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Why Progressives Hate George Bush?

September 27, 2005September 29, 2018 B. John 472 Views

By any objective standard, this administration is a dismal failure and has made a mockery of all the things I love about America. Things like fair elections, habeus corpus, privacy, separation of church and state, care for the less fortunate, protecting our homeland, respecting the environment, curbing the power of corporations, standing for human rights, transparency in government, respect for our military, and so many many more. Bush is steering our country back to the pre-New Deal rich-man’s playground of the Robber Baron era, while simultaneously squandering any post-9/11 worldwide goodwill and alienating what few allies we have left.

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Army Captain Alleges Systematic Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners

September 27, 2005 B. John 381 Views War, abu graib, army, criminal, illegal, military, prisoner abuse, torture, U.S. Government, Iraq

Time magazine yesterday revealed new allegations of “systematic abuse” of Iraqi detainees made by a “decorated former Captain in the Army?s 82nd Airborne Division.” For months, Capt. Ian Fishback said, U.S. soldiers were directed “to conduct daily beatings of prisoners prior to questioning.”

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Bush's Appeal for Private Contributions to Iraq

September 26, 2005 B. John 422 Views Iraq, stupid, War, white house, freepers, money, private contributions, Bush, Politics

You will be happy to know that the President’s appeal for private contributions to help Iraq has been met with a grand total of about $600.

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Haliburton Taking Good Care of Our Troops

September 21, 2005 B. John 427 Views drinking water, haliburton, sewage, sick, troops, Iraq, vice president, War, Corruption, white house, cheney, dick

Not only did Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary serve U.S. troops in Iraq spoiled food (sometimes a year past the expiration date), but also contaminated water from Iraq’s Euphrates River, containing “numerous pathogenic organisms” at nearly two times the normal contamination levels of untreated water. “[R]aw sewage is routinely dumped less than two miles from the water intake location.”

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$1 Billion Stolen From Iraq's Defense Ministry

September 21, 2005 B. John 402 Views stupid, theft, War, president, Bush, billion, defense, dollars, Iraq

The Iraq Defense Ministry is the victim of one of the largest thefts in history. One billion dollars meant to buy arms from Pakistan and Poland was siphoned off, resulting in overpayment for inferior equipment such as “armoured cars…so poorly made that even a bullet from an elderly AK-47 machine-gun could penetrate their armour.”

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An American Finds Her Voice

August 27, 2005 B. John 307 Views

Cindy Sheehan was on Bill Maher’s show last night. When Maher asked her jokingly that if she didn’t get satisfaction from George Bush, would she go over his head to Cheney or Rumsfeld, she replied:

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Gary Hart Asks, Who Will Lead?

August 24, 2005 B. John 323 Views

In a great piece in the Washington Post, Gary Hart chastises the current crop of Democrats for not standing up, admitting they were wrong to vote for the war in Iraq, and not going to the American people with the truth.

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If You're Not For Me, You're Against America

August 23, 2005 B. John 343 Views

Editor and Publisher has the story, but in their usual attempt to distract and control the message, W now says that you have a right to your opinion, but if your opinion doesn’t match his, you don’t love America.

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My Take on Cindy Sheehan's Vigile

August 16, 2005 B. John 380 Views

This is about how we should think about Cindy Sheehan, the woman who has been standing outside the President’s Crawford, Texas ranch in hopes of having a chat with him. Her son, Casey, died in Iraq. He was 24.

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Rice Delusional About Iraq.

August 7, 2005 B. John 320 Views

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the insurgency in Iraq is losing steam as a political force, even as Democratic congressmen warned Sunday that violence jeopardizes plans for withdrawing some troops.

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Pentagon Whistleblower Takes It On The Chin

August 7, 2005 B. John 327 Views

Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse is the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (“PARC” in the alphabet soup of military acronyms) in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Unfortunately, she has had the temerity to question the Haliburton contracts, and as such, she’s now persona non-Grata at the Pentagon.