Month: October 2004

Jimmy Carter attacks the president for helping to fuel anti-American feeling in the Islamic world, among many other failings.

The Bush administration has said it is following the Geneva Conventions in Iraq, but a memo prepared by the Justice Department in March authorizes the CIA “to transfer prisoners out of Iraq for interrogation ? a practice that international legal specialists say violates the Geneva Conventions.”

For months the Bush administration has insisted it has given Halliburton, Vice President Cheney’s former company, “no special treatment.” Now, the top civilian contracting official for the Army Corps of Engineers, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, says “the Army granted the Halliburton Company large contracts for work in Iraq and the Balkans without following rules designed to ensure competition and fair prices to the government.”

A whole munitions dump of high explosives was left unguarded during the occupation of Iraq, it was looted, and now the administration is doing everything except taking responsibility.

A list of the 10 commandments of Republicans

Just weeks after spreading “verbal sunshine” across the White House Rose Garden, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi gave a “sobering account” of Iraq’s instability in his first speech before the country’s interim national assembly.

On Sept. 30, 2004, the deadline for Congress to act on preserving $1.1 billion in federal funds for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) ? the program which focuses on insuring the kids of the working poor ? was allowed to expire. The money was taken away from the states and returned to the U.S. Treasury.

Its true. a 21 year old (he might be 22 by now) who interned in Dick Cheney’s office is in charge of the money to spent for security in Iraq…and we’re wondering why there is no security in Iraq.

Two weeks ago, President Bush announced, “[The] Taliban no longer is in existence.” He was egregiously mistaken. The Taliban may not be in power in Kabul, but they have been making a steady comeback throughout the countryside.