of an Undercover CIA Agent (10/2) Chicago is Now the Largest City to Pass a Resolution Denouncing the Patriot Act (10/2) This is Why Outing a CIA Agent Threatens National Security (10/2) Valerie Plame - Gate XVI: Ambassador Joseph Wilson - "Neo-Conservatives and Religious Conservatives have Hijacked this Administration, and I Consider Myself on a Personal Mission to Destroy Both." (10/2) Gore Close to Cable Buy: Liberal News Channel Might Not be a Pipe Dream (10/2) Who Let Saudis Flee After 911? (10/2) Empower Play: The Pitch That Works for Dean (10/2) Dowd: "Unable to Find Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Bush Team has Turned to Weapons of Personal Destruction" (10/2) *** 10/1/2003 Valerie Plame - Gate X: ROVE DID IT! - Off the Record, Some Reporters Contacted by White House Say Rove Was the Leaker Who Committed Treason, According to Guardian Reporter (Audio Tape) (10/1) Valerie Plame - Gate XI: Will Bob Novak be Forced to Reveal His Treasonous White House Source?: 1972 Supreme Court Ruling, Branzburg v Hayes, States "the first amendment does not relieve a newspaper reporter of the obligation that all citizens have to respond to a grand jury subpoena and answer questions relevant to a criminal investigation" (10/1) Valerie Plame - Gate XII: RNC Chair Gillespie: Bush White House Treason Scandal Worse than Watergate (10/1) Valerie Plame - Gate XIII: Ex-CIA Agent Larry Johnson on PBS's NEWSHOUR: "She has been under cover for three decades", "I tell you, it sickens me to be a Republican to see this." (10/1) Intentional Deception?: Recent Gallup Poll Which Showed 63% Support for Davis Recall was a Sham! Poll's Results are Based on the Assumption that Republicans will Comprise 47% of Voters on Oct. 7 -- Even Though GOP Registration in California is Only 35% - Note That Gallup Consistently Gives Bush the Highest Approval Ratings of any of the Polling Outfits (Including Fox News) (10/1) Huffington Quits California Recall Race (10/1) Lies, Lies, Lies: Powell Lies Again About Iraq -- Falsely Reassert that the Clinton Administration "conducted a four-day bombing campaign in late 1998 based on the intelligence that he had. That resulted in the weapons inspectors being thrown out." (10/1) Schwarzenegger Says the State's Environmental Protection Department Might be Expendable (10/1) Soros Calls for 'Regime Change' in US (10/1) Karl Rove Led the Nation to War to Improve the Political Prospects of George W. Bush. I Know How Surreal That Sounds. But I Also Know it is True. (10/1) *** 9/30/2003 Valerie Plame - Gate I: White House Rejects Calls for an Independent Investigation into Allegations That Senior Administration Officials Leaked the Name of a Covert CIA Operative to Discredit a Critic of the President (9/30) Valerie Plame - Gate II: Senior Administration Official Admits that Before Novak's Column Ran, Two Top White House Officials Called at Least Six Washington Journalists and Disclosed the Identity and Occupation of Wilson's Wife (9/30) Valerie Plame - Gate III: CNN Transcript of Ambassador Joe Wilson Refuting Bob Novak's Defense of Outing Wilson's Wife (9/30) Valerie Plame - Gate IV: White House Spokesman, Scott McClellan Accidentally Reveals That Bush Knows Something About 'Plame-Gate' (9/30) Valerie Plame - Gate V: Transcript of Press Briefing Where White House Spokesman, Scott McClellan Spills the Beans and is Otherwise Bombarded By 'Plame - Gate' Questions (9/30) Valerie Plame - Gate VI: In 1992 Rove was Fired from the Bush Senior Presidential Campaign After He Planted a Negative Story With Guess Who?... ....Columnist Robert Novak (9/30) Valerie Plame - Gate VII: James C. Moore, Co-Author of “Bush’s Brain” - "Reporters have discovered Rove’s steely control in the form of what they call a “leak proof” White House. Nothing comes out of the Bush White House without Rove’s approval. Generally, that means nothing comes out of the White House... ...Until Karl Rove wants something to leak." (9/30) Valerie Plame - Gate VIII: Robert Novak's Original Article Outing Valerie Plame as a CIA Operative: "Mission to Niger" (9/30) Valerie Plame - Gate IX: Two Defenses of the Administration's Treasonous Outing of a CIA Agent - Novak was Contacted and Wilson was a Bush Contributor (9/30) 2001 Video Footage Showing Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice Asserting that Saddam Hussein has NO WMD (9/30) Number of Uninsured Americans Rose by 2.4 Million Last Year, to 43.6 Million (9/30) Since 1947, the Average Unemployment Rates have been More than 30% Higher Under Republicans Than Under Democrats (9/30) Defense Intelligence Agency Concludes That Most of the Information Provided by Iraqi Defectors was of Little or No Value: In addition, Defectors Introduced to American Intelligence Agents by the Exile Organization and its Leader, Ahmad Chalabi, Invented or Exaggerated Their Credentials (9/30) Defense Intelligence Agency Reported BEFORE the War with Iraq it had "No Reliable Information" That Iraq had Chemical and Biological Weapons (9/30) Ted Turner: "We spent $87 billion to blow Iraq up and then we spent another $87 billion to put it back together, and all to get one man and we still haven't got him," Turner said. "Talk about a failure." (9/30) US to Take Military Control of the Final Frontier -- Space (9/30) *** 9/29/2003 Novak: "Replacing the old mantra that there is no way for Bush to lose, Republicans studying the electoral map wonder whether there is any way they can win." (9/29) Pentagon Hides Millions form Congress and US Taxpayers: Special Operations Officials Divided the Money Among Six Projects so the Money Would Not Attract Attention. They Also Instructed Their Own Budget Analysts Not to Mention it During Briefings with Congressional Aides (9/29) Bush: "I am the commander, see. I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they need to say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." - Hides Behind 911 Like the True Coward That He Is (9/29) Report: The Widely Heralded Fund-Raising Advantage Enjoyed by Republicans Could be Significantly Mitigated by the Success of Democratic-Leaning "527" Committees (9/29) Free Pass for Bush: Imagine the Response from Republicans—and Reporters—if Bill Clinton had Been Responsible for One of These Things, Much Less All of Them (9/29) Lying About Sex is an Impeachable Offence; Lying the Nation into War Apparently is Not (9/29) Let us Consider the Totality of George W. Bush (9/29) *** 9/28/2003 Bush Crushes Free Speech in Exchange for Government Secrecy: Created an Official 'Secrets Act' for America, Effectively Creating One of the World's Most Draconian Official Secrets Acts (9/28) Fifty Reasons Not to Vote for Arnold (9/28) 'You Lied, They Died,' US Parents Tell Bush (9/28) Dixie Chicks Rock: Tell Critics to go to Hell (9/28) *** 9/27/2003 CIA seeks probe of White House: CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that the White House broke federal laws by revealing the identity of one of its undercover employees in retaliation against the woman’s husband, a former ambassador who publicly criticized President Bush’s since-discredited claim that Iraq had sought weapons-grade uranium from Africa (9/27) Former Ambassador Wants 'Karl Rove Frog-Marched Out of the White House in Handcuffs' (9/27) Blair Should Quit, Says Half British Public (9/27) Cheney's Unethical Ties to Halliburton: A Congressional Research Service Report Concluded that Federal Ethics Laws Treat Vice President Cheney's Annual Deferred Compensation as Continuing Financial Interests in Halliburton (9/27) CEO of the Associated Press: "most media are owned by Republican conservatives" (9/27) Bush's Support Collapses in Arizona (9/27) Hans Blix to Write Book Detailing Run-Up to Iraq Invasion (9/27) *** 9/26/2003 Election Fraud 2004: New Voting Technology had a Trial Run in the 2002 Mid-Term Elections. In Georgia, Serviced by New Diebold Systems, a Popular Democratic Governor and Senator were Both Unseated in What the Media Called "Amazing" Upsets, with Results Showing Vote Swings of Up to 16 Percent from the Last Pre-Ballot Polls (9/26) American Media Hides Damning Bush Confession: Bush Admission that Saddam had Nothing to do with 911 will Unlikely have Much Impact on the 70% of America Who Wrongly Believe Saddam was Behind 911 all because of Journalistic Incompetence and Political Scheming (9/26) Masters of Distraction: Arrest of a US Airman Accused of Espionage Took Place Over Two Months Ago, But was Relayed to the Media, Just Coincidentally of Course, on the Day of Bush's Embarrassing Plea to the UN (9/26) Schwarzenegger Ran Scam Bricklaying Business: Arnold Recounted, "[My partner] climbed up on the roof to check the chimney?—and he, of course, is a very strong guy and a [weight] lifter?—he pushed all the chimneys over so they fall down. So these people come and say, ?‘Oh, thank you so much for helping us. This could have fallen on somebody?’s head, you know. Thank you for doing it for us." (9/26) Retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni Qestions Case for Iraq: "I'm suggesting that either the intelligence was so bad and flawed -- and if that's the case, then somebody's head ought to roll for that -- or the intelligence was exaggerated or twisted in a way to make a more convenient case to the American people." (9/26) Even the Best Intelligence Can be Wrong or Manipulated: This is Why Pre-Emptive War is so Ill Conceived as a Foundation for Security Policy (9/26) Bush Denies Existence of Global Warming: Snows of Kilimanjaro could Vanish in 15 Years, and the Seemingly Indestructible Glaciers in the Bolivian Andes Might Not Last Another 10 (9/26) Two Dems Who Can Dish It: Dean and Franken Prove that Liberals can Have a Spine (9/26) The Other Lies of George W. Bush (9/26) Why We Hate Bush (9/26) Bush is Isolated While Secret Service Systematically Keeps Protesters Away from His Public Appearances (9/26) Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq (9/26) *** 9/25/2003 Lies, Lies, Lies: Just Months Prior to 911, Colin Powell Said, "[Saddam] has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors." However Post-911 Colin Changed His Tune, "We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction; he's determined to make more." (9/25) Bush Approval at All-Time Low: 49% from NBC/WSJ, 45% from Zogby, 47% from American Research Group (9/25) David Kay's Report will Show No WMD in Iraq (9/25) Racist Republicans Show True Colors with Despicable Bake Sale (9/25) Diebold Voting Machine CEO Who Promised to 'Deliver the votes to Bush' in 2004 Takes Down Blackboxvoting.org Because it was Exposing Diebold as a Threat to Democracy (9/25) Worst Spin Ever: "Mission Accomplished??" Bush Never Said That according to Bush's Right-Hand Lie Protector Dan Bartlett (9/25) The History of the Bush Iraq Invasion Told Exclusively in Lies (Quotes) from Top Administration Officials (9/25) Bush Tries Something New: Belligerent Begging (9/25) *** 9/24/2003 Australian Investigative Journalist John Pilger Says he has Evidence the War Against Iraq was Based on a Lie that could Cost George W. Bush and Tony Blair Their Jobs and Bring Prime Minister John Howard Down with Them (9/24) No. 10 Removes Warning that 'Saddam would Only be a Threat if Attacked' from the 'Dodgy Dossier' (9/24) Bush's U.N. Fiasco: Bush's Message - If You Don't Want to Help Us, You're on the Side of the Terrorists (9/24) Bush Covers Up Climate Research: White House Officials Play Down its Own Scientists' Evidence of Global Warming (9/24) Debunking Right-Wing Conspiracies About Sudan, Clinton and Bin Laden (9/24) Issa, Who Started Recall, Now Tells Voters to Reject it: Risk of GOP Vote Being Split Prompts Call to Retain Davis (9/24) Kennedy's 'Uncivil' Truths on Iraq (9/24) Bush Family Ties to Whacko Cult Leader Sun Myung Moon (9/24) *** 9/23/2003 ELECTION THEFT 2000! A NEW BOMBSHELL!: A Diebold Voting Machines in Volusia County, Florida Tallied a Vote-Count of -16,022. That's NEGATIVE 16,022: When will this all-important story break out in the US mainstream press? When will the Democrats confront the issue? What is at stake here is the future democracy. (9/23) Poll: Clark and Kerry Both Beat Bush (9/23) Lies, Lies, Lies: Where was George on 9/11/01? (9/23) Blow to Blair as Majority Say War Not Justified (9/23) Cheney's Contempt for the Truth: Let's Begin with Halliburton and Continue with Iraq (9/23) "Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program is active, detailed and growing.": Not Only was Every Word of this False, it was Part of a Big Lie Invented in Washington Within Hours of the 911 Attacks and Used to Hoodwink the American Public and Distract the Media from the Real Reason for Attacking Iraq. (9/23) Clark Calls for a 'New American Patriotism': Encourage Broader Public Service, Respect Domestic Dissent Even in Wartime and Embrace International Organizations Like the United Nations (9/23) The 'Oh Really' Factor (9/23) *** 9/22/2003 Iraq For Sale: Administration Announces 'Privatization' of Iraq - Effectively Seizing the Nation's Resources from the Iraqi People (9/22) Lies, Lies, Lies: Bush Said, "We're Doing Everything We Can to Protect the Homeland." Yet, for Crucial Areas of Homeland Security--Ports, Chemical Plants, Emergency Response, Biodefense--Bush has Grossly Underallocated Both in Terms of Attention and Funding (9/22) White House is Ambushed by Criticism from America's Military Community (9/22) From Conservative Columnist Steve Chapman: "The real scandal is... ...that [Bush] depicted the invasion as a vital part of the war on terror and continues to do so--even as the evidence accumulates that, from the standpoint of the war on terror, it was about the worst thing we could have done." (9/22) If You Want to Find the Real Experts in Propaganda, You Should Look to the Bush Administration (9/22) Federal Judges and Government Officials Form a Rebellion Against Bush's Unprecedented and Unconstitutional Arrogance of Power that Threatens Fundamental Rights of American Citizens (9/22) *** 9/21/2003 Poll: 50% don't Want Bush Re-elected to Second Term: Overall Job Approval Drops to 51% (9/21) Study: 3 Characteristics of a Political Conservative 1) Rigid and Closed-Minded 2) Impulsively Aggressive 3) Afraid of loss - Sounds Like a Frightened Child (9/21) IMF Warns That Colossal US trade deficit is a Noose Around the Neck of the Economy: Dollar Could Collapse at Any Moment (9/21) Kennedy Stands Heroically by His Proclamation that Bush's Case for Iraq is a Fraud (9/21) Pride and Prejudices: How Americans have Fooled Themselves About the War in Iraq, and Why They've had To (9/21) Shouldn't Bush's Blank Check for War Bounce Since He Lied to Congress? (9/21) Disgusting Behavior: Occupying Forces 'Partying' at Baghdad Zoo: Drunken Idiot Kills Rare, Caged Tiger After Other Drunken Idiot tries to Hand Feed the Animal. Despicable! (9/21) *** 9/20/2003 Clinton Welcomed as Hero in Kosovo: Maybe Bush Should Visit Iraq and See What Happens (9/20) America's Rich get Richer Thanks to Tax-Cutting Bush: Social Programs on Death Row (9/20) Clark Says He Would Have Voted for War (9/20) Clark Says He Would Never Have Voted for this War (9/20) Debunking the Right-Wing Lies About Clinton and Paula Jones (9/20) How Paul Krugman Came to Be a Hero to True Americans (9/20) *** 9/19/2003 Lies, Lies, Lies: U.S. Weapons Hunters Find No Evidence Iraq had Smallpox (9/19) Saudis Consider Nuclear Bomb: Remember When Bush Promised that the Invasion of Iraq Would Bring 'Stability' to the Region? (9/19) Senator Says Case for Iraq War Was Fraud (9/19) Steel Tariffs Backfire on Bush: Move to Gain Votes in Swing States Is Political and Economic 'Debacle' (9/19) 'The Crazies Are Back': Bush Sr.’s CIA Briefer Recalls How the First Bush Administration Referred to Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney (9/19) Refuting a Ridiculous Rationale: Rumsfeld Says Our War in Iraq Makes America Secure Because it is "Better [to Fight Terrorists] in Middle East than in Middle America" (9/19) Bush Lied to Congress About Saddam/911 Link (9/19) Top California Recall Candidates Might Abandon Schwarzenegger at the Only Debate Arney has Agreed to Attend: Would Hold a 'real' Debate Outside that Venue without the 'Kindergarten' Candidate (9/19) Bush's Saudi Connections: And why this is a crucial issue in 2004 (9/19) Dean Campaign Challenges Supporters to Raise $40 million for Q3 (9/19) South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham: "The idea of being able to use a redesigned nuclear weapon to keep a terrorist from hitting us with a nuclear weapon is something we've got to come to grips with because it's part of the war on terrorism." What??? (9/19) *** 9/18/2003 Here We Go Again: Bush Administration Named Syria and Libya "Rogue States" Whose "Weapons of Mass Destruction Must Not Just be Controlled but Must be Eliminated by Whatever Means Necessary (9/18) Cheney Getting Slapped Around for Ridiculous Lies on "Meet the Press" this Past Weekend (9/18) How the GOP will Attack Clark (9/18) The Price for Bush's Failed Unilateralism (9/18) Tax Cut Victims are the Nation's Most Vulnerable Citizens (9/18) *** 9/17/2003 CIA: Assessment of Syria's WMD Exaggerated (9/17) Blix Says Iraq Probably Destroyed WMDs 10 Years Ago (9/17) The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus: Absolute Must Read! (9/17) As Cheney's Halliburton is Given Billions of Dollars Worth of No-Bid Contracts, Cheney Receives Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars While Serving as VP. Impeach Cheney Now! (9/17) Cheney Claims No Knowledge That White House Helped Evacuate 24 Members of the Bin Laden Family Days After 9/11 (9/17) Insane Cheney in Wonderland: Upholds Sweeping, Unproven Claims About Saddam Hussein's Connections to Terrorism (9/17) Despite Continual White House Promotion of the Idea that Saddam was Somehow Behind the 911 Attacks, Rumsfeld Says He Sees No Link Between 9/11 and Iraq (9/17) Democratic Candidate Ben Chandler's Anti-Bush Campaign Continues to Enjoy Great Success in Bush-Friendly Kentucky (9/17) Political Strategy: The Only Way to Win in 2004 is to Come Out Fighting (9/17) White House's Cynical Iraq Ploy: Lie First, 'Correct' It Later (9/17) Is George Bush the Most Dangerous President in U.S. History? (9/17) Environmentalist's Dream: New Low-Polluting Cars to Hit U.S. Showrooms Next Month (9/17) *** 9/16/2003 Australian PM John Howard was Accused of Sending Australian Troops to War on the Basis of a Lie: What About Bush? (9/16) Top Bush WMD 'Expert' David Kay Vindicates Those Who Said we Should Keep the Inspectors in Iraq: Will Say that He has Found Evidence of Intentions to Possibly Build Such Weapons After Inspectors Left the Country (9/16) Senior U.S. Official to Level Weapons Charges Against Syria: Given Their Track Record, Why Should We Believe Anything this Administration Says (9/16) Bush Just Can't Stop Lying: The Latest Bush Gang Whoppers (9/16) In Eight Minutes, the U.S. Government Spends More Money on Running an Illegal and Unnecessary War than it Took for a Group of Researchers to Develop Photovoltaic Technology that is Over 100% More Efficient than Previous Designs (9/16) George Soros Contributes Millions to Unseat Bush: Argues that Neo-Conservatives in the Bush Administration have Made a Mockery of the Values of Freedom and Democracy (9/16) Three Vignettes that Define this Administration (9/16) Bush, Giuliani Used Tragedy to Rise from Ashes (9/16) *** 9/15/2003 Lies, Lies, Lies: Adjusting for Reality, the Projected Budget Deficit is About $7.4 Trillion, Not the Advertised $1.4 Trillion (9/15) Saddam Didn't Lie; There are No WMDs, UN Inspectors Say (9/15) True Scale of American Casualties in Iraq is Revealed Today: 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 Seriou sly (9/15) CNN's Top War Correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, Says that the Press Muzzled Itself During the Iraq War. And, that CNN "Was Intimidated" by the Bush Administration and Fox News, which "Put a Climate of Fear and Self-Censorship." (9/15) David Kay's 'September Surprise' is that There is No Surprise at All (9/15) Foreign Secretary Jack Straw 'Begged Blair' Not to Join Iraq War (9/15) Preemptive War, the Bush Doctrine Announced After 9/11, Exempted the US from the Obligation to Justify War on Grounds of Self-Defense or Imminent Threat: It is This Strategic Doctrine, and Not Tactics or Policies on the Ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, that is Now Failing so Catastrophically (9/15) Top 25 Ignored or Downplayed Stories of 2003: Neocons' Plans for Global Domination Tops the List (9/15) Quest for Oil Puts American Citizens in Danger: Bush Occupation of Iraq is Stealing Critical Funds Needed to Fund Emergency Responders at Home (9/15) *** 9/14/2003 Democrats Let Bush get Away with Mass Murder: Scrap Plans To Look Into Claims White House Manipulated Intel On Iraqi Threat (9/14) $87 Billion is Really Just a Down Payment: The Toll the War is Taking on the Army's Troops and Equipment will Lock in Much Higher Military Spending for Years to Come, Regardless of how the Occupation Goes from Here, Defense Experts Say (9/14) Iraq War Hampered Pursuit of Bin Laden (9/14) The Genetically Modified Bomb: Imagine a Bomb that Only Kills Caucasians with Red Hair. Or Short People. Or Arabs. Or Chinese (9/14) New York Times Agrees with Dean on Middle East (9/14) Security Fears Grow Over Electronic Voting Systems (9/14) *** 9/13/2003 Bush Plans to Treat the Additional $87 Billion in Iraq as if it Were 'Off-Budget', Pretending They're not Creating More Debt (9/13) Ozone Hole is Bigger than it has Ever Been (9/13) Krugman:The Tax-Cut Con (9/13) Federal Budget Deficits "As Far as the Eye Can See" Threaten to Undermine the Economy's Long-Term Vigor Over the Next Decade (9/13) California Republicans Want to do for You what They’ve Already Done for Orange County (9/13) *** 9/12/2003 Poll: Sixty-Four Per Cent of Americans Say Bush's Middle East Policy Increases the Likelihood of Terrorism (9/12) Blair Ignored Intelligence Advice on Iraq: Another of No. 10's Main Justifications for War on Iraq was Blown Apart by the Disclosure that Intelligence Chiefs had Warned that Deposing Saddam Hussein would Increase the Risk of Terror Attacks on Britain - Bush Did the Same (9/12) It Pays for Bush's Allies to Support Terrorism: Saudi Arabia's Trade With US Has Surged Since Sept. 11, 2001 (9/12) Dean Criticized for Calling for an "Evenhanded" Policy Towards Israel and Palestine: Poll Shows Americans Support Dean's Positions (9/12) Neocon doesn't Stand for 'Neo-conservative', it Stands for 'Neo-Confederacy': Republican Poll Seeks to Identify Rebel Flag Supporters (9/12) How Bush Jeopardizes U.S. Troops with Opposition to International Court (9/12) Bush's Iraq Folly has Made the United States Less Safe in at Least Three Ways (9/12) Krugman: "Everything suggests that there are major scandals - involving energy policy, environmental policy, Iraq contracts and cooked intelligence - that would burst into the light of day if the current [administration] lost its grip on power. So these people must win, at any cost." (9/12) Progressive Powerhouse Joe Conason Crushes Right-Wing Wretch Ann Coulter (9/12) *** 9/11/2003 BUSH GASSED HIS OWN PEOPLE!!!!! (9/11) Dream Team: Howard Dean Asks Wesley Clark to Join His Campaign (9/11) Bush Plans to Use Billions of Welfare Dollars to Try to Persuade the Poor That Marriage is the Way to Shirk Poverty. Idiot! (9/11) Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Reject Bush's Turn Toward Unilateralism (9/11) Does the Bush Administration have a Plan to Shower the Planet with 'Dirty Bombs'? (9/11) Protesters Disrupt Rumsfeld Speech: "Mr. Rumsfeld you're fired, Your foreign policy is based on lies. The war in Iraq is unjust and illegal and the occupation is immoral." (9/11) Krugman: "If you work for any Murdoch publication or network, or if you work for the Rev. Moon's empire, you're really not a journalist in the way that we used to think. You're basically just part of a propaganda machine." (9/11) Bush Using the 'Big Lie' Technique to Falsely Tie Saddam to 911: "It is an insult to those who died on that day of infamy to exploit them to defend a failed policy of preemptive war designed by a bunch of think tank neoconservatives as part of a cockamamie plan to remake the Middle East." (9/11) There is a Dark Cabal Around Blair: But Let's Not Forget Bush's Unelected Cabal - Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Perle, Bolton, Bremer, Kay and on and On (9/11) *** 9/10/2003 Bush Administration Ignores 44 Million Uninsured in U.S as it Awards Contract for Universal Health Care in Iraq (9/10) US Health Costs Skyrocket: Despite Record Corporate Welfare and Ghastly CEO Pay, Firms Pass More Insurance Costs on to Their Employees (9/10) What About the 90-Day Occupation?: Last February, With Invasion Just Weeks Away, Sources in the Bush Administration Told Newsweek that They were Expecting a Postwar Occupation of Iraq of 30 to 90 Days. "Every day you get past three months, you've got to expect peacekeepers to have a bull's-eye on their head," the Sources Explained. (9/10) AP Staffer Fact-Checks Powell's UN Speech: Key Claims Were Total "Bullshit" (9/10) Al-Qaida Stronger Than Pre-9/11 (9/10) Greenpeace Obtains Smoking-Gun Memo Showing White House/Exxon link: Conservative Front Group May have Thanked White House for Help in Suing EPA (9/10) Don't Believe the "Ultra-Lib" Nonsense for a Minute. Republicans fear Dean! (9/10) Santa Cruz to Ask Congress to Consider Impeaching Bush (9/10) As Bush Spreads Lies Throughout the Land, Dissenters are Corralled into “Free Speech Zones” –- is this America? (9/10) Bush Won't Change (9/10) *** 9/9/2003 Lies, Lies, Lies. U.S. Intelligence Agencies Warned Bush Administration Before the War in Iraq that There Would be Significant Armed Opposition to a U.S.-Led Occupation, But Bush Promised that a 'Liberated' Iraq Would Welcome Our Soldiers with 'Flowers and Hugs' (9/9) Cost of Deposing Saddam and Stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan this Year and Next Will be $166 billion: More than 25 Times the $6.4 Billion Bill to American Taxpayers, in Today's Dollars, for the Persian Gulf War in 1991 to Expel Iraq from Kuwait (9/9) Calls Mount for Blair to Quit Over Iraq (9/9) Bush Says 'American Misadventures' in Beirut and Somalia (the First Authored by Reagan; the Second Initiated by Bush the Elder) Were Partial Causes of 9/11 (9/9) Anti-American Adolf Rumsfeld Says any Criticism of Bush Helps the Enemy (9/9) Representative Jim McDermott: "Congress must not give the President a blank check after the many, many missteps that have been made in Iraq. If this level of mismanagement were found in any other federal program, my colleagues would be demanding it be shut down or turned over to the states." (9/9) More Than 12% of the Population (35 million) Plunge into Poverty (9/9) Arnold's Other Questionable Magazine Interview: More Interesting Quotes from Schwarzenegger (9/9) Krugman: "...What [Bush] means by unity is that he should receive a blank check, and... ...what he means by sacrifice is sacrifice by other people." (9/9) *** 9/8/2003 'Unaccounted For' Iraqi Weapons May be Bookkeeping Glitches (9/8) Another Black Bodybuilder Has Come Forward Claiming that Schwarzenegger has a History of Making Racist Comments (9/8) Bumbling Bush May have Given Osama an Open Goal: Bush's Failure in the 'War on Terror' Leaves Americans as Fearful of Terror as Ever (9/8) The Fourth World War: Gestation of a New American Imperialism (9/8) *** 9/7/2003 Bush Seeks Exit Strategy as War Threatens His Career: Will Make Dramatic U-Turn on Iraq in a TV Broadcast Tonight (9/7) Poll: Bush Approval Plummets to 45%; Dean Tops List of Democratic Presidential Contenders (9/7) Ex British Minister Blames the Iraq War on a Bush Administration Desire for Domination of the Gulf and the World. Says War on Terrorism is a Smokescreen and That the US Knew in Advance About the September 11 Attack on New York But, for Strategic Reasons, Chose Not to Act on the Warnings (9/7) Alaska Passes Anti-Patriot Act Resolution: Strongest Language to Date (9/7) Britain and the US have Come Up with Entirely New Explanations of Why They Invaded Iraq as Inspectors On the Ground Prepare to Report That There are No Weapons of Mass Destruction There (9/7) Senior House Democrat Urges Top Defense Hands to Resign (9/7) GOP Faces Uprising on Veterans (9/7) Republican Leadership Fights to Preserve an Archaic Civil War Era Law That Requires Disabled Retired Veterans to Pay Their Own VA Disability Compensation Each Month in Order to Protect a Threatened and Embarrassing Bush Veto (9/7) Bush Employment Debacle: Bush Predicted Latest Tax Cut Would Add 344,000 Per Month. By Its Own Accounting, the Bush Administration Fell 437,000 Jobs Short of Its Own Projections in August (9/7) Why George W. Bush Can't Win (9/7) Rumsfeld Should Resign (9/7) Economy Recovering, But Only for the Affluent (9/7) Putrid Propaganda: "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis" - New Showtime Movie Uses the Tragic Attack on America in 2001 as the Basis for a Reelection Campaign Movie on Behalf of George W. Bush. 'Simultaneously Dull and Disgraceful' (9/7) *** 9/6/2003 Poll: 41% Said They Would Definitely Vote Against Bush While 28% Said They Would Back Him (9/6) Report: In the Crucial Days After 9/11, the White House Changed EPA Press Releases to “Add Reassuring Statements and Delete Cautionary Ones.” (9/6) Bush Administration Gives the Thumbs Up to Selling Toxic Real Estate: Lifts Ban on Selling PCB Sites (9/6) Bush Ushers Back the Era of Big Government (9/6) The Texas Stalemate is All About Race: DeLay-Rove Power Grab in Austin is All About Keeping White Control of an Increasingly Hispanic State (9/6) What Estrada's Exit Means for Future Battles (9/6) Ex Marine General Blasts Bush: Applauded by Groups of Officers (9/6) *** 9/5/2003 Documents Released Today Blow Out of the Water the UK Government's Central Defense in Their Row with the BBC - That the 'Dodgy Dossier' was Always "Owned" by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and Not Downing Street (9/5) Why Dean and Franken are So Hot Right Now: After Years of Being Kicked in the Teeth by GOP Bullies, Democrats Have Finally Found Two Brawlers Who Know How to Give it Back (9/5) Gore Ogles Vivendi Cable Station as Potential Media Buy (9/5) Disgusting, Anti-American Pig Joseph Farrah Calls for a New Hollywood Blacklist (9/5) Will Bush Backers Manipulate Votes to Deliver GW Another Election?: “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” (9/5) US Soldier in Iraq: "This looks like a modern-day crusade not to free an oppressed people or to rid the world of a demonic dictator relentless in his pursuit of conquest and domination but a crusade to control another nation's natural resource. At least for us here, oil seems to be the reason for our presence." (9/5) *** 9/4/2003 Bush Administration Allowed 140 Saudis Including Members of Osama bin Laden's Family to Jet Out of the US in the Immediate Aftermath of September 11, Even as American Airspace was Closed (9/4) Blair's Case for Invading Iraq "in Tatters": Senior Intelligence Officials Gave Damning Testimony of the Way the 'Dodgy dossier' was Manipulated by Government "Spin Merchant" (9/4) U.S. Report Ties Iraq Unrest to Poor Planning by Administration (9/4) Just Three Hours Before Dr David Kelly Died He Sent an Email to Warn a Friend About "Dark Actors Playing Games" (9/4) Bush Blames Immigrants for Iraq Invasion - Bush Leadership in Action (9/4) Schwarzenegger Has Egg on His Face as He Opts for Speech Instead of Debate (9/4) Outrage for Corporate Profits: Bush Administration is Relaxing Rules That Say Hospitals Have to Examine and Treat People Who Require Emergency Medical Care, Regardless of Their Ability to Pay (9/4) Tax Cut Doesn't Spur Investment (9/4) Bush's Reelection Liabilities Mount (9/4) Another Moronic Administration Official Derides Our Allies (9/4) Step One: Wesley Clark Declares That He is a Democrat (9/4) Political Strategy: The Candidate Who Can Take What Republicans Denigrate as "Wild-Eyed Liberal Dreams" and Reframe Them Properly as Simple Common Sense Will have the Best Chance to Beat Bush (9/4) Will Bush Be Elected in 2004? Not According to Recent Polls (9/4) What Do You Call a President In Which Independent Voters Are Losing Faith? A: Vulnerable! (9/4) *** 9/3/2003 Nearly 40,000 of America's Frontline Soldiers are Not US Citizens (9/3) As Bush is Blasted for Stretching Our Troops Thin: CBO Reports That Troops May have to be Cut to About a Quarter of Their Current Number (9/3) Kick em While They're Down: EU and US Tariffs on Imports from Developing Countries are as Much as 20 Times Higher than Those Charged on Imports from Other Rich Nations (9/3) Labor Secretary Elaine Chao Shocked Labor Groups at Meeting: Told Them She Opposes any Increase in the Minimum Wage, Shows No Sympathy for Retired Steelworkers Who Lost Pension Benefits, and recites a List of Legal Actions Her Department has Taken Against Unions and Their Leaders (9/3) 30 Million Americans Work Full-Time to Earn Poverty-Level Wages (9/3) Did Schwarzenegger Commit Rape: "Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's - the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train - there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together." (9/3) Schwarzenegger Finally Agrees to a Debate - of Course He and the Rest of the Candidates Get to See the Questions a Week Ahead of Time: Debate Sponsor Claims the Foreknowledge of Questions Should Inhibit Arnold's Blabbering, Meaningless One-Liners (9/3) Bush Lied and Failed: The War was Going to Make the Middle East a More Peaceful Place, Undercut Terrorism, Show the Evil Dictators of the World That American Power is Not to be Resisted, Improve the Lives of Ordinary Iraqis, Stabilize Oil Markets, and the American Army was Going to be Greeted with Flowers (9/3) Political Strategy: Release Damning Information and Unpopular Policy Late on a Friday (9/3) *** 9/2/2003 Terrorist Abu Zubaydah Fingers Bush Allies Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as the Two Greatest Al Qaeda Allies (9/2) Bush and Blair Made the Same Claims, Met Repeatedly to Plot and Promote Their Case for War and Their Staffs Coordinated Closely on Intelligence. So Why Does Bush have No Fear of Being Held Accountable (9/2) Report: Earth Hottest in 2,000 Years - The Newly Published Findings are a Blow to Skeptics who Maintain That Global Warming is Part of the Natural Climatic Cycle Rather than a Consequence of Human Industrial Activity (9/2) Former Mr. Universe Rick Wayne Told ABC News That Schwarzenegger Made the Comments Regarding South Africa's Former Apartheid System: "If you gave these blacks a country to run, they would run it down the tubes." (9/2) Clark's Path Similar to Another Arkansan Who Ran for President (9/2) *** 09/01/2003 Bush Administration Wants to Overturn a California Law That Promotes Cleaner Air: The Laws Have Resulted in the Replacement of Hundreds of Diesel Trucks, Buses and Other Vehicles with Models That Burn Natural Gas and Other Alternative Fuels (9/1) Intelligence Analyst: Australian Government 'Lied Every Time' Over Iraq (9/1) Idiot Bush Pushes Idiot Legislation That Would have Sent Him to Jail (9/1) *** 8/31/2003 North Korea Dismissed Last Week's Six-Nation Talks in Beijing, Saying it Was Now Even More Convinced of the Need to Strengthen its Nuclear Arsenal (8/31) Bush Administration has Decreed That Carbon Dioxide from Industrial Emissions - the Main Cause of Global Warming - is Not a Pollutant (8/31) Deceit Over Dossier Will be Blair's Watergate: The Spinmaster has Quit Just in Time - No 10's Story is Unraveling (8/31) Prove the Weapons Case (8/31) The Mendacity Index: Which of the Last Four Presidents was the Biggest Liar? Hint - It wasn't Clinton (8/31) *** 8/30/2003 GAO's Final Energy Task Force Report Reveals That Cheney Lied to Congress (8/30) Former Chief U.N. Arms Inspector Hans Blix Felt Washington Was Intimidating Him to Produce Reports That Would Justify Military Action in the Run-Up to the Iraq War (8/30) Can it be Pure Coincidence, Locals are Asking, That Two Wildfires Sprang Up in View of the Spot Where President Bush Planned to Promote His Plan to Thin Forests for Wildfire Prevention? (8/30) Never Fear Asking the Tough Questions: Go Ahead, Just Try to Tell Someone You Think George W. Bush Knew About the 9/11 Horror in Advance. Their Eyes Just Roll, and They Sputter, "Go Live in Another Country and See What It's Like." The Facts You Can Muster to Support Such an Assertion Do Not Really Matter to Them, Because They Have Chosen Not to "Go There." - But Why Not? (8/30) Oliver North Primer: Despite the Betrayal of His Marine Oath to "Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States," He Became a Hero to Many Conservatives (8/30) *** 8/29/2003 Accused of "Sexing Up" Blair's Dubious Dossier, UK Director of Communications, Alastair Campbell, has Resigned (8/29) Tony Blair Told Inquiry That If a Report Accusing His Government of "Sexing Up" Intelligence on Iraq had been True, it Would have Merited His Resignation -- See Ya! (8/29) Neocon Hawks Fight Peace Deal with North Korea: Instead of Improving the Current Non-Proliferation Treaty by Adding an Enforcement Mechanism, Neocons Would Rather Claim the Current One Flawed and Do Away With Treaties Altogether. This Way Bush Can Resume His Own Nuclear Testing Without Having to Defend any Treaty Obligations (8/29) Dean Claims Iowa Lead with 25%, Gephardt with 21% (8/29) Wally O'Dell, a Major GOP Fundraiser and CEO of Diebold Inc, A Major Supplier of Voting Machines, is Under Consideration to Supply Ohio with His Machines. This is a Man Who States His Support for the Republican Party and Notes he is "Committed to Helping Ohio Deliver its Electoral Votes to the President Next Year." (8/29) The War on Terror is a Smokescreen Used by Bush to Wipe out Opponents and Blast Every Other Issue Off the Political Map (8/29) White House Undermines Public Health: Claims No Authority Over Auto Emissions, No Responsibility for Global Warming (8/29) Cheney's Halliburton has been Given Contracts Worth More than $1.7 Billion as a Result of Pillaging Iraq and Stands to Make Hundreds of Millions More Dollars Under a No-Bid Contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (8/29) The Bush Family "Fail n' Bail" Business Strategy: Leave No Bush Behind (8/29) *** 8/28/2003 Smoking Gun: Schwarzenegger's Sex Talk in 1977 Interview - "Grass and Hash", "Gang Bangs" and "Fags" - Goodbye Arnold! (8/28) Ex Cabinet Minister Ann Taylor to No 10: Dossier Did Not Justify War (8/28) Bush Eases Pollution Rule at Power Plants (8/28) Bush Puts Aviation Safety on the Chopping Block: Busiest Air Traffic in the Nation Up for Sale to the Lowest Bidder (8/28) Utility Workers Warn Country: Deregulation Led to Blackout (8/28) Tens of Millions of Our Hard-Earned Tax Dollars Going to Protect Bush on Visit to Thailand: 3,000 US Agents to Guard Bush's Life (8/28) Founding Father James Madison Blasts Religious Fanatic Roy Moore from the Grave: To Single Out One Religion, he Wrote, "degrades from the equal rank of Citizens" and is Thus Un-American (8/28) *** 8/27/2003 Ambassador Joseph Wilson Accuses Karl Rove of Outing His Wife as a CIA Agent: "At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words." (8/27) Dean Leading in New Hampshire with 38 Percent to 17 Percent for Senator John Kerry, Dean to Report Record $10.3 Million in Fundraising for This Quarter (8/27) Wesley Clark Says White House Tried to get Him Fired from CNN (8/27) Senator Clinton Calls For Investigation into Bush Lies Regarding Post-911 Air Quality: "I don't think any of us ever expected to find out ... that our government would knowingly deceive us about something as sacred as the air we breathe." (8/27) Then and Now: Profile of EPA Members Extracted from the Polluting Industries That They were Appointed to Regulate - Disgrace! (8/27) 8/26/2003 Bush Caught on Tape Laughing and Joking Around as He Prepared to Announce Invasion of Iraq (8/26) Analysts to Predict Record $500 Billion Deficit (8/26) Weapons Inspector Richard Butler: US Abandoning 'Defense Posture' (8/26) GAO: Cheney Energy Investigation was First Instance in Years in Which the GAO was Unable to do its Job and Produce a Report According to Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (8/26) What is Bush's Plan for North Korea?: US' Most Experienced North Korea Negotiator (and a Clinton Holdover) Resigned Ahead of a Key Cycle of Talks on Ending North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions (8/26) Bush Uses American Crises to Push Un-American Preset Agenda (8/26) Dean Suggests Possibility of Dean-Clark in 2004 (8/26) Liberals are Where the Brains are, and the Brains are Where Liberals Are (8/26) If Joseph Goebbels had Run his Own Cable Channel, It Would Have Been Indistinguishable from Fox News (8/26) Can You Believe Anything Bush Says? Only if You're a Rank Sucker (8/26) 8/25/2003 Lies, Lies, Lies: Despite Bush Administration's Public Assertions, Iraqi Drones Were Not Designed to Dispense Biological or Chemical Weapons (8/25) Poll Shows US Voters Turning Against Bush (8/25) Blair Damned by Avalanche of Evidence: Blair Was Personally Responsible for the Decision to Subject Dr. David Kelly to the Public Grilling Blamed for his Death (8/25) California Recall: Bustamante Leads; Simon Drops Out (8/25) Argument for Universal Health Care: US has Spent More Than Twice as Much Per Capita on Health Care as Canada and Other Leading Industrial Countries (8/25) Administration is Quietly Implementing an Aggressively Anti-Labor Strategy: Since Bush's Selection in 2000, the Labor Department has Yanked 41 Worker-Safety Regulations in Development Off the Books (8/25) Of All the Central Players in the California Energy Crisis Drama, the Individual with the Least Direct Legal Authority to Resolve the Crisis Turns Out to Have Been Gray Davis (8/25) Caught in His Own Lies (8/25) BBC Attacks Murdoch: He Sees no Value in a National Health Service, a Public Education System or Any Other Organization That Exists for the Benefit of Society and Not Driven by Profit. (8/25) 8/23/2003 Federal Judge Slammed Fox News' Lawsuit Against Al Franken: "This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally." (8/23) Fundamentalist Scofflaw Judge Roy Moore Suspended for Unbearable Idiocy (8/23) Australian Case For Iraq War Was 'Fabricated': Would That be the Same 'Fabricated' Case Used By Blair and Bush? (8/23) Intelligence Officer Pins Iraq Weapons 'Lies' to PM's Office (8/23) Every Public Argument for Invading Iraq has Broken Down (8/23) Packed Forum Calls for Inquiry into Bush's Claims Leading to War (8/23) Celebrities Unite Against Arnold Schwarzenegger (8/23) Action Figures For Imbeciles:It's the G.W. Bush "Aviator" Doll, Just in Time to Degrade Every Notion of Heroism, Ever (8/23) How Can This Trashing of America be Happening With so Little Public Outcry? (8/23) 8/22/2003 Australia's PM John Howard 'Sexed Up' Iraq WMD Risk (8/22) 9/11 Moms Battle Bush: "I think you had open investigations before Sept. 11 on some of the people responsible for the terrorist attacks!" (8/22) Security Is Not a Safe Issue for Bush in '04 (8/22) Bush Sacrifices Our Health for Contributor Profits: Seeks to Loosen Clean Air Rules - Constitute Sweeping Victory for Industries - Defeat for Everyone Who Breathes (8/22) ‘Seriously Be Concerned’: America's Infrastructure is Crumbling and Bush Policies Could Push it Over the Edge of Catastrophe (8/22) Krugman: Conan the Deceiver (8/22) Can We Now Please Admit That the Bush Administration's Policies in Iraq Are a Terrible Failure? (8/22) As a Result of Deregulation, FirstEnergy, Like many Power Companies, Has Been Driven By a Motivation to Put Profit Above the Public Interest (8/22) Wisconsin Woman's Obituary: "Memorials in her honor can be made to any organization working for the removal of President Bush." (8/22) 8/21/2003 Zogby: Bush's Approval Drops to 52%, Reelect Declines to 43% (8/21) Fair and Balanced PAC Plans Launch of www.bushrecall.org (8/21) In Less Than 24 Hours, the President's Two Defining Foreign Policy Ambitions Were Brought Down With a Sickening Thud (8/21) Did the Bush Administration Allow the Bombing of the UN in Baghdad? (8/21) Bush's Highest Ratings are in Foreign Policy. Bush's Biggest Failures are in Foreign Policy. Huh? (8/21) The WMD in Baghdad Tuesday Were a Truck, Explosives and a Driver Ready to Die. Perhaps if Iraq Had Nuclear Biological or Chemical Weapons They Would Have Used Them, Just Like the Truck. They Never Had Them. Bush Started a War Over Something That Never Was. (8/21) One Reason Why Vietnam Spiraled Out of Control Was the Fact That America's Government Never Clearly Defined the Mission There, Misled the Public About What They Were Doing. They Conceal the Truth About a Policy That Was Bankrupt From the Beginning. They Even Concealed How Much the War Was Costing. Sound Familiar? (8/21) 8/20/2003 By the Time Blair's Debunked Dossier Got to Washington, the Bush Team Was Treating Its Bogus Claims as Gospel Despite the Fact That U.S. Intelligence Agencies Warned That it Was a Dubious Document (8/20) Davis Rips Republicans for Power Grab: "This Recall is Bigger Than California. What's Happening Here is Part of an Ongoing National Effort by Republicans to Steal Elections They Cannot Win." (8/20) Veterans Condemn House Republicans: "A Shameless Betrayal", "Moral Outrage", "Abominable" (8/20) If You Knew What Energy "Deregulation" Was All About in the 1990s, You Were One of the Few. Most People Just Knew That it Was Supposed to Lower Their Bills: It Didn't Lower Anybody's Bills (8/20) How the Media Spread Bush's WMD Lies (8/20) America Two Years after 9/11: 25 Things We Now Know (8/20) Bush Administration Spins the Illegal Iraq Invasion from 'War of Necessity' to 'War of Choice' (8/20) 8/19/2003 No. 10 Knew: Iraq No Threat - Blair Will Fall, Bush Will Follow! (8/19) UK Official Email: Government Should Make Clear "We Do Not Claim That We Have Evidence That (Saddam) is an Imminent Threat." - However, No. 10 Did Exactly That by Playing Up the 45-Minute Claims in the Dossier (8/19) Bush Focuses on Personal Agenda While Failing in War on Terror: Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility For Power Blackout In U.S. (8/19) Bush Administration Tries it's Best to Provoke North Korea into War (8/19) Probe: Blair's Office "Substantially" Altered Iraq Dossier (8/19) How No. 10 Made Its Bogus Case For War (8/19) California's Problems a Direct Result of Republican Policies (8/19) Bush Unscathed by Investigations: Here's Why Special Counsels are Now a Thing of the Past, and GOP-Controlled Congress Has Stifled Partisan Inquiries (8/19) The Bush Cover-up: Lie, Cheat, Steal and Lie Some More (8/19) President Bush: A Radical With an Evil Plan - Seeks Single Party Rule Over America (8/19) American Voters Have Two Choices: Bush or Bush-lite: Democrats Must be Aggressive and Unapologetic (8/19) Krugman: Faith-Based Deregulation (8/19) 8/18/2003 Opposition to Deregulationis is being led by Southern 'Bush' States, Where Electricity Prices Already Are Low Without Deregulation, and Those in the Northwest, Where Officials Mistrust FERC, Which They Argue Did Nothing to Prevent Soaring Power Prices Two Years Ago When California's Deregulated System Turned to Chaos (8/18) Bush Administration Shifting Troops Away from War on Terror in Favor of Provoking Terror Via the Occupation of Iraq (8/18) U.S. Diplomat: Bush is "A Politician Who Badly Wants to Appear Strong But in Reality is Very Weak." (8/18) Put Nothing Past This Administration: Timing of Blackout Just Weeks Before Bush Shoves Sweeping Energy Plan Through Congress That Wiill Force America to be Ever More Dependent on Fossil Fuel for Decades to Come (8/18) Republican Assault on The Democratic Process (8/18) Bush's Handlers Fearful of His Ignorant, Incompetant Bumbling (8/18) 8/17/2003 Tony Blair's Headline-Grabbing Claim That Iraq Could Deploy Weapons of Mass Destruction Within 45 Minutes of an Order to do so was Hearsay - Blair will Fall: Bush will Follow (8/17) Deregulation Has Failed: The Enron Scandal and Now the Most Serious Blackout in American History are Undeniable Evidence (8/17) Failure of Deregulation: Refusal of Private Power Companies to Cooperate Increased the Likelihood of a Massive Grid Meltdown (8/17) Bush Administration Spits in the Face of US Troops: Cuts Pay for Those in 'Imminent Danger' (8/17) Zogby: 46 Percent of Americans Said Bush Deserved Reelection, But 47 Percent Said it's Time for Someone New (8/17) Cuban-Americans Sound Alarm: Say Bush May Lose Their Votes in 2004 (8/17) 8/16/2003 Poll Places Bustamante In Lead to Succeed Davis (8/16) Bush Ignored Warnings: Scientists Warned White House Since Before September 11 About Vulnerability of the Power Grid, Saying Weaknesses Needed Repairs - and Fast (8/16) Schwarzenegger Loading His Staff With Democrats (Rob Lowe, Warren Buffet and George Schulz). Is it to Counter Criticism That He's a Pete Wilson Puppet? (8/16) Federal Judge Says He May Delay California's Oct. 7 Recall (8/16) 8/15/2003 Blacked Out Lies: LIE - Bush Said he Thinks the Nation's Power Grids Need Modernizing and He has 'Thought so All Along'. FACT - Bush Opposed Legislation to Provide $350 Million in Loans to Modernize the Nation's Power Grid Which Suffered from Known Weaknesses in Reliability and Capacity (8/15) Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in White House: The Tale of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York, Carted Off $90 Million, Then Tonight, Turned Off Our Lights (8/15) Kelly Tape Could Spell End of Blair - and the Beginning of True Scrutiny for Bush (8/15) Blair Closely Involved in Decision Over Kelly: Row Over Circumstances Surrounding David Kelly's Death Escalated Today After it Emerged That Tony Blair Ordered Kelly to undergo a Second Grilling About his Contacts With the BBC (8/15) Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore Defied Court Order to Remove Monument Emblazoned With Ten Commandments from a State Building on the Grounds That God's Law supersedes State and Federal Law: My Guess is That God Doesn't Appreciate Jackasses Like Roy Moore Using His Name for his Personal Warped Agenda (8/15) The Bush Administration Adopts a Worse-than-Nixonian Tactic: The Deadly Serious Crime Of Naming CIA Operatives (8/15) 8/14/2003 US Military Pioneers Death Ray Bomb: Brings Fear of New Arms Race (8/14) Was the Missile Launcher Arrest a Setup to Make the Administration Look Good?: 'One Would Have to Ask Yourself, Would This Have Occurred at All Without the Government' (8/14) The Current President Bush Was Not the First Leader to Take the United States to War With Iraq Using Phony Intelligence: Like Father Like Son - Perhaps They could Share a Cell (8/14) Nearly 9,000 Doctors Push Universal Health Care (8/14) What Threat?: Bush Administration Keeps Stressing That Iraq Poses a Serious Threat to U.S. Security, But They Can't Tell Us What That Threat Is (8/14) Republicans Will Do Anything for Power (8/14) Jesse Jackson: GOP Sore Losers Use Recall to Circumvent Democracy (8/14) Poll: Bush at 52% Approval, Fewer Than Half Certain on Iraq War (8/14) 8/13/2003 Bush Administration Tried to Plant WMDs and Failed: Whistleblower (8/13) Bush Administration Promoted Views of the Lone Dissenter in the Energy Department That Agreed with Bush on Iraq Nuke Claim, Ignored All Others. Lone Dissenter Then Paid $20,000 in 'Bonuses' (8/13) Why Was Arnold Schwarzenegger Meeting Secretly With Ken Lay During the 'Energy Crisis' That Saw Enron and Others Stealing Tens of Billions of Dollars from Californians? (8/13) Is Iraqi Intelligence Still Being Manipulated? Iraqi Weapon's Scientist Won't Tell Administration What they Want to Hear (8/13) Hans Blix: "It may well be that Iraq destroyed their weapons of mass destruction in 1991, as they have claimed all along. It would be in everyone's interest to get the final truth out in the open." (8/13) Karl Rove Says Florida Will be 'Ground Zero' in 2004 Election (8/13) Grand Distraction: Schwarzenegger's Run 'Taking Heat Off' Bush (8/13) Fox Law Suit Windfall Publicity for Al Franken's Book: Tops Amazon Best Seller (8/13) What do Bush, Hitler, Mussolini, Reagan and Limbaugh All Have in Common? You Guessed it. They're All Raving Conservative Lunatics...and I Have the Evidence to Prove It (8/13) 8/12/2003 Taxpayer Tab for Illegal Iraq Invasion Could Top $600 Billion! (8/12) San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Was Warned Not to Fly During the Week of 911. Who Warned Him? (8/12) Answer: Condoleezza Rice Warned Willie Brown Not to Fly on the Week of 911 (8/12) John Ashcroft Also Had Advanced Warning of 911: What Did the Bush Administration Know and When Did They Know it? (8/12) Lies and Deceptions: Bush Often Referred to Meetings Between Saddam and His Nuclear Advisers, Without Noting That the Top Three Nuclear Experts in Iraq Had Non-Weapons Roles (8/12) Colorado, Kansas and Utah Cancel 2004 Presidential Primaries Because They Would Give 'Free Publicity' to Democrats (8/12) California Energy Crisis Was the Result of a Pete Wilson - Texas Oil Industry Cabal (8/12) If the Bushes Reveal Damaging Information About the Saudis, What Might the Saudis Reveal About Them? (8/12) Iran-Contra II: The Picture Emerging from the Latest Reports About the Manipulation of Intelligence in the Drive to War with Iraq Suggest a Similar but Much More Ambitious Scheme at Work (8/12) Top Bush Weapons Inspector and CIA Operative David Kay is Not to be Trusted (8/12) David Kay Will Claim, 'Saddam Ordered Chemical Attack'. Was the Order a Hoax? (8/12) Democrats Blast California Recall as 'Part of a Larger Republican Assault on the U.S. Electoral Process' (8/12) This is Why the DLC is Wrong and Why Their Strategy Failed in 2002, and Will Fail if Pursued in 2004 (8/12) Fox Sues Al Franken Over Use of Slogan 'Fair and Balanced' (8/12) 8/11/2003 New Information Further Supports a Pattern of Lies from Bush, Cheney and Their Subordinates: Exaggerated Data, Withheld Evidence That Failed to Support Their Views, Seldom Corrected Misstatements or Acknowledged Loss of Confidence in Information Upon Which it had Previously Relied (8/11) Lies, Lies, Lies! Colin Powell's UN Presentation Consisted Almost Entirely of Lies (8/11) Lies, Lies, Lies! CIA Warned Administration of Postwar Guerrilla Peril: The CIA Told the Administration, ''A quick military victory in Iraq will likely be followed by armed resistance from remnants of the Ba'ath Party and Fedayeen Saddam irregulars.'' Then the Administration Told Us, ''My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators,'' ''I imagine [we] will be welcomed,'' ''I think there's every reason to think that huge numbers of the Iraqi population are going to welcome these people..." (8/11) The 'UK Independent' Spoke to the Iraqi Diplomat Britain Accuses of Trying to Buy Uranium for Saddam. If What He Told Them is True, His Evidence Will Blow Apart One of Blair's Main Justifications for War (8/11) Who in the White House Committed Treason by Outing a CIA Agent? (8/11) Liberian President Taylor Steps Down: Claims Liberian Rebels are Backed By the Bush Administration (8/11) The Emperor Has No Evidence: Bush Essentially Admits Lying at His Last 'Press Conference' (8/11) Impeachable Offenses: This Unsubstantiated Claims of the Bush Administration Were so Persuasive That by the Time the Invasion Began, Fully 72 Percent of the American Public Believed That Saddam Hussein Was Responsible for 9/11, Without a Shred of Credible Evidence to Support Such a Claim (8/11) A Year and a Half Before the 2004 Election, some Analysts and Strategists Have Counted Democrats Out of the Race For the House: Not a Bad Sign Since They are Almost Always Wrong This Far Out (8/11) Government's Own Scientists Rejected Bush's Assertion That Aluminum Tubes Found in Iraq Were Intended for Use in Uranium Centrifuge (8/11) 8/10/03 Planted Weapons are Coming! Planted Weapons are Coming!: Top Bush 'Weapons Inspector' Promises 'September Surprise' (8/10) Engineering Experts From the Defense Intelligence Agency Have Declared That Iraqi Trailers Were to Make Hydrogen, Not Biological Arms: Yet Bush Continues to Repeat the Bio-Lie (8/10) DNC Chairman Promises That Democrats Will Have Observers at Every Polling Place in 2004 and Will Check Every Ballot Design in the Nation to Stem the Tide of GOP Election Theft (8/10) White House May Have Pressured Schwarzennegger to Run in Order to Distract the Public From Mounting Bush-Iraq Scrutiny (8/10) Katherine Harris Booed at Town Hall Meeting: Breaks Law to Boot (8/10) Political Strategy: U.S. Security the Top Issue in '04 Race: Democrats Have to Hit Republicans Right Where They are (Perceived to be) Strongest (8/10) 8/9/2003 Another Scandal Brewing?: Pentagon Hardliners Have Held Secret and Unauthorized Meetings in Paris With a Controversial Iranian Arms Dealer Who Was a Major Figure in the Iran-Contra Scandal (8/9) What Did the Administration Say and When Did They Say It?: A Catalogue of Incriminating Quotes (8/9) RNC Pushes Plan to Counter Pro-Democrat Labor Groups: 170 corporations Participating in Plan to Mobilize Employees For 2004 Elections (8/9) Rush Limbaugh Attacks Arnold Schwarzennegger (8/9) George Soros Donates $10 Million to Anti-Bush PAC: "The fate of the world depends on the United States, and President Bush is leading us in the wrong direction." (8/9) Dubious Offshore Company In Charge of Online Military Vote (8/9) Political Strategy: Davis Intends to Make Political Hay Out of the Farthest-Right Ideas Proposed This Season by Sacramento's Republicans. Then He Plans to Tar Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Various Republican Gubernatorial Candidates as Plotting to Uphold These Ideals if He is Recalled (8/9) Rove's Political Strategy: 1) Turn Enron's Looting of California to the White House?s Advantage and Blame Davis for the energy crisis, 2) Blame Davis for the Collapse of the Dotcom Boom and the Drying up of Federal Funds That has Come with Bush's Tax Cut for His Rich Corporate Sponsors. 3) Get Republicans in the California Legislature to Block the Two-Thirds Majority Needed to Pass the State?s Budget ? and Then Demonize Davis as the Perpetrator. (8/9) 7/8/2003 Bush Has Plan for Invading North Korea: 'Toppling its Regime in 30 to 60 Days' (8/8) 911 Report: White House Refuses to Provide President's Daily Brief. This Would Answer Questions About How Much Specific Information President Bush Received About an Impending Attack Immediately Prior to 911 - a Period in Which the Intelligence Community was Reporting That a "Spectacular" Attack Against the United States Involving "Mass Casualties" Was in the Works. (8/8) Gore's Greatest Hit: Blasts Bush and Sets the Record Straight. (Must Read) (8/8) New PAC Created to Bring About Bush Regime Change: The Left is Gearing Up to Oust This Administration Like it Has Never Done Before (8/8) The Case for Treason: Protecting Foreign Governments, Misleading into War, Withholding Information Critical to National Security, Dealing With the Enemy...Need We Go Further? (8/8) With Two Dead, 13 on Respirators and 100 with Pneumonia, Army May be Covering Up Deadly Side Effects of Vaccines (8/8) Report: Bush Lies About Scientific Facts to Bolster its Political Agenda in Areas Ranging From Abstinence Education and Condom Use to Missile Defense - (Don't forget Stem-Cell Research and Global Warming) (8/8) Reagan 29: Clinton 0 - But Republicans Will Never Tell You That (8/8) Political Strategy: 'My Republican opponent voted to cut medical benefits for our war heroes in order to give a tax cut to himself.'...and Repeat (8/8) Krugman: 'Research Showed That Certain Chemicals Were Destroying the Ozone Layer, Which Protects Us From Ultraviolet Radiation, so Governments Agreed to Ban the Use of Those Chemicals, and the Ban Appears to be Succeeding. But Would the People Now Running America Have Agreed to That Protocol? Probably not. (8/8) As if 'Terrorism Futures' Weren't Repugnant Enough, Rumsfeld's Department of Defense is Funding a Research Program With Far Creepier Implications (8/8) 8/7/2003 Lies, Lies, Lies: Move Over Uranium Lie. Here's a Bigger Lie Bush Set Forth in the SOTU (8/7) Giving Up On Osama: Special Forces Previously in Afghanistan are Moved Out to Iraq (8/7) GOP Senator: Bush Administration's Refusal to Give Congress Details on Saudi Terrorism Support 'Inexcusable' (8/7) Why is Wolfowitz Outing Himself and the Administration as Liars?: Remember "the decision to highlight weapons of mass destruction as the main justification for going to war in Iraq was taken for bureaucratic reasons...." and now we have, "I’m not sure even now that I would say Iraq had something to do with [911]" (8/7) This Has to Change: Harvard Study Says Conservative Editorial Pages More Partisan, Less Willing to Criticize a Republican Administration Than the Liberal Pages are to Take on a Democratic Administration (8/7) Convicted Felons Responsible for Thousands of Deaths are Calling the Shots at the White House : John Poindexter, Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, Elliott Abrams, and John Negroponte (8/7) Former Weapons Inspector: "I find that there's a conflict of interest for the CIA. The answer they're getting is that there were no significant stocks of chemical weapons or biological weapons, no significant on-going work on nuclear weapons. But they're not in a position to go to Bush and say, 'Hey, we were wrong.' So they're stalling." (8/7) Cruz Bustamente Joins 'Circus of the Stars' (8/7) On Board the Dean Machine (8/7) Wesley Clark: Karl Rove's Worst Nightmare - How About a Dean/Clark Ticket? (8/7) 8/6/2003 Threat to the Nation: Bush Asserts that He Can Order the Military to Detain Indefinitely - Without Charges, a Trial or Access to a Lawyer - an American Citizen Picked Up on U.S. Soil (8/6) Bush Administration Provokes North Korea: Belligerence of North Korea Superseded Only by Belligerence of Bush Administration (8/6) Cheney's Prewar Statements Under Scrutiny (8/6) Bush Administration Fights to Deny Compensation to POWs (8/6) Watchdog Reveals Effort to Gag Anti-Bush Causes (8/6) Dean: I Have Best Chance to Oust Bush (8/6) Anyone Except Lieberman: Any Further Fuzzing of the Margins Between the Parties in 2004 Would be Disastrous (8/6) Mini-Nukes on Bush Agenda: Can't 'Proliferate' Fast Enough (8/