“Democracy” is usually my code category for stuff the Bush administration does that pisses me off, usually becuase of the way they make a mockery of whatever the concept “Democarcy” has going for it
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 12, 2004 – September 18, 2004 Archives The key is that President Bush has blown vast sums of money (actually way more than $200 billion) and managed to make us less secure than when he started. He’s spent that much money to purchase us a prize our most determined enemies would have Continue Reading
GO to this page, click the “Launch” icon below the still frame, and then enter “Hersh” into the Video Search, and you will find two segments MSNBC – Is America safer? Reporter Seymour Hersh talks with Katie Couric about the Bush administration’s actions leading up to the Iraq war.
MSNBC – It’s Worse Than You Think the insurgents are still getting stronger: Sixteen months after the war’s supposed end, Iraq’s insurgency is spreading. Each successful demand by kidnappers has spawned more hostage-takings—to make Philippine troops go home, to stop Turkish truckers from hauling supplies into Iraq, to extort fat ransom payments from Kuwaitis. The few relief groups that remain Continue Reading
Thanks, Eric, for the major endorsement. It got me curious; I already had my interest peaked by another friend with whom I talk sports and politics, who saw the Dateline last night where Hersh was interviewed. I couldn’t access the video at MSNBC (the link was wrong) I picked it up and sat reading it for about half an hour Continue Reading
Torture in Iraq “Just some ‘Bad Apples’” To return to the beginning of our questions about Iraq’s sovereignty, some may wonder why so many foreign troops need to remain in Iraq. We believe that the answer is the same as the reason we sent the troops to invade Iraq in the first place. The evidence we have both for the Continue Reading
iraq power is half of what it was 2 years ago…..Al Franken show 9/13/04 christy harvey….center for american progress (one of those ‘really liberal sounding organizations’) progress…..that’s a priority….(read like the actor in “Silver City” see clip here
AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth Like I’ve been saying all along, Bush is only BARELY ahead of Kerry folks. Gore was BEHIND 4 points, according to the polls, on election day in 2000 and we all know now that he actually won the popular vote. So snap out of it, get angry, and fight back
Gore Unleashes Fury on Democrats’ Behalf “Some of the things he has said have been outrageous and he says them in this high-pitched scream,” Appell said. “I really don’t know what to call that.” well, you sort of said it yourself…..sort of….it’s OUTRAGE, and usually, it is expressed with PASSION against the perpretator.
That remark is “Consider the Source”, coming from the source: The White House. Yeah. Consider the source of “Consider the source”. You’re the “dark side” of politics. Consider that. You’re the lying lyars. Yeah, that’s something to consider. Consider that Al Gore has more brains than your whole staff. Consider that. Gore Unleashes Fury on Democrats’ Behalf When Gore delivered Continue Reading
Bush said he’d support the assault weapons ban…..now he won’t. Flip Flop. Flip Flop! Flip Flop. Flip Flop!
MSNBC – Is America safer? There is so much about this presidency that we don’t know, and may never learn. Some of the most important questions are not even being asked. How did they do it? How did eight or nine neoconservatives who believed that a war in Iraq was the answer to international terrorism get their way? How did Continue Reading
Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. Wouldn’t it be helpful to have an Administration that actually heeds a competent State department, Arabists, etc. instead of running foreign policy from the DoD? Do you really need another reminder of how important this election is? And whose people do you want making these Continue Reading
If someone (like Bill O’Reilly, for instance), wants to moan about the “slant” of the Media Matters material, keep in mind the source of the forgerie accusations themselves: Forgery feeding frenzy: Media falling afoul of … [Media Matters for America] On September 9, Conservative media sources including L. Brent Bozell III’s Cybercast News Service, Internet gossip Matt Drudge, The Weekly Continue Reading
More debunking of the FORGERY accusations: Forgery feeding frenzy: Media falling afoul of … [Media Matters for America] One senior CBS official told The Washington Post that CBS reporters confirmed the memos authenticity with Major General Bobby Hodges, whose name appears in one of the memos: A senior CBS official, who asked not to be named because CBS managers did Continue Reading