Debunking the Myths: Our (Bush’s) National Strategy for Victory in Iraq
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David Swanson, joins us today to talk about the increasing debate about bringing US troops home from Iraq. David Swanson is the co-founder of the After Downing Street Coalition. He was the press secretary for the Denis Kucinich for President [...]
CNN’s headline online as I write this “Near tears, crooked congressman resigns“
The true face of today’s Republican Party is now coming to light. This is just the tip of the iceberg. The entire Abramoff scandal has yet to really hit home but there may very well be more than a few involuntary Republican [...]
November 22, 2005
An ~Uncut~Transcript of an hour long Talk Nation Radio Interview with Conn Hallinan, a foreign policy analyst for Foreign PolicyIn Focus and lecturer in journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Foreign policy analyst and scholar Conn Hallinan assesses the world wide impact of Neoconservative leaders and talks about his recent articles. [...]
A rather interesting proposal from Barry in TheWar forum:
I’m always sad to see the “We broke it, we fix (or own) it” rationale for our continuing presence in Iraq. A better analogy would be “We broke it, so let’s stomp it into unrecognizable shards”.
I’d like to offer an alternative. We’re so insistent on the election [...]
The New York Times eviscerates Bush’s latest set of lies in today’s editorial. They pretty much distill the arguments in his latest campaign of finger-pointing and whining to their essences and then evaporates them in the light and heat of the truth. Now if only they’d step up and do the same [...]
Leonard Pitts on Bush’s outlandish “we don’t torture” claim/lie.
Well, I guess that settles that.
“We do not torture,” President Bush said on Monday. Never mind all those torture pictures from Abu Ghraib. Never mind all those torture stories from Guantanamo Bay. Never mind the 2002 Justice Department memo that sought to justify torture. Never mind reports [...]
Josh Marshall boils down the multitudinous lies of George Bush concerning the invasion of Iraq rather nicely here.
1. Longstanding effort to convince the American people that Iraq maintained ties to al Qaida and may have played a role in 9/11. This was always just a plain old lie. (And if you want to see where [...]
Man, the lengths Bush and Blair and their media sycophants will go to manufacture this stuff. This was posted by Mik Duffy in the Currents forum.
Blair’s attempt to allow the 90 day detention of terrorist suspects
was strongly supported by the Murdoch owned media in Britain. British
tabloid The Sun drummed up an emotive campaign [...]
Dick Cheney has done more to undermine the safety of this country and the stability of the world in his long political career than any other Vice-President in history. And let’s remember, he’s the one running the show, not Bush, which is why calls to impeach Bush strike me as ludicrous.
This article by James [...]